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Sandeep Bhagwati

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Indian-German composer of mostly stage, chamber and multimedia works that have been performed worldwide; he is also active as a conductor, theatre director, university researcher, curator, performer, visual artist and writer.

Bhagwati studied Composition with Edison Denisov and Boguslaw Schäffer and Conducting with Kurt Prestel at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 1984-87 and Composition with Wilhelm Killmayer at the Musikhochschule Munich from 1987-90, where he graduated with distinction. 1995-96 Cursus annuel de Composition et Informatique Musicale, IRCAM, Paris, where he encountered Brian Ferneyhough and Tristan Murail.

Among his numerous honors are the European Composition Prize from the Academy of Arts Berlin (1991, for Variations) and the Ernst-von-Siemens-Förderpreis (1992, 2003).

He has served as a fellow at IRCAM (1997-98) and ZKM in Karlsruhe (1998-99) and has served as composer-in-residence at Royaumont (1997), the Abbaye de la Prée (1997) and Darmstadt (2003), to the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (1999-2000), at the Villa Concordia Bamberg (2004/5), to the California Institute of the Arts (2007), to Turku Music Academy (2009) and to Heidelberg University (2009).

His mostly evening-length compositions have been featured at many leading festivals, including the Munich Biennale (1998), Éclat Stuttgart (1999), Millennium Sangat Mumbai (2000), maerzmusik Berlin (2002, 2005), Darmstadt Spring Festival (2003), Venice Biennale (2006), World New Music Festival (2006) and Wien Modern (2008). His in situ installation-performances could be experienced in Klagenfurt (1994/2005), Linz (1995), Munich (1995), Paris (1997), Stuttgart (1999), Ulm (2000), Berlin (2000), Karlsruhe (2002), Montreal (2007), Los Angeles (2007) and Vienna (2008)

As a writer, Sandeep Bhagwati has written many articles for European and Indian publications, many of which appear in the collection Komponieren im 21. Jahrhundert (1998, Kunstuniversität Graz). He is also a regular contributor of music programs to German public-radio stations. As a performer, he has often participated in many aspects of his own installation-performances, and has also designed and redefined concert spaces for his site-specific works and, as a stage director, has directed several plays, music theatres and performance events. As a conductor, he has mainly led performances of his own work.

He served as artistic director of the concert series Kammer-Musik-Utopien in Munich in 1989-90 and with Moritz Eggert, he co-founded the biannual new music festival A•DEvantgarde in Munich in 1991 and served as its artistic director from 1991-95. He also assisted Hans Werner Henze and Gerd Kühr with workshops at the Münchener Biennale from 1992-94 and founded the festival KlAngRiffe – Festival for Risky Music in Karlsruhe in 2003.

With Gauri Tripathi and the Ondine Ensemble, he gave composition and dance workshops for children in London in 1993 and 1997. He led zukunft@bphil composition workshops for Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2004/2005.

He has served as the curator of contemporaryXchange since 2001, a project of Ensemble Modern and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, which promotes the creative exchange of Indian musicians and new music and has been highlighted at festivals throughout Europe and India, most recently at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in 2008. In addition, he served as the curator of the festival Rasalîla-Spiel der Gefühle in Berlin in 2003, which featured the results of this exchange process, as well as newly-commissioned works by composers of the Indian diaspora.

Since 2006, he is Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art at Concordia University Montréal where he directs matralab, a research node for interdisciplinary, intercultural, intermedia art. He taught as Professor für Komposition und Multimedia at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe from 2000-2003. He also taught as a visiting professor of electronic music at the Institut für Elektronische Musik of the Universität Graz in 1998.

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