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Jonathan Stark, born in 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, is a German composer and pianist currently based in Vienna, Austria. He received his first music education at the age of 6 and currently pursues his diploma studies in Composition and Music Theory at Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, where he studies with Martin Lichtfuss. He also studied piano at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, Germany, where he studied with Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov and passed masterclasses with Axel Gremmelspacher.
Interpreters of his music are amongst others the Ensemble Phorminx (Darmstadt, Germany), the S.E.M. Ensemble (Brooklyn, New York), the Atlas Ensemble (Amsterdam, Netherlands), the Ensemble Platypus (Vienna, Austria), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet; Sykesville, Maryland) and Christopher Redgate (oboe; London, UK). His compositions have been performed in several European countries and the USA.
Jonathan Stark has worked with and performed works of such composers as Dieter Mack, Annette Schlünz, Benjamin Lang, Petr Kotik, Achim Bornhoeft, Johannes Schöllhorn and many more. Furthermore, he attended masterclasses with Hans Zender and Isabel Mundry, among others.
In 2010, he was awarded the Andreas Werckmeister Prize of the city of Halberstadt (Germany). He has performed on stages in Europe and the USA and won several competitions and awards such as the nationwide competition “Bundeswettbewerb Komposition” (Germany), the composition competition of the Society of Music Theory of Germany and the international music competition “Heirs of Orpheus” in Albena, Bulgaria.