After a highly successful season following the reinstatement of the retreat concerts last year, we are delighted to be able to offer you another very attractive programme for our “Mondaine” concert hour every morning this year. The concerts will now take place from Sunday to Thursday. However, the time and venue remain the same: 11 a.m. in Vic's Bar at the Hotel Reine Victoria.
Some of the ensembles will already be familiar from last year, and we are delighted to be introducing a few new ones to the lineup. Stylistically, the programme will once again present a broad spectrum of styles, from classical salon music to chansons and swing to folk sounds.
There will also be a few “diversions” from the morning rhythm, which we are simply calling “specials” this year: Firstly, there will be a “Thé dansant” for the first time, where audience participation will be encouraged; and secondly, there will be three performances of the operetta “Schön ist die Welt” by Franz Lehár (in an abridged version) in the beautiful theatre hall of the Hotel Reine Victoria. This operetta is set in a hotel in Switzerland and on a rock face! So it fits perfectly within the Engadin setting.
We look forward to spending a few wonderful hours with you listening to some light-hearted music!
The St. Moritz Alpine Retreat Concerts Curator Team:
Andres Joho Raimund Wiederkehr Samuel Zünd
Raimund Wiederkehr
The Zurich-based singer, pianist, conductor and composer cultivates music on and in front of the stage, but also in churches and hotel lobbies. He has travelled with his salon orchestra fromSt. Moritz to Vienna, the Venice Biennale and Hong Kong. He is also an operetta performer throughout Switzerland, from the Zurich Opera House to the Biel-Solothurn Theatre. His compositions have been premiered in Zurich, Vienna and London. He works as a cantor and director of the Zurich Girls' Choir and as a music teacher at a Zurich grammar school.
Andres Joho
After training in Zurich, he worked as a conductor and Kapellmeister at the Basel, Biel-Solothurn and Bern theatres as well as in Germany (Berlin) and Austria (Klagenfurt), worked for many years with Heinz Spoerli as conductor of the Basel Ballet, has been a freelance musician in various formations and countless projects since 2015, president of the Seetalclassics concert series and in many stage projects as a musician and pianist.
Samuel Zünd
The baritone harmonises classical oratorios and swinging extravagance. As a bandleader, arranger, pianist and singer, he is committed to the rediscovery of nostalgic evergreens, old Swiss hits and swing hits with his vocal groups The Sam Singers and Swing4you, and has performed with Hazy Osterwald, Udo Jürgens and Pepe Lienhard, among others. As a chansonnier and entertainer, he has been on stage for many years with a variety of programmes.
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