Dr. Philipp Ortmeier
(US)
Born in Passau, Philipp Ortmeier began composing as a child and learned to play the cello, piano and percussion. He went on to study musicology, art history and Italianistics in Würzburg, Vienna, Krakow and Padua. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina and has published numerous academic articles.
Ortmeier has won first prize at the International Composers Competition ‘Orient/Occident’ in Lviv (2023) and the Passau Diocese Composition Competition (2017), as well as an award at the Vienna International Music Competition (2022).
His compositions are performed worldwide, for example in Japan, Poland, Serbia, Italy and Ukraine. They are published by Universal Edition, Schott, the Allgemeiner Cäcilien-Verband für Deutschland and edition choris mundi. Commissioned works have been created for the Bavarian State Parliament, the Architecture Museum in Frankfurt, the Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Euthanasia in Mainkofen, the Passau Concert Association, the Finsterau Open-Air Museum and the Logos and Ethos Foundation, among others.
In addition, Philipp Ortmeier has been running his own bus company, Omnibus Ortmeier, since 2014, which specialises in cultural tours.
(Photo © Josef Lang)
