Born in Hamburg in 1973; Carl Christian Bettendorf is a composer and conductor. He studied composition at the music academies in Munich and Karlsruhe with Hans-Jürgen von Bose and Wolfgang Rihm as well as with Tristan Murail at Columbia University in New York, where he took the Doctor of Musical Arts in 2009. He lives in New York and holds a teaching post at Rowan University in New Jersey. His opera “Escorial” was premiered in Munich in 1997; his works have been performed on four continents. As a conductor he worked with Wet Ink, Talea Ensemble, piano possibile and the Ostravska banda and conducted the first French performance of Elliott Carter’s “What Next?” at the Opéra national de Montpellier. He received a DAAD scholarship as well as residency grants from the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, the Villa Concordia in Bamberg and the MacDowell Colony. The Cybele album piano possibile (2000) contains a work of his.
Carl Christian Bettendorf
Composer
