Roche Commission for Beat Furrer
Beat Furrer has been commissioned to compose the twelfth Roche Commissions work at the Lucerne Festival. The world premiere will take place during the 2024 Summer Festival under the direction of the composer.
The Swiss-Austrian composer Beat Furrer, who was born in 1954, studied conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Otmar Suitner and composition with Roman Haubenstock Ramati. In 1985, Furrer founded the Klangforum Wien ensemble, which he led until 1992 and with which he has been associated as a conductor ever since. Since the fall of 1991, Furrer has been a full professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.
The eleventh Roche Commissions commission, "Air" by Thomas Adès, will be premiered by the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra (LFCO) and Anne-Sophie Mutter on August 27, 2022. The LFCO was founded in 2021 as a counterpart to the Lucerne Festival Orchestra: an orchestra of excellence for the interpretation of contemporary music. It brings together former and current students of the Lucerne Festival Academy.
