Dragos Tara represents Switzerland
The composer Dragos Tara was chosen by the jury of the ISCM World Music Days to represent Switzerland at the festival, which takes place in Canada this fall, with his work "Pixel".
The ISCM World Music Days is the annual festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music, founded in 1922, http://iscm.org) and will take place in 2017 from November 2 to 8 on Canada's west coast in Vancouver. The works to be selected are submitted by the 65 country sections and presented to the festival jury. The submissions from the Swiss Society for New Music SGNM/SSMC will be coordinated by its Vice President Nicolas Farine. The program of the ISCM WMD 2017 is available at http://iscm2017.ca/home/ online.
Dragos Tara was born in Bucharest in 1976 and grew up in Switzerland. The Lausanne-based double bassist and composer studied composition and electro-acoustic music with Michael Jarell, Eric Gaudibert, Emmanuel Nunes, Nicolas Bolens, Luis Naon and Rainer Boesch. He is a co-founder and member of the Association Rue du Nord, the Compagnie du Phonoscope and CH.AU. His works have been performed by Vortex, the NEC and Phoenix, and he was granted residencies at STEIM Amsterdam and CMMAS in Mexico in 2008, 2010 and 2013. In 2014 he was nominated for the Swiss Music Prize. His piece "Pixel" is a hybrid between installation and concert piece for solo double bass and live electronics and was premiered at the Festival Présences Electroniques in Geneva.
