Michael Oesterle » Biography

Ulm, Germany, 1968

• Composer
• Performer (electric guitar)

Montreal composer Michael Oesterle’s compositons have been performed and commissioned by numerous notable ensembles and soloists including Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), Aventa Ensemble, Turning Point Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM), the Ives Ensemble (Amsterdam), Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), sopranos Karina Gauvin and Suzie LeBlanc, cellist Yegor Dyachkov, violinists Aisslinn Nosky and Karl Stobbe, Quatuor Bozzini, Quatuor Molinari, Groundswell, Soundstreams, Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble (Amsterdam), Les Violons du Roy, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and the Percussions de Strasbourg.

He has produced projects in collaboration with choreographers Serge Bennathan, Isabelle Van Grimde, Barbara Bourget, Gioconda Barbuto, and Dominique Porte, and he frequently collaborates with animation artist Christopher Hinton, having composed music for several of his films, including CNOTE, which won the 2005 GENIE award for best animated-short.

His orchestral works have been commissioned by the Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Victoria, and Vancouver Symphonies, as well as by the National Arts Orchestra, the National Broadcast Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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