Valais sponsorship award for Andreas Zurbriggen
The actress Annelore Sarbach has been awarded the 2019 Culture Prize of the Canton of Valais. The sponsorship awards (CHF 10,000 each) go to three young talents: historian Jasmina Cornut, dancer Simon Crettol and musician Andreas Zurbriggen.
Born in 1986, Andreas Zurbriggen is a classical composer and music journalist. Born and resident in Saas-Fee, he studied classical composition with Daniel Glaus at the Bern University of the Arts and musicology, history and art history at the University of Bern. Andreas Zurbriggen's musical language is rooted in tradition, but he integrates it into a contemporary context.
Zurbriggen composes music for a wide variety of ensembles: From solo piano pieces to compositions for orchestra and choir. His works have already been performed at several festivals (Forum Wallis, music festivals in Bern, Davos and Shanghai) and interpreted by renowned ensembles (Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble Mondrian Basel, flute quartet Tétraflûtes, Russian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra St. Petersburg).
