The Migros series is raising its profile more and more and its success seems to be proving it right. As explained at the media conference to present the season, the concerts were 93% full in the season that has now ended.

Swiss creativity will be reflected in the coming season not only by inviting important performers - the sopranos Marysol Schalit and Rachel Harnisch, the cellist Sol Gabetta, the oboist Matthias Arter - but also by more determined collaboration with Swiss composers.

Dieter Ammann's "Boost" and "Core" will be given second and third performances. "Core" will be performed by the Mariinsky Orchestra. According to Mischa Damev, the director of the concert series, its conductor Valery Gergiev is so taken with the piece that he wants to include it in the program in St. Petersburg beforehand.

The other invited orchestras are the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, soloists include Rachel Harnisch), the Budapest Festival Orchestra (Iván Fischer, soloists Maria João Pires and Marysol Schalit) and the Basel Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Mario Venzago, soloists Sol Gabetta and Matthias Arter).

Extra concerts will be given by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra in Bern - with the bamboo flute virtuoso Tang Junqiao -, the Camerata Bern and the Polish Chamber Orchestra in Geneva.

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by Kent Nagano (soloist Marc-André Hamelin), the Mariinsky Orchestra by Valery Gergiev (soloist Denis Matsuev) and the BBC Symphony Orchestra by Sakari Oramo (principal soloist Leonidas Kavakos).

The whole program: www.migros-kulturprozent-classics.ch