Werner Bärtschi (born 1 January 1950) is a Swiss composer and classical pianist.

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Born in Zurich, Bärtschi studied piano with Sava Savoff, Jürg Wyttenbach and Rolf Mäser, composition with Armin Schibler,

Klaus Huber Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. ...

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Rudolf Kelterborn Rudolf Kelterborn (3 September 1931 – 24 March 2021) was a Swiss musician and composer. Life Born in Basel, Kelterborn studied in Basel, Detmold, Salzburg, and Zürich, among other places, with the composers Walther Geiser, Willy Burkhard, Bor ...

and orchestral conducting with Erich Schmid at the Universities of Zurich and Basel. He was influenced by the music of

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Dieter Schnebel Dieter Schnebel (14 March 1930 – 20 May 2018) was a German composer, theologian and musicologist. He composed orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music and stage works. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of e ...

. In 1980, Bärtschi founded the concert series Rezital Zürich. In 1987, he became artistic director of the Musikkollegium Zürcher Oberland. From 1990 to 1992, he was president of the music commission of the city of Zurich. He is also the initiator of cycles and festivals such as the Satie season (1980/81), the

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cycle (1985/86) and the June Festival Week (1991). Bärtschi is active in the composers' secretariat in Zurich, which includes

Ulrich Gasser Ulrich Gasser ( Frauenfeld, 19 April 1950) is a Swiss composer. After studying flute at Winterthur Conservatory he continued studies with flautist André Jaunet.''Compositori svizzeri del nostro tempo'' Fondation SUISA pour la musique, SUISA-Stiftu ...

Max E. Keller Max Eugen Keller (born 19 March 1947, Aarau) is a Swiss composer, jazz pianist and improvising musician. He was one of the first free-jazz musicians in Switzerland. Since 2007 he is chairman of the Swiss Society for New Music. Life and work K ...

, Martin Sigrist and . He brought works by John Cage,

, Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel, Dieter Schnebel,

Terry Riley Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition. Influenced by jazz and Indian classical music, his music became notable for it ...

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Wilhelm Killmayer Wilhelm Killmayer (21 August 1927 – 20 August 2017) was a German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1973 to 1992. He composed symphonies and son ...

to their world

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s. Among his students were Alfons Karl Zwicker and . In 1983, he won the

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* Pierre Mariétan (Grammont Porträt, 1992) * Kreuzende Wege – Komponistensekretariat Zürich (Grammont Porträt, 1997) * Basel Sinfonietta (Grammont Porträt, 2001) * Rotondo or "die Kunst des Fügens" (stv/asm, 2002) * Marcela Pavia –

(NEOS, 2011)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartschi, Werner 1950 births Living people Musicians from Zürich Swiss classical pianists 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Swiss composers

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