Torsten Rasch

Torsten Rasch ( born 1965 in Dresden) is a German composer.

Rasch began six years playing the piano and sang 1975-1983 in Dresden Kreuz Choir. Subsequently, he played in a rock band before settling 1986-1990 a study of composition and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, including Rainer Lischka, underwent. After the Berlin Wall, he emigrated to Japan, where developed his interest in film music and he wrote the music for more than 40 films. He composed 1999, the melodrama " Voluspa - The Seer face ", which, playing the Dresden Symphony Orchestra with Catherine Bach valley. In 2002 he returned to Germany, where he particularly through the song cycle " My heart burns ", which is based on songs by Rammstein, was known and was awarded the ECHO Klassik.

With the Pet Shop Boys Battleship Potemkin, he worked on the soundtrack, a musical version of the classic film by Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein.

His first opera, based on a text by Thomas Brasch declining opera " Rotter ", was premiered in 2008 by the Cologne Opera.

Torsten Rasch, who lives in Berlin, has been successful especially in England.

His opera The Duchess of Malfi, a work commissioned by the English National Opera, was premiered in London in 2010. The German premiere took place at the Chemnitz Opera House on March 23, 2013. In Chemnitz 2011, Rasch's orchestral work Wouivres premiered, commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, whose scheduled performance in London was not achieved.