Christian Utz

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Christian Utz (born October 27, 1969 in Munich ) is a German musicologist, music theorist and composer. Utz is a university professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and a private lecturer at the University of Vienna . His research deals with music and globalization, perception-sensitive music analysis and musical interpretation research as well as the analysis, interpretation and reception of Gustav Mahler's music.

Life

Christian Utz studied composition, music theory, musicology and piano pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (1990–1997), the University of Music Karlsruhe (1993–1994) and the University of Vienna (1998–2000). In 2000 he did his doctorate at the University of Vienna in musicology (Dr. phil.) With the dissertation Original or Fake? Tan Dun's music in the context of intercultural compositional reception processes in new Western and East Asian music since 1950 (published in a slightly revised version in 2002 as Volume 51 of the supplements to the Archives for Musicology under the title New Music and Interculturality. From John Cage to Tan Dun ). In 2003 he became a visiting professor and in 2004 he became a university professor for music theory / music analysis at the University of Art Graz ( University of Music and Performing Arts Graz ). In 2015 Utz completed his habilitation in musicology at the University of Vienna with a cumulative habilitation thesis on movements in sound-time-space. Theories and history of music perception in the 19th and 20th centuries as the basis for a context-sensitive analysis of posttonal music (publication as a monograph in preparation). Utz held visiting professorships for composition and musicology at the National Chiao-Tung University Xinzhu (Taiwan, 2007) and the University of Tokyo (2008) and taught at the University of Vienna (since 2012), the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt (2011) , Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (2005–2006) and Taipei National University of the Arts (2000).

Utz leads the research projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): A context-sensitive theory of post-tonal sound organization (CTPSO, 2012–2014) and Augmented Listening: performance, listening experience and theory formation (PETAL, 2017–2020). He edited a large number of books and online publications, including the Lexikon Neue Musik (Metzler / Bärenreiter, 2016, edited together with Jörn Peter Hiekel ), the band Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities. Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West (Routledge, 2013, edited together with Frederick Lau), the Lexicon of Systematic Musicology (Laaber-Verlag. 2010, edited together with Helga de la Motte-Haber , Heinz von Loesch and Günther Rötter ), the series of publications musik.theorien der gegenwart (Pfau-Verlag, 6 volumes, 2007–2013) and the journal of the Society for Music Theory (ZGMTH, member of the editorial team 2015–2020). 2014–2018 he was a member of the board of the Society for Music Theory ; since 2019 he has been a board member of the International Gustav Mahler Society Vienna.

Utz studied composition and electroacoustics with Erich Urbanner , Dieter Kaufmann and Wolfgang Rihm and attended master classes with Mauricio Kagel , Luca Francesconi , Brian Ferneyhough and Salvatore Sciarrino . He has been invited to important European seminars for new music (Royaumont 1998, IRCAM / Paris 1999, Boswil 2001, Ictus Ensemble Brussels 2002) and has received a large number of grants and awards (including a composition prize from the City of Stuttgart 1999). Right from the start, Utz dealt with the delimitation of conventional compositional concepts and realized intermedia projects in the border areas of music and theater, composition and improvisation, instrument and electronics (Projekt KlangArten, 1992–1995). From 1997 to 2007, intercultural cooperation and conceptions were the focus of Utz's compositional work, which is documented on his CD productions Site (Composers' Art Label 2002) and transformed (Spektral Records 2008). In 1998 Utz founded AsianCultureLink to intensify artistic cooperation between European and Asian artists. In 2011 the Schola Heidelberg and the Ensemble Aisthesis realized the world premiere of stele (2011) for voices and instruments based on texts from the Gilgamesh epic and by Liao Yiwu under Walter Nussbaum . In 2018 Utz was a lecturer at the Beijing International Composition Workshop at the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing, where walls for ensemble (2018) was premiered by the ensemble PHACE under Lars Mlekusch .

Publications (selection)

  • New music and interculturality. From John Cage to Tan Dun (supplements to the archive for musicology, volume 51), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2002 (533 pages), full text
  • Composing in the context of globalization. Perspectives for a music history of the 20th and 21st centuries , Bielefeld: transcript 2014 (436 pages), publisher
  • Vocal Music and Contemporary Identities: Unlimited Voices in East Asia and the West , ed. by Christian Utz and Frederick Lau, New York: Routledge 2013 (340 pages), Google Books
  • Lexicon New Music , ed. by Jörn Peter Hiekel and Christian Utz, Stuttgart: Metzler / Kassel: Bärenreiter 2016 (706 pages), Google Books
  • Past and present of musical hearing. Discourses - history (s) - poetics (sound-talking. Writings on musical interpretation and reception research 17), ed. by Klaus Aringer, Franz Karl Praßl, Peter Revers and Christian Utz, Freiburg: Rombach 2017 (389 pages), Verlag
  • Music related. Festschrift Peter Revers on his 65th birthday , ed. by Klaus Aringer, Christian Utz and Thomas Wozonig, Vienna: Hollitzer 2019 (888 pages), Google Books
  • The doubting hearing. Expectation situations as modules in the context of a performative analysis of tonal and post-tonal music, Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 10/2 (2013), 225–252, https://doi.org/10.31751/720
  • Time-Space Experience in Works for Solo Cello by Lachenmann, Xenakis, and Ferneyhough. A Performance-Sensitive Approach to Morphosyntactic Musical Analysis, Music Analysis Early View (2016), 36/2 (2017), 216–256, https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12076
  • For performative listening to serial music. Analysis and performance of Pierre Boulez ' Structures Ia (1951) and Polyphonie X (1951), in: Contribution archive of the International Congress of the Society for Music Research , Mainz 2016 - "Paths of Musicology", ed. by Gabriele Buschmeier and Klaus Pietschmann, Mainz 2017, Schott Campus
  • Multivalent Form in Gustav Mahler's Lied von der Erde from the Perspective of Its Performance History, Musicologica Austriaca , 2018 .
  • Transnational entanglements in the music of the 1950s and 1960s. Henry Cowell, Toshirō Mayuzumi and Luciano Berio in the context of the 'Cultural Cold War', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 75/2 (2018), 135–162. https://elibrary.steiner-verlag.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professors. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ private lecturers. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  3. ^ Franz Steiner Verlag: Supplements to the archive for musicology (AFMW-B). Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ CHRISTIAN UTZ / Person / Biography / German. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ CTPSO - A Context-Sensitive Theory of Post-tonal Sound Organization. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ PETAL. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ ZGMTH. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  8. ^ International Gustav Mahler Society. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ CHRISTIAN UTZ / Person / Biography / German. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Composition Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart - City of Stuttgart. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ KlangArten. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  12. ↑ CHRISTIAN UTZ / Composer / Cds / TRANSFORMED. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  13. ^ Asian Culture Link. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  14. ^ Phace - Association for New Music. Retrieved December 13, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Utz, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist, music theorist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich