Alois Bröder was born in 1961 in Darmstadt, Germany. He studied guitar with Olaf Van Gonnissen and composition with Toni Völker at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. He also took private composition lessons from Cord Meijering and Dietrich Boekle.
In 1989 he participated in the composition course "Luigi Nono" at the Centre Acanthes in Avignon, France. Later he studied composition with Manfred Trojahn at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf and electronic composition with Hans Ulrich Humpert at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1996 he participated in the "Response" project in Frankfurt am Main and cofounded the concert series "Neue Musik im alten Theater" in Darmstadt.
Awards:
1990 at the second international composition competition for guitar in Berlin for "Erdferne"
1990 at the 'Internationaler Kompositionswettbewerb der Percussion Creativ Nürnberg' for "ent/lang/tast/end"
1991 'Förderpreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart für junge Komponisten' for "Wir machen keinen langen Mist" and "Schlafmaus. Metall. 7."
1992 '1. internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb für Gitarre und Streicher Berlin' for "Sprünge"
1993 'Contest for orchestra works to commemorate the semicentennial of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government' for "Îsôt als blansche mains"
1996 Stipend for the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop of the Stiftung Kulturfonds
1998 Stipend for the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris
2003 Moldau-Stipend of Hessen
