Sebastian Schottke

Sebastian Schottke (*1979), born in Crivitz/ Mecklenburg, is an internationally sought-after sound director and Tonmeister in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music and its media extensions. He has performed at the Ruhrtriennale, Festival d'Avignon, Auckland Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Santiago a Mil, ICOM Kyoto, Beethovenfest Bonn, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Wien Modern, ECLAT, Achtbrücken and Ultraschall, among others. He works closely with Ensemble Resonanz, and also with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Klangforum Wien, Lemi Ponifasio / MAU, Sir Simon Rattle, Ingo Metzmacher, Thomas Hengelbrock and many others. Since 2008 he works as a freelance Tonmeister for the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, where he produces concerts and recordings with composers and musicians, often with a focus on multi-channel spatial audio.

He has worked as a Tonmeister on numerous studio productions released on bastille musique, Kairos, Mode Records, Naxos, NEOS, New Focus Recordings, Orlando, Shiiin, Tzadik and WERGO. Among others, Brigitta Muntendorf's "Trilogy for Two Pianos" was awarded the „Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik“ 2023.

He is responsible for the sound design for Gerhard Richter's spectacular work “Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version”. Sebastian Schottke is a lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Music in the subject "Interpretation and Performance Practice of (Live) Electronic Music and Computer Music" and has also held seminars and workshops in Athens, Hong Kong, Nuremberg and Tokyo.