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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). 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 for a variety of American universities.
He founded the Danube Cultural Institute in
Vienna (DCIV), has set up music departments for international
schools, developed orchestras, and has organised dozens of
performances from school productions to large benefit concerts.
Currently Laubacher works as part-time music teacher at the
International School of Berne in Switzerland and is also
focusing on his creative work as a freelance composer.
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With the
hopes of sounding "new" and "fresh", I aim to compose
music which is melodious, clear in structure and
accessible for the listener yet challenging and
satisfying for the performer. While continuously seeking
new resources, I have no problem with referring to music
of previous eras as well as drawing ideas from a variety
of stylistic directions.
Daniel
Laubacher |
Daniel Laubacher is a member of the
AKM which is
the performing rights organisation for composers and writers in
Austria. |
