Our contemporary music studios examine the music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in depth. The study of definitive works from the contemporary repertoire places them within an aesthetic context. Frequently, this is combined with meeting the composers of the works in person, who are invited to the school. These works are presented to the public in the context of “project weeks”, composer forums and studio concerts.
Courses in previous semesters:
- Mechanical music
- Liza Lim
- Iannis Xenakis
- Ensemble works by Alvin Lucier
- Péter Eötvös
- (New) music and (old) architecture
- Works by the Spanish composer Elena Mendoza
- Jorge Sanchez-Chiong
- Britain in the twenty-first century
- The staged concert
- Musician pool
- Pierre Boulez and his compositional environment
- Which contemporary works do I play as part of my degree?
- See, the good is so near at hand!
- Hans Ulrich Lehmann and the Schweizer Neue Musik (Swiss New Music) movement
- Morton Feldman
- New Italian chamber music with a focus on Lucia Ronchetti
- Sarah Maria Sun
- Different listening approaches to concerts and installations. Works by Alvin Lucier
- Music from Russia and the Soviet Union
- Nikolaus Brass, the quiet loner
- The music of Roland Moser
- Sound-space laboratory. Approaches to sound art in the urban environment of Zurich
- Music – colour – space. The composer Rebecca Saunders
- Anton Webern’s path from free atonality to the twelve-tone technique
- Music from South America Works by Flo Menezes and Germán Toro-Pérez
- Transitions from artificial sound to natural noise. The music of Carola Bauckholt
- Music of the Danish composer Simon Steen-Andersen
- Music of the Danish composer and pianist Søren Kjærgaard
- Erich Schmid: Swiss pioneers of new music
- Exhibiting sounds. The Austrian composer Peter Ablinger
- Arranging as creative reinterpretation. Core subject: Rolf Riehm and Johannes Kreidler
- Helmut Lachenmann
- Live electronic music for performers
- Classical modernism
- How time flies
- The art of listening in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Klaus Huber
- Art between music, text and theatre
- Martin Smolka, “Melody notwithstanding”