Alfons Karl Zwicker

Alfons Karl Zwicker (born 22 April 1952) is a Swiss composer, pianist and painter.
Life.
Born in St. Gallen, Zwicker began as a painter and designer. He created several paintings, which were exhibited between 1973 and 1980. Zwicker then studied piano from 1976 to 1981 with Hadassa Schwimmer at Zurich University of the Arts and from 1983 to 1987 with Werner Bärtschi in Zurich. From 1984 to 1988 he studied musical composition with Rudolf Kelterborn at the City of Basel Music Academy.
Afterwards he first appeared as a Neue Musik interpreter and was active as a song accompanist. In 1987 he founded the International Society for Contemporary Music music podium "Contrapunkt" in St. Gallen to promote contemporary music. He conducted this concert series until 1993.
From 1990 he was active as a composer and in 1993 he attended a master class in Lucerne with the Russian composer Edison Denisov. He then became a member of the composer group Groupe Lacroix in 2000. With them he realized a music project for Paul Klee. In the context of the project he composed for the the work "«Unter dem Grabhügel» ("Under the Grave Mound") for saxophone and orchestra", which was performed with the soloist Vincent Daoud (saxophone) under the direction of Otto Tausk was premiered on 20 February 2015 in the Tonhalle St. Gallen.
He completed a postgraduate course in Arts Management at the University of Basel in 2002 with a Master of Advanced Studies.