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Nora Vetter
viola, performance, composition, improviations, interventions, installations, curation, text
Nora is a contemporary music performer, imporvisor and composer and curator. She studied contemporary music performance at Zone éxperimentale Basel and is part of Kulturbrauerei Kollektiv, Semblance [FR], sonic space basel, mutual support duo, Gelbes Haus Luzern, forum neue musik luzern, and Echolot Festival Kollektiv. Most of her work is developped sightspecific or performerspecific, in close relation to the history and context of spaces and participants. Collaborations with visual artists like Katrin Keller and Pia Matthes, collective developement and creation of performative interventions and longterm relationships with other creators of various fields are an important part of her practise, which she understands as creating and nourishing a network of cooperation and support of creativity from individual instrumentalists and friends to institutions and DIY organisations. Nora performs in various setting like art exhibitions, solo and group improvisations, from experimental and classical contemporary music to pop and jazz, theatre, mixed media projects and all things in between.
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Upcoming concerts/performances:
- 27. Feburary 2026 Heitere Fahne Bern
Goodbye Lullabies with Meret Siebenhaar und Klara Germanier
- 2.-8. March 2026 Cheesmayer Sissach
Residenz Carte Blanche der IGNM Basel mit Matina Lussi, Manuel Troller, Tapiwa Svosve
4. March 2026 Talk @ Cheesmayer Sissach
7. March Showing @ Cheesmayer Sissach
- 1o. March 2026 Gwärbi Luzern
Guest, with Hobo Ho
- 13. March 2026 Neubad Pool Luzern
Album release Goodbye Lullabies with Meret Siebenhaar und Klara Germanier
- 25. March 2026 Neubad Pool, Kinderkonzert
Liverté with Semblance, including Paper Orchestra Workshop
- 3. April 2026 Mullbau Luzern
Alice Trost Solo
Selected Works:
Goodbye Lullabies
Album by Meret Siebenhaar, with Klara Germanier
release March 2026
Alice Trost
Album, sectretly self-released 2025
patch work
Composition, comissioned by Rubén Bañuelos
winner of the Migros Double Mentor Programme 2023
for solo drumset, premiered Sept 2024, Neofonia Festival Ensenada MX
As part of the project This weighltess flesh is our relative with Rubén Bañuelos and Fernando Amaya
dark matter
Composition, commissioned by Hannah Wirnsperger and Daniil Gorokhov
for bass flute, bass trombone and electronics premiered Sept 2024 in Lichtenstein
Ein Sauberes Ende
Composition, commisioned by Lucerne Festival Forward
Performative Intervention, premiered Nov 2022
Ein Sauberes Ende was the closing piece of Lucerne Festival Forward 2022. A participary project combining teh celebration of often underrated, "female" and "lower class" associated work like cleaning with the beauty of object music and the excitement of perceiving a well known room through the inventive use of bodies and sounds in space.
(ver)graben
artistic direction and concept, with latenz ensemble, a part of INNEREIEN 2022
Walking concert inside the Zivilschutzanlage Sonnenberg Luzern, a civil bunker built during the cold war. Four commissions by local composers, combined with multiple transducer-sound-intalltions for historical context and light concept designed by scenographer Pia Mattes using lights that are usually used in bunkers and construction sites, (ver)graben digs into swiss self understanding; the perception of bunkers a safe space and a hideout for secrets usually ignored.
Dream Paralysis
Composition, commisioned by latenz ensemble
Multimedia Piece for ensemble, lights and electronics, premiered Oct 2021
Dream Paralysis is a deep dive into the seeping mind of collective consciousness, tingeling the senses and evoking the uneasy feeling of staring to deep into the loophole of everyday life's nightmares. The void is not empty. Based on sleep cycles, lighting, movement, breath and sound transcend to create a caleidoscope of shattered memories.
SoloSolo
Album released with Kulturbrauerei Kollektiv Luzern
As the first of two conceptually entangled albums, SoloSolo is a collection of miniatures by the players of Kulturbraurei. in TuttiTutti, these miniatures get combined.
Austausch
premiered at attacca Festival 2021
for quartett and flashlights
Using morse code, kkkLLLkkk is based on wishes collected during the COVID pandemic. A form of silent cry, the piece transcends language into visual rhythms.
for quartett and flashlights
Using morse code, kkkLLLkkk is based on wishes collected during the COVID pandemic. A form of silent cry, the piece transcends language into visual rhythms.
Brotbrotbrotbrot
premiered at Alpentöne Festival 2019
At its high time, the old silo of Altdorf was a wheat storage supplying more than half the population of Switzerland. Now it is a gallery for contemorary art in a country where around a third of the entrire food is wasted. In Brotbrotbrotbrot, the insanity of the excess and social structures relying on greed are put ad absurdum in a race for bread falling from the ceiling. Contrasting this performance of exhaustion are traditional european songs that sing about food, baking and bread.
premiered at Alpentöne Festival 2019
At its high time, the old silo of Altdorf was a wheat storage supplying more than half the population of Switzerland. Now it is a gallery for contemorary art in a country where around a third of the entrire food is wasted. In Brotbrotbrotbrot, the insanity of the excess and social structures relying on greed are put ad absurdum in a race for bread falling from the ceiling. Contrasting this performance of exhaustion are traditional european songs that sing about food, baking and bread.
premiered at Alpentöne Festival 2019, in collaboration with Asia Ahmetjanova
A piece that opens up questions about our incapabilities of imagining large quantites of time and the possibilities of dreaming about a future where mankind is not anymore a dominant force on Earth.
Selected Projects & Performances:
SAMMLUNG
with Semblance
Commissions by Frédéric Durieux and Nathaniel Oatley, in collaboration with Radio France, IRCAM Paris, Fondation Royaumont, Schola Heidelberg
"concert du soir" 22. October 2025
the dispersed parts of ourselves
with Semblance, recording for radio
Commission by Ihlara McIndoe, in collaboration with "Création mondiale" by Radio France, 20.-26. October 2025
Alice Trost
long term sight specific solo performance project with live and prerecorded viola, analogue electronics and various extensions
Goodbye Lullabies
mit Meret Siebenhaar und Klara Germanier, 2024
This weightless flesh is our relative tour, Sept-Oct. 2024
with Rubén Bañuelos and Fernando Amaya. Concerts in Mexico and Switzerland incl. premiere at Neofonia Festoval Ensenada.
Fête à Bruit 2024 Festival, Biel, 2024
Project with Semblance, incl installation from Julie Zhu and mediation workshop, France 2024
ULYSSES Ensemble for 2023
in collaboration with ULYSSES platform, IRCAM, Manifest Festival, Centre Pompoidou, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Divertimento, Fondation Foyaumont
(video will come soon)
GIER
Schauspielhaus Zürich, Christopher Rüping, Christoph Hart
2023
Festival Voix Nouvelles, Fondation Royaumont, France 2023
with Semblance, premiere of The Diggers by Julie Zhu for Ensemble and open air multichannel setup
8.-10. Sept 2023
No Ordinary Festival for Improvisation, Thessaloniki
Asia Ahmetjanova, commissioned by Ensemble Ö!
For ensemble, solo viola and conductor, premiered Oct 2022
Share Fest @ Aarhus Jazz Festival 2022
Festival for improvisation
OVERLOAD: WUT
Kollektiv Kulturbrauerei @ Neubad Luzern Sept 2021
Collective concepts and experimental composition and performances connected to rage.
Felix Nussbaumer, premiered Sept 2021
for saxophone, viola, electronics and video
for Silke Strahl and Nora Vetter
Abbeye Royaumont, with premieres of pieces by Alberto Carretero and Sergio Redrigo and a collaboration with Simon Steeh Andersen
Alwynne Pritchard, 2021 for physical performer
adapted in exchange and with immense gratitude wo Alwynne Pritchard
Marco Colonna, 2019
for Nora Vetter
grphically noted improvisation
Black Angels
Geroge Crumb, 1976
in collaboration with FHNW Basel and Thater Basel, Oct 2020
Festival Alpentöne 2019
site specific long term untervention with HSLu Luzern and Urban Mäder
@ Nora Vetter, 2024
all right reserved
Photo: @ Lucas Dubuis
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