Robert H.P. Platz

"It is always a pleasure to work with the ensemble, since MdI has the rare gift of motivation and passion, without lacking the necessary precision in playing even the most complicated scores. Very often, ensembles for contemporary music have just one of these two sides and lack the other. MdI has both. I'll always remamber this magic performance of my senko-hana-bi by Sonia and Paolo in Mallorca, wonderful string work in Echo-Huellen Danach, the perfect realization of Schœnberg's chamber symphony in Bergamo. As I said: always a pleasure..."

Robert H.P. Platz studied music theory, composition (Fortner), musicology (Budde) and piano in Freiburg, Germany between 1970 and 1973. He studied after with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne. In 1977 he took examinations in conducting (Travis) in Freiburg, and done a series of computer courses at IRCAM in 1980. Since 1990 he has been teaching composition at theConservatorium Maastricht, Netherlands. Platz gives workshops and masterclasses in Poland, Netherlands, Italy, Japan, and the USA, and he has taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik.