Silvan Loher Composer



Career

Career

SILVAN LOHER

Composer

Darres gate 16, 0175 Oslo
+47 968 51 247 / silvan.loher@gmail.com / www.silvanloher.com

Born: April 2, 1986
Nationalities: Swiss, Norwegian and Italian

EDUCATION

Sep. 2009 – Jan. 2013
Master in Composition and Music Theory
Musikhochschule Basel (Switzerland)

Sep. 2006 – Jun. 2009
Bachelor in Composition and Music Theory
Musikhochschule Basel (Switzerland)

Oct. 2004 – Jun. 2006
Dance Training (Classical and Modern)
Zürich Opera Ballet School (Switzerland)
(Discontinued due to music studies)

Aug. 2000 – Jun. 2004
Upper Secondary School with specialization in Music and Languages
Kantonsschule Schaffhausen (Switzerland)

TEACHING, MASTERCLASSES

Main Composition Teachers: Georg Friedrich Haas, Jakob Ullmann

Masterclasses with: Beat Furrer, Helmut Lachenmann, Thomas Jennefelt, Chaya Czernowin, Wolfram Buchenberg

AWARDS RECEIVED

2013: Finalist and jury’s “special mention” in the composition competition „…a Camillo Togni“ in Brescia (Italy) with clarinet quintet.

PREVIOUS GRANTS RECEIVED

  • Grant from the Arts Council Norway 2021 (40,000 NOK)
  • Working grant for young/newly established artists from the Arts Council Norway (1 year) 2022
  • Working grant from the Composers’ Funds Norway for new song cycle (2023)

MEMBERSHIPS IN:

  • 2013-Present: SONART – Musikschaffende Schweiz
  • 2020-Present: Norwegian Society of Composers
  • 2021-Present: NyMusikk Composers’ Group

PUBLICATIONS

  • CD ”Night, Sleep, Death and the Stars”, Odradek Records, ODRCD353 (2017)
  • CD ”Haller-Lieder” (with several composers), edition.vokalmusik.ch CD 102 (2018)
  • CD ”Music and voice of the Rhyality immersive art” (Works by Silvan Loher and Helena Winkelman) (2020)
  • CD ”Nocturne” (Works by Fauré, De Falla, Debussy, et al., Silvan Loher: Il mare morto), with Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Aaurélie Noll (harp), Yolena Oréa-Sanchez (cello), Solo Musica SM427
  • La musica classica della Norvegia (Italian article on Norwegian classical music), in: Capellari, Simona and Colombo, Giorgio (eds.): Quaderno del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi, XXVI edition – Letteratura Norvegese, Number 18 year 2018, Castel Goffredo 20

ONGOING AND PLANNED PROJECTS

  • Commissioned work for Katharina Gohl Moser (cello, piano)
  • Commissioned work for Ensemble Café Zimmermann, Pablo Valletti (Vocal ensemble and consort of historical instruments)
  • Commissioned work for Trio Avente (oboe, bassoon, piano)
  • „Jeg vil våkne til verden“ – song cycle to poems by Karoline Brændjord for Linnéa Sundfær Casserly
  • Orchestration of song cycle „I den svårmodiga skogen“
  • „Rekviem for utryddede arter“ in collaboration with pianist Marita Kjetland Rabben
  • Opera ”Tragödie Wladimir Majakowski”
  • UTE for chamber orchestra
  • String quartet