Manuel Zwerger
“Audiovisual Preparation on Instruments”
14.10.2024
Manuel Zwerger, (* 1992 in Bolzano) studied Composition with Franz Baur, Simon Steen-Andersen, Niels Rønsholdt, and Juliana Hodkinson at the Conservatory of Innsbruck and the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. He received further education from Hannes Kerschbaumer and Wolfram Schurig. In 2019 he was a member of the International Young Composers Academy (Festival Ticino Musica) with Oscar Bianchi and Dmitri Kurljandski in Lugano.
Manuel Zwerger moves as a composer at the intersection of new music, performance, and installation art.
Zwerger works performed by renowned ensembles and orchestras such as Tetra Brass, Ensemble Modern, the ensemble chromoson, NAMES Ensemble, airborne extended, etc.
He has received various grants and scholarships for his work, including the scholarship from the Richard Wagner Verband Wien (2015), the composition scholarship from the Akademie Musiktheater heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation (2017-19), the Hilde-Zach-Kompositionsförderstipendium from the city of Innsbruck (2018), the Startstipendium from the Austrian Federal Chancellery (2020), the Heinrich-von-Mörl-Stipendium (2021), the Staatsstipendium from the Austrian Federal Chancellery (2022), the Hilde-Zach-Kompositionsstipendium from the city of Innsbruck (2023) and the residency fellowship at Schloss Wiepersdorf (2024).
He pays special attention to scenic, performative, and theatrical aspects, which are integrated in an interdisciplinary and multi-sensory manner into the socio-aesthetic complex of tasks of our media society. The thematic focus lies on the usual phenomena in the process of making music, which is connected and questioned with influences from everyday life, pop culture, anti-art, current trends, and science.
His works are published by Edition Gravis / Berlin.