Benedikt Burghardt
Benedikt Burghardt (* 1960 in Essen ) is a German composer , conductor and lecturer .
biography
Benedikt Burghardt studied concert guitar, music theory & composition , conducting, music education and basic harmonic research in Essen, Darmstadt, Stuttgart, Vienna and Buenos Aires. He was a participant in master classes for composition of the IGNM (ISCM), among others with Ivo Malec , Reiner Febel, Helmut Lachenmann , Paul Méfano , Mariano Etkin .
His teachers included Guillermo (Wilhelm) Graetzer , Peter-Michael Riehm and Toni Völker. After stays in Buenos Aires , he lived in Vienna from 1987 to 2002 . There he worked as a composer, conductor, school musician and lecturer. From 1989 to 1994 he was a lecturer in music at the Goethean University in Vienna in the fields of music education, music theory and ensemble management. He is a co-founder of the Free Music School Vienna , where he taught music theory , improvisation and composition until 2002 . 1999–2001 he was a lecturer at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna with improvisation courses, workshops and concerts at Viennese music schools.
Since 1994 he has been holding seminars and lectures on topics from the fields of music education, harmony and music philosophy .
In 2002 he moved to Hamburg . Here he was to 2009 a lecturer at the vocational school Hamburg School of Music busy (music history, music education, theory of form, melody and counterpoint). Since 2009 he has been working as a lecturer in the music department at the Hamburg Seminar for Waldorf Education , is also a guest lecturer at the Free University of Stuttgart and leader of several choirs in Hamburg and the surrounding area. After the death of Peter-Michael Riehm († 2007) he co-founded the Peter-Michael Riehm Institute at the Free University of Stuttgart.
Benedikt Burghardt wrote numerous compositions in the areas of: solo works, chamber music, lied, choral, stage and orchestral music, including works for pupils and laypeople. It has been performed in various European countries, including at the World Music Days 2003 of the IGNM (ISCM) in Maribor / Slovenia, the Weimar Spring Days for Contemporary Music , the Days for New Music in Darmstadt, and at the International Congress on Composition in Europe of the 21st Century 2006 in Vienna, as well as the Days of Macedonian Music 2013 , the ISCM World New Music Days and WIEN MODERN 2013.
Composition awards and grants
- 1995 Composition funding from the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Art, Vienna
- 1996 Prize winner at the Josef Reinl Composition Competition, Vienna
- 1997 Prize winner at the Josef Reinl Composition Competition, Munich
- 1998 Composition funding within the framework of the state scholarship from the Federal Chancellery of the State of Austria
- Twice first prize in the Louis Pinck composition competition of the Saar Singers Association, Saarland Broadcasting and Culture Minister, Saarbrücken, as well as the Composition Prize of the Theodor Körner Foundation, Vienna
- 1999 laureate at the Anton Bruckner Composition Competition, Linz
- 2000 First prize at the international composition competition 'Guido d'Arezzo in Arezzo / Italy
- 2002 Second prize at the international Gustav Mahler composition competition of the city of Klagenfurt / Austria and winner of the Louis Pinck composition competition of the Saar Singers Association with a special prize from the Minister of Culture, Saarbrücken
- 2006 Valentin Becker Prize from the city of Bad Brückenau
- 2011 laureate at the IGNM Wiener Jeunesse Chamber Choir Vocal Competition, Vienna
- 2013 winner of the international composition competition of the International Summer Academy Mozarteum Salzburg
- 2016 Valentin Becker Prize of the City of Bad Brückenau
Fonts
The overtone series - a phenomenological overview, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-944911-03-8
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Burghardt, Benedict |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |