Menoud-Baldi President of the SBC
Luana Menoud-Baldi is the first woman in the history of the Swiss Brass Band Association, the largest amateur music association in Switzerland, to be elected as its head.
After 13 years in office, Valentin Bischof has stepped down as President of the SBC. At the association's delegates' meeting, Luana-Menoud Baldi, who has been a member of the association's management since 2021, won out over professional musician Armin Bachmann as his successor with a clear majority. Menoud-Baldi, who was born in Ticino and now lives in the canton of Fribourg, is the first woman to hold this position.
The delegates of the SBC met at the Kultur- und Kongresshaus Aarau for their annual meeting, which should have taken place in March but had to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. As the largest amateur music association in Switzerland, the association has 30 member associations with almost 70,000 musicians.
