Hanspeter Kyburz

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Hanspeter Kyburz (born 1960) is a contemporary Swiss composer of chamber music, known for applying electronic music techniques to his productions.

Kyburz was born in 1960 in Lagos, Nigeria to Swiss parents. In 1980, he began studying music composition, first in Graz with A. Dobrowolsky and Gösta Neuwirth, then, from 1982–1990, with Gösta Neuwirth and Franc Michael Beyer.

Later, Kyburz studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and with Hans Zender in Frankfurt. In 1990, he received the Boris Blacher Prize and won the Cité Internationale des Arts scholarship for 1990/91 in Paris.

1 Career
2 Recent activities
3 Works
4 Sources

[edit] Career

In 1991, Kyburz began collaborating with the Insel-Musik-Konzerte group in Berlin. His study of music theory as well as the philosophy and history of art assured him acquisition of the Magistertitels title.

He was awarded the Schneider-Schott Prize in 1996, and the Förderpreis Prize from the Berlin Akademie der Künste in 1994.

He has held lectures on electronic music production in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and in 1996 he participated as a guest lecturer on the subject of the Basler composer week. As a composer, he is by performances with the citizens of Berlin Biennale, Wiener Festwochen (Vienna's week-long musical festival), the Wittener Tagen für Neue Kammermusik (Wittener Days for New Chamber Music) and in Donaueschingen.

Kyburz has led such internationally renowned ensembles such as Klangforum in Vienna, Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, Musikfabrik Nordrhein in Westphalia, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble für Neue Musik in Zürich, Ensemble UnitedBerlin, Camerata Quartett in Warsaw and Ensemble Recherche in Freiburg. CD-Einspielungen has documented his work.

Hanspeter Kyburz wrote for the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris. He has also performed for Südwestfunk Radio in Baden-Baden, the Konservatorium in Basel and the Steirischen Herbst, the Schleswig-Holstein festival, Sender Freies in Berlin and the Süddeutschen Rundfunk (the South German broadcasters). Since 1997, Kyburz has served as professor for composition at the "Hanns Eisler" University for Music in Berlin.

Kyburz produced a piece that is a musical interpretation of the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript.

[edit] Recent activities

On September 1, 2006, Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, performed the London Premiere of a piece called Noesis by Swiss contemporary composer Hanspeter Kysburg, as part of the Promenade Concert season at London's Royal Albert Hall.