Ming Tsao

Ming Tsao is Professor of Composition at Gothenburg University, and holds a PhD in Music Composition from the University of California, San Diego, an MA in Mathematics from the San Francisco State University, an MA in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University, and a BM in Music Composition from the Berklee College of Music. Further studies have included logic and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also currently Visiting Professor of Composition at the Höschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover. Performance projects include the opera Die Geisterinsel for the Staatsoper Stuttgart in 2011, and his full realisation of Stockhausen’s Plus Minus successfully premiered in the Wittener Tage Festival 2013. His compositions have been performed by ensembles such as the Arditti Quartet, ensemble recherche, ELISION Ensemble, Ensemble SurPlus and Ensemble Ascolta, in venues such as the Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival, Wien Modern, Wittener Tage Festival, Maerz Musik, and the Darmstadt New Music Courses. He is currently working on a new opera, titled Das Westzimmer, to be premiered in 2020, which speculates on the historical connections between fin-de-siècle Vienna and late-Tang-Dynasty China. Music by Ming Tsao can be found on the labels Kairos Music and Mode Records. Books by Ming Tsao include Abstract Musical Intervals: Group Theory for Composition and Analysis (2000). His music is published by Edition Peters.