The winner of the Golden Bow 2024 is Meret Lüthi, violinist and artistic director of the early music orchestra “Les Passions de l’Âme”, Bern. With this honour, she joins an illustrious line-up of artists who already hold this prize. These include Hans Heinz Schneeberger, Thomas and Patrick Demenga, Thomas Füri, Thomas Zehetmair, Tabea Zimmermann, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Kim Kashkashian and many more.
The jury honours Meret Lüthi for building up her internationally renowned ensemble “Les Passions de l’Âme” and for sharing her impressive wealth of ideas and captivating programmes with audiences for over 15 years.
The award ceremony took place as part of the opening concert of the Meiringen Music Festival (5 – 13 July 2024).
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The Bernese violinist Meret Lüthi knows how to cast a spell over her fellow musicians and audiences. Since 2008, she has been shaping Les Passions de l’Âme with her unmistakable style as artistic director, dramaturge and concertmaster of the Bern Early Music Orchestra, with which she has already performed at the Lucerne Festival, the Regensburg Early Music Festival, the Schwetzingen Festival and the Stuttgart Music Festival. She has performed with artists such as Dorothee Oberlinger, Simone Kermes, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Nuria Rial.
Meret Lüthi received her training in her hometown with violinists Monika Urbaniak-Lisik and Eva Zurbrügg and obtained her teaching and concert diploma with honours. She studied string quartet with Walter Levin in Basel and baroque violin with Anton Steck in Trossingen.
As a sought-after specialist in early music, Meret Lüthi is a guest on Radio SRF 2 Kultur, Espace 2, SWR 2 and BR and teaches baroque violin and historically informed performance practice at Bern University of the Arts. In 2017, she was honoured for her musical work with the Music Prize of the Canton of Bern and in 2020 with the Culture Prize of the Bürgi-Willert Foundation. Her artistic work is documented by Sony Switzerland and Ramée and has been honoured twice with the Diapason d’or as well as the OPUS KLASSIK, the Premio Abbiati and a Choc de Classica.