Julia Fischer and Benjamin Nyffenegger take over the artistic direction of Boswil Summer

The Board of Trustees of the Künstlerhaus Boswil and its Managing Director Claudio Rossetti are extremely proud to announce that they have been able to recruit the world-renowned top violinist Julia Fischer and the renowned Aargau cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger as artistic directors of the "Boswiler Sommer" festival.

The duo will introduce themselves as the artistic management team as early as July 5, 2023, as part of the anniversary concerts "70 years of Künstlerhaus Boswil", organize smaller festival activities in the course of 2024, and then present the first complete summer festival in 2025.

Julia Fischer awarded the Cultural Honorary Prize of the City of Munich 2022

"Julia Fischer is an internationally prominent musician, but at the same time very attached to her hometown, who consciously, critically and openly faces all current challenges and developments," reads the jury's statement.

Julia Fischer on the recent incident with climate activists in the Elbphilharmonie

Julia Fischer comments on the recent incident with climate activists at her concert in the Elbphilharmonie.
"The global community is manifestly failing to collectively address humanity's greatest crisis, the climate catastrophe."