2011 AZ Medien Culture Prize awarded to Andreas Fleck
Music manager and cellist Andreas Fleck was awarded the AZ Medien 2011 Culture Prize on Sunday evening. The award, which comes with a prize of 25,000 francs, was presented for the 13th time this year.
Peter Wanner, Chairman of the Board of Directors and publisher of AZ Medien, presented the award at a ceremony at the Künstlerhaus Boswil in the presence of personalities from the worlds of culture, business and politics, according to a statement issued on Monday.
Andreas Fleck is co-founder of the Casal Quartet, since 2001 artistic director of the Boswiler Sommer, which he co-founded, and of the master concerts there. In 2009 he founded the "Chamber Aartists Orchestra" (Chaarts). The award of the AZ Medien Culture Prize honors Andreas Fleck above all as an innovator, idea generator and mediator, the statement continues.
