Carolina Eyck

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Carolina Eyck plays theremin.
Carolina Eyck in the jazz club "Telegraph"

Carolina Eyck ( Upper Sorbian Carolina Eyckec ; born December 26, 1987 near Berlin ) is a German- Sorbian theremin musician, composer and author.

Life

Carolina Eyck is the daughter of the Sorbian musician Jan Bělk. She received her first piano lessons at the age of five and began violin training a year later. As a student at the Special School for Music in Berlin, she was accepted into Ulla Scholz's class. She later switched to the viola and was tutored by Ditte Leser.

At the age of seven she began to learn the theremin game from Lydia Kavina , Leon Theremin's great niece . She is one of the few virtuosos on the Theremin or Termenvox. Carolina Eyck plays on a "Big Briar Theremin series 91A" and on an Etherwave Pro Theremin by Robert Moog .

In 2005 she won first place in the Youth Composed Competition for her composition "Physical formulas".

In 2006 she published the first comprehensive textbook for the theremin, "The Art of Playing the Theremin" / Die Kunst des Thereminspiels .

As a theremin soloist, she has made guest appearances at well-known music festivals, so far in Basel, Davos, Łódź, Budapest, Asheville NC and San Francisco.

Projects and concerts have taken her to Poland, Luxembourg, Sweden, France, England, Mexico, Japan, Pakistan and the USA.

She won the composer's prize of the RBB with the composition "Sciciani - Am Wendischen Burgwall" for accordion and string orchestra. She created a new version of this piece “CIANI - Am Wendish Castle Wall: Pictures for Theremin and Orchestra”.

From 2007 she studied viola with Henrik Frendin at the Royal University of Music in Stockholm, where she received her bachelor's degree in 2010. As a violist she was a member of the German String Philharmonic and various chamber music ensembles.

In 2008 she was the soloist of Jan Bilk's EtherMusicCinema project at the Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos in Lisbon.

With Lera Auerbach's The Little Mermaid , she made guest appearances in 2009 together with the Hamburg Ballet under John Neumeier in several large cities in Japan and in 2010 with the San Francisco Ballet at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco. Eyck has been the artistic director of the Theremin Summer Academy in Colmar, France, since 2010, and of the Theremin Spring Academy in Leipzig since 2013.

In 2012 she gave the world premiere of the theremin concert “Eight Seasons” by Kalevi Aho , which was dedicated to her, as well as the theremin solo at the world premiere of Fazıl Say's symphonies “Mesopotamia” and “Universe”. In 2015 she received an Echo Klassik as a soloist on the CD "Kalevi Aho: Theremin Concerto - Horn Concerto" in the category "Concert recording of the year (music 20th / 21st century)".

She has formed a permanent duo with the pianist and composer Christopher Tarnow since 2013. The resulting works appeared on October 2nd, 2015 on the CD entitled “Theremin Sonatas” on the GENUIN label. Eyck gives workshops and theremin lessons worldwide.

literature

  • Carolina Eyck: The Art of Theremin Play. SERVI Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-933757-07-X , EAN 4025 1187 0631 - German edition with sheet music, texts and photos, over 150 exercises and studies, approx. 20 edited and new pieces of music
  • Carolina Eyck: The Art of Playing the Theremin. SERVI Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-933-757-08-8 - in English

Compositions

  • “Sciciani - Am Wendischen Burgwall” pictures for accordion and string orchestra, world premiere on September 16, 2006 by the Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra under GMD Reinhard Petersen, soloist: Aidar Gainullin (Moscow) - Bajan
  • “CIANI - Am Wendish Burgwall” pictures for theremin and orchestra, premiered on February 4th 2007 by the orchestra of the Berlin Special School for Music, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School , in the French Friedrichstadtkirche (French Cathedral) on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin
  • “Syllableaves” Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra, premiered on April 24th 2010 by the Gävle Symfoniorkester under Fredrik Burstedt in the Gävle Concert Hall (Sweden)
  • "Sauselei" Duet for Viola and Voice (2010)
  • "Reja" (Theremin and voice)
  • "Elephant" in green (Theremin and voice) / Elephant in Green
  • "Forte" (Theremin and voice)
  • "Sonina" (theremin and harp)
  • "Mask kingdom" (theremin and organ)
  • "Fantasias" for Theremin and String Quartet (2015)

Discography

  • 2008: CD: Carolina Eyck plays concertante works for theremin, EAN 4 025118 308424, © SERVI Verlag, Berlin; Musicians: Giulietta Koch - piano, Rebekka Markowski - cello, Magdalena Meitzner - vibraphone / percussion and Wiebke Lichtwark - harp
  • 2008: DVD: Heinz Holliger OBOE FANTASY, © medici arts / EuroArts / Swiss Television; u. a. with FANTASIA by Bohuslav Martinů, musicians: Heinz Holliger - oboe, Robert Kolinsky - piano, Carolina Eyck - theremin and the Keller Quartet (András Keller, János Pilz, Zoltán Gál, Judit Szabó)
  • 2011: CD: Kalevi Aho: Theremin Concerto - Horn Concerto; Annu Salminen / Carolina Eyck / Lapland Chamber Orchestra / John John Storgårds, the CD contains an extra video clip with Carolina Eyck's introduction to the theremin.
  • 2013: CD: Fazıl Say: Symphony 2, Op. 38 Mesopotamia & Symphony 3, Op. 43 Universe Fazıl Say; (Participation) Conductor: Gürer Aykal, Composer: Fazıl Say, Label: Naive Classique (Indigo), Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra; Edition: BIS-2036
  • 2014: CD / LP: Improvisations for Theremin and Piano, Carolina Eyck (Theremin), Christopher Tarnow (piano), Label: Butterscotch
  • 2015: CD: Christopher Tarnow: Theremin Sonatas, Carolina Eyck (Theremin), Christopher Tarnow (piano), Label: Genuin (Grade 1 music distribution)
  • 2015: CD / LP: "Fantasias" for Theremin and String Quartet, Carolina Eyck (Theremin), American Contemporary Music Ensemble, Label: Butterscotch
  • 2019: LP: Waves, Carolina Eyck (Theremin & Voice), Eversines (Electronics), Label: yeyeh
  • 2019: EP: Elephant in Green, Carolina Eyck (Theremin & Voice)

Guest participation

  • 2009: CD: Episodes from Dante's Dream © Dante's Dream (Germany)
  • 2011: DVD: The Little Mermaid (Carolina Eyck played the mermaid's voice with the theremin); a BFMI production in co-production with NDR / arte, San Francisco Ballet Association, WNET.ORG + THIRTEEN and NHK; Label: C Major; Director: Thomas Grimm; Distributor: C Major Entertainment; Length: 120 min. + 35 min. Making-of
  • 2012: CD: Cellosophy (Carolina Eyck played on the track “King of Atlantis”), by Christoph Schenker, Timezone
  • 2014: DVD: Clownwise / Klauni (original title) Fog'n'Desire Films
  • 2015: DVD: The Invention of Love; (Carolina Eyck played with several pieces of music); a film by Lola Randl
  • 2015: CD: Yeni Şarkılar (Carolina Eyck played on tracks 1, 2 and 4) by Fazıl Say / Ada Music
  • 2015: CD: About April (Carolina plays on “April”), by Friends'n'Fellow, Doctor Heart Music

Awards

  • 2005: Young people composed, first place with the composition "Physical formulas"
  • 2006: Composers Prize of the RBB, with the composition "Sciciani - Am Wendischen Burgwall" (for accordion and string orchestra). She created a new version of this piece “CIANI - Am Wendish Castle Wall: Pictures for Theremin and Orchestra”.
  • 2015: Echo Klassik , category "Concert recording of the year (music 20th / 21st century)"

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Eyck, Carolina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eyckec, Carolina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian theremin musician, composer and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH near Berlin