Documentary film on our youth project

From the very outset, our youth project for 2020 was buffeted by headwinds. First the pandemic lockdown made rehearsals impossible, then the Appenzeller Bachtage – the festival for which the brass suite was especially composed – was cancelled. And we had to concede that recording a CD without a festival audience was not the aim of the project.

So we developed a new aim: under the motto of “music is a journey, not a destination”, we set out with our young musicians to explore the difficulties and rewards of playing the spectacular music of Johann Sebastian Bach. With our film release – a portrait of our time together on a common journey – we reached our first summit. It is an achievement that has brought great pleasure to us all.

Credits

Trio 1: Nora Hamscho, Maria Luli, Chiara Näf (trumpet)

Trio 2: Cédric Peier, Thomas Roth, Michael Wachter (trumpet)

Quartet: Florian Fort (French horn), Severin Keller (bass trombone), Mike Schönbächler (trumpet), Michael Wachter (trumpet)

Director of the “Knabenmusik” ensemble and trumpet teacher at the Music School of St. Gallen: Michael Wachter

Compositions & Organ: Rudolf Lutz

President of the Foundation Board: Konrad Hummler

Coordination: Anneliese Looser

Film production: Samuel Lutz

Youth development

Sharing the wonder of Bach’s music with the musicians and audiences of tomorrow – a declared aim of the J. S. Bach Foundation.

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