Florian Hartlieb (*1982, Unna/Germany) is a german composer and multimedia artist. He lives and works in Bochum/Germany and Vienna/Austria. Florian Hartliebs compositions and Media Art were performed and broadcasted in Europe, Asia, South- and North America, in festivals such as ICMC (Huddersfield, 2011), Next Generation_4.0 (ZKM/Karlsruhe, 2011), ‘Tsonami’ (Buenos Aires, 2011), ‘EMU Festival’ (Roma, 2010), ’Sounding Out 5′ (Bournemouth, 2010), ‘EM Hoeren’ (Berlin, 2009) or ’Musicacoustica Beijing’ (Beijing , 2008).
He collaborated with different performers and ensembles like the Time Art Ensemble, the Wolpe Trio, pianists Maria Kallionpää or Andreas Link. He also worked with different artists , like visual artist Jürgen Heinrich Stutzinger, composer Prof. Wolfgang Hufschmidt, photographer Lena Hinckel, physical theatre artist Ramona Suresh, choreographer Joseph Russillo, the Junior ballet of the conservatoire de Paris and more. Since 2006, he is a member of the multimedia art project ‘Kybernetikon Ruhr’.
From 2006 to 2008 he had a scholarship from the Folkwang University for excellence. In 2009 he won the first prize in the ‘Jeu de Temps / Times Play’ (JTTP) Composition-Competition. In 2008 and 2010, he awarded scholarships from the Friends and Supporters of the Folkwang University of Arts. In 2011, his piece „Im vorderen Zimmer des hinteren Raums“ was published in Montreal by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) on the ‘Cache 2009′ Sampler.
From 2006 – 2011 he studied electronic- and media-composition at the ICEM (institute for computermusic and electronic media) of the Folkwang University in Essen, Germany with Prof. Thomas Neuhaus, Prof. Dietrich Hahne and Roman Pfeifer. He is holding a diploma in electronic composition. Since 2011, he is a PhD-Researcher at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he also studied compositon with Prof. Karlheinz Essl.
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