Change at the SWR experimental studio
Joachim Haas will take over as Head of the SWR Experimental Studio on September 1, 2022, and Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who is also Artistic Partner of the Camerata Bern, will become Associated Artist.
Haas succeeds Detlef Heusinger. Haas has been working for the Experimentalstudio since 2001 and has since been regularly involved in the creation and performance of live electronic scores by important contemporary composers.
Joachim Haas would like to set new accents, among other things, by appointing changing Associated Artists, whose involvement should further open up the artistic perspectives of the SWR Experimentalstudio and make them more diverse. Patricia Kopatchinskaja will take on this role for the next two years (2022/2023 and 2023/2024 seasons).
Joachim Haas was born in Stuttgart in 1968. He trained in flute and saxophone and studied electroacoustics, communications and telecommunications engineering at the Technical University in Berlin. After completing his studies, he conducted research at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona as part of an EU scholarship, focusing on sound analysis and synthesis. Joachim Haas was co-founder of FREQ-Laboratories and developed audio and music software for Native Instruments.
Since 2001 he has been working as a sound director and music computer scientist at the SWR Experimentalstudio in Freiburg. He has been significantly involved in the creation and realization of live electronics - in works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Chaya Czernowin, Mark Andre, José Maria Sánchez-Verdú, Vinko Globokar, Elena Mendoza, among others. He has been deputy artistic director of the SWR Experimentalstudio since 2007.
