Lukas Ligeti

Lukas Ligeti ( born June 13, 1965 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer and jazz musician (drums) of Hungarian origin.

Life and work

Although Ligeti ( his father was the composer György Ligeti ) comes from a musical family, he studied only since 1983 with more intense music. In 1988 he took part in a workshop by John Zorn, but also at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. In 1991, he completed an improvisation course of David Moss and a course in composition with George Crumb. In 1993 he completed his studies in composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with honors with Erich Urbanner. A supplementary course for Master joined up in 1994.

Ligeti -founded with Christian Minkowitsch, Friedrich Neubarth and Alexander Wagendristel 1988, the improvisation ensemble Things of NowNow, with whom he performed until 1991. Furthermore, he was one of the early 1990s to the group Kombinat M ( with Andreas Heidu, Walter Hollinetz, Andreas Leikauf, Erwin Redl ). From a percussion, electronics and improvisation workshop he held in Abidjan on behalf of the Goethe Institute, the group Beta Foly emerged in which he worked with 13 traditional musicians and Kurt Dahlke. Follow-up project is the group Burkina Electric. With their singer May Lingani he also works as a duo.

Between 1994 and 1996 he was a guest composer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. Since 1998, Ligeti lives in New York City, where he worked with Elliott Sharp, George Lewis, Henry Kaiser / Wadada Leo Smith or Roy Nathanson and as a drummer in several jazz and rock bands and groups for improvised music operates. In 2006 he was a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

His compositions have been performed by the Ensemble Modern, the ORF Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble " the row ", the Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can and the Vienna Saxophone Quartet.

Awards

Ligeti 1990, 1993 received the Composition Prize of the City of Vienna, a price the Austrian Science Department and numerous scholarships.

Discography (selection)

  • Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foli (1997)
  • Lukas Ligeti: Mystery System ( 2004)
  • Lukas Ligeti: Afrikan Machinery ( 2008)
  • Pattern Time ( Innova, 2011) with Gianni Gebbia, Michael Manring, Ali Keita, Benoît Delbecq

External links and sources

  • Lukas Ligeti website
  • Entry at Music Information Center Austria with Opus
  • Current work
  • Other Minds on Ligeti (English )
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Jazz drummer
  • Improvisation musicians
  • Austrian
  • Born in 1965
  • Man
  • György Ligeti
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