Endo Anaconda receives the Bern Music Prize 2015
The 2015 Music Prize of the Canton of Bern, endowed with CHF 20,000, goes to Endo Anaconda, known for the group Stiller Has. Musician, composer and performer Lilian Beidler, accordionist Mario Batkovic and techno pioneer Marco Repetto each receive a recognition prize of CHF 10,000.
Endo Anaconda, alias Andreas Flückiger, founded Stiller Has together with Balts Nill, alias Ueli Balsiger, in 1989. The musician with Austrian roots has close ties to the canton of Bern and is a figurehead of Bernese rock music. The ninth studio album by Stiller Has was released in 2013: "Böses Alter".
The composer and performer Lilian Beidler first attracted attention with large-scale acoustic environments, to which she now also contributes her body and voice as a performer.
In his accordion playing, Mario Batkovic mixes traditional Balkan songs with contemporary jazz and rock music and echoes influences ranging from Tom Waits and Astor Piazzolla to Johann Sebastian Bach.
As drummer for the post-punk band "Grauzone" around 1980, Marco Repetto captured the zeitgeist of the time and honed proto-techno tracks such as "Film 2". At the end of the 1980s, he became one of the most important protagonists of the emerging Swiss techno scene.
Pianist Gilles Grimaître will be awarded the "Coup de cœur 2015" prize for young talent in the amount of CHF 3,000.
