Egg takes over Bern Chamber Orchestra
The 30-year-old trumpeter and cultural manager Niklaus Egg has been appointed Managing Director of the Bern Chamber Orchestra (BKO). He succeeds Beat Sieber, who is moving to the Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden as artistic director.
Niklaus Egg studied trumpet at the Bern University of the Arts and the Haute école de Musique de Genève. Since then he has played in various orchestras (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Gstaad Festival Orchestra and others).
He is currently studying on the MAS Arts Management course at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, is managing director of the vocal ensemble ardent and the brass ensemble UnglauBlech and manages various art and cultural projects with his cultural management office. He took over the organizational and administrative management of the Bern Chamber Orchestra on 1 December 2019.
