Contemporary composer Franz Ferdinand August Rieks has been recognized by institutions such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, BR Symphony Orchestra, and the German Music Council. He has received commissions from the NRW Art Foundation, Badisches Staatstheater, and the Rhineland-Palatinate Music Council, as well as from Ensemble Musikfabrik. His works have premiered on stages like the Lucerne and Grafenegg Festivals, and the European Cultural Days, interpreted by groups such as IEMA, Schola Heidelberg, Scharoun Ensemble, Aleph Quartet, and Ensemble Modern.
His academic degrees have been supported by the German National Academic Foundation. He has been Composer in Residence in Bonn, a newcomer at the Witten Days for New Chamber Music, a Rising Star at the Musiktage Junger Künstler Weingarten, and was nominated for the World New Music Days. The Woerthersee Classics Festival, SWR2, and Deutschlandfunk have dedicated portrait concerts and broadcasts to him. He engages in diversity work through the German Music Council's Federal Expert Committee and works as a freelance consultant alongside activism. He creates his works as an artist-composer-performer simultaneously. He is a portal figure of lila.
Franz Ferdinand August Rieks is an artist of the lila2022.com agency.

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