Hans Tutschku is a German composer.

He has been a member of the Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar

Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar

The Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar or Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar is a German music ensemble, which was founded in 1980 during the period of the German Democratic Republic, originally performing music officially tabooed by the communist government.EFIM uses orchestral instruments and...

 since 1982. He studied composition of electronic music at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber"

Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber"

The "Carl Maria von Weber" College of Music is a college of music in Dresden, Germany.- History :...

, Dresden and since 1989 has participated in several concert cycles of Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

 to study the art of the sound direction. He further studied sonology and electroacoustic composition in 1991-92 at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Holland).

In 1994 there followed a one year study residency at IRCAM

IRCAM

IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. He taught during 1995-1996 as a guest professor of electroacoustic composition in Weimar. In 1996 he participated in composition workshops with Klaus Huber

Klaus Huber

Klaus Huber is a Swiss composer.Huber was born in Bern, Switzerland. One of the leading figures of his generation in Europe, he has written extensively for chamber ensembles, choirs, soloists and the orchestra as well as the theater...

 and Brian Ferneyhough

Brian Ferneyhough

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. His music is characterized by the extensive use of complex rhythmic tuplet notation which features in all his works...

. In 1997-2001 he taught electroacoustic composition at IRCAM in Paris and from 2001 to 2004 taught at the Conservatory of Montbéliard. In May 2003 he completed a doctorate (Ph.D.) with Professor Dr. Jonty Harrison

Jonty Harrison

Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born April 27, 1952 in Scunthorpe, UK, and currently living in Birmingham, UK.Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic...

 at the University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...

. During the spring term of 2003 he was the Edgar Varèse Guest Professor at the Technical University of Berlin

Technical University of Berlin

The Technische Universität Berlin is a research university located in Berlin, Germany. Translating the name into English is discouraged by the university, however paraphrasing as Berlin Institute of Technology is recommended by the university if necessary .The TU Berlin was founded...

.

Since September 2004 Hans Tutschku has held the position of Professor of Composition and Director of Electroacoustic Studios at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. During the last few years he has been invited to give master classes in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Singapore, Budapest, Darmstadt, Florence, Milano and Rome. He is the winner of many international composition competitions including: Bourges, CIMESP São Paulo, Hanns Eisler Prize, Prix Ars Electronica

Prix Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...

, Prix Noroit. 2005 he received the Weimar prize.

Discography

• Migration - Arizona University Recordings, 2007
• Moment – (empreintes DIGITALes
  Empreintes DIGITALes
  empreintes DIGITALes is a record label founded in 1990 and based in Montreal which specialises in contemporary electroacoustic music, acousmatic and musique concrète.In 2005, empreintes DIGITALes shifted from CD to DVD-Audio.- Composers :* Mathew Adkins...
  
  , IMED 9947, 1999)
• excitations – (empreintes DIGITALes
  Empreintes DIGITALes
  empreintes DIGITALes is a record label founded in 1990 and based in Montreal which specialises in contemporary electroacoustic music, acousmatic and musique concrète.In 2005, empreintes DIGITALes shifted from CD to DVD-Audio.- Composers :* Mathew Adkins...
  
  , IMED 0050, 2000)
• Prix Ars Electronica Linz - 1998
• Ausbruch Aufbruch - DegeM-CD04 1998
• Prix International Noroit - Léonce Petitot 1998
• CIMESP São Paulo - 1995
• Ausbruch der Klänge - live-recording of a concert of the Ensembles für Intuitive Musik Weimar in Mexico 1994

List of works

• Ailleurs-Interieur (2009)
• Die Suesse unserer traurigen Kindheit (2005)
• Die zerschlagene Stimme (1991)
• Distance liquide (2007)
• Durchdringung (1987)
• Eikasia (1999)
• Einst mit dir (2007)
• Epexergasia - Neun Bilder (2000)
• … erinnerung… (1996)
• extrémités lointaines (1998)
• Firmament-schlaflos (2010)
• Flying Flute (1994)
• fragile connections (2009)
• Hommage à Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1987–88)
• human-space-factory (1999)
• Les invisibles (1996)
• La joie ivre (2002)
• memory-fragmentation (2000)
• Migration pétrée (2001)
• monochord (2008)
• object-obstacle (2004)
• Polyvision (2009)
• pour B. (2007)
• résorption-coupure (2000)
• Rituale (2004)
• Rojo (2004)
• Salut du Mexique (2006)
• Sein wirkliches Herz (1990)
• Shore (2007)
• Sieben Stufen (1995)
• similis (2004)
• Together (2009)
• Übergänge (1989)
• Vibrations décomposées (2002)
• Zellen-Linien (2007)
• Zwei Räume (2008)

Further reading

• Paland, Ralph. 2006. „Tutschku, Hans“.Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
  Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
  Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart is the largest and most comprehensive German music encyclopedia, and among Western music reference sources, only the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is comparable to it in size and scope...
  
  . 2nd Edition. Biographical encyclopedia. Volume 16. Edited by Ludwig Finscher. Kassel, Stuttgart: Bärenreiter, Metzler. 1153-1154.

External links

• His personal site
• Ketty Nez, "An Interview with Hans Tutschku", in the Computer Music Journal
  Computer Music Journal
  Computer Music Journal is an American academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. It is published on-line and in hard copy by MIT Press. The magazine is accompanied by an annual CD/DVD that collects audio and video work...
  
  , 27:4, pp. 14–26, Winter 2003.
• Patricia Dirks Kitchener, Hans Tutschku: Moment (review), Computer Music Journal
  Computer Music Journal
  Computer Music Journal is an American academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. It is published on-line and in hard copy by MIT Press. The magazine is accompanied by an annual CD/DVD that collects audio and video work...
  
  , 25:4, p. 100 ff.