Tilman Kanitz

Tilman Kanitz is a musician and artist from Germany. He studied music at the Lübeck, Freiburg and Cologne Universities and finished his studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. From 2015 – 2018 he was the Artistic Director of the Berlin music theatre group Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop. In his productions Tilman Kanitz builds sound collages from classical and experimental music, collaborating with musicians, dancers and performers. He builds his room settings as light spaces and installations, presented in theater halls as well as in museums, galleries and urban off-spaces. In recent time he collaborated with the choreographers Laurent Chétouane and Lyllie Rouvière, the composers Sebastian Claren and Chiyoko Szlavnics, the theatre directors Susanne Kennedy and Ludger Engels, the fashion designer Pam Hogg, the artist Dirk Bell and others. He was guest of international music, dance and performance festivals such as: the Ruhrtriennale, Tanzplattform Deutschland, CTM Festival, the Donaueschingen Festival, the Darmstadt International Summer Courses (Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt), the Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, Malta-Festival Poznan, Operadagen Rotterdam, Wien Modern, Vianna do Castello Music Festival, Hitzacker Festival, the Tongyeong International Music Festival in South-Korea.