Adrian Böckli goes to Belgrade
The city of Winterthur has awarded a scholarship for a studio residency in Belgrade for the first time as part of its cultural promotion program. The scholarship was awarded to the musician Adrian Böckli.
Born in 1991, Adria Böckli is a drummer and composer who plays various percussion instruments as well as guitar and piano. He completed his studies at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He graduated in 2018 with a Master of Arts in Jazz Performance. Böckli is a member of numerous bands such as Sebass, Extrafish, Jack Slamer, Fabe Vega, Tome Iliev Sextett and Bogavante. He is also involved in choir projects, musicals and as a theater musician.
Böckli is very interested in Eastern European music and has already spent time studying in Bulgaria and Macedonia in recent years. In Belgrade, he would like to explore the music of the Balkans and its interfaces with Western European and American musical forms. The residency is scheduled to run from April 1 to July 31, 2021. Those responsible hope that the international situation will have calmed down enough by then for the artist to take up the scholarship.
The studio is periodically advertised for a four-month residency for artists from Winterthur. A total of eight people applied for the scholarship. Cultural practitioners from all disciplines who have lived in the city of Winterthur for at least three years without interruption or who have a special connection to cultural life in the city of Winterthur through their artistic work were eligible to apply
