The Beijing Jazz Festival is China's first and largest jazz festival. It was founded in 1993 by Udo Hoffmann, a German national living in China. The festival is hosted by the Beijing Midi School of Music and Beijing Midi Productions.
The International Festival of Young Musicians – DAM Festival Pristina is one of the most prominent cultural events taking place in the capital city of Kosovo, Pristina. Founded in 2006, DAM Festival is an annual music festival which gathers young and talented national and international musicians from all over the world. This festival works on enriching the Kosovar cultural scene with the collision of the traditional and the contemporary. DAM Fest was founded by back then art student, now well known TV producer, musician, journalist and manager of Kosovo's Philharmonic Orchestra, Dardan Selimaj.
Michael Schindhelm is a German-born Swiss author, filmmaker and curator.
John Shannon is an American folk-rock singer-songwriter.
ObliqSound is a record label in New York City.
Grand Pianoramax is an experimental keyboard and drums bands conceived by Leo Tardin. The band consists of Tardin and Dominik Burkhalter and features guests, often including Mike Ladd and Black Cracker.
Oliver Schnyder is a Swiss classical pianist.
Werner Kaegi is a Swiss electronic composer, musicologist and educator. During the 1960s, he promoted electronic music in his home country. In the 1970s, as a composer and researcher at Utrecht's Institute of Sonology, The Netherlands, he developed pioneering programs in the field of computer-generated music.
Bruno Alexander Spoerri is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician.
The ALEA Ensemble is a chamber music ensemble founded in 1988 in Graz for contemporary music, playing in variable formation including the ALEA Quartet.
Adam Georg Taubitz is a German jazz and classical musician. He is perhaps best known for his work with the Berlin Philharmonic Jazz Group, which he established in 1999, and with the Aura Quartett.
La Fanfarria del Capitán is an Argentine band formed in 2004 by Victoria Cornejo, Jerónimo Cassagne, and Francisco Mercado. Originally named Capitán Tifus, the band created a genre they call Fanfarria Latina, which combines rock, cumbia, ska, Balkan, and Latin rhythms.
Corin Curschellas is a Swiss singer-songwriter, vocalist, free improvisation, actress, voice actress in as well as voice instructress.
The Sri Vishnu Thurkkai Amman Temple is a Hindu temple located in the municipality of Dürnten in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Yang Jing is a Chinese born, Swiss composer and world-famous concert pipa soloist.
Stefan Rusconi is a Swiss pianist and composer.
Irene Kepl is an Austrian violinist and composer who works in various genres, including free improvisation. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize for music composition. She lives in Vienna.
Arne Jansen is a German jazz guitarist.
Eva Kruse is a German jazz musician and composer.
Erika Stucky is a Swiss musician, singer, composer, and accordionist, best known for her solo albums Jimi (2005), Princess (2005), Suicidal Yodels (2007), Black Widow (2013), Call Me Helium (2015), and Papito (2017).
