Sander Germanus
Sander Germanus (Amsterdam, 16 maart 1972) obtained his diploma classical saxophone in 1995 with Ed Bogaard at the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam with distinction. He studied composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans and instrumentation with Klaas de Vries at the Conservatory of Rotterdam,
where he graduated in 1998 with a prize. After that he was granted the Aanmoedigingsprijs Muziek (music encouragement prize) by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts for his composition Adamsarchipel. Since 1994 he studied composition with Luc Van Hove at the Koninklijk Vlaams Muziekconservatorium (Royal Flemish Music Conservatory) in Antwerp. In 1999 he was admitted to the Orpheus Instituut in Ghent where in the spring of 2005 he obtained his laureate degree with a thesis about microtonality. Subsequently he gave various lectures about microtonality at music conservatories in- and outside the country. Between 2001 and 2002
he stayed in the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg. He gave masterclasses and attended seminars with Pierre Boulez, Jonathan Harvey and Helmut Lachenmann among others. He wrote works for Il Solisti del Vento, Nieuw Ensemble, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, Calefax rietkwintet, Doelen Ensemble, Residentie Orkest, Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest, etc. Since 1999 he composes microtonal exclusively. Lately the Russian Ensemble Studio New Music and the French Quatuor Danel performed his newest microtonal compositions. In the recent composition Lunapark (2006)
his quarter tone theory meets his other musical findings regarding tempo and rhythms perfectly. He is now working on a new quarter tone composition for the Asko Ensemble, Piccadilly Circus. In September 2007 Sander Germanus became director of Stichting Huygens-Fokker.
Homepage: www.germanus.eu.
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