Studio residencies for Baumann and Jampen
Artist Laurent Schmid and musician Rico Baumann will live in the City of Bern's studio in New York in 2015. Musician Karin Jampen and artist Ramon Feller have been awarded residency grants from the City of Bern and the Städtekonferenz Kultur (SKK) in Genoa and Cairo.
Thirty cultural practitioners from Bern applied for the two grants, each worth CHF 18,000, for a stay in New York from February to July 2015. Together with the Städtekonferenz Kultur (SKK), the City of Bern offered a grant of CHF 4,500 for a three-month stay in Genoa from March to May 2015 and a grant of CHF 9,000 for a six-month stay in Cairo from February to June 2015. Five applications were received for Genoa and three for Cairo. The Cultural Affairs Division and representatives of the cultural promotion commissions awarded the Genoa scholarship to the musician Karin Jampen
Rico Baumann works as a drummer with musicians and bands of various styles such as Baze, King Pepe, Don Li and the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and travels Europe, America and Asia with the jazz bands Le Rex, Der Wawawa, Weird Beard and European Jazz Orchestra. As a producer and composer, Rico Baumann runs the avant-garde beat duo KG & Morricone and is attracting international attention with his new synth-pop band True.
Karin Jampen is a freelance musician and music educator and teaches at the Bern Conservatory Music School. As a pianist with a diverse repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary, experimental music, she performs on various platforms. She is also the initiator of the interdisciplinary music performance "Lines & Clusters" (2011) and the concert project "Schichtwerk - SchlagzeugPianoComputer" (2012).
