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Katharina Weber
“The clarinet should act as an individual, struggling and seeking the way”
Katharina Weber is basing her composition work for the project “Swiss Beethoven reflections” not only on Beethoven’s variations on a …
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“Us composers, we are like surgeons for peopleʼs souls”
Romanian composer Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi attracted international attention at a young age. He moved to Switzerland in 2019 and recently joined …
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 …
SUISA Talks at the Zeiträume Festival Basel 2021
Enjoy ten days of contemporary music and experience how the works, often composed especially for the festival, play with their …
SUISA Songwriting Camp 2021: now open for applications by SUISA members
The fourth SUISA Songwriting Camp will take place from 5 to 7 July 2021 in the Powerplay Studios in Maur …
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Christian Henking
“As a composer, you’re always a beginner”
In his composition for the project “Swiss Beethoven reflections”, Christian Henking uses the melody of the Swiss song used by …
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Archipel Festival – a well-established works smithy
The Archipel Festival is going to give a large audience access to a plethora of new works between 16 and …
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Label Suisse and SUISA make Swiss music possible
The ninth edition of the Label Suisse Festival will take place in Lausanne from 18 to 20 September 2020. Programming …
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 …
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 …
Setting to music
Whether they write choir music or a pop-song, composers are often inspired by an existing text which they want to …
Finding her own universe
Cécile Marti is one of the most outstanding protagonists of contemporary music in Switzerland. In her work, the composer and …
Intriguing insights and concerts at the Zeiträume Festival
Would you like to look over composers’ shoulders while they are working? Would you like to ask them what inspires …
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“Ab is Wälschland – off to the Valais” to the Swiss Folk Music Festival
In May, five young folk music performers under the direction of Dani Häusler in Crans-Montana in order to compose a …
Creating music in the era of contamination
A discussion on the deceptively simple theme of ‘contamination in music’ provided much food for thought, reaffirming the desire to …
Travelling with and inside a space
Place, time and space play a pivotal role in the works of composer, Beat Gysin. In his six-part “Lightweight building …
“Orchestral spaces” or if music becomes spatially tangible when you listen to it
In his work, composer Michael Künstle deals with the interplay between tonal dramatisation and dramatic tones. The 27-year-old Basel resident …
“Get Going!” goes into its second round: “We definitely have our fingers on the pulse of our age”
Last year, FONDATION SUISA awarded four innovation grants under the title “Get Going!” for the first time in order to …
Sound space surveyor and ambient sound explorer
Saxophonist Bertrand Denzler is always working on new opportunities to express himself in the delicate balance that lies between improvisation …
Arranging works protected by copyright
Musical works in the public domain can be arranged at will. But works which are still protected by copyright, i.e. …
Arrangement of works in the public domain
Before you start arranging musical works that are not protected by copyright, it is worth being aware of the legal …