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Eres Holz

Eres Holz is an Israeli-born composer based in Germany, known for works that combine electronic sounds, algorithmic methods and ideas from psychology and film.

born 1977Algorithmic compositionWorks with live electronicsThe album Touching Universes

Born: 26 September 1977, Rehovot
Occupation: composer
Education: Tel Aviv University, Hanns Eisler Music School Berlin

Eres Holz was born in 1977 in Rehovot

Eres Holz was born on September 26, 1977 in Rehovot. He studied composition with Ruben Seroussi at Tel Aviv University from 1998 to 2002.

He has lived in Germany since 2003. From 2003 to 2011 he studied composition with Hanspeter Kyburz and electronic music with Wolfgang Heiniger at the Hanns Eisler music school in Berlin. He has taught algorithmic composition there since 2008.

His works have been played in Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Spain and Australia, and broadcast on German radio. He draws on fields such as psychology and film. His piece LATAH was inspired by a mental disorder of that name, and Weisse Wunden is based on a text by Jan Fabre.

He won the Hanns Eisler composition prize in 2005, 2008 and 2010, and joined the Academy of German Composers in 2014. In 2017 he was composer-in-residence at Deutschlandfunk. His double album Touching Universes was nominated for the Opus Klassik prize in 2023.