The Composer
Wolfram Wagner
Career:
Born in Vienna in 1962; composition studies at:
- Vienna (Erich Urbanner, Francis Burt)
- London (Robert Saxton), and
- Frankfurt (auditor with Hans Zender)
Since 1992, teacher of music theory and composition at the University of Music and Representational Art in Vienna; guest lectures at the Paris Conservatory and at universities in Amsterdam and in Greensboro, USA.
Awards and Contests:
- Winner of the international Anton Bruckner Composition Contest in Linz, 1997
- Publicity Prize for Austro Mechana, 1995
- Grant award in 1998 from the Presidential National Endowment for Composers
- 1993 Composer in Residence at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, London, and others
Composition Commissions for:
- The Vienna Music Association
- The Vienna Concert Society
- Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
- European Music Month Basel
- Corinthian Summer
- New Vienna Opera
- Danube Festival, and others
Compositions:
3 operas, 2 oratorios, 1 ballet, orchestral works, choral works, chamber music and songs
Performances and radio recordings in several European countries, the USA, South America, India, and Japan;
several CD productions (ORF, Vienna Modern Masters, KKM Records, et al.)
Publishers:
Doblinger, contemp art, apoll edition, NÖ Music edition
Style:
It is my goal to bring the emotional level into harmony with the formal level. Many of my pieces are grounded in strict formal, tonal, metric and even mathematical concepts; other works or passages, on the other hand are quite free.
Modification of formal structures such as canon and variation play a role here, as well as consideration of the technical capabilities of the instruments, which gives certain pieces – especially solos – a strong virtuoso character.
Wolfram Wagner, 1996
Further information: www.wolfram-wagner.com
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