Change in the SGNM Board
On the board of the Swiss Society for Contemporary Music (SGNM/ISCM Switzerland), Arturo Corrales and David Rossel will succeed Max E. Keller (former SGNM President 2004-2007) and Egidius Streiff, who are retiring after 12 years of commendable voluntary work on the board.
Arturo Corrales was born in El Salvador and studied guitar and composition there, in Geneva, Paris and Lugano. He is one of the co-founders of the Ensemble Vortex in Geneva, performs internationally and teaches at the CPMDT in Geneva.
David Rossel has been President of the Association of Choral Conductors of Northwestern Switzerland since 2017 and is co-founder and vice-conductor of the multiple international award-winning Männerstimmen Basel. In addition to Corrales and Rossel, Antoine Fachard and Javier Hagen (President) continue to serve on the current SGNM Board. In addition, Xenia Fünfschilling will take over the SGNM secretariat from 2020.
The SGNM is the Swiss section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (IGNM/ISCM). It was founded in 1922 by the Winterthur patron Werner Reinhart, the first Secretary General of the ISCM, as one of the first country sections of the ISCM. It is the interface to the ISCM and thus, among other things, to the ISCM World Music Days, which have been held in a different country every year since 1923. The SGNM has hosted the ISCM World Music Days six times to date: in 1926, 1929, 1957, 1970, 1991 and 2004. It is also significantly involved in the ISCM Collaborative Series, which was launched for the first time in 2019 and led to prominent performances of works by Beat Furrer and Heinz Holliger at the Meridian Festival in Romania. As part of its ensemble call to promote the presence of Swiss ensembles and composers abroad, it is sending Ensemble TaG Winterthur on a tour of Germany in fall 2020.
