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Death of Jean-Pierre Mathez
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Jean-Pierre Mathez.
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Endo Anaconda forever!
Poet, composer and musician Endo Anaconda passed away on 1 February 2022. The singer of the Berne dialect band Stiller …
Cla Nett: Passionate Blues musician, dedicated lawyer
On 27 September 2021, Cla Felice Nett, lawyer, musician and SUISA member since 1981 passed away after a long and …
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 …
Julien-François Zbinden: an extra-ordinary force of personality
On 8 March 2021, Swiss composer and jazz pianist Julien-François Zbinden passed away. He was 103 years’ old. Julien-François Zbinden …
Willy Viteka, the successful music publisher and music producer has passed away
Willy Viteka, an entrepreneur who made a significant contribution to the Swiss music industry as a classical producer-music publisher, passed …
Remembering an extraordinary person and gifted musician
The pianist Willy Bischof was an established figure on the Swiss jazz scene and made his mark on the programmes …
Reto Parolari: The passionate and blazing flame shines no more
On Sunday 15 December 2019, Reto Parolari, composer, conductor, arranger and multi-instrumentalist from Winterthur passed away, completely unexpectedly, aged 67. …
Where there is no love, everything is in vain
Zurich composer and music journalist Rolf Urs Ringger passed away on 26 June 2019 aged 84.
A tribute to Claudio Taddei
On 9 August this year, singer-songwriter and painter Claudio Taddei passed away at the age of 52.
Michel Legrand, a life for music
Michel Legrand died on January 26th 2019. He was 86. The composer leaves behind a prestigious career spanning 60 years …
Charles Aznavour’s songs are part of our collective identity
Charles Aznavour joined SUISA in 1976 and was one of our best-known members. The countless tributes on TV, radio and …
“A Cello talks like a human”
Apart from his activities as a paediatrician, Dr. Beat Richner has been a musician all of his life. From 1972 …
The shadow man of dialect rock
He composed many of the hits which made Polo Hofer, in particular, famous. Hanery Amman has passed away at the …
Adieu, great Jörg Schneider!
Without a doubt, Jörg Schneider was part of the most popular actors in Switzerland. He also directed films, lent his …
Beny Rehmann’s Evergreens live on
Beny Rehmann, popular Swiss trumpeter, band leader and composer, died last December aged 78. His evergreens such as the “Schiffsfeger-Polka”, …
In Gedenken an Erwin Ernst Kunz
Musiker, Dirigent, Komponist, Arrangeur, Musiktheoretiker - Erwin Ernst Kunz, oft nur Ernst Kunz genannt, war ein musikalischer Tausendsassa und hat …
Zum Tod von Jazz-Musiker und Big-Band-Ikone Roby Seidel
Am 3. Januar 2014 ist das langjährige SUISA-Mitglied Roby Seidel verstorben. Der 71-jährige Komponist, Arrangeur und Multi-Instrumentalist aus Genf galt …