Wohlhauser René (24. 03. 1954)
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Wohlhauser René
Schillerstr. 5
CH-4053 Basel
Schweiz
Tel. +41 (0)61 361 04 37
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Internet: www.renewohlhauser.com
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Biography
René Wohlhauser was born in Zurich and raised in Brienz. A musician with many talents and a broad stylistic spectrum, René Wohlhauser has created an extensive body of some 1000 works across various genres. Long-term experience as a rock and jazz musician, improviser, song accompanist and composer of music for radio plays accompanie(s)d his primary activity as a composer of contemporary music.
1975 until 1979 – conservatory (music school) basel: counterpoint, harmony, analysis, score playing, instrumentation and composition under the tutelage of Thomas Kessler, Robert Suter, Jacques Wildberger and Jürg Wyttenbach – further studies in electronic music (under David Johnson), film music (under Bruno Spörri), non-European music (under Danker Shaaremann), song (under David Wohnlich), algorithmic programming (under Hanspeter Kyburz), improvisation (under Ruedi Lutz), piano (under Stéphane Reymond), Max/MSP (under Volker Böhm) directing (under Thüring Bräm) and philosophy (under Hans Saner) – teacher's diploma in music theory followed by courses in composition given by Kazimierz Serocki, Mauricio Kagel, Herbert Brün and Heinz Holliger; in-depth studies in composition under Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough.
1978 – Valentino Bucchi Prize for Composition, Rome for 'Souvenirs de l'Occitanie' for clarinet
1981 – Association of German Music Schools' Prize for Composition for 'Stilstudien' for piano, 4 guitars and 2 percussionists
1983 – VJMZ Prize for Composition, Zurich
1984 – City and Canton of Fribourg Prize for Composition for 'Fragmente für Orchester'
1987 – Salzburg Diocesan Chapter Prize for Composition for 'Orgelstück'
1988 – Kranichsteiner Stipend Prize of the 'Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt' for 'Adagio assai' for string quartet (world premiered by the 'Arditti-Quartett')
1990 – East Switzerland Foundation for Music and Theatre St. Gallen Prize for Compostition: 1st prize for 'Klarinettentrio Metamusik'
1991 – Cultural Sponsorship Prize offered by the canton of Luzern
1992 – the Swiss Society for Music Pedagogical Research Tribute Prize, Zurich, for the severalfold-published essay 'Von einfachen graphischen Notationen und Verbalpartituren zum Denken in Musik'
1996 – 'Selection' Prize from Swiss Radio International for the portrait CD 'in statu mutandi'
1998 – Cultural Sponsorship Prize offered by canton Basel-Landschaft
– composed solo, chamber and orchestral music, works for organ and musical theatre.
– numerous performances at home and abroad including at the Schauspielhaus Berlin, Nôtre-Dame-de-Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Tokyo, Rome, Toronto, New Castle, Azerbaijan, Scandinavia, Basel, Zurich, Frankfurt, Speyrer Cathedral, Glinka-Saal St. Petersburg, the 'Herkules-Saal' of the 'Residenz' in Munich, and frequently at such festivals as the 'Darmstädter Ferienkursen für Neue Musik', the 'Tagen für Neue Musik Zürich', the internationalen festival in Odessa, Sofia, Cardiff, Brisbane and the 'Schweizerischen Tonkünstlerfest' – scores of portrait concerts
– collaborations with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Biel Symphony Orchestra, 'Sinfonietta Basel', 'Klangforum Wien', the clarinet ensemble of the Ensemble Modern, 'Ensemble Köln', 'Arditti-Quartett', 'Modigliani-Quartett', 'Schweizer Klarinettentrio' and other renowned soloists and ensembles from the international music scene.
– guest lecturer for composition at the 'International Ferienkursen Darmstadt' (1988-94), at the festival in Odessa (1996-98) and the International Composer's Atelier in Lugano (2000).
– extensive talks, mainly on the subject of his own work (also on radio)
– publications on compositional, aesthetic and philosophical aspects of new music in, for example: 'MusikTexte' Cologne, 'Neue Zürcher Zeitung', 'Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik', 'New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century'.
– commissions for compositions at home and abroad, production of works through national and international radio events and portrait broadcasts; guest lectures on the radio
– cultural/political engagements ('Komponistenforum Basel', 'Schweizerisches Komponisten-Kollegium', worldwide score distribution system 'Adesso'
– teaches composition since 1979, musical theory and improvisation at Basel Academy of Music (and from 1979 until 1991 at the Academy in Lucerne)
– lives as a freelance composer in Basel
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