Aargau work grants 2018
Three musicians from Aargau will each receive a work grant of CHF 30,000. In the classical music category, these are violist Petra Ackermann (Baden) and composer Dieter Ammann (Zofingen). In the rock/pop category, the singer and composer Donat Kaufmann (Rieden) will receive a work grant.
Four grants of CHF 10,000 each will go to the composer and bandleader Sarah Chaksad (Basel), the trumpeter Bodo Maier (Biberstein) and the saxophonist Simon Spiess (Aarau) in the jazz category. In the rock/pop category, drummer Lukas Weber (Lucerne) will receive an award. Natalie Oesterreicher (Beinwil am See) also received a work grant for a new project in the film category.
Studio residencies in Paris, Berlin, London or Nairs in the field of fine arts have been awarded to: Erich Busslinger (Basel), Andreas Bertschi (Zurich), Lea Schaffner (Zurich), Laura Meitrup (Basel), Remy Erismann (Bern) and Stefanie Kobel (Zurich). The singer Corinne Nora Huber (Erlinsbach) and the musician James Varghese are traveling to London. Pianist Thomas Lüscher has been granted a studio residency in Nairs in the Lower Engadine.
The awards will be presented, together with the awarding of the work grants in the fields of literature and theater and dance, at the public award ceremony on November 1, 2018 at the Kulturhaus Odeon in Brugg.
