Johannes Kreidler (1980) is a composer, concept- and media artist.
He teaches as professor for composition at the Hochschule fuer Musik Basel.
Johannes Kreidler (1980 in Esslingen, Germany) studied from 2000 to 2006
at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany where teachers included
Mathias Spahlinger (composition), Orm Finnendahl
(electronic music), and Eckehard Kiem (music theory). During this time
he was also a Fellow of the European Union from 2004 to 2005 and a
visiting student at the Institute of Sonology at the Koninklijk
Conservatorium at The Hague in the Netherlands. He also attended
seminars in philosophy and art history at the University of Freiburg.
Since 2019, he is professor for composition at the Hochschule fuer Musik Basel / Switzerland.
Johannes Kreidler lives in Berlin. His work is described as conceptual music and usually employs multimedial elements.
Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Ultraschall Berlin, MaerzMusik Berlin, Foreign Affairs Berlin, Volksb�hne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Eclat Stuttgart, Darmst�dter Fr�hjahrstagung f�r Neue Musik, Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Biennale Venedig, Gaudeamus Music Week Amsterdam, Warschauer Herbst, Biennale de Musique en Sc�ne Lyon, Ultima Festival Oslo, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, Musica Strasbourg, ISCM World New Music Days Stuttgart + Ghent, ICMC International Computer Music Conference Ljubljana, ZKM Karlsruhe, MusicAcoustica Festival Peking, Liquid Architecture Melbourne
Portrait features on DeutschlandRadio Kultur, Deutschlandfunk,
SWR2, WDR3, HR2, RBB Kulturradio,
Schweizer Radio DRS2, BBC2, PRI The World and others.
On TV, 3Sat Kulturzeit and
Deutschen Welle reported on works of Kreidler.
Essays by and interviews with him have appeared in MusikTexte, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Musik & Ästhetik, Positionen, Neue Musikzeitung, Dissonance, Musik-Konzepte, Darmstaedter Beitraege zur Neuen Musik, Kunst-Musik, Oesterreichische Musikzeitschrift, New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, und in der Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie. Interviews and reports in ZEIT, FAZ, SZ, Berliner Zeitung and TAZ.
In 2009, Wolke
Publishing House released Loadbang. Programming Electronic Music in
Puredata
In 2012, Wolke
Publishing House released collected writings of Johannes Kreidler:
Musik mit
Musik - Texte 2005-2011.
In 2018, Wolke
Publishing House released collected writings of Johannes Kreidler:
Saetze ueber musikalische Konzeptkunst - Texte 2012-2018.
In 2018, Editions Allia published: Sheet Music.
Since 2006 he has taught music theory, composition, electronic music, multi media, ear training and score reduction in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Rostock, in the advanced training division of the Musikhoch-schule Detmold, at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, and, since 2013, at the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Hamburg. In 2019, he taught there as a professorial representation in multi media composition. Since 2019, he is professor for composition at the Hochschule fuer Musik Basel / Switzerland.
Kreidler has given composition master classes at music academy Seia / Portugal (2007), WARP Sint-Niklaas / Belgium (2010), FH Furtwangen (2011), Handelsbeurs Antwerp / Belgium (2012), Artesis Hogeschool Antwerp (2013), Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam / Holland (2013), LAbORATORIUM Antwerp (2013), Nizhniy Novgorod / Russia (2013), Musikhochschule Trossingen (2014), Norges Musikh�gskole Oslo / Norway (2015), Hochschule f�r Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (2015), Syntetis Radziejowice / Poland (2016, 2018, 2022), RMIT University and Monach University Melbourne / Australia (2016), Hochschule der Kuenste Bern / Suisse (2016), Bruckner-Universitaet Linz / Austria (2016), Novalis Osijek / Croatia (2022).
In 2018, he was composition teacher at the Darmstadt Summer School.
