*14 June 1952 New Jersey / USA

Gerald Bennett graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1964.

From 1967 until 1976 he taught at the Basel (Switzerland) Conservatory, from 1969 until 1976 he was Director of the Basel Conservatory.

From 1976 until 1981 he was Department Head at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris.

In 1981 he took a position as professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Hochschule for Music in Zurich.

In 1983 he was one of the founders, and from 1986 until 1992 Secretary of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (ICEM), member organization of the International Music Council of the UNESCO.

In 1985 he founded, with Bruno Spoerri, the Swiss Center for Computer Music.

Since 1993 he has been member of the International Academy of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges.

In 2005 Bennett founded and directed the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology at the Hochschule Musik und Theater, Zurich (today the Zurich University of the Arts).

He retired from his teaching and administrative obligations at the Zurich University of the Art in October of 2007.

Gerald Bennett lives in Muttenz, Switzerland, outside Basel.

Website: www.gdbennett.net

Bennett, Gerald

Aki No Kaze / Autumn Wind (2002)
für Shakuhachi und Flöte
Shakuhachi. Fl.
Dauer: 4’
TME 0637*Partitur

Bote (2007)
für Orchester
Dauer: 12’
TME 0875
Partitur / Sti.

Im Eismeer. Ein Schumann-Stück (1997)
für Tonband
Tonb.
Dauer: 13’
TME 0315
Tontr.

Klavierstück (1965)
Klav.
Dauer: 11’
TME 3062
*Partitur

Kyotaku (1987)
für Shakuhachi und Tonband
Shakuhachi. Tonb.
Dauer: 22
TME 0314
*Partitur / Tontr.

Ringing Surprise (2002)
für Klavier
Klav.
Dauer: 8’
TME 0638
*Partitur

Sestina (1987/96)
für zwölf Singstimmen a cappella
Text: über einen Text von Francesco Petrarca und ein Madrigal von Cipriano de Rore („Crudele acerba inexorabil morte”)
für 12 Stimmen a capella
Dauer: 15’
TME 3063
Partitur / *Chor-P.

Sextett (1998)
für Flöte, Klarinette, Streichtrio und Klavier
Fl. Kl. Vl. Vla. Vc. Klav.
Dauer: 13’
TME 0349
*Partitur / *Sti.

Textures of Time (2000)
für Blockflötentrio
3 Blfl.
Dauer: 17’
TME 0488
*Partitur / *Sti.

Textures of Time II (2002)
für drei Klarinetten
3 Kl.
Dauer: 17’
TME 0599
Partitur

Three Dances of the Angel (1993)
für Shakuhachi und Schlagzeug
Shakuhachi. Schlzg.
Dauer: 15’
TME 3001
*Spiel-P.

Weisst Du es noch? (1990)
für Klarinette und Klavier, Tonband ad libitum
Kl. Klav. Tonb (ad lib.).
Dauer: 16’
TME 0316
*Partitur / Tontr.

Yume (1997)
für fünf Shakuhachi
5 Shakuhachi
Dauer: 21’
TME 0277
*Partitur / *Sti.

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