Mano
Tsangaris
was
born
in
Düsseldorf
in
1956
and
studied
composition
and
New
Music
Theatre
with
Mauricio
Kagel
and
percussion
with
Christoph
Caskel
at
the
Musikhochschule
(Academy of Music) in Cologne.
Since
the
1970s,
Manos
Tsangaris
has
consistently
made
the
conditions
of
a
performance
the
central
focus
for
compositions in various artistic formats.
In
1991,
Tsangaris
was
Composer
in
Residence
in
Moscow
at
the
invitation
of
the
Soviet
Union
of
Composers.
In
the
same
year,
he
initiated
the
“Praemoderne”
congress
in
Cologne.
In
1991
he
received
the
Bernd
Alois
Zimmermann
Grant
from
the
City
of
Cologne,
and
in
1993/94
a
grant
from
the
“Akademie
Schloss
Solitude”,
Stuttgart.
In
1997
he
was
presented
with
the
Art
Award
of
the
Berlin
Academy
of
Arts.
In
1998
he
stayed
at
the
Villa
Serpentara,
Olevano,
and
in
2009
he was guest of honour at the Villa Massimo in Rome.
In
1991
he
lectured
at
the
summer
academy
Civitella
d'Agliano
(Italy),
in
2002
he
taught
transdisciplinary
composition
at
NY
Musikk
in
Oslo
and
Stavanger
(Norway)
and
in
2003
at
the
KlangKunstBühne
summer
academy
of
the
Berlin
University
of
the
Arts.
In
2007/08
he
was
in
charge
of
the
academy
project
of
the
European
Center
of
the
Arts
in
Dresden
at
the
Hellerau
Festival Centre with 20 recipients of grants.
Manos
Tsangaris's
compositions
are
regularly
performed
at
internationally
renowned
festivals
such
as
the
Donaueschingen
Festival,
Witten
Festival
for
New
Chamber
Music,
the
Belgrade
International
Theatre
Festival,
the
Ultima
Festival
in
Oslo,
the
“TonLagen”
festival
in
Dresden,
the
Warsaw
Autumn
Festival
and
in
theatres
and
opera
houses
in
Cologne,
New
York,
Mannheim,
Dresden
and
Berlin.
Manos
Tsangaris
has
also
often
been
commissioned
by
German
radio
broadcasters
to
write
compositions.
Among
other
things,
he
composed
a
large-scale
orchestral
work
for
the
10th
anniversary
of
the
Cologne
Philharmonie
concert
hall.
For
his
multi-site
theatre
piece
“Batsheba.
Eat
the
History!”,
first
performed
in
2009
at
the
Donaueschingen
Festival,
Manos
Tsangaris
received
the
composition
prize
awarded
by
the
SWR
Symphony
Orchestra.
Since
1990,
his
installations
and
other
art
works
have
been
regularly
exhibited
by
important
galleries
and
museums
in
Germany
and
abroad.
The
Cologne
Diözesanmuseum
and
the
Odense
Art
Gallery
(Denmark),
among
other
venues,
have
devoted
solo
exhibitions
to
his
work.
Concert
tours have taken him to many countries in Europe, to North America and to Asia.
From
2002
to
2007,
Manos
Tsangaris
was
artistic
advisor
to
the
director
of
the
Cologne
Schauspielhaus.
Since
2004,
he
has
taught
at
the
International
Holiday
Courses
for
New
Music
in
Darmstadt,
and
since
2008
he
has
been
the
guest
curator
for
sound
in
Kolumba,
the
art
gallery
of
the
archdiocese
of
Cologne.
In
2009,
he
was
appointed
as
professor
of
composition
at
the
Hochschule
für
Musik
(University
of
Music)
in
Dresden.
In
the
same
year,
he
was
elected
as
a
full
member
of
the
Berlin
Academy
of
Arts,
where
he
has
headed
the
music
department
since
2012.
In
2010
Manos
Tsangaris
was
elected
as
a
full
member
of
the
Sächsische
Akademie
der
Künste
(Saxon
Academy
of
Arts),
and
in
2011
as
the
deputy
secretary
in
the
music
category
there.
In
2011,
he
founded
the
“International
Institute
for
Artistic
Investigation”
and
undertook
research
in
the
area
of
scenic
anthropology.
In
the
study
year
2012/13
Tsangaris
is
Artist
in
Residence
at
the Zurich University of the Arts (Master's course Transdisciplinarity).
Since
October
2012,
he
has
been
artistic
director
of
the
Munich
Biennale
for
New
Music
Theatre
from 2016 (together with Daniel Ott).
For
the
semester
2017/18,
Manos
Tsangaris
was
awarded
the
title
"Visiting
Professor
of
Norges
musikkhggole" by the Academy of Music of Oslo.
“Manos
Tsangaris's
compositional
work
focuses
on
the
question
of
how
the
various
media-related
areas
of
human
perception
can
be
meaningfully
combined.
In
the
process,
the
activity
of
composing
does
not
just
refer
to
placing
things
together
(com-posing),
but
at
the
same
time
to
the
preceding
experimental
exploration
of
the
interfaces
where
media
connections
are
made
possible
in
the
first
place.
This
expansion
of
the
traditional
concept
of
composition
is
matched
by
the
variety
of
the
possible
results.
In
the
past
25
years,
in
addition
to
musical
compositions,
Tsangaris
has
created
poems,
prose,
installations
and
other
art
works.
Although
his
works
in
the
field
of
language
and
pictures
can
very
much
be
seen
as
independent
in
their
own
right,
their
combination
and
synthesis
in
a
form
of
universally
understood
music
theatre
is
the
central
element of his artistic activity.”
(Raoul Mörchen)
Manos
Tsangaris
was
born
in
1956.
He
is
is
composer,
drummer
and
installation
artist,
one
of
the
most
important
representatives
of
experimental
music
theatre.
His
compositions
are
internationally acclaimed and have been performed at several renowned festivals and theatres.
In
2009
he
was
appointed
professor
of
composition
at
the
Hochschule
für
Musik
Carl
Maria
von
Weber
Dresden,
and,
in
the
same
year,
elected
as
a
member
of
the
Akademie
der
Künste
Berlin
(director
of
the
music
department
in
2012).
He
has
been
a
member
of
the
Sächsische
Akademie
der Künste since 2010 and a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2017.
Tsangaris
was
artist-in-residence
at
the
Zurich
University
of
the
Arts
(ZHdK)
for
the
2012-13
academicyear;
he
has,
since
October
2012,
been
artistic
director
(from
2016)
for
the
Munich
Biennalefor Music Theatre (together with Daniel Ott).
In
the
academic
year
2017/18
Tsangaris
is
Visiting
Professor
at
the
Norwegian
Academy
of
Music
in Oslo.
Tsangaris
founded
the
Internationale
Institut
für
Kunstermittlung
(www.iike.de).
He
has
done
research in the field of scenic anthropology.
Since
the
1970s,
he
has
repeatedly
taken
performance
conditions
to
be
an
essential
theme
of
his
compositional work, expressed in different artistic formats.
short biography
short biography below
biography
The works of Manos Tsangaris are edited by Edition Peters.
biography
Mano
Tsangaris
was
born
in
Düsseldorf
in
1956
and
studied
composition
and
New
Music
Theatre
with
Mauricio
Kagel
and
percussion
with
Christoph
Caskel
at
the
Musikhochschule
(Academy
of
Music)
in Cologne.
Since
the
1970s,
Manos
Tsangaris
has
consistently
made
the
conditions
of
a
performance
the
central
focus
for
compositions
in
various
artistic
formats.
In
1991,
Tsangaris
was
Composer
in
Residence
in
Moscow
at
the
invitation
of
the
Soviet
Union
of
Composers.
In
the
same
year,
he
initiated
the
“Praemoderne”
congress
in
Cologne.
In
1991
he
received
the
Bernd
Alois
Zimmermann
Grant
from
the
City
of
Cologne,
and
in
1993/94
a
grant
from
the
“Akademie
Schloss
Solitude”,
Stuttgart.
In
1997
he
was
presented
with
the
Art
Award
of
the
Berlin
Academy
of
Arts.
In
1998
he
stayed
at
the
Villa
Serpentara,
Olevano,
and
in
2009
he
was guest of honour at the Villa Massimo in Rome.
In
1991
he
lectured
at
the
summer
academy
Civitella
d'Agliano
(Italy),
in
2002
he
taught
transdisciplinary
composition
at
NY
Musikk
in
Oslo
and
Stavanger
(Norway)
and
in
2003
at
the
KlangKunstBühne
summer
academy
of
the
Berlin
University
of
the
Arts.
In
2007/08
he
was
in
charge
of
the
academy
project
of
the
European
Center
of
the
Arts
in
Dresden at the Hellerau Festival Centre with 20 recipients of grants.
Manos
Tsangaris's
compositions
are
regularly
performed
at
internationally
renowned
festivals
such
as
the
Donaueschingen
Festival,
Witten
Festival
for
New
Chamber
Music,
the
Belgrade
International
Theatre
Festival,
the
Ultima
Festival
in
Oslo,
the
“TonLagen”
festival
in
Dresden,
the
Warsaw
Autumn
Festival
and
in
theatres
and
opera
houses
in
Cologne,
New
York,
Mannheim,
Dresden
and
Berlin.
Manos
Tsangaris
has
also
often
been
commissioned
by
German
radio
broadcasters
to
write
compositions.
Among
other
things,
he
composed
a
large-scale
orchestral
work
for
the
10th
anniversary
of
the
Cologne
Philharmonie
concert
hall.
For
his
multi-site
theatre
piece
“Batsheba.
Eat
the
History!”,
first
performed
in
2009
at
the
Donaueschingen
Festival,
Manos
Tsangaris
received
the
composition
prize
awarded
by
the
SWR
Symphony Orchestra.
Since
1990,
his
installations
and
other
art
works
have
been
regularly
exhibited
by
important
galleries
and
museums
in
Germany
and
abroad.
The
Cologne
Diözesanmuseum
and
the
Odense
Art
Gallery
(Denmark),
among
other
venues,
have
devoted
solo
exhibitions
to
his
work.
Concert
tours
have
taken
him
to
many
countries
in
Europe,
to
North
America
and
to Asia.
From
2002
to
2007,
Manos
Tsangaris
was
artistic
advisor
to
the
director
of
the
Cologne
Schauspielhaus.
Since
2004,
he
has
taught
at
the
International
Holiday
Courses
for
New
Music
in
Darmstadt,
and
since
2008
he
has
been
the
guest
curator
for
sound
in
Kolumba,
the
art
gallery
of
the
archdiocese
of
Cologne.
In
2009,
he
was
appointed
as
professor
of
composition
at
the
Hochschule
für
Musik
(University
of
Music)
in
Dresden.
In
the
same
year,
he
was
elected
as
a
full
member
of
the
Berlin
Academy
of
Arts,
where
he
has
headed
the
music
department
since
2012.
In
2010
Manos
Tsangaris
was
elected
as
a
full
member
of
the
Sächsische
Akademie
der
Künste
(Saxon
Academy
of
Arts),
and
in
2011
as
the
deputy
secretary
in
the
music
category
there.
In
2011,
he
founded
the
“International
Institute
for
Artistic
Investigation”
and
undertook
research
in
the
area
of
scenic
anthropology.
In
the
study
year
2012/13
Tsangaris
is
Artist
in
Residence
at
the
Zurich
University
of
the
Arts
(Master's course Transdisciplinarity).
Since
October
2012,
he
has
been
artistic
director
of
the
Munich
Biennale
for New Music Theatre from 2016 (together with Daniel Ott).
For
the
semester
2017/18,
Manos
Tsangaris
was
awarded
the
title
"Visiting
Professor
of
Norges
musikkhggole"
by
the
Academy
of
Music
of
Oslo.
“Manos
Tsangaris's
compositional
work
focuses
on
the
question
of
how
the
various
media-related
areas
of
human
perception
can
be
meaningfully
combined.
In
the
process,
the
activity
of
composing
does
not
just
refer
to
placing
things
together
(com-posing),
but
at
the
same
time
to
the
preceding
experimental
exploration
of
the
interfaces
where
media
connections
are
made
possible
in
the
first
place.
This
expansion
of
the
traditional
concept
of
composition
is
matched
by
the
variety
of
the
possible
results.
In
the
past
25
years,
in
addition
to
musical
compositions,
Tsangaris
has
created
poems,
prose,
installations
and
other
art
works.
Although
his
works
in
the
field
of
language
and
pictures
can
very
much
be
seen
as
independent
in
their
own
right,
their
combination
and
synthesis
in
a
form
of
universally
understood
music
theatre is the central element of his artistic activity.”
(Raoul Mörchen)
The works of Manos Tsangaris are edited by Edition Peters.
short biography below
