Composer · b. 1970
Nadir Vassena
Biography
Nadir Vassena (born 1970) is a Swiss composer whose work encompasses chamber and electronic music, theatre, performance and dance. He studied composition with Bruno Zanolini in Milan and Johannes Schöllhorn in Freiburg, and attended Brian Ferneyhough’s composition course at Royaumont in 1993.
His distinctions include awards from the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the Berlin Hochschule der Künste, the Salzburg Mozart competition and the Christoph Delz Foundation. He has held residencies at Schloss Solitude and the Swiss Institute in Rome, and received a Swiss Music Prize in 2015. From 2004 to 2011 he co-directed the Tage für Neue Musik Zürich with guitarist Mats Scheidegger. His teaching includes composition at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana. Primo discorso eretico sulla leggerezza dei chiodi, written for Scheidegger and Harry Sparnaay, opens Enantiosemie.