Thomas Daniel Schlee: In Nomine, Window on Bruckner's 8th Symphony

Thomas Daniel Schlee studied organ with Michael Radulescu and harmony and counterpoint with Erich Romanovsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1976 to 1983 . He then studied composition with Francis Burt from 1982 to 1985 . At the same time, he studied musicology and art history at the University of Vienna , which he completed in 1984 with a doctorate in musicology . phil. completed. From 1977 to 1978 he was a listener in Olivier Messiaen 's composition class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris ; He was also a private student of Jean Langlais . [2] From 1986 to 1989, Thomas Daniel Schlee worked as a music dramaturge at the Salzburger Landestheater , [1] at the same time, from 1988 to 1990, he held teaching positions at the Vienna University of Music and at the University of Salzburg . He began his career as a music manager in 1990, initially serving as music director of the Brucknerhaus Linz and artistic director of the International Bruckner Festival until 1998 . From 1999 to 2003 he was deputy director of the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn and from 2004 to 2015 director of the Carinthian Summer Festival . Schlee also worked at the Guardini Foundation Berlin as a musicological project manager (1995-1998) as well as its president (1998-2001) and member of the executive board (2001-2013) and chairman of the music advisory board (2004-2011). From 2008 to 2013 he was also a member of the University Council of the Mozarteum Salzburg. As an organist, Thomas Daniel Schlee organized a large number of concerts and radio recordings in Austria and abroad, and also took part in important international festivals. For his CD recordings he was, among other things, awarded the German Record Critics' Prize and the Diapason d'or .