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Christian Banasik is born 1963 in Siemianowice (Poland), and has lived in Germany since 1974.
He studied composition with Guenther Becker and Dimitri Terzakis at the Robert Schumann Academy of Music in Duesseldorf. Computer
music seminars with Clarence Barlow at the Music Academy in Cologne. Postgraduate studies with Hans Zender (composition) and Hans-Dieter Resch (conducting) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt.
His instrumental and electronic pieces have been featured in concerts and radio programs throughout Europe (BBC London, SFB Berlin, HR Frankfurt, WDR Cologne, NDR Hamburg, VPRO Radio Holland, VRT Radio Belgium, Radio Nacional de Espana, Polskie Radio, ORF Austrian Radio Vienna, and Swedish National Radio), the Americas, Asia and Australia.
He has developed an algorithmic composition software (AFSTS 1) for the Atari ST computers from 1991-1993. From 1994-1997 he was chairman of the music department in the guild of artist "Kuenstlergilde NRW". Banasik was the artistic director of the ensemble "go ahead" and organizer of multimedia events with new music, literature and fine arts as well as concerts of electroacoustic music. He has received national and international music awards and scholarships.
Banasik is lecturer for Audio Visual Design at the University for Applied Sciences and the artistic director of the Computer Music Studio of the Clara Schumann Music School in Duesseldorf.
Beside live electronics, chamber music and computer music he has produced works for dance theatre, radio plays and film/media soundtracks.
(www.christian-banasik.de)
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