Events About us Associates The furtherance concept Retrospection Contact             Welcome to Animato Foundation Animato Foundation aims at promoting young and talented soloists and orchestra musicians from Europe. To succeed the foundation organizes events like music competitions, workshops and concert tours, organized and sponsored by Animato Foundation. The Animato Foundation does not award scholarships nor does it make grants. The Animato Foundation, established in 2005, is a private and non-profit organization under Swiss law.     The International Soloist Competition on February 1st and 2nd 2010 in Zurich starts the 3rd. Sponsoring Cycle For the third time Animato Foundation has organized the International Soloist Competition in close cooperation with the „Zürcher Hochschule der Künste“. This time the competition has been dedicated to the solo instruments violin and piano (for more details see under Retrospection). This spring Animato Foundation is going to invite a number of advanced music students selected by the partner music academies to participate in the Animato Orchestra Academy 2010 in fall which will be again under the leadership of Howard Griffiths. After the highly successful 2nd. Animato Sponsoring Cycle 2008 which he led as artistic director and conductor Howard Griffiths will again assume this role for the 3rd. Sponsoring Cycle and will conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Animato Foundation on its concert tour in Europe.