Professor Hakan Ulus will visit the Grieg Academy, as part of the Erasmus Exchange Program, on May 8 – 9, 2023.

Ulus is a German composer, researcher and professor of composition and music theory at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Professor Ulus will give two lectures as part of the Grieg Academy Composition Research Group and give classes for composition students. 

Lecture 1. Monday 8 may at 16:00:
Ritual, Recitation and Archeology: Aspects of my Compositional Work

Lecture 2. Thuesday 8 May at 16:00
What Does Artistic Research in Composition Mean?

Ulus studied composition with Ernst Helmuth Flammer, Adriana Hölszky, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and Tristan Murail at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the HMT Leipzig and contemporary music at the HfMDK Frankfurt (International Ensemble Modern Academy). He received his PhD in composition from the Center for Research in New Music/University of Huddersfield (supervisors: Aaron Cassidy and Liza Lim; funded by the Jonathan Harvey Scholarship).

His works have been performed internationally by leading new music ensembles such as Ensemble intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble SurPlus, Talea Ensemble, Ensemble Recherche, Nordosten Neo, Hezarfen Ensemble, AuditivVokal, and Sigma Project Quartet. He has lectured on his music and/or given master classes at Harvard University, University of Basel, Goethe University Frankfurt, IRCAM Paris, Salzburg Festival, RCSM Madrid, Mimar Sinan University Istanbul, AdK Berlin, Hochschule für Musik Detmold, and National University of Singapore, among others. 

Ulus has been awarded several international stipends, artist residencies and prizes (including impuls composition prize, AuditivVokal composition prize, IEMA, Berlin stipend of the academy of the arts Berlin, Schloss Wiepersdorf, State stipend composition of the Republic of Austria).

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