Roland Breitenfeld
Roland Breitenfeld was born in Dresden in 1952. He received his first formal musical schooling during his time as a member of the Dresdener Kreuzchor 1963-1968 headed by Rudolf Mauersberger.
From 1972 to 1984 he worked at the music department of the Saxon State Library in Dresden. He studied musicology in 1974/75 at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle. In 1978 he began to study composition with Paul-Heinz Dittrich in Zeuthen and further with Wilfried Krätzschmar at the music academy in Dresden from 1980 to 1982.
Since 1984 Roland Breitenfeld has been based in Freiburg i. Br.
He continued his studies at the state music academy in Freiburg with Klaus Huber (composition), Emmanuel Nunes (composition) and Mesias Maiguashca (electronic and computer music).
Intermediately, he worked as a freelancer for various music publishers, e.g. for Ricordi, Milano from 1987 to 1993 (edition of scores of works with live-electronics by Luigi Nono in cooperation with the Experimental-Studio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Foundation at the Südwestfunk (SWF) in Freiburg. Up until Nono's death, Roland Breitenfeld and Luigi Nono developed a close working relationship.
Don Oung Lee and Roland Breitenfeld founded the profectio-initiative freiburg, an ensemble for electronic and contemporary music in 1991.
Since 1992 he has worked as a freelancer at the Experimental-Studio in Freiburg. In 1994 he was awarded a scholarship of the Foundation Kulturfond Berlin, and in 1995/96 accepted a scholarship of the State of Baden-Württemberg in conjunction with an assistantship for computer-notation at the electronic-studio of the state music academy in Freiburg.
With Mesias Maiguashca (www.maiguashca.de), he established the K.O.-Studio (KlangObjekt-Studio) in Freiburg since 1998 which is directed on the production and staging of computer based music.
From 2006 to 2017 he was professor of composition and electronic music at the Seoul National University (SNU) in Seoul, South Korea.
He has appeared at various European and Asian festivals as a performer of electronic contemporary music.
His works have been performed in Europe, Asia and South America.
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Publications about Roland Breitenfeld:
Galerie K1 "Exhibition catalogue
ROLAND BREITENFELD - GRAFISCHE MUSIKNOTATIONEN
(graphic music notations)"
June 30 - July 27, 2024, Galerie K1, Kappler Strasse 1, 79117 Freiburg
20 pages, 30 ill., music examples, 13 QR-codes
Lydia Jeschke: "Jasmintee - The composer Roland Breitenfeld between Germany and Korea"
/ radio transmission of the SWR2: "Jetzt Musik". - April 15, 2019. (duration about 55 min)
(Interview / radio language in German - some also in Korean with Young-Ae Chon)
Malte Kollenberg: "Classic-Electronic Music - Roland Breitenfeld in the Interview with Malte E. Kollenberg"
/ Radio transmission of KBS, Seoul, South Korea: "Treffen zweier Welten". - October 10, 2014. (duration 15:33)
"http://world.kbs.co.kr/german/program/program_seoulreport_detail.htm?No=4732"
or also here
(Interview / radio language in German)
SngKn Kim (moderation): „About the Composer Roland Breitenfeld“
and Transmission of the "Creative Music Concert" from September 7, 2011, Seoul Gugak National Center
with the composition by Roland Breitenfeld: "Jasmintee", for gayageum and live-electronics (version 2011)
/after the poem „Einladung zu einer Tasse Jasmintee“ by Reiner Kunze / Ensemble: Korean Music Project
Gugak Radiostation FM 99.1 MHz, Seoul, South-Korea - September 15, 2011. (duration about 40 min)
(radio language in Korean)
Kyoung-in Choe: "2010 Robert Schumann-Festival / Korean Song - Project"
/ Radio transmission of KBS, Seoul, South-Korea: „Treffen zweier Welten". - October 10, 2010.
Radio interview with Roland Breitenfeld and transmission of the complete concert from April 30, 2010 at the Goethe Institut, Seoul, South-Korea
with the composition by Roland Breitenfeld: „Sidcho, das keinen Trost weiss“ / Ensemble: Korean Music Project
http://world.kbs.co.kr/german/program/program_seoulreport_detail.htm?No=4732
(Interview / radio language in German)
WHO'S WHO. - 14th edition. - Montréal (Canada) : International Book and Publishing, 2008/2009. - Berlin : Buchvertrieb Wockel.
Grace Kim (moderation): "The Revolution of Modern Music - Electronic Music“
/ Today: „Roland Breitenfeld, Professor. The Seoul National University“
/ TV transmission of EBS-TV, Seoul, South-Korea: „The World Today“. - May 23, 2007. (duration about 40 min)
Produced by Soon Il Lee / Lani Kim
http://world.kbs.co.kr/german/program/program_seoulreport_detail.htm?No=4732
(Interview / TV language in English)
Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponistenverband (Contemporary composers in the german federation of composers) : e. Handbuch / hrsg. vom Deutschen
Komponistenverband. 5. Aufl. - Berlin, 2000. (page 123)
ISBN 3-932581-34-2.
Andreas Fervers: "Roland Breitenfeld - ein Porträt" / radio transmission of the Deutschlandfunk Cologne, 1999. (duration: about 50 min)
(Interview / radio language in German)
(Also other broadcast stations transmitted it.)
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