Professional activity: Composers, Improvisers, Interpreters
Biography
* 25. 05. 1994 Wörgl (Österreich), Österreich.
Christian Spitzenstaetter's path as a performer leads him from classical solo and chamber music to jazz and especially to contemporary, improvised, and conceptual music. As a composer, he has been able to create works commissioned by Jeunesse Österreich, Academia Vocalis and the Tiroler Festspiele Erl, among others. His first big opera "STILLHANG" was awarded the Austrian Music Theater Prize in the category "Best Premiere/First Performance" in August 2020. As a conductor, he has performed with Camerata Salzburg, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Brandenburger Symphoniker, orchestra giovane and Orchester KOMP.ART, among others. In December 2020, he received the "Tschumi Prize" for the best degree in the Master of Arts in Specialized Music Performance | Soloist at the Bern University of the Arts. Since 2022 he is a member of the Compagnie Merce & John and since June 2023, he is the president of the Swiss Music Edition SME.
Source of the biography: Christian Spitzenstaetter
Source of the profile picture: Nicole Benz
Work list
Clareffects (2010)
Instrumentation: für Klarinette
Manuscript
MAY 25 (2011-2019)
Instrumentation: für Alt-Saxophon oder Bassklarinette und Klavier
Duration: 5' 00" Manuscript
nicht nichts - nichts nicht (2012)
Instrumentation: für Klavier
Duration: 3' 00" Manuscript
Paraphrase über die Kreutzer-Sonaten (2013)
Instrumentation: für Klarinette in A
Duration: 8' 00" Manuscript
Matsch im Kopf (2014)
Instrumentation: für Violine
Duration: 2' 00" Manuscript
ankunfts-studie nr. 1 (2015)
Instrumentation: für Orgel
Duration: 7' 00" Manuscript
MAX & MORITZ - eine kinderoper in 7 streichen (2015-2016)
Kinderoper nach der berühmten Lausbubengeschichte von Wilhelm Busch