Curriculum Vitae: Born and raised in Germany. Diploma in psychology/sociology in 1983. Between 1983-1989 composition studies with Nicolaus A. Huber (instrumental) and Dirk Reith (electroacoustic) at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen. Commission and collaboration with choreographer Susanne Linke for the choreography "Ruhrort", followed by several international performances in America, Europe and Asia (Paris, Theatre de Ville, Tel Aviv, Charleroi, Madrid and some others). Ballet music for the "Nederlands Dans Theater" with his orchestra piece "Riti Contour". Work with solo dancers for choreographies  for example "Le temps s'ouvre" with electroacoustic music . Collaboration with Christian Moeller for Multimedia Expositions in Tokyos Spiral Hall. International Performances f.e. at the INA, Paris or at ICMC's in SanJose, Tokyo, Banff, Thessaloniki. Collaboration with the institute "InterArtes" with video artist Silke Braemer for the Video "Lizard Point". After having taught composition and analysis at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen for 8 years he accepted a position as  research fellow at Kingston University London in 2000 and continued to teach as lecturer for composition at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen´s University Belfast. Since April 2003 he is directing the "Institute for Music and Acoustics" at the "Centre for Arts and Media Karlsruhe".

Awards: Folkwang Award/Essen, Award from the WDR and performance of an orchestra piece in the Philharmony Cologne. Busoni Award of the"Akademie der Kuenste"/Berlin, Golden Nica at the "ArsElectronica 1994" and a second prize at the "ArsElectronica 1997", Linz, Austria, "Larry Austin Award", ICMA San Francisco, "Pierre d'Or" at the Concours international de Musique electroacoustique, Bourges in 1997 and 2001, first prize at the "Rostrum for electroacoustic music" by the UNESCO. Prize at "Musica Sacrae" 2001, Fribourg Switzerland. Scholarship of the German government by the DAAD. Visiting Scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic (CCRMA) Stanford University between 1991 and 1993. Stipend from the Center for Art and Media technology (ZKM) Karlsruhe for the creation of a work with physical models. "Menzioni D'Onore" at the Luigi Russolo Award, Italy and the Stockholm Electronic Music Award.

1995 and 1996 Member of the jury of the "Prix ARS Electronica". Publication in the Computer Music Journal. Commissioned by the "Akademie der Kuenste" Berlin, by the "Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie" Karlsruhe, by the ICMA for the ICMC 1997 in Thessaloniki, by the "KlangArt" in Osnabrück.

Mr. Brümmer was giving talks in Europe and North America and was teaching at the Technical University Berlin and the Institute Archimedia/Linz. Currently he is teaching composition and theory at the Institute for Computermusik and Electronic Media at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen and electroacoustic music at the School of Design Karlsruhe.

Cds: solo CD "CRI" the listening room (Edel/Hamburg), "Edition ZKM" 1 (Wergo), "tangent" (Cybele), "le son qui s'arrete, le son éclaté" (Cybele), "Prix Ars Electronica 1994" (ORF), "Stimmen" (Degem Cd1), "Computer Music @ CCRMA" vol 2, Computer Music Journal CD 1996, Streiftöne, ZKM 1997 (CD-ROM), ICMA - Commisions 1997-2000 (Centaur Recorcs), Culture Electroniques 10, Bourges. (Serie GMEB/UNESCO/CIME 1997), Culture Electronique 15, Bourges (Serie GMEB/UNESCO/CIME 2001),

DVD: ->Thrill<-, solo DVD (WERGO, Schott Music), Surround Music, (WERGO)