It’s all change at the summits.
Christoph Müller was named today as Intendant of the Settimane Musicali di Ascona, near Locarno.
He joins new Intendant Daniel Hope at Gstaad and new boss Sebastian Nordmann at Lucerne.
Verbier is also undergoing generational change.
More here.
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