Thomas Wilbrandt

Thomas Wilbrandt (born in 1952) is a German composer and conductor. He is known for Natural Born Killers (1994), Vaters Land (1986), and Perlasca (1993). Education Wilbrandt studied with Franco Ferrara, Hans Swarowsky, and Bruno Maderna in the cities of Rome, Vienna, and Salzburg. Additionally, Wilbrandt worked in Berlin for about three years for both Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic. Career In 1980, Wilbrandt founded the Berlin Chamber Academy (Berliner Kammer-Akademie), a forty-piece orchestra originally formed from players of the Berlin Philharmonic with whom he recorded a Mozart Series for RCA Victor. Alongside international conducting activities and collaborations with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, Wilbrandt became increasingly focused on his own musical projects and recordings. His personal works were focused particularly in the fields of avant-garde and electronic music, which led to experimentation with multimedia content and new forms of musical presentation. One of Wilbrandt’s first major projects was the creation of a fusion of acoustic orchestral playing, digital and electronic instruments, and sounds