Festival Archipel 2018, Genève - biographie de Kaspar Querfurth

D.R.

In concert

Académie de quatuors Archipel I - 03.25 11:00pm

Played works

Kaspar Querfurth was born in 1990 in Berlin. After taking composition lessons with Helmut Zapf and percussion lessons with Wolfgang Eger and Claudia Sgarbi, he studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Prof. Dieter Mack (composition) and Prof. Johannes Fischer (percussion). He participated in masterclasses with, among others, Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Andre, Kaija Saariaho and Friedrich Goldmann. His music was played at festivals such as Time of Music Viitasaari,

Takefu International Music Festival and Chiffren Kiel and by members of the ensemble recherche, das Neue Ensemble Hannover, the sonic.art quartet and the percussion duo Störsignal. He was awarded grants by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the DAAD. Kaspar lives in London, where he undertakes doctoral studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the supervision of Prof. Julian Anderson and James Weeks.