Zurich Chamber Orchestra receives Wäckerlin Prize
The Accentus Foundation's Lily Waeckerlin Prize for Youth & Music 2013, endowed with CHF 60,000, goes to the Zurich Chamber Orchestra's project "Music with Globi - a journey through the world of sound".
The Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZKO) has also been catering to younger listeners with various formats for many years. Various children's concert formats have a place in the concert schedule.
The children's concert "Music with Globi - a journey through the world of sound" will premiere next season in close collaboration with the Globi publishing house and based on the newly produced Globi book of the same name. Timo Schlüssel, who is responsible for the story and the scenic realization, and the composers Rodophe Schacher and Aurelio Meyer will be involved.
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The Lily Waeckerlin Fund of the Accentus Foundation awards an annual music prize. The prize is awarded to an innovative and high-quality project in the field of youth and music. With this award, the foundation aims to motivate children and young people not just to consume music, but to actively engage with it. According to the ZKO and the Accentus Foundation, the awarding of the prize therefore plays a special role in communicating and introducing young people to musical works.
A decisive criterion for awarding the prize is, whenever possible, the presence of an element that outlasts the current phase of the project. According to Michael Hess, project manager at the Accentus Foundation, this is the case with the new Globi book, similar to the Lucerne Theater project last year or the Gare des enfants project in 2009.
The following projects have been awarded the Lily Wackerlin Prize to date:
2012: "Fräulein Bixel und Herr Glück", children's opera at the Lucerne Theater
2011: Upper Valais singing school cantiamo, Brig, project 'Singing is cool'
2010: Tönstör Association, Bern, "Still Life" project
2009: Gare des enfants, Basel, "Wegweiser Musik" project
2008: Köniz Music School, "Travesías" project
2007: Ecole de Musique du Conservatoire de Lausanne, project "Structure 'musique-école'"
2006: Lucerne School of Music, "Air Condition" project
2005: Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, project "Music Perception: Promotion through Improvisation and Composition"
