Christian Brantschen receives prize from the Bürgi-Willert Foundation
Pianist Christian Brantschen, keyboarder for Patent Ochsner and musical partner of dialect writer Pedro Lenz, is awarded the Bürgi-Willert Foundation Culture Prize.
Christian Brantschen, born in Bern in 1959, is a musician and composer. He has been a permanent member of Patent Ochsner since 2000 and has played over 500 concerts with the band in Switzerland and abroad. He regularly accompanies Swiss authors and went on an extensive tour of Switzerland with Pedro Lenz with the program "Der Goalie bin ig". He composes music for the theater as well as for numerous cinema and documentary films and crime scenes.
The Bürgi-Willert Foundation Culture Prize has been awarded every two years since 1992 and, since 2015, to artists between the ages of 40 and 65 who have enriched Bern's cultural life for years but who, due to their age, are generally no longer eligible for grants and funding from the public sector and other foundations.
