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Daniel Ott (born 6 September 1960) is a Swiss composer.


Career

Born in Grub AR,
Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden ( ; ; ; ), in English sometimes Appenzell Outer Rhodes, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of twenty municipalities. The seat of the government and parliament is Herisau, a ...
, Ott graduated in 1980. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the regions of Basel and Graubünden and worked in independent theatre groups. From 1983 to 1985, he studied theatre in Paris and London. From 1985 to 1990, he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber at the
Folkwang University of the Arts The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in ...
and with
Klaus Huber Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saaria ...
at the
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg The Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ("University of Music Freiburg or Freiburg Conservatory of Music") is a public music academy subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg for academic research and artistic and pedagogical training in music. ...
. Since 1990, Daniel Ott has been working as a freelance composer, pianist and performer with a focus on new music theatre and interdisciplinary and space and landscape-related works. In 1999/2000, Ott created the full-length music theatre cycle ''ojota I-IV''. In 2000 he wrote ''klangkörperklang'' - music for the by
Peter Zumthor Peter Zumthor (; born 26 April 1943) is a Swiss architect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist. Though managing a relatively small firm and not being a prolific architect, he is the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Pri ...
. This was followed by landscape compositions for the harbour
Sassnitz Sassnitz (, before 1993 in ) is a town on the Jasmund peninsula, Rügen Island, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The population as of 2012 was 9,498. Sassnitz is a well-known seaside resort and port town, and is a gateway to th ...
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Rügen Rügen (; Rani: ''Rȯjana'', ''Rāna''; , ) is Germany's largest island. It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic ci ...
(2002), the place of pilgrimage Heiligkreuz/Entlebuch (2003), the river Neisse between Görlitz and Zgorzelec (2005) and the Rhine port of Basel (2006). From 1995 to 2004, Ott held a teaching position for
experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...
at the
Universität der Künste Berlin The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...
, where he founded the KlangKunstBühne summer academy in 2003. Since 2005, he has been professor for composition and experimental music theatre at the
Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...
. He founded the Festival for
Neue Musik Neue Musik (English ''new music'', French ''nouvelle musique'') is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around 1910 to the present. Its focus is on compositions of 20th century music. It is char ...
in Rümlingen in 1990 and is a member of the board. In 2016, Ott took over the artistic direction of the
Munich Biennale The Munich Biennale () is a contemporary opera and music theatre festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is ''Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater'', literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial f ...
together with the composer Manos Tsangaris (successor to Peter Ruzicka).''Doppelspitze für Münchner Biennale.''
In '' handelsblatt.com''. 18 October 2012, retrieved 28 August 2020.


Publications

* ''Ein gesamtkunstwerk-ähnliches Live-Erlebnis. Zur Musik von Daniel Ott für den Klangkörper Schweiz'', by Thomas Gartmann. In Antonio Baldessarre (ed.): Musik.Raum.Akkord.Bild. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Dorothea Baumann. Bern: Lang, 2012, * ''Composing with Raw Materials: Daniel Ott’s Music-theatre Portraits and Landscapes'', by Christa Brüstle. In Rebstock / Roesner (ed.): Composed Theatre. Aesthetics, Practices, Processes. UK, 2012. * ''Vom Hafenbecken auf die Schafmatt. Daniel Ott:Ein Portrait'', by Thomas Meyer. In ''Dissonance'' Nr. 113, March 2011 * ''Sound Studies. Traditionen – Methoden – Desiderate. Eine Einführung.'' With contributions from Sam Auinger, Roger Behrens, Diedrich Diederichsen, Florian Dombois, Wolfgang Ernst, Golo Föllmer, Thomas Hermann, Daniel Ott, Holger Schulze, Martin Supper, Elena Ungeheuer, Carl-Frank Westermann among others. Ed. by Holger Schulze Bielefeld 2008, 316 p. transcript Verlag. * ''Geballte Gegenwart. Experiment Neue Musik Rümlingen'', ed. by Daniel Ott, Lukas Ott, Lydia Jeschke 232 pages, numerous colour illustrations, with 140 minutes of music on two CDs Christoph Merian-Verlag 2005. * ''Klangkörperbuch'' Lexikon zum Pavillon der schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft an der EXPO 2000 in Hannover Peter Zumthor with Plinio Bachmann, Karoline Gruber, Ida Gut, Daniel Ott, Max Rigendinger. Edited by Roderick Hönig. Basel; Boston; Berlin Birkhäuser, 2000. * ''Klangkunst – Musiktheater. Musik im Dialog II, ojota – Schuhe, Schritte, Wege.'' A conversation between Daniel Ott and Matthias Rebstock, Yearbook of the Berlin Society for Music 1999, ed. by S. Sanio, B. Wackernagel, J. Ravenna. Pfau Verlag. * ''Das Musiktheater – Exempel der Kunst'' Ed. Otto Kolleritsch. Contribution by Daniel Ott: Voraussetzungen für ein neues Musiktheater-Gesamtkunstwerk. Studien zur Wertungsforschung, vol. 38. Universal-Edition 26838. . * ''Hörgeschichten: neue musik ganz schön vielseitig. Europäischer Musikmonat 2001.'' Ed. Europäischer Musikmonat. Beitrag von Daniel Ott: Gedankensplitter zu Klangserve. Opinio Verlag AG, Basel. .


Further reading

* ''Klangkörperbuch'' Lexikon zum Pavillon der schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft an der EXPO 2000 in Hannover. Peter Zumthor mit Plinio Bachmann, Karoline Gruber, Ida Gut, Daniel Ott, Max Rigendinger, eds. Roderick Hönig. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser 2000. . * ''Musik im Dialog II ojota – Schuhe, Schritte, Wege. Ein Gespräch zwischen Daniel Ott und Matthias Rebstock.'' Ed. S. Sanio, B. Wackernagel, J. Ravenna. Jahrbuch der Berliner Gesellschaft für Musik 1999. .


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