Hellat succeeds Baumgartner in Zurich
On September 1, 2018, Tom Hellat will take over as Head of Music Promotion at the Canton of Zurich's Department of Culture. Heinrich Baumgartner, former Head of Funding and responsible for music funding, will leave the department at the end of August.
After studying piano in Versailles, 37-year-old Tom Hellat studied philosophy, musicology and international law at the University of Zurich. He was responsible for classical music and regional cultural events at the Aargauer Kuratorium, the cultural promotion agency of the canton of Aargau. As a music journalist, he has written for various media and published a biography of the composer Peter Mieg.
As an expert in the field of music promotion, Tom Hellat has also been a member of the Cultural Promotion Commission of the Canton of Zurich since 2015. He founded the Strohhut label LeTom with his brother Rolf Hellat.
Heinrich Baumgartner will be leaving the Culture Department in late summer 2018 after seven years. During this time, he played a key role in shaping and developing the canton's cultural funding practices as head of the music funding department and, from 2013, as the person responsible for all application-based funding.
