Young concert pianist Adel Ferenc Mohsin is a new advisory board member of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung. This was announced today by the directorate of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung in Oberwesel. Mohsin's appointment to the foundation's advisory board is a signal that the gbs wants to increasingly set artistic accents in the future, explained foundation spokesman Michael Schmidt-Salomon, at the same time pointing out one of the artistic highlights of the current year: the world premiere of the "Passion Giordano Bruno" by Gerhard Wimberger (gbs adviser) at the Salzburg Festival.

"To possess science, philosophy and art means not to need religion!" This guiding principle from Schmidt-Salomon's basic work "Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism" has been a part of the foundation's work from the very beginning. And so not only scientists and philosophers are involved in the gbs advisory board, but also artists of various genres. "We are fortunate enough to be able to work with great writers, visual artists and actors, but music has been neglected so far," Schmidt-Salomon said. "Yet Nietzsche had already recognized: 'Without music, life would be a mistake'. Therefore, we are very pleased that with Adel Mohsin there is now a second exceptional musician on the foundation's advisory board, alongside composer and conductor Gerhard Wimberger".

Adel Ferenc Mohsin, born in 1994, has already been honoured with 40 national and international prizes and awards. He has won several first prizes at "Jugend musiziert" as well as the Steinway, Yamaha, Tchaikovsky and Yehudi Menuhin prizes. With his New Year concerts 2012 and 2013 in the forum of the Giordano Bruno Stiftung he inspired the audience. The video recorded by Ricarda Hinz (documentary filmmaker, gbs adviser) in January 2013 at the foundation's headquarters in Oberwesel gives an impression of his virtuosity (see below).

Mohsin's appointment to the advisory board could be seen as a certain reorientation signal of the foundation, says Schmidt-Salomon: "In the future, the gbs wants to increasingly set artistic accents alongside philosophical, scientific and political focal points." One of the highlights this year will be the world premiere of Gerhard Wimberger's "Passion Giordano Bruno" at the Salzburg Festival. "Gerhard Wimberger, who worked with Herbert von Karajan for many years as a member of the board of directors at the Salzburg Festival, actually did not want to write any more grand compositions, but then the wonderful idea of a 'Passion Giordano Bruno' came to him. The fact that this year's Salzburg Festival ends with the world premiere of this work is an honour about which we are particularly pleased".

According to Schmidt-Salomon, he himself also wants to cooperate more frequently with musicians in the future. In April, for example, he will be performing with the "Streichtrio Berlin" on a "literary-musical evening" at the Berlin State Opera: "We want to venture experiments of this kind more often. Perhaps this will help us to show that science has not only disenchanted the world, but has also given it new magic. This 'poetry of reality' can neither be empirically determined nor philosophically conceptualized, but it can be captured by the means of art, especially music. We should never leave this field to the religions."

The fact that the gbs is cooperating primarily with "classical musicians" this year does not mean that the foundation wants to distance itself from other musical genres: "Personally, I don't think that the division into serious and entertaining music makes sense. As a matter of fact, there are outstanding artists in almost all musical genres and many of them are very open-minded towards the causes of the gbs. I am thinking, for example, of the great jazz and fusion guitarist Torsten de Winkel, with whom we worked at the Bimbache openART & C2C Festival in 2011. There is still great potential slumbering, which we should make the most of..."