Langenthal awards cultural prizes
The city of Langenthal is honoring five outstanding cultural personalities with Culture Awards 2022. Beat Wälchli, Rainer Walker and Christoph Schuler are being honored for their decades of great commitment as cultural mediators in Langenthal and far beyond.
The two young musicians Laura Schuler and Luzius Schuler from Langenthal are being honored for their achievements to date and supported for their future potential. The five cultural prizes are endowed with CHF 3000 each.
Beat Wälchli is being honored for his decades of highly committed work as a cultural organizer, arts mediator and arts promoter in Langenthal and Oberaargau since the late 1980s. Since 2012, the Langenthal Garden Opera, which he founded and directed, has staged five of its own opera productions in the rose garden of the Alte Mühle for a wide audience of culture enthusiasts.
As director of the Oberaargau Music School in Langenthal since 2005 and as a tireless ambassador of music-making, Rainer Walker has shaped musical education and music education in the region. Christoph Schuler is being honored for his many years of work as a renowned builder and researcher of historical woodwind instruments and as a committed mediator of early music on historical instruments and of folk music from Switzerland and Europe.
Laura Schuler studied at the Jazz School in Bern and works as a freelance musician in various projects, solo, as a leader, co-leader or sidewoman. Luzius Schuler studied at the Bern University of the Arts, is a freelance musician, composer and producer and plays in various bands in the fields of jazz, improvisation and pop.
