Alexander Stankovski
*22 February 1968
Works by Alexander Stankovski
Biography
Alexander Stankovski, born in Munich in 1968, studied composition at the Vienna Musikhochschule with Francis Burt and at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main with Hans Zender. He received commissions from renowned performers and ensembles, and performances at international festivals brought him attention and recognition. Stankovski taught a composition class at the Vienna University of Music as assistant to Michael Jarrell from 1996 to 2004. From 1998 to 2018 he was Senior Lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Since September 2018 he has been Professor of Music Theory at the Anton Bruckner Private University. In 2017/18 he worked at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology (ICST) at the Zurich University of the Arts on the realisation of a full-length scenic radio play for speaker, ensemble and electronics. At the end of 2019, an LP+CD with duos for all instruments of the clarinet family was released by GOD records.
About the music
For me, composing means making decisions, drawing boundaries, marking out spaces. I cannot compose without a previously defined decision space. The definition itself - the delimitation of possible decisions for me - changes from piece to piece, within a piece from movement to movement, from layer to layer or from section to section. I am interested in the juxtaposition of differently defined spaces. It is not about the mediation of opposites, but about the experience of incommensurability.
