Michael Oesterle
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Michael Oesterle (born 1968, Ulm, Germany) is a Canadian composer currently living in Deux-Montagnes, Quebec, Canada. His pieces are written in the contemporary classical genre.
Oesterle's works have been performed by ensembles including the Ives Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini, Ensemble Contemporain du Montréal (ECM), the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM), Metamorphosen, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), the Chicago Civic Orchestra, les Percussions de Strasbourg, the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Continuum Contemporary Music (Toronto) the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Aventa Ensemble (Vancouver), the Seiler Strings Chamber Orchestra (Toronto), and others.
Michael frequently collaborates with artists working in different mediums including painter and video artist, Wanda Koop, painter and writer, Christine Unger, printmaker and videographer, Bonnie Baxter, and animation artist Chris Hinton (NFB).
Michael Studied Music at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC) and Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey).
Michael has been awarded many prizes, including the BMI William Schuman Prize in Composition (New York) in both 1993 and 1994, the 1995 Gaudeamus International Composers Award (Amsterdam), the Grand Prize in the 12th CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers in 1997, and the Canada Council for the Arts' Jules Léger Prize in 1998.
Oesterle founded Ensemble Kore, a Montreal-based new music ensemble, in 1994 with pianist Marc Couroux.
He is a member of BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) and the Canadian Music Centre.
