Thomas Reiner (composer)

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Thomas Reiner (* 1959 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German composer living in Australia .

Life

Thomas Reiner was born in Germany in 1959 and moved to Australia in 1979. He studied composition at the University of Melbourne with Keith Humble, Barry Conyngham and Peter Tahourdin and in Germany with Wolfgang Hufschmidt and Hans Werner Henze . Thomas Reiner received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1996. He is a professor of composition at Monash University in Melbourne . Reiner composes solo pieces, orchestral pieces and electronic music. In 1996 he founded the group re-sound . In 2003 Thomas Reiner became the Australian representative of the French society Des Amis De Claude Delvincourt .

Works (music)

  • "Conversations" (Move, MD 3289)
  • "Hard Chamber" (Move, MD 3280)
  • "In C" (Move, MD 3262)
  • "Mistika" (Move, MD 3168)
  • "Re-sound" (Move, MD 255)

Works (literature)

  • Thomas Reiner: "Semiotics of Musical Time" , Peter Lang Publishing New York 2000, ISBN 0-8204-4525-8

Awards

  • International Witold Lutoslawski Composers' Competition (Poland)
  • 1994 ALEA III International Composition Competition (Boston University)
  • 1995 Albert H. Maggs Composition Award (Australia)
  • 1997 International Boswil Composers' Competition ( Künstlerhaus Boswil , Switzerland)
  • 2001 Dorian Le Gallienne Award for Composition (Australia)

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personal data
SURNAME Reiner, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Australian composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe