Winner of the Zwyssig competition 2018
The three composers Cyrill Schürch (Zurich), Markus Fricker (Rupperswil) and David Lang (Mammern) win the Zwyssighaus Bauen Foundation's 2018 composition competition.
Cyrill Schürch was born in Lucerne in 1974. After private piano lessons with Konstantin Scherbakov, he studied piano and composition at the University of Houston. He later completed his doctorate at King's College London. Since fall 2014, he has been Vice-Rector of the Zug Music School with a teaching assignment for piano, music theory and composition. He is a member of the artistic advisory board of the European Youth Choir Festival Basel.
Markus Fricker is a retired school musician who trained under Andreas Juon and Willi Gohl. He completed his teaching diploma in solo singing at the Zurich Conservatory under Sylvia Gähwiller. Today he is the director of a church choir and is mainly active as a composer of vocal music.
David Lang is a trained singer, pianist and conductor for choir and orchestra. He began his composition studies at the ZHdK in Zurich in the Composing/Arranging department. After his piano studies, he continued his education as a self-taught pianist.
A total of eleven compositions were submitted to the public composition competition. The prizewinners' concert will take place in St. John's Church in Zug in the fall of 2018. The works will be premiered by the Walchwil church choir under the direction of Peter Wehrlen.
