The annual benefit piano concert which the family Dubois gives for relief to Tibetan people in difficulties has been postponed to a new date, 12 March 2021 at 19:30 to be held in the Konsi Bern

Anna Dubois is from a family of musicians of Bangkok. Her first piano lessons were from her parents. She gave her first concert at seven years of age. She obtained bursaries to attend the Peabody Conservatoire in Baltimore (USA) and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, where she studied with Maître Pierre Sancan. She subsequently studied some years with the Hungarian master pianist Geza Anda in Zürich and with Professor Dieter Weber in Vienna. Anna has worked for some years as teacher and performer at the Konservatorium Bern and now performs and gives private instruction in Switzerland and in Asia

Jean Dubois was born in Switzerland. He started his studies in his home town at the Conservatoire de la Musique de la Chaux-de-Fonds with Wally Stämpfli and he achieved a teaching diploma. He won a bursary to continue studies with Dieter Weber at the Viennese Hochschule der Musik. He completed his studies with the highest distinction. He was a prizewinner at the international Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna in 1973. He performed on concert tours in Europe and the Far East. After 35 years teaching and performance at the Konservatorium Bern, Jean Dubois now teaches and performs privately

André Dubois was born in Bern and had his first music lessons from his parents. He then studied with Patrizio Mazzola at the Konservatorium Bern where he twice won awards at competitions for young musicians. After the Maturität he continued piano studies with Professor Tomasz Herbert at the Hochschule der Künste Bern where he obtained diplomas for teaching and for concert performance. He studied with Alexander Madzar at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles for two years and obtained the postgraduate diploma. He attended master courses with Fou Tsong and Andrej Gavrilov. He has performed at the Kulturcasino Bern with among others the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and with Simon Ho in Switzerland and in Argentina. André Dubois has performed a great deal in Asia,and now teaches at the Conservatoire in Bern

Rachel Dubous Merkle was born in Bern. She studied music initially with her parents and later with Taeko Szedlak, Albert sidler at the Conservatoire Bern, Michael Stüder and Erika Radermacher at the Hochschule der Künste Bern. She won forst prize at the competition Jugendmusik Wettbewerb in 1998 and obtained the teaching diploma of the Hochschule der Künste in 2004. She studied traditional chinese medicine in Basel from 2005 to 2009 and obtained a Masters’ Degree. In Basel she also met her husband Reinhold Merkle and they opened a clinic in Basel in 2014. She has continued to practise music and teaches in Argau at the Oftringen Music School

Verein Tibetfreunde

Our first principle is helping towards self-reliance. We support projects for health, education and agriculture in India, Nepal and Tibet. We work with the several departments of the Tibetan Government in Exile at Dharamsala to uphold Tibetan culture and religious life and to protect human rights

The clear profit from this concert goes to the Central Tibetan Relief Committee (CTRC). Families seek to provide for their old and sick in accordance with Tibetan tradition. There are however cases of insoluble hardship, where the family is itself destitute, or where an aged person has no family. This is where our help and your help are most needed. CTRC, empowered as an agency of the Home Department of the Tibetan Government in Exile, places needy persons who are aged in a program where sponsorship is sought for them. At Tibetfreunde we have worked for many years with CTRC and have been able thanks to sponsors to assist many aged persons to an old age without anxiety

Supported by the Stiftung Musikschule Konservatorium Bern and with many thanks to Herr Gerhardt Müller and Herr Reto Inäbnit