Malte Giesen

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Malte Giesen studied composition/computer music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Marco Stroppa and Oliver Schneller, followed by further studies at CNSM Paris with Gérard Pesson and at Hanspeter Kyburz and electroacoustic music with Wolfgang Heiniger at HfM Berlin. He taught at HfM Karlsruhe, HfM Berlin, and UdK Berlin. Since 2021, he has been the director of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Academy of Arts Berlin. He has received various awards and scholarships, including the 1st prize of the German Music Competition Composition 2009, a prize from the SWR Masterclass Orchestral Composition 2012, the Carl von Ossietzky Prize of the City of Oldenburg 2016, Neue Szenen III of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the 2nd prize of the Stuttgart Composition Prize 2017, and the Promotional Award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation 2020. He has had numerous performances both nationally and internationally, collaborating with various ensembles and performing at various festivals.
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Featured Pieces

Tako Tsubo
a chamber opera

24 E Instrumentation
Concerto
for hyperreal piano and orchestra

16 E Instrumentation
Ordered by year. Most recent works appears first

Ensemble (Instruments or Voices) and Fixed Electronic Media

Massenprozession for chamber orchestra and 8-channel electronics (2020)
Flatrate_b for large ensemble and sampler (2015)
Easy listening studies for small ensemble and tape (2015)
$88 or the poetry of capitalism for ensemble, solo piano, solo viola, solo soprano (2015)
Endlosdisk for four players and tape (2014)
Screening marketing research for ensemble and audience (2013)

Chamber Ensemble (5 - 9 instruments)

Stock footage piece 1: business for string quartet and video (2019)
Tu m for ensemble (2014)
Septett (2013)
Instant composition (2011)

Concerto

Concerto for hyperreal piano and orchestra (2018)

Chamber Group ( 2 - 4 instruments )

Four mouvements and an intermezzo on dichotomies and continua for guitar quartet (2018)
Stilisierung, mit explosions for contrabass clarinet, percussion, viola and live-electronics (2015)
Unisono 3: Singer-Songwriter for guitar duo (2015)
Trio (with remixed surface of Beethoven) for string trio and tape (2014)
88 dollars for soprano, viola and piano (2013)
Divertimento (modifications des surfaces) for string quartet (2013)
Study (...) for string trio (2011)
Tango Lineal for four saxophones (2010)

Opera

Tako Tsubo a chamber opera (2017)

Ensemble (Instruments or Voices) and Real Time Electronics

Surrogat/Extension for ensemble and 2 pianists (2017)
Lowest common denominator for ensemble, electronics and live video (2017)
Die Paradoxie der Sichtbarkeit for small ensemble and electronics (2016)
Die Paradoxie der Sichtbarkeit II for small ensemble and electronics (2016)
Tu M for ensemble and electronics (2013)
Mit Verlaub (gehoben, eine möglicherweise Ärger erregende Aussage einleitend) for two alto saxophones and electronics (2013)

Instruments and Electronics

Massenprozession for chamber orchestra and 8-channel electronics (2020)
Surrogat/Extension for ensemble and 2 pianists (2017)
Lowest common denominator for ensemble, electronics and live video (2017)
Die Paradoxie der Sichtbarkeit for small ensemble and electronics (2016)
Die Paradoxie der Sichtbarkeit II for small ensemble and electronics (2016)
Flatrate_b for large ensemble and sampler (2015)
Easy listening studies for small ensemble and tape (2015)
$88 or the poetry of capitalism for ensemble, solo piano, solo viola, solo soprano (2015)
Die Oboe ist mächtiger als das Schwert for oboe, live electronics and video score and DVD (2015)
Tu m for ensemble (2014)
Endlosdisk for four players and tape (2014)
Tu M for ensemble and electronics (2013)
Screening marketing research for ensemble and audience (2013)
Mit Verlaub (gehoben, eine möglicherweise Ärger erregende Aussage einleitend) for two alto saxophones and electronics (2013)
Upcycling study 2 (fast forward) (2012)
8th litany for Heliogabalus (2011)

String Trio

Trio (with remixed surface of Beethoven) for string trio and tape (2014)
Study (...) for string trio (2011)

String Quartet

Divertimento (modifications des surfaces) for string quartet (2013)

Voices and Instruments

Unicorn (2012)

Soloist (Instrument or Voice) and Real Time Electronics

Upcycling study 2 (fast forward) (2012)
8th litany for Heliogabalus (2011)

Large Ensemble (20 - 35 instruments)

Flatrate for large ensemble with voices and sampler (2011)

Solo Instrument

Double, double toil and trouble... for solo Harp (2009)
$88 or the poetry of capitalism for ensemble, solo piano, solo viola, solo soprano (2015)
88 dollars for soprano, viola and piano (2013)
8th litany for Heliogabalus (2011)
Concerto for hyperreal piano and orchestra (2018)
Die Oboe ist mächtiger als das Schwert for oboe, live electronics and video score and DVD (2015)
Die Paradoxie der Sichtbarkeit for small ensemble and electronics (2016)
Die Paradoxie der Sichtbarkeit II for small ensemble and electronics (2016)
Divertimento (modifications des surfaces) for string quartet (2013)
Double, double toil and trouble... for solo Harp (2009)
Easy listening studies for small ensemble and tape (2015)
Endlosdisk for four players and tape (2014)
Flatrate for large ensemble with voices and sampler (2011)
Flatrate_b for large ensemble and sampler (2015)
Four mouvements and an intermezzo on dichotomies and continua for guitar quartet (2018)
Instant composition (2011)
Lowest common denominator for ensemble, electronics and live video (2017)
Massenprozession for chamber orchestra and 8-channel electronics (2020)
Mit Verlaub (gehoben, eine möglicherweise Ärger erregende Aussage einleitend) for two alto saxophones and electronics (2013)
Screening marketing research for ensemble and audience (2013)
Septett (2013)
Stilisierung, mit explosions for contrabass clarinet, percussion, viola and live-electronics (2015)
Stock footage piece 1: business for string quartet and video (2019)
Study (...) for string trio (2011)
Surrogat/Extension for ensemble and 2 pianists (2017)
Tako Tsubo a chamber opera (2017)
Tango Lineal for four saxophones (2010)
Trio (with remixed surface of Beethoven) for string trio and tape (2014)
Tu m for ensemble (2014)
Tu M for ensemble and electronics (2013)
Unicorn (2012)
Unisono 3: Singer-Songwriter for guitar duo (2015)
Upcycling study 2 (fast forward) (2012)