born 17th August 1974 - Innsbruck/Austria1994 – 2001 composition studies at the Vienna Musikhochschule
with Michael Jarrell (composition),
Dieter Kaufmann (electro accoustic composition),
Iván Eröd (harmony and counterpoint) and with
Hanspeter Kyburz at the Hanns Eisler-Hochschule
für Musik in Berlin;
Masterclass with Brian Ferneyhough and Alois Pinos;
Studies in Philosophy and Musicology;
Co-founder of the composers group Gegenklang in Vienna 1999/2000 Fellowship of the Alban Berg Stiftung 2000 Publishing contract with Universal Edition;
First Prize of Hanns Eisler Kompositionswettbewerb Berlin 2001 Special music prize from the Austrian Republic 2002 Composition Award from the der Salzburger Osterfestspiele 2003 International Rostrum of Composers 2003: First Price for Polygon
(category: composers under 30 years) 2003/2004 Fellowship of the Foundation Heinrich Strobel, SWR Freiburg/D 2004 Grant Winner of the Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikstiftung 2005 Première of Apeiron. Music for Large Orchestra with
Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Ratle in Berlin 2006 Austrian State Composers' Scholarship;
First performance of Segue. Music for Violoncello and Orchestra
with Vienna Philharmonic, Heinrich Schiff and Daniel Barenboim
at Salzburg Festival (Opening Concert);
Featured guest-composer at Tanglewood Music Festival 2007–2009 Daniel Lewis Young Composer Fellowship of the Cleveland Orchestra 2009 Paul Hindemith-Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Performances:
Australia, Austria (amongst others: Wiener Festwochen, Konzerthaus Wien (Wien modern, Hörgänge), Musikverein Wien, Salzburg Festival, Salzburg Easter Festival, musikprotokoll Graz, Klangspuren Schwaz, Bregenz Festival, Tiroler Festspiele Erl), Belgium (Ars Musica Brussels, Transit Festival Leuven), Germany (amongst others: Berliner Festspiele, Biennale Munich, Musiktriennale Cologne, Philharmonie Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Philharmonie Cologne, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Oper Heidelberg, Kammermusiktage Witten, Eclat Festival Stuttgart, Ultraschall Festival Berlin, Darmstadt Ferienkurse), Estonia, Finland (Musica Nova), France (amonst others: Paris (Festival Présences, Cité de la Musique), Musica Strasbourg), Great Britain (amonst others: Barbican Centre, CBSO-Centre, Huddersfield Festival, Maida Vale-Studios, Wigmore Hall), Italy (a.o.: Venice Biennale, Taiettore Festival Parma), Japan (a.o. Suntory Symphony Hall Tokyo), Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Latvia (Arena Festival), Lituania (Gaida Festival), Netherlands (a.o.: Gaudeamus Festival), Norway, Poland (Warsaw Autumn), Portugal (Casa de Musica), Russia, Switzerland (a.o.: Europäischer Musikmonat Basel, Archipel Festival Geneva), Slowenia, Spain, Hungary, Czech Republic, USA (a.o.: Cleveland, Tanglewood, New York, Miami, Spoleto Festival), Venezuela. Orchestras:
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, SWR- Symphonieorchester Baden-Baden/Freiburg, WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne, Symphony Orchestra Bavarian Radio, Radio-Symphonieorchester Vienna, Holland Symphonia, New World Symphony Orchestra, NHK Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Heidelberg Symphonic Orchestra, Ljublijana Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Philharmonic.
Ensembles:
ASKO-Ensemble, Avanti!Ensemble, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Kontrapunkte, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble 20. Jahrhundert, Klangforum Wien, Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, Remix Ensemble Porto, die reihe, Scharoun-Ensemble Berlin, Tiroler Ensemble für Neue Musik, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Windkraft Tirol, WDR-Chor Köln.
Soloists:
amongst others: Korbinian Altenberger, Valdine Anderson, Irvine Arditti, Matthias Bundschuh, Uwe Dierksen, Marino Formenti, Viviane Hagner, Richard Haynes, Roger Heaton, Petra Hoffmann, Hugo Wolff-Quartett, Nina Janßen, Otto Katzameier, Kläring Quartett, Piia Komsi, Ernst Kovacic, Katja Lämmermann, Thomas Larcher, Jenny Lin, Jan Michiels, Dorothee Mields, Ernesto Molinari, Hiroshi Nagao, Heikki Nikula, Keisuke Okazaki, Harald Ossberger, Ian Pace, Jonathan Powell, Heinrich Schiff, Martin Schwab, Anne-Carolyn Schlüter, Caroline Stein, Tamara Stefanovich, Petra Stump, Mário Teixeira, Nicole Tibbels, Marteen Van Veen, Anika Vavic, Marcus Weiss, Carolin Widmann, Christine Whittlesey.
Conductors:
amongst others: Stefan Asbury, Daniel Barenboim, Bertrand de Billy, Michael Boder, Martyn Brabbins, Peter Burwik, Sylvain Cambreling, Dennis Russell Davies, Sian Edwards, Mark Foster, Beat Furrer, HK Gruber, Johannes Kalitzke, Peter Keuschnig, Roland Kluttig, James MacMillan, Diego Masson, Andris Nelsons, Franck Ollu, Roland Peelman, Emilio Pomarico, Sir Simon Rattle, Kasper de Roo, Henrik Schäfer, Dmitri Slobodeniouk, Ed Spanjaard, Markus Stenz, Pierre-André Valade, Jürg Wyttenbach, Franz Welser-Möst, Lothar Zagrosek, Noam Zur.
List of Works: Bewegungen for solo piano, 1996, 8‘, WP: Wien, 28 April 1997 (Marcel Reuter) Die Ebene for speaker and ensemble (hn, 2 trbn, 2 perc, pf, 2 vc, db) after a text by Hans Arp, 1997, 12‘, WP: Innsbruck, 6 October 1997 (soloists of the Tirol Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck, Johannes Nikolussi – speaker, Othmar Costa – conductor) Dichotomie for string quartet, 1997/98, 16‘, WP: Erl Festival, 28 July 1999 (Hugo Wolf-Quartet) Black Moon for solo bass clarinet, 1998, 11‘, WP: Klangspuren Schwaz, 18 September 1998 (Ernesto Molinari) Vielleicht zunächst wirklich nur for soprano and 6 instruments (b fl, tpt, perc, hp, va, db), 6 miniatures after texts by Max Bense, 1999, 8‘, WP: Wien, 13 April 2000 (Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Christine Whittlesey – soprano, Stefan Asbury – conductor) der kleinste abstand zwischen zwei gegenständen for 16-vv chorus unacc. after visual texts by Heinz Gappmayr, 1999, 6‘, WP: Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, 4 May 2001(WDR-Rundfunkchor Köln, Roland Peelman – conductor) ... gleichsam als ob ... for orchestra (3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – 5 perc – pf – hp – 14.12.10.8.6), 1999/2000, 17‘, WP: Klangspuren Schwaz, 20 September 2000 (RSO Wien, Dennis Russell Davies – conductor) Incipit for trombone and 5 instruments (fl/a fl, ob/eng hn, hn, perc, vc), 2000, 11‘, WP: Festival Présences Paris, 10 February 2001 (Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Uwe Dierksen – trombone, Franck Ollu – conductor) A map is not the territory for ensemble (1.1.2.1 – 2.1.1 – 3 perc – pf – acc – 2.2.2.1), 2001, 18‘, WP: Europäischer Musikmonat Basel, Paul-Sacher-Halle, 30 November 2001 (Klangforum Wien, Ed Spanjaard – conductor) Esquisse retouchée (Incipit II) for solo trombone (with bass drum), 2001/2002, 9‘, WP: Klangspuren Schwaz, 15 September 2002 (Uwe Dierksen) Polygon music for piano and orchestra (3.2.2.2 sax/3 – 3 Wagner tb.3.2.1 – 4 perc – acc - hp – 12.10.8.6.5), 2002, 12‘, WP: Musikverein Wien, 11 October 2002 (RSO Wien, Thomas Larcher – piano, Bertrand De Billy – conductor) Configurations/Reflet for 8 instrumentalists (ob/eng hn, cl/b cl (with hi-hat), bn, hn (with bass drum), 2vn (2. with bass drum), va (with hi-hat), vc), 2002, 10‘, WP: Philharmonie Berlin, 22 October 2002 (Scharoun-Ensemble, Henrik Schaefer – conductor) Berenice. Lied vom Verschwinden for soprano, small ensemble and tape, text by Durs Grünbein, 2003, 12’, WP: Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, 10 May 2003 (Klangforum Wien, Petra Hofmann - soprano, Emilio Pomarico - conductor) Berenice (music theatre), scoring – 2 actors, 3 singers, 8-voice vocal ensemble, ensemble (1/0/1/0-sax-1/2/1/1-2perc-harm-pno-2/2/2/1), tape and live-electronics (realized at the Experimental Studio of the Foundation Heinrich Strobel, SWR in Freiburg); 2003/2004, Durs Grünbein - libretto, Claus Guth - director, Stefan Asbury - conductor, Klangforum Wien; WP: Biennale Munich, 12 May 2004; coproduction with Vienna Festival and Berlin Festival Apeiron. Musik für großes Orchester for large orchestra (4/4/4/4 – 6/4/4/1 – 6 perc – 2 hrf, pno(cel) – 16/14/12/10/8), 2004/2005, 21’, WP: Berlin Philharmonie, 15 June 2005 (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle - conductor) Peras. Musik für Klavier for piano solo, 2004/2005, 8’, WP: Piano Festival Ruhr, Schloss Herten/D, 20 June 2005 (Anika Vavic, pn) Arie am Rand alter Bücher for baritone, piano, bamboo chimes and tape, text by Durs Grünbein, 2005, 4’, WP: Austrian Cultural Forum London, 19 May, 2005 (Clemens Kölbl – baritone, Mary Dullea - piano and bamboo chimes) Violent Incidents (Hommage à Bruce Nauman) for saxophone solo, wind band (3 fl, 3 fg, 2 hrn, 3 trp, 3 pos, tb) and percussionists (2), 2005, 13’, WP: Klangspuren Schwaz, 10 September 2005 (Windkraft Tirol, Marcus Weiss -saxophone, Kaspar de Roo - conductor) Incipit III (Esquisse retouchée II) for trombone, string orchestra (10/10/8/6/4), 2 horns and percussion, 2005, 14’, WP: Cologne Philharmonie, 10 March 2006 (WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Uwe Dierksen – trombone, Lothar Zagrosek - conductor) Segue. Musik für Violoncello und Orchester for cello and orchestra, 2006, 19’, UA: 23.7.2006, Salzburg Festival/Opening concert, Großes Festspielhaus (Vienna Philharmonic, Heinrich Schiff - cello, Daniel Barenboim - conductor) Portugal for percussion solo, 2006, 6’, WP: Musica Strasbourg, 24 September 2006, (Mário Teixeira – percussion) One Movement and Five Miniatures for harpsicord, live-electronics and ensemble 2006/2007, WP: 22 April 2007 in Birmingham, commissioned by: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Ilan Volkov - conductor, Clive Williamson, hpsd)
Berenice. Suite 1 for ensemble and tape 2003 / 2004-2006, 20'
Berenice. Suite 2 for orchestra 2003 / 2004-2006, 10'
WP 31 May 2007 in Hamburg, commissioned by: das neue werk Hamburg (Ensemble Modern, Franck Ollu - conductor)
Sydenham. Music for flute, viola and harp 2007, WP: 15 June 2007 Aldeburgh Festival, commissioned by: Aldeburgh Festival, Europäisches Forum Alpbach (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group) Im Lichte for 2 pianos and orchestra, 2008, 20’, WP: 31 January 2008, Mozarteum Salzburg (Camerata Academica Salzburg, Jonathan Nott, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Tamara Stefanovich) Lagrein for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 2008, 13’, WP: 23 May 2008, Vineyard Löwengang, Magreid (Italy) (Viviane Hagner, vln, Martin Fröst, clar, Peter Wispelwey, vlc, Thomas Larcher, pno), commissioned by: Swarovski Kristallwelten, Alois Lageder Segue. Music for violoncello and orchestra (revised version 2008), WP: 20 February 2009, Konzerthaus Berlin (Germany), (Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek – conductor) On Comparative Meteorology for orchestra, 2008/2009, WP: 28 May 2009, Cleveland/USA (Cleveland Orchestra, Franz-Welser-Möst – conductor), commissioned by: Cleveland Orchestra One Movement and Five Miniatures for cembalo, live electronics and ensemble, 2006/2009, WP of new version: 10 October 2009, Graz (Austria), (Klangforum Wien, Rolf Gupta – conductor, Florian Müller, hpsc, Peter Böhm, electr.)
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