Sandeep Bhagwati

Sandeep Bhagwati (born 4 June 1963) is a German composer of western classical music and an academic teacher. Career Bhagwati was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, to a German mother and an Indian father. Living in Germany since the age of five, Bhagwati went to school at the Athenaeum Stade in Stade, Lower Saxony, and studied from 1984 to 1987 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with teachers such as Boguslaw Schaeffer, Kurt Prestel, Walter Hagen-Groll, Kurt Maedel, Josef Maria Horváth and . Bhagwati studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich with Wilhelm Killmayer, and took master classes with Killmayer and Hans-Jürgen von Bose, and with Edison Denisov at the Lucerne Festival of 1991. He studied computer music for one year at IRCAM. He studied further with Brian Ferneyhough and Tristan Murail. From 1989 to 1991 Bhagwati organized a chamber concert series “KammerMusikUtopien” at the Gasteig in Munich. He was a co-founder, with Moritz Eggert, of the festival A*Devantgarde in 1991. From 1990 to 1992, together with Gerd Kühr, he was artistic director of the composers’ workshop “AmateurKomponistenWerkstatt” of the Munich Biennale, which had been established by Ha