"Let me say this, had it not been for you and most of these people in this room, this would never have happened. Had it not been for all the musicians in this band, all the musicians in my life, who have given me the confidence to go and do these things."

"We want to set an example and appear together as millennials to show that we stick together across borders," says violinist Gabriel Karger. As the initiator of an overwhelming musical message of peace for Ukraine, in cooperation with Jeunesse, he brings together young students and graduates from the music universities in Vienna.

Music has always been a bridge across cultures, bringing people closer together. It will no doubt continue to bring us together as a community across the globe, across ideologies, across borders. Some of Music Traveler’s wonderful ambassadors are extremely proactive in their help. If you are in Berlin, Germany, on the 15th of March, please support-

Sometimes, listening to music is a reflective and solitary activity that takes you into the simplest places within. At other times, the experience of listening to music is a wild party peopled by legends from the past and present whose unlikely mingling creates outrageous and beautiful music where you would least have expected to find it.

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It’s been a trying time for musicians, but one thing is for sure, Switzerland, with its wealth of concert halls, festivals, residencies and finely curated studio spaces, remains as much ever, an energetic hub for classical, jazz and many other musical genres.