With the Swiss Grand Prix Music 2025, the Federal Office of Culture honors the outstanding career of pianist, composer, and improvisational musician Sylvie Courvoisier. At the award ceremony, Anja Illmaier from Intakt Records spoke in honor of the artist—we share her speech here, along with impressions of the evening.

The Swiss Grand Prix Music 2025 was awarded to Sylvie Courvoisier on 11 September at a ceremony organized by the Federal Office of Culture at the KKL Lucerne.

Fun at the 50th Willisau Jazz Festival, an Intakt Records board meeting and celebration...new preorders and a wonderful listening party with Gregg Belisle-Chi on Bandcamp.

Aruán Ortiz's Créole Renaissance now on sale, rain and reunions at the 45th Saalfelden Jazz Festival in Austria and this weekend's highlights at the 50th Willisau Jazz Festival. See you there!

Someone who wishes to produce free music with empathy needs to be a good host, an attentive listener and a critical companion, above all however, an enthusiast or, to advocate for a word which threatens to become old-fashioned, but is by no means obsolete, an idealist.

Explosions of sound under open skies, stories from the GDR, and a moving finale with Gumpert and Sommer – the Peitz 2025 Jazz Festival rekindles the spirit of resistance.

No image captures the music of Irène's Hot Four live recording from 1981 (Intakt CD 438) better than Giuseppe Reichmuth's collage featuring a burning piano keyboard. Irène Schweizer's music has become an image, and the image has become music. Several...

Since 2016, Moods Zurich has been awarding the Moods-Aïda Alliman Prize in collaboration with the Aïda Alliman Foundation. Each year, this prize provides financial support to a musician from Switzerland or Liechtenstein and also gives them the opportunity to perform at Moods. This year, the jury selected Sarah Buechi as the winner.

Anna Webber wins in the categories Tenor Saxophonist of the Year, Flutist of the Year, Composer of the Year, Rising Star Composer of the Year, Rising Star Arranger of the Year in Downbeat Magazine's 73rd Critics Poll.