Bernhard Gander
Bernhard Gander is an Austrian composer, born in East Tyrol in 1969 and based in Vienna. His ensemble and orchestral music draws on heavy metal, rap and electronic music, and on comics, with a piano piece named after Spider-Man's Peter Parker and an orchestral work, hukl, after the Hulk. Gander studied at the Tyrolean conservatory in Innsbruck, worked with Julio Estrada and Curtis Roads at Studio UPIC in Paris, and studied composition with Beat Furrer in Graz.
Bunny Games
Bunny Games is not only semantically loaded by the solo passages in the foreground in which the instruments constantly seek to draw attention to themselves, but also through references to the music of Domenico Scarlatti and Edgar Varèse as well as the Madonna numbers “Nothing really matters and Hangup”, the latter a cover version of the ABBA song “Give me a man after midnight.” The relation to popular music, which - between the lines - was always present with Bernhard Gander breaks through conti…