Sandeep Bhagwati (born 4 June 1963) is a German composer of

western classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

and an academic teacher.

Career

Sandeep Bhagwati was born in

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to a German mother and an Indian father. Living in Germany since the age of five, Bhagwati went to school at the

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and studied from 1984 to 1987 at the Mozarteum University in

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with teachers such as Boguslaw Schaeffer, Kurt Prestel, , Kurt Maedel, Josef Maria Horváth and

Rupert Huber Rupert W.M. Huber (born 1967 in Mödling, Austria) is an Austrian composer and musician. In 1994, Huber founded ''Huber Musik'' to publish his own music, and in the same year, founded Tosca with Richard Dorfmeister. Huber's 2006 release of ''Fu ...

. Bhagwati studied composition at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater München The University of Music and Performing Arts Munich (german: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München), also known as the Munich Conservatory, is a performing arts conservatory in Munich, Germany. The main building it currently occupies is t ...

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with

Wilhelm Killmayer Wilhelm Killmayer (21 August 1927 – 20 August 2017) was a German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1973 to 1992. He composed symphonies and s ...

, and took master classes with Killmayer and

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, and with

Edison Denisov Edison Vasilievich Denisov (russian: Эдисо́н Васи́льевич Дени́сов, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music. B ...

at the

Lucerne Festival Lucerne Festival is one of the leading international festivals in the world of classical music and presents a series of classical music festivals based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Founded in 1938 by Ernest Ansermet and Walter Schulthess, it current ...

of 1991. He studied

computer music Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs. It includes the theory and ap ...

for one year at the

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...

."No body, no cry" Sandeep Bhagwati
Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik, Graz 2003 He studied further with

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and

Tristan Murail Tristan Murail (born 11 March 1947) is a French composer associated with the "spectral" technique of composition. Among his compositions is the large orchestral work ''Gondwana''. Early life and studies Murail was born in Le Havre, France. His fa ...

. From 1989 to 1991 Bhagwati organized a chamber concert series "KammerMusikUtopien" at the

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. He was a co-founder, with

Moritz Eggert Moritz Eggert (born 25 November 1965 in Heidelberg) is a German composer and pianist. Life Moritz Eggert began his studies in piano and composition in 1975 at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium in Frankfurt (with Wolfgang Wagenhaeuser and Claus Kü ...

, of the festival A*Devantgarde in 1991. From 1990 to 1992, together with

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, he was artistic director of the composers' workshop "AmateurKomponistenWerkstatt" of the

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, which had been established by

Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as t ...

. Bhagwati's opera in five acts'' Ramanujan'' with his own libretto on the life of the Indian mathematician

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(1887–1920) was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1998, as a co-production with the

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and

, in collaboration with the "Bayerische Theaterakademie" at the

Prinzregententheater The Prinzregententheater, or, as it was called in its first decades, the Prinz-Regenten-Theater, in English the Prince Regent Theatre, is a concert hall and opera house on Prinzregentenplatz in the Bavarian capital of Munich, Germany. Building ...

. " he story of Ramanujan couldbe used almost without any changes by a scriptwriter for a film", sais his British colleague B. M. Wilson in the 1930s.Ramanujan (1998)
Munich Biennale. Bhagwati's works were awarded prizes such as the "Europäischer Kompositionspreis der Akademie der Künste Berlin" and the Ernst-von-Siemens Förderpreis.List of past winners
of the Composers' Prize of the

Ernst von Siemens Foundation The Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (short: Siemens Music Prize, german: link=no, Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis) is an annual music prize given by the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts) on behalf of the Ernst vo ...

. Retrieved 2 April 2011. From 1995 to 1998 he worked at the IRCAM. In 1998 he was a guest composer at the

Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...

, in 1998/99 at the "Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie" Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz. and for the

Beethoven Orchester Bonn The Beethoven Orchester Bonn is a German symphony orchestra based in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia. It dates back to 1907, when a professional orchestra was established. Named for Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn, the orchestra's princ ...

. Bhagwati was from 2000 to 2003 Professor of composition at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. Since 2006 he has held the ''Canada Research Chair'' in ''Inter-X Art Practice and Theory'' at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the

Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...

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References

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Composer crosses borders, disciplines
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