Johannes Kreidler

Born in Esslingen in 1980; Johannes Kreidler is a composer. From 2000 to 2006 he studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, composition with Mathias Spahlinger and Orm Finnendahl and music theory with Eckehard Kiem, and in 2004/05 sonology and computer music at the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague; he also attended seminars in philosophy and art history at the University of Freiburg. From 2006 he taught at the music academies in Rostock, Detmold, Hanover and Hamburg, and in 2018 at the Darmstadt Summer Courses; since 2019 he has been professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Basel. His honours include first prize at the German Hochschulwettbewerb in 2004, the Operare music theatre prize in 2009, the Deutscher Musikautorenpreis in the young talent category in 2010 and the Kranichstein Music Prize in 2012. He became known for conceptual works such as “Product Placements” (2008), “Charts Music” (2009) and “Audioguide” (2014); an opera followed in 2018. In 2009 his book “Loadbang” on programming with Pure Data appeared, alongside three volumes of essays published by Wolke Verlag (2009, 2012, 2018). In the Cybele catalogue he appears on DEGEM Vol. 9 – Orpheus 400 (2007) with “Kontinuum mit Melodie” (2007) and on the audiobook Mirjam Wiesemann: Weht ein Stadtspaziergang durch den Traum (2014).