studies
1976
musical lessons with Otto Laufner
(Georg-Büchner-Schule Darmstadt)
1977-82
first guitar lessons with Cord Meijering
1982-86
guitar studies with Olaf Van Gonnissen
(Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt)
1983-85
private composition studies with Cord Meijering and Dietrich Boekle
1985-89
composition studies with Toni Völker
(Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt)
1993-95
composition studies with Manfred Trojahn
(Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf)
1995-99
studies of electronic composition with Hans Ulrich Humpert
(Hochschule für Musik Köln)
awards
1990
at the "2nd International Composition Competition for Guitar Berlin"
for "Erdferne"
1990
at the "International Composition Competition of the Percussion Creativ Nuremberg"
for "ent/lang/tast/end"
(Jury: Wolfgang Ludewig, Werner Heider, Robert Wittinger, Martin Christoph Redel)
1991
at the "Composition Prize of the Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart for Young Composers"
for "Wir machen keinen langen Mist" and "Schlafmaus. Metall. 7."
(Jury: Harald Heilmann, Milko Kelemen, Rolf Hempel, Manfred Schreier, Klaus Huber, Wolfgang Ludewig, Walter Zimmermann)
1992
at the "1st International Composition Competition for Guitar and Strings"
for "Sprünge"
(Jury: Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Georg Katzer, Carlo Domeniconi, Walter Thomas Heyn, Frank Hill)
1993
at the "Contest for Orchestra Works to Commemorate the Semicentennial of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government"
for "Îsôt als blansche mains"
(Jury: Jacob Druckman, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michiyoshi Inoue, György Ligeti, Akira Miyoshi, Kazuyuki Toyama, Joji Yuasa)
photos
1996
residency scholarship from the Stiftung Kulturfonds for to stay at the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop
1998
residency scholarship to stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris
photo
2003
Moldau scholarship from the state of Hessen
photos
2012
residency scholarship to stay at the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice
(Jury: Peter Michael Hamel, Manfred Trojahn, Walter Zimmermann)
various
1988
participation in the "Forum of Young German Composers" Berlin
1989
participation in the composition course "Luigi Nono" at the Centre Acanthes, Avignon (France)
1994
working residency at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
1996
participation in the "Response" project in Frankfurt am Main
1996
co-founder and until 2001 co-organizer of the concert series "neue musik im alten theater" in Darmstadt
1998
participation in the "Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik"
1993, 2003 and 2004
finalist for the Villa Massimo scholarship from the state of Hessen
2010
nomination for the "Pfalzpreis für Musik"
short biography for program notes
Born 1961 in Darmstadt; 1982-86 guitar studies with Olaf Van Gonnissen (Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt); 1983-85 private composition studies with Cord Meijering and Dietrich Boekle; 1985-89 composition studies with Toni Völker (Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt); 1993-95 composition studies with Manfred Trojahn (Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf); 1995-99 studies of electronic composition with Hans Ulrich Humpert (Hochschule für Musik Köln); 2000 portrait CD (Melisma Wiesbaden), 2008 CD "Chamber Music with Guitar" (Dreyer.Gaido Münster); among his awards 1993 at "Contest for orchestra works to Commemorate the semicentennial of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government" for Îsôt als blansche mains, 1998 (scholarship to stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris) and 2012 (scholarship to stay at the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice); as of 2017 about 110 compositions for very different instrumental and vocal combinations, among others the operas The Wives of the Dead (Theater Erfurt 2013) and Unverhofftes Wiedersehen (Mainfranken Theater Würzburg 2017, Landestheater Linz 2018); further information: www.alois-broeder.de
