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Tristan Xavier Köster

Composer.Multi-instrumentalist.Producer.AudioDesign

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Tristan Xavier Köster (b. 1993) is a Los Angeles born composer currently living in Hamburg, Germany. Working with ensembles and musicians in predominantly acoustic settings, Tristan is inspired by the abstract emotive capabilities of music and its ability to be radically interpreted by performers and listeners alike. Searching to exhibit a new “colloquial” sound in the contemporary classical medium, Tristan thinks of himself as a musician constantly improvising and searching for an unheard, yet intuitive, way to approach an instrument or ensemble.

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Update: Professorship and a rad little scrolling score video!

Posted on October 1, 2019 Tristan

Hey, I am proud to announce that I will begin teaching as an adjunct-professor at the Hamburger Konservatorium beginning in

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“Future of Orchestral Culture” in the Hamburg Resonanzraum

Posted on September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 Tristan

A years long collaboration with the BKM and the Future of Orchestra Culture Program in Hamburg has ended with this

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New Recording of “the sea is near me.”

Posted on August 8, 2019August 9, 2019 Tristan

I am so happy to share Jorge Paz’s recording of “the sea is near me.”  This composition is one of

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Performances of “AWARE” for Clarinet and Orchestra performed by Roman Gerber, Bar Avni, and the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra

Posted on April 18, 2019 Tristan

Dear all my beautiful loved ones in Northern California, I will be briefly making my way back home to the

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Elbphilharmonie concert

Posted on November 17, 2018 Tristan

It brings me great joy to finally share this work. Written in a haze of only 11 days, this work

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Premiere in Elbphilharmonie

Posted on September 23, 2018 Tristan

The premiere of Köster’s “Memory Fragments III (im Eifer etwas übersehen)” was commissioned by the Lux Nova Duo, who played

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TBA: Portrait Concert, 2019

Posted on May 9, 2018September 23, 2018 Tristan

Koester is currently working with the HfMT Hamburg on a Portrait Concert for February 2019, the program for which will

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Review of Symposium at Shanghai Conservatory

Posted on April 12, 2018 Tristan

Below is a German review of the Symposium in which Köster took part at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music on

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New German Translations Added

Posted on April 5, 2018 Tristan

Thanks to the talents of Axel Köster, German translations of the biography and composer’s notes for the following pieces have been

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Mirror Strings Quartet performing “Simone” – new dates added!

Posted on March 19, 2018 Tristan

The Mirror Strings Quartet will be performing “Simone” at the following concerts: March 21st: BACH IM SPIEGEL – Wandelkonzert zum 333.

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