Alexander Grebtschenko

Alexander Grebtschenko (also Alexander Grebchenko, * 1975 in Varna) is a composer of Bulgarian descent living in Germany.
==Biography==
After his instrumental studies, Grebtschenko studied composition and electronic music at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Cornelius Schwehr and Mesías Maiguashca. From 2004 to 2011, he directed the newly founded Studio for Electronic and Electroacoustic Music at the Musikschule Konstanz. He is a lecturer for electronic composing at the Institute for New Music at the University of Music Freiburg as well as the director of the Studio for Electronic Music.
Concerts and guest courses have taken him to numerous European countries, as well as North and South America, Australia and China (Expo 2010 Shanghai). He has received scholarships, among others at theDonaueschinger Musiktage, Baden-Württemberg Gratuity Funding in the subject of acoustics as well as a scholarship from the Federal President of Germany. He has received commissions from ensemble recherche, duo contour, Ensemble Alarm, Ensemble Chronophonie, False Relationships and the Extended Endings Ensemble and arte/ZDF in collaboration with the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin (score for the silent film "Arsenal", USSR 1929).
==Work==
His work moves in a broad field between written music and improvisation, sound installation, electronic music, film music, kinetic art, and so on. Boundaries in general and boundaries of perception in particular are a central theme here.
==Works (selection)==
===Chamber music===
* εσσεται..., darling! – for oboe, horn, percussion, guitar and violoncello (1998)
* Stehen ist Nichtumfallen – for military drum and "accompanying" instruments (1999)
* Null-Tanz – for accordion (2001)
* DURCHGESTRICHEN – for piano solo (2003)
* "Bye-bye!" deluxe – for 19-div. Trumpet (2007)
* Love Songs – for trumpet and drumset (2008)
* A Number One – for flute, oboe, bassoon, trumpet and percussion (2008)
* Ballade – for speaking voice and playback (2010)
* bopgodoq-benz – for barrel organ (2014)
* Guidance for the preparation of text settings / Anleitung zur Ausarbeitung von Textvertonungen – for various instruments (2016)
===Electronic music and sound installations===
* < – for approx. ten different small loudspeakers (2001)
* oooo chance elise – for various instruments and projection (2005)
* Wild Thing – Performance in collaboration with Zufit Simon (2011)
* /_\ – kinetic object (2014)
* robobongocero – Sound installation (2014)
* BOX – installative performance in collaboration with Telemach Wiesinger (2015)
* Rotating Umbrellas – Sound installation (2016)
* Chimerae - kinetic objects (2021) 
===Orchestra and opera===
* Die drei Federn (Oper) – seven soloists, orchestra (2001)
* Zwei Sätze – for orchestra (2005)
===Film music===
* 2022 TURBULENCE (GER 2022, Direction: Telemach Wiesinger)
* 2021 1:1 ( GER 2021, Direction: Telemach Wiesinger)
* 2017 Arsenal (USSR 1929, Direction: Alexander Dovzhenko)
* 2015 KALEIDOSCOPE (GER 2015, Direction: Telemach Wiesinger)
* 2012 Regen (NL 1929, Direction: Joris Ivens)
*2003 Wie Gewünscht (GER 2003, Direction: Anna Kalus)
Category:1975 births
Category:German people
Category:German composers