Camerata Pontresina with new artistic director
After more than thirty years, Jürg H. Frei has officially handed over the management of Camerata Pontresina to his successor Xaver Fässler.
The daily morning concerts of the Camerata Pontresina in the Taiswald forest are a summer evergreen, according to Pontresina Tourism. They have been held from mid-June to the end of September since 1910. In addition to the "spa orchestra" on the Tais concert square, small and large salon orchestra formations once also played in hotels and in pavilions in the hotel parks. Until the 1940s, they even played on the local ice rinks in winter. The Camerata Pontresina is still in use as Pontresina's official spa orchestra.
Xaver Fässler, clarinettist with Camerata Pontresina since 1990, has now taken over the directorship from Jürg H. Frei. As "the doctor with the flute", Frei had led the Pontresina spa orchestra since 1989 and ensured the successful continuation of the legendary Camerata Pontresina. Fässler's aim, together with Daniel Bosshard, pianist and librarian of the Camerata, is to continue and further develop the tradition of the Engadin spa orchestras.
