Thuon Burtevitz

Thuon Burtevitz (born 27 August 1973) is a German composer.

Life Born in Halle (Saale), Burtevitz first studied philosophy at the Technical University of Dresden, then changed to the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber as a student of Jörg Herchet. She continued her studies at the and as a master student of Dimitri Terzakis at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Since then she has been living as a freelance composer in Dresden.

Work Burtevitz developed her own tuning system for the piano work "Axia" (ancient Greek: "fundamental value") which lasts a good one and a half hours. In this system all intervals have a different size. For example, there are five different fifths. The octaves are also unequal. With this tuning system a strict order of tones is created, which nevertheless remains open to infinity. The form and rhythms of "axia" are also based on the tuning system.

Awards Scholarship of the Mozart Foundation, Frankfurt 2004 Working scholarships of the 2006 and 2009 Composition prize of the state capital Stuttgart 2008 für Rabba in Sard… (violin and prepared piano)