Team and Partners

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Dusan Bogdanovic: Described as “a composer of masterful craft with a genuine clarity and purity of vision” (Guitar Review, 2002), Dusan Bogdanovic has developed a personal synthesis of contemporary classical, jazz and world music. As a soloist and in collaboration with various artists, Dusan has toured extensively throughout Europe, United States and Japan. Early in his career, he gave a highly acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall in 1977. Dusan has written music for solo guitar, various types of chamber ensembles, orchestra, as well as multimedia and dance. He is presently the Professor of guitar as well as the Composer/Performer Master program for guitar at the Haute école de musique de Genève.

http://www.dusanbogdanovic.com/

 

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Xavier Bouvier: Trained as a composer, Head of the Composition and Theory Department at the Haute Ecole de musique de Genève, Professor Xavier Bouvier has been running several projects related to non-Western music, that include India and China. He presently directs a FNS project dealing with the musical borrowing of traditional Chinese musical elements in recent works by Chinese composers. Presently, Xavier Bouvier has also been instrumental in setting up the future Ethnomusicology department and curriculum at the HEM.

http://www.snis.ch/content/xavier-bouvier

 

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Nicolas Bolens: Nicolas Bolens was born in Geneva. Having started his career as a pianist, he is presently pursuing it principally as a composer. Laureate of the Prize for young composer from Lausanne in 1993, he received several commissions, among others from Trio Grumiaux, Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain/ NEC, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, etc. Nicolas Bolens was President of the Swiss Musicians Association from 2004 to 2007. He is now Head of the Composition and Theory Department at the Geneva Haute école de musique, were he teaches counterpoint and XXth century composition.

http://www.nicolasbolens.com/

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS:

AKMI (Aga Khan Music Initiative)

California Institute of the Arts