Musicians

The Gstaad Festival Orchestra is made up of the best musicians from of all of Switzerland's leading orchestras, and thus constitutes a high-calibre musical 'national team'. Its members come from the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Zurich Opera Orchestra, the kammerorchesterbasel, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and the Bern Symphony Orchestra. Furthermore, every year some of the best students from Swiss and European high schools are selected to play in the GFO. The aim is to bring together the high-quality sound and famous musical spirit of the top Swiss orchestras, to create a process of dialogue between the musicians, and to forge a dynamic, unique-sounding orchestra every year.