Festival for New Music Forum Valais
The Forum Wallis festival for new music will take place at Leuk Castle from March 2 to 19. The program is now online.
At the beginning of March 2023, Leuk Castle in the small medieval Valais town of the same name will once again be transformed into a hotspot for new music. Swiss and international acts from the world of contemporary music will come together at the Forum Wallis. From March 2 to 4, they will provide an insight into the diverse work of the current musical avant-garde.
The 16th edition of the festival will feature the Schoss Company together with Cod.Act, Pascal Viglino, the Swiss free jazz greats Manuel Mengis, Lionel Friedli, Manuel Troller and Hans-Peter Pfammatter, Jonas Imhof's Exquisición, the Leuker writer Rolf Hermann, UMS 'n JIP, the Austrian micro-tone pianist Georg Vogel with his band Dsilton and the dissonArt ensemble from Thessaloniki. The composers of the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis Selection will also be present. It will take place for the 8th time in 2022/23, curated by Simone Conforti (IRCAM Paris).
The concerts of the Ars Electronica Forum Valais Selection (March 10-12) will take place for the first time at the newly established MEBU (Münster Earport) in Münster in Goms. In addition, the festival will once again fan out to various villages in the Upper Valais with concerts by the Upper Valais Folk Song Choir (March 18/19) in Simplon Dorf and Ernen.
The Forum Wallis is an international festival for new music at Leuk Castle on the German-French language border in the middle of the Valais Alps in Switzerland. It is managed by the IGNM-VS, the local chapter of the International Society for New Music (IGNM / ISCM).
The Forum Wallis has co-produced over 300 world premieres since 2006. The highlights of the festival's history include Stockhausen's Helicopter string quartet together with the Arditti Quartet, André Richard and Air Glaciers, Holligers Alp-Cheer, Cod.Acts Pendulum Choir as well as regular guest performances by world-class ensembles such as recherche, Klangforum Wien and Ensemble Modern.
The complete program is available online at http://forumwallis.ch to find.
