Michel Roth

Born in 1976 in Altdorf, Switzerland. Michel Roth is a composer and professor of composition, music theory and artistic research at the Basel University of Music (FHNW). He researches and publishes on musical applications of game theory and cybernetics (PhD from the University of Basel), collaborative art practices (Dieter Roth), organology of contemporary music and Alpine sound sociology (“Singende Seile”). As a composer and music researcher, he has received numerous prizes and grants, including the Musica Viva Munich Composition Prize for his orchestral piece Der Spaziergang (2009). His first opera, Im Bau, was staged by Georges Delnon at Theater Basel in 2011 and later released in a 3D simulated online environment (www.imbauprojekt.ch). His contemporary operetta Die Künstliche Mutter premiered at the Lucerne Festival in 2016. As the long-standing director of the Lucerne Studio for Contemporary Music, he worked with Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann and Sofia Gubaidulina, among others. Michel Roth is an associate researcher at the Institute of Alpine Cultures at the University of Lucerne and a member of the board of the Christoph Delz Foundation Basel.