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

Miguel Rausch MIGUEL RAUSCH
27. 01. 1969

Composer, percussionis, actor and performer.

Miguel Rausch composes music for theatre and dance plays. He was awarded the Trinidad Guevara Prize in 2005 for the music he wrote for Omar Pacheco’s play 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” (Calderón de la Barca. Francisco Civit, Director)

As a performer, he leads his own company, Elemental, with which he put on stage two plays: Intro (2005) and Girondo (2011). As a musician, he played among others with theatre director and autor Alejandro Tantanian in two shows: De Lágrimas (2002), and De Protesta (2005). Also with Singer Mariana Jacazzio in the play No Te Amo Más (2009), and is part of the original staff of Babel Orkesta.

Premiered in Argentina the work Twilight, by the artists Jorge Macchi and Edgardo Rudnitzky, in which he played a set of tuned glasses. He composed music for the instruments Hidrórgano (1st prize Biennal Kosice, 2014) and Tubodroide, both of them constructed by Federico Joselevich Puiggros.

As an actor, he took part of Bizarra, una saga argentina, by Rafael Spregelburd (2005); Henry IV, Second Part, by William Shakespeare, directed by Rubén Szuchmacher, which premiered at the Globe Theatre, in London (2012), in which he musically trained the actors; El Gran Teatro del Mundo (Francisco Civit) and Bocas de Registro (Gabriela Izcovich), both in 2014; Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas, directed by Mariano Stolkiner and Gustavo Garcia Mendy), in the Teatro San Martin of Buenos Aires, in 2017; the opera Three Sisters (music, Peter Eötvös. Regie, Rubén Szuchmacher), Colón Theatre, Buenos Aires, in 2018.

He does musical and stage experimentation, composes music for symphonic orchestras and chamber ensambles, and leads the group Radio Akiva (klezmer, in which he plays drums). He produces electronic music under the name Ravelius, in which he uses sampled classical music combined with electronics.

Among many, he recongnizes as his Maestros Horacio Gianello (argentine drum Master), and Marcelo Katz, as his composition teacher, although he considers himself as self taught.