JURY
Otto M. Schwarz
Symphonic Band Jury & Workshop Lecturer
Otto M. Schwarz was born in Neunkirchen, Austria, in 1967. He grew up in Wimpassing (Lower Austria - south of Vienna), where he still lives today. Otto M. Schwarz received his music education at the Academy of Music in Vienna, where he studied trumpet with Professor Josef Pomberger of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and composition with Professor Heinz Kratochwil. During this period he created his first compositions in the area of light music. In 1992, his own recording studio was installed, where he has produced more than 1000 titles. Currently, he composes music for commercials, films and signations for the Austrian network ORF and various other Radio & TV channels. With the cooperation of several background music companies, Schwarz´s CDs are played an distributed in more than 80 countries worldwide. Up to the year 2003, more than 1.7 million CDs containing titles by Otto M. Schwarz have been sold. He has been presented “golden” CDs by international companies. Since 2001 Otto M. Schwarz produces almost exclusively film music for international film productions. His first three films were made with internationally known film Director Peter Patzak. The episode “To risk one’s neck” of the TV series “Police call 110” achieved an audience rating of six million in Germany.
Since autumn 2001, he works together with LISA film. (Productions for the German Broadcasting Organisations ARD and ZDF, the Austrian Broadcasting Organisation ORF and the Italian television RAI). In March 2002 the film version of the novel “The cascades of Slunj” achieved an award at the TV festival in Venice. Films with the German actor Horst Tappert (“Heart without a crown”) and Franco Nero followed. Since 1995 Otto M. Schwarz has published compositions for concert band with the Dutch music publisher, De Haske, and the Swiss Music publisher, Mitropa. Titles like “Nostradamus”, “For the next Thousand”, “Roller Coaster”, “A Song for You” or “Jazz Waltz” are performed all over the world. Well kown bands like “The Johan Willem Friso Military Band” (Netherlands), “Symphonic Winds” (Italy), “The Band of the Belgian Navy” (Belgium), the “LBO Baden-Wuerttemberg” (Germany), Brighouse & Rastrick Band (Great Britain), Soli Brass (Netherlands) and many more have recorded works by Otto M. Schwarz.
