Sven Helbig

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Sven Helbig (2004)

Sven Helbig (* 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt ) is a German composer , music producer and director . As a composer for orchestral, choral and chamber music, he combines electronic music ( dark ambient , noise , field recordings ) with classical instruments and choirs.

Life

Sven Helbig began his musical career as a clarinetist , later adding guitar, piano and drums. He studied music in Dresden at the "Carl-Maria von Weber" University of Music .

In 1996 he founded the Dresden Symphony Orchestra together with horn player Markus Rindt . The orchestra specialized in new, symphonic music in extraordinary productions and was the first European symphony orchestra for exclusively contemporary music. In 2007 he left the orchestra to devote more time to his own musical work. Orchestral pieces, choral music and compositions for electronic music were created. In 2013 his debut Pocket Symphonies appeared on the Deutsche Grammophon label .

Sven Helbig has been playing live with his Forrklang Quartet since 2016. He adapts the line-up of the ensemble to his current programs.

In 2017 he toured Europe with the choral work I Eat the Sun and Drink the Rain . The production for choir, electronics and visuals was a guest among others. a. in the Barbican Center (London), in the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), the Alexandrinsky Theater (Saint Petersburg) and in the Reina Sofia Hall (Madrid).

800 years of Dresden, July 2006

Sven Helbig has been working continuously with the Pet Shop Boys since 2004 , first as the producer of their soundtrack Battleship Potemkin to Sergej Eisenstein's silent film classic Panzerkreuzer Potemkin , later as arranger of the ballet The Most Incredible Thing and the Alan Turing story A Man From The Future . He also arranges and produces for Rammstein , Snoop Dogg , Polarkreis 18 , the opera singer René Pape , the pianist Olga Scheps and the Fauré Quartet .

Helbig also works as a director. Music videos, stage shows and theatrical multimedia events were created under his direction. So he staged z. For example, the high-rise symphony for the 800th anniversary of Dresden, in which the musicians of the orchestra sat individually on the balconies of a GDR prefabricated building on Prager Strasse, which became historically important in 1989.

In 2011 he composed and staged the choral work Da will also be your heart on behalf of the 33rd German Evangelical Church Congress . The staging of 150,000 candles and 20,000 floating candles was experienced by around 200,000 visitors.

Since 2017 he has hosted the series Schöne Töne on Radio Eins , in which he presents modern, cross-border music.

Projects

  • 2004: World premiere of The Battleship Potemkin in London's Trafalgar Square
  • 2006: Production of the high-rise symphony for the 800th anniversary of Dresden (direction, lighting design, music)
  • 2006: The Mover Ballet , 250 solar panels danced to his music during the opening of the world's largest solar park in Arnhem
  • 2007: MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA): Music for Snoop Dogg
  • 2007: String quartet for the film Jenseits des See
  • 2009: Music video The Color Of Snow - Polarkreis 18 (director)
  • 2009: Music video Happy Go Lucky - Polarkreis 18 (director)
  • 2009: Children of Freedom - Arctic Circle 18 with MDR Symphony Orchestra and MDR Children's Choir (staging, orchestra and choir arrangements)
  • 2011: Premiere ballet The Most Incredible Thing at Sadler's Wells , London (orchestral arrangements)
  • 2011: Your heart will be there too - choral works for the opening of the 33rd German Evangelical Church Congress in Dresden (composition, direction)
  • 2013: Angst travels with you , choral works based on texts by Sibylle Berg , world premiere at the Stuttgart State Theater
  • 2013: Wagner-reloaded , 200th birthday of Richard Wagner with apocalyptica and orchestra, world premiere in the Arena Leipzig, July 2013, director: Gregor Seyffert , (orchestral arrangements)
  • 2014: A Man from the Future , work for choir, orchestra, electronics and narrator about the life of Alan Turing from the Pet Shop Boys , world premiere at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall , London (choir and orchestral arrangements)
  • 2016: I Eat the Sun and Drink the Rain , work for choir and live electronics, world premiere in May 2016 at Radialsystem V in Berlin

Discography (selection)

Albums

EPs

  • 2016: Rise with electronic remixes
  • 2018: Tres Momentos , 3-part piece for string orchestra and electronics with the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin

Awards of his productions

  • 2004: ECHO Klassik in the category Best World Premiere Recording for My Heart Burns to Torsten Rasch
  • 2010: ECHO Klassik in the Classics Without Borders category for pop songs to the Fauré Quartet

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview Jürgen Ziemer with the Pet Shop Boys about the armored cruiser Potemkin and the collaboration with Sven Helbig on epd.de
  2. ↑ Sven Helbig: Rammstein - The aftershow special with Sven Helbig. In: radioeins. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg RBB, June 22, 2019, archived from the original on July 26, 2019 ; accessed on September 24, 2019 (Sven Helbig plays pieces by Rammstein in which he was involved and tells the stories about them.).
  3. ↑ Pictures and articles on the high-rise symphony ragazzi-music.de
  4. ↑ Monika Dietl , composing in the head. The composer Sven Helbig has become a radio maker , in: Die Tageszeitung , August 7, 2017 ( online )
  5. ↑ Interview on MDR-Klassik.de  ( 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: Dead Link / www.mdr.de  
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel on Fauré Quartet and Helbig
  7. ↑ Presentation of the CD on deutschegrammophon.com , accessed on February 15, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Helbig, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenhüttenstadt , GDR