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Michael Heisch (born 20 May 1963) is a Swiss composer, double bass player, cultural critic and illustrator.
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Michael Heisch (born 20 May 1963) is a Swiss composer, double bass player, cultural critic and illustrator.
Heisch was born in 1963 in Schaffhausen as son of the writer and satirist Peter Heisch. From the age of seven he received piano lessons from Henri Chappat. He first completed an apprenticeship as an advertising assistant. From 1980, Heisch took private double bass lessons with Bruno Brandenberger. From 1981 to 1984 he then studied with Yoan Goilav at the Winterthur Conservatory, from 1989 to 1991 with Hämi Hämmerli at the St. Gallen Jazz School and from 1991 with Andreas Cincera at the Zurich University of the Arts. From 1990 to 1991 he simultaneously completed a preliminary course at the School for Design in Romanshorn. [1]
From 1990 to 1994 Heisch studied theory with Martin Neukom and Christian Bänninger at the School of Music Theory in Zurich as well as composition with Hans Ulrich Lehmann and choral conducting and conducting with Christian Siegmann and Johannes Schöllhorn. From 1994 to 1995 he studied synthetic sound analysis with Gerald Bennett at the Zurich Conservatory. From 1998 to 2002 he then studied composition with Johannes Schöllhorn and Mathias Steinauer at the Zurich-Winterthur University of Music and Drama. [2]
Heisch lives as a composer and cultural journalist in Zurich. As a double bass player he has already worked with the musicians Luigi Archetti , Sebastian Hofmann, Mart Lorenz and M. Vänçi Stirnemann. He is a member of the composers' collective of the Swiss Centre for Computer Music (SZCM), Member of the Board of the International Society for Contemporary Music, Zurich section and the Forum for Contemporary Music ADESSO. [3]
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