Daniel Ott

In 1999/2000, Ott created the full-length music theatre cycle ojota I-IV. In 2000 he wrote klangkörperklang - music for the Swiss Pavilion Expo 2000 Hannover [de] by Peter Zumthor. This was followed by landscape compositions for the harbour Sassnitz/Rügen (2002), the place of pilgrimage Heiligkreuz/Entlebuch (2003), the river Neisse between Görlitz and Zgorzelec (2005) and the Rhine port of Basel (2006).

From 1995 to 2004, Ott held a teaching position for experimental music at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he founded the KlangKunstBühne summer academy in 2003. Since 2005, he has been professor for composition and experimental music theatre at the Berlin University of the Arts. He founded the Festival for Neue Musik in Rümlingen in 1990 and is a member of the board. In 2016, Ott took over the artistic direction of the Munich Biennale together with the composer Manos Tsangaris (successor to Peter Ruzicka).

Born in Grub AR, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Ott graduated in 1980. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the regions of Basel and Graubünden and worked in independent theatre groups. From 1983 to 1985, he studied theatre in Paris and London. From 1985 to 1990, he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang University of the Arts and with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Since 1990, Daniel Ott has been working as a freelance composer, pianist and performer with a focus on new music theatre and interdisciplinary and space and landscape-related works.

Daniel Ott (born 6 September 1960) is a Swiss composer.