In a time where savings and reduction aim in even disappearance of cultural institutions, the foundation of a new festival represents a positive sign for our society. Always is culture most important in periods in which the society has doubts about their own values.
In big cities the impulse of cultural festivals is not so palpable as in smaller cities or in a village, where separation between artists and public is not so prominent. It is also the message that Andermatt Swiss Alps Classics would like to deliver to the artists and audience - that they get the possibility in personal encounter in a wonderful surrounding and that this encounter offers to the public direct access to art.
Statement Dominique Meyer