The Bern Music Festival integrates music education and cultural participation into its artistic concept from the beginning: curators and educators exchange ideas, reflect on the festival theme and programme and develop ideas together. Every year a range of educational programmes is developed in the form of transdisciplinary projects, courses, installations and initiatives.

The association g-classics makes classical music with high quality performances accessible to a young and heterogenous public. It achieves this by organising inspiring and spontaneous concert experiences at unusual locations in public space.

The Jazzwerkstatt is a festival that creates international connections. It focuses on collaboration and exchange between artists from all over the world, cross-genre projects and inclusion of the young Swiss scene.

What does music sound like in three dimensions? A simple and lightweight structure at the “ZeitRäume Basel” Festival makes it possible to hear from every direction: Sitting in the middle, the public can listen to the musicians in front of them and behind them, above them and below them, from close up and far away. This installation makes music and architecture one with each other.

Every year, the Biel ­Solothurn Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the SON foundation, organises summer and seasonal internships for young musicians. This gives them an opportunity to rehearse with members of the Symphony Orchestra and work on chamber music projects, symphonic works, light classical and crossover music projects.