Ensemble Proton has a managing director
Ensemble Proton Bern has appointed a managing director. Bernese cultural manager Peter Erismann will take over the newly created position from January 2020. Among other things, he will be responsible for the budget and fundraising.
Erismann will also accompany and support the eight-member ensemble in its artistic development and especially in interdisciplinary projects. Proton has been known for ten years for premieres (including as Ensemble in Residence at the Dampfzentrale Bern) in the field of contemporary classical music and was awarded the Music Prize of the Canton of Bern this year.
Peter Erismann, 58, comes from a family of musicians and worked for many years as an exhibition manager, curator and editor at the Swiss National Library/Swiss Literary Archives. He is well connected in Bern and is involved in the board of the Cinéville/Kino Rex association, for whose renovation he was responsible. Most recently, he worked for four years as managing director of the Aargauer Kuratorium in Aarau.
