Estelle Revaz leads a double life as a musician and National Councillor
Published: Thursday, Dec 26th 2024, 11:20
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Cellist Estelle Revaz has been a politician for the SP in the Swiss parliament for a year now. As an artist in the National Council, she looks back on a year in which she campaigned for cultural workers - and released her sixth album at the same time.
During the session, Estelle Revaz gets up at 4 a.m. to play her cello in a room in the Federal Palace. She leads a double life as a parliamentarian and as a cellist who performs internationally, she told the Keystone-SDA news agency.
The 35-year-old turned to politics during the Covid-19 pandemic. Tours were stopped and artists did not receive any compensation. According to Revaz, these were excluded from the first draft of the Covid law because they were considered insignificant. In order to change this, she built coalitions in the committees in which the dossier could be discussed. These ranged from the SVP to the SP. The law was finally amended within three months.
Quick entry into politics
Revaz then received an offer from the SP, Die Mitte and FDP parties to join them. A year ago, she stood as a candidate for the SP in the federal elections and was elected to the National Council for the canton of Geneva.
Since then, her work on the national strategy to combat poverty - the first motion she was able to get through both chambers - has been particularly important to her. Revaz has also succeeded in ensuring that the adaptation of social security systems to the professional realities of cultural workers was included in the legislative planning - "the heart of my commitment". The Federal Council now has the task of proposing a text.
Revaz remains a successful musician. In the fall, she released her album "Caprices for Violoncello Solo by Dall'Abaco". She recorded the 11 Capriccios by Joseph Dall'Abaco for it. "The cello was not always the lyrical solo instrument that we know," says Revaz. Dall'Abaco was one of the first to write virtuoso pieces for the cello alone. "These capriccios are technically terrifying."
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