Ulf-Diether Soyka

Ulf-Diether Soyka (born 5 June 1954) is an Austrian composer, conductor and lecturer.
Musical creation and compositional style.
Soyka was born in Vienna, Austria. He prefers to write music for the concert hall, for orchestra, chamber music, choral works and operas. His compositional style was described by Dr. Werner Pelinka in 1987 in the cultural magazine "morgen":
Soyka also investigated connections between chromatic and micro-interval music. Since 2007 he brought out his publication about micro interval composition theory. In 2012 he also brought out his (very melodic) opera "Ninja", in which micro-tonality is assigned mainly to one of the principal characters, the Robot Androido, in order to underline the “emotions” of this character adequately.
List of works.
Soykas work list includes the following work groups:
Conductors activities.
Ulf-Diether Soyka prefers conducting his own works. He has conducted at
Education.
Soyka completed his diploma studies with Friedrich Cerha (composition) and Otmar Suitner (orchestral conducting) as well as the teaching profession for musical education at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
Functions in the music life.
1979- 1981 teaching representatives at the University for Music and Dramatical Art in Vienna, 1982-1983 high school-teacher, 1983 Austrian state scholar for composition. He then worked as a freelance composer and occasional conductor. Soyka wrote numerous commissioned compositions within the next years, and since 2000 he has been working as an assistant professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Prayner Conservatory in Vienna.
Further long-term functions: High school teacher, leader of a church choir, member of the executive board in the Austrian composer federation, subject lectures at English and Australian Music-Universities, music journalism for many cultural journals (Ö.Musikzeitschrift u.a.), management of music symposia, functions in AKM, ÖGZM, music labour union etc., expert of the Viennese summer seminars for new music, founder and manager of an ensemble for new music, coordination of the “Pro-Arte-Orchestra”, founder and concert organiser of „Project First Performances“, lecturer at the intercultural Ekmelik Symposium Salzburg 1986, and much more.
Family.
Soyka has three grown sons.