Invitation for applications
Take part in the SUISA 2025 Songwriting Camp: Apply now!
Are you a SUISA member or principal and ready for the challenge of writing pop songs together with other creative …
Pension benefits for authors and publishers
Cost-of-living adjustment for authorsʼ pensions
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Hans Bouwens alias George Baker
“That was the best start you could wish for as a songwriter”
SUISA member Hans Bouwens has created world hits - and yet he is hardly known. A conversation with the Dutch …
SUISA Board of Directors
News from the Board meeting in October 2024
The third meeting of the Board of Directors in 2024 took place at the beginning of October 2024 after the …
SUISA en scène
A platform for young composers
Swiss composers deserve more attention than they generally receive today. SUISA and the Murten Classics Summer Festival are jointly launching …
Solothurn Film Festival 2025
Networking with filmmakers
For the second time, the Solothurn Film Festival is offering an extensive networking and further education programme for professionals from …
Homage to Frank Martin
“That kind of fire!”
To mark the 50th anniversary of Frank Martin’s death, the Bern Chamber Orchestra has commissioned Katharina Weber to compose a …
Collective rights management organisations
Switzerland
Swisscopyright
The website of the five Swiss collective rights management organisations →
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Very Rickenbacher
“I have definitely never composed music for monetary reasons”
The “Golden Violin Clef” award goes to Very Rickenbacher this year. This is due to the fact that the musician …
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Swiss Radio Day 2024
Valuable insights for music creators and radio producers
On 29 August 2024, the Swiss Radio Day was held at Kaufleuten in Zurich. A panel organised by SUISA together …
Soundtrack Zurich 2024
Two panel discussions on artificial intelligence in music
Two panels co-organised by SUISA will address the topic of artificial intelligence in music at Soundtrack Zurich, the three-day event …
Music festival
New compositions at the 2024 Label Suisse Festival
Among the 66 or so free concerts taking place between 13 and 15 September 2024 in Lausanne, there are three …
SUISA Board of Directors
Board meetings in the first half of 2024
The SUISA Board and its standing committees dealt with a wide range of topics in the first half of the …
Pension benefits for authors and publishers
Cost-of-living adjustment for authorsʼ pensions
Through the Pension Fund for Authors and Publishers and the annual contributions to pension fund assets, SUISA fulfils a social …
#SUISA100
“Mushroom music and glacier crunching: Sounds fantastic? Well, it actually is”
On 16 April 2024, the project “Zukunftsmusik – Utopie sonore – Échos du futur (future sounds)” was presented at the …
Regulation
Artificial intelligence – an update on political events
Artificial intelligence is on the move, destination: the future. As is so often the case, the law is lagging behind, …
General Meeting 2024
In the spirit of innovation
The 2024 Annual General Meeting is just around the corner, together with a whole host of innovations that our cooperative …
From the 2023 Annual Report
The anniversary year in retrospect
Last year was another record year for SUISA. Performance rights were the main contributor: two years after the end of …
Distribution
Online revenue from “The Mechanical Licensing Collective” in the USA
Remuneration collected by “The Mechanical Licensing Collective” for mechanical rights from online use in the USA: What it’s all about …
Live public transmission
Public screenings for the European Football Championship: what to consider
Many organisers will once again be holding public screening events for the European Football Championship this year. Whether it’s in …
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SUISA Songwriting Camp
Making of “The Code”
The song “The Code” is a journey, in terms of music and content. The Swiss entry for the Eurovision Song …
Swiss Music Awards 2024
The composers behind the best hits
Every performer knows how important good songs are for success. And good compositions don’t just happen like that. You need …
Promotion of musical creation
A revised charter for more Swiss music on SRG channels
On 14 March 2024, SRG SSR (the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation) signed a new Swiss Music Charter with representatives of nine …