BILL DIETZ
was born in 1983 near the US/Mexican border in Bisbee, Arizona. Much of his recent work addresses the performance of listening and the genealogy of the concert.
He studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota. Since 2003 he has lived and worked in Berlin, initially as Peter Ablinger’s student and assistant. Since then, he has worked extensively with Christian von Borries and Chris Newman, and with Maryanne Amacher until 2009.
His music has been presented by the Happy Days Sound Festival (Oslo), the Maulwerker (Berlin), Birkbeck College (London), the Klangwerkstatt Festival, ARTSaha! (Omaha), the Zepernicker Randspiele, the West German Radio (WDR), “Tbilisi 6. Never on a Sunday” (Tbilisi), Brückenmusik (Cologne), and many others.
His writings have appeared in publications such as MusikTexte, Positionen, and Shuffle Boil.
He is the recipient of numerous grants (Capital City Cultural Fund, Berlin; German Music Council; Initiative for New Music, Berlin), and has appeared extensively as a performer (Documenta XII, “Musikprotokoll” of the Steirischer Herbst).
In 2011 he was the recipient of a working residency at the Künstlerhaus Lukas. From 2012-2013 he will be a fellow at Akademie Schloß Solitude.
Along with Seth Josel and Chris Newman, he is MISS MOTH.
Since 2007 he has been the artistic director of Ensemble Zwischentöne.