Helmut Bieler is a German

Germans

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 and pianist

Pianist

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He studied composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Fritz Schieri, piano with Friedrich Wührer

Friedrich Wührer

Friedrich Wührer was an Austrian-German pianist and piano pedagogue. He was a close associate and advocate of composer Franz Schmidt, whose music he edited and, in the case of the works for left hand alone, revised for performance with two hands; he was also a champion of the Second Viennese...

 and Aldo Schoen and learned music at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Munich

Hochschule für Musik und Theater München

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. From 1967 to 1979 he taught at the Markgräfin-Wilhelmine-Gymnasium, Bayreuth. In 1979 he became a docent

Docent

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 and 1988 a professor

Professor

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 of music education

Music education

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 at the University of Bayreuth

University of Bayreuth

The University of Bayreuth is a public research university situated in Bayreuth, Germany. It was founded in 1975 as a campus university focusing on international collaboration and interdisciplinarity...

. He founded the Ensemble Musica Viva (Bayreuth) in 1980 and the Bayreuth Days of Contemporary Music in 1988. His music has been performed in Europe (e.g. Gaudeamus Muziekweek and ISCM

International Society for Contemporary Music

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 World Music Days Festival in Aarhus, Ensemble Sortisatio

Ensemble Sortisatio

Ensemble Sortisatio is a quartet founded by violist Matthias Sannemüller in 1992 in Leipzig, Germany. Its members are mostly soloists at the MDR Symphony Orchestra. They have specialized in contemporary classical music.- Formation :The Ensemble Sortisatio was founded in 1992 by Matthias...

), Russia and the USA.

Prizes

• 1980: Prize for the Promotion of Culture by the City of Nuremberg
  Nuremberg
  Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
  
  
• 1992: Cultural Prize of the City of Bayreuth
• 2008: Friedrich Baur Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

External links

• Helmut Bieler at The Living Composers Project
• Helmut Bieler at the International Weeks for Contemporary Music Lüneburg