Fredrik Schwenk

Fredrik Schwenk *20.10.1960 Munich Composer contemporary classical music

Studies in art history and theatre at the Ludwig-Maximilians University and composition with W. Killmayer at HfMT in Munich. 1991-2006 initiator and artistic director of the opera workshop of the International Youth Festival in Bayreuth. 1992-1999 first founding and leading member of A*DEvantgarde Contemporary music projects. 1989-2000 Lecturer at the HfMT and LMU and from 1995 lecturer at the Academy of Music Nuremberg / Augsburg. From 2000 professor of music theory and composition at the HfMT Hamburg. Together with P. M. Hamel artistic director of Studio 21 supported by the foundation Zeitstiftung. 2004-2010 dean of artistic programmes. From 2009 artistic director of the EU funded french german academy OPUSXXI. Since 2009, management of the Double Masters programme in composition between the HfMT Hamburg and Lyon CNSMD and head of the steering group of Copeco international Master programme of contemporary performing and composition. He received numerous national and international awards, including the first Price of the Fondation Hindemith (Blonay CH 1990), the Culture Prize of the City of Munich (1992), the Carl Orff price of contemporary music (Munich, 1995), the Special Prize of the Siemens Foundation (for A*DEvantgarde 1997) and the Reinlpreis (Vienna 1998), as well as commissions for the third Munich Biennale, the opera house of Halle, for opera silens, the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and for the Oldenburg State Theatre.

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