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Rainer Rubbert was born in Erlangen (Franconia, Germany) in June 1957.
He studied composition in Berlin with Witold Szalonek at the „Hochschule der Künste Berlin“ 1975-1981.
Over the course of his artistic career, his compositions have won numerous national and international competitions, and
he has been awarded a series of prizes and fellowships.
In 1979 he won the Prix Marcel Josse from the Association des saxophonistes français.
In 1984 he obtained a scholarship from the Office franco-allemand pour la jeunesse.
In 1985 he was a prizewinner in the Forum junger deutscher Komponisten für Orchestermusik, where his composition, “Bewegungen,” was performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1986/1987 he obtained a German government scholarship to live in Paris in the Cité Internationale des Arts.
In 1989 he won 2nd prize in the Budapest International Composers Competition for his woodwind quintet
composition, “...des lignes raides fuient dans la nuit.”
In 1989 he founded the Berlin weekly concert series for contemporary music, Unerhörte Musik.
He and the composer Martin Daske have been the artistic directors of the series ever since.
1992 he won the Kunstpreis Berlin - Förderpreis Musik from the Akademie der Künste.
In autumn 2002 he obtained the Villa Serpentara Scholarship to live and compose in Italy for three months.
In June 2007 his cantata “Aus der Fremde” won the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Preis in the Oldenburg international composing
competition.
In 2006/2007 Rainer Rubbert composed his first major opera “Kleist” with a libretto by the novelist Tanja Langer. This work had its premiere in March 2008 in the State Theatre at Brandenburg on the Havel, under the direction of Bernd Mottl.
Rainer Rubbert’s works are regularly performed at prestigious German and international festivals for contemporary music, such as:
- the International Gaudeamus Musik Week Holland 1980,
- the International Forum of Contemporary Music Warsaw 1985,
- the „Budapest Spring Festival“ 1989, Rainbow Music Festival Katovice 1989,
- Schreyahner Herbst 1990, International
- Rostrum of Composers Paris 1991,
- INVENTIONEN Berlin 1992, - Internationales Festival der Mozart-Städte Salzburg
1992
- Schönberg-Festival Duisburg 1993,
- Silesian Art Festival 1995,
- Audio Art Festival Krakau 1995, - Festival des Musiques d‘aujourd‘hui Marseilles 1995,
- Tage der Neuen Musik Würzburg 1997,
- antasten Heilbronn 1999,
- EXPO 2000,
- Festival INFront Aachen 2003, - Kryptonale Berlin 2003,
- Tirana Autumn 2003,
- Chengdu International Contemporary Music Festival 2004,
- Novembermusic Essen 2006, - Nuovi spazi musicali Rome 2009, - Generator #16 Zurich 2009,
- KlangZeitFestival Münster 2010,
- Musica in monstra Torino 2011 and 2012.
His compositions have also been featured at concerts in Brazil, China, Columbia, Korea, Japan and the United States.
Portrait concerts showcasing his work have been organized in Paris, France (1987), Nuremberg, Germany (2003),
Rome, Italy (2004; also featuring Nicola Sani) and Sofia, Bulgaria (2012).
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