Peter Leu awarded the Amsler Prize
The Board of Trustees of the Werner Amsler Foundation has unanimously awarded organist Peter Leu, lecturer in music theory at the Lucerne School of Music, the 2017 Werner Amsler Prize worth CHF 20,000.
Peter Leu has been teaching music theory at the Lucerne School of Music since 1987. The Board of Trustees writes that with Peter Leu they have "consciously chosen an active and committed musician".
Peter Leu was born in Schaffhausen in 1955. He studied mathematics at the ETH Zurich and taught at the cantonal school in Schaffhausen until 1986. He received his organ teaching diploma from Theodor Käser at the SMPV. Further organ studies followed with André Luy in Lausanne and Monika Henking in Thalwil/Lucerne. He has been a lecturer in music theory at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 1987. Peter Leu has been organist at the Stadtkirche St. Johann since 1991 and at Schaffhausen Minster since 1995.
