Axel Nitz

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Axel Nitz (born June 26, 1957 in Waldkirch ) is a German composer , author and jazz musician .

Life

Axel Nitz began his career as a saxophonist in the Freiburg new wave band Dynamo 4-5-0 . From 1989 to 1992 he was a member of the Hanoverian modern jazz formation Blue Rose , during which time he specialized in the soprano saxophone . From 1992 to 1997 he took composition lessons with Peter E. Rompf, in whose ensemble for contemporary music Prolatio he appeared regularly as a soloist.

After initial experience by working in dance and art performances, Nitz worked as an assistant director at the Freiburg Theater from 1984 to 1987 . Since 1987 he has composed more than 50 plays, including a. for the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Bavarian State Theater , Theater Augsburg , Nationaltheater Mannheim , Schauspiel Köln , Theater Erlangen , Theater Freiburg, Staatstheater Wiesbaden , Staatstheater Darmstadt .

In 2008 he directed the monologue Letter to Orestes by Iakovos Kambanellis as a theater director . The play was premiered in Basel with actress Anina Jendreyko and invited to Thessaloniki and Athens . With her he also worked on a text version of the novel A&X by John Berger ; the German-language premiere he staged took place in 2016 at the Volksbühne Basel .

Since 1993 he has also directed song recitals, audio books and radio plays. Since 2000 he has been creating audio pieces and features as an author for the SWR Baden-Baden and the BR Munich .

Axel Nitz also works as a visual artist . As in his compositions and his preoccupation with the theater, word, language and the human voice occupy a central position in so-called writing drawings in his visual works . In his walk-in scores ( e.g. for the Munich Biennale 2002) the boundaries between music, theater and the visual arts are abolished.

Axel Nitz has lived in Munich since 2003 .

World premieres (selection)

  • 2017 Inscriptions (4 speaking, singing voices, drum, viola), Streitfeld Projektraum, Munich
  • 2017 Das Raft der Medusa (music for a performance on Ash Wednesday of the artists, for voices and live electronics), Dom zu Unserer Lieben Frau, Munich
  • 2015 5 Orazioni di San Filippo Neri (voice, saxophone, organ, violoncello), St. Paul, Munich
  • 2014 Nathan der Weise , film music for the silent film by Manfred Noa (keyboards, wind instruments, viola, cello), St. Paul, Munich
  • 2013 Il Pianto di Maria (for voice, soprano saxophone, keyboards and violoncello), St. Paul, Munich
  • 2010 9 anagrams of Unica Zürn (for two voices), 2 gestural studies, Kulturzentrum Giesinger Bahnhof, Munich
  • 2009 3 poems by Michelangelo (for soprano and countertenor), Diözesanmuseum Freising
  • 2006 Hör-Gespieltes 2 (for soprano, percussion, double bass and wind instruments), Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck
  • 2006 Vergehen and New Beginning , sound installation in the Church of St. Nikolaus, Rosenheim
  • 2005 Paul Klee: Pictures (for string quartet with soprano), Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
  • 2004 Sketch about Sarah Kane's "4.48 Psychosis" (for six voices), Forum Neues Musiktheater / Staatsoper Stuttgart
  • 2003 Untitled (accessible score, word collages), Westend Studios Munich
  • 2002: Untitled (accessible score), Munich Biennale
  • 1999: Proscenium: Podium (for speaker and choir), Galerie Invetro, Hanover
  • 1999: Variation without a theme (Text: RD Brinkmann), Munich Society for New Music, Einstein Cultural Center, Munich
  • 1997: 5 Actor's Songs (five sonnets by W. Shakespeare for voice and piano) Chamber music hall of the Hanover University of Music
  • 1995: Description of images (texts: A. Robbe-Grillet, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard), Galerie Invetro, Hanover
  • 1994: 20 miniatures , Goethe-Institut Paris
  • 1993: Combray , (speaking piece after the beginning of a text by Marcel Proust), Wissenschaftsladen Hannover
  • 1993: Gilgamesch - the king who did not want to die (for dance ensemble, choir, live electronics, wind instruments and percussion), Commedia Futura, Eisfabrik Hannover
  • 1990: aftermath. In Heaven (Singspiel, text: Thomas Brasch), Nationaltheater Mannheim / Studio Werkhaus
  • 1989: Crossing I and Crossing II , Nordstadt factory hall, Hanover; Mary Wigman Society, Bremer Tanzherbst
  • 1989: The Spinal Flute (music theater, text: Wl. Mayakowskij), Theater im Künstlerhaus Hannover
  • 1985: Smile (music theater in seven parts), Theatercafé Freiburg
  • 1984: Sephora (music theater), theater hall of the old University of Freiburg
  • 1983: Fahrhabe (Text: Peter Stobbe), Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe

References

  1. ↑ NZZ review on A&X

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Nitz, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, author and jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldkirch