After studying piano in Munich with Gernot Sieber, Arnulf Herrmann worked on composition and musicology, initially in Dresden and then in Paris with Gérard Grisey and Emmanuel Nuñes and in Berlin with F. Goldmann. After working his way through IRCAM in Paris, he completed his studies at the Hans Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Hans-Peter Kyburz (2000-2002).
He is now working with several international ensembles, especially Klangforum Wien and the Inter-Contemporary Ensemble. He has performed at many different festivals, including Wien Neue, Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Wittener, the Ultraschall in Berlin, Eclat in Stuttgart and Musica in Strasbourg.
He has won several prizes and awards, especially the Hanns Eisler Preis for Composition (2001), the Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (2003), the Kompositionspreis and the International Composers’ Rostrum (2006).
Arnulf Herrmann has taught composition since 2004 and instrumentation since 2006 at the Hans Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.
Like ten or so other composers, Arnulf Herrmann has written for the CENTQUATRE a piece lasting precisely 104 seconds, a commission involving a fascinating combination of figures and constraints. These compositions will be accessible on line to enable you to discover different and distant universes in the field of contemporary music, all too often reserved for initiates only. They will then be performed in the CENTQUATRE after it opens.
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