Gottfried succeeds Neukom in Zurich
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) has appointed Rama Gottfried as Professor of Contemporary Computer Music Practice. He will teach from August 2022, succeeding Martin Neukom.
Born in New York in 1977, Gottfried became a master student at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2009, where he studied composition with Walter Zimmermann, according to the ZHdK press release. In 2015, he received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied composition with Franck Bedrossian and interactive computer music with David Wessel, Edmund Campion and Adrian Freed at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT).
Gottfried's works have been performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, MaerzMusik, SPOR, the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemässer Musik, MATA, the Klangwerkstatt, among others. Since 2018 he has been working at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Multimedia Composition department and since 2021 at the Hybrid Music Lab of the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden.
