Great commitment to young musical talent
The Ruth and Ernst Burkhalter Foundation, established in Zurich in 1988, supports talented young musicians in the field of classical music. The foundation has now supported around 750 concerts with 122 young soloists.
Playing with an orchestra is an important experience on the way to a career as a soloist. During rehearsals with experienced conductors and at concert performances, where their own charisma can be felt by the audience, young musicians can learn important things for their future careers.
The Ruth and Ernst Burkhalter Foundation therefore supports concerts by orchestras and event organizers throughout Switzerland, where young talents can perform as soloists. To select young musical talent, the Foundation works closely with the Swiss Youth Music Competition (SJMW) together. If a soloist from the Foundation's sponsorship is engaged for a concert, the organizer can submit an application for a deficit guarantee or the assumption of the soloist's fee. On this basis, the Ruth and Ernst Burkhalter Foundation has supported around 750 concerts with 122 former SJMW prizewinners over the past 25 years. Thanks to this commitment, significantly more young soloists have been able to perform in orchestral concerts over the past 25 years.
The musical talents supported by the foundation are published on the foundation's website: www.stiftungburkhalter.ch
Anniversary celebration at the Tonhalle Zurich
The President of the Foundation Board, Michael Eidenbenz, paid tribute at the anniversary celebration on September 15 in the small hall of the Tonhalle Zurich Ruth Burkhalter as the "heart and soul" of the Foundation and thanked her for her beneficial work. In the chamber music concert that followed, musicians from the Foundation's sponsorship program and members of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich impressed the audience with their interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Quintet for Winds and Piano, KV 452 (Martin Frutiger, oboe; Carmen Berger, clarinet; Florian Abächerli, horn; Valeria Curti, bassoon; Mischa Cheung, piano) and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's String Octet, op. 20 (Aline Champion, Isabelle Weilbach-Lambelet, Daniela Müller and Patrizia Pacozzi, violin, Michel Rouilly and Julie Berthollet, viola and Christian Poltéra and Lionel Cottet, cello).
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