The Swiss Ambassador's Award Concert on tour in the UK with the  outstanding young Swiss pianist Louis Schwizgebel-Wang

• London, Wigmore Hall - 22 September
• Manchester, Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall - 23 September
• Edinburgh, St Cecilia’s Hall – 24 September
• Cardiff, The Reardon Smith Theatre – 25 September

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang was born in 1987 in Geneva and began to play the piano at the age of six. Three years later he was admitted to the superior level of the Lausanne Conservatoire where he studied with Brigitte Meyer. At the age of fifteen he graduated with honours as a soloist. He is currently pursuing his studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin with Pascal Devoyon and Jean-Jacques Balet.

Louis, whose Swiss father and Chinese mother are both visual artists, gave his first concerts when he was just nine. Ever since, he has repeatedly performed on the most prestigious international stages and also played for radio and television. He has appeared with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Basel Symphony Orchestra and has won several prizes, including the Second Prize in the Geneva Music Competition in 2005 (no First Prize being awarded that year), as well as the Coup de Coeur Breguet Prize and the Public Prize. In 2007 he won First Prize in the Young Concert Artists competition in New York, which included appearances at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, two of the finest American concert halls.  In summer 2008 he was invited to participate in the instrumental master class at the prestigious Verbier Festival in Switzerland. His first disc was released in 2006.

The musical programme includes:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Sonata in D major, K 311
Heinz Holliger (*1939) Elis: three nocturnes
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) Cinq études de jazz
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Pictures at an Exhibition

Ticket prices at all venues: £10.00 including a programme and a complimentary glass of sparkling Swiss wine.

 

To book tickets, please complete the attached Ticket Booking Form and email/fax/send it together with your payment to the Embassy of Switzerland, 16-18 Montagu Place, London W1H 2BQ as soon as possible or alternatively book your tickets by telephone (major credit cards accepted):

London, 22 September – 020 7935 2141
Manchester, 23 September – 0161 275 8951
Edinburgh, 24 September – 0131 668 2019
Cardiff, 25 September – 029 2087 8444

 

Ticket Booking Form

Hubbard & Birchler @ Liverpool Biennial 2008: MADE UP

for further information please see attached document

Hubbard & Birchler

Zoo Art Fair

Royal Academy of Arts
6 Burlington Gardens
London W1S 3EX

In 2007 the Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain has for the first time supported 5 Swiss Galleries exhibiting at the Zoo Art Fair .
This year the Fund will once again be offering invaluable financial support to an even greater number of recently-established Swiss arts organisations. In view of the Fair’s growing status and its importance to young arts organisations internationally, the Fund, with the generous support of Mr Rodolfo Molo, is very pleased to endorse the Swiss presence at the Fair by supporting the following eight spaces:

1m3, Lausanne
annex14, Bern
Arquebuse, Geneva
Balncpain Art Contemporain, Geneva
BolteLang, Zürich
Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zürich
Kenworthy-Ball, Zürich
Laurin, Zürich

Zoo Art Fair enables these organisations to network with professionals and institutions such as museums, curators, critics and collectors alike, providing an ideal platform to present themselves to a broad international audience.

For further information: www.zooartfair.com

THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS – GKS CONTEMPORARY SEASON

This year marks the beginning of a season of contemporary art at 6 Burlington Gardens. The Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain is proud to sponsor the works of Swiss Artists represented throughout the Season in 2008. Over each of the next three winters, for three months at a time, GSK Contemporary will feature a series of exhibitions and events from large-scale video installations and new commissions to performance, sound, live music, film screenings and symposia. The programme, extending throughout this huge Victorian building, will also include a bar situated in the temporarycontemporary space, and FLASH, a pop-up restaurant by Bistrotheque.The programme is divided into two parts: Molten States, the first half of the 2008 GSK Contemporary programme, will explore the links between art, performance and experimental theatre, incorporating a focus on Berlin-based artists and dramatists. Collision Course, the second half of the 2008 programme, reveals an apocalyptic vision with a tribute to the artistic legacy of William Burroughs, new work from the Frank Cohen Collection and artists’ film and video within a cataclysmic film set.
Art on the Ground Floor - entry here is free - will run throughout the three-month Season. Two of the three artists exhibited are in fact Swiss.
Remy Markowitsch’s work arises from his engagement with the realms of literature and research, travel and discoveries, the appropriation of things alien, colonialism, a passion for collecting and addiction. Light plays a central part in his work. Markowitsch makes expeditions into the pictorial worlds that he finds in books.
Maya Roos has utilised a Norton computer programme for her large-scale murals and paintings on canvas. She bases her works upon the Norton Speed Disc, a device used to clean up a computer programme and optimise the computer’s hard drive. During this process the programme visualises each phase of the hard drive in coloured stripes. Roos downloads an image of the stripes on the monitor and uses it as the basis for her painting.
December 5 – 15 is the change-over period in the Galleries from Part 1 to Part 2. Part 2 will be fully installed by December 16.

Further information on http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/gsk-contemporary-season/