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Castle courtyard on the Wawel

According to legend, it was the tribal prince Krak who defeated the dragon in the cave and then founded the Polish royal city on the hill above, the Wawel, on the upper Vistula. Since the 13th century, the city has remained virtually unscathed by the turmoil of war, it has developed into the intellectual and cultural center of Poland and industrialization has largely taken place outside it. Countless preserved architectural monuments and art treasures make Krakow one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
The starting point for our explorations is our centrally located hotel. The sightseeing and excursions are complemented by two short chamber concerts and rounded off with two dinners in traditional Krakow restaurants.
 

Friday, October 10
Evening flight with Eurolot K2488 to Krakow, departure from Zurich at 20:35, arrival in Krakow at 22:45
Transfer to andel's Hotel Krakow, room check-in

How Music Hug the approximately 900 m2 sales area is spread over two floors at Fürstenlandstrasse 96. Among other things, the piano store stocks the grand and upright piano brand Steinway & Sons and offers a piano workshop with a tuning and repair service. The range is complemented by high-quality acoustic guitars and harps. The store is managed by Daniel Eberhard.

Musik Hug AG was founded in 1807. According to its own information, it sells musical instruments, accessories, hi-fi/TV, sheet music, music books and sound recordings through its branches in Zurich (head office), Basel, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Lausanne and Neuchâtel as well as a webshop. The Group is currently divided into four divisions: Retail, Wholesale, Export Company and Music Publishing. With 329 employees, including 53 apprentices, the Group generated sales of CHF 67 million in the 2012/13 financial year.
 

The cantonal government can support charitable and non-profit projects of regional or cantonal importance from the Swisslos Fund. Projects outside the cantonal territory must be of considerable importance for the canton of Aargau or for Switzerland as a whole.

In addition to cultural and educational projects, projects in the areas of youth and education, education and research, nature and the environment, development cooperation and health and social services are also co-financed from Swisslos funds on application.

The prerequisite is that the application (with a detailed description and budget) presents a broadly supported financing plan, is submitted up to twelve weeks before implementation and there is no legal basis under public law for the planned project.

More information on the award criteria and the scope of support provided by the Swisslos Fund Aargau (also in distinction to the Aargau Board of Trustees) can be found on the Internet under the keyword "Cultural Promotion" at www.ag.ch/kultur.

After more than fifteen years, the grammar schools in Olten and Solothurn are receiving a new standardized cantonal curriculum. Around two years ago, the cantonal government instructed the Department of Education and Culture to fundamentally revise the curricula that had been in place since 1998.

For the curriculum, music is "a producing and reproducing art as well as an object of intellectual and aesthetic debate". These facets are also reflected in the variety of fields of study in tertiary educational institutions, such as musicology or ethnomusicology.

The Solothurn curriculum with detailed objectives for music as a basic, core or supplementary subject is available online at www.ksso.ch/klp or www.kantiolten.ch/klp.

The prize may be awarded to persons who are permanently resident in Switzerland or
Swiss citizens working abroad may be awarded prizes. Prizes may be awarded to teachers at vocational, elementary, secondary and higher education institutions as well as technical schools and institutions, but also to private researchers with practical activities in the field of education.

Teachers at public and private schools and institutions are considered equally. If pedagogical achievements have been made jointly by several people, the prize may be awarded jointly.

The Board of Trustees, consisting of Allan Guggenbühl (President), Rémy Droz, Fritz Osterwalder, Gianni Ghisla and Claudia Crotti, decides on the awarding of the prize, usually CHF 10,000. The next award ceremony of the Peter-Hans Frey Foundation
will take place in October/November 2014.

Reasoned nominations including a small documentation are requested to Peter-Hans Frey Foundation, c/o Allan Guggenbühl, Untere Zäune 1, 8001 Zurich by April 30, 2014. References are welcome.

The withdrawal of the financing commitment for the Salle Modulable by Butterfield Trust (Bermuda) Limited in October 2010 was unlawful. The competent judge found that a donation agreement existed under Swiss law and that the trust had to fulfill its obligations arising from this, the foundation writes.

If the Salle Modulable Foundation submits a feasibility study for a flexible music theater in the city of Lucerne that is adapted to the new circumstances, Butterfield is obliged to meet the original funding commitment of up to CHF 120 million. The feasibility study will be updated and adapted as part of the New Theater Infrastructure Lucerne (NTI) project.

Butterfield's counterclaim was dismissed in its entirety. The judge has not yet made a final ruling on other issues. There will be a subsequent hearing on this. The judgment is not yet final. It can still be appealed to the Bermuda Court of Appeal.

The Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER) is working with the EU to develop a solution by June 2014 that will enable Swiss universities and their students to participate in Erasmus+, writes the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts).

The university's International Office encourages all students to apply as planned. It will work to ensure that the semester abroad can take place as planned in any case and continues to believe that politics and diplomacy will find a viable solution.

Since the adoption of the initiative on 9 February 2014, there has been uncertainty about the future of the Erasmus program in Switzerland. Negotiations for Switzerland's full participation in the new Erasmus+ program generation are currently suspended.
 

The St. Gallen Cantonal Singing Association, as an association of all secular choirs in the canton of St. Gallen, considers the promotion of young people to be a very important task. This year, therefore, the first singing camp for children and young people aged between 8 and 13 is to take place in Niederuzwil.

Singing together, developing and performing a program for parents, siblings and interested parties, spending an eventful week with like-minded people - the camp from 6 to 11 July will offer all of this.

The directors Esther Stalder (responsible for youth development in the cantonal association), Tina Dätwyler (musical director), Alessandra Hollenstein (musical assistant) and Gabi Aeschbacher (choreography) are looking forward to welcoming many boys and girls who are keen to sing.

The registration deadline is March 31, 2014.

Flyer and registration on: www.sgkgv.ch
 

The project features 100 cellists and double bassists, from interested beginners to professional students. Pieces on the theme of water from five centuries as well as four world premieres by contemporary Bernese composers will be performed. The magician couple Wundertäter - Christoph Borer and Lou - weave the pieces of music together.

The Lily Waeckerlin Fund of the Accentus Foundation awards an annual music prize. The prize is awarded to an innovative and high-quality project in the field of youth and music. In 2013, the prize went to the Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Previous winners include the Lucerne Theater, the Upper Valais singing school cantiamo, the Bernese association Tönstör, the Gare des enfants Basel, the Köniz music school and the Ecole de Musique du Conservatoire de Lausanne. 

More info: www.jakobsreise.ch

Buxhofer gave up the management of the editorial office in Chur less than a year ago in order to work more as a journalist, the "Bünder Tagblatt" continues. The deceased left behind a wife and a son.

Christian Buxhofer was born in Chur in 1961. He worked as a primary school teacher in Arosa for three years before switching to journalism. He has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chur Theater since 2010.

Arosa Kultur organizes concert series and, since 1987, the Arosa Music Course Weeks. According to its own description, it is the largest music festival of its kind in Europe. For its anniversary in 2011, the program was expanded to include additional master classes, which take place every September under the title Arosa Music Academy.

 Link to the obituary

SWR2 will promote Janina Ruh until 2016 in its radio program, with appearances at SWR events and through CD productions. She impressed the jury from the music editorial team "with her high level of musicality, sophisticated technique and great confidence and stage presence", writes the broadcaster. The jury's decision was unanimous.

Janina Ruh, born in Rottweil in 1989, was already a junior student at the Zurich University of the Arts with Susanne Basler at the age of twelve. After various studies at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts, the cellist completed masterclasses with Gustav Rivinius, Troels Svane, Ralph Kirshbaum and Jens Peter Maintz, among others.
 

Around 350 surviving, lost, unfinished and fragmentary works are listed in the 1400-page volume. In addition to the presentation of musical sources, the work entries also include first publications of Zimmermann's letters, notes and calendar entries with all relevant passages for the respective work.

The catalog raisonné also contains 23 color illustrations of autographs. It is part of the scientific cataloging of the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Archive of the Akademie der Künste and is based on preliminary work by the late Zimmermann researcher Klaus Ebbeke. 

More info: www.schott-musik.de/shop/2/show,260217.html

Since the 2005/06 school year, Kreuzlingen has offered a course aimed at pupils with artistic, musical or sporting talents. It is a course that combines the broad-based Matura education with individualized training in one of the special fields of sport, music or art.

The reduced attendance times lead to a higher proportion of self-study (e-learning, self-learning assignments, learning programs with self-monitoring and so on). For training in the chosen specializations, we work together with institutions that support students in the development of their talents (sports associations, conservatory, design school).
 

According to the announcement, the group of beneficiaries in Austria is to be extended to include those employed in art education and teaching. The lower income threshold that entitles people to join the insurance scheme is also to be lowered. "Improving the income situation for artists and cultural workers is a priority goal of this legislative period, alongside copyright reform," the "Standard" quotes the Minister of Culture as saying.

Germany and Austria are familiar with an artists' pension scheme for cultural professionals. Efforts to introduce such insurance in Switzerland also failed during parliamentary work on the Culture Promotion Act to implement the culture article in the new Federal Constitution.

However, Swiss federal politicians agreed that a certain percentage of federal funding for artists must flow into a pension fund. However, the model will only become substantial if the cantons and municipalities also introduce comparable provisions. 

Under Wieler's direction, the Stuttgart Opera has regularly received excellent ratings for its productions and singers in surveys of theater critics in recent years and has won numerous awards and prizes, writes the ministry.

Jossi Wieler's next directorial work for the Stuttgart Opera is currently in development: Mark Andre's first opera "wunderzaichen" will premiere on March 2. 

Jossi Wieler was born in Kreuzlingen/Switzerland in 1951. He studied directing at the Theater Department of Tel Aviv University. He has been artistic director of Oper Stuttgart since 2011/12 and recently co-directed the new Stuttgart productions of Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos" and Denisov's "Der Schaum der Tage" together with Sergio Morabito. In the current 2013/14 season, the world premiere of Mark Andre's first opera will be followed by a new production of "Tristan und Isolde".