Reiko Füting

Reiko Füting (* 1970 in Königs Wusterhausen ) is a German composer .

Reiko Füting was born in Königs Wusterhausen in 1970. Early piano and composition lessons at various Berlin music schools were followed by extensive musical training in the special classes for music and as a singer in the radio youth choir in Wernigerode . He studied composition and piano at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden, in the USA at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University in Houston (Texas) and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, as well as at Seoul National University in South Korea. He counts the composers Jörg Herchet and Nils Vigeland as well as the pianist Winfried Apel among his most important teachers ; He attended courses a. a. with Edisson Denissow , Christian Wolff and Tristan Murail (composition) as well as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Olaf Bär and Semion Skigin (song accompaniment).

After teaching vocal accompaniment at the Rostock University of Music and Drama , Reiko Füting was appointed professor of composition and music theory at the Manhattan School of Music in 2000, where he has also headed the music theory department since 2005. He is a guest lecturer at universities and colleges of music in China (Changchun, Beijing, Shenyang), Germany (Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Rostock), Colombia (Bogotá, Medellîn), Russia (Moscow), South Korea (Seoul) and the USA (Baltimore, Hempstead, New York, Oberlin, Princeton).

In addition to his pedagogical work, Reiko Füting is active as a composer, pianist, accompanist and choir conductor and is active in important concert halls and at festivals in Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, England, France, Iceland, Italy, Colombia, Croatia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Austria , Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, China, South Korea, Vietnam, Colombia and the USA appeared. He has received numerous awards and grants; his compositions have been performed by internationally renowned interpreters and ensembles, broadcast on radio and television, published on CD and - like his analytical writings - appeared as publications.

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