Lucerne decides on music mediation center
The canton and city of Lucerne, the Regional Conference for Culture (RKK) and the Albert Koechlin Foundation have launched a call for proposals for a platform to support Lucerne musicians. The jury chose Marcel Bieri's "Other Music Lucerne" project from four applications.
The jury, consisting of representatives from the Canton of Lucerne, the City of Lucerne and the Regional Culture Conference RKK, assessed the applications received with the advice of experts. Representatives of the institutions Swiss Music Export and Rockförderverein Basel RFV were consulted as experts.
The "Other Music Lucerne" project by Marcel Bieri, Lucerne, convinced the jury in particular "due to the concretely formulated and meaningful measures for the promotion of Lucerne musicians, the broad and versatile network in the cantonal and national music scene, a planned independent association structure and the many years of experience and performance".
Marcel Bieri started out as a cultural organizer at the Braui Hochdorf cultural center and was a co-founder of the B-Sides association and the festival of the same name. Until summer 2017, he was jointly responsible for its overall coordination; since then, he has been responsible for artistic direction and networking.
The canton, city, RKK and Koechlin Foundation are supporting the establishment of the music education center during the three-year pilot phase with an annual contribution of CHF 60,000. This will be based on a service agreement with the canton, city and RKK.
