Univ.-Prof.
Achim Bornhoeft
Achim Bornhoeft is Professor of Composition at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where he also directs the Electronic Music Studio and the festival Crossroads for European composition students and young ensembles. His artistic work focuses on instrumental music with live electronics, electronic music, computer-assisted composition and contemporary choreography.
Achim Bornhoeft studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. His compositions are performed at international festivals in Germany and abroad by performers such as Irvine Arditti, Reinhold Friedrich and Robin Schulkowsky, as well as by ensembles including Aventure, Mosaik, Phorminx, OENM, NAMES and Taller Sonoro, and orchestras such as the HR Symphony Orchestra and the Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra. His works have been presented at festivals including the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Ultraschall Berlin, the Daegu International Musical Festival, the Dialoge Festival Salzburg, Klangspuren Schwaz and the Warsaw Autumn.
Lecture and concert tours have taken him to festivals such as the Roaring Hoofs Festival, Silk Sound Road Festival, 2 Days & 2 Nights, Cracking Bamboo and the Music Biennale Zagreb.
Achim Bornhoeft has given masterclasses and taught at universities in Riga, Parma, Lisbon, Salamanca, Seoul, Mexico City, Bari, Cape Town, Seville, Milan and Riva del Garda.
- 2003: Studio grant at Mummelsee (fine arts)
- 2001: Working grant / guest artist, Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe
- 2000: Selection of the dance piece "Ellis Is.", Theatre Festival "Theaterzwang 2000"
- 1999 : Selection of the dance piece "Ellis Is.", "Blue Bridge" Competition, Dresden Center for Contemporary Music
- 1998: Annual grant from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation, Südwestfunk Baden Baden
- 1995: Selection of the piece Brentano, Wiegenlied for the World Music Days 1995
- 1994 - 1995: DAAD scholarship, Computer Center for Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, USA
- 1993: Folkwang Prize for composition
- 1991: 1. Federal University Competition Composition, Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy Prize
- 1990: 1st Prize composition competition of the Cooperativa Neue Musik (CNM)
- 1987: 1st Prize Forum of Young German Composers