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.

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.

La Via Lattea 19 literally makes music accessible. The festival undertakes an imaginary journey through ancient music and the music of our time. Above all, the idea of pilgrimage is understood as an experience of discovery and change. The audience is also invited to rediscover the landscape of Lake Maggiore.

The recognised music mediation platform Norient aims to process and communicate current music production from crisis regions. The aim is to reflect current crises thoughtfully and to give a voice to a wide range of communities, people and positions. The idea is to make music research accessible to a broad audience at a low threshold.

The Stans Music Days offer concerts for a wide variety of audiences, taking place at various venues throughout the village, from the monastery or theatre to the village square – all with free admission. Art events and discussions are organised to accompany the musical programme. The topics of inclusion and diversity take centre stage.

The band MoonMot is a transnational project with musicians from Switzerland and the UK. The contemporary jazz sextet is centred around Bernese trombonist and bandleader Simon Petermann. The six musicians performed for the first time at the Jazzwerkstatt Bern in 2017. Since then, they have toured Europe several times. The album 350 MILLION HERRING launched in November 2023.

In view of the 500th anniversary of Erasmus of Rotterdam’s death in 2036, this multi-year festival will highlight his influence on various sciences for posterity. Each edition of the festival will be centred around core themes of his writings, which will be reflected in music from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. The festival and laboratory intend to develop into an interdisciplinary festival that also emphasises Basel’s contribution to the development of humanism, the Renaissance and the Reformation in the 16th century.