Award for Beat Gysin
The cultural prize will be presented to the composer on August 19.
To promote cultural activities and recognize significant cultural achievements, the municipality of Riehen awards an annual cultural prize of 15,000 Swiss francs. The jury for the cultural prize of the municipality of Riehen has awarded the prize for 2012 to the composer Beat Gysin, according to the municipality.
Beat Gysinborn in 1968, studied piano, chemistry, composition and music theory in Basel. Coming from a family of musicians, he has written over fifty works, some of them award-winning, for various ensembles since his youth. In addition to classical composition, Beat Gysin is particularly interested in the spatiality of sound phenomena and the creation of surprising sound spaces.
The official presentation of the 2012 Culture Prize will take place on Monday, August 19, at 6.30 pm as part of a public ceremony in the village church in Riehen. The laudatory speech will be given by Rahel Hartmann Schweizer, art and architecture historian. On the occasion of the award ceremony, the composition Babjosh by Beat Gysin with the pianist Irina Georgieva.
