Girschweiler and From Kid honored in Chur
Chur awards a recognition prize to the musician and conductor Heinz Girschweiler and a sponsorship prize to the band From Kid. The cultural scientist, literary critic and author Corina Caduff and the actor and director René Schnoz also receive recognition prizes.
Heinz Girschweiler studied trumpet at the Zurich Conservatory and choral and orchestral conducting at the Zurich Kantorenschule. He works as a freelance musician and conducts several choirs. In 1994, he co-founded the Orchestrina string orchestra, which he conducted for sixteen years. He is president of the music commission of the Bündner Kantonalgesangsverband and co-director of the Postremise in Chur.
Girschweiler "deserves the recognition award for his versatile and great commitment as a musician and choir director as well as for his interdisciplinary and networking work". The band From Kid with Andrin Berchtold and Gian Reto Camenisch is being honored for the national breakthrough of their independent and harmonically convincing electro pop.
The recognition prizes are awarded in recognition of at least ten years of cultural work that is of importance to the city and its immediate region. The prizes are endowed with CHF 4,000 each and will be presented by City Councillor Doris Caviezel-Hidber at a public ceremony on May 6, 2015.
