Otto Wanke

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Otto Wanke (born December 21, 1989 in Znojmo ) is a Czech composer and conductor .

Life

Wanke received his first music lessons in 1997 at the music school in his hometown. He came to Austria around 2003. There he passed the Matura examination at the commercial academy in Retz . At the age of 18 he received composition lessons at the Conservatory in Brno . In 2009 he started studying piano, bass and jazz composition at the Jaroslav Jezek Conservatory in Prague . During this time he also played in various musical formations as a pianist, electric bass player and guitarist and presented compositions. In 2011 he moved to the Vienna Conservatory , where he studied with Wolfgang Liebhart , among others , and from 2012 supplemented his studies with classes at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

Wanke has given concerts in Germany , Lithuania , Mexico , Norway and Brazil, among others . In RadioKulturhaus in Vienna he brought the orchestra works morphs (2016) and Shimmering (2017) for the premiere . In February 2018, his commissioned work Schatten ... Ströme was premiered at the Cottbus State Theater . Since 2018 he has been a doctoral student with Gesine Schröder at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he has a position at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology.

Awards and honors

  • 2013: 1st prize at the Maarble Composition Award , Rhodes , for Breathing Underwater .
  • 2016/2017: Gustav Mahler Composition Prize of the City of Klagenfurt , Musikforum Viktring (world premiere in July 2017).
  • 2017: 2nd place in the composition competition of the Festival International de Musiques Sacrées , Friborg .
  • 2017/2018: 1st prize at the 16th Joan Guinjoan international award for your composers , Barcelona , for Threads .
  • 2018: Main prize at the Sounds of Matter Composition competition , Vienna , for ... connections ...
  • 2018: 3rd prize at the international composition competition “Eight Bridges” , Cologne , for Pulse ... Schatten (world premiere May 8, 2018).
  • 2018: 3rd place at the Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award , Landsberg am Lech / Munich , for forget who you are. (World premiere: May 10, 2018).
  • 2018: 1st prize in the contemporary sacred music composition competition as part of the European Church Music Festival , Schwäbisch Gmünd , for ... by ... (premiere: July 13, 2018).
  • 2019: Theodor Körner Prize for Music and Composition, for The mirror of ambiguity - a multimedia radio game

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Otto Wanke on the website of the Musikforum Viktring Klagenfurt (accessed on December 23, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b Otto Wanke on the website of the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology (accessed December 23, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b biography of Otto Wanke on ottowanke.te (accessed December 23, 2018).
  4. ↑ a b c Otto Wanke wins Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award , article from February 26, 2018 on the website of the Vienna Conservatory (muk.ac.at).
  5. ↑ Well-versed bowing and new symphonic banks , article in the Lausitzer Rundschau from February 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ Gustav Mahler Prize: 2017 award winners at www.fete-soleil.at (accessed December 23, 2018).
  7. ↑ #YoCreoTalento - 'Joan Guinjoan Award for young composers' with ESMUC, 'Habitácola Award', 'Laus Aporta Banco Sabadell Foundation Award' at FADfest , article from June 6, 2018 on fundacionbancosabadell.com.
  8. ↑ Winners on matter.soundsof.net (accessed December 23, 2018).
  9. ↑ Final concert of the International Composition Competition on Achtbruecken.de (accessed on December 23, 2018).
  10. ↑ The jury of the composition competition "Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award" (WDCA), which was announced for the first time, decided on the three winning scores at the Munich University of Music and Theater. , Article from March 9, 2018 on fonoforum.de.
  11. ↑ Decision at the church music composition competition in Schwäbisch Gmünd: Wanke and Walliser convince , article from March 20, 2018 on swr.de.
personal data
SURNAME Wanke, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Znojmo