The Swiss Global Artistic Foundation is excited to announce its musical collaboration with the highly acclaimed British chamber choir Tenebrae. For more information, please go to our Special Projects page.
We are delighted to announce the launch of our newly formed circle: The Russian Friends of the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.
Briana Lesesne has joined our team, and will be directing this organisation from London. She may be contacted at brianalesesne@swissglobal.org.
I would like to share this thought with you from one of our Jazz Roster musicians, Marcus Miller: Marcus is a Harvard Graduate, who worked on Wall Street, but then decided that the pull of the music inside was too strong. He left the financial district, moved into a different district, and now shares his passion and music with many.
An exciting programme of Brahms and Liszt was presented by Foundation artists on 20 October at the Washington DC residence of the Swiss Ambassador to the United States. The intimate evening, in celebration of the bicentennial of Liszt’s birth, was for invited guests only, and featured Luke Fleming viola (above left), David Fung piano (above right) and Mark Dover clarinet.
Please click the underlined date to see photos of the Ambassador’s famous residence, designed by Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten AG.
Journalist Jim Luce covers the May 2011 Swiss Global events in New York: a concert evening at the residence of the Swiss Consul General, and an elegant dinner at the Lotos Club with serenades by Foundation musicians.
The article features numerous interviews, as well as photos from the events.
The Australian Consul General in New York, Phillip Scanlan AM, hosted a cocktail reception on 12 October for Australian Music Foundation students residing in the northeast United States. This networking event, for invited guests only, served to further assist young AMF grant recipients as they pursue music studies in America.
The AMF is led by Swiss Global Director Heather de Haes.
On 7 and 8 October, Swiss Global jazz advisor Kate Baker (pictured right), as well as other eminent jazz musicians, led a two-day series of master classes and workshops on the art of jazz, blues and R&B performance. Presented in partnership with the Playhouse Project, classes detailed “what it takes to produce a jazz sound” as well as explored and defined different styles of performance and interpretation.
The Foundation auditioned instrumentalists on 6 October for an upcoming concert production of Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier’s Tale) which will occur 29 November in Washington DC. The concert is in coordination with the Swiss Embassy and will take place at the Russian Embassy.
