Composer Prize 2011

Hèctor Parra

Audio Portrait

Author: Uta Sailer, Music: Hèctor Parra, Early Life (premiere with ensemble recherche on May 24, 2011)

"I was in hospital in Paris for an EKG because of slight cardiac arrhythmias. Nothing serious. This was the moment I got the call. My heart rhythm became more intense and irregular, it exploded. The doctor came running and asked: ‘My God, what happened?’ - I had just found out that I would receive the Ernst von Siemens Composer's Prize. That moment is recorded, scanned in an EKG"

Composer and winner of the Förderpreis Hèctor Parra on the possibilities of our ears, the language of his music and the fine line between noise and music: