Dr Michael Wolters
Composition Tutor &Academic Lecturer
PhD
MA
BA (Hons)
Michael Wolters
Tel: c/o 0121 331 5901
www.wolters.co.uk
Michael Wolters was born in 1971 in Moenchengladbach, Germany, and grew up in the small village of Niederkruechten on the German/Dutch border. He studied Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany and Composition in Huddersfield (BA, MA) and in Birmingham (PhD). His works have been performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the ISCM World Music Days 1998 in Manchester, Spitalfields Festival, the Barbican Centre, Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Tate Liverpool and at various other concert halls, supermarkets, galleries, shoe shops, theatres, banks, opera houses, cinemas, festivals, on TV and radio, in schools and on beaches; in Europe, Russia, the USA, Canada and New Zealand.
Teaching Specialisms
- Composition
- Contemporary Music
Currently performing / working with
- New Guide to Opera
- Sing, Sing! - staged oratorio, with Ulrich Mertin (Ensemble Modern) and Suzie Purkis: performances 3-6 December 2008, FFT Duesseldorf, Germany
- TV in 1954 - a month of performances recreating the German TV programme of June 1954 live on stage: performance in June 2009
- New commission from BCMG in collaboration with Stan’s Café: performance in summer 2010
- BBC4 World News Today (also known as And now, the news) - for the opening of Birmingham City University's New Generation Arts Festival, June 2008
- Mit offenem Mund - radio feature, Deutschlandradio December 2006
- The End of the Gulfstream - FFT Duesseldorf Aril 2006
- Concerto Grosso - de Volharding, February 2006
- Kathryn und Peter durchqueren die Antarktis - FFT/Deutschlandradio 2004/5