The most traditional festival in the Alps, bringing together music and tourism of the finest quality in Gstaad and the entire region of Saanenland since 1957. True to the spirit of Yehudi Menuhin, the 7-week long, yearly summer Festival combines star-studded concerts with the top artists of the classical music world with numerous Academy, children and amateur projects as well as concert series for young emerging artists.

At the Gstaad Academy, we encourage Menuhin’s legacy, offering students and teachers a relaxed atmosphere during the summer months in Gstaad where they can experience Festival life. The Gstaad Academy has grown steadily since 2007. In addition to the original vocal and piano Academy with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli and Andras Schiff, there are currently 5 other Academies in place including the centrepiece of the whole project: The Gstaad Conducting Academy, the only of its kind in Europe, offering 15 selected Orchestral Conducting students daily workshops and weekly Academy concerts with the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, under the tutelage of renowned Maestros. Since 2017 the Gstaad Conducting Academy is lead by the Music Director of New York Philharmonic, Jaap van Zweden, and by the head of teaching, Johannes Schlaefli.

The Hochrhein Musikfestival AG combines our Solsberg Festival, Klassik Sterne Rheinfelden and Cappella Gabetta under one umbrella organisation.

Since 2010, Stefan Pavlik and I have been immersed in the concert agency world with our very own agency, focusing mainly on touring projects for the Kammerorchester Basel.

In 2013 I founded the Joseph Haydn Foundation Basel together with two Basel patrons to create "Haydn 2032", an ambitious undertaking launched in 2014 spanning 38 themed projects to record and perform Haydn’s complete 107 Symphonies in collaboration with conductor Giovanni Antonini.

Since the establishment of Swiss classics together with musician friends Regula Schär and David Hautle in 1999, our project Lucerne Chamber Circle in the city of Lucerne has established itself as a reputed concert series featuring mainly baroque and classical programmes. Through the years we have also developed the ticketing system Kulturticket.ch in partnership with the successful German platform reserviX among other undertakings, including a new series in the Basel region: "Classiques" in Landgasthof Riehen, which continues the legacy of the 60-year series "Kunst in Riehen "

In 2006, I created Solsberg Festival in collaboration with cellist Sol Gabetta. Since then, the Festival has become an established feature in the cultural offer of northwestern Switzerland. During the month of June, historic venues such as Olsberg Monastery or the Stadtkirche Rheinfelden come to live with music. In 2015, the Festival widened its horizons and expanded into fascinating halls across the southern German regions of Markgräflerland and the Black Forest.

The Cappella Gabetta is the Gabettas’ "family orchestra". The ensemble is directed by baroque violinist Andrés Gabetta and produces a yearly output of ca. 4 to 6 concert projects and CD recordings, featuring mainly Italian baroque music. In addition to the main repertoire such as works by Vivaldi, Corelli or Porpora, Cappella Gabetta often present many newly-found and fascinating baroque music including works by Platti, Zavateri, Chelleri, Torri and Ragazzi amongst others.

The city of Rheinfelden has kindly allowed the creation of the concert series Klassiksterne Rheinfelden, taking place since the 2011/12 season at the city’s newly refurbished Kurbrunnen-Saal. For this concert series, star cellist Sol Gabetta invites her close musician friends to perform chamber music recitals, taking part herself on exceptional occasions.

Mit dem im Jahre 2016 von mir gegründeten und präsidierten Verein "Kulturzentrum Don Bosco Basel" bauen wir die ehemalige Kirche Don Bosco Basel im Basler Breitequartier um zu einem Musik- und Kulturzentrum, welches künftig Basler Orchester und Chören als Probe- und Konzerthaus dienen wird. Das Haus wird ein "Hub" der Musikszene werden: Neben Proben- und Konzerträumen bietet es auch rund 30 Büroarbeitsplätze sowie Lager-, Archiv- und Gastroräume an. Die Eröffnung ist für den Sommer 2020 geplant!

"Erasmus klingt! Festival - LAB" is an interdisciplinary festival that aims to shed light on Erasmus' impact on the sciences of the following centuries.

During the week of Mon 12 to Sun 18 September 2022, Basel's old town hosted the first edition of "Erasmus sounds! Festival - LAB" took place. Nine Basel educational institutions were involved in concerts and fringe events. A total of about 1700 people attended the six main concerts with Renaissance and Baroque music and the 27 side events.

Together with Matthias Bühlmann and the architects Alice Geller and Martin Erny, we realized the Damatti-Bar in 2016 and 2017, located in Kleinbasel. We transformed a former kiosk building into an atmospheric authentic Italian bar. Today Damatti is successfully leased and managed by Ilario Galoppo and his family.

In the new music and cultural center Don Bosco Basel we are launching a new mini-festival with the leading a cappella ensembles of Europe. The perfection of pure vocal voices is heartwarming and fascinating: this is what we want to make sound and experience for the first time in 3 concerts and a workshop between Christmas and New Year 2020.