Lukas Ligeti

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Lukas Ligeti (born June 13, 1965 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer and jazz musician ( drums ) of Hungarian origin.

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Although Ligeti comes from a musical family (his father was the composer György Ligeti ), it was only since 1983 that he became more intensively involved with music. In 1988 he took part in a workshop by John Zorn , but also in the Darmstadt summer courses . In 1991 he completed an improvisation course with David Moss and a composition course with George Crumb . In 1993 he completed his composition studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with distinction from Erich Urbanner . A supplementary course for a master’s degree followed until 1994.

Ligeti founded the improvisation ensemble Things of NowNow together with Christian Minkowitsch , Friedrich Neubarth and Alexander Wagendristel in 1988 , with which he performed until 1991. He also belonged to the Kombinat M group in the early 1990s (with Andreas Heidu, Walter Hollinetz, Andreas Leikauf, Erwin Redl). The group Beta Foly emerged from a drum, electronics and improvisation workshop that he held on behalf of the Goethe Institute in Abidjan , in which he worked with 13 traditional musicians and Kurt Dahlke . The follow-up project is the Burkina Electric group . He also works in a duo with their singer Mai Lingani .

Between 1994 and 1996 he was a guest composer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University . Ligeti has lived in New York City since 1998 , where he worked with Elliott Sharp , George Lewis , Henry Kaiser / Wadada Leo Smith , Massimo Pupilo and Roy Nathanson and is active as a drummer in several jazz and rock bands and groups for improvised music. In 2006 he was visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

His compositions have been performed by the Ensemble Modern , the ORF Symphony Orchestra , the London Sinfonietta , the Ensemble “die reihe” , the Kronos Quartet , Bang on a Can and the Vienna Saxophone Quartet .

Awards

Ligeti received the composition prize of the City of Vienna in 1990, a prize from the Austrian Ministry of Science in 1993 and numerous scholarships.

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SURNAME Ligeti, Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna