German composer of electroacoustic music. Born in 1964, he studied composition, electroacoustic music, piano and conducting at the Meistersingerkonservatorium Nürnberg, with Vivienne Olive and Werner Andreas Albert among others, then composition with Günther Becker in Düsseldorf; a scholarship took him to Salvatore Sciarrino in Città di Castello. He took his artistic final examination at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen with Nicolaus A. Huber (composition) and Dirk Reith (electroacoustic music). In 1988 he became musical director at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal and founded the new music ensemble go ahead. In 1996, in Brussels, he founded the cie. toula limnaios with the choreographer Toula Limnaios; it moved to Berlin in 1997 and has worked at the Halle Tanzbühne Berlin since 2003, where he is composer and artistic director. In 2012 the company received the George-Tabori-Preis des Fonds Darstellende Künste. His opera “car crash”, composed together with Willy Daum, was first performed at the Staatsoper Hannover in 2002. Three albums connect him with Cybele, divided between the two series with which the label documents this field: ex machina with tangent (1996) and The Nineties (2001), and the DEGEM volume LeiseLaute (1997).
Ralf R. Ollertz
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