Dieter Mack in Kuala Lumpur

Faculty of Music UiTM 2011 Presents

Mack, Dieter (b. August 25, 1954, Speyer, Rheinland-Pfalz) is a He is also active in other positions. He worked as an assistant at the
German composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, and piano works Experimental studio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung from 1977–81 and
that have been performed throughout Asia, Europe and North America; he has been a member of ExVoCo (EXpanded Voice Company) in Stuttgart
is also active as a musicologist. since 1980. He has served as a member of the advisory board of the
Goethe-Institut since 2008.
Prof. Mack studied composition with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough,
music theory with Peter Förtig and piano with Rosa Sabater at the He has lectured on Balinese music, improvisation and music theory at
Staatliche Hochschüle für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1975–80. music academies in Basel, Freiburg im Breisgau and Trossingen since
1980 and at the Universität Freiburg im Breisgau. He taught as a
His honors include a scholarship to work at the Experimentalstudio of the professor of ear training and music theory at the Staatliche Hochschüle
Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung in Freiburg im Breisgau (1980–81). His music für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1986–2003 and has taught as
has been performed at many festivals, including once at the ISCM World Professor für Komposition at the Musikhochschüle Lübeck since 2003,
New Music Festival (1988, Hong Kong), and a portrait concert was given where he has also served as vice-president since 2008. In Indonesia, he
at the Arts Summit-IV in Jakarta (2004). Portraits of his life and work gave lectures on composition, ethnomusicology and music education
were also featured in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (2004) and the magazine from 1989–91, in 1996–97 and from 1997–2001. He was also a long-
ZEIT (2005) and he is the subject of the book Wenn A ist, ist A – Der term guest lecturer at UPI in Bandung from 1992–95, on a scholarship
Komponist Dieter Mack (2008, edited by Torsten Möller, PFAU-Verlag). from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and has served as a
consultant in a research project there since 1997, on a grant from the
Ford Foundation. Moreover, he has taught as a guest professor in post-
As a musicologist, Prof. Mack has a deep interest in the music of Southeast
graduate composition at the art academy STSI Surakarta since 1999. In
Asia, most of all the gamelan, about which he has written extensively,
addition, he taught as composer-in-residence at the School of Music in
including the books Sejarah Musik jilid III – IV (1995, PML), Pendidikan
Wellington in 1991, gave masterclasses in New Zealand in 2004, in the
Musik – Antara Harapan dan Realitas (1995, P4ST-UPI), Musik Kontemporer
USA in 2006–07 and in China in 2007–08 and taught composition at
(1997, MSPI, art-line), Musik aus Bali und Westjava (2002, Lugert Verlag),
Darmstadt in 2006.
Länderheft Bali (2003, Lugert Verlag), and Zeitgenössische Musik in Indonesien.
Zwischen lokalen Traditionen, nationalen Verpflichtungen und internationalen
Einflüssen (2004, Georg Olms Verlag). He has had various studies in Bali, The Bärenreiter-Verlag publishes some of his earlier music, but his
southern India and Japan since 1978, notably one year in Bali (1981–82). recent works are self-published.
He founded a Balinese gamelan at the Staatliche Hochschüle für Musik in
Freiburg im Breisgau in 1982 and toured Southeast Asia in 1988, on a
Society of Malaysian
grant from the Goethe-Institut. He later served as co-leader of the Contemporary
CATUR YUGA Project in 1997–98, a cultural exchange between Bali, Composers
Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau.
 Detailed Weekly Itinerary – Presentations, Talks Classes and Concert

Monday, 21st March 2011

3.00pm-5.00pm : One-to-One Classes with UiTM Composition Students

Faculty of Music Visit UiTM Program 2011

Venue : Resource Room, Level 3, Block S
Dieter Mack in Kuala Lumpur
Tuesday, 22nd March 2011

8.45am-10.00am : Talk on ‘Pedagogical Treatment of Curricular’

Venue : Meeting Room, Level 3, Block F, INTEC

10.00am-10.30am : Break

10.30am-12.30pm : Degree Forum Presentation and Talk (Performance,

Composition and New Music Issues) *
Venue : Orchestra Room, Level 2, Block S

12.30pm-2.00pm : Lunch

2.00pm-4.00pm : Composition Seminar (Presentation of Dieter Macks’ Works and

Other Composition Issues) *
Venue : TEC 1, Level 3, Block S

Wednesday, 23rd March 2011

9.00am-12.00pm : One-to-One classes with UITM Composition Students

Venue : Resource Room, Level 3, Block S

12.00pm-2.00pm : Lunch

2.00pm-5.00pm : Talk and Workshop on Dieter Mack’s Research Experience

(Addressing issues with Traditional Instruments & Ethnomusicology) *
Venue : Seminar Room, Level 2, INTEC Library

Thursday, 24th March 2011

9.00am-12.00pm : One-to-One Classes with UiTM Composition Students

Venue : Resource Room, Level 3, Block S

12.00pm-2.00pm : Lunch

2.00pm-5.00pm : Diploma Forum Presentation and Talk (On Performance,

Composition and New Music Issues) *
Venue : Orchestra Room, Level 2, Block S

5.00pm-7.00pm : Break

6.00pm-7.00pm : Open Rehearsal with Dieter Mack and Nicholas Ong *

Venue : Orchestra Room, Level 2, Block S

Friday, 25th March 2011

9.00am-12.00pm : One-to-One Classes with UiTM Composition Students

Venue : Resource Room, Level 3, Block S

12.00pm-2.00pm : Lunch

2.00pm-2.45pm : Meeting with Research Coordinator

2.45pm-3.00pm : Break

3.00pm-5.00pm : Full Dress Rehearsal - Dieter Mack Portrait: Contemporary Piano Works Concert
Venue : Orchestra Room, Level 2, Block S

8.30pm-10.00pm : Dieter Mack Portrait: Contemporary Piano Works Concert *

Venue : Orchestra Room, Level 2, Block S

* Open to the public and Free Admission

 Dieter Mack in Kuala Lumpur
Faculty of Music UiTM 2011 Presents

Dieter Mack Portrait: Contemporary Piano

Works Concert
With performances by Nicholas Ong, Ross James Carey & Sayyid Shafiee

8:30pm
Venue: Orchestra Room, Level 2, Block S, Faculty of Music, Section 17
Campus, UiTM Shah Alam

FREE ADMISSION

Works by Dieter Mack, Tazul Tajuddin, Ross James Carey, Marzelan Salleh, Nor
Affendi Mazalan, Sayyid Shafiee, Gatot Sulistiyanto, Neo Nai Wen, Krisna Setiawan

Supported by:
 ‘Dieter Mack Portrait:
Contemporary Piano Works
Concert’
Dieter Mack in Kuala Lumpur
Co-organised by Goethe Institute, Society of Malaysian Contemporary Composers,
Faculty of Music UiTM 2011 Presents
Conservatory of Musick Lüebeck Germany with co-operation of UPM and UM

Programme
Handologe** (2006)
Gatot Sulistiyanto

4 Nada Untuk Piano*** (with tape)(2011)

Nor Affendi Mazalan

Shade of Bronze* (2010)

Neo Nai Wen

Seashore; Docklands; Fort San Domingo** (2007-08)

Krisna Setiawan

Tiga*** (2009)
Marzelan Salleh

Commentary on ‘La Lugubre Gondola’ (F. Liszt) **(1999)

Ross James Carey

Haiti: The Earthquake (2010)

Sayyid Shafiee

Torrent of Images* (2002)

Tazul Tajuddin

Chedi* (2001)
Dieter Mack

Anandanissimo* (1996)
Dieter Mack

Surya* (1990)
Dieter Mack
***First Performance **Malaysian Performance *Shah Alam Performance