Miguel Rausch: Carl Orff Competition 2018 Orpheus. Euridyce. Hermes

Miguel Rausch MIGUEL RAUSCH
01/27/1969

Composer, drummer, actor and performer.

Miguel Rausch composes music for theatre and dance. He received the ''Trinidad Guevara Prize'' in 2005 for the music he wrote for the ''Omar Pacheco Performance Del Otro Lado del Mar'' (Buenos Aires).
In 2014, he was nominated for the ACE Prize for the musical composition of the play "El Gran Teatro del Mundo" (The Great Theatre of the World). (Calderón De La Barca, Francisco Civit, director)

As a performer he manages his own company,"Elemental", with which he brought two plays on stage: Intro (2005) and Girondo (2011).
As a musician he played with theater director and author Alejandro Tantanian in two shows: ''De Lágrimas'' (2002) and ''De Protesta'' (2005). Also with singer Mariana Jacazzio in the play "No Te Amo Más"[I don't love you anymore]. (2009) and is part of the original staff of ''Babel Orkesta'' (Orchestra).

Premiere in Argentina, the work,"Twilight", by artist Jorge Macchi and Edgardo Rudnitzky, in which he played a series of harmonized glasses. He composed the music for the instruments Hidrórgano (1st prize Biennal Kosice, 2014) and Tubodroide, both designed by Federico Joselevich Puiggros.

As an actor he played in "Bizarra, una saga argentina"[Bizarra, an Argentinean legend] by Rafael Spregelburd (2005); Heinrich IV, the second part, directed by William Shakespeare, directed by Rubén Szuchmacher, premiered at the Globe Theatre in London (2012), in which he taught the actors musically;"El Gran Teatro del Mundo" (Francisco Civit) and "Bocas de Registro". (Gabriela Izcovich), both in 2014;"Debajo de la madera de la leche"[Under Milk Wood] (Dylan Thomas, directed by Mariano Stolkiner and Gustavo Garcia Mendy) at the Teatro San Martin of Buenos Aires, in 2017; the opera "Tres hermanas"[Three Sisters]. (Music, Peter Eötvös. director, Rubén Szuchmacher), Colón Theater, Buenos Aires, in 2018.

He performs music and stage experiments, composes music for symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles and leads the group ''Radio Akiva'' (Klezmer, in which he plays drums). He produces electronic music under the name of ''Ravelius'', using sampled classical music that he combines with electronics.

Among the many, his maestros are Horacio Lucarelli (Argentine drum master) and Marcelo Katz (his composition teacher), although he considers himself to be self-taught.