packend & fintenreich - beeindruckend, Herr Münz!

Beautiful near-romantic harmonies under a ragged surface…

It's rewarding to listen to this piece several times, lots of delicate ideas for the patient listener!!!

Thanks so much again, hdathome! Zagreb - it was great to meet my long-time friends Zdenka and Silvio Foretić (who formerly lived in Cologne), as well as composer colleagues Christina Athinodorou,  Daniele Gasparini, Elvira Garifzyanova, and Evan Gallagher. As we have not been introduced, I'd like to extend my thanks to the artistic director of the MBZ: Muzički biennale Zagreb / Music Biennale Zagreb for the premiere of my new piece "Ciascuno avrà i suoi 5 minuti" (2016) last Wednesday @Hrvatski glazbeni zavod. A special thank you goes also to the marvellous and dedicated musicians of the ad hoc group who played under Maestro Aleksandar Kalajdžić, and last but not least to Filip Fak who had to manage the superhuman task of premiering the solo parts of 10 different piano concertinos in a row.

Premiere: 26 April 2017, Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ), Filip Fak - piano, Festival Ensemble, Aleksandar Kalajdžić - conductor
The piece was selected in the MBZ's 2016 Composition Competition.
MIDI simulation of the piece (until the premiere recording will be made available by Zagreb)

ciascuno avrà i suoi 5 minuti

ciascuno avrà i suoi 5 minuti (piano+ensemble; 2016)

harald muenz (he/him)
is a german-italian transdisciplinary artist realising instrumental & vocal, peformative and radiophonic works with an artistic focus on phonetic composition & ars acustica.
harald's compositions have been commissioned by ensembles mosaik, auditivvokal, hand werk, apartment house, modern, musikfabrik; by radio stations such as hessischer rundfunk (hr2-kultur), westdeutscher rundfunk (wdr3), bbc, deutschlandfunk, dlf Kultur, among others.
harald's works have been performed and broadcast internationally and have been documented on several cds (portrait cd nearly-fast with ensemble mosaik at coviello contemporary).
frequent collaborations with experimental poets (florian neuner, mathias traxler, cristian forte, christian filips, roža domašcyna, among others)
on the vr platform 'second life', harald (aka cuirec d’erc) has realised several interactive sound installations and has been a member of the avatar orchestra metaverse (aom) since 2017.
harald is also active as a multilingual speech performer (trio sprechbohrer), author and lecturer.
harald's music has been occasionally described by others as ‘worldly,’ ‘non-conformist,’ or ‘provocative.’

https://haraldmuenz.carrd.co/
Work list on http://composers21.com/compdocs/muenzh.htm

Artist residencies
1996 Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf (Brandenburg/Germany)
2000 Villa Aurora (Los Angeles/USA)
2021 Künstlerhof Schreyahn (Niedersachsen/Germany)
2023 Atelier Galata (Istanbul/Turkey)

Studies
Composition at Music Universities in Cologne (J. Fritsch, K. Meyer, C. Barlow) and Stuttgart  (H. Lachenmann)
PhD in Composition from Brunel University London (J. Croft)
Phonetics at Cologne University’s Institute for Linguistics (G. Heike, G. Sachse)
„Cleaning the House“ Workshop by the Marina Abramović Institute

Teaching
2001-2005 Lecturer for Aesthetic Phonetics, Institute for Linguistics, University of Cologne (part-time)
2006-11 Artistic Director of Musikhochschule Lübeck's Studio for Electronic Music (part-time)
2005-16 Lecturer in Composition Brunel University London (full-time permanent)
2016 Decision to work as a full-time freelance composer again
2017-22 current Lecturer at International Ensemble Modern Academy Frankfurt/M. (IEMA; part-time)

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