Kiefer Hablitzel │Göhner Music Prize

The Kiefer Hablitzel │Göhner Music Prize is awarded in close cooperation with the Ernst Göhner Foundation. Young Swiss or Switzerland-based instrumentalists under 28 and singers under 30 years of age are eligible.

Auditions take place yearly in April in Bern at the invitation of the jury.

The jury consists of notable musicians and a delegate of the Ernst Göhner Foundation. The total sum of the awarded grants will be decided by the members of the jury based on the funds available.

Past winners of the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize in music include such well-known names as:

Bettina Boller, Conradin Brotbek, Carlo Cicero, Graziella Contratto, Benjamin Engeli, Veit Hertenstein, Esther Hoppe, Marc Kissóczy, Rachel Kolly, Meret Lüthi, Adrian Oetiker, Leila Pfister, Felix Renggli, Jean-Claude Schlaepfer, Martina Schucan, Kaspar Zehnder and many others.