Born in Weimar in 1966. He studied piano beginning in early childhood, and since 1982 has been a member of the Ensemble für Intuitive Musik in Weimar, a chamber ensemble specializing in the performance of modern music with live electronics. At the Musikhochschule Dresden he studied electronic composition, and since 1989 has had the opportunity to learn sound direction by participating in a number of concert cycles by Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1991–92 he pursued his study of electronic music at the Institut für Sonologie at the Königliches Konservatorium in Den Haag (Holland). In 1989, together with Michael von Hintzenstern, he founded the association for modern music Klang Projekte Weimar, which organizes an annual festival and concert series. In 1994 he went on to study for one year at the electronic music studio at IRCAM (Paris). In 1995–96 he taught electroacoustic composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Weimar. Also in 1996, he took composition workshops with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough. From 1997 to 2001 he taught at IRCAM in Paris and gave composition workshops at the universities of São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Singapore, at the Musikakademie in Budapest, and in Darmstadt, Stuttgart, Florence, Milan, and Oporto. He sits on the juries of the international electroacoustic composition competitions CIMESP in São Paulo and Métamorphoses in Brussels. After completing a DEA in twentieth-century musicology at the Sorbonne in Paris, he completed his doctorate (PhD) at the University of Birmingham in England under the direction of Prof. Jonty Harrison. Since 2001 he has taught electroacoustic composition at the Montbéliard conservatory. In the 2003 summer semester he taught computer music as the Edgar Varèse Visiting Professor at the Technische Universität in Berlin. He has been a professor at Harvard University since fall 2004. Tutschku receives Weimar avard in 2005. In Oct 2005, Die Süße unserer traurigen Kindheit at Forum Neues Musiktheater.