Lucerne Recognition Award for Christov Rolla

The City of Lucerne is awarding the 2017 Art and Culture Prize, endowed with CHF 25,000, to visual artist Peter Roesch. Recognition prizes worth CHF 10,000 each go to the translator Ute Birgi-Knellessen and the musician Christov Rolla.

Christov Rolla (Image: Rolla website)

Christov Rolla, musician, is a musician of the younger generation with a considerable body of work as a composer, arranger, choirmaster and actor. He has already expressed his diverse musical expressiveness in countless theater productions. According to the city's press release, his work is characterized by "an extraordinary musical breadth that is unparalleled in Central Switzerland".

As a trained school and church musician and choirmaster, he knows his trade. With his musical breadth, he is able to create the right sound for every play. His dramaturgical flair, his great affinity for the written word and his concise and idiosyncratic compositions would elevate every play to a new, higher artistic level, the city adds. Christov Rolla lives in Lucerne.

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