GAIA Night of Music in the Bern Museum Quarter
Overview
Intro
The GAIA Music Festival 2026 invites you to experience three concerts in the Bern Museum Quarter, followed by a reception with the artists.
For our opening evening, we invite you to a promenade concert experience, attuned to this year’s festival theme, “TO LIFE – and the Stories Between its Beginning and End”. Set in three cultural or academic institutions in the Bern Museum Quarter, three concerts of 30 minutes each feature works that delve into diverse perspectives on this year’s existential theme. Saariaho’s composition inspired by the ephemeral nature of a butterfly intersects with the remoteness of Mahler’s world. Memory and transience meet as Schubert recognises himself in his Doppelgänger whilst elsewhere Casulana, Europe’s first woman to have her music printed and published, writes about love’s departure. Between these short concerts, visitors move from the Museum of Communication to the ALPS – Swiss Alpine Museum and the PHBern Media Library. The evening concludes with a reception at the Museum of Communication, to which the public is warmly invited to meet the artists.
Startingpoint: 6:30pm, Museum für Kommunikation, Helvetiastrasse 16, 3000 Bern
Concert with interval
Approx. 2 hours 15 minutes
Reception (apéritif) afterwards
Musicians
Clarinet: Damien Bachmann
Mezzosoprano and Guitar: Mirjam Fässler
Vocal ensemble: tempo d’affetto
Violin: Joanne Green, Miriam Helms Ålien
Viola: Patrick Jüdt, Julia Wawrowska
Cello: Alfredo Ferre Martínez, Samuel Niederhauser, Chiara Samatanga
Double Bass: Lina Humbel
Harp: Alexander Boldachev
GAIA Musicfestival 2026
TO LIFE! And the Stories Between its Beginning and End
https://www.gaia-festival.com/das-festival-2026/programm
info@gaia-festival.com
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| Contact address |
Birgit Martin
Geschäftsführerin GAIA Musikfestival 3011 Bern info@gaia-festival.com |
| Event Homepage | https://www.gaia-festival.com/ |
| Video | http://www.youtube.com/v/-dxR1blNWGo |
| Price |
Tickets: CHF 25.–
Students/Apprentices/KulturLegi: CHF 5.–
Children up to 12 years accompanied by an adult: CHF 0.–
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| Opening hours |
The starting point is at the Museum für Kommunikation, Helvetiastrasse 16, 3000 Bern
Dooropening 18:00
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Event dates
- 26 November 2026
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Discover the surroundings
Museum für Kommunikation
Helvetiastrasse 16
3000
Bern
Switzerland
Phone
+41 (0)31 357 55 55
Fax +41 (0)31 357 55 99
communication@mfk.ch
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