Furrer Member of the Austrian Art Senate
The Schaffhausen-born composer Beat Furrer has been appointed a member of the Austrian Arts Senate.
In 2014, the composer, who was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1954 and has lived in Austria for a long time, was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize, which is a prerequisite for membership of the Kunstsenat, according to a statement from Bärenreiter Verlag.
The task of the Austrian Art Senate, founded in 1954, is to represent the concerns of art in public and to advise public authorities on important issues relating to art. Beat Furrer succeeds the writer Ilse Aichinger, who passed away in November 2016.
