Ortmeier, Philipp (*1978) Germany

Born in Passau, Philipp Ortmeier began composing as a child and learned to play the cello, piano and the percussion. Studies in musicology, art history and Italian studies in Würzburg, Vienna, Kraków and Padua followed. He did his doctorate on the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina and published numerous scientific articles.
He is winner of the composition competition of the Diocese of Passau (2017) and finalist of the Bruno Maderna and the Orient/Occident International Composers Competition / Lviv (2021), he was selected as a scholarship holder of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the USA (2019) and received an award at the World Championship in Composition / Vienna (2021).
Ortmeier's compositions are performed worldwide, for example in Japan, Poland, Serbia, Italy and the Ukraine. Commissioned works were created e.g. for the Bavarian State Parliament, the Frankfurt Architecture Museum, the Mainkofen Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Euthanasia, the Passau Concert Association, the Finsterau Open-Air Museum and the Logos and Ethos Foundation.
Since 2014 he has also been running his own bus company, Omnibus Ortmeier, which specializes in cultural tours.