Wilfried Jentzsch

Biography

Wilfried Jentzsch

Wilfried Jentzsch

Born 1941 in Dresden, Wilfried Jentzsch was a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor, later studying violoncello, composition and conducting at the Musikhochschule in Dresden. He was a pupil of R. Wagner-Régeny and P. Dessau at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and studied electronic music under H. U. Humpert at the Musikhochschule in Cologne.

From 1976 to 1981 he resided in Paris, studying at the Sorbonne under Iannis Xenakis, where he completed a doctorate in the field of musical aesthetics, while at the same time conducting research in the field of digital sound synthesis at IRCAM and the CEMAMu.

In the year 1983 he founded a private computer-music  studio in Nuremberg, where he taught at the Meistersinger Konservatorium. In 1993 he was appointed director of the electronic studio at the Hochschule für Musik „Carl Maria von Weber“ in Dresden. Jentzsch is a member of the ISCM and a founding member of the DegeM (German Society for Electroacoustic Music). From 1995 to 2000 he was chairman of the Saxon Society for New Music. In 1998 he was composer in residence at the Capital University Columbus (Ohio). 2002 saw him travel to Java and Bali on a visit for two months study.

As a composer he has appeared at numerous festivals in Europe, America and Japan. He has received international composition prizes in Boswil, Paris, Bourges and ZKM Karlsruhe. The majority of his works have been recorded on a number CD labels.

Discographie: PAYSAGES (Thorofon CTH 2235, 1994); VISIONS (Wergo LC 13458, Mainz 2004, Germany).