Solothurn sponsorship awards 2019
The Board of Trustees for the Promotion of Culture of the Canton of Solothurn has awarded sponsorship prizes worth CHF 15,000 for the eighth time on behalf of the cantonal government. Christine Hasler and Simone Meyer were honored in the music category.
Christine Hasler works as a theater musician and singer/songwriter. She completed her Master's degree in Music and Media Art at the Bern University of the Arts in 2015. As a theater musician, she has worked with Markus Heinzelmann at the Theater Kanton Zürich, the Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, with Marie Bues at the Schlachthaustheater in Bern and at the Rampe in Stuttgart. With her singer/songwriting project Lia Sells Fish, she regularly performs concerts throughout Switzerland.
Violinist Simone Meyer is a student of Bartlomiej Niziol, who teaches at Bern University of the Arts. She won a sponsorship prize at the Migros Culture Percentage competition in 2013 and a Rahn scholarship in 2014/15. In 2016, she toured as a soloist with the Junge Münchner Philharmonie under the direction of Mark Mast and performed seven concerts in Munich, Zurich and Vienna.
