Management

Spot on: charm, absolute overview and delightful baking skills

Targeted, efficient and passionate, Carmen Inniger is the managing director. Since 2012, she leads Les Passions de l'Âme in financial, operational and administrative matters, supporting and strengthening the orchestra in its artistic development. She is currently responsible for finance, fundraising, concert booking, marketing, press and communication.

Born and raised in Franconia, Carmen Inniger studied musicology, cultural management and Italian linguistics in Weimar, Jena and Cremona. She gained professional experience as project organiser of the cultural theme year «Franz Liszt. A European in Thuringia», as orchestra manager of the Young Philharmonic Orchestra Jerusalem-Weimar and the Jugend Sinfonie Orchester Konservatorium Bern (including tours to Israel, Russia, France and Portugal) and as a speaker at the workshop «Music and Cultural Identity» at Mahidol University Bangkok (Thailand). 

With her expertise, Carmen Inniger is also involved in voluntary work; among others she was on the board of the Berner Kulturagenda from 2017 to 2024, including 3 years as co-president.

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Spot on: open ears, nerves of gut strings and a love for the Lied

Meike Olbrich has been working at Les Passions de l'Âme since November 2024 and is responsible for fundraising, concert booking, project management, HR and ticketing.

She is co-founder and managing director of the LIEDBasel festival, which has been held annually since 2019. As a project manager and management assistant at the Basel Academy of Music, she was co-developer of sonic space basel – the competence centre for new music, and she created a new office for concerts and events. In addition to masterclasses, concerts and symposia, she supervised the ATTACCA festival for contemporary music and was responsible for the Academy's co-productions with the Basel Theatre, among others. As a freelancer, she is responsible for the production management of various projects (including the ZeitRäume festival).

Meike Olbrich studied cultural management, musicology, German studies and librarianship in Basel, Freiburg i. Br. and Stuttgart. She worked as a music librarian at the Basel Music Academy as well as in Freiburg, Heidelberg and at Südwestrundfunk in Stuttgart. Since 2023 she has been a member of the supporting organisation of the Gare du Nord - Bahnhof für Neue Musik Basel.