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Michael Wolters
Michael Wolters is a British composer of German origin. He was born in 1971 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, grew up in Niederkrüchten, a small German village on the Dutch border and now lives in Birmingham, UK. After working as a care worker in a children's home and a runner at several theatres in Germany and Scarborough he studied Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany and Composition and Theatre Studies at the University of Huddersfield〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.hud.ac.uk/courses/supporting/mus/ourgraduates/00000454/studentname,45779,en.php )〕 (BA, MA) and finally received his PhD in Composition from the University of Birmingham in 2003. His composition teachers include Christopher Fox, Heiner Goebbels, Patric Standford and Vic Hoyland. Since 2009 he has been Deputy Head of Composition〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire/departments/composition/tutorial-staff/michael-wolters )〕 at Birmingham Conservatoire. He is a founder member of the artists' collective New Guide to Opera.
== Aesthetic outlook ==
Wolters has maintained an outsider position in the world of contemporary music with works which deconstruct and question the traditional concert situation or which are designed for performance outside the concert hall. He has written music for traditional ensembles like Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (''Journal'', ''Neighbours for a Night'' and ''I see with my eyes closed'') but prefers not to be confined by conventional set-ups and concert rituals. This has resulted in pieces with unusual instrumentations (His 2012 twelve-minute-long opera ''The Voyage'' in collaboration with Birmingham-based theatre company Stan's Cafe, for example, is written for mezzo soprano, eleven recorders and double bass〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jxrpm )〕 ), performances in unusual places (''wahnsinnig wichtig on ice'' (New Guide to Opera ) took place on and around an ice rink) or projects of unusual duration (his ''Spring Symphony: The Joy of Life'' is the shortest symphony in the world and lasts around 17 seconds and the performance of ''Wir sehen uns morgen wieder'' (New Guide to Opera ) lasted for one month).
He strongly believes that the idea and the concept of a work are the crucial elements to create a successful piece of art. There is no place for musical or other material that doesn't serve the idea. His work focuses on many of the principles highlighted in Sol Lewitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art.
One of the major influences on his music was the work of American performance artist Laurie Anderson in the 1980s. He especially admires Anderson's ability to use multiple artistic genres to create highly effective and moving performance situations, where – in her typical postmodern way – she tells stories while highlighting the fact that she is telling stories.
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