Person Christine Cerletti

Christine Cerletti studied singing with Margherita Perras in Zurich and switched to applied psychology in 1979. After graduation she worked as a vocational counselor until 1985. In 1986 she resumed her vocal training in Vienna and New York with Peter K. Elkus and received her SMPV teaching diploma in singing in 1993, subsequently working as a vocal pedagogue for fifteen years. Since 1985 Cerletti has regularly appeared in concerts in Switzerland and beyond, with her repertoire concentrating on lieder and oratorios. Since 2003 she has organized musical soirées in private settings, performing with her own recitals and inviting guest soloists. In 1993 she also took up painting and drawing; she creates portraits in pastel chalk, as well as landscape and nature studies executed in various techniques. Christine Cerletti is a patroness and the founder and chairwoman of four foundations in Basel, one of which devotes itself to social issues while the other three are active in the fields of culture and music.