David Philip Hefti

David Philip Hefti (born 1975) is a Swiss composer and conductor. Career Born in St. Gallen, Hefti studied composition, conducting, clarinet and chamber music with Wolfgang Rihm, Cristóbal Halffter, Wolfgang Meyer, Rudolf Kelterborn and Elmar Schmid in Zürich and Karlsruhe. He has appeared on five continents at festivals such as Ultraschall in Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Musica de Hoy in Madrid, Wien Modern, Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Menuhin in Gstaad, Dvorak-Festival in Prague, Beijing Modern, Suntory in Tokyo and as the composer-in-residence at the Moritzburg Festival, at the Schlossmediale Werdenberg, with the Heidelberg Philharmonic and with the Zermatt Music Festival. He has worked with soloists such as Benjamin Appl, Juliane Banse, Fabio Di Càsola, Mojca Erdmann, Thomas Grossenbacher, Viviane Hagner, Thomas Indermühle, Cornelia Kallisch, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Wolfgang Meyer, Sylvia Nopper, Christian Poltéra, Lawrence Power, Hartmut Rohde, Baiba Skride, Jan Vogler, Antje Weithaas and with conductors such as Douglas Boyd, Péter Eötvös, Roberto González-Monjas, Howard Griffiths, Giancarlo Guerrero, Cornelius Meister, Kent Nagano, Jonathan Nott, Andris Poga, Michael Sanderling, Jac van Steen, Mario Venzago, Ralf Weikert, Kazuki Yamada and David Zinman.