Andreas Zurbriggen

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Andreas Zurbriggen (born June 24, 1986 in Visp ) is a Swiss composer and music journalist.

biography

Andreas Zurbriggen studied composition with Daniel Glaus at the Bern University of the Arts and musicology, medieval studies, history and art history at the University of Bern and the University of Zurich . His music is characterized by a renewed listening to traditional musical materials that are placed in a modern context.

Zurbriggen was a young composer at the 24th Davos Festival, invited composer at the Shanghai New Music Week and was composer in residence at the Musikdorf Ernen Festival in 2019 . In 2019 he received the cultural promotion award from the Canton of Valais and was also a studio scholarship holder in Berlin. His composition north of alexandria is part of the score for the South Korean film Bul Ga Sa Ri . His works have been interpreted by various formations such as the Ensemble Phoenix Basel , the voice recorder duo UMS ´n JIP , the Ensemble Laboratorium, the Ensemble Tétraflûtes, the Mondrian Ensemble Basel and the Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg .

He lives in his hometown Saas-Fee , in Ernen and in Zurich .

Works

Orchestral works

  • The constellation sings (2006) Fantasy for orchestra and piano
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree (2008) for violoncello and orchestra
  • Estrella distante (2010) four-movement work for string orchestra
  • Risse in Frozen Zeit (2011) for string orchestra
  • Song without words (2011) for string orchestra
  • Suite Valaisanne (2017) four-movement suite for orchestra
  • Les Épaves (2018) four-movement work for string orchestra

Chamber music

  • surrounded islands (2008) for string trio
  • Post Scriptum (2009) Sextet for flute, English horn, alto saxophone, trombone, vibraphone and percussion
  • Hiroshima is also a snow (2012) for piano, flute and percussion
  • Niemandsrose (2014) for flute, violin, violoncello and harp
  • Rue de la Lune and Transitory Coda (2014) two pieces for bass trombone and piano
  • Gletscher-Requiem (2016) for flute quartet, with a sound track by Kilian Spinnler
  • Songs of Innocence (2018) for various line-ups
  • Pictures of the Gone World (2018) three-movement work for percussion trio
  • Zweisamkeiten (2019) for piano four hands

Poem settings

  • mondrose rosenmond (2007) based on the poem WIDERPART or Fugue with Organ Point from Snow by Pierre Imhasly for tenor recorder and countertenor
  • Paraíso Sí (2008) based on texts by Pierre Imhasly and Ingeborg Bachmann for a cappella choir
  • ... moon dream, I hear sand and stones crying ... (2009) based on the poem Paper Temple by Rose Ausländer for soprano, violoncello and percussion
  • north of alexandria (2010) based on a poem by Rolf Hermann for a cappella choir
  • Songs based on Pierre Imhasly (2015) Piano song cycle based on texts from the poem Paraíso Sí by Pierre Imhasly
  • Two Rimbaud settings - Le grand ciel est ouvert et Ophélie (2017), two settings after Arthur Rimbaud for string orchestra, choir and soloist
  • Rossignol de mon triste été and La haute rose (2018) Based on poems by Anne Perrier for a cappella choir
  • Je voudrais que les baisers (2019) based on a poem by Maurice Chappaz for a cappella choir
  • Stabat Mater (2020) for a cappella choir

Solo works

  • sonance (2008) for piano
  • La Neige noire (2011) for pan flute
  • Mario lifts off (2017) for piano

Publications

Essays

  • «'You dear Roth'. Wolfgang Rihm and the piano song tradition », in: Dialoge und Resonanzen. Music history between cultures, Theo Hirsbrunner on his 80th birthday , edition text + kritik , Munich 2011
  • «Eduard Brinckmeier as translator of the‹ Gesang aus Fingal ›. A correction ”, in Brahms Studies Volume 17, Tutzing 2014
  • «Minimal music from home sounds. Lithuanian musical minimalism has its roots not only in New York », in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 06/2017, pages 30–31
  • «Monochrome soundscapes. Justė Janulytė and the great attraction of monochrome », in Dissonance , No. 142 06/2018, pages 21–28

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Zurbriggen on musinfo.ch. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Alfred Zimmerlin : Commuting Between Cultures. Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 10, 2009, accessed January 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ Andreas Zurbriggen on culturevalais.ch. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Zurbriggen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Visp , Switzerland