nc

go to italian language
comune di roma


Franco Evangelisti 2010 Competition

DE MUSICA 2010

Beat Furrer

Beat Furer

De Musica ovvero la fabbrica della creatività

Associazione Nuova Consonanza Roma together with “ S.Cecilia” Conservatory of Music and German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, are announcing the new edition of De musica, ovvero la fabbrica della creatività, composition - seminary and workshop held this year by swiss worldknown composer Beat Furrer.

The seminary with take place in Rome at the S.Cecilia Conservatory of Music between 13 and 17 december 2010.

 

Conservatorio S.Cecilia

The masterclass will explore aesthetical and technical aspects of modern music in general and especially refers to Beat Furrer’s music. Lectures will be concentrated on the analysis of works presented by the participants and analysis of some of Furrer’s compositions.
The stage will be concluded by the concert of 17 december entirely dedicated to Beat Furrer’s music, performed by the Algoritmo Ensemble, conducted by Marco Angius.

Seminary is open to about 20 students coming from italian and international Academies or Conservatories of Music and to composers with already awarded diploma, aged under 35 years.

Auditors are accepted as well.

Students and composers have to send their application (including address, name, surname, country, date of birth, place of residence and studies) together with a CV and one score to the following address before 30 november 2010:
by normal post: Associazione Nuova Consonanza Viale Giuseppe Mazzini 134 sc. B - 00195 ROMA (Italia) ( tel. +39.06.3700323) or by email: info@nuovaconsonanza.it (please send the score in A4)

For auditors score is not requested.

The selection of the candidatures will be done by the Associazione Nuova Consonanza in relation with available places. Selected participants have to complete their applications with the payment of the registration-fee, which is fixed in 70 Euro for active participants.

(Entry fee is not to be payed by students coming from S.Cecilia Conservatory of Music and
L’Aquila Conservatory of Music).

DE MUSICA
ovvero la fabbrica della creatività

13 - 17 december
- S.Cecilia Conservatory of Music (via dei Greci 18) h 10/13 – 15/18
COMPOSITION WORKSHOP by Beat Furrer for young composers facing aesthetical and technical aspects of contemporary music and their interpretation, analysis and discussion about pieces presented by the students and analysis

16 december
- Sala Casella (via Flaminia 118) – 17:00
Meeting with Beat Furrer.

17 december
- Sala Casella (via Flaminia 118) – 21:00
Concert: Portrait Beat Furrer

 

BEAT FURRER

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 since 2006. 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

download announcement

 

 

nuova consonanza - Viale Giuseppe Mazzini, 134 - sc. B - 00195 Roma
tel. fax. +39.06.3700323 - info@nuovaconsonanza.it - C.F. 80206250583 - P.IVA 02133581005