Born in Dresden in 1941; Wilfried Jentzsch is a composer of electroacoustic music. At the music academy of his home town he studied cello and composition, as a master student at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin he worked with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Paul Dessau, and he studied electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert at the Musikhochschule Köln. From 1976 to 1981 he lived in Paris, studied with Iannis Xenakis at the Sorbonne, where he took his doctorate in music aesthetics, and carried out research on digital sound synthesis at IRCAM and CEMAMu. In 1983 he founded a private computer music studio in Nuremberg and taught at the Meistersinger-Konservatorium; in 1993 he became head of the electronic studio of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden. He is a member of the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik and a founding member of DEGEM, and from 1995 he chaired the Sächsische Gesellschaft für Neue Musik; he has received international prizes for his compositions, among others in Bourges, and in 1994 the portrait CD “Paysages” was released. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 4 – Ausbruch Aufbruch (1998) he is represented with “Kyoto Bells” (1994), commissioned for the 1200th anniversary of the city of Kyoto and premiered there on 4 December 1994; the piece is based on four sampled bells of Kyoto and moves its sounds through space over eight loudspeakers.
Wilfried Jentzsch
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