Albrecht Zummach

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Albrecht Zummach (2013)

Albrecht Zummach (* 1957 in Neuwied ) is a German composer and guitarist who works primarily in the field of new music and chanson .

life and work

Albrecht Zummach learned to play the guitar as a self-taught in his youth and especially dealt with the music of Hanns Eisler . He began his musical career as a songwriter and wrote chansons. From 1978 to 1982 Zummach studied classical guitar as a major at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, first with Professor Karl-Heinz Böttner , later with Ansgar Krause, and came to New Music. These different areas became formative for his composing.

Since 1972 he has worked as a composer and guitarist with the singer and lyricist Joe Knipp and performed with him as a chanson duo. In 1984 the duo expanded to include the vibraphonist Clemens Dreyer , who also studied at the Cologne University of Music, to form the band Zinnober , which has since played with the same line-up: Joe Knipp (lyrics, vocals), Albrecht Zummach (composition, guitar instruments) and Clemens Dreyer ( Vibraphone). The trio gave guest performances throughout Germany with their German-language chansons and toured the republic especially in the 1980s. After a 12-year break, the band made their comeback in 1998 and have been giving concerts again since then, for example in Cologne in the old pawn shop or in the red salon .

Since the late 1980s, Zummach has been primarily concerned with the composition of solo and ensemble works of new music. He writes stage music , such as for the Cologne Theater am Sachsenring (TAS), which has been under the artistic direction of Joe Knipp since it was founded in 1987 , where the theater revue For all cases Fritz was created in 2008 as a larger joint project with Knipp . Zummach also sets texts for various chansonniers and chansonnets to music. Since 1990 he has been giving guitar lessons at the music school in Wipperfürth , and since 2005 also at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne.

Zummach is a member of the Cologne Society for New Music (KGNM), as well as a founding member of the Initiativkreis Freie Musik (IFM), the umbrella organization of the professional free music scene in Cologne. From 2003 to 2012 Zummach worked on the board of KGNM and was significantly involved in numerous concert projects.

From 2005 to 2015 he led the project ensemble 05 together with John McAlpine and, on behalf of the KGNM, developed " a large contemporary work for the Cologne Music Night each year with equal participation of lay people and professional musicians". In addition to A Collection of Rocks by John Cage , Chambers by Alvin Lucier , The Great Learning by Cornelius Cardew and Nude / Rear View by Peter Ablinger , commissioned compositions by Antoine Beuger , Makiko Nishikaze , Andreas Wagner, Friedrich Jaecker , Oxana Omelchuk as well as Albrecht Zummach and John McAlpine were commissioned listed. Due to his experience with this special ensemble, he and John McAlpine were invited in 2012 and 2015 to realize the two works by Cage and Cardew for the Festival Eight Bridges / Music for Cologne .

In North Rhine-Westphalia working group New Music NRW initiated Zummach the concert series stations , which he oversees as general coordinator for the 2012th

The CQ - Cologne Contemporary Ukulele Ensemble (2013)

After the ukulele increasingly in Germany has been popular since the late 1990s, dealt Zummach with the technical possibilities of the guitar-like plucked instrument , and finally founded in 2013 with five like-minded people a ukulele ensemble for contemporary music (Engl. Contemporary music ), the so-called CQ - Cologne Contemporary Ukulele Ensemble . The ensemble gave its debut concert at the end of 2013 with a world premiere of the work Q’s composed by Zummach for 5 ukuleles & bass-kalimba in Kolumba , the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, and has since performed regularly throughout North Rhine-Westphalia.

Zummach's works were and are performed nationwide; they are published by Eichen Musikverlag .

Albrecht Zummach lives and works in Cologne.

Awards

  • 1999: Award of the German Record Critics in the category song / chanson, together with Joe Knipp and Clemens Dreyer as band Zinnober for the CD Schnee von Gestern
  • 2000: Culture Prize of the City of Neuwied , in honor of the writer Joe Knipp and the composer Albrecht Zummach

Works

  • Memories of Q’s (for ukulele, 2015)
  • in the eaves (for 29 players; voices, hands, feet, boomwhacker , Donnerbleche , drum, saxophone, 2014)
  • Q’s (for 5 ukuleles & bass kalimba, 2013)
  • über die Wupper (A sound by the rushing brook; for saxophones, large drums & terrain percussion, 2013)
  • KLANGMAUER (music in the landscape; for wind instruments & sound actors, 2009)
  • For all cases Fritz (15 songs for a revue; with vocals, two ukuleles & piano; texts: Joe Knipp , 2008)
  • Old Bills (for horn, violin & piano, 2007)
  • No kisses (for violin, cello & piano, 1992/2007)
  • Alte Lieder (Ein Reigen; for 2 female voices and ensemble; soprano, alto, English horn, bass clarinet, horn, trombone, bass drum, viola, cello, piano, 2005)
  • na and (for strings with trumpet and clarinet, 2002)
  • Alte Welt (for three female voices and ensemble; soprano, mezzo, alto, 3 flutes, tuba, tonewoods , harp, 2001)
  • on the spot (7 bagatelles for guitar, 2000)
  • Five songs for ZINNOBER (on texts by Joe Knipp; for vocals, guitar & vibraphone, 1999)
  • Me and you (for 6 mezzo-sopranos, 1999)
  • forever lasts the longest (for 6 female voices & guitar, 1998/2000)
  • l'Homme Armé (for violin & piano, 1997)
  • Zwei Königskinder (for violin, 1997)
  • O No John! (for piano, 1996)
  • Tape Dances (for cassette recorder & one performer, 1995)
  • There's already a lot of water (for violin & cello, 1994)
  • sssssss (for violin, cello, piano & four treble recorders, 1993)
  • Tribute to Samuel Morse (for recorders, 1993)
  • Hobo Signs (for piano, 1991)
  • Partita 2 (for violin & tape, 1989)
  • Quo wat is? (Serenade with texts by Yaak Karsunke ; for ensemble with vocals; violin, viola, cello, vibraphone / snare drum, trombone, guitar, vocals, 1982/87/91)
  • Last Minute Call / Auf Messers Schneide (2 songs based on texts by Yaak Karsunke; for mixed choir & piano, 1988)
  • Partita 1 (for guitar, 1981)

Web links

Commons : Albrecht Zummach  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Cf. information on Albrecht Zummach in: Zinnober. Chansons (reports on various guest performances by the trio in the TAS - Theater am Sachsenring from 1998 to 2009). In: theater-am-sachsenring.de. TAS - Theater am Sachsenring, Cologne, January 2009, accessed on April 6, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b See information on Albrecht Zummach in: Events Archive >>  Year 2015: Ukulele Ensemble CQ in the Reichsabtei. (No longer available online.) In: kulturkik.de. Kulturinitiative Kornelimünster e. V., November 14, 2015, archived from the original on April 6, 2016 ; Retrieved April 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturkik.de
  3. ↑ a b c Albrecht Zummach - curriculum vitae. In: kultur-nrw.de. Kulturserver NRW, accessed on April 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b See information on the volume: ZINNOBER. In: dooload.de. Netlabel DooLoad, accessed April 6, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Barbro Schuchardt: Weird Pig. Joe Knipp and Albrecht Zummach rehearse "For all cases, Fritz" at the Sachsenring . In: Kölnische Rundschau . May 6, 2008 ( digitized version of the article on the Theaters am Sachsenring website , Cologne [accessed on April 13, 2016]).
  6. ↑ a b Albrecht Zummach. In: wippkultur.de. 2015, accessed on April 6, 2016 (website of the “WippKultur” cultural festival in Wipperfürth , which has been taking place every two years since 2011 ).
  7. ^ Cf. Rheinische Musikschule Köln : Guitar concert of the Rheinische Musikschule. In: stadt-koeln.de. June 26, 2012, accessed May 13, 2016 .
  8. ↑ a b See information on Albrecht Zummach and John McAlpine in: Kolumba, Events: 04/12 >>  Program information : April 30, 2012: Eight Bridges / Music for Cologne. In: kolumba.de. Kolumba , Cologne, April 2012, accessed April 6, 2016 .
  9. ↑ See Landesmusikrat NRW : Stations II: New Music from NRW from March 15 to April 11, 2014. (No longer available online.) In: lmr-nrw.de. March 13, 2014, archived from the original on April 6, 2016 ; Retrieved on April 6, 2016 : “Overall coordination: Albrecht Zummach” Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lmr-nrw.de
  10. ^ CQ - Cologne Contemporary Ukulele Ensemble. In: lebeart-magazin.de. lebeArt e. V. - Non-profit association for projects in the service of society, Cologne, December 9, 2013, accessed on April 8, 2016 .
  11. ↑ a b CQ - Cologne Contemporary Ukulele Ensemble. In: archiv.kgnm.de. Cologne Society for New Music , December 14, 2013, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  12. ^ CQ - Cologne Contemporary Ukulele Ensemble. In: lebeart-magazin.de. lebeArt e. V., October 2, 2015, accessed April 8, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Albrecht Zummach >>  Works. In: eichen-musikverlag.de. Eichen Musikverlag, Schallstadt, accessed on April 21, 2016 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ "C" stands for Cologne, the English name of the city of Cologne, while "Q" phonetically summarizes the following initial letters "CUE" .
    (. See CQ - Cologne Contemporary Ukulele Ensemble: Q's for five ukuleles + bass kalimba. In: kunsthalle-bielefeld.de. Kunsthalle Bielefeld , November 2015, accessed on 8 April 2016 . )
personal data
SURNAME Shut up, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied