#SwissTalentLA: “Missing You” – a short film starring Shiva Rose and Carlos Leal, written by Christophe Vauthey

A beautiful short film written by, and Co-Executive produced by Christophe Vauthey and Maggie Soboil – featuring a cast & crew of many Angeleno-Swiss artists and their friends who were bought together by the Swiss Cultural Attache’ in Los Angeles to create this most beautiful short, which reminded us that

LIFE
IS
PRECIOUS!

Bravissimi!
M:)
Here’s a few snapshots of the soiree

#SwissTalentLA – Last Days! Open Studio with Benoit Delaunay & Aaron Wrinkle

Consider visiting Sunday’s Exhibit Closing Event at 510 Bernard St. showcasing Angeleno-Swiss Artist Benoit Delaunay’s

“A set of Valuable Skills”

presenting works created during his six month residency in LA.

#SwissTalentLA: “Angeleno-Romand” Carlos Leal invites you to “Jump out of your seats”…

Hi!
Hope you’re doing well.

I’d like to invite you to the screening of “Sennentuntschi“, a feature I’m co-leading.

It was a Blockbuster in Switzerland last year and the director Michael Steiner is one of the most talented Swiss directors.

Trust me, this is the kind of movie that makes you jump out of your seat. Check out the YouTube trailer.

There will be 3 screenings (FREE ENTRANCE), each one followed by a Q&A with the director Michael Steiner and myself.

The movie will be screened in its original version, with english subtitles of course!

WHEN & WHERE:

-Tuesday October 25th, 8:45pm at USC,
Ray Stark family theatre, Geoge Lucas Building. adress: 900W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
RSVP + details here

-Friday October 28th, 7:30pm at Caltech,
Baxter lecture hall, 1200 East California Bvd, Pasadena, CA 91125
No RSVP needed.

-Wednesday November 2nd, 8pm at American cinematheque,
Aero theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90403
RSVP by writing an email to los.kultur (at) eda.admin.ch, precising “Sennentuntschi, guest of Carlos Leal”

See you there!
Carlos Leal

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NOTICE: #SwissTalentLA “Casting Call”

Use #SwissTalentLA on twitter to link your work (beta) available to all creative Swiss living in Southern California.

It’s a place to post your screenings, performances, concerts, awards, shows, openings, as well as bios and links related to the creative World of an Angeleno-Swiss Artist. (Of course, those living all the way up to and including San Luis Obispo County and south, all the way to San Diego, are invited to join us, too!).

Go ahead! Send a tweet with your Bio to get started!

Angeleno-Swiss Carlos Leal inviting you to “Short Films, Long Nights”, this Saturday, Sep 24 @ Alliance Francaise/Theatre Raymond Kabbaz

My dear LALALand friends,

I’d like to invite you next Saturday to the event “Shortfilms, Long night” organized by the Swiss consulate and the Theatre Raymond Kabbaz (Theatre Francophone de Los Angeles).

I will present 6 shortfilms in which I am.
Snacks and drinks for everybody.

My selection will be screened between 8pm and 9pm, but the ceremony starts at 5pm and the event will end at 10pm.
Attached the flyer + a little sample.

We’ll have fun!

“Shortfilms, Long Night” (PDF program)
Saturday, September 24, 5-10pm
Theatre “Raymond Kabbaz”
10361 West Pico Bvd
90064 L.A.

Carlos Leal

Congratulations Christian Poltera – You Made(it)in.LA+!

Hollywood Bowl
Thursday, September 15th 2011

Handel and Fireworks

with Swiss cellist Christian Poltera

Born in Zurich, cellist CHRISTIAN POLTÉRA was a pupil of Nancy Chumachenco and Boris Pergamenschikov before studying with Heinrich Schiff in Salzburg and Vienna. Since replacing Yo-Yo Ma performing the Elgar concerto with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under David Zinman at the age of 17, Mr. Poltéra has steadily established himself as one of the most prominent cellists of his generation.

As soloist he has worked with eminent orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, NDR Hamburg Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna and Bamberg Symphonies, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestra Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Chamber Orchestra of Europe under such conductors as Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Andrew Davis, Paavo Järvi, Donald Runnicles, as well as the leading conductors of the younger generation, such as James Gaffigan, Robin Ticciati, and Andris Nelsons. Mr. Poltéra made his solo debut in the US in 2006 with the American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall in New York.

Upcoming highlights include performances of the Brahms Double concerto with violinists Karen Gomyo (New Japan Philharmonic and its music director Christian Arming) and Thomas Zehetmair (on tour of Europe with Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under Sir John Eliot Gardiner), as well as a return visit to the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko.

Mr. Poltéra also devotes himslef intensively to chamber music, working with such musicians as Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, Leonidas Kavakos, Martin Fröst, Kathryn Stott, Lars Vogt, and Leif Ove Andsnes, as well as the Auryn, Belcea, and Zehetmair Quartets. In 2008 he joined Mitsuko Uchida in performances of Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”, at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and the Kimmell Center in Philadelphia. Together with violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann and violist Antoine Tamestit, Christian Poltéra has formed a regular string trio that performs at the most prestigious concert venues in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Cologne, Brussels, and Milan, as well as at the Salzburg and Edinburgh Festivals.

In 2004 he received the Borletti-Buitoni Award and was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist. In 2006-07 he was a ‘Rising Star’ of the European Concert Hall Organization. He is a regular guest at renowned festivals (such as Salzburg, Lucerne, Berlin, and Vienna) and made his BBC Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2007.

Christian Poltéra’s discography reflects his wide range of repertoire that includes the cello concertos by Dvorak, Schoeck, Honegger, Martin, and Toch, as well as chamber music by Prokofiev, Fauré, Mozart, Saint-Saens and Schubert, on the labels BIS Records, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, and Chandos. These recordings have won acclaim from the international press, and have been honored with the Diapason d’or, Gramophone Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice”, Strad Magazine’s “Strad Selection”, and BBC Music Magazine’s “Choice”. Now recording regularly for BIS, Mr. Poltéra’s latest CD, featuring the cello concertos by Dutilleux and Lutoslawski, has been released in 2009.