English Deutsch 1974–76 - Studies church music
1978–81 - Studies at the music college in Cologne with Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Wolfgang von der Nahmer (conducting), York Höller (composition), later with Hans Ulrich Humpert (electronic music)
1982–83 - Residency at IRCAM (Paris) with Vinko Globokar with a grant by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
1984–90 - Takes post first as Kapellmeister, then chief conductor at the Musiktheater im Revier (Gelsenkirchen)
1986 - Becomes Director of the Forum für Neue Musik (Gelsenkirchen), succeeding Carla Henius
1990 - Receives the city of Cologne’s Bernd Alois Zimmermann award
1990–91 - Composes his first opera:
Bericht über den Tod des Musikers Jack Tiergarten (staged at the Munich Biennale in 1996)
since 1991 - Artistic director and conductor of musikFabrik, the ensemble of the province of Nordrhein-Westfalen, as well as guest conductor with Klangforum Wien (Vienna)
1994–97 - Composes his second opera:
Molière oder die Henker der Komödianten (commissioned by the province of Schleswig-Holstein, first performed
in 1998 in Bremen)
since 1996 - Lecturer at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and at the music college in Graz
since 1998 - Freelance conductor and composer
2000 - Scholarship of the Villa Massimo (Rome); start of his
Kafka Complex with the premiere of
Nachricht an Charon at the EXPO 2000 in Hannover; premiere of his string quartet
Six Covered Settings by the Arditti Quartet at the Tage für Neue Kammermusik in Witten
2002–2003 - Composes
Vier Toteninseln for piano, baritone and orchestra (first performed in 2004 by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin)
2004 - Composes his third opera:
Inferno (commissioned by Theater Bremen, first performed in 2005)
2006 - Completes his
Kafka Complex for four voices (SATB), viola, piano and live electronics
2007 -
Ortswechsel with film by Edgar Reitz premiered at Donaueschingen Music Days
2009 - Member of the Berlin Academy of Arts
2010 - World premiere of his opera
Die Besessenen after Witold Gombrowicz in Vienna (commissioned by Theater an der Wien); World premiere of
Monumente im Halbdunkel in Stuttgart (commissioned by SWR)
2012 - World premiere of his music for the 1927 silent film
Die Weber (commissioned by Theater Augsburg)
January 2013 
Sebastian Currier
