BEAT FURRER News - Beat Furrer

Beat Furrer will be main composer at this years Dialoge Festival in Salzburg

28/10/2015

Beat Furrer will be one of the main composers at the Mozarteum Festival "Dialoge" in November this year. He will be conducting pieces by Feldman, Francaix and some of his own.
On the 28th of November his new piece Spazio immergente for soprano and trombone (Golda Schultz and Mike Svoboda) will have its world premiere.

find more info here: http://www.mozarteum.at/konzerte/dialoge.html

Listen to "strane costellazioni" in Ljubljana next week

13/10/2015

Beat Furrer's orchestra piece "strane costellazioni" will be performed at the Slovenian Philharmonic next week. Together with works by Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Anton Webern, Franz Schubert. Conducted by Beat Furrer.

more details here:
http://www.filharmonija.si/

Beat Furrer is Composer in Residence at the Shanghai New Music Week. 20th to 25th of October

16/9/2015

still, Studie, Gaspra, linea dell'orrizzonte, voicelessness, strane costellazione
by Ensemble Intercontemporain and Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

lectures, talks, music.
Shanghai New Music Week
www.shcnmw.com

Beat Furrer is Composer in residence at Klangspuren Schwaz and the International Ensemble Modern Academy

3/9/2015

"KLANGSPUREN 2015’s Composer in Residence Beat Furrer is distinguished by an insatiable curiosity and the creative agitation that accompanies an expansive mind. The same can be said of musicians who perform his works"

find out more here:
http://www.klangspuren.at/

Beat Furrer will be teaching at the International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (Perm region)

27/8/2015

The Fifth Academy will take place August 29 – September 11, 2015
in Tchaikovsky city (Perm region) and in Perm.

Professors:
Peter Ablinger (Austria)
Raphael Cendo (France)
Beat Furrer (Switzerland)

Musicians:
Soloists of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Website: http://academy.iscmrussia.ru

Beat Furrer's new opera "La Bianca Notte" (die helle Nacht) im Hamburg. Premiere on this sunday, the 10th of May

8/5/2015

This sunday Beat Furrer's new opera "La Bianca Notte" will have its premiere at the Staatsoper Hamburg. Based on the life and texts by italian futurist poet Dino Campana. Condutctor: Simone Young, Stage: Ramin Gray. With Golda Schultz, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Tómas Tómasson, Derek Welton and Tigran Martirossian.

find more details here: Hamburgische Staatsoper

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Listen to the world premiere performances of the Witten Festival

28/4/2015

WDR provides Witten recordings for a few weeks online here:
http://konzertplayer.wdr3.de/neue-musik/konzert/neue-vokalsolisten-stuttgart-und-wdr-rundfunkchor-koeln-25042015/

Beat Furrer is main composer at "Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik"

23/3/2015

This years Witten Festival (24th of April to 26th of April) will focus on the music of Beat Furrer. Two new works will have their world premiere: Zwei Studien for chamber orchestra and Enigma VII for choir a capella. And alongside these new works there will be performances of Lotófagos I, invocation VI, ira-arca, spur and Enigma III, IV and VI.

Learn more about the program at Witten 2015 at their website:
http://www.kulturforum-witten.de/kulturbuero/veranstaltungen/wittener-tage-fuer-neue-kammermusik.html

A Beat Furrer special feature at Radio Ö1 (ORF, Austria)

24/11/2014

if you are in the mood for some late night radio listening join in this friday on radio ö1! (there is also a web-stream) "Beat Furrer – Metamorphosen und Alchemie" (Lange Nacht der neuen österreichischen Musik). Starting 11:00 pm to 6:00 am(!). But can also be listened to at the ö1 web-stream archive the days after.

Details here: http://oe1.orf.at/programm/390362

German feature text:
Wenn Beat Furrer in seinen Werken auf der Suche nach einer immer neuen Beziehung zwischen Stimme, Sprache, Sprachklang und Instrumentalklang ist, hat er das Ziel, etwas noch nicht auf diese Weise Gehörtes, etwas noch nicht Kategorisiertes und vor allem etwas nicht aufs erste Hören Kategorisierbares zu erfinden. Die in den Klängen verborgene Energie erlebbar zu machen ist von einem Ethos der Metamorphose des Gewöhnlichen ins "Unerhörte" getragen, einer Strategie, die dem alchemistischen Bemühen um die Erzeugung des Goldes eher gleicht, als dem Anfertigen von Kunstwerken aus vorhandenem Gold. Die Verwandlung des Gewöhnlichen in das Eigentliche, das Destillieren ein und desselben klanglichen Ausgangsmaterials zu immer wieder neuen musikalischen Stoffen verwandelt sich beim Zuhören zur erzählten Geschichte.
Gemeinsam mit Beat Furrer treten wir in dieser Langen Nacht der neuen österreichischen Musik eine Reise in Beat Furrers Land der permanenten Metamorphose an.

Beat Furrer in concert

21/10/2014

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Foto @ Musica Viva 2014

This summer Beat Furrer will conduct several concerts in Austria and Germany.

11.11.2014, 8:00pm
Apollotheater, Siegen (Germany)
Ensemble Modern and International Ensemble Modern Academy.

Wien: Modern 1914 - 1964 - 2014. Music by Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Beat Furrer, Friedrich Cerha and Anestis Logothetis
https://www.ensemble-modern.com/
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13.11.2014, 8:00pm
Hamburg, Kampnagel
Beat Furrer, Ensemble Resonanz

Greatest Hits takes the next round! Elbphilharmonie's festival for contemporary music is still a newcomer, in its second edition we present favorite works by Georg Friedrich Haas and Beat Furrer, as well as a work by Dieter Ammann for fourteen strings. Beat Furrer is conducting his own works as well as other pieces.
http://www.ensembleresonanz.com/
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25.11.2014, 7:30pm
Konzerthaus Wien
Klangforum Wien

ImmigrantInnen - City of Music. Vienna owes its reputation as city of music primarily to immigrants. Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler – all foreigners, who enriched our city on all levels. This influx of guests fortunately hasn’t stopped in our times. Welcome! Music by Billone, Ligeti and Furrer.
http://www.klangforum.at/