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First name: Rico
Last name: Gubler
Dates: 1972
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Swiss
Opus name: Weh mir,wo nehm ich, wenn en Winter ist, die Blumen (1997)
Publisher: CDMC
Peculiarities: http://www.musinfo.ch/index.php?content=maske_werke&name=Gubler&vorname=Rico&pers_id=88#3714[ und: http://www.cdmc.asso.fr/fr/ressources/catalogue
Information: Rico Gubler was born on 12 January 1972 in Richterswil near Zurich and passed his baccalaureate in Zurich. He studied Saxophone with Iwan Roth at the music academy in Basel, with Marcel Weiss at the Zurich conservatory, where he attained his teacher's diploma, and with Jean-Michel Goury at the CNR de Boulonge-Billancourt (Premier Prix à  l'unanimité). He has specialised in contemporary music , free improvisation and live electronic performances and was awarded the Studienpreis of the Migros cooperative federation and the Ernst Gähner Foundation in 1997 and 1998. He went on to study composition with Balz Trampy in Basel and Slavatore Sciarrino in Florence and participated in Heinz Holliger's composition course. Rico Gubler has worked in the electronic studios at the music academy in Basel and at the Swiss Centre for Computer Music. He was the winner of the 1996 composition competition of the Zurich chamber speech choir, and was composer in residence at the Arc in Romainmatier in 1997. Rico Gubler has taken part in projects with the Klangforum Wien, the Ensemble varianti Stuttgart, the Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain, the Jerusalem Contemporary Players as well as orchestras such as the Darmstadt opera orchestras, the Munich chamber orchestra and the Neuchatel chamber orchestra. He has also performed as a saxophonist in a number of chamber music formations such as the Trio lepic, Cattrall, the electronic ensemble strom, and Katarakt. He has performed in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden, Poland, Britain and Israel. Rico Gubler is the founder and artistic director of the concert series musica moderna in Wadenswil. (www153.pair.com)