The Lucerne City Council is awarding the 2013 Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne, endowed with 25,000 francs, to jazz, folk and theater musician Albin Brun.
Albin Brun has been shaping the jazz and folk music as well as the theater landscape in Switzerland with his broad musical work for over thirty years, writes the city of Lucerne. As a bandleader, he has a national and international presence with his various formations.
His "masterful playing on the saxophone and on many other instruments as well as his compositions are very multi-layered and at the same time characterized by a lot of passion", the city continued. His openness to his own musical roots as well as to the unfamiliar inspires him time and again to create masterful compositional combinations.
He is constantly exploring Swiss folk music, combining it with elements of jazz, sounding out the possibilities of various instruments and "defying the impossible in terms of musical sound".
The recognition prizes are endowed with CHF 10,000 each and go to Barbara Anderhub and Pia Fassbind (co-directors of Kleintheater Luzern) and the painter Giacomo Santiago Rogado.
