Michael Flade (born in 1975) is a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

Life

Born in

Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßlau ...

, Flade was a pupil of

Hans Jürgen Wenzel Hans Jürgen Wenzel (4 March 1939 – 8 August 2009) was a German conductor and composer. He was chairman of the and professor for musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Life Born in Weißwasser, Wenzel f ...

in the . From 1993 he studied

musical composition Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...

with

Jörg Herchet Jörg Herchet (born 20 September 1943) is a German composer. Life Born in Dresden, Herchet grew up as the son of a driver and a worker in modest circumstances. As a pupil he received recorder and cello lessons, later piano and singing lessons. ...

music theory Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (ke ...

with Manfred Weiss as well as piano and

conducting Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert. It has been defined as "the art of directing the simultaneous performance of several players or singers by the use of gesture." The primary duti ...

at the

Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber The Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber (Carl Maria von Weber College of Music; also/formerly known as Dresden Conservatory or Dresden Royal Conservatory) is a university of music in Dresden, Germany. History The Hochschule opened ...

in Dresden. With a DAAD scholarship he was in a master program at the

Manhattan School of Music The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition, as well as a bachelor's in mu ...

in New York, where he was taught by

Nils Vigeland Nils Vigeland (born 1950 in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, New York (state), New York) is an American composer and pianist. Career Vigeland made his professional debut as a pianist in 1969 with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He later studied comp ...

. From 1998 to 2001 he was a postgraduate student with

Wilfried Krätzschmar Wilfried Krätzschmar (born 23 March 1944) is a German composer. Life Born in Dresden, Krätzschmar received piano lessons from 1952. After his Abitur at the he studied composition with Johannes Paul Thilman from 1962 to 1968, piano with Wolfga ...

in Dresden. He also studied

musicology Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2001 he has taught composition,

acoustics Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician ...

, organology, instrumentation, ear training and Max/MSP in Dresden. From 2006 to 2008 he represented the professorship for

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

in Dresden and was acting director of the . From 2008 to 2010 he was

lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...

for music theory at the Technische Universität Dresden. Since 2010 he is lecturer for ear training at the

State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart The State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is a professional school for musicians and performing artists in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded in 1857, it is one of the oldest schools of its kind in Germany. History The school was f ...

. Flade works and lives as a composer in Stuttgart. Many of his works use live electronic music. Among other things he composed ''In Verbindung'' (2005, world

premiere A première, also spelled premiere, is the debut (first public presentation) of a play, film, dance, or musical composition. A work will often have many premières: a world première (the first time it is shown anywhere in the world), its first ...

Matthias Lorenz Matthias Lorenz (born 11 June 1964) is a German Cello, cellist. Life Born in Bensheim, Lorenz studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main with Gerhard Mantel and participated in courses given by Siegfried Palm ...

), ''wechselnd, verwoben, zuzeiten gelassen I'' (2002, premiered by the Ensemble Sortisatio), ''unverbunden strömt verbindlich'' (2001, premiere

Reiko Füting Reiko Fueting (born 1970 in Königs Wusterhausen) is a German composer living in the United States. Life and career Reiko Fueting was born in 1970 in Königs Wusterhausen, just outside of Berlin in the former East Germany. He studied compositi ...

) and ''Eigenart blüht auf'' (2000, premiered by the ).

Awards

* Scholarship of the

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst The German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD (german: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), was founded in 1925 and is the largest German support organisation in the field of international academic co-operation. Organisation ''DAAD'' is a ...

(1999) * (2001) * Scholarship of the (2007)

Publications

* ''Klang und Bewegung in Wilfried Krätzschmars Komposition "turns" (Drehungen) für sechs Schlagzeuger''.''Klang und Bewegung in Wilfried Krätzschmars Komposition "turns" (Drehungen) für sechs Schlagzeuger / Michael Flade''
on musikbibliographie In

Jörn Peter Hiekel Jörn Peter Hiekel (born 1963) is a German musicologist. Life Born in Göttingen, Hiekel first studied musicology, art history and history at the universities of Cologne and Bonn before he completed his double bass studies at the Musikhochschule ...

(ed.): ''W. Krätzschmar. Perspektiven seines Schaffens''. Sandstein, Dresden 2005, , .

References

External links

*
Literatur von Michael Flade
in the

Bibliography of Music Literature The Bibliography of Music Literature (BMS or BMS online, german: Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums) is an international bibliography of literature on music. It considers all kind of music and includes both current and older literature. Since 196 ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Flade, Michael Electronic musicians 21st-century classical composers 21st-century German composers Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg 1975 births Living people Musicians from Dessau-Roßlau