Florian Magnus Maier

Born in Munich in 1973; Florian Magnus Maier is a composer and guitarist. From 1994 to 1997 he studied flamenco guitar with Paco Pena, and from 1995 to 2001 composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatory, where he graduated cum laude in 2001. In 2001 and 2002 he was a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center. He received the composition prize of the Rotterdam Conservatory in 2001 and, in 2002, the Paul Jacobs Memorial Award at Tanglewood and an encouragement award within the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize in Amsterdam. His works have been performed by the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Asko Ensemble and the Nieuw Ensemble, among others. Besides orchestral and chamber music, electronics, film and dance scores, he combines contemporary music with other genres, for instance in the crossover ensemble The Hungry Gods and in the metal bands Noneuclid, Dark Fortress and Alkaloid, in which he plays guitar and sings. On the Cybele album New Dutch Guitar Music (2005) he is represented as a composer with “Crystal Vermin” (1999) for amplified guitar and the “Toccata” (2002) for amplified guitar and delay.