New rector at the Kalaidos University of Music
Michael Bühler has headed the Kalaidos UAS School of Music since October 1. He has taken over the rectorship from Frank-Thomas Mitschke, who is retiring at the end of October.
According to a statement from the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences Switzerland, Michael Bühler has a broad professional musical education, which he expanded with an Executive MBA from the Universities of Zurich and Stanford (U.S.) and a doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire (UK). For more than ten years, he was artistic director and managing director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, before that he was executive director of the Swiss Youth Music Competition Foundation and orchestra director at Zurich Opera House. In addition to providing a professional musical education, the new rector also wants to prepare the students of the Kalaidos University of Music specifically for the "entrepreneurial challenges of the modern music market".
Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences Switzerland would like to thank the outgoing Rector Frank-Thomas Mitschke for his great commitment "as well as for the expansion and continuous development of the programs over the last six years or so."
