updated 16 April 2019
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Michael Beil

German composer born in 1963 in Stuttgart.

Michael Beil was born in Germany in 1963. He studied piano, music theory, and composition at the Stuttgart Conservatory of Music.

From 1996 to 2007, he taught music theory and composition at the music conservatories in Kreuzberg and Neukölln in Berlin as director of the precollege and contemporary music departments.

Between 2000 and 2007, he and Stephan Winkler co-founded Skart, which presented concerts based on interdisciplinary concepts. He also served as director of the Klangwerkstatt contemporary music festival.

In 2007, he became professor of electronic music at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne and director of its studio for electronic music.

His music has been performed in festivals such as Ultraschall (Berlin), ECLAT (Stuttgart), and Wien Modern (Vienna), and broadcast on the radio (notably Deutschlandradio, RBB, and SDR).

He is a winner of the Camillo Togni Composition Competition (Brescia) and of fellowships from the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany and the Cité des arts de Paris in France, as well as the Heinrich-Gartentor-Scholarship for video art in Thun, Switzerland. He also participated in the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (GNM) Forum for Young Composers in collaboration with Ensemble Modern.

His composition mixes electronic and instrumental music and video. He interrogates the composition process in connection with stage performance, and regularly involves performers in this process.


© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2019

  • Solo (excluding voice)
    • elec Mach Sieben for piano and electronics (1999), 22 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec Batterie for percussion and electronics (2003), 15 mn
    • elec along for guitar and electronics (2011), 10 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec String Jack for cello and electronics (2016), 13 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec Key Jack for a pianist without piano and electronics (2017), 13 mn, édition du compositeur
  • Chamber music
    • elec Die Zwei for flute, piano and electronics (2004), 12 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec Karaoke Rebranng! for saxophone or clarinet, viola or violin, percussion, piano and electronics (2006), 10 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec Doppel for two pianos and electronics (2009), 13 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec exit to enter for six instruments and electronics (2013), 14 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec swap for flutes, oboes and clarinets with electronics (2014), 13 mn
    • elec caravan for four musicians without instruments and electronics (2017), 15 mn
  • Instrumental ensemble music
    • elec BLACKJACK for 17 instruments and electronics (2012), 17 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec Bluff for eight instruments and electronics (2015), 35 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec sugar water seven instruments and electronics (2015), 20 mn, édition du compositeur
  • Vocal music and instrument(s)
    • elec belle nuit for soprano, string trio and electronics (2009), 13 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec transit for six singers, six instruments and electronics (2018), 15 mn, édition du compositeur
  • A cappella vocal music
    • Die Drei for six singers (2003), 12 mn
  • 2018
    • elec transit for six singers, six instruments and electronics, 15 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2017
    • elec Key Jack for a pianist without piano and electronics, 13 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec caravan for four musicians without instruments and electronics, 15 mn
  • 2016
    • elec String Jack for cello and electronics, 13 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2015
    • elec Bluff for eight instruments and electronics, 35 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec sugar water seven instruments and electronics, 20 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2014
    • elec swap for flutes, oboes and clarinets with electronics, 13 mn
  • 2013
    • elec exit to enter for six instruments and electronics, 14 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2012
    • elec BLACKJACK for 17 instruments and electronics, 17 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2011
    • elec along for guitar and electronics, 10 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2009
    • elec Doppel for two pianos and electronics, 13 mn, édition du compositeur
    • elec belle nuit for soprano, string trio and electronics, 13 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2006
    • elec Karaoke Rebranng! for saxophone or clarinet, viola or violin, percussion, piano and electronics, 10 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2004
    • elec Die Zwei for flute, piano and electronics, 12 mn, édition du compositeur
  • 2003
    • elec Batterie for percussion and electronics, 15 mn
    • Die Drei for six singers, 12 mn
  • 1999
    • elec Mach Sieben for piano and electronics, 22 mn, édition du compositeur

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