Furrer
Beat
<strong><a href="http://www.universaledition.com/Beat-Furrer/composers-and-works/composer/241">Beat Furrer</a></strong> nasce a Sciaffusa (Svizzera) nel 1954 e riceve le prime lezioni di pianoforte alla Scuola di Musica locale. Dopo essersi trasferito a Vienna nel 1975, studia direzione d’orchestra con Otmar Suitner e composizione con Roman Haubenstock Ramati alla Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. Nel 1985 fonda il Klangfroum di Vienna che dirige fino al 1992 e al quale è ancora oggi associato come direttore. L’Opera statale di Vienna gli commissiona la sua prima opera: Die Blinden. Nel 1994 viene presentato Narcissus al Festival “steirischer herbst” e nel 1996 diventa compositore residente al Festival di Lucerna. Nel autunno del 1991 Beat Furrer diventa professore di composizione alla Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst di Francoforte. Nel 2004 riceve il Premio della Musica della Città di Vienna e nel 2005 diventa membro dell’Accademia di Arte di Berlino. Nel 2006 vince il Leone D’Oro alla Biennale di Venezia per FAMA. Nel 2010 la sua opera musicale teatrale WÜSTENBUCH è stata rappresentata alla prima di Basel.
Beat Furrer was born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in 1954 and received his first musical training on piano at the Music School there. After moving to Vienna in 1975, he studied conducting with Otmar Suitner and composition with Roman Haubenstock Ramati at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. In 1985 he founded the Klangforum Wien, which he directed until 1992, and with which he is still associated as conductor. Commissioned by the Vienna State Opera, he composed his first opera Die Blinden. Narcissus was premiered in 1994 as part of the Festival “steirischer herbst” at the Graz Opera. In 1996 he was composer-in-residence at the Lucerne Festival. His music theatre work BEGEHREN was premiered in Graz in 2001, the opera invocation in Zürich in 2003 and the sound theatre piece FAMA in Donaueschingen in 2005. In autumn 1991 Furrer became a full professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz. He has been guest professor in composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt 2006–2009. In 2004 he was awarded the Music Prize of the City of Vienna, and in 2005 became a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2006 for his work FAMA.In 2010 his music theatre WÜSTENBUCH was premiered in Basel.
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