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CAMP ((05))
creative arts and music project
international festival for electronic music and visual arts

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Ulrich Mitzlaff
violoncello player and composer

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ULRICH MITZLAFF completed his studies of violoncello in the 70ties, in Tübingen, with the professor Stefan Zarnescú. After his studies he was playing with the “Studentenphilharmonie” of the University of Tübingen. Since 1996 he is living at Lisbon, Portugal, where he is working as a composer and cello player of contemporary, experimental and improvised music, free jazz and sound-art.

He participated in many international festivals for new music: “Ciclo de Nova Música Portuguesa” (Lisbon, 1999), “Ó da Guarda” (Guarda, 1999), “Emergências” (Lisbon, 2000), “Encontros de Música Experimental” (Setúbal, 2000 and 2001), “O Gesto Orelhudo” (Âgueda, 2001), “Esta 2001” (Estarreja, 2003), “Fazer a Festa” (Porto, 2003), “CAMP 03” (Tübingen, Germany, 2003) international festival for electronic music, sound art and visual arts, “Jazzolograma” (Lisbon, 2004), “Multiplismos” (Lisbon, 2005) and “Palavras Desencarnadas II” (Lisbon, 2005) and “Sonorities” festival of contemporary music (Belfast, Nothern Ireland, 2005.

In 2004 he was invited by the portuguese choreographer Rui Horta to participate at the artistic residency COLINA 2004 at the “Centro Coreográfico” in Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal).
He was interpreting the original music composed by Nuno Rebelo in 2001 for “como rebolar alegremente sobre um vazio interior”, choreography by Vera Mantero for the Ballet Gulbenkian, and in 2003 for “Silicone Não”, choreography by Paulo Ribeiro for the Companhia Paulo Ribeiro. He participated in the “compact-disconcert” by Nuno Rebelo and in the multi-dimensional piece “…como um relâmpago…” by Américo Rodrigues.
Beside various projects of improvised and experimental music he recently has been collaborating with the dancers Jane Mason, Marta Cerqueira, Hillell Kogan, Paula Pinto, Vitor Garcia, Manuel Silva, António Cabrita, Helena Lourenço, Isabel Souto, Constança Couto, Luís Guerra and others.

He was playing in various concerts with Nuno Rebelo, Vera Mantero, Carlos Zingaro, Fried Dähn, Rodrigo Amado, Américo Rodrigues, Vitor Joaquim, Miguel Leiria Pereira, Franziska Schröder, Pedro Rebelo, José Tavares, Marco Franco, Carlos Bechegas, Gregg Moore, Liba Villavecchia, Paulo Curado, Joachim Glasstetter, Jürgen Grözinger, Carlos Santos, Emídio Buchinho, Mark Whitecage, Stefano de Bonis, Josep-Maria Balanyà, Alfredo Costa Monteiro and others. He worked in the duo I/O with Carlos Santos (MAX/MSP) in the field of the electro-acoustic improvisation and he has collaborated with the formations VITRIOL of Carlos Santos and Paulo Raposo and LIP (Lisbon Improvisation Players) of Rodrigo Amado.

Discography (including participation):

“Miles Away”, Ulrich Mitzlaff, Elroy Record Productions 1994
“Compact Disconcert”, Nuno Rebelo, Raka Records & Teatro Nacional S. João 2002
“A morte do príncipe D. Afonso e outros romances tradicionais da Guarda”, Teresa Aurora Gonçalves, Aquilo 2004.


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