Bernhard Gander

Bernhard Gander is an Austrian composer, born in East Tyrol in 1969 and based in Vienna. His ensemble and orchestral music draws on heavy metal, rap and electronic music, and on comics, with a piano piece named after Spider-Man's Peter Parker and an orchestral work, hukl, after the Hulk. Gander studied at the Tyrolean conservatory in Innsbruck, worked with Julio Estrada and Curtis Roads at Studio UPIC in Paris, and studied composition with Beat Furrer in Graz.