Alexander Kukelka

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Alexander Kukelka (born December 7, 1963 in Klement , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian composer , conductor and pianist . From 2014 to 2020 he was President of the Austrian Composers Association (ÖKB).

Life

Alexander Kukelka is the son of the restorer of old musical instruments, Peter Kukelka , who taught historical instrument studies and instrument making at the Vienna University of Music from 1972 to 1994 and who supported him musically during school and the painter Helene Kukelka. From 1979 to 1987 he studied jazz piano with Roland Batik at the Vienna Conservatory and harpsichord with Marina Mauriello. From 1982 he studied composition with Kurt Schwertsik and conducting with Uroš Lajovic at the Vienna Music Academy . From 1987 to 1990 he played the piano in the orchestra of the United Theater in Vienna . Since 1990 he has worked as a freelance composer, arranger, pianist and conductor in Vienna.

Kukelka is married to the dramaturge Kathrin Kukelka-Lebisch and has a daughter (* 2004). In 1999 he founded the New Vienna Music Theater Association with Kathrin Kukelka-Lebisch and the librettist Walter Leitner .

Since 2002 Kukelka has been teaching music in film - film music - music film at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . From 2008 he was Vice-President and Chairman of the Film & Media Music Section of the Austrian Composers' Association (ÖKB). In April 2014 he was elected President of the ÖKB. He has been a member of the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers in Europe (FFACE) since 2009 .

In addition to film music and operas, Kukelka also composed stage music, especially for pieces by Johann Nestroy , as well as instrumental works.

In May 2019, Kukelka became a member of the newly created five-person composition advisory board of the Culture Department (Magistratsabteilung 7) of the City of Vienna, an expert committee that issues funding recommendations in the field of music composition. In 2020 he was succeeded by Johannes Kretz as President of the Austrian Composers Association.

Works (selection)

Film music
  • 1994: In the sign of love
  • 1995: the tenth year
  • 1996: Art its freedom (corporate film)
  • 2008: Wrong Rabbit (short film)
  • 2009: Paradeisiana (short film)
  • 2010: Janek (short film)
  • 2013: Paganini - The Devil's Violinist (Music Supervisor)
  • 2016: Taaora's Song - Behind the Walls of Silence
  • Music for the ORF documentary Universum :
    • 2001: Salt - Tears of the Earth - Through the salt countries of the earth
    • 2004: Ants - Ants - The secret power
    • 2004: Hallstatt - A life between rock and lake
    • 2007: Zugspitze - mountain of contrasts
    • 2011: The secret of the termite world
Opera / music theater
  • 1999: chet - a jazz music theater
  • 2000: Nestroy 2001
  • 2002: Bill or The 7 Aspects of Poverty
  • 2004: The trip to Alt-Mamajestie or The best joke is Chernivtsi
  • 2005: Erlangen - music theater based on a play by Alfred Kantorowicz
  • 2007: Onyx Hotel (Libretto David Gieselmann , world premiere at Theater Erlangen )
  • 2010: 4 Gossip Operas - A music theater based on four short reports from the gossip press
  • 2011: Donna's Dream - A greedy musical theater
  • 2013: The water of life
  • 2018: Rudi's got it
  • 2019: The Superfluous (opera grotesque, world premiere on January 8, 2019 in the Nestroyhof Hamakom theater )
musical
  • 1989: Animal Farm
Incidental music
  • 1988: the talisman
  • 1988: Woyzek
  • 1989: Love Stories and Marriage Matters (Version 1)
  • 1990: Vienna Dance of Death
  • 1991: Amiwiesen
  • 1992: The dyer and his twin brother
  • 1993: Purple
  • 1994: Romeo and Juliet
  • 1994: Lumpazivagabundus
  • 1995: crosses on the horizon
  • 1995: Austria makes free 1000 years of employment office
  • 1996: Adieu Marie
  • 1996: Love Stories and Marriage Matters (2nd version)
  • 1996: black skin
  • 1997: Previous conditions
  • 1997: Chief Evening Wind
  • 1997: I am the people
  • 1998: Ursel
  • 1998: Hans in luck and bad luck
  • 1998: Top Dogs
  • 1999: Elisabetta
  • 2000: Mausi and Klausi
  • 2001: Nestroy - The First Vienna Theater Prize 2001
  • 2003: The mutineers from the Bounty
  • 2003: Language games from Nestroy to Jelinek - Part 1: Good people - Bad people
  • 2003: Language games from Nestroy to Jelinek - Part 2: Under - Four - Eyes - Views
  • 2003: Language games from Nestroy to Jelinek - 3rd part: There is peace over all Kipfeln
  • 2006: Death in Venice
  • 2008: The Magic Mountain
Vocal music
  • 1997: I can no longer reach the beach
  • 2007: A small theater suite with singing
  • 2008: Four evil children's songs
  • 2010: become passers-by
  • 2013: gaunz niachtan bin nua i
  • 2015: Don't trust spring yet
  • 2016: Hoketus for Gesualdo
Instrumental music
  • 1990: String Quintet
  • 1993: Orchestrion
  • 2004: Chernivtsi sketches
  • 2005: Farewell to Vienna
  • 2006: Bukovina dances
  • 1990: serenade
  • 2011: Concert for Schrammel quartet and string orchestra
  • 2016: Capriccio for bassoon quartet

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Uwe Harten : Alexander Kukelka. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
  2. ↑ a b Austrian Composers Association: Presidents and honorary members. In: komponistenbund.at. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b mica.at: Alexander Kukelka new President of the ÖKB . Article dated April 10, 2014, accessed September 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c Alexander Kukelka on club-carriere.com . Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Neues Musiktheater Wien: About us . Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b Alexander Kukelka - curriculum vitae on the Forum Alpach website . Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  7. ↑ Vienna Music Advisory Board proposes 113 projects for funding. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Music Funding - Culture Department (MA 7). Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The superfluous. An opera grotesque by Alexander Kukelka . Article dated December 19, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018.
  10. ↑ List of works by Alexander Kukelka . Retrieved September 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Kukelka, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Klement (Ernstbrunn municipality) , Lower Austria