Born 1953 in Basel, Switzerland, Fritz Hauser has developed his sound language in the most varied of ways. With solo concerts, in numerous small and large formations, in multi-media projects (theatre, dance, film, radio, literature, visual arts, architecture) and with numerous recordings, he has contributed to raising the drum-set from a mere timekeeper to...
Caroline Charrière was born in Fribourg and completed her studies of the traverse flute at Lausanne Conservatory (teacher and concert diploma in the class of Pierre Wavre). Parallel to these studies she attended courses in composing and orchestration with Jean Balissat. She studied further with the flutist Aurèle Nicolet and later at the Royal...
Born in Milan, holding dual Italian-Swiss citizenships, Oscar Bianchi completed degrees in composition, choir conducting and electronic music at the Giuseppe Verdi conservatory of Milan. He pursued studies in composition taking part in master programs such as at IRCAM - Centre Pompidou and with a doctoral degree at Columbia University in New York.
Roland Moser was born in Bern. He received his musical education in Bern, Freiburg im Breisgau and Cologne. Besides piano and conducting, he also studied composition under Sandor Veress and Wolfgang Fortner. Between 1969 and 1984 he taught theory subjects and contemporary music at Winterthur Conservatory, and since 1984 composition and music theory at...
Nicolas Bolens was born in Geneva and began his musical education with the composer and pianist Arié Dzierlatka. Despite his deep interest in the sciences, he decided as a young man to continue his artistic studies at the academy of music where he graduated with a piano diploma and a composition award with special...
Composer and performer Terry Riley is one of the founders of music’s Minimalist movement. His early works, notably In C (1964), pioneered a form in Western music based on structured interlocking repetitive patterns. The influence of Riley’s hypnotic, multi-layered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated Eastern-flavored improvisations and compositions is heard across the span of contemporary and...
In May 2012 the St Petersburg Cello Ensemble is organizing a new International Competition for Composers, which will be dedicated to the illustrious memory of the outstanding composer, cellist, teacher and conductor, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor of the St Petersburg Conservatoire Yuri Falik.
Феномен неомифологизма является одной из важнейших тенденций в развитии художественного творчества XX века. Обладая внутренней композиционной системой ценностей…
Начало 1960-х годов открывает особенные и яркие страницы истории финской музыки. Это период неистовых экспериментов и интенсивных поисков новых выразительных средств…
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