Bianca Mayer


Bibi Vaplan is a Swiss Romansh musician and singer.
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Life

Mayer was born in 1979 in Scuol, Graubünden, Switzerland, and grew up in the Engadine valley. She completed her piano studies at the Zurich University of Music in 2005 with a teaching diploma.
During her studies, she composed for films and theater, and toward the end of her studies, she began teaching herself. In 2009, Mayer won the Canton of Graubünden's Cultural Promotion Prize.
From 2013 to 2014 she was a radio presenter at Radiotelevisiun Svizra Rumantscha.
Her first major CD project was "Alba da la Clozza", featuring Romansh music. Subsequent albums were "Ingio vasch", "Eu vegn cun tai", and "Sdruogliar".
With her duet with Carlos Leal, but also with solo pieces such as "Lascha a Mai", Bibi Vaplan has achieved regular airplay on Radio SRF 3.
In 2016, Bibi Vaplan published her first Romansh-German book.
Bibi Vaplan is on tour with the Popcorn Opera in 2025. The tour will stop in St. Moritz, Lucerne, Biel and Bern.

Music

Film and theatre music

Since 2003, Mayer has been writing compositions for plays and films, working on ten projects from 2004 to 2008. She was a composition assistant for the soundtracks of the films Vitus, I was a Swiss Banker und Happy New Year, among others.

Alba da la Clozza

After her studies, Mayer was active as a singer and guitarist in the rock band Alba da la Clozza until 2009.

Bibi Vaplan

Since 2010, Mayer has developed a quieter and more contemplative musical style. Bibi, va plan! means "Bianca, go slowly!" in her Romansh idiom Vallader dialect and is intended to be a programme. As Bibi Vaplan, she writes the lyrics and the music, sings, and plays the piano and harpsichord. The 2012 album Sdruogiar '' was created in collaboration with the.
Bianca Mayer's lyrics are always about Vallader. The songwriter says about her personal motivation for making music:

Discography

Üna jada intuorn als Alba da la Clozza, 2009.Ingio vasch? als Bibi Vaplan, 2011.Eu vegn cun tai als Bibi Vaplan, 2011.Sdruogliar als Bibi Vaplan, 2012.Cul vent als Bibi Vaplan, 2015.

Awards

  • 2009: Promotional Prize of the Canton of Graubünden.
  • 2014: Grant from the Canton of Graubünden.
  • 2015: Grant from the Canton of Graubünden.