Otfried Büsing

* 1955 in Delmenhorst; Otfried Büsing studied composition, music theory, church music and school music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover from 1974 to 1982 and graduated in 1983 from the master class of Alfred Koerppen. After teaching music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, he was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in 1991; he has lived in Freiburg im Breisgau ever since. He held fellowships from the Mozart-Stiftung Frankfurt (1985–1987) and the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome (1988/89), and in 2000 he received the church music composition prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg. His work ranges from the chamber opera “Picknick im Felde” after Fernando Arrabal (1997) and the opera “as dreams are made on” after Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” (2014) to the Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (2001) and sacred music: “Und ich erzähle” (1993), a Passion account after Mark in Walter Jens’s translation that completes Bach’s St Mark Passion BWV 247, and the cantata “Adonai”, premiered in 2009 at the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag in Bremen Cathedral. “Psalmen des Lichts” (2014) for two five-part choirs, three vocal soloists and instrumental ensemble is among the premieres and first performances of the Bachchor Stuttgart (2014/15). His works are published by edition gravis in Berlin.