Andreas N. Tarkmann

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Andreas Nicolai Tarkmann (born May 1, 1956 in Hanover ) is a German composer and arranger of instrumental and vocal music .

education

Tarkmann initially trained as an oboist with Ingo Goritzki ( Hanover University of Music ) and Helmut Hucke ( Cologne University of Music ) and was a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie from 1976 to 1979 . He completed musicological studies with Julius Alf, and was taught composition by Ladislav Kupkovič . Tarkmann also completed a music education degree with a diploma.

Activity as arranger

Andreas Tarkmann wrote numerous wind versions and harmony music on behalf of international ensembles such as the Scharoun Ensemble, the Linos Ensemble, hr-brass and the brass section of the Berliner Philharmoniker, as well as national and international radio stations. So he has u. a. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Bedřich Smetana , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Pjotr ​​Tchaikovsky , Modest Mussorgski and Sergei Prokofjew . His harmony music from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream won the 1998 Echo Klassik music award in the recording of the wind soloists of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen .

Many of Tarkmann's arrangements are available on CD, including: a. in productions with Plácido Domingo , Anna Netrebko , Albrecht Mayer and James Galway . The clarinetist Sabine Meyer recorded the cadences and ornaments written by Tarkmann for the clarinet concertos by Carl Stamitz and Johann Stamitz in a recording that was also awarded the Echo Klassik . Other CD releases include a. a chamber orchestral version of Richard Wagner's Wesendonck songs and arrangements of some works by Johann Sebastian Bach for flute and orchestra.

In addition, Andreas N. Tarkmann has reconstructed or orchestrated incomplete works, such as Julius Rietz 's concert piece for wind quintet and orchestra , the cantata Die Teilung der Erde, attributed to Joseph Haydn , and the Composizione da camera by Giuseppe Verdi .

Work as a composer

Tarkmann's oeuvre as a composer includes works for family concerts such as The Princess on the Pea (world premiere by the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz , 2005) and Der Dungkäfer ( Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra , 2004) based on Hans Christian Andersen, as well as Na warte, said Schwarte after Helme Heine (Aachen Symphony Orchestra, 2007), but also youth operas such as La belle au bois dormant (Philharmonie Essen, 2007), Räuber Hotzenplotz ( Theater Aachen , 2009) and Dido's Secret ( Girls' Choir Hannover , 2011). His settings of cabaret texts by Friedhelm Kändler , Elke Heidenreich , Werner Fincks and Erich Kästner are sung by many chanson interpreters such as Alix Dudel , Anna Haentjens , Caroline Schreiber, Jo van Nelsen and Anton Masie.

Further professional activity

From 1985 to 1993 Andreas N. Tarkmann was a teacher for oboe and composition / ear training at the Hanover Music School, and from 1991 to 1999 musical director of drama music at the Lower Saxony State Theater in Hanover , where he composed numerous stage music. From 2001 to 2002 he was the musical director of the Young Opera of the Stuttgart State Theater . From 2000 to 2016 Andreas N. Tarkmann taught as professor for instrumentation and arrangement at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim . Since 2014 he has been a lecturer in instrument science at the musicological institute of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Book publications

Awards (selection)

  • Landespreis Jugend musiziert in the categories chamber music (wind quintet) and piano accompaniment (1972/73)
  • Lower Saxony artist grant for work in the field of composition and arrangement (1988)
  • Scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (funded by the Ministry for Science and Art Lower Saxony, 1989)
  • Echo Klassik for recordings with arrangements by Andreas Tarkmann (1994, 1996, 1998, 2004)
  • WoWo-Ring of the Friedhelm-Kändler-Gesellschaft Hannover for the setting of KÄNDER-TEXTS (2005)
  • ECHO Klassik ("Klassik für Kinder" award) for the recording of two own compositions (2013)
  • Media Prize LEOPOLD - "Good Music for Children" for the recordings of Zwerg Nase and Das kalte Herz (2019/20)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. z. B. Review http://magazin.klassik.com/reviews/reviews.cfm?TASK=review&REID=2810 (requested on April 28, 2011)
  2. ↑ see complete work catalog at http://www.tarkmann.de/ (requested on April 27, 2011)
  3. ↑ Website of the Musikhochschule Mannheim, http://www.muho-mannheim.de/frame.php?path=/personal/index.htm (requested on April 27, 2011)
  4. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved October 6, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echoklassik.de
  5. ↑ Website of the Association of German Music Schools, https://www.musikschulen.de/zwerg-nase.cd737.html (accessed on January 20, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Tarkmann, Andreas N.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tarkmann, Andreas Nicolai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover