ˈhaːʁalt mʏnt͡s
Cologne
Harald Muenz, b. 1965, studied under Helmut Lachenmann, Johannes Fritsch, Clarence Barlow, Krzysztof Meyer, Hans-Ulrich Humpert and Martin Redel, as well as Italian and Aesthetic Phonetics (Georg Heike) at Cologne University. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from Brunel University London. Harald’s music has been performed internationally, by important musicians, amongst others by ensemble mosaik (Berlin), KNM (Berlin), hand werk (Cologne), Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Apartment House (London), Alter Ego (Rome), musikFabrik (Cologne), Neue Vocalsolisten (Stuttgart), and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. His works have been heard at numerous festivals (among others at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Musikbiennale Zagreb, Ultraschall Berlin, etc.) and have been broadcast nationally and internationally (all German NPR stations, BBC, RAI, etc.).
He has received many bursaries and prizes, including the Research Grant NRW, Förderpreis Musik NRW, Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Stipendium Köln, and the Villa Aurora Los Angeles grant by the German Secretary of State. CDs with his music appeared under Coviello (portrait CD), Cybele Records and Wergo, among others. The music magazine MusikTexte (vol. 103, Nov. 2004) focused on his work; scores appeared at Feedback Studio in Cologne. He is a member of sprechbohrer, a vocal trio performing speech sound art, which realised the first integral performance of Hans G Helms's legendary Fa:m' Ahniesgwow (Wergo, German Record Critics' Award Quarterly List 3/2011, The Wire Top Ten Picks 2011). 2018 he became a member of the aom (Avatar Orchestra Metaverse) on the virtual reality platform Second Life.
Harald is also active as lecturer and author, and is the editor of a book on Italian composer Franco Evangelisti (Saarbrücken: Pfau, 2002). For five years he was the Artistic Director of the Electronic Studio at Musikhochschule Lübeck.
2001-2005 he was the module leader for Aesthetic Phonetics at Cologne University.
2005-2016, he was a full-time permanent faculty member in the School of Arts (Centre for Contemporary Music Practice) at Brunel University London with the focus on composition before going free-lance again.
Work list on www.haraldmuenz.eu
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