Cultural awards from the city of Thun
This year, the city of Thun is honoring the visual artist Stefan Guggisberg with the Art Prize and the musician couple Sabine and Tuomas Kaipainen with a Culture Shaker. The visual artist Tanja Schwarz and the classical saxophonist Jonas Tschanz each receive a cultural sponsorship award.
The City of Thun's "Kulturstreuer" prize, endowed with CHF 5,000, goes to Sabine and Tuomas Kaipainen for their services to the promotion of culture and art. The musician Jonas Tschanz, who grew up in Steffisburg, is being honored with a 10,000 Swiss franc prize to promote culture. The 2015 Art Prize of the City of Thun in the amount of CHF 10,000 goes to the visual artist Stefan Guggisberg, who grew up in Thun. The visual artist Tanja Schwarz also receives a sponsorship award.
The musician couple Sabine and Tuomas Kaipainen are now in their ninth year of co-directing the concert series "Im Rathaus um 4". Both have already taken part in numerous recordings and concerts, for example at the festivals in Moscow and Helsinki. They have taught at numerous master classes, including at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
The classical saxophonist Jonas Tschanz completed his studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel in 2014. In his still young career, he has already won various Swiss music prizes. His concert activities have already taken him all over Europe, to China and Japan, both as a soloist and as a member of ensembles.
