Biography:
The Israeli-German composer Eres wood was born in Rechovot (near Tel Aviv) in 1977. From 1998 to 2002 he completed a bachelor's degree in composition with Ruben Seroussi at Tel Aviv University, supported by a scholarship for the gifted. From 2004 to 2012, he studied composition with Hanspeter Kyburz and computer music with Wolfgang Heiniger at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. He has been a lecturer in algorithmic composition there since 2008 and has also been an artistic project manager since 2019. From 2011 to 2012 he was artistic director of the music education project "Querklang", a cooperation project of the Berlin University of the Arts in cooperation with MaerzMusik, the festival for contemporary music. In 2008 he assisted in the project "European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies" coordinated by IRCAM at the Technical University of Berlin.
Eres Holz regularly receives grants, commissions and prizes. In 2020 and 2021 his MACH compositions were funded by Musikfonds eV and GEMA. In 2017 he was composer-in-residence at Deutschlandfunk and Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln. In 2013, 2014 and 2015 he received grants from the Berlin Senate. In 2014 his composition Four Shadows was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Composition Prize. In 2012 he received a residency grant at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and was nominated for the German Music Authors' Prize in the category of promoting young musicians. In 2005, 2008 and 2010 he was awarded the Hanns Eisler Prize. His works are regularly performed by well-known artists at festivals such as Ultrasonic Berlin, Impuls (Graz), Forum Neuer Musik (Cologne) or the SWR Now Music concerts and are recorded by Deutschlandfunk, RBB and other radio stations. Detailed portrait programs ran on numerous television and radio stations.
Eres Holz has been a member of the Academy of German Music Authors since 2014; from 2015 to 2018 he was a member of the jury for the »initiative new music berlin eV«; In 2020 he was appointed to the jury of the Berlin Senate for artistic promotion.
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