Achim Bornhöft

Achim Christian Bornhöft (born November 3, 1966 in Essen ) is a German composer .

biography

Achim Bornhöft studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith and at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University . His compositions and choreographies (in collaboration with Katja Büchtemann and Ulrich Baumeister) have been awarded various prizes and grants and performed at international festivals in Germany and abroad. Achim Bornhoeft lives in Tübingen and heads the Studio for Electronic Music (SEM) at the Mozarteum University , Salzburg .

Awards

• 1987: 1st prize at the Forum of Young German Composers
• 1990: 1st prize in the composition competition of the Cooperativa Neue Musik (CNM)
• 1991: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Sponsorship Award
• 1991: 1st prize at the Federal University Composition Competition
• 1993: Folkwang Prize for Composition
• 1994 - 1995: DAAD scholarship at the Computer Center for Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, USA
• 1995: Selection of the piece Brentano, lullaby for the 1995 World Music Days
• 1997: Selection for the master class of Brian Ferneyhough and Franco Donatoni of the Fondation Royaumont (not started)
• 1998: Composers' grant from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden
• 1999: Selection of the dance piece "Ellis Is." For the "Blue Bridge" competition of the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music
• 2000: Selection of the dance piece "Ellis Is." For the theater festival "Theaterzwang 2000"
• 2001: Working scholarship as a guest artist at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe
• 2003: Studio grant at Mummelsee (visual arts)
• 2006: Working grant at the Künstlerhaus Lukas , Ahrenshoop (not started)

Works

• Landgang (1987) oboe, piano
• Surfaces (1988) 7 instruments
• splitting images (1989) Chamber orchestra
• Nights Between the Tides (1989) string quartet
• Besides Aura (1990) piano, violoncello, flute (bass flute), baritone, mezzo-soprano
• ... See SUMMER Following ... (1990) 40 actors, stereo tape
• Good Night America (1991) piano
• ambito (1991) Horn
• artificial clichés (1991) 4 (2) -channel tape
• ... and at the same time ... (1991) radio play (based on The Bomb by Robert Lax)
• chant up (1992) 4-channel tape
• Cabotina (1992) 8 dancers, 4-channel tape
• cinema color (1992) 4 percussionists, harmonica (stereo tape)
• Germania 7 (1993) stereo tape (collage about Alfried Krupp's private tape recordings )
• The Measure of the Middle (1993) 13 instruments
• From the auras (1993) 7 instruments, soprano, stereo tape (optional)
• Brentano, Lullaby (1993) 16 voices, stereo tape
• Waiden (1994) orchestra
• d is appear (1994) violin, violoncello, piano
• Electronic Reading I (1995) stereo tape
• Electronic Reading II (1995) stereo tape
• FLOOT (1995) 6 dancers, stereo tape
• hologram rose (1996) 6 (2) -channel tape
• invar (1996) 1 dancer, 1 dancer, bass clarinet (clarinet), prepared piano, electric guitar, stereo tape, live electronics
• Halftime (1997) 2 guitars
• vongralswegen (1997) stereo tape ( incidental music for the play of the same name by Theater Total , Bochum)
• virtual string (1997) stereo tape
• Answerer (1997) mezzo-soprano, baritone, piano (text: Marcel Beyer )
• Collector's Cut (1997) electric guitar
• Reigen (1998) stereo tape (incidental music for Arthur Schnitzler's drama Reigen )
• local blue (1998) 11 wind instruments, piano, double bass
• Lumen B (1998) 3 dancers, 2 dancers, stereo tape, timpani, live electronics
• Infrared (1999) 4 percussionists, stereo tape
• Ellis Is. (1999) 3 dancers, 3 dancers, stereo tape, choir, live electronics
• swamp remains (2000) electric guitar, electric bass
• Aquarum? (2000) 1 dancer, stereo tape
• Venice Privat - venice in private parts (2000) drums, stereo tape
• Weitweg (2000) cello, accordion (bayan)
• Nirvana DC (2000/2002) 8 (2) -channel tape
• Amnesian Blue (2001) violin, viola, cello, piano
• requiem (2001) Ensemble, choir, soloists, electronics
• libera me (from requiem) (2001) 4-part mixed choir
• traktus / insprinc (from requiem) (2001) 8 voices, live electronics
• 10 songs by Charles Ives (2002) 13 instruments, soprano (instrumentation)
• Parker had trouble sleeping (2002) video
• final cut (2002) electric guitar, sampler, orchestra
• TalaMaze (2002) 2 dancers, stereo tape
• Courage (2003) stereo tape
• Thin as pain (2003) 1 dancer, 1 dancer, stage installation, electric guitar
• Acid Rain Dreams (from Thin as Pain) (2003) electric guitar
• Linea (2003) alto flute
• Polaroid (2003) 3 (7) drummer, stainless steel sculpture
• Solitaire (2003) 3 frame drums
• Quader (2003) 8 percussionists
• More and more | Reklame (2003) 5 instruments, soprano, stereo tape
• Always more (2003) soprano, stereo tape
• Reklame (2003) 5 instruments, soprano (Text: Ingeborg Bachmann )
• Orplid: Spiegel und Schilf (2003) Installation ( Landart )
• TransParent (2004) 17 instruments, live electronics
• Zol (2004) trumpet
• Perfor (2004) trumpet, drums
• Bannwald (2004) stereo tape ( Soundscape )
• Zweige (2005) soprano, violoncello, piano
• Lack (2005) flute, clarinet, live electronics
• Concent (2005/2006) string quartet, live electronics
• Stummer Ort (k2h-bridge) (2006) Stereo tape
• Impression (2006) flute, clarinet, violin
• Bannbullen (2007) mono tape
• Sepia (2008) flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano
• Seidenmatt (2008) 4 flutes, 4 clarinets
• Aceton (2009) 4 electric guitars, computers
• ab70 - Naturell (2010) computer music (2ch)
• ab71 (2010) 4 instruments, live electronics
• ab72 - Landschrift (2010) Orchestra, premier : January 21, 2011 in the broadcasting hall of the hr in Frankfurt am Main

Texts

• Achim Bornhöft: Reality as an image . In: positions . Edited by Gisela Nauck. 59/2004 pp. 14-17. ISSN  0941-4711
• Achim Bornhöft: ... and at the same time . In: The interactive radio play as non-narrative radio art . Edited by Hartmut Geerken . Folkwang Texte 6. Essen, 1992. pp. 57–70. ISBN 3-89206-480-6

Web links

• Works by and about Achim Bornhöft in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Achim Bornhöft
• Achim Bornhöft at sumtone
• Mozarteum University Salzburg - Univ. Prof. Achim Bornhoeft

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Studio for Electronic Music (SEM)
2. ↑ Curriculum vitae on bornhoeft.org