Katharina Rosenberger
Composition Jury 2026
Biography
Composer Katharina Rosenberger is Professor of Composition at the Haute école de musique de Genève and co-director of the SONIC MATTER Festival in Zurich. She regards the act of music-making as intertwined with its environment, inherently social and anti-hierarchical. Her work questions traditional ways of producing, performing, and experiencing music. Rosenberger has received numerous awards, including the 2023 Swiss Music Award, the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Mediaprojects/Sitemapping Award from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture in Bern.
August 2026 - Full biography on krosenberger.ch
Events
Joint final for the Composition and Conducting Competitions: the three finalist conductors will, by drawing lots, conduct one of the three finalist works for symphony orchestra from the Composition Competition, performed by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
Finalist works :
SING-YAT CHEN (26, Hong Kong)
Shattered sky / remaining land
HANURIJ LEE (21, South Korea)
Stuff #1
RAFAEL MARINO ARCARO (37, Brazil / Italy)
invention in language of child, op. 22
The final is followed by the Composition Competition Awards Ceremony.