Composer, Conductor & Guitarist
Biography:
Detlef Heusinger, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1956, is one of the most versatile composers of his generation. He studied composition, conducting, musicology, German, philosophy, guitar, lute and piano in Bremen, Cologne and Freiburg. The most important teachers were Hans Werner Henze and Klaus Huber (composition), Francis Travis (conducting) and Hubert Käppel (guitar). He has received numerous awards for his compositional work, such as the Music Prize of the City of Stuttgart, the Villa Massimo Scholarship (Rome) and that of the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. From 1990 to 1996 he taught at the Music Academy in Bremen and then worked as a guest lecturer at the Music University in Vienna, Harvard University, London's Goldsmith University and the Université de Montreal.
At the center of his compositional work are music theater works such as The tower (1989, Theater Bremen / RB), Babel (1997, Schwetzingen SWR Festival, National Theater Mannheim / SWR), Lulu / Alban Berg – Act 3 (2019, Theater Bremen) and the dance theater pieces Material fatigue (1989, Stuttgart Ballet) and Volx Muzak (1993, Bochum theatre, Reinhild Hoffmann Company). With Pandora I & II he designed his first video opera for Radio Bremen in 1993, which was released in 2001 deluge at the Donaueschinger Musiktage.
As a composer, conductor or director he has appeared at festivals as diverse as Ars Electronica (Austria), Berliner Festwochen, Borealis Festival (Bergen, Norway), Bregenz Festival, KLANG Festival (Copenhagen), musica nova Helsinki, Romaeuropa Festival, SMCQ Festival (Montreal ), Salzburg Festival, TIME:SPANS (New York) and the Warsaw Autumn. Interpreters of his compositions include the Arditti Quartet, Auryn Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Resonanz, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Dal Niente, the Israel Contemporary Players, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, RSO Vienna, DSO Berlin and the SWR Symphony Orchestra.
Detlef Heusinger has been the artistic director of the SWR Experimentalstudio since 2006. In 2011 he founded the Ensemble Experimental.
Albums:
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO 40 Years Anthology Vol. 1:
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO 40 Years Anthology Vol. 2:
Risonanze erranti – Post-prae-ludium per Danube:
