Hanspeter Kyburz

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Hanspeter Kyburz (born July 8, 1960 in Lagos , Nigeria ) is a Swiss composer of contemporary music who is best known for his use of algorithmic composition processes . He lives in Berlin.

Life

Kyburz began his music studies in Graz with Andrzej Dobrowolski and Gösta Neuwirth . In 1982 he moved to Berlin, where he continued his composition studies with Frank Michael Beyer and again with Neuwirth and also studied philosophy, art history and - with Carl Dahlhaus - musicology. Further studies with Hans Zender in Frankfurt followed. In 1990 he received the Boris Blacher Prize and a scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 1994 he received the Schneider Schott Music Prize in Mainz , and in 1996 the sponsorship award from the Berlin Academy of the Arts Berlin. Since 1997 Kyburz has been Professor of Composition at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin, where his students included Johannes Maria Staud , Johannes Boris Borowski , Torsten Herrmann , Michael Pelzel , Martin Grütter , Arnulf Herrmann , Eres Holz and Stefan Keller .

He is known as a composer through performances at the Berlin Biennale, the Wiener Festwochen , the Witten Days for New Chamber Music and the Donaueschingen Music Days . His works have been interpreted by internationally renowned ensembles such as the Klangforum Wien , the Ensemble Contrechamps Geneva, the Ensemble intercontemporain Paris, the musikFabrik Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Ensemble Modern , the ensemble für neue musik zurich , the ensemble unitedberlin and the Camerata Quartet Warsaw. Kyburz wrote commissioned works for the Ensemble intercontemporain Paris and for the Südwestfunk Baden-Baden , the Conservatory Basel and the Steirischer Herbst , the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Sender Freies Berlin and the Süddeutscher Rundfunk .

Works

  • Cells for saxophone quartet and ensemble (1993/94)
  • Parts for chamber ensemble (1994/95)
  • The Voynich Cipher Manuscript (1995)
  • Danse aveugle for five instruments (1996/97)
  • Diptych for two chamber ensembles (1997/98)
  • Malstrom for orchestra (1998)
  • A travers for clarinet and orchestra (1999)
  • Piano Concerto (1999/2000, rev. 2010)
  • Noesis for orchestra (2001-2003)
  • Reseaux for sextet (2003-2007)
  • String quartet (2003/04)
  • Double Points: ΟΥΤΙΣ , choreographic project for dancers, singing, ensemble and live electronics (2004–2010)
  • Projection for solo ensemble and orchestra (2004/05)
  • touché for soprano, tenor and orchestra, text: Sabine Marienberg (2006)
  • Evening song for tenor and piano, text: Sabine Marienberg (2007)
  • quasi a due for piano for two or four hands (2010)

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Kyburz, Hanspeter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer of contemporary music
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagos , Nigeria