Maurice Oeser

The sound director Maurice Oeser began his musical training studying cello and piano. He went on to study music design at the University of Music in Trossingen.

He has worked as a freelance music and media information technologist on various projects in the culture, communications and automobile industries. Following periods as an intern and a trainee, he has worked as a permanent sound director at the SWR Experimentalstudio since 2017. As part of this activity, he has performed at renowned festivals such as the Eight Bridges Festival in Cologne, musica viva, the ECLAT Festival, the Darmstadt Summer Courses, the Donaueschingen Music Festival and Wien Modern.

He has worked with artists such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Jörg Widmann, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Experimental and the composer Christian Mason.

Maurice Oeser’s recent projects include the realization of the live electronics for the revival of Johannes Maria Staud’s Die Weiden at the Vienna State Opera in 2019, and sound direction for the world premiere of Alexander Moosbrugger’s first opera Hypnerotomachia at the Bregenz Festival in 2021, for the world premiere of the music-theatre double-bill Escape at Theater Freiburg in 2022, for the world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti’s Der Doppelgänger at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival in 2024, and most recently for the world premiere of Claudia Janet Birkholz’s UNIVERSEN for ensemble, playback and live electronics with the youth ensemble Smusic21 at the realtime-festival in Bremen in June 2025.