* 1960 in Chicago; Sidney Corbett studied music and philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and at Yale University, where he took his doctorate in 1989; from 1985 to 1988 he studied with György Ligeti at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. Since 1985 he has worked mainly in Europe, since 2006 as professor of composition at the Musikhochschule Mannheim. His work comprises stage, orchestral, instrumental and vocal music. The chamber opera “X UND Y” was premiered in February 2002 at the Festival Eclat in Stuttgart, the scenic work “Paradiso” after Dante for female speaker and string quartet likewise in February 2002 in Basel; the opera “NOACH”, to a libretto by Christoph Hein, was first performed at the Bremer Theater in the 2001/02 season. In 2006 Cybele Records released the album Sidney Corbett: Que hora es in paradiso?
Sidney Corbett
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