Richard GRAF
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Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1986-1992 University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, IGP and performance guitar, Diploma with distinction; M.A. in Education
1993-1994 Postgraduate studies at Berklee College of Music, Boston/USA
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
1995 Lectureship at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles / USA
Since 1996: Freelance work (compositions, concerts, lectures, author of a harmony textbook and several music pedagogical publications).
Since 2010: Lecturer for composition and composition pedagogy. Initiator and director of the course "Composition Pedagogy" at the VMI - Vienna Music Institute.
Initiator and director of the "Tage der Neuen Musik" and the "Netzwerk Neue Musik Niederösterreich".
Initiator and artistic director of the MAX BRAND Ensemble
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
1993 Appreciation Award of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research
1993 Scholarship of the Academy of Music in Vienna
1993 Scholarship of the Federal Ministry of Science and Research
1994 Scholarship of austro mechana
1995 "Awards" of the University of Southem Califomia and the University of South Florida/Miami
1996 Promotion Award of the BM for Science, Transport and Art
1998 Theodor Kömer Prize
1999 Promotion Award of the Province of Lower Austria
2000 Laureate of the "Find it" Jeunesse Competition
2004 Vienna Symphonic Composition Scholarship
2006 Culture Award of the Province of Lower Austria
2008 EUREGIO Innovation Award
2009-2019 President of the INÖK
2010 Composition commission of the Province of Lower Austria
2011 Composition commission of the city of Vienna
2011 Maecenas recognition award
2022 Decoration of Honour in Gold of the State of Lower Austria
Lectureship for composition, theory and arrangement at Danube University Krems
Professor for Music Education and Vice-Rector for Education and Digitization at the JAM MUSIC LAB University