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Hans Tutschku

Hans Tutschku’s works are out there! They have been performed in concert in Aberdeen, Albuquerque, Arc-et-Senans, Arras, Aveiro, Barcelona, Beijing, Belfast, Berkeley, Berlin, Birmingham, Blacksburg, Boston, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Cagliari, Calgary, Cambridge, Cambridge, Cologne, Córdoba, Corfu, Crest, Curitiba, Dresden, Edinburgh, Espoo, Essen, Evanston, Gainesville, Glasgow, Houston, Iowa City, Karlsruhe, Kraków, La Monnerie-le-Montel, Leicester, Lisbon, London, Lugano, Manchester, Marseille, Mendrisio, Mexico City, Monaco, Montpellier, Montréal, New York City, Nice, Nîmes, Oslo, Paris, Pistoia, Porto, Prague, Rethymno, Rome, Saarbrücken, Saignelégier, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Santiago, São Paulo, Shanghai, Sheffield, Stanford, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Tokyo, Toronto, Troy, Vienna, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Waltham, Weimar and Zurich…

Hans Tutschku is a composer of instrumental and electroacoustic music.

In 1982 he joined the Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar and later studied theatre and composition in Berlin and Dresden (Germany), The Hague (Netherlands), Paris (France), and Birmingham (England, UK). Since 2004 he has directed the electroacoustic studios at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA).

Improvisation with electronics has been a core activity over the past 35 years. He also collaborates in film, theatre, and dance productions and has participated in concert cycles with Karlheinz Stockhausen.

He is the winner of several international competitions, among others: Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Awards (France), Concurso de Composición Electroacústica Destellos (Argentina), Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo (CIMESP, Brazil), Giga-Hertz-Preis (Germany), Hanns-Eisler-Preis für Komposition und Interpretation zeitgenössischer Musik (Germany), Klang! (France), Prix Ars Electronica (Austria), Prix CIME, Prix Noroit-Léonce Petitot (France), and Musica Nova (Czech Republic). In 2005 he received the City of Weimar Culture Prize (Germany).

Besides his regular courses at the university, he has taught international workshops for musicians and non-musicians on aspects of art appreciation, listening, creativity, composition, improvisation, live electronics, and sound spatialization in more than 20 countries.

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Hans Tutschku

Weimar (Thüringen, Germany), 1966

Residence: Mijas (Spain)

  • Composer
  • Performer (keyboard)

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On the web

Hans Tutschku [Photo: Tony Rinaldo, Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), September 10, 2013]
Hans Tutschku [Photo: Tony Rinaldo, Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), September 10, 2013]

Calendar

Broadcasts

Date Work Programme
December 16, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 4: suspension (2022), 19:38 Bepi Crespan Presents / CITR Radio (Canada)
December 16, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 5: recollection (2022), 6:28 Bepi Crespan Presents / CITR Radio (Canada)
May 8, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 1: immersion (2016), 9:47 Tenor to Tabla / Asheville FM 103.3 (USA)
April 22, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 5: recollection (2022), 6:28 Indiedrome / Station Essence (France)
April 20, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 5: recollection (2022), 6:28 Radio FMR 89.1 Toulouse (France)
April 20, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 5: recollection (2022), 6:28 Indie Drome / Campus Grenoble 90.8 (France)
April 20, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 5: recollection (2022), 6:28 Indie_drome / Éko des Garrigues 88.5 (France)
April 19, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 3: abstraction (2022), 10:34 Zeit-Ton: Rückblick, Vorschau und aktuelle Veröffentlichungen / ÖRF Radio Österreich 1 (Austria)
April 19, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 5: recollection (2022), 6:28 Radio Dijon Campus 92.2 (France)
April 19, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 5: recollection (2022), 6:28 Generation Bip Hop / Jet FM 91.2 (France)
April 18, 2023 Hans Tutschku, pressure-divided (2015), 18:12 [8min] The Langham Research Centre Show / Resonance 104.4 FM (UK)
April 18, 2023 Hans Tutschku, Remembering Japan — Part 5: recollection (2022), 6:28 Indiedrome / Radio Panik 105.4 (Belgium)