The 2015 music festival will take place from Thursday, September 3 to Sunday, September 13, 2015 at the
previous format. The motto of the 2015 Bern Music Festival is "Big Bang".

By October 2014, concepts for the future format of the two Bernese festivals are to be formulated in a moderated process. To this end, KUL Bern will
external specialist who, in discussions with the stakeholders, the
boards and institutions. The independent scene is significantly involved in these discussions.

Bern is characterized by a committed independent scene. It is precisely the Music Festival and Biennale that provide a platform for these specialized smaller partners that are not subsidized by the city, writes the Bern Music Festival.

Over the past decade, the Bern Biennale and the Bern Music Festival have developed their own forms and ideas for cooperation. While the Bern Biennale has a contemporary and interdisciplinary focus, the Bern Music Festival focuses on musical events from all eras.

Actori notes that the company's financial expenses are increasingly developing in favor of wage costs and to the detriment of expenditure on artistic expenses.  

The study also criticizes the fact that the costs for a production in Geneva are relatively high compared to the theatres in Brussels, Barcelona and Zurich. The theater is also called upon to reach new audiences and intensify its outreach work.

Among other things, the consultants recommend raising ticket prices in the highest categories and lowering them in the lowest, as well as stepping up marketing efforts.

More about the study (French):

According to a report in the newspaper The Confederation should have performed with the Emmental Gospel Choir as part of the non-public festival. The whole thing would have been led by Regula Knuchel, choir director and pastor in Rüegsau,

Now the Bernese Office for Deprivation of Liberty and Supervision has put a stop to this. The Thorberg institution is currently being criticized for various reasons.

The director of the facility was recently dismissed and another department head is alleged to have allowed prisoners to work for his own company. The person concerned - presumably a friend of the dismissed director - has since resigned from his position.

According to jury president Marie-Theres Caratsch, the project "impressed with its sensitive and coherent approach to the location, the task and the requirements of running a music academy".

The competition process for the new Lucerne School of Music building was launched in April 2013 with an open call for pre-qualification. Eight planning teams were selected for the competition from the applications. Seven teams submitted a proposal.

Over the last three months, the jury, which was made up of representatives of the investor, the user, specialist judges and experts, carried out an adjustment stage with the two best projects in order to sharpen the quality of the projects.

The building is currently scheduled to be occupied in summer 2018. The
The project will cost around 70 million Swiss francs and will be realized on the basis of a private
investor model.

In the network, experts from various music genres and types of mediation work on the
Development of national tools, events and calls for proposals. The first output published in 2015 will be an overview of the Swiss scene, supplemented with practical examples of the various mediation genres and recommendations for handling the different terms.

In 2017, the international young ears award will be presented in Switzerland for the first time. On Friday, July 4, 2014, an extended conference will be held in Lucerne to which all institutions and personalities relevant to music education in Switzerland will be invited and at which the first results of the working group will be discussed and presented to the media.

Kulturvermittlung Schweiz (KVS) is the national Swiss network for cultural mediation and unites over 30 organizations with several thousand sub-members, including art and pedagogical universities, cultural institutions, associations and sector-specific networks.

More info: www.kultur-vermittlung.ch

Founded in 2003, the Swiss Music Export organization supports Swiss musicians in distribution abroad with networking and financial grants. It is supported by Pro Helvetia, the Phonoproduzierende Foundation, the SUISA Foundation, the Fondation CMA, the Migros Culture Percentage and the Swiss Performers Foundation.

Born in 1972, Balthasar Glättli studied philosophy and German and was a member of the Zurich city legislature from 1998 to 2011. From 2004 to 2008, he was co-president of the Zurich Green Party. For seven years, he also led the organization Solidarité sans Frontières, which focuses on migration policy. Since November last year, he has been President of the Green parliamentary group in the Swiss parliament.
 

According to the current timetable, at least one music lesson should be included in each school year, writes the cantonal government. The option of scheduling a second music lesson per week at primary school level is being abandoned in favor of math and German, particularly in the upper classes.

In summer 2013, the training profile at the University of Teacher Education was broadened again with ten subjects. As a result, all prospective primary school teachers will once again be trained in music (music, rhythmic instrumental lessons and solo singing). The broader training facilitates interdisciplinary teaching. This supports the cantonal intention to continue to have the subject of music taught by primary school teachers at primary level.

The future direction of music as a subject is currently being determined in the Swiss-German Curriculum 21 development project, the cantonal government added. The possible decision by the Education Council on the cantonal introduction and implementation of the new curriculum is planned for summer 2015.

The entire response of the Government Council:
www.sz.ch/documents/P_Lehrplan_Musik_Volksschule.pdf

According to the HKB press release, Andreas Stahl intends to devote more time to teaching composition and leading the theory department and, as a musician, to composing again; Camenisch will take over the role from the fall semester of 2014.

Born in 1975, Raphael Camenisch received important inspiration from Ivan Roth (Basel), Jean-Michel Goury (Paris) and Kyle Horch (London) following his saxophone studies in the classes of Marcus Weiss and Georges Koerper.

In 2006/07, he completed his studies in cultural studies at the University of Lucerne. Camenisch has taught saxophone, chamber music, sight-reading and transposition at various Swiss universities and has also given master classes in Buenos Aires, Tatui (Brazil), Boston (USA) and Katowice (Poland).
 

In addition to the award, the winning ensemble receives prize money of 10,000 euros; second place is endowed with 5,000 euros. The Audience Award is also presented. A total of six international jazz ensembles have performed at the free Sunday matinees since January 2014.

The Swiss ensemble Hildegard Lernt Fliegen - vocalist Andreas Schaerer, wind players Andreas Tschopp, Benedikt Reising and Matthias Wenger, bassist Marco Müller and drummer Christoph Steiner - not only impressed with their special Swiss humor. The musicians combined complex improvisations and musical fragments to create harmonious compositions, according to the explanatory statement.

The Dutch trio. Pianist Tony Roe, bassist Lucas Dols and drummer Bobby Petrov, play everything from classical and jazz to hip-hop and Balkan beats to everyday sounds and animal voices - the musicians' compositions transcend the boundaries of jazz.

The jury for the award is made up of Oliver Hochkeppel (music and culture journalist at Süddeutsche Zeitung), Roland Spiegel (music editor specializing in jazz at Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR-KLASSIK), Andreas Kolb (editor-in-chief of JazzZeitung and neue musikzeitung), Heike Lies (musicologist, music and music theater department, at the City of Munich's Department of Culture) and Christiane Böhnke-Geisse (artistic director of Jazzclub Unterfahrt, Munich).

From the twelve applications received, the expert jury - consisting of Pirmin Bossart (music journalist Lucerne), Hanspeter Pfammatter (musician Lucerne), Moana Labbate (choirmaster Hildisrieden), Joseph Gnos (Delegate of the Cultural Promotion Commission Obwalden) and Emil Wallimann (Cultural Commission Nidwalden) - awarded CHF 20,000 to Jul Dillier and CHF 10,000 to Famous October (Rene Coal Burrell and Sarah Bowmann). The prizes will be awarded in the fall.

Born in 1990, Jul Dillier studies jazz piano with a minor in percussion at the Basel Music Academy. He received the work grant for the project "Frères de son" - Treffpunkt Obwalden - Bobo Dionlasso, developed together with bassist Pascal Eugster: a band of Burkinabe and Swiss musicians that will go on tour in spring 2015.

Rene Coal Burrell and Sarah Bowman founded the acoustic duo Famous October in 2012. A studio residency in New York brought Burrell and the US-born singer together. The work contribution is intended to set the course for establishing the singer-songwriter duo and introducing them to a wide audience.

Kai Wessel already teaches singing and historical performance practice for singers at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and has taught at the Vienna Private University in recent years.

Born in Hamburg, he studied music theory, composition and singing at the Lübeck University of Music. At the same time, he studied baroque performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with René Jacobs, whose assistant he was for arrangements of several operas.

The HKB focuses on three strategic clusters in music: "19th century research", "artistic music education" and "création musicale". The tradition of training instrumental and vocal virtuosity will also be taken into account.
as well as the constantly changing demands of cultural society.
reality, according to the school's self-characterization.

The 46-year-old German Schorn lives in Cologne. He specializes in low woodwind instruments and was a member of the NDR Big Band before founding his own septet, with which he has performed all over the world.

Schorn has been awarded numerous international prizes and has toured the world as an instrumentalist, composer and arranger with renowned ensembles. He has also been Professor of Composition and Head of the Jazz Department at the Nuremberg University of Music since 2001.

According to the ZJO's official announcement, the band's musicians chose Steffen Schorn because "the chemistry, the energy and, above all, the music were a perfect match".

Cordonier is the new Managing Director of Plattform Kultur Wallis. The newly elected President of the Plattform Kultur Wallis association is a cultural delegate for the city of Sion.

The Valais Culture Platform was created on the initiative of the Canton of Valais and the Association of Valais Towns. It develops structures to inform cultural professionals and promote artistic and cultural productions, coordinates the cultural offerings in Valais, advises artists and cultural professionals on logistics and project development and promotes Valais cultural activities within and outside the canton.

The Kultur Wallis platform offers musicians of contemporary music the opportunity to perform under the title InfoPoint current music free personal consultation hours. The next one will take place on April 17, 2014 in the conference room of the media library in Brig.

Müller was one of the swing and jazz fans on the Swiss scene in the 1940s and 1950s. He was a close friend of the American jazz musician Benny Goodman for a long time. After his death, Müller received numerous personal documents and objects belonging to the musician.

Kurt Müller, who died a few weeks ago at the age of 92, had decreed that his collection should be placed in the Lippmann + Rau Foundation archive and thus close to the Bachhaus. The reason: one of the most popular Goodman recordings is called "Bach goes to town!".

The symbolic handover on March 21 will be performed by Kurt Müller Jr. on behalf of the Müller Family Foundation. Bandleader Pepe Lienhard, who is a member of the board of the family foundation, will also take part. The Swiss Honorary Consul Guy Montavon, Eva Demski and Siegfried Schmidt-Joos (as well as the members of the Lippmann + Rau + Foundation Board of Trustees) will also be present at the Bachhaus.
 

Contributors to the Gluck and Hindemith Complete Editions and to Opera - Spectrum of European music theater in individual editions will each lead a larger block of courses. Practical work will teach the application of philological knowledge and techniques.

Another block, which is supported by the Mainz research focus on dramatic music, explores the extent to which philology also has to deal with phenomena of performance and the concrete performance situation.

The one-week event will take place from August 11 to 16 on the Mainz campus and in the rooms of the Mainz Academy and will be confirmed and evaluated according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). It is aimed at musicology students in Germany and abroad.