Rebecca Saunders receives "Roche Commissions"
British composer Rebecca Saunders receives the tenth commission from the Roche Commissions. The ninth, "Reading Malevich" by Peter Eötvös, was premiered by the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra under Matthias Pintscher on September 1.
Born in London in 1967, Rebecca Saunders studied with Nigel Osborne in Edinburgh and with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe. Her music stands for "the finest musical gestures and sounds, the exploration of never-before-heard timbres and the spatialization of musical progressions". She has been awarded the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, among others.
Since 2003, a work has been commissioned from a world-renowned composer every two years as part of the "Roche Commissions". Saunders was chosen by Roche at the suggestion of the Lucerne Festival Artistic Director. The world premiere of her work will take place during the 2020 Summer Festival.
