Sven-Ingo Koch

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Sven-Ingo Koch (born September 26, 1974 in Hagen ) is a German composer .

Life

Born in Hagen and raised in Schwerte, Sven Ingo Koch studied composition at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith , at the University of California in San Diego with Roger Reynolds and at Stanford University with Brian Ferneyhough . His works were u. a. Performed by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and interpreted by ensembles such as Ensemble Modern , musikFabrik , Klangforum Wien and Ensemble recherche . For the Ensemble Ascolta, music was created for abstract, experimental films by Walter Ruttmann from the 1920s , which were repeatedly broadcast on television. Sven-Ingo Koch's music was heard at festivals such as musica viva, the Munich Biennale , Eclat (Stuttgart), Ultraschall (Berlin), the Zeitfenster - Biennale of Early Music (Berlin), the MDR Music Summer, the Dresden Days for New Music, and the Warsaw Autumn , musica nova (Helsinki), the Salzburg Biennale, the Suntory Summer Festival in Tokyo, the Leicester International Music Festival, the Rencontres Musicales de Haute Provence and the World Music Days . Sven-Ingo Koch has lived in Düsseldorf since 2006.

Prices (selection)

  • Folkwang Prize 1999
  • Cynet Art Honorary Mention 2001
  • BDI sponsorship award 2001
  • Stuttgart Composition Prize 2003
  • Annual scholarship from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR 2004
  • Elisabeth Schneider Prize 2005
  • Grant from Künstlerhof Schreyahn 2005
  • Award of the Weimar Spring Days 2006
  • Music Prize Düsseldorf 2006
  • Scholarship from Schloss Solitude 2007
  • Guest artist at the ZKM 2008
  • Scholarship holder of the Villa Massimo in Rome 2011
  • Scholarship from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2012

Literature (selection)

  • L. Brümmer , saxl by Sven-Ingo Koch, in: Konzert - Klangkunst - Computer, pp. 284–293, Darmstadt 2002
  • H. Ehrler, detailed encyclopedia entry on Sven-Ingo Koch in MGG, Music in Past and Present, Supplement, pp. 419–420, Kassel 2008
  • J. Kopp , ear canal in the eye. Sven-Ingo Koch's music for Walter Ruttmann's experimental film Lichtspiel Opus IV, in: on Visual Music and related Media, ed. by Cornelia and Holger Lund, Stuttgart, 2009
  • H. Ehrler: The composer Sven-Ingo Koch, in: Musiktexte 120, ed. by G. Gronemeyer u. R.Oelschlägel, pp. 5–11, Cologne 2009
  • St. Drees: Fields of Experience and Spaces of Perception. Notes on composing by Sven-Ingo Koch, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, ed. by Rolf W. Stoll, pp. 57–59, Mainz 2009 (issue 4)
  • S.-I. Koch: Oh, the unspeakable, in: Von Bartha, Quarterly Report 02/09, ed. by Margareta von Bartha, p. 5, Basel 2009
  • S.-I. Koch: Linien, Melodien, in: Positions 84, August 2010, pp. 11–12, ed. by Gisela Nauck, Mühlenbeck, 2010
  • Michal Lewkowicz: The Muse: Special Relationships between legendary clarinetists and composers and how they shaped the clarinet and its repertoire. Four case studies with special emphasis on Sven-Ingo Koch's piece for clarinet and piano - Hommages, Master Thesis, Hochschule für Musik Basel, 2012
  • Stefan Drees: Diverse associations. Sven-Ingo Koch's ensemble composition nobody knows, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, ed. by Rolf W. Stoll, Mainz 2013 (# 1_2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven-Ingo Koch. City libraries of the state capital Düsseldorf , accessed on February 18, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Sven-Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen