Albums

Malin Bång, Franck Bedrossian, Beat Furrer, Clemens Gadenstätter, Bernhard Gander, Arnulf Herrmann, Georg Katzer, Johannes Kreidler, Yoav Pasovsky, Stefan Prins, Klaus Schedl, Martin Smolka
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2012

NEOS 11303-05
October 2013

Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Manuel Hidalgo, Helmut Oehring, Markus Hechtle
Aleph Gitarrenquartett

NEOS 11208
April 2012

Toshio Hosokawa, Klaus Huber, Steve Reich, Mauricio Sotelo, Anton Webern
Salzburg Biennale - Festival for New Music 2009

NEOS 50905-08
November 2011

Salvatore Sciarrino, Beat Furrer, Jimmy López
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2009

NEOS 11051
January 2011

Boulez, Brown, Brün, Cârneci, Finnissy, Fortner, Furrer, Kagel, Kalitzke, Krenek, Leibowitz, Maderna, Mihály, Müller-Hornbach, Otte, Platz, Pousseur, Stiebler, Stockhausen, Trojahn
Darmstadt Aural Documents · Box 1 · Composers - Conductors

NEOS 11060
October 2010

Beat Furrer, Mauricio Sotelo, György Kurtág, Steve Reich, György Ligeti, Toshio Hosokawa, John Cage, Galina Ustvolskaya, Klaus Huber, Franck Christoph Yeznikian
Salzburg Biennale - Festival for New Music 2009

NEOS 10947
August 2010

Adriana Hölszky, Conlon Nancarrow, Michael Lentz, Uli Winters, Hans Zender, Olivier Messiaen, Enno Poppe, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Iannis Xenakis, Beat Furrer, Gérard Pesson
musica viva festival munich 2008

NEOS 50909/10
July 2010

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Aribert Reimann, Jörg Widmann, Matthias Pintscher, Iannis Xenakis, James Dillon, Beat Furrer, Giacinto Scelsi, Chaya Czernowin, Kaija Saariaho, Liza Lim, Rebecca Saunders, Adriana Hölszky
musica viva festival 2008

NEOS 10926
September 2009

BEAT FURRER, born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in 1954, received his first musical training (in piano) at the music school there. In 1975 he relocated to Vienna and 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.

His first opera Die Blinden was commissioned by the Vienna State Opera and premiered at the Wien Modern festival in 1989. In 1991 Face de la Chaleur was premiered at the Vienna Musikverein by Claudio Abbado.

Since the autumn of 1991, Beat Furrer has been Professor of Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. From 2006–09 he was Visiting Professor of Composition at the Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts.

In 2004 he received the Music Prize of the City of Vienna, and since 2005 he has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. In 2006 he was awarded the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale for FAMA (premiered at Donaueschingen in 2005).