Streich, Stefan

Stefan Streich studied guitar with Wilfried Senger and composition with Toni Völker at the Städtische Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt from 1982 to 1990. From 1990 to 1994, he continued his composition studies with Helmut Lachenmann at the Stuttgart University of Music. He also attended composition courses with Bogusław Schaeffer, Isang Yun and Gottfried Michael Koenig.

From 1997 to 2002, Streich was a founding member of the interdisciplinary artists’ group WEISS Kunstbewegung. In this context, he developed and directed cross-media projects combining concerts, stage works and exhibitions. Since 2009, he has been Artistic Director of Klangwerkstatt Berlin – Festival für Neue Musik.

His compositional work encompasses concert music as well as cross-media projects, theatre works and performances. His music has been performed and broadcast in Germany and abroad. He has collaborated with ensembles and musicians including the Minguet Quartett, trio accanto, ensemble mosaik, ensemble recherche, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Deutsches Streichtrio, RSO Stuttgart, Ensemble Ars Ludi, Ensemble Phorminx, elole Klaviertrio, Ensemble LUX:NM and Ensemble Apparat.

Streich has given lectures and seminars at institutions including Columbia University in New York, Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Potsdam and the University of Music Karlsruhe. His grants, residencies and awards include the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, the Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of Südwestrundfunk, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf and Herrenhaus Edenkoben. He was also awarded first prize in the City of Stuttgart composition competition.

In September 2026, Stefan Streich’s 65th birthday will be celebrated with the portrait concert Kontur Weg – Eine Hommage at Kühlhaus Berlin. Long-standing artistic collaborators from ensemble mosaik will present works spanning some 25 years of his compositional output.