Harald Muenz

Born 1965 in Schwäbisch Hall / Germany, Harald studied composition under Helmut Lachenmann (1994-97), Krzysztof Meyer (1988-93), Johannes Fritsch, and Clarence Barlow, as well as in the Electronic Studio of Hochschule für Musik Cologne (Hans-Ulrich Humpert), and Cologne University’s Phonetic Institute (Georg Heike). Besides his international career as a composer of instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music, Harald is active as lecturer and author, and is the editor of a book on Italian composer Franco Evangelisti (Saarbrücken: Pfau, 2002). He was the Artistic Director of the Electronic Studio at Musikhochschule Lübeck and from 2001-2005 he was the module leader for Aesthetic Phonetics at Cologne University. His compositions are available on several CDs. Together with his vocal trio \"sprechbohrer\" he is performing speech art in various formats (Wergo CD 2011). In 2005, he joined the Centre for Contemporary Music Practice at Brunel University London as a full-time permanent lecturer with the focus on composition. He is an interdisciplinary artist commuting between Cologne and London.