Lucerne honors Marc Unternährer
The Lucerne City Council is honoring the work of Lucerne musician, event organizer and cultural mediator Marc Unternährer with the 2020 Lucerne Art and Culture Prize. The two recognition prizes 2020 go to the dancer and choreographer I-Fen-Lin and the artist Anita Zumbühl.
Marc Unternährer impresses "as an extraordinary and gifted musician with national and international appeal", writes the city. His virtuosity and creativity, his unique willingness to experiment and his expressiveness as a tuba player are expressed in his extensive musical work.
Unternährer is active in a wide variety of musical styles, whether in the classical field in various orchestras in Switzerland (Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, LSO, etc.) or in many independent musical projects in established formations for new music, improvised music, new folk music and jazz (Albin Brun's NAH Trio, Ensemble Le Rex, etc.).
He is involved in the Forum for New Music Lucerne, organizer of the "Jazz am Dienstag" series at the Kleintheater Lucerne, program director of the Stanser Musiktage and co-founder of the Mullbau, which offers a roof for improvisation and experimental arts in particular. Since his stay in Chicago at the Lucerne twinning studio in 2002, the exchange and networking with musicians from Chicago has continued to grow.
As a committed musician, he is also unwaveringly committed to cultural policy issues. He is a lecturer in improvisation at the HKB Bern and the HSLU Music Lucerne.
