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Two Gentlemen
AMG, Gentlemen Music and the «booking section» of Irascible are pleased to announce the creation of Two Gentlemen.
As a new company involved in booking, management, and record production, the Two Gentlemen task force includes, from April 1st on, several people coming from the three aforementioned Lausanne companies, well known for their long-term work on Swiss and international artists. >>>

23.04.2009

Jérôme Baur receives the SUISA Foundation for Music Prize at the 2008 Locarno International Festival
The musical soundtrack of the film «Les Petites Vacances» («Stolen Holidays») receives the SUISA Foundation for Music Prize at the 2008 Locarno International Film Festival. This year, thirteen films were submitted to the jury selected by the SUISA Foundation for Music. >>>

13.08.2008

Aloan receives the Newcomer Award from the SUISA Foundation for Music
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Gurten Festival in Berne, the SUISA Foundation for Music presented its «Newcomer Award», a prize amounting to Frs. 5,000, to Aloan, an electro group from Geneva. The quality of the performance of this group from French-speaking Switzerland is equal to that of Pegasus, Signorino TJ and Seven, all well-known groups who have received this award in the course of the last few years. >>>

28.07.2008

Festivals in Switzerland 2007
Because of the vast number of music festivals of all kinds organized in Switzerland, we have decided to group all those that have come to our notice under a special heading. >>>

29.01.2007

Festivals in Switzerland 2006
Because of the vast number of music festivals of all kinds organized in Switzerland, we have decided to group all those that have come to our notice under a special heading. >>>

25.08.2006

Prize for Best Swiss Film Score awarded to Balz Bachmann and Peter Bräker
On 8 August 2006, in the context of the «Journée du cinéma Suisse» at the Locarno Film Festival, the SUISA Foundation for Music awarded its seventh consecutive Prize for Best Film Score, endowed with CHF 10'000. This year, the prize went to Zurich composers Balz Bachmann and Peter Bräker for the score to the movie «Jeune Homme» by Christoph Schaub. >>>

09.08.2006

Daniel Fueter – New President of Suisseculture
At its General Meeting in Bern, Suisseculture, the umbrella association for Swiss performing artists, elected composer and musician Daniel Fueter as its new President. Daniel Fueter is, among other things, the Rector of the Zurich School of Music, Drama and Dance. >>>

21.06.2006

New visual identity for Pro Helvetia
The new Pro Helvetia logo is striking and easy to read, which is particularly important in an increasingly brand-dominated environment. The integral Swiss cross serves to link together the two parts of the name.
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26.04.2006

Swiss Music Club at MIDEM 2006
For the 7th time, the SUISA Foundation for Music is organising the popular SWISS MUSIC CLUB. The Foundation is seeking to give talented young musicians with international potential a platform before a professional audience at the world’s largest music fair. This platform is often crucial for the future of these promising young artists. >>>

21.11.2005

Information on «culturelinks.ch»
For technical reasons, the website «culturelinks.ch» will come off-line at the end of November 2005. The service will not be replaced. You can still find the major culture links on swissinfo’s swisslinks pages. >>>

03.11.2005

Swiss Acts @ Popkomm 2005
An overview of the Swiss bands appearing in the Popkomm's official programme. >>>

08.09.2005

Prize for Best Swiss Film Score awarded to Vincent Gillioz
On 10 August 2005, in the context of the Locarno Film Festival, the SUISA Foundation for Music awarded its sixth consecutive Prize for Best Film Score, endowed with CHF 10'000. This year, the prize went to Geneva composer Vincent Gillioz for the score to the movie «God’s Waiting List» by Duane Alder. >>>

10.08.2005

SUISA’s 2004 results in slight decline
At the General Assembly held in Lugano on 25 June 2005, SUISA released its results for the 2004 financial year. Against a backdrop of continuously sinking sound carrier sales, profit for the year attained CHF 132.7 million, a decline of 3% compared with the prior year. The General Assembly approved the introduction of a one-time «entry fee» for new principals. >>>

25.06.2005

Staff changes at Musikvertrieb
There have been changes at the top of Musikvertrieb’s record division. Christoph Lehmann, General Manager of the Record Division, and Markus Ruffiner, Sales Manager, have both left the company. The new management comes from BMG Switzerland. >>>

23.06.2005

Apple opens iTunes Music Stores in Switzerland
Apple has finally launched its long-awaited iTunes Music Store in Switzerland, simultaneously with store openings in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. iTunes offers the largest selection of online music world-wide, with over 1.5 million titles in the USA, and an average catalogue of 1 million songs in other countries. >>>

07.06.2005

The « Guide Musical Suisse » (Swiss Music Guide) for 2005-2006 is now available
The “Guide musical Suisse” is published every other year by the SUISA Foundation for Music. It contains all the necessary information about the structure and the organization of musical life in Switzerland. After several months of preparation, the 2005/2006 edition is now available. >>>

25.05.2005

Ivo M. Sacchi appointed President of IFPI Schweiz
At its ordinary general assembly of 4 May, IFPI Switzerland unanimously elected Ivo M. Sacchi, Managing Director of Universal Music Switzerland, as its new president. >>>

12.05.2005

Concerning the presentation of recordings: some reminders
In answer to various questions received by e-mail, we thought it would be useful to recall some of the principles governing the presentation of recordings on swissdisc.ch. >>>

27.01.2005

Upcoming events: Important changes
From the start, swissdisc has been presenting concert programmes under the heading “Upcoming events”. This idea has been so successful that we have become almost buried under the avalanche of notices that we receive daily. In order to be able continue, we find ourselves obliged to request our announcers to carry out a certain number of changes. >>>

27.01.2005

Swiss music club at the MIDEM 2005
The board of trustees, whose job it is to examine regularly the principal options open to the institution, recently broached the subject of the “Swiss Jazz Club” at the MIDEM, an event located in the Salle Méditerranée at the Carlton Hotel for the last 5 years. >>>

17.01.2005

The SUISA Foundation for Music’s «Newcomer Award 2004» for SEVEN
For the first time this year, the SUISA Foundation for Music has presented the «Newcomer Award 2004» for the best Swiss talent in the field of pop-rock music. This prize is just one in the series of «AVO Session Awards» distributed during the AVO Session festival which took place in Basel from the 5th to the 20th of November 2004. >>>

03.12.2004

POPKOMM 2004 in Berlin – A Good Start
After several years of stagnation in Cologne, the POKOMM moved into its new premises at the Berlin fair. From the figures reported, the « new » POPKOMM seems to have left its mark on Berlin. >>>

29.11.2004

Locarno Film Festival: SUISA Foundation Prize for Best Swiss Film Score Awarded to Jean-Philippe Héritier
On 10 August 2004, in the context of the Locarno film festival, the SUISA Foundation for Music awarded its fifth consecutive Prize for Best Film Score, endowed with CHF 10'000, to Lausanne composer Jean-Philippe Héritier for the score to the television film «Agathe» directed by Anne Deluz. >>>

11.08.2004

SUISA’s Annual Result in Slight Decline
SUISA, the Society for the rights of authors of musical works, held its General Assembly in Winterthur on Saturday, 26 June 2004. Despite a negative economic environment and the radical problems of the sound carrier industry, SUISA’s total revenues for the year only declined by 2.4%. Moreover, SUISA’s President Hans Ulrich Lehmann had the pleasure of welcoming the Society’s 20’000th member in the Casino-theater, Winterthur. >>>

28.06.2004

Warner Music Switzerland closes down A&R Department
Gadget Records – a new music label is born

Warner Music Switzerland is closing down its domestic A&R department and will not sign up any more Swiss bands. >>>

31.05.2004

Prix Walo 2003
On 2 May 2004, the association Show Szene Schweiz awarded the Prix Walos for the 30th time to the most popular and successful Swiss entertainers and performers of the past year. >>>

10.05.2004

International film Festival of Locarno – SUISA Foundation for Music Prize
In the framework of the 2004 International Film Festival in Locarno, the SUISA Foundation for Music will again award its CHF 10’000 prize for best soundtrack to a Swiss composer for an original soundtrack composition. >>>

17.02.2004

Giuliano Sommerhalder will represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Competition «Young Musicians 2004»
On February 8th 2004 the Swiss heat for the Eurovision Competition «Young Musicians 2004» took place in Lugano. Among the four young musical talents who took part in the Swiss heat, the jury elected the 19-year old Giuliano Sommerhalder as winner. >>>

09.02.2004

Swiss music scene set to make strong showing at MIDEM 2004, despite economic downturn
Sound carrier sales fell again in Switzerland in 2003. However, with a 9.2% share of the charts, Swiss music achieved a record performance last year. Switzerland also had a record showing in terms of participants at the MIDEM 2004 in Cannes (25.01 to 29.01.04). For the first time, OSEC supported the common Swiss stand at the world’s largest music fair. Hand in hand with Switzerland’s showing at the fair, the SWISS JAZZ CLUB will present a world-class programme in its fifth edition at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes. >>>

22.01.2004

Swiss Jazz Club
Switzerland is internationally reputed for its remarkable, world-class Jazz culture. The Swiss Jazz Club first saw the day at the MIDEM in 2000 where it proved a sweeping success. Like every year since, it will be continued at MIDEM 2004.
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01.01.2004

Contemporary Culture Convention IV
The fourth edition of the contemporary culture convention (ccc) will be held on the weekend of 13 to 15 May 2004, like before at the Reitschule in Bern. The ccc is a festival devoted to electronic music, with a small fair for exchanging information and nursing contacts. >>>

18.11.2003

Reto Parolari has been awarded the 2004 SUISA Foundation for Music Prize
On Saturday, October 18th, 2003, in the context of the 12th International Festival for Light Music in Winterthur, the SUISA Foundation for Music will award its 2004 Prize endowed with CHF 10'000 to the Winterthur publisher Reto Parolari. >>>

20.10.2003

12th Eurovision Young Musician Competition
The final of the 12th Eurovision Young Musician Competition will be held from 20 - 27 May 2004 in the Konzertsaal of Lucerne's Culture and Congress Center. It is one of Europe's most important competitions for young musical talent and is funded jointly by all of Europe's public sector television broadcasters. >>>

28.08.2003

SUISA Foundation Prize for Best Film Score Awarded to Balz Bachmann
On 12 August 2003, in the context of the Locarno film festival, the SUISA Foundation for Music awarded the Swiss Prize for Best Film Score endowed with CHF 10’000 to the composer Balz Bachmann for the soundtrack to the film «Little Girl Blue» directed by Anna Luif. >>>

13.08.2003

A Reference Book of Women Conductors
In the professional area of orchestral conducting, women are, with 0-5%, still extremely underrepresented. The German Archive Woman & Music is going to publish a Reference Book of Women Conductors both as hardback and as a website version. >>>

13.05.2003