Charlotte Hug
About Charlotte Hug
Prof. Charlotte Hug
With her innovative musical-visual performances at special locations and her spatial scores with Son-Icons (visual music), she has created a new genre of transdisciplinary, spatial-scenic music and art. As an extreme musician with voice and viola, her specialty is hybrid sound mixtures. This creates her own unmistakable sound language. Hug holds degrees in music and fine arts, has won various awards and artist residencies in Berlin, Paris, London, Johannesburg, and Shanghai.
She was “Artiste Etoile” at the Lucerne Festival, nominated for the Classic:Next – Innovation Award in 2019, and winner of the Swiss Music Prize 2025. Hug’s music is documented on an extensive discography, including recordings with Elliott Sharp, Maggie Nicols, Lucas Niggli, the London Stellari String Quartet, and her own choral and orchestral works, as well as four solo CDs on international labels. Hug is a long-standing member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, she developed open concepts for the Lucerne Improvisers Orchestra LUIO, and worked with various improvisers’ orchestras such as the KIO in Krakow, SPIO Sao Paulo, etc. Her works and spatial scores are performed by international ensembles, choirs, and orchestras, as well as interdisciplinary ensembles.
In addition to exhibitions in galleries and museums, she performs extensively as an improviser, as a soloist with voice and viola, and as a composer or conductor of her own works at major festivals.