Promoting young talent in Arosa
In addition to the "Hans Schaeuble Award", Arosa Culture has also successfully organized the "Young Talents in Concert" format for several years. At the end of the master class, the young talents give three to four concerts in Switzerland.
In 2022, a new concept for a master class was developed in collaboration with the OSI (Orchestra della svizzera italiana) and the CSI (Conservatorio della svizzera italiana).
This year, Robert Kowalski, the 1st concertmaster of the OSI, supervised and taught four students from the CSI Pre-College for a week in Arosa. This year's master class took place from June 24 to 29. This was followed by three concerts in Arosa, Cham and Lugano. The four young musicians - Adeleide Chiaradonna, Gianluigi Sartori, Tommaso Braido and Milo Antognini - had an instructive time in Arosa. The rehearsal days were intensive. They were able to gain valuable experience thanks to Robert Kowalski's experienced, professionally and personally proven direction and Redjan Teqia's accompaniment.
The next masterclass will take place in June 2025, and the short concert tour will take the young musicians to Cham and Lugano in addition to Arosa. Additional concert venues are currently being clarified.
"Hans Schaeuble Award"
Since 2015, the "Hans Schaeuble Recognition Prize" has been awarded each year to several participants of the two Arosa Music Academy weeks. Thanks to the generous increase in the Hans Schaeuble Foundation's contribution from 2023, this prize can now be greatly enhanced. In addition to the recognition prizes, a Hans Schaeuble Award worth CHF 2,000 will be presented for each Academy week. The Arosa Music Academy are two international master classes of the Arosa Music Course Weeks for the instruments violin/viola/violoncello and saxophone/accordion. The awards include an invitation to actively participate in the Arosa Classical Music Festival the following spring. Under the direction of Markus Fleck (violin) and Lars Mlekusch (saxophone), a chamber music program will be developed and subsequently performed in Arosa, Chur, Zurich and Boswil.
In Chur, the concerts are organized in collaboration with the Konzertstudio and "klibühni, Das Theater". In Zurich, the concert will take place as part of the "Mittagsmusik im Predigerchor" concert series at Zurich Central Library. The last concert will then take place at the Haus der Musik in Boswil.
Arosa Classical Music Festival
The Arosa Classical Music Festival 2025 will take place from March 7 - 29 in various concert venues in Arosa.
In addition to concerts by the prizewinners of the Arosa Music Academy, the focus will be on the voice in all its facets. The opening event will focus on the literary voice. This includes a lecture on "Hermann Hesse in Arosa" with the journalist Ueli Haldimann and the actor Christian Sprecher. Song recitals, a lecture on animal voices, a music theater about the "Queen of Dissonance" Florence Foster Jenkins, a film about a Turkish mountain people who communicate over great distances using whistling sounds instead of their voices will be shown and heard.
At the end of the classical music festival, the Arosa mixed choir will perform a program of "light" classical music.
Information about the festival will be published at the end of November on www.arosaklassik.ch is now available.
