Wolfram Schurig was born 1967 in Bludenz (Vorarlberg). In 1989, after his studies at the High School for Music and at the Conservatory of the Province of Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, he continued to work towards a teacher’s degree in recorder playing at the Conservatory Feldkirch, which he obtained with distinction in 1989. Between 1989 and 1993 he studied composition with Hans-Ulrich Lehmann as well as recorder as a performer with Kees Boeke at the Conservatory and University of Music, Zürich. He graduated in 1993 by obtaining a concert diploma and continued his postgraduate studies in composition with Herbert Lachenmann at the University for Music, Stuttgart.

He is founding member of several ensembles specializing in early music and, since 1988, active as recorder player, especially in the German speaking countries, France and Italy. At the beginning of the nineties, his first own works were premiered by renowned interpreters of contemporary music such as Klangforum Wien and ensemble recherche. From 1992 – 94 he accepted a teaching assignment in the “methodology of instrumental education and teaching practice” at the Conservatory in Feldkirch; he was guest lecturer at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and, between 1995 and 2006, he held the position of artistic director of the “Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik”. At the same time he initiated an English series of publications, “New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century”, which he edits in collaboration with Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and Frank Cox. In 2005, a portrait CD was released by Kairos.

Guest lectureships and teaching assignments have taken him to the University for the Arts in Graz, the University of Klagenfurt and the University of Music “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig, where, in 2010, he holds a position as guest professor for composition.

He was awarded a great number of prizes, amongst them the Prize for Composition of the WDR Köln, the State Stipend for Composition of the Republic of Austria, the Plöner Hindemith Prize, the Prize for Composition of the Erste Bank and the Ernst von Siemens Promotion Prize.