Urban Mäder, 1955, lives in Lucerne CH. Composer and improviser (piano, voice, melodica, requisites). Projects in the field of sound art as well as space- or landscape-related compositions and performances. Founder of the Forum Neue Musik Luzern. Paris studio of the Canton of Aargau 1993. London studio of the Landis & Gyr Foundation 2014. Teaching and research activities at the Hochschule Luzern - Musik (piano and group improvisation, music and art performance). Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne 2018. www.urbanmaeder.ch