Andreas Dohmen

Andreas Dohmen (* 1962 in Viersen ) is a German composer .

Life

Dohmen studied double bass with Rolf Heister and composition with Dieter Torkewitz at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen . From 1987 to 1990 he took part in Franco Donatoni's master classes in composition at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena; From 1988 to 1990 he studied composition with Franco Donatoni in Milan and Biella as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service / DAAD. After teaching assignments at the music academies in Essen, Duisburg, Dortmund and Bremen, he has been Professor of Composition at the University of Music in Würzburg since 2013.

He created commissioned works for Donaueschinger Musiktage (SWR), Witten Days for New Chamber Music (WDR), ECLAT Festival Stuttgart (SWR), Musik der Zeit Köln (WDR), musica viva Munich (BR), Festival Présences Paris (Radio France), music of the Centuries Stuttgart, SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Munich, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Schlagquartett Cologne, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Ensemble 2e2m Paris, Ensemble Aventure Freiburg, Ensemble Ascolta Stuttgart, Trio Accanto .

Prizes and awards

• Winner of the international composition competition of the WDR Cologne / Forum of Young Composers
• Honorary diploma (diploma di merito) from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena
• Folkwang Prize for Composition
• Berlin Art Prize / Music Prize
• 1st prize at the international composition competition of the city of Rome "Premio Valentino Bucchi"
• 1st prize at the composition competition of the state capital Stuttgart
• Orchestra Prize of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg / Donaueschinger Musiktage 2011

Works

• per forza… (come da lontano) for ensemble (1990-91).

CD: Ensemble Musica Viva Dresden, Direction: Jürgen Wirrmann, Documentation Dresden Days of Contemporary Music 1992 (Ed .: Dresden Center for Contemporary Music)

• Portraits and Repetition I for seven voices (1997/98 - rev. 2005 version). 2 S., Mz., Ct., T., Bar., B.

WP: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Kassel 1998. WP of the rev. Version: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Schwaz 2005. CD: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, COL LEGNO, WWE 1 CD 20031

• Music for Gerhard Richter (Portraits and Repetition II) for large orchestra (1999/2000). 4,4,4,4 - 6,3,3,1 - Pk., 3 beats., 2 Hrf., Klav., Acc. - 16,14,12,10,8.

WP: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conductor: Lothar Zagrosek , Donaueschingen 2000. CD: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conductor: Lothar Zagrosek, COL LEGNO, WWE 4CD 20201

• frottages for ensemble (2000/01). 0,0,1 (Bkl.), 1 (Kfg.) - 1,1,1,1 - 2 beats., 2 Klav., Hrf., Acc. - 0,0,0,0,3.

WP: Ensemble Modern, director: Kasper de Roo , Witten 2001. CD1: Ensemble Modern, director: Kasper de Roo, documentation Witten Days for New Chamber Music 2001, publisher: WDR with the Kulturforum Witten. CD2: Ensemble Modern, cond .: Kasper de Roo, WERGO, WER 6568 2.

• Kuhlmann commentary for soprano, four male voices and three instrumentalists (2001). S., 2 T., Bar., B. - Trpt., Pos., Schlgz.

WP: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt 2001. CD: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Modern, WERGO, WER 6568 2.

• tempo giusto for large orchestra with percussion quartet solo (2002/03). 4,4,4,4 - 6,3,3,1 - Pk., 3 beats., 2 Hrf., Klav. - Solos: 4 beats. - 16,14,12,10,8.

World premiere: Schlagquartett Köln, WDR-Sinfonieorchester Köln, cond .: Stefan Asbury, Cologne 2004. CD: Schlagquartett Köln, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, conductor: Stefan Asbury, WERGO, WER 6568 2.

• Sound for large orchestra with five solo voices (2003/04). 4,4,4,4 - 6,3,3,1 - Pk., 3 beats., 2 Hrf., Klav. - Solos: 5 solo voices - 16,14,12,10,8.

Premiere: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conductor: Roland Kluttig, Donaueschingen 2004. CD: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conducted by: Roland Kluttig , COL LEGNO, WWE 1 CD 20245

• adest for percussion quartet with obbligato timpani (2004/05).

Premiere: Schlagquartett Köln, Stuttgart 2007.

• dissociations for large orchestra with three solo harps (2005–07). 3,4,3,3 - 6,3,3,1 - Pk., 3 beats., Klav. - Solos: 3 Hrf. - 14,12,10,8,6.

WP: Hrf.-Soli: Frédérique Cambreling, Maria Stange, Mirjam Schröder, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conductor: Lothar Zagrosek, Munich 2008.

• infra for five voices (2007/08). S., Mz., T., Bar., B. UA: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2009.

CD1: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Documentation Warschauer Herbst 2011, Ed .: Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music. CD2: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, COL LEGNO, WWE 1CD 2012.

• Latah for six instrumentalists (2008/09). Trpt., Trombone, 2 drums, electric guitar, piano.

WP: ensemble ascolta, Stuttgart 2009.

• zirckel / richtscheyt / felscher for large orchestra (2009-11). 4,4,4,4 - 6,4,4,1 - 2 pk., 4 beats., 2 Hrf., Klav. - 16,14,12,10,8.

Premiere: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conductor: François-Xavier Roth , Donaueschingen 2011. CD: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, conductor: François-Xavier Roth , NEOS, SACD 11214–16.

• versi rapportati for sax. (alto / bar.), percussion and piano (2012/13).

WP: Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Christian Dierstein, Nicolas Hodges), Cologne December 6, 2013. CD: Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Christian Dierstein, Nicolas Hodges), WERGO WER 7364 2

• Tmesis / minutes for ensemble (2013). 0,0,1 (also Bkl.), 0 - 0,0,1,0 - 2 beats., Hrf., Klav. - 0,0,0,1,1.

WP: Ensemble 2e2m, conducted by Pierre Roullier, Paris 2014.

• … Blind words… (music for GPH) for soprano, trombone and chamber orchestra (2014/15). 2,2,2,2 - 2,2,2,1 - 2 beats, hearing, piano. - Solos: Sopr., Pos. - 6,6,5,4,3.

WP: Sarah Maria Sun: soprano, Uwe Dierksen: trombone, WDR-Sinfonieorchester Cologne, conducted by: Titus Engel, Witten Days for New Chamber Music, Witten 2015. CD: Sarah Maria Sun: soprano, Uwe Dierksen: trombone, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Director: Titus Engel , Documentation Witten Days for New Chamber Music 2015, publisher: WDR with the Kulturforum Witten.

• a doppio movimento for electric guitar, harp, piano and large orchestra (2016/17). 4,4,4,4 - 6,4,4,1 - pk., 4 beats. - Solos: electric guitar, harp, piano - 16,14,12,10,8.

WP: Yaron Deutsch: electric guitar, Andreas Mildner: harp, Nicolas Hodges : piano, SWR symphony orchestra, conductor: Ilan Volkov , Donaueschingen 2017.

Web links

• Website at the Musikhochschule Würzburg
• CV and information on the website of the German Music Council

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.hfm-wuerzburg.de/hfm_person/dohmen-andreas
2. ↑ Prizes and awards 1988–2011 , accessed October 10, 2017.