Alpentöne with a new team
Long-time Moods co-director Carine Zuber, agency director Tobias Bolfing, Boris Previšić, director of the Institute Cultures of the Alps, and Karl Marbet from Altdorf will take over the artistic direction and festival management at Alpentöne.
According to the festival's press release, the new program team is working on a very alpine and at the same time international festival. Sounds, tones and noises from the mountains - from singing cable car ropes to humming lakes and thundering rockfall to the rumbling of avalanches, the materiality of the Alps, so to speak - are the focus of the international festival.
In addition to concerts at Theater Uri, Cinema Leuzinger and Lehn (as well as a few other venues), the program includes spoken word contributions, films, installations and a conference on religiosity and music in the Alpine region. The festival will take place from August 17 to 20, 2023, with a sound walk as the finale.
Founded in 1999, the festival is not committed to any musical style. The theme is clear, but not the genre, which can best be characterized by the term "new folk music". The managing director is the former Pro Helvetia director Pius Knüsel.
