Johannes Schmid-Kunz

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Johannes Schmid-Kunz (born August 11, 1964 in Adliswil ZH) is a Swiss folk musician , dance leader and cultural manager.

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After graduating from high school, Johannes Schmid-Kunz studied history , journalism and musicology at the University of Zurich from 1986 to 1993 . He wrote his licentiate thesis on folk music on television. In 1999 he completed a postgraduate course in cultural management at the Winterthur University of Applied Sciences, which he completed in 2001 with a thesis on fundraising .

During his studies, Johannes Schmid-Kunz worked in addition to his musical activities on a voluntary basis for the Swiss Trachtenvereinigung , as president of the media commission and as an internship for Swiss television on cultural issues. In 1994 he became editor of Tracht und Brauch , the journal of the Swiss National Costume Association.

In 1997 Johannes Schmid-Kunz started his own business and founded the AAA agency , an office for cultural management. From 1999 he took over the management of the Swiss Trachtenvereinigung. As the person responsible for the folk music and folk dance program, Schmid-Kunz worked on the Swiss national exhibition EXPO.02. With his agency, he primarily specialized in large-scale folk-cultural events such as the Unspunnen Festival , the Alpentöne Festival and the Stubete am See .

In 2007, Johannes Schmid-Kunz was asked to be a juror for the “Echos - Volkskultur” project competition for tomorrow and headed the summer academy as part of the project for the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia . In 2009 he became the institution's folk dance expert and headed the “Folk Culture Today” project.

Furthermore, Johannes Schmid-Kunz is a member of the International Union of Folklore Associations (IGF), the fund commission of the Jugend + Musik Foundation, the board of trustees of Heimatwerk Bauma and a member of the Swiss UNESCO commission .

Due to his broad field of activity, he is considered a versatile folk culture expert in Switzerland . Johannes Schmid-Kunz lives with his wife and three children in Bubikon .

music

Johannes Schmid-Kunz comes from a family of musicians. As a child he played the violin in the Adliswiler Stubemusig family band . During his high school he completed a preliminary study on the recorder at the Zurich Conservatory. In addition to his two main instruments, Schmid-Kunz plays the double bass and dulcimer . Since 1981 he has been a member of various folk music formations such as the Ländlertrio Rundum, the Zürcher Ländlerkönige , D'Ländlerkönige , the Hanneli-Musig , the Ländler Orchestra and the Laseyer Quartet. He can also often be heard in a duo with Ueli Mooser .

With Fabian Müller Schmid-Kunz had a formation for Hungarian dance house music. Johannes Schmid-Kunz was director of the House of Folk Music in Altdorf.

dance

Johannes Schmid-Kunz has been the dance director of the Volkstanzkreis Zürich since 1991 , and from 2002–2011 he was president of the association. He led courses in Swiss and international folk dance in Switzerland and worldwide, including as a lecturer at the Lucerne School of Music and in the Arosa Music Course Weeks. He is also responsible for the folk dance classes in the singing, dance and music weeks that his family has organized since 1929.

Awards

Books

  • Traditional costumes make the man. Stämpfli Verlag, 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Schmid-Kunz: folk musician, lecturer, cultural mediator. SRF, accessed on June 2, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmid-Kunz, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss folk musician, dance leader and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Adliswil