Wolfgang-Michael Bauer

Wolfgang-Michael Bauer is a composer of the Modern Third Stream.

Born in Baden near Vienna, Bauer initially studied sound engineering at SAE Vienna before turning to composition. He studied composition at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt and at the VŠMU Bratislava. Since 2016, he has led a composition class at the Joseph Haydn Private University in Eisenstadt. With great passion, he imparts to young composers the freedom and the tools to develop an independent musical language that authentically blends tradition and modernity.

His work has received numerous awards: in 2013 he was awarded the Theodor Kery Advancement Prize. In the same year, as well as in 2016, he was a guest on the renowned Ö1 radio program. Time-tone. A particular milestone in 2019 was the awarding of a composition commission by Mozart Society Vienna – as the first composer since its founding in 1913. This resulted in the Amadeus Variations.

Equally important is the work Le poème de la puissance, which in 2021 with the Burgenland University Prize It was awarded a prize. The jury, represented by Wolfram Wagner, praised it as "a very good composition in a contemporary style with an effective combination of electronics and orchestral sound".

He is a member of the Swiss Artists' Initiative another morning, within which several projects were realized. In 2015, his friend and colleague created Christian Bolt a bust of the composer, which has since been on display at the Bolt studio in Switzerland.