Fabian Künzli
Landis & Gyr Stiftung Residency
2013
Fabian Künzli is a musician and composer based in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his Masters in Orchestral Composition in 2010 and Masters in Theory in 2012. As a musician Fabian has played clarinet for orchestras as well as Rock, Dixie and traditional Jewish Klezmer bands. He has composed music for the Musikkollegium Winterthur Orchestra, the Camerata Zurich Orchestra, the Brandenburg State Orchestra, and Concerto Stella Matutina.
Fabian was awarded compositional prizes for the Zurich Jazz Orchestra, 2009, Davos Festival, 2010, Syntharp, 2011, and EMF Montreux, 2014 and was composer-in-residence at the Orpheum Festival, Zurich, 2013. Fabian is a lecturer in music theory at Lucerne School of Music and Zurich University of the Arts.
Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Switzerland
The Landis & Gyr foundation awards studio scholarships to Swiss artists and cultural professionals in London, Budapest, Sofia and Zug. Its London-based residency partnership with Acme was established in 1987, and provides six month long work/live opportunities for ten Swiss artists per year. Artists are selected for the programme directly by Landis & Gyr Stiftung and must demonstrate a track record of achievement in their field. Over two hundred visual artists, curators, writers, musicians and composers have benefitted from the programme. Residencies are based in Stepney, E1 and are available to Swiss residents only
For more information visit lg-stiftung.ch.
