GAIA Music Festival

Violin: Gabriel Adorján, Anke Dill, Ilya Hoffmann, Esther Hoppe, Yura Lee, Gwendolyn Masin, Ronald Masin, Lena Neudauer, Sergey Ostrovsky, Rosanne Philippens, Rahel Rilling, Svetlin Roussev, Tatiana Samouil, Lisa Schatzman, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Jan Talich, Kirill Troussov, Isabelle van Keulen Viola: Tomoko Akasaka, Alessandro D'Amico, Guy Ben-Ziony,[2] Gérard Caussé, Isabel Charisius, Blythe Teh Engstroem, Jan Gruening, Lilli Maijala, Lars Anders Tomter, Dana Zemtsov Cello: Dávid Adorján, Claudio Bohórquez, Alexander Chaushian, Nathalie Clein, Christoph Croisé, Thomas Demenga, Chiara Enderle, Andreas Fleck, Pavel Gomziakov, Louise Hopkins, Guy Johnston, Aleksei Kiseliov, Dóra Kokas, Gavriel Lipkind, Rafael Rosenfeld, Timora Rosler,[3] Martti Rousi, Jakob Spahn, Torleif Thedéen, István Várdai,[4] Quirine Viersen Cimbalom: Miklós Lukács[5] Harpsichord: Vital Julian Frey, Sebastian Wienand Contrabass: James Oesi, Lars Schaper Flute: Janne Thomsen, Kaspar Zehnder, Jacques Zoon French Horn: Hervé Joulain Clarinet: Reto Bieri, Don Li, Christoffer Sundqvist, Yevgeny Yehudin[6] Bassoon: Martin Kuuskmann, Rui Lopes Saxophone: Daniel Schnyder Piano: Julia Bartha,[7] Alasdair Beatson, Simon Bucher, Finghin Collins, Peter Frankl, José Gallardo, Diana Ketler, Robert Kulek, Alexander Lonquich, Aleksandar Madzar, Vincenzo Maltempo, Hannes Minnaar, Pascal Rogé, Marianna Shirinyan, Cédric Pescia, Jan Philip Schulze, Dobrinka Tabakova, Roman Zaslavsky,[8] Bálint Zsoldos Mezzo Sopran: Jordanka Milkova, Stephanie Szanto Harp: Sarah Christ, Jana Boušková Percussion: Matthias Eser, Pavel Bialiayeu, Andrei Pushkarev Ensembles: Ariel Quartet, Aviv Quartet, Grazioso Chamber Orchestra of the Hungarian National Philharmonic, Merel Quartet, Melisma Saxophone Quartet, ORIGIN Ensemble, Young European Strings Chamber Orchestra, Yurodny In 2009 works by Don Li, performed by the composer with Ania Losinger, Matthias Eser, and the Tonus String Quartet were introduced to the public.

In 2010, Jorge Bosso’s "Moshee" for cello and strings enjoyed its world premiere and works by Max Bruch, Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Johan Halvorsen and Robert Schumann – including the first piano quartet by the latter – were given their debut performance in Switzerland.

2013, the fifth birthday of GAIA in Thun, saw a celebration of new works and transcriptions played for the first time by composers such as Luigi Boccherini, Arcangelo Corelli, Astor Piazzolla, Andrei Pushkarev, Franz Schubert, and by the group Yurodny.

[9] Further works to receive international premieres were by Camille Saint-Saëns and Manuel de Falla, in arrangements written by Raymond Deane for Gwendolyn Masin's ORIGIN.

Massimo Pinca's "The Fates" for String Quartet and Cimbalom, OLUM by Marco Antonio Perez-Ramirez, "Bartók-Impressions" (after the "Romanian Folk Dances Sz.

[10][11] The programme of the tenth GAIA Festival saw three world premieres in 2018: "Andante für einen Oberhofer Purzelbaum" and "Bourlesque" by Thomas Fortmann and the "Hungarian-Jewish Melodies" by Raymond Deane.