 In 1980, he began studying music composition, first in Graz with A. Dobrowolsky and Gösta Neuwirth, then, from 1982–1990, with Gösta Neuwirth and Frank Michael Beyer at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, later with Hans Zender in Frankfurt.In 1990, he received the Boris Blacher Prize and won a Cité internationale des arts scholarship for 1990/91 in Paris.In 1991, Kyburz began collaborating with the Insel-Musik-Konzerte group in Berlin.