Artistic director

Percussionnist - composer - performer

Pascal Viglino received the 2012 Cultural Recognition Prize for Music from the Canton of Berne. 

In 2015, he also received the Prize for Cultural Encouragement from the Canton of Valais.

Pascal Viglino studied classical and contemporary percussion, composition and musical theatre at the conservatories of Geneva, London, Barcelona, Berlin and Bern.

He has been a active member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Orquesta do Algarve (Portugal), the Durban Philharmonic (South Africa), the Academia d'orquesta del Grand Teatre Liceu Opera (Barcelona),, ensembles with which he has performed in more than forty countries.

He regularly performs with various orchestras and contemporary music ensembles (Bern Symphony Orchestra, Eklekto Geneva Percussion Ensemble, Camerata Variabile, Zurich Opera, Camerata Bern, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Kammerorchester Basel, Ensemble Contrechamps, Kammer Neuemusik Ensemble Berlin, Kammerorchester Bern, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Bergen Philharmonic (Norway), as well as with other music ensembles.

He has been awarded various national prizes and scholarships.

Pascal Viglino leaded various artistic projects for the Verbier Festival, Musikfestival Bern, Festival Hik et Nunk, the Pfingskonzerte of Ittingen, the Davos Festival. He is also a composer for various musical theatre projects.

In 2011, he founded the artistic platform KLANGBOX and is its artistic director.

In 2015, he created XiViX Op. 1515 for Mannequins & Ensemble as part of the Pro Helvetia Foundation's international cultural exchange programme "Viavai, Switzerland-Lombardy". Project for which he collaborated with twenty Swiss and Italian artists, including the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan.

In 2016, he collaborated with the singer-uddist Wael Sami Elkholy to found the first Music-theater ensemble of the Middle-East, in Cairo-Egypt.

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The latest shows of Klangbox, TilT: can we start again?  and SOLedades, variations de solitudes are currently on tour. 

In 2018 he was the guest artist at the Verbier Art Summit and he also performed at the Monte-Carlo Spring Festival of the Arts.

Pascal Viglino is a visiting professor in the Music Theatre departement of the University of the Arts of Bern.