Solari and Academy for Contemporary Music honored
The Swiss Capital Region Association honors the performance artist and musician Rebecca Solari and the Academy for Contemporary Music Switzerland for their promotion of bilingualism across the Röstigraben.
The The jury decided to award the project "Solo Brodo (Primordio e Parsimonia)" by interdisciplinary performance artist and musician Rebecca Solari, who lives in Biel, with 10,000 francs. The artist sheds light on her mother tongue - a Ticino dialect from the Blenio Valley - with her cultural language French, addressing the question of how people can communicate without speaking the same language. In general, her work deals with virulent contemporary issues such as identity and social norms.
The jury also awarded the Academy for Contemporary Music Switzerland 5,000 francs. The prize money will be used to support a bilingual music camp organized by the Academy, which will take place in Schwarzsee in August 2025. The musicians of "La Gustav" and the young people and children of "La Marlene", two projects of the academy, will rehearse across language and age boundaries for a performance at the 3rd "Lac Noir Schwarzsee Festival".
