Gubler Rico Hochschule der Künste Bern
Ostermundigenstrasse 103
Fachbereichsleitung Musik
CH-3006 Bern
Schweiz Tel: +41 786 51 65
Genre: Classical Music
Professional activity: Composers, Improvisers, Interpreters, Authors
Biography
* 12. 01. 1972.
- Saxophone studies under the tutelage of Iwan Roth at the Basel Academy of Music, Marcus Weiss at Zurich Conservatory and Jean-Michel Goury in Paris
- Specialised in contemporary music, free improvisation and live electronic performances
- Received the Migros Fellowship Prize in 1997 and the Ernst Göhner Foundation Prize in 1998
- Studied composition under the tutelage of Balz Trümpy in Basel and Salvatore Sciarrino in Florence
- Prix du Club de mécénat suisse en France 1998
- Culture Prize of the canton of Zurich in 1999
- Stipend at the Künstlerhof Schreyahn in 2001
- Landis and Gyr composition stipend at London's Royal Academy in 2001/02
- Sabbatical year from the city of Zurich 2004
- Interpretation with the Catrall ensemble in 2005
- Stipend from the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll-Dürr Foundation
Rico Gubler has taught saxophone at the Music School of Lugano since 2004.
Work list
Fünf Studien für Klavier in sechs Sätzen (1994-1995)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, saxophone, violin, violoncello and piano
Quartet for bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano [vetro] (3')Quintet [incontro] (2')Quartet for clarinet, baritone saxophone, violin and violoncello [with bundled energy] (1'45)Solo violin with accompaniment [like eternally broken glass] (4')Quintet II [Melody granulated] (2'30)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, saxophone, violin, violoncello, and piano
Duo for violin and violoncello [battuto – roughly a dance] (2')
Trio for clarinet, soprano saxophone and violin [approximately] (2'15)
Duo for clarinet and violoncello [mute ballet from billiard balls] (2')
Solo for clarinet (with additional instrumentation) [uneasy, murky] (2')
Trio for violin, violoncello and piano [inside pulsating] (2')
Quartet for bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, violoncello, and piano with poco solo violin [conspicuously quiet] (2')
Instrumentation: for clarinet, saxophone, violin, violoncello and piano
Trio for clarinet, tenor saxophone, and violoncello [too coarsely assembled, rupturing] (2')Quartet for clarinet, tenor saxophone, violin and piano [inert, of stone and columns] (2')Quintet [somewhat course, in the interstice] (1'45)Duo for violoncello and piano [reserved, singing I] (2')Duo for clarinet and tenor saxophone [linear, with defiance] (2'30)Duo violin and piano [reserved, singing II] (2')
Instrumentation: for clarinet, saxophone, violin, violoncello and piano
Quintet [Impulse, a choice] (2')Solo for violoncello [circling the resistance] (2'45)Quartet for clarinet, tenor saxophone, violoncello and piano [muted screaming] (2')Duo for baritone saxophone and violoncello [deep ground] (2')Duo for clarinet and piano [... and a waltz] (1'45)Duo for violin and soprano saxophone [exercise for the death of agogics] (2'30)
Instrumentation: for soprano, transverse flute, tenor gamba and harpsichord
Texts: Montéclair
Duration: 10' 00" Manuscript
Alphée et Aréthuse (2003)
Instrumentation: for soprano and tenor gamba
Texts: Anonymus
Duration: 4' 00" Manuscript
Chaconne (2003)
After Johann Joachim Quantz
Instrumentation: for speaker, transverse flute, tenor gamba and harpsichord
Duration: 4' 00" Manuscript
martersongs (book of crimes 3) (2003-2004)
Instrumentation: for oboe solo
Duration: 8' 00" Manuscript
Theatermusik zu "Die Töchter von Taubenhain" von Peter Stamm (theatre music to "Die Töchter von Taubenhain" by Peter Stamm) (2004)
7 Lieder
Instrumentation: for alto and piano
Texts: Joseph von Eichendorff, Gottfried August Bürger, Clemens Brentano, Johan Olof wallin
Auf meines Kindes Tod (Eichendorff)
Des Pfarrers Tochter von Taubenhain (Bürger)
Im Abendrot (Eichendorff)
Jäger und Jägerin (Eichendorff)
Muttertändelei (Bürger)
Wenn der Sturm das Meer umschlinget (Brentano)
Wo ist der Freund (Wallin)
Duration: 18' 00" Manuscript
Turnaround (2005)
Instrumentation: for wind and string quintet (fl.ob.cl.bn/hn/2.1.1.1)