About

Violinist Michèle Walther is a performer, composer, arranger, and educator from Switzerland and San Francisco. Michèle has performed in venues throughout Europe and North America with Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull, Gloria Estefan, Joe Lovano, Oscar Stagnaro (Paquito D’Rivera), John Cage, Basel Sinfonietta, Mark Feldman, LaMuseMent, and more.
She loves to perform many genres, from classical string quartet to tango, world music and jazz.
You can find her compositions on many recordings, music festivals, and in the documentary “Not Without Us”. In the Bay Area, Michèle can be heard with the Musical Art Quintet, Climate Music Project, Jazz Mafia Strings, Resonance Octet, Los Tangueros del Oeste, Alt Musica, her solo & looper program, and many others.
Ms. Walther earned her M.M. at the Conservatory of Music in Basel, Switzerland, and later graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, majoring in jazz violin performance.

Music

String quartet, string trio, duo, solo violin.
Baroque (Bach, Corelli, Vivaldi etc.), Classical (Mozart, Beethoven etc.), Romantic (Brahms, Dvorak, Schumann etc.), Piazzolla, Debussy, Ravel

Videos

Upcoming groupmuses

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  Closing Event of Pride exhibition at The Bloc (Los Angeles)

  Saturday, Jun 22 6:00 PM PDT

  • Neighborhood: Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles
  • Price: $35 tickets ($30 for Supermusers)

  Spots available

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  Closing Event of art exhibition at SF LGBT Center

  Thursday, Jun 27 6:00 PM PDT

  • Neighborhood: Castro, SF
  • Instruments: Violin & Japanese Butoh Dance
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $20+ at event

  Spots available

Programs

Host one of these programs in your space!

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  Violin & live looping

  • Musician profile: Michele Walther
  • Instruments: Solo violin & live looping

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  Darkness & Light - Butoh dance & violin

  • Musician profile: Michele Walther
  • Instruments: Violin & Japanese Butoh Dance
  • Musicians: Michele Walther, Mark Galvan

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Past groupmuses (7)

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  ROUNDCOLLAB presents: Butoh Dancer Mark Galvan & Violinist Michele Walther

  Saturday, Dec 9, 2023 1:00 PM PST

  • Neighborhood: Dogpatch, SF
  • Instruments: Violin & Japanese Butoh Dance
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $20+ at event

  Happened 5 months ago

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  Art and Sound (and dance) , Vol XI

  Sunday, Sep 10, 2023 2:00 PM PDT

  • Neighborhood: SoMa, SF
  • Composers: Corelli, Piazzolla, originals
  • Instruments: Violin & Live Looping & Dance
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $20+ at event

  Happened 8 months ago

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  Outdoors

  Ashby Arts Space presents: Lewis Patzner's The Difference

  Sunday, Jul 23, 2023 4:30 PM PDT

  • Neighborhood: South Berkeley, Berkeley
  • Composers: Bach, Patzner
  • Instruments: string trio and 2 singers
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $20+ at event

  Happened 9 months ago

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  Art and Sound, version 10

  Tuesday, Jun 20, 2023 7:00 PM PDT

  • Neighborhood: SoMa, SF
  • Composers: Bach, Patzner
  • Instruments: 2 singers and string trio
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $20+ at event

  Happened 11 months ago

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  Glenview Classical Groupmuse

  Friday, Sep 30, 2022 8:00 PM PDT

  • Neighborhood: Glenview, Oakland
  • Composers: Mozart, Piazzolla, Reicha, Patzner
  • Instruments: String Quartet
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $20+ at event

  Happened over 1 year ago

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  Outdoors

  Outdoor Concert by the Jazz Mafia Strings!

  Sunday, Nov 7, 2021 4:00 PM PST

  • Neighborhood: Shepherd Canyon, Oakland
  • Composers: Bach, Pixinguinha, Piazzolla, Wonder,etc
  • Instruments: String Quartet
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $20+ at event

  Happened over 2 years ago

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  City Lights Music • SAT April 7

  Saturday, Apr 7, 2018 7:00 PM PDT

  • Neighborhood: Glen Park, SF
  • Price: $5 to reserve, $20+ at event

  Happened about 6 years ago