Michel Roth (composer)

Michel Roth (born June 26, 1976 in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland) is a Swiss composer, music researcher, and university professor. Life Michel Roth studied musicology and linguistics for one year at the University of Basel and then composition and music theory with Roland Moser at the City of Basel Music Academy. After graduating with honors, he spent two more years studying with Detlev Müller-Siemens. In 2001, he was appointed to the Lucerne School of Music, where he worked as a professor of composition and music theory and headed the Studio for Contemporary Music. In this role, Michel Roth collaborated with Sofia Gubaidulina, Pierre Boulez, Péter Eötvös, Helmut Lachenmann and George Benjamin and established the Contemporary Art Performance course in cooperation with Lucerne Festival Academy. On his initiative, the Lucerne Academy for Contemporary Music was founded in 2010. In 2011, he accepted an appointment as professor of composition, music theory and artistic research at the Basel Academy of Music, where he is also a member of the research department. In 2022, he received his doctorate in musicology from the University of Basel. As a composer, Roth has collaborated with many renow