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Dominique Schafer Artistic Director
Dominique Schafer has been studying composition among others with Paul Reale, Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, and Julian Anderson. Studies in electronic music with Hans Tutschku. Most recent he has been studying with Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann. Awards include the Adelbert Sprague Composition Award, George Arthur Knight Composition Prize, regional winner of the ASCAP/SCI commission competition twice in a row, and 2nd price of the Kempten Orchesterverein composition competition in Germany. Dominique Schafer was also a finalist in the Queen Marie José International Composition Competition, and at the Fifth Seoul International Competition for Composers. He has also received grants from the American Music Center. An advocate for teaching and communicating knowledge to young students, he has been a awarded three times the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching at Harvard. He is presently completing his PhD studies there, and has been teaching music theory, keyboard harmony, ear-training and composition. website |
A native of Fribourg, Switzerland, Dominique Schafer has spent a number of years in Los Angeles before coming to Boston. His music has been performed in the US, Asia and Europe among others by the Arditti String Quartet, Dinosaur Annex Ensemble, Ensemble Fa, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Talea Ensemble, Frances Marie Uitti (cello solo using two bows), Alarm will Sound, the Callithumpian Consort, Orchestre National de Lorraine (France), E-Mex ensemble (Germany), Modern Art Sextet (Berlin), Jeremias Schwarzer, and the California EAR Unit, and at festivals such as Musica Nova Finland and Festival Archipel Geneva. At Archipel Ashes in the Air II,for tenor recorder and electronics has been recently premiered, a work that is composed to be projected into an eight-channel surround space.The duo Triplex Unity for Saxophone and Percussion has just been released by the Yesaroun’ Duo on CD (available on itunes). He has been an active participant in the Acanthes summer courses in France several times. There he has been able to study electronic music within the atelier d'informatique musical (IRCAM) and went to the festival again in 2005 for the performance of his Chamber Orchestra piece Am Rande des Schattens. He has also participated in the composition courses led by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Kürten, Germany, and in the June in Buffalo Festival of 2007 where his music has been performed. In 2006 Dominique formally presented his work at the Darmstadt International Courses for New Music. Electronic music has become of increasing importance, even though the majority of his work is written for acoustic instruments and the concert stage.