conductor & composer
Biography:
André Richard, composer, conductor and performer of live electronic music. Studied at the Geneva Conservatory and at the Musikhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau, composition studies with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough. Further studies for electronic music with Hans Peter Haller, at the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of the SWR Freiburg and at the IRCAM Paris.
Performances of his works e.g. at the world music festivals in Budapest, Frankfurt, Oslo and Essen. Teaching at the Geneva Conservatory and at the Freiburg Music Academy. For many years managing director of the Freiburg Institute for New Music. Numerous international concert engagements and awards.
1989-2005 artistic director of the EXPERIMENTAL STUDIOS of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR. With composers, performers and the studio team, he worked internationally on the development of numerous important new works with integrated live electronic means as well as sound director or conductor. Since the beginning of 2006 he has continued his activities on a freelance basis.
André Richard has won the Reinhold Schneider Prize (City of Freiburg Culture Prize, 1990), the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation Prize (Munich, 1994) and the European Culture Prize for New Music (1998).
Albums:
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO 40 Years Anthology Vol. 1:
Risonanze erranti – Post-prae-ludium per Danube:
Guai ai gelidi mostri - Quando stanno morendo. Diario Polacco n. 2:
