Performers

He studied composition and conducting at Cologne’s Hochschule für Musik, where he has been a lecturer since 1995. His conducting work focuses first and foremost on 20th- and 21st-century music. He has collaborated with, among others, Helmut Lachenmann, Mauricio Kagel, Klaus Huber, Nicolaus A. Huber, as well as groups such as Ensemble Modern and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. He has guest conducted Oper Köln, Schauspiel Köln, WDR Rund- funkorchester Köln, the Bochumer Symphoniker, oh ton-Ensemble, and Doelenensemble. For many years he has collaborated with E-MEX, with which he prepares both world premieres and new interpretations of 20th-century masterpieces.

Wagner is an acclaimed composer. His oeuvre comprises more than fifty works for various lineups and representing different genres. His music has been presented at major new music events, among others during the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, the Eight Bridges festival, the Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg, and the Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam.

Wagner is also a concert pianist playing solo and chamber music. He has given performances in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Poland, the United States, and Switzerland. He frequently performs Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata, André Jolivet’s cycle Mana, as well as piano pieces by Stockhausen and Webern’s Variations for Piano Op. 27.


Phot. Martin Gendig