Klaus Ospald

Klaus Ospald, born in Münster (Westphalia) in 1956, studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold and at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg. In 1985 he was a scholarship holder at the Cité des Arts in Paris, and in 1987 he won the first promotional prize of the state capital Stuttgart. In the same year, Ospald took supplementary private lessons with Helmut Lachenmann. His works are performed by internationally renowned performers and orchestras, such as the Ensemble Contrechamps, the Ensemble Modern, the Musikfabrik, the Collegium Novum Zürich or the Arditti Quartet. Important podiums for contemporary music such as the "Donaueschinger Musiktage", the "Münchner Biennale", the "MaerzMusik" and the "Warschauer Herbst" brought world premieres of his works.