Daniela Martin is the new director of Basel Sinfonietta
The Basel Sinfonietta has a new managing director. The successor to Felix Heri, who is moving to the Lucerne Festival, is the German cultural manager Daniela Martin.
Born in Giessen (Germany) in 1974, Daniela Martin is a trained musician and literature expert and is interested in the whole variety of the arts. She has worked at the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, the Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon and its Festival Dias da Musica, the Orchestre National de France and as an assistant/agent for artists such as Kurt Masur, Fazil Say and Augustin Dumay.
Since 2010, Daniela Martin has been closely associated with the contemporary music ensemble Variances in Rouen (France) as co-founder and managing director. In this role, she has initiated a series of international collaborations, tours and commissioned projects in the field of contemporary music. Daniela Martin will take up her post in Basel on September 16.
