Walter Thomas Heyn

Walter Thomas Heyn (born November 14, 1953 in Görlitz ) is a German guitarist , composer and music producer .

Life

Walter Thomas Heyn was born in Görlitz in 1953 and was initially a self-taught musician . From the age of fourteen he played guitar and performed in singing clubs. From 1974 to 1980 he studied guitar with Thomas Buhé and Roland Zimmer , arrangement with Gerd Schlotter and composition with Carlernst Ortwein at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig. His composition teacher recommended him for Siegfried Thiele's class . Heyn was then from 1985 to 1987 master class for composition with Siegfried Matthus at the Academy of Arts in Berlin (East). In addition, until 1984 he was senior assistant for composition at the Leipzig University of Music.

He took part in events organized by the German Publishing House for Music and the Leipzig District Association of the Composers' Association. From 1988 he worked without a permanent contract and in 1989 published the guitar harmonics manual at Harth Musik Verlag in Leipzig. He appeared as a song accompanist and chamber musician and played on cabaret stages . Heyn received during this time u. a. Composition commissions from private music theaters . His works Concerto grosso No. 1 op. 18 for 5 soloists and orchestra (1984) and Concerto grosso No. 2 op. 20 for 2 violins and orchestra (1987) were premiered by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the conductor Kurt Masur . In 1990 he was one of the founders of the International Children's Music Center Leipzig .

Heyn was a board member of the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR and forwards since 1994 in Weimar renamed Association of Composers and Musicologists (VKM eV). In 1991 he moved to Berlin . He bought the Neue Musik publishing house , of which he was chief editor from 1991 to 1999. In 2000, AMA Verlag acquired the specialist publisher for contemporary music. In 1996 he founded the record label Kreuzberg Records and appeared as a music producer . Heyn founded the theater group FSV Offenbach , which performed in the Saalbau Neukölln . He also founded the ensembles OPUS-Kammerorchester Berlin and the Quintetto con brio . He is the head of the music department of the Esslingen Artists 'Guild and chairman of the Friends' Association of the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School .

Heyn received several awards a. a. the Hanns Eisler Prize for 3 Yiddish chants . He worked on radio (Deutschlandradio, RBB and MDR) and CD productions with the participation of Claus Peter Flor , Rosemarie Lang , Dieter Mann , Kurt Masur, Horst Neumann , Max Pommer , Friedrich Schenker and Gerhard Schöne . Heyn lives and works in Berlin-Niederschönhausen .

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Heyn dedicated himself to opera , theater music and songs in the 80s . His first composition Four Aphoristic Songs (1980) was presented in a composer portrait at the Berlin Academy of the Arts. He processed in his works u. a. Texts by Anna Achmatowa , Agostinho Neto and Andreas Reimann . His sound creations prove to be time-critical and cynical. For the group Neue Musik Hanns Eisler he composed in 1987 Ich ist ein anders. Rimbaud . From 1989 he concentrated on chamber music . In the late 90s, compositions from the literature & music division followed. He worked with the chanson singer Barbara Kellerbauer . Heyn composes in all styles from romantic to new music . He is also editor of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach , Monteverdi , Modest Mussorgsky and Shostakovich .

Scholarships, prizes and awards

• Mendelssohn Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR (1977/78 and 1978/79)
• Erich Weinert Medal (1984)
• Hanns Eisler Prize for Broadcasting in the GDR (1987)
• Grant from the Körber Foundation Hamburg (1991/93)

Discography

• 1996: Guitarra poetica (Kreuzberg Records)
• 1997: Not every farewell makes you small (Mara Records)
• 1997: ZooMusik - MusikZoo (Kreuzberg Records)
• 1998: Hommage à Alfred Berghorn (Kreuzberg Records)
• 2000: Loving employment (Kreuzburg Records)
• 2000: Bach meets Shostakovich (Kreuzberg Records)
• 2000: Masonic chants (Kreuzberg Records)
• 2001: Opus (Kreuzberg Records)
• 2001: Leipzig legend (Kreuzberg Records)
• 2002: Florestan Quartet (Kreuzberg Records)
• 2002: Missae sine Verbis (Kreuzberg Records)
• 2002: Greetings from Life (Kreuzberg Records)
• 2003: Passions (Kreuzberg Records)

literature

• Hermann Neef : The contribution of the composers Friedrich Goldmann , Friedrich Schenker , Paul-Heinz Dittrich and Thomas Heyn to the aesthetic discussion of the opera genre in the GDR since 1977 , dissertation, Halle 1989
• Ulrike Liedtke: Walter Thomas Heyn . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
• Hey, Thomas. In: Brockhaus-Riemann Musiklexikon. CD-Rom, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-438-3 , p. 12793.
• Heyn, Walter Thomas. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 184.

Web links

• Works by and about Thomas Heyn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Thomas Heyn in the archive of contemporary composers of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
• Walter Thomas Heyn at Discogs (English)
• Homepage of Walter Thomas Heyn
• Walter Thomas Heyn , KDG - Contemporary Composers, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Vita and list of works by Walter Thomas Heyn at Klassika
• Walter Thomas Heyn at Edition Margaux
• Walter Thomas Heyn at Hartmann & Stauffacher