Heinz Reber

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Heinz Reber (born March 14, 1952 in Bern ; † August 14, 2007 there ) was a Swiss composer .

Life

Heinz Reber was an editor for Radio DRS, worked in the field of music therapy, realized audio and video projects with patients at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Bern. He was a resident composer and author at the Stadttheater Bern. From 1986 to 1991 he lived in Berlin and wrote the music for two DEFA productions: Pestalozzis Berg (1989) and Der vierte Berg (1982). Since 1992 he lived in Vienna and worked as a composer and director of opera projects; he also worked with the Klangforum Wien. Reber was visiting professor for solo singing and music-dramatic representation at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . In 2006 his work "Walking in the limits", a music theater project, premiered at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel .

Music theater

Operas

  • Der Sturm (version and translation by Peter Borchart; Theaterverlag Ute Nyssen & J. Bansemer GmbH), March 15, 1987, Stadttheater Bern
  • School of Athens - School of Nô, UA 1992, Neue Studiobühne Wien
  • Lights Mirror Sound Image Body of Romanticism, Premiere 1997, Neue Studiobühne Vienna
  • An Chung-gun, premiere 2001 Hebbel-Theater Berlin / 2nd premiere 2002 LG-Art-Center Seoul, Korea

Other works

  • Voices. Noices, sound radio ORF
  • Superstrings (sound-video-installation), commissioned by the Klangforum Wien, premiere 2002, Konzerthaus Wien
  • Music for Sheng, UA Vienna 2003
  • String Trio, 2007

Discography

  • An organ with three lungs 1978
  • Cellorganics 1982
  • Mnaomai, Mnomai 1990
  • MA - two songs 1996

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personal data
SURNAME Reber, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2007
Place of death Vienna