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First name: David
Last name: Kosviner
Dates: 1957
Category: Quartet
Nationality: south african
Opus name: Deciso
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Peculiarities: See: http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/kosvinerd.htm
Information: Kosviner, David (b. December 2, 1957, Johannesburg). South African composer, now resident in Germany, of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in Africa, Australia, Europe, and the USA. Dr. Kosviner studied with Peter Klatzow, James May and Stuart Reiner at the University of Cape Town from 1975-78 and 1981-86 and there graduated with his BMus and MMus with distinction. He attended seminars with Morton Feldman in 1983 and studied with Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule from 1984-88 and with George Nicholson at Keele University from 1991-95, where he earned his PhD. Among his honors are Second Prize in the competition of the Stroud Festival in the UK (1982, for ...furG...), semi-finalist in the Irino Prize for Chamber Music (1993, for Trio 1992) and selection for performance in the choral competition of the Tonkünstlerfest Baden-Württemberg (1995-96, for [zal]). He co-founded the new music ensemble Obelisk in Pretoria in 1981 and served as a percussionist in the CAPAB Orchestra and the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra from 1981-83 and was an extra player with the Staatsorchester Stuttgart in the mid-1990s. He taught arrangement, composition and orchestration at the University of Cape Town from 1981-83 and later tutored in the electronic music studio of the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule from 1987-98 and lectured on composition at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen from 1990-94. He has taught composition, music history and percussion at the Freie Musikschule Stuttgart since 1991. E-mail address: d@vidkosvi.net