Alexander Moosbrugger

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Alexander Moosbrugger
Born (1972-08-21) August 21, 1972 (age 50)
Bregenzerwald, Austria
Years active1990s – present
Website Moosbrugger Website

Alexander Moosbrugger (born 21 August 1972 in Bregenzerwald) is an Austrian Composer, living since 2001 in Berlin.

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Biography

Alexander Moosbrugger completed studies at the Vorarlberger Landeskonservatorium (organ and harpsichord), at the Universität Wien (Philosophy) and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

Characteristic musical concerns

Moosbrugger's work encompasses a fine differentiation of the entire soft dynamic range. He primarily is writing in chamber ensemble settings, rarely doubled, preferring among other genres the string quartet. In the foreground of a composition Moosbrugger interweaves auditory and non-auditory sources, establishing musical relations through translations of historical, sociopolitical and private points of reference, analysis of symbolic functions, the devising of intonations, and "reconceived instrumental practices". Playing techniques manifest the "speaking" of musical images and are devised anew in each piece, or series of works. [1]

His compositions are internationally played, for example in the Konzerthaus Berlin or at King's College, Cambridge, in festivals of contemporary music (2013 at the London Ear Festival, [2] Forum Neue Musik Luzern) and in ensemble concert series. [3] Among interpreters of his music are Klangforum Wien, ensemble recherche, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Cairn Paris, musikFabrik, Ensemble L'arsenale, das Arditti String Quartet, Pellegrini Quartet, Herbert Henck.

Works

Research and Curatorial Projects

Moosbrugger's concern with "Listening/Hearing" as compositional arena motivated studies in philosophy at the Universität Wien. Since then, he researches and works with aspects of hearing as sounding reflections about the history of philosophy. [5] For the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent Moosbrugger led „Gespräche zum Hören“ with Rebecca Saunders, Georg Friedrich Haas and Salvatore Sciarrino. [6] Teaching and guest lectures at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität [7] and Universität der Künste Berlin. [8]

Moosbrugger initiated and curated the festival reihe 0 – Tage aus Kunst from 2000 until 2008, and since 2007 is Artistic Director of the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik.

Awards, Recognition

Alexander Moosbrugger has received divers stipendia, among them the International Bodenseepreis Sparte Zeitgenössische Komposition, the Austrian state stipend for composition as well as the composition prize of the Land Vorarlberg. [9] Moosbrugger was Artist in Residence in the Domus Artium near Rome and resident artist in the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani. [10]

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References

  1. Music Information Centre Austria
  2. "London Ear Festival". Archived from the original on 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
  3. Ensemble Phoenix Basel
  4. The work's premiere at the Bregenz Festival and by its first broadcasting by the Austrian ORF.
  5. Dissertation Moosbrugger
  6. "Orpheus Instituut". Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
  7. "Fest-Neue-Musik Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz". Archived from the original on 2015-02-05. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
  8. Klangzeitort, Focus Intonation
  9. "Artistic Director Biography BTZM". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-05-04.
  10. German Study Centre in Venice