For the second time since 2012, the Board of Trustees for Cultural Promotion of the Canton of Solothurn is awarding sponsorship prizes worth 15,000 Swiss francs on behalf of the cantonal government, three of which will go to musicians.
At the end of November 2012, the application process for the sponsorship prizes and studio grants, which are awarded by the Cantonal Board of Trustees for Cultural Promotion on behalf of the Government Council, was announced for the second time.
A total of 55 applications were received, 48 applications for a sponsorship award, 23 for a residency in 2014 at the artist studio in Paris, which the Canton of Solothurn has been offering in collaboration with the Canton of Aargau since 2001.
The winners of the third sponsorship award were: Olten reggae musician Patrick Bütschi (born 1986), Langendorf pianist and singer Adina Friis (born 1988) and composer Jannik Giger (born 1985), who lived in the canton of Solothurn until 2010.
The residencies at Künstleratelier Paris have been awarded to visual artist Cecile Weibel (*1984) in the first half of 2014 and to theater artist Giulietta-Susanne Odermatt in the second.
