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The American / Swiss Composer Daniel Laubacher makes his home in
Muri bei Bern, Switzerland. He grew up in Southern California, is
married and has two children. Laubacher received his B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
in music composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB) where he studied composition with Peter Racine Fricker and Emma
Lou Diemer and conducing with Varujan Kojian. In addition, he studied
with the Viennese composer Alfred Uhl at the Hochschule (now
Universität) für Musik in Vienna.
A certified and creative music educator, Daniel Laubacher has over a
decade of experience working with children and young people between the
ages of 4 and 18 in the international school environment (London,
Kuwait, Vienna, Bern). He has lectured a wide variety of music courses
(i.e., Vienna composers, music appreciation, theory, counterpoint,
survey of opera, conducting, etc.) regularly in the Vienna Study Abroad
Programs of several U.S. universitites. He founded the Danube Cultural
Institute in Vienna (DCIV) and has set up music departments for
international schools, developed orchestras, and has organised dozens of
performances from school productions to large benefit concerts.
Please have a look and listen to Daniel Laubacher's
school musicals,
songs
and
podcasts for children,
his childrens opera (Analykah),
musical (Company
Policy - Concession in a Recession),
orchestra music (The Snow Queen, The Essence of Simplicity,
Ricercar, and Zärtliche Liebe) as well as a selected list of recent
compositions by clicking in the menu to the left.
Have a listen to some of Daniel Laubacher's music:
 
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New Works
Turning Carbon into Gold
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If we don't play by her (Mother
Nature's) Rules
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Guggisberg Variations
Variations based on a melancholic Swiss
melody
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Company Policy: Concession in a
Recession
- a Musical Irony -
Finally finished after years of stop and go work!
Takes place in Vienna during the global recession of 2008 / 2009.
Full synopsis, musical samples available.
Full Details
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