Posts Tagged ‘Swiss music’
Iris Szeghy: Vielleicht, dass uns etwas aufginge
Iris Szeghy (b. 1956) is a Slovak composer of Hungarian ancestry currently based in Switzerland. According to Slovak composer Peter Zagar, who wrote the entry for Szeghy in A Hundred Slovak Composers (Eds. Marián Jurík, Peter Zagar. Bratislava : National Music Centre Slovakia, 1998): “Szeghy’s work hitherto as a whole is remarkable for the quantity…
Read MoreWilliam Blank: Reflecting Black
William Blank, born in Montreux in 1957, is active as both a composer and a conductor. He is currently responsible for contemporary music at the Music Academy HEMU in western Switzerland, where he directs the Ensemble Contemporain and teaches composition and analysis. Blank’s compositions are performed throughout Europe and in the USA and Japan, in…
Read MoreRegina Irman: Schwarzes Glück 2
Regina Irman (b. 1957) is a Swiss musician, music educator and composer. Regina Irman was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. In 1976 she studied music at the Winterthur Conservatory, and in 1982 received her teacher’s diploma with guitar as principal instrument. She also began to study percussion, and in 1995 received a concert diploma with distinction…
Read MoreAnnette Schmucki: Hirsch Hirn Hornisse
Annette Schmucki (b. 1968 in Zurich) works with language as music. She studied composition with Cornelius Schwehr and Mathias Spahlinger, and has received numerous prizes and scholarships. She currently deals with durations and encounters of projected words, and with translations of telephone conversations and catenary histories. In addition to her solitary activity as a composer,…
Read MoreMathias Steinauer: Keyner nit
Mathias Steinauer was born in Basel in 1959 and studied piano, composition (Robert Suter / Roland Moser) and music theory (Wolfgang Neininger) at the Basel Academy of Music. From 1986 until 1988, he studied composition with György Kurtág in Budapest. Since 1986, he has taught music theory as well as courses in new music and…
Read MoreArturo Corrales: Flow
Arturo Corrales is a composer, conductor, musicologist, guitarist, teacher and Salvadorian / Swiss architect. Born in El Salvador and naturalized Swiss, he studied music in San Salvador, Geneva, Lugano and Paris. Arturo Corrales is an intensely active composer on the swiss and international scene. Co founder of the Ensemble Vortex and the duo Electric Primitivo, for the…
Read MoreUlrike Mayer-Spohn: fKFW
(Submitted by ISCM – SWISS SECTION) Extraordinary diversity describes the composer and multi-instrumentalist Ulrike Mayer-Spohn (b. 1980) who plays the recorder (with a focus on contemporary music), as well as historical string instruments (fiddle and Baroque violin). She studied composition and audio design with Erik Oña at the Studio of Electronic Music, Academy of Music,…
Read MoreKarin Wetzel: Glass Body
(Submitted by ISCM – SWISS SECTION) The compositional output of Karin Wetzel (b. 1981) encompasses works for solo instrument, ensemble, orchestra, electroacoustic works, live-electronics, and installations. As a part of her artistic-scientific research project about poly-works, Karin has created several work series over the last years, exploring the possibilities of simultaneity and dividual performance practices.…
Read MoreSachie Kobayashi: Les cieux roulent des yeux
(Submitted by ISCM – SWISS SECTION) Sachie Kobayashi (b. 1990) now takes an interest in more intuitive creation and musical expression related to social phenomena. She started her career as a composer while complementing her research as her second master in education of music theory at Haute école de musique de Genève after completing her…
Read MoreAbril Padilla: Grimja
(Submitted by ISCM – SWISS SECTION) Abril Padilla is a Buenos Aires-born composer and sound artist who has been living in Basel since 2006. Her compositions are mainly electroacoustic and radiophonic, but she also writes for instrumental ensembles. Her creation Emulsion d’air (2019) with the ensemble Contrechamps was supported by the Nicati-de-Luze Foundation and recorded…
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