{"id":12731,"date":"2024-06-04T08:07:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T06:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/ammann-dieter\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:04:57","slug":"ammann-dieter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/ammann-dieter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ammann, Dieter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dieter Ammann was born in Aarau in 1962. He grew up in a very musical family. After graduating from high school, he studied school music\/conducting (Lucerne) and at the same time completed a course at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern. The 1980s and early 90s were characterized by Europe-wide concert activities and recordings in the field of jazz\/improvised music, with artists as diverse as Eddie Harris (CD Yeah, you right) and Udo Lindenberg.<\/p>\n

This was followed by studies in theory\/composition at the Basel Music Academy (Roland Moser, Detlev M\u00fcller-Siemens) with courses with Witold Lutoslawski, Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Schnebel and Niccolo Castiglioni.<\/p>\n

At the age of 30, he turned to composition. Due to his scrupulous and slow approach to his work, a commissioned work can take two years or more to complete. He has received numerous national and international awards for his chamber music and orchestral works, including grants from the Aargau Board of Trustees, the Canton of Lucerne, the Franz Liszt Scholarship from the \u201cWeimar European Capital of Culture\u201d Foundation, the main prize from the IBLA Foundation New York (in honor of L. Berio) and the \u201cYoung composers in Europe\u201d competition (Leipzig), the Ernst von Siemens Prize for Composition, the Swiss Music Prize and the AZ Media Prize for Culture.<\/p>\n

Master classes have taken him to the universities of Cologne, Weimar, Karlsruhe, St. Petersburg, New York University, Rosario and La Plata, among others. He is in demand as a lecturer at the International Impulse Academy Graz or, together with Wolfgang Rihm, at the Composers Seminar of the Lucerne Festival Academy and leads a composition class at the Lucerne School of Music.<\/p>\n

Ammann has received invitations as composer-in-residence to festivals such as the Davos Festival, Les Mus\u00e9iques Festival, the Lucerne Festival, Wittener Tage f\u00fcr neue Kammermusik, Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, the ReMusica Festival St. Petersburg, Tongyeong International Music Festival and the Weywuying Festival.
In addition to the renowned Swiss orchestras (Tonhalle, Philharmonia Zurich, Lucerne, Basel, Bern, Suisse Romande), his works have been performed by orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia London, Helsinki Philharmonic, Mariinsky Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, DSO Berlin, WDR, Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Ensemble intercontemporain, Quatuor Diotima, Mondrian Ensemble, ensemble recherche, conducted by Pierre Boulez, George Benjamin, Jonathan Nott, Baldur Br\u00f6nnimann, Sylvain Cambreling, James Gaffigan, Valery Gergiev, Pablo Heras-Casado, Susanna M\u00e4lkki, Sakari Oramo, Matthias Pintscher, Emilio Pomarico, David Robertson, Peter Rundel, Michael Sanderling, Markus Stenz, Mario Venzago and many others.
Artists such as Carolin Widmann, Andreas Haefliger, Michael Barenboim, Tabea Zimmermann, Nils M\u00f6nkemeyer, and Maximilian Hornung interpret his solo pieces and concertos.<\/p>\n

Ammann\u2019s works are published by B\u00e4renreiter Verlag and Swiss Music Edition SME\/musinfo.ch<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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