Reiko Füting was born in Königs Wusterhausen of the German Democratic Republic in 1970. He was educated at the State High School for Music in Wernigerode (as a member of the Radio Youth Choir), the Conservatory of Music in Dresden (Diploma in Composition with Jörg Herchet and Piano with Winfried Apel), Rice University in Houston, Texas (MM in Composition), the Manhattan School of Music in New York City (DMA in Composition with Nils Vigeland), and Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea (studies in composition with Sukhi Kang). He has attended master classes in composition (with Helmuth Lachenmann, Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail, and Christian Wolff, among others) and vocal accompanying (with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Olaf Bär, and Semion Skigin) in Germany, Austria, France, the Czech Republic, and the U.S.

Mr. Füting has received numerous prizes, awards, scholarships, and grants in both Europe and the U.S. His publications include choral compositions and analytical papers (Edition Music Contact Werdau, Verlag Kamprad Altenberg). Various choral compositions have been broadcast on radio (Middle German Radio, Bavarian Radio, West German Radio, North German Radio) and television (Second German Television), and released on CDs (B.T.M, Deutsche Schallplatten, OehmsClassics, and Bayrischer Rundfunk labels). Mr. Füting has appeared as a composer, pianist, and vocal accompanist at many prestigious festivals and venues in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, South Korea, and the United States. He is a member of the New York composers collective, Wet Ink Musics.

In the fall of 2000, Mr. Füting joined the theory faculty at Manhattan School of Music; five years later, he became a member of the composition faculty and was appointed department chair of theory. Mr. Füting has also taught Vocal Accompanying at the Conservatory of Music and Theater in Rostock, Germany and appeared as a guest faculty and lecturer at the New School University in New York, the University in Leipzig, the American Academy in Berlin, and the conservatories in Rostock and Dresden.

More information about Reiko Füting can be found at www.reiko-fueting.de