Two anniversaries in the cultural winter program
April 24, 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of organist and composer Hannes Meyer. And the Arosa Sounds festival will take place for the fifth time.
Andri Probst - Hannes Meyer is closely associated with the cultural development of Schanfigg. From 1967 to 1978, he was organist in Arosa and founded the legendary "Bergkirchli-Konzerte Arosa" concerts, which have been held every Tuesday evening in the summer and winter seasons without interruption ever since. From 1978, Hannes Meyer traveled the world as a freelance organ soloist, composer, teacher and animator and lived in various places in the canton of Graubünden. He was also particularly interested in teaching music to children. On so-called "experience days", he introduced over 250,000 schoolchildren in Switzerland, Europe, the USA and the Philippines to the organ and organ playing in an entertaining and exciting way. In his honor, several concerts at the Arosa Classical Music Festival (17.3. - 2.4.2023) will make programmatic reference to his work, and the festival will conclude with a memorial concert on Sunday 2 April in the Evangelical Village Church of Arosa, his former place of work. Matthias Gubler (saxophone), Domenic Jannett (clarinet) and Wolfgang Sieber (organ) will perform a program of interpretations, arrangements and improvisations of and on music by Hannes Meyer. A commemorative publication by Christian Albrecht will round off the tribute to Hannes Meyer.
The second anniversary concerns Arosa Culture's latest project, the jazz, blues and rock festival "Arosa Sounds". The small but exquisite festival will take place for the fifth time from February 2-4, 2023. Reason enough to celebrate this edition with a special project. Rolf Caflisch, director of Jazz Chur and drummer, and Andri Probst, artistic director of Arosa Sounds, have brought together six Grisons singers under the "Bündner Sounds" concert format and commissioned them to create two full-length programs together with an accompanying band.
The two "Bündner Sounds" concerts will take place on Thursday and Friday evening at 8.30 pm in the Klub im Kursaal. The backing band for both concerts consists of Rolf Caflisch (drums), Andi Schnoz (guitar), Rees Coray (bass) and Sören Dokter (keys).
Flavia Capello, Marcus Petendi and Mattiu Defuns will be on stage as singers on Thursday, while Pascal Gamboni, Liza from the Moon and Andrin Berchtold will take to the stage on Friday. Most of the musicians mentioned will be performing together on stage for the first time, so it will be exciting to see the song selection. It is already clear that the two concerts will be unique and full of surprises.
February 2-4, 2023, Arosa
Program:
Tie drei / Bündner Sounds with Mattiu Defuns, Flavia Capello, Marcus Petendi, Pascal Gamboni, Liza from the Moon and Andrin Berchtold / Mattiu / Liza from the moon / Pippo Pollina & Palermo Acoustic Quintet: Canzoni segrete / The Robots
> www.arosasounds.ch
17.3. - 2.4.2023, Arosa
4 concerts with winners of the Hans Schaeuble Award / Kaleidoscop String Quartet / Wind Ensemble of the Conser-vatorio della Svizzera italiana / Lisette Stoffel / Hannes Meyer memorial concert with Matthias Gubler, Domenic Janett and Wolfgang Sieber
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