Composer
Biography:
Steve Reich, born in New York in 1936, has been one of the world's most influential composers since the early 1970s. Together with Terry Riley and Philip Glass, his work was the starting point for the overwhelming triumph of hypnotic minimal music, one of the fundamental currents in contemporary music creation. Reich can be regarded as the most complex representative of this direction, whose style stands out unmistakably in the perfect merging of speech and noise components and the fine gradation of timbre. The main elements of his work are complex rhythms and the art of imperceptibly gliding, trance-like transitions. Reich studied composition with Vincent Persichetti, William Bergsma, Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio. He intensively researched traditions of African drum music, Balinese gamelan music and Hebrew synagogue singing.
Albums:
Salzburg Biennale – Festival for New Music 2009:
Salzburg Biennale – Festival for New Music 2009:
