Innovative concert formats from Bern
Students from Bern University of the Arts have won the Hugo 2021 competition for innovative concert formats organized by Montforter Zwischentöne with their "queerfeldein" concept.
In a live broadcast from Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the winning team of the seventh Hugo competition was determined on Monday evening. After a close neck-and-neck race, the audience's vote sealed the decision and awarded the Kollektiv Contemporament team from Bern University of the Arts / Nuremberg University of Music. Their concept queerfeldein for the Wandelperformance will now be premiered at Montforter Zwischentöne as part of the festival in November 2021.
The Contemporament collective consists of Mara Maria Möritz (HKB), Philippe Gaspoz (HKB), Rachel Alonso Müller (HfM Nuremberg), Lukas Amberger (HfM Nuremberg), Kiara Konstantinou (HfM Nuremberg), Magdiel Baptistin Vaillant (external) and Maria Rosa Möritz (external).
Another team from Bern made it to the final of the competition: Art Connection, consisting of Fabio da Silva, Johanna Schwarzl, Melissa da Silva and Dan Marginean.
Named after the minstrel Hugo von Montfort, the Montforter Zwischentöne international student competition for new concert formats provides a theme and a location each year that the participants have to address in their concepts. The theme for 2021 was "Paths and Incidence", and the location is Amberg Castle in Vorarlberg, built in 1493.
