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Thomas Wilbrandt | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) |
| Occupation(s) | Composer and conductor |
Thomas Wilbrandt (born in 1952) is a German composer and conductor.
Wilbrandt studied with Franco Ferrara, Hans Swarowsky, and Bruno Maderna in the cities of Rome, Vienna, and Salzburg. Additionally, Thomas worked in Berlin for about three years for both Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.
In 1980, Wilbrandt founded the Berlin Chamber Academy (Berliner Kammer-Akademie), a forty-piece orchestra originally formed from players of the Berlin Philharmonic, with whom he recorded a Mozart Series for RCA Victor.
Alongside international conducting activities and collaborations with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Wilbrandt became increasingly focused on his own projects and recordings. His personal works were focused particularly in the fields of Avant-garde and Electronic music, which led to experimentation with multimedia content and new forms of musical presentation.
One of Wilbrandt's first major projects was the creation of a fusion between acoustic orchestral playing, digital and electronic instruments, and sounds entitled; "THE ELECTRIC V," which was an approach to Vivaldi's concert cycle The Four Seasons . The first edition of "THE ELECTRIC V". was released in 1984 in twenty countries. Wilbrandt wrote, directed, and produced "THE ELECTRIC V" between the years of 1987-1990.
Wilbrandt contributed music to the soundtrack of Oliver Stone's film Natural Born Killers .[ citation needed ]
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