Nikolaus Brass

Nikolaus Brass is a German composer, born in 1949 in Lindau on Lake Constance. He trained as a physician and composed alongside his medical career, studying composition with Peter Kiesewetter in Munich, then with Frank Michael Beyer and Helmut Lachenmann. His works have been heard at Donaueschingen, musica viva in Munich and other new-music festivals. He has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 2014. Brass studied medicine in Munich and at the Freie Universität Berlin, worked as a doctor and later as editor of a medical publication.