Gerald Resch

On 1 March, Gerald Resch assumed his professorship in composition at the Department of Composition, Electroacoustics and Tonmeister Education.

Resch, who was born in Linz in 1975, studied from 1993 to 2000 at the mdw (harmony and counterpoint with Iván Eröd, composition with Michael Jarrell) and from 1995 to 1996 at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (composition with York Höller), and he pursued postgraduate work from 2001 to 2002 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (composition with Beat Furrer); he also studied musicology, philosophy, and art history.

Multiple study visits lasting several months each took him to the Humboldt University of Berlin as well as to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 1998. Furthermore, he was a scholar of the Istituto storico austriaco in Rome in 2001. He has been teaching at the Anton Bruckner Private University Upper Austria in Linz (contemporary music, music history, analysis, notation and playing techniques of contemporary music, instrumentation) since 2004 and at the mdw (applied harmony and counterpoint, ear training, musical form, and listening analysis at the Leonard Bernstein Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments) since 2008.

Resch is a recipient of various prizes and awards including the Erste Bank Composition Award (2011), the TONALI Award (Hamburg, 2014), and the Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for Music. Important works from recent years include Gullivers Reise (Oper Dortmund and Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Duisburg), String Quartet No.3 “attacca” (Vienna Musikverein), Hanni – Monologue with Music (Brucknerhaus Linz), and Die Entführung ins Zauberreich (Vienna State Opera). His compositions are published by Sikorski/Boosey & Hawkes Berlin.

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