Karlheinz Essl
BIO
Karlheinz Essl (* 1960 in Vienna) is a composer, electronic performer and media artist. He studied composition with Friedrich Cerha and musicology in Vienna and received his doctorate on Anton Webern in 1989. Composer-in-residence at the Darmstadt Summer Courses, IRCAM in Paris and the Salzburg Festival. Since 2007 Professor for Electroacoustic Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
In addition to instrumental works and compositions with live electronics, he develops generative composition software, improvisation concepts, sound installations and performances. As an improviser, he performs with self-developed software instruments and with analog modular synthesizers.
