Bernd Richard German

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Bernd Richard Deutsch (born May 15, 1977 in Mödling ) is an Austrian composer .

Life

Bernd Richard Deutsch grew up in Wöllersdorf in Lower Austria and received composition lessons from Leopold Brauneiss at the Josef Matthias Hauer Conservatory in Wiener Neustadt during his high school years. After graduating from high school, he studied composition with Dietmar Schermann , composition with Erich Urbanner (diploma 2001) and electro-acoustic composition with Dieter Kaufmann at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1995 to 2003 . In addition, he attended a course with Ivana Loudová in 1996 as part of the International Summer Academy Prague – Vienna – Budapest. In 1999 he participated in the 7th International Academy for New Composition and Audio Art in Schwaz / Tyrol (composition with Bogusław Schaeffer , computer music with Marek Chołoniewski ), in 2000 at the Bartók seminar in Szombathely ( Manuel Hidalgo ), in 2011 at the composer-conductor workshop Grafenegg ( HK Gruber , Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich ) and in the same year a master class by Detlev Glanert as part of the composition prize of the Bregenz Festival .

Deutsch lives as a freelance composer in Vienna . He has received commissions from Ensemble die reihe, Erste Bank, Haydn Trio Eisenstadt, Klangspuren Schwaz, ORF, the Austrian Chamber Symphony Orchestra, the State of Lower Austria, the Stuttgart State Theater and the SWR Stuttgart; also from the Wien Modern Festival , where he was one of the main composers in 2013. His works have been performed at the Hanover New Music Biennale, Eclat Stuttgart, the Hörzüge Wien Festival, the Schwaz Klangspuren and the START Festival in Salzburg.

Awards

  • 1994: Recognition award from the state of Lower Austria
  • 1995: 2nd prize in the composition competition of the Ernst Vogel Foundation
  • 1997: 2nd prize at the composition competition Biennale Neue Musik Hannover, sponsorship award from Theodor-Körner-Stiftung
  • 2002: Ernst Krenek Prize from the City of Vienna, again recognition prize from the Province of Lower Austria
  • 2003: Promotion Prize for Music of the Republic of Austria (2003)
  • 2009: Music Promotion Prize from the City of Vienna
  • 2010: Austrian State Scholarship for Composition
  • 2011: Appreciation Prize of the Province of Lower Austria, 2nd Prize at the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, again the Theodor-Körner-Foundation's Promotion Prize
  • 2013: Erste Bank Composition Prize
  • 2014: Hindemith Prize
  • 2015: Prize of the City of Vienna for Music

Works

  • Conversation about trees for piano (No. 1, 1997)
  • The transformation . Chamber Opera (No. 2, 1998; 2004)
  • Music for an imaginary drama for chamber orchestra (No. 5, 1999)
  • Traumspiel for string quartet (No. 6, 2000)
  • Fixed ideas for guitar quartet (No. 7, 2000/01)
  • Distance Composition . Bass clarinet music with guest lecture (No. 9, 2000/01)
  • ... who is crying, looking for his melody ... . Cycle based on poems by Nelly Sachs (No. 11, 2003)
  • Martyrdom or The things are . Neurotic oratorio for solos, choir and orchestra (No. 12, 2001–05)
  • Toccata octophonica for organ (No. 13, 2004/05)
  • Curriculum vitae. Monumentum pro Ingeborg Bachmann for piano trio (No. 14, 2005)
  • Violin Concerto (No. 15, 2005/06)
  • Variations for clarinet, accordion, violin, viola and double bass (No. 16, 2006)
  • Orcus for Contraforte (No. 22a, 2007/08)
  • Aurora for orchestra (No. 23, 2008)
  • Bassoon Concerto (No. 25, 1994; 2008/09)
  • Oboe Concerto (No. 26, 2009)
  • subliminal for orchestra (No. 29, 2010)
  • ictus for percussion solo (No. 31, 2011)
  • Mad Dog for ensemble (No. 33, 2011)
  • 2nd string quartet (No. 34, 2012)
  • Sijo for ensemble (No. 35, 2012/13)
  • Dr. Futurity for ensemble (No. 36, 2012/13)
  • Triple Concerto for Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba and Orchestra (No. 37, 2013/14)
  • Oceanus . Concerto for organ and orchestra (No. 38, 2014/15)
  • Lingua for 16 voices or 16-part mixed choir (No. 39, 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ SHMF: Hindemith Prize for Bernd Richard Deutsch
personal data
SURNAME German, Bernd Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling