Strings Attached: Sine Nomine festival Thursday, 4 June, 2009 Susan Flory talks to François Gottraux, a member of the festival quartet at the Sine Nomine classical music festival in Lausanne, who explains why the festival has this year taken ’spirit’ as its theme.
Competing at the Prix de Lausanne Sunday, 1 February, 2009 The finals of the 37th annual Prix de Lausanne were held today. This is one of the most prestigious international ballet competitions in the world. Student-dancers aged 15 to 18 compete all week long at the Beaulieu Theatre. The grand-prize winners are awarded a full-scholarship at a school or dance company of their choice. This year the jury was headed by Karen Kain. Seventy-three competitors overall partook in the event and WRS video journalist Amy Wong followed one of the talented young dancers, Jemima Dean, throughout the competition.
Top jazzmen head for Lausanne Wednesday, 29 October, 2008 This year’s Onze Plus festival in Lausanne kicked off on Wednesday night with performances by some of the jazz world’s biggest names over four nights. Brad Mehldau and Gabor Gado both played gigs on Wednesday, with Switzerland’s Thierry Lang taking the stage on Thursday night. WRS’s Conor Lennon spoke to RSR Espace 2 show Jazzz’s Yvan Ischer.
Lausanne: City on the rise Monday, 19 May, 2008 Lausanne is… vertical. Let’s get that out of the way now. Just 375 meters above sea level at the lakefront, the landscape abruptly climbs 500 meters over the distance of a short 10-minute city drive to Le Chalet-à-Gobet in upper Lausanne.