Hiromi Gut and Mara Maria Möritz

Photo: Hiromi Gut

Hiromi Gut, * 1986 in Tokyo, grew up in Zurich. After completing a bachelor's degree in business administration at the University of St. Gallen and a bachelor's degree in opera singing at the HEMU de Lausanne, she sang at the Lotte Lehmann Opera Academy before becoming assistant to the artistic director. In 2015, Hiromi Gut worked as interim managing director of the 30th Davos Festival - young artists in concert and then took over as assistant to the artistic director at the Konzerthaus Berlin until 2017 - the year in which she founded guerillaclassics. As artistic director, she focuses on the history of music, its genres, spaces, contexts and the questioning of the traditional or classical. She enriches these concepts with collaborative experiences and creations that draw on the concerns and practices of contemporary musicians.

Photo: Mario Zakall

Mara Maria Möritz sings, performs, directs and writes. During her international career in concert, music theatre and dramaturgy, the young soprano has been a guest at the Salzburg Festival, the Nuremberg State Theatre, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Montfort Zwischentöne. She has worked with Klangforum Wien, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, G.F. Haas, Beat Furrer, Sylvain Cambreling and many others. Her most recent awards include the Ton & Erklärung competition, the International HUGO Prize for Concert Dramaturgy and the Sempach Tuchlaubenkonzerte singing competition. With her wide-ranging training in singing, music mediation, cultural management and journalism, she also devotes herself to designing artistic concepts and cultural communication at various events and in the public service media in addition to her stage work.