Anniversary
100 years of SUISA
Today, Suisse Auteurs unites more than 40,000 composers, lyricists and music publishers who have assigned their copyrights to SUISA for …
#Foundation for music promotion
Hasan Nakhleh
Global grooves – for greater tolerance
Bern resident Hasan Nakhleh works with his brother Rami in the duo TootArd on a symbiosis between global dance music …
Simone Felber
Dancing and singing for life – with and against death
Simone Felber, a singer, is working on numerous projects to make Swiss folk music suitable for the modern era. And …
FONDATION SUISA
33 1/3 revolutions, 33 1/3 years later
Sometimes the thoughts that come to you while listening to music can be rather strange. This is what happened to …
“Get Going!” 2022
Eight “Get Going!” grants awarded
This yearʼs “Get Going!” call for entries had a great response among Swiss music makers. After reviewing all the dossiers …
Marché international du disque et de l’édition musicale
Midem (1967-2021) – the end of an era
Midem in Cannes was the embodiment of a flourishing music business for decades. A tribute to one of the most …
SUISA Board meeting, autumn 2021
The Board of Directors and the Committee for Tariffs and Distribution and the one for Organisation and Communication gathered on …
Pirmin Huber
“Techno and ländler music are very closely related to each other”
Electronically processed everyday sounds are combined with elements of ländler music to create a new listening experience: this is what …
Erika Hug: Committed and combative
SUISA and FONDATION SUISA are mourning Erika Hug. The publisher and entrepreneur had been influencing the promotion of Swiss music …
“Get Going!” goes into the fourth round
Since 2018, “Get Going!” has been a regular feature of the support portfolio of the FONDATION SUISA. Now the kick-off …
Musikexport – quo vadis?
Covid-19, digitisation, climate crisis: Musikexport in extraordinary times. Experiences and thoughts on the subject responsible at for its presence abroad …
“We want to prevent current projects from failing”
With “Keep Going!”, FONDATION SUISA is temporarily expanding its funding portfolio.
The Zwahlen/Bergeron duo want to make the previously unheard audible - and visible
On the one hand, the centuries-old tradition of choral music and, on the other, the almost endless possibilities offered by …
Jessiquoi: having the freedom to reinvent yourself
Searching for her personal identity is the force that drives her creativity. It has enabled Jessica Plattner, alias Jessiquoi, to …
Michel Barengo: sound collector and tinkerer outside the comfort zone
Soak up as much as possible and then process it. That is Michel Barengo’s creed. The 37-year-old Zurich resident will …
Anna Gosteli: “I never know where things will take meˮ
Despite her outstanding training and commercial successes in a number of bands, Anna Gosteli hid her light under a bushel …
«Get Going!» goes into the third round
«Get Going!» enables new perspectives: The idea of «Get Going!» is based on the philosophy of «making it possible». «Get Going!» …
Finding her own universe
Cécile Marti is one of the most outstanding protagonists of contemporary music in Switzerland. In her work, the composer and …
“The Director’s Blog” - “We want to make our work more visible”
The FONDATION SUISA, a non-profit foundation, has been promoting the latest Swiss music creations since 1989. You can read about …
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A look back at the SUISA General Meeting 2019
Around 150 voting SUISA members attended the annual General Meeting on 21 June 2019 at the Kongresszentrum in Biel to …
The result of an endless passion for experimentation
The Eclecta duo, made up of Zurich and Winterthur residents Andrina Bollinger and Marena Whitcher, experiments with sounds that defy …