Michael Obst

Michael Obst is a German composer and pianist, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1955. He started out in electronic music at the Cologne studio, and his early electronic works include Metal Drop Music and the Crystal World series. He was a founding member and pianist of Ensemble Modern. Obst studied piano with Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky and composition with Hans Ulrich Humpert in Cologne. From 1986 to 1989 he played electronic keyboards for Karlheinz Stockhausen in the Licht cycle. His chamber opera Solaris, a co-production with IRCAM, was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1996.