Barbara Balba Weber and Anna-Barbara Rösch
Photo: Adrian Moser
Barbara Balba Weber, born in 1967, studied flute (pedagogy and soloist class) in Bern and Freiburg i.Br. Parallel to her concert activities, she began working early on as an organizer of concert series and as a freelance music mediator for orchestras and festivals. She is a lecturer, researcher, author and consultant. As an expert in artistic music education and a trained soloist with many years of stage experience, she has a profound knowledge of target group specifics and players, especially in classical and contemporary music. Until 2011, she created numerous productions for the stage - performances, commissioned works and her own music - many of them involving various social groups. She is head of the Music in Context department at Bern University of the Arts and the cultural education project Kulturdorf für Junge in Terra Vecchia/Ticino.
Photo: Melanie Künzli
Anna-Barbara Rösch from Aarberg, born in 1994, has been a keen flute player since childhood. She completed her master's degree in performance - Concert at the ZHdK with Matthias Ziegler in 2019, winning a recognition prize at the Contemporary Music Interpretation competition. Before that, she studied for a master's degree in Pedagogy, which she completed with honors for her project Music Movement Space. She is currently broadening her pedagogical horizons with the Elementary Music Pedagogy program Alongside her studies, she works as a flute teacher and teaches wind instrument classes and basic music education at primary schools. She loves making music in an orchestra and is a passionate chamber musician. She regularly organizes projects with music and dance with her ensemble TonTanz: Giselle, The Seven Lives of Carmen and Peter Pan.
Project
The TonTanz ensemble is developing an interdisciplinary project for the street that aims to reach and interactively involve as wide an audience as possible. To this end, specific social groups are consulted in advance and playfully involved in a jointly created story. The group experiments intensively with various models from classical, ethnic and folk music as well as with voice, movement, objects and costumes. The three musicians and the dancer thus dare to explore new paths under expert guidance and develop a format that they can use in future for street music, but also as an offer for festivals at home and abroad.
