Composer
Biography:
BEAT FURRER, born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in 1954, received his first musical training (piano) at the music school there. In 1975 he moved to Vienna, where he studied conducting with Otmar Suitner and composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati at the University of Music and Performing Arts.
In 1985 he founded Klangforum Wien.
He wrote his first opera for the Vienna State Opera The blind, which premiered in 1989 at the Wien Modern festival. His work came under Claudio Abbado Face de la Chaleur 1991 in the Wiener Musikverein for the world premiere.
Beat Furrer has been a professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz since autumn 1991. From 2006 to 2009 he was a guest professor for composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt a. Main.
In 2004 he received the Music Prize of the City of Vienna, and since 2005 he has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2006 he was awarded for FAMA (UA 2005 in Donaueschingen) was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale.
Albums:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2012:
Salzburg Biennale – Festival for New Music 2009:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2009:
Darmstadt Aural Documents Box 1 Composers – Conductors:
Salzburg Biennale – Festival for New Music 2009:
musica viva festival munich 2008:
