Michael Reudenbach

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Michael Reudenbach (born 13 September 1956) is a German composer. He performs as an interpreter of Early and New Music. [1]

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Life and achievements

Reudenbach was born in Aachen. After training as a church musician from 1976 to 1982, Reudenbach studied musical composition from 1986 with Joachim Blume in Cologne and Denis Cohen in Paris. In 1984 he took part in interpretation courses with Philippe Herreweghe. In 1990/1991 he attended composition courses with Helmut Lachenmann and Mathias Spahlinger.

He has been teaching music theory, musical analysis and hearing training at the Katholische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik St. Gregorius  [ de ] (1982-1999) and at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (1999-2016), musical composition at the Solitude Summer Academy in Stuttgart (2005), at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (2006) and at the conservatories of Dresden and Stuttgart (substitute professorships between 2012 and 2015). Since the winter semester 2016 he has been Professor of Composition/Music Theory at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

Reudenbach received prizes and scholarships from the Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung of the Südwestrundfunk among other.

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