Christoph Renhart
*28 October 1987
Works by Christoph Renhart
Biography
Christoph Renhart (* 28.10.1987 in Graz) graduated in composition and music education (piano) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with distinction. His principal teachers were Richard Dünser (composition), Christiana Perai and Annamária Bodoky-Krause (piano). He has received important inspiration from Matthias Pintscher and Brad Lubman at the composer-conductiong workshop «INK STILL WET» at the Grafenegg Festival.
Renhart‘s works have been frequently staged by renowned musicians and ensembles. His music was played by the Brussels Philharmonic, the Tonkuenstler Orchestra, the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Klangforum Wien, the Ensemble Kontrapunkte Vienna, the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles, the Ensembe „die reihe“, the Shanghai Sinfonietta, the Schallfeld Ensemble, the ensemble plus, the Hugo Wolf Quartet, the Ensemble Zeitfluss and soloists such as Karin and Doris Adam, Anna Magdalena Kokits, Alexander Gebert, Georg Klimbacher and Klaudia Tandl. Moreover, Renhart‘s music has been broadcast by numerous radio stations around the world (ORF Ö1, rbb Kultur, sverige radio P2, Radio Beograd 3, Yleisradio Oy, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, Polskie Radio Dwójka, RAI Südtirol, Radio Vltava).
As a composer Renhart was featured at the Malta International Spring Orchestra Festival 2017, the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik 2017 and the Festival Texte und Töne organized by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF. At the musikprotokoll 2018 his work «Catalogue des Arts et Métiers» was successfully premiered.
Renhart‘s music was awarded the International Nikolaus Fheodoroff Prize in Composition, the Austrian State Scholarship, a prize for string quartet tendered by the Jeunesse, the Alban Berg Foundation and the Hugo Wolf Quartet, the city of Graz‘s Advancement Award in Music and the 3rd prize for orchestra at the festival Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik. His work «Catalogue des Arts et Métiers» was named as «recommended work» at the 66th International Rostrum of Composers. 2019 Renhart was invited to the [‘tactus] Young Composers‘ Forum in Brussels and Mons, in 2020 his music will be staged at the festival Flagey New Music Days in Brussels.
In 2017 a portrait CD with works by Christoph Renhart was released in the ORF Edition Zeitton (CD 3218), in 2020 his recording of «XXI Oracles of the Night I» for piano solo was published by the label VMS.
Christoph Renhart organises a concert series for New Music at the Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten in Graz. He is a board member of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music (ÖGZM). Since 2018 he teaches music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as a senior lecturer.