Born 1947 in Linz/Austria. Studied classical guitar in his hometown. Moved to Zürich/Switzerland, Belgium Brussels and finally to Helsinki/Finland, where he studied composition with Aulis Sallinen and made his master degree in classical guitar. Further studies on the barock recorder with Olli Ruottinen. 1976 he got his Finnish citizenship and from 1980 -1985 he held the post of an artistic director of the electronic music studio and producer of contemporary music at YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company). From 1985 onward Rechberger received several grants from the Finnish Ministry of Education. His compositional output is rather large reaching from solo works, chamber music, symphonies, choral works and operas. His studies in ethnomusic brought him to Africa (Benin) studying the Djembe and th Middle East (Egypt, Tunisia), studying the Darabuka. Rechberger lives nowadays most time of the year in Greece, where he found new inspiration of the local traditional music. (Hide extended text) ... (Read all)
