COMPOSER

*stele (2011) for five voices and five instruments for Schola Heidelberg and ensemble aisthesis, the third part of the triology canti guerrieri ed amorosi, is going to be premiered on September 25, 2011, 11 a.m. at Kunstverein Heidelberg; the concert is also going to feature the premiere of Martin Smolka's In uno monili torquis tuis

download score excerpts and performance instructions [German]

download stele essay [German]

Klangforum Heidelberg


*gilgamesch szenen, the second part of this triology , has been premiered at Off-Theater, Kirchengasse 41, Vienna on December 5, 2010, by Lukas Haselböck, Bass and five musicians, conducted by the composer. LISTEN TO COMPLETE LIVE-RECORDING  HERE

*drei gilgamesch gesänge, the first part of this triology, has been premiered on June 14, 2010, at Off-Theater, Kirchengasse 41, Vienna by Lukas Haselböck, Bass and Kaori Nishii, prepared piano.  LISTEN TO COMPLETE LIVE-RECORDING  HERE

*upcoming 2012 is a new piece for ensemble reconsil Vienna for the global project Exploring the World


RESEARCHER

*recent articles:

• Die Neunte Symphonie, in: Mahler-Interpretationen, hrsg. von Peter Revers und Oliver Korte, Laaber: Laaber 2011, 294–363. [Verlag]
  
  
• [together with Dieter Kleinrath] Klangorganisation bei Varèse, Lachenmann und Scelsi. Klang und Wahrnehmung bei Varèse, Scelsi und Lachenmann. Zur Wechselwirkung von Tonhöhen- und Klangfarbenstrukturen in der Klangorganisation post-tonaler Musik, in: Klangperspektiven, hrsg. von Lukas Haselböck, Hofheim: Wolke 2011, 73–102. [Verlag]
  

*upcoming publications include

— "Unlimited Voices. Contemporary Vocal Music in the Era of Globalization", edited together with Frederick Lau, accepted for publication in the series Routledge Research, New York: Routledge 2012. Contributors: Dieter Mersch, Christian Utz, Sandeep Bhagwati, Fuyuko Fukunaka, Frederick Lau, Heekyung Lee, Jörn Peter Hiekel, Erin Gee, Samson Young, Andreas Steen, Oliver Seibt, Michael Fuhr, Nicholas Cook. [download Summary, Abstracts and Biographies] [publisher]

— a new book, based on re-written and re-organised versions of 30 essays on musical globalisation from the past decade: Interkulturelles Komponieren: Geschichte – Systematik – Praxis. Schriften zur reflexiven Globalisierung der Kunstmusik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, in preparation 2012.

— volume 5 of the Graz book series musik.therien der gegenwart is going to present essays on music-language-relationship in dialogue with Albrecht Wellmer's Versuch über Musik und Sprache, edited together with Clemens Gadenstätter and Dieter Kleinrath: Versuche über Musik und Sprache. Entwürfe und Annotationen im Dialog mit Albrecht Wellmer, Saarbrücken: Pfau 2012.

— a new collection of essays and dictionnary on art music since 1950, edited together with Jörn Peter Hiekel for Metzler-Verlag: Lexikon Neue Musik, Stuttgart: Metzler 2013.

*recent and upcoming scholarly presentations

• paper presented at the annual conference of the Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung (INMM) Darmstadt: Musikalisches Verstehen und Missverstehen im interkulturellen Kontext, April 29, 2011.
  
  
• paper presented at the symposium Musica Nova VII, Faculty of Music, Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Art in Brno, Czechia, November 3–5, 2011.
  
  
• paper presented at the symposium Sound and Perception in 20th- and 21st-Century Music. International Symposium at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz (KUG), Austria, December 15–17, 2011, chaired by Christian Utz and Dieter Kleinrath.
  
  
• paper presented at the symposium Giacinto Scelsi heute: Ästhetische Dimension und Kompositorische Praxis. International Symposium at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz (KUG), Austria, January 20–21, 2012.

*launch of new

CTPSO - A Context-Sensitive Theory of Post-tonal Sound Organisation

http://kug.academia.edu/ChristianUtz

*latest book publications:

— editor of conference proceedings "Musiktheorie als interdisziplinäres Fach. 8. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Graz 2008 / Music Theory and Interdisciplinarity. 8th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie Graz 2008", 692 pages; Vol. 4 of Graz book series musik.theorien der gegenwart; published in October 2010 after two years of editorial work.
— the 600-pages "Lexikon der Systematischen Musikwissenschaft", co-edited with Helga de la Motte-Haber, Heinz von Loesch, Günter Rötter was published in April 2010 after two years of editorial work.