Keystone-SDA
The organizers of the Piano Festival in Saint-Ursanne (JU) draw a positive assessment of the 22nd edition of the event, which ends this Tuesday. For eleven days, the event attracted around 3,500 spectators, a figure comparable to that of previous years.
(Keystone-ATS) Half of the fifteen concerts posted complete, with an attendance rate greater than 90%, the organizers note on Tuesday in a press release. The summer meeting, which takes place every year in the cloister of the collegiate church built in the 14th century, is recognized further and further around.
Spectators came this year from all over Switzerland – mainly from the Jura arc and the Basel region – but also from neighboring France and other European countries.
“There has been a strong progression of people from the outside,” said the artistic director and general Vincent Baume, contacted by Keystone-ATS. Unfortunately, the weather was not very favorable to us at the start of the festival. »»
From a musical point of view, Polish pianist Szymon Nehring particularly marked the audience. The concert “The Silence of the Forest”, carried by the cellist Olivia Gay and the pianist Christiane Baume-Sanglard in a wooded pasture of Signelégier in partnership with the Parc du Doubs, made it possible to resonate music with nature.
Finally, the young Sino-Canadian prodigy Sophia Liu (16) caused a sensation by her musical maturity, her natural virtuosity and the fluidity in her game.