Andreas Stahl

Andreas Stahl (born March 5, 1955 in Frauenfeld , Canton Thurgau ) is a Swiss composer .

Life

Andreas Stahl was the second of four sons of the farmer Arthur Stahl and the former nurse Roswitha Stahl, nee. Steinbring, born in Bremen. In 1961 the family moved with a total of two children to Aarau , then to Bubikon in the Zurich Oberland . After attending elementary and secondary school and the final maturity at the Cantonal School Zurich Oberland in Wetzikon Steel acquired the ability to a primary school teacher and studied at the Zurich Conservatory Flute and Hans Ulrich Lehmann composition . In addition to his work as an instrumental teacher, Stahl gained his first experience as a composer and concert organizer in the “working group factory composition” of the Rote Fabrik Zurich . From 1991 to 1994 he completed a postgraduate course in composition with Mathias Spahlinger and an additional subject in music theory with Peter Förtig and Cornelius Schwehr at the Freiburg University of Music . The scholarship holder of the Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart, and the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf has been a lecturer in music theory since 1995 , and professor for composition and music theory at the Bern University of the Arts from 2002 to 2018 . From 2004 to 2014 he was in charge of the Bachelor of Music program there. His works have been performed at festivals, cycles and collaborations such as the Illingen Music Days, the Darmstadt Spring Conference, “ex negativo” Berlin, “The Phantom the Opera” Karlsruhe, Klangraum Stuttgart, Days for New Music Zurich, and the Festival of the Arts Switzerland and in the State Theater Stuttgart . The interpreters of his works include Ensemble recherche , Ensemble Aventure , Surplus Freiburg, Polarity Percussion Ensemble Karlsruhe, Klangforum Wien , Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble der IGNM (Basel), Aleph Guitar Quartet and others. His compositions, interviews and portraits were broadcast by several Swiss and German broadcasters.

He lives with his partner in Zurich and on Ithaca .

Works (selection)

orchestra

• bei den things bei sich for large orchestra - 14 min (1995/96)

Instrumental music

• ... always in a circle for cello solo - 10 min (1986)
• ascent / descent for string quartet - 10 min (1989)
• stone piece for 3 percussionists - 10 min (1992)
• frudermord for piccolo trumpet, bass trumpet, horn, tuba and 3 percussionists - 8 min (1992)
• just different for two same saxophones - 12 min (1994/95)
• again sam! for baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, 2 trombones, double bass, violoncello and 2 percussionists - 19 min (1998)
• 126 bpm for violin and piano - 8 min (1998/99)
• bound. an anima und dich for guitar quartet - 12 min (2001/02)
• gray zone for accordion, flute, oboe and clarinet - 16 min (2002/03)
• zeit.druck (4 skins) for percussion quartet - 19 min (2003)
• 10 × 1 ′ music (10 pieces, each 1 min duration) for 2 violins (2001–2012)
• stand for one or two trumpets - 8 min (2014)
• one of them a second for piano and alto saxophone - 18 min (2016/17)
• ... way to the goal for 4 improvising voices and 4 woodwinds - 8 min (2017)

Vocal music

• Faster blues (text: Robert Peterhans) for speaker, flute, clarinet, violin, double bass and percussion - 35 min (1983/84)
• In the same room (text: Konstantin Kavafis ) for tenor and piano - 35 min (1989)
• questa ... condanna (text: Roberto Succo ) for male choir - 13 min (1991)
• do we call charon? what if he doesn't come? for counter tenor, bass clarinet, piano and double bass - 8 min (1997/98)
• remember - to yourself for soprano, violin, violoncello, oboe, flute and piano - 15 min (2001)
• nothing said yet (text: Elias Canetti ) for speakers and projections - duration free (2004/05)

Musical theater

• sextet for soprano, trombone, violin, violoncello, percussion, piano and music apparatus - 20 min (1993/94)
• throw-in I - IV for double bass and singing actor, to 6 × Bluebeard (Chamber Theater of the State Opera Stuttgart ) - Between 30 seconds and 5 minutes (1995)

Publications (selection)

• Freedom is tough and dangerous. On the situation of new music , factory newspaper of the Rote Fabrik Zurich
• “Form and expression”, an analysis of Carlo Gesualdo (1994), manuscript about Carlo Gesualdo
• change of category in contemporary music Lecture at the Festival Contemporary Music in Taegu, South Korea
• to marylin six pack - repetition techniques at na huber (2003, manuscript)
• categories of repetition - how to deal with a phenomenon in: magazine dissonanz No. 84, December 2003
• nothing more solid in: Switzerland is sound (Eds. Ottmar Ette, Yvette Sanchez, Schwabe 2007)
• 126 bpm in: Neuland - A basic project for artistic research (Bern University of the Arts 2009)
• carlo gesualdo di venosa: mercè grido piancendo. An investigation into the renaissance microintervallics in: Neuland - a basic project for artistic research (Bern University of the Arts 2011)

Awards

• 1988/89 Cefi Prize for the soundtrack of the film Tales of Love and Need (Switzerland 1987 - Director: Martin Rengel)
• 1989 Study premium from the Federal Office of Culture for filming your own work ... always in a circle! (1986)
• 1991 inclusion in the Swiss music edition (with questa ... condanna )
• 1994 Scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude, awarded by Wolfgang Rihm , for la mort de chevrolet (opera fragment based on the novel by Martin Frank)
• 2001 scholarship from the state of Brandenburg for the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf

Web links

• Website of the composer
• Composers website of the Swiss music edition
• Literature by and about Andreas Stahl in the catalog of the German National Library