Nico Kaufmann Foundation honors Fatima Dunn
Fatima Dunn is the winner of last year's Nico Kaufmann Foundation grant in the field of cabaret. The cellist, composer and singer received a grant of CHF 15,000 for her multimedia project "Landfall".
Born in Zurich in 1983, performer Fatima Dunn studied contemporary singing at the Winterthur Institute for Contemporary Music WIAM. She then completed a master's degree in composition for film, theater and media at the Zurich University of the Arts. Since graduating in summer 2013, she has appeared on various occasions as a freelance performer and singer as well as a theater musician and film composer.
Together with video artist Mirjam von Ow, Fatima Dunn has created a cinematic live performance entitled "Landfall", in which vocals, cello, electronics and the large-scale projection of images create a poetic journey. The "artistic versatility paired with a highly professional realization" persuaded the jury of the Nico Kaufmann Foundation to award Dunn the scholarship.
The Nico Kaufmann Foundation, which is administered by the Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, awards an annual scholarship to musicians who have not yet reached the age of 35 and are domiciled in Switzerland in the year of the call for applications. The president of the foundation is the mayor. Michael Eidenbenz, Director of the Department of Music at Zurich University of the Arts, singer-songwriter Véronique Müller and cabaret artist Joachim Rittmeyer sat on the jury for the current scholarship award.
