Swiss Grand Prix Music 2024 goes to Sol Gabetta

Sol Gabetta was born in Argentina in 1981 and has held Swiss citizenship since 2018. She studied at the Basel Music Academy and has long lived in the municipality of Olsberg in the canton of Aargau. She has directed the Solsberg Chamber Music Festival there since it was founded in 2006 and has taught at the Basel Music Academy since 2005.

Other award winners are: With the composer Ivo Antognini (Locarno, Ticino), Switzerland is represented on an international level with a reference for contemporary choral composition. Simone Aubert (Geneva) is a multi-instrumentalist who has been active in the alternative experimental scene in Geneva for more than 20 years. Simone Felber (Lucerne) is without doubt one of the most interesting and active personalities in new Swiss folk music and shows with formations such as Echo vom Eierstock or Simone Felber's iheimisch how contemporary and emancipated this genre can be.

Leila Schayegh (Winterthur, Zurich) is a leading researcher and violinist of early music. Tapiwa Svosve (Zurich) holds a key position in contemporary jazz as a saxophonist and composer. The group Zeal & Ardor (Basel), led by Manuel Gagneux, is generally recognized as the founder of a musical style that brings together gospel and black metal. In his works, Zimoun (Bern) impressively combines sound with architecture, movement with sculpture and installation with spatial effects.

The special prizes are awarded to important institutions and players for their contribution to the Swiss music scene. They recognize personalities, venues, labels or educational projects that actively promote the status of music, the promotion of music creation and the dissemination of cultural heritage in Switzerland. The Special Prizes Music 2024 go to:

LUFF (Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival), Smem - Swiss Museum and Center of Electronic Musical Instruments and Somatic Rituals: The collective and label from Basel consists of the producers and musicians Kombé, Mafou and Mukuna and has become an important part of the innovative Swiss club scene.