Frank Nimsgern

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Frank Nimsgern

Frank Nimsgern (born May 4, 1969 in Saarbrücken ) is a German composer , producer, artistic director, lecturer, guitarist and pianist.

Life

His father is the opera singer and Grammy Award winner Siegmund Nimsgern . He attended schools in New York, Schleswig-Holstein, Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate, had classical piano lessons from 1975 to 1984 and studied composition and arrangement at the Salzburg Mozarteum until 1987 , with George Gruntz , among others .

During his training as a jazz / rock guitarist, he took lessons from a. a. John Abercrombie and Mike Stern as well as Dave Liebman and worked with and for Anna Netrebko , Chaka Khan , Gino Vannelli , Billy Cobham , Klassik Open Air Berlin, Bobby Kimball , Pete York , Brian Auger , Jon Hiseman , Trilok Gurtu , Barbara Thompson , Ed Thigpen , Ian Paice , The Supremes , Klaus Doldinger and others. His role models were Richard Wagner, Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, The Beatles, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, JS Bach, John Williams, Steve Lukather and Hans Zimmer.

In 1988 he founded the Frank Nimsgern Group. He toured with her on behalf of the Goethe Institute in Africa (1990), Asia (1994), Poland (1994), Siberia (1999) and India (2001). In 1990 his debut album Contrasts was released . In 1993 he received the award for Best Performing Live Act in Jakarta. In 1996 he was musical director and guitarist for Chaka Khan. Since 1998 he has worked several times as musical director / supervisor for the Klassik Open Air Berlin, the Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast, London West End, the Saarland State Theater, the Bonn Opera, Tollwood Munich, Chemnitz Theater, Trier Theater and TUI Cruises.

This was followed by compositions for film, television, advertising and shows - including the title song Can you see the light for the Siegfried & Roy show in Las Vegas and the music for several Tatort episodes from 2000.

The series of compositions for music theater began with six composition commissions for the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin, for which he mostly designed the music-dramatic concept. With his music-dramatic crossover of classical music styles, jazz, rhythm & blues, pop, rock and film music techniques, he achieved his greatest successes to date. In 1999 he received the German TV award from ARD Golden Europe for his stage works SnoWhite and Elements .

Works

  • 1997 Hansel and Gretel at the Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin - music: Frank Nimsgern (based on motifs by Engelbert Humperdinck), text: Sascha Iljinskij. Frank Nimsgern also took care of the arrangement and orchestration.
  • In 1998 the musical Paradise of Pain was created . The shrill musical was the most successful piece of the Saarland State Theater with 56 performances . 2006 New production at the Trier Theater . The piece was also filmed by SWR and released on CD by Sony BMG. (Content: Due to a computer error by the Holy Trinity, two men are sent into the wrong realms of the afterlife after their death. The kind-hearted bank clerk Johannes Täufer ends up in hell - a club with questionable customers - while the crook Jonathan finds himself in heaven.)
  • The Musical Elements , created in 1999, was the turn of the millennium show in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast , which attracted over 720,000 visitors in 459 performances.
  • In the musical SnoWhite from 2000 there is a slightly different view of the fairy tale of Snow White . The lyrics are from Frank Felicetti. This musical was released on CD by Sound of Music in 2000.
  • In the play Witches , created in 2004, four witch sisters act, young and beautiful women who want to belong to our world. The musical was performed from September 4, 2004 in Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast . CD released in 2004 by Sound of Music.
  • The Musical Arena, also created in 2004 (book: Matthias Kaiser, texts and CoMusic: Aino Laos) shows two storylines, on the one hand fates in a circus on the verge of ruin and on the other hand the work of two very opposing angels who are in the The course of the plot run together. The piece was performed from January 16, 2004 to June 10, 2005 in Saarbrücken. CD released in 2004 by Sound of Music.
  • Ideas and characters from the stories of Edgar Allan Poe form the basis for the musical Poe, which was created in 2004 together with Heinz Rudolf Kunze . The main character is also Poe in a tragic story. Performances took place from October 30, 2004 to November 13, 2005 at the Saarland State Theater , and from November 2005 as part of the Tollwood Festival in Munich. CD released in 2006 by Sony BMG.
  • Like Wagner's ring trilogy, the ring from 2007 focuses on the Nibelungenlied , Rheingold and the ring of power of the dwarf Alberich. The world premiere took place on December 16, 2007 in the Theater Bonn. Text: Daniel Call. CD released 2007 by Sony BMG, a DVD of the musical is in production.
  • Also in 2007 the orchestra suite Wasser der Saar was created for the 50th anniversary of the Saarland .
Qi - a palace fantasy
  • In 2008 another composition followed for the Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin Qi - a palace fantasy (book: Jürgen Nass, Roland Welke.) The show ran en suite in Berlin from October 2008 to June 2010 . This makes it one of the most successful pieces in the history of the Friedrichstadt-Palast with the highest number of spectators and the longest playing time. With 500,000 visitors to date until April 2010, the show was able to secure the continued existence of this largest theater stage in the world. The album is available from numerous online music retailers worldwide.
  • In 2009 the Aqua Orchester Suite was created for the shipping company TUI Cruises . Anna Netrebko sang Ocean of Love (Laos / Nimsgern) for the first time, a work by a contemporary composer.
  • In November 2009 the musical Phantasma celebrated its premiere at the Saarland State Theater . Based on Jacques Offenbach's fantastic opera Hoffmann's stories , this musical tells a modern parable of the high price of being successful as an artist. Frank Nimsgern composed the music, the lyrics are from Aino Laos and Elmar Ottenthal . The musical was also released on CD.
  • With the Saarland State Theater he produced a new Rocky Horror Show in 2011 , which ran over 3 seasons.

Filmography

Books

  • Frank Nimsgern (Ed.): SnoWhite - Das MusicalBook , 2013 (Gollenstein-Verlag)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morgenpost.de: Revue: Friedrichstadtpalast , accessed on February 11, 2011
  2. ↑ freiepresse.de: www.freipresse.de/ New show of the Friedrichstadtpalast from September 2nd  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.freipresse.de   , April 28, 2010, accessed February 11, 2011
  3. ↑ Dr. Bernd Schmidt: Program for the 'Summer Revue', Friedrichstadt-Palast, Berlin 2008
  4. ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Friedrichstadtpalast: After the "Qi" success, the "Yma" premiere follows on September 3, 2010, accessed on February 11, 2011
  5. ↑ Frank Nimsgern scores in Saarbrücken article on sol.de from November 9, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Nimsgern, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, producer, guitarist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th May 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrucken , Saar