Courtship Trümpy

Balz Trümpy (born August 4, 1946 in Basel) is a Swiss composer .

Trümpy received his musical training at the Basel Conservatory with Rolf Mäser and Paul Baumgartner (piano), Jacques Wildberger and Robert Suter (music theory) and Gerald Bennett (composition). He then studied with Luciano Berio in Rome , whose assistant he was. From 1979 to 2011 he was professor of music theory and composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel, and from 1982 to 1987 he was deputy director of the conservatory. Trümpy's works are performed at home and abroad and at major festivals.

Trümpy's works are played in Europe, America and Asia. a. at important festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage , Lucerne Festival, music festivals of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein, World Music Days of the IGNM. In 2012 he was composer in residence at the Davos Festival. He works with well-known artists: Heinrich Schiff , Kurt Widmer , Hansheinz Schneeberger, Basler Madrigalisten , Szymanowski Quartet, Ensemble EUNOIA, El Cimarron Ensemble and with the metal musician Martin Eric Ain (founding member of Hellhammer and Celtic Frost ), for which he partly Wrote commissioned compositions. Commissioned works for Pro Helvetia , Basel Music Credit Commission, Basel Sinfonietta, Basel Symphony Orchestra.

In August 2006 he won the composition competition on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra (LSO). The excellent orchestral work Proteus was premiered on June 20 in the KKL Luzern 2007.

Fonts

• Compose in time. Schaub, Reinach 1991.
• The idea of ​​space in Schubert's harmony. Music Reflections 5, 1995.
• Time for time. Ed. Leo Jenni, 1998.
• Time periods - spacetime. Edited by Annette Landau, 2004.
• In the depths or on the surface? Ed. Walter Fähndrich, 2007.
• Is music an art of the times? Edited by Margret Kaiser-El-Safti, 2012.
• The core lies somewhere in between. Edited by Ralf Kubicek, 2014.
• Harmonic fields. Holistic thinking at Luciano Berio. Edited by Michael Kunkel, 2013.
• Eusebius and Florestan as counterpointists. Edited by Jean-Jacques Dünki, 2014.

Awards

• 1977: Art Prize of the Lions Club Basel
• 2006: Composition competition on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Web links

• Works by Balz Trümpy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Courtship Trümpy on band camp
• Website of Balz Trümpy
• Sound recordings with works by the composer from the SRG SSR archive on Neo.Mx3