Deuber becomes director of the Musikkollegium Winterthur
41-year-old Dominik Deuber has been appointed as the new Director of the Musikkollegium Winterthur. He was previously Managing Director of the Lucerne Festival Academy.
From August 2020, he will seamlessly take over the management of the Musikkollegium Winterthur from his predecessor Samuel Roth, who will then become Director of the House of Winterthur. Deuber was Managing Director of the Lucerne Festival Academy for twelve years. His responsibilities included the strategic development of the Festival Academy, maintaining an international network and managing the entire Academy team and the alumni orchestra.
He was also responsible for fundraising and (together with the artistic director) for programming and planning the concerts and masterclasses. Since April 2017, Dominik Deuber has also been Artistic Director of the Generations International Jazz Festival Frauenfeld, which takes place every two years.
At the end of February, it was announced that the current director of the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Samuel Roth, was leaving the orchestra to take on a new challenge as director of the House of Winterthur organization. 46 candidates from Switzerland and abroad applied to succeed him.
