Bernhard Gander

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Bernhard Gander (born November 29, 1969 in Thurn near Lienz , East Tyrol ) is an Austrian composer .

life and work

Bernhard Gander attended the Franziskanergymnasium in Hall in Tirol and lived in the boarding school in Absam, where he was able to learn various musical instruments (guitar, piano, drums, saxophone). Between 1988 and 1993 he studied piano, composition and conducting at the Tyrolean State Conservatory in Innsbruck. His compositional training was supplemented by stays abroad at the UPIC electronic studio in Paris in 1994/1995 and at the Swiss Center for Computer Music in Zurich in 1997. From 2000 to 2008 he continued his compositional studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (with Beat Furrer, among others ). Bernhard Gander currently lives as a freelance composer in Vienna. Since 2007 he has been represented by Edition Peters .

Gander is considered a rebel and "exceptional phenomenon" in the art music business . Normative demarcations such as that between serious and popular music , between “high art” and entertainment culture, are constantly undermined in his work and thus criticized. He integrated rappers and DJs into an orchestral work and had the world premiere in a Viennese shopping center ( Melting pot , 2010). Common art music formats are exploded, for example with the " sitcom opera" Life on the Edge of the Milky Way (2014). Numerous of his works are inspired by electronic music ( Mr. Vertigo , 2004; fluc 'n' flex , 2007), rap ( beautiful words , 2007; Melting pot , 2010) and heavy metal ( ö , 2005; Take Death , 2013) or they pay tribute to comic figures like Hulk ( khul , 2008; hukl , 2012) and Spider-Man ( Peter Parker , 2004) in musical terms. In addition to his compositional work, Gander projects that are dedicated to the mediation of contemporary music are of particular concern (evident, for example, from the staged concert Monsters and Angels based on a concept by Axel Petri-Preis).

Awards

Works

Orchestral works

Ensemble works (selection)

Chamber music works (selection)

  • Take Five for Three for double bass and two percussionists (2019)
  • Eleven Evil Elves for saxophone quartet (2019)
  • Impaling Prophecy for violin and piano (2018)
  • Crawling Chroma for Electric Guitar and Electric Bass (2018)
  • Flancing Flamingo for piano trio (2017)
  • insincere sermon for 2 trumpets and horn (2015)
  • 2bad for viol and electric guitar (2012)
  • khul cuts for string quartet and dancers (2011)
  • beijing for 2 bass clarinets (2010)
  • Dirty Wings for flugelhorn and accordion (2010)
  • khul for string quartet (2010)
  • Bad Character Pieces for Piano Trio (2009)
  • The Orpheus Act II for viola, piano and electronics (2008)
  • beautiful words for piano quartet (2007)
  • ö , quintet (2005)
  • Mr. Vertigo for 2 basset horns and electronics (2004)
  • splitting romance for saxophone quartet (2001)
  • poème concret for string trio and electronic sounds (2001)
  • Der Melonenbaum for accordion, bass clarinet, percussion (2000)
  • welcome for tape, piano and clarinet (1999)
  • bodyguard s for soprano saxophone (1998)

Vocal works (selection)

  • Wake for Voices (2016)
  • moaning maggots for soprano and bass (2016)
  • morbidable II ("une charogne") for double bass clarinet and bass (2015)
  • darkness awaits us for soprano and viol (2013)
  • deathtongue for double bass clarinet and 6 vocalists (2012)
  • go away! for soprano and ensemble (2011)
  • king's message for tenor and ensemble (2007)
  • horribile dictu for voices, strings and trombones (2007)

Solo works (selection)

  • victim of vermin for accordion solo (2015)
  • morbidable for double bass clarinet solo (2014)
  • fluc`n`flex for accordion solo (2007)
  • Peter Parker for piano solo (2004)

Musical theater

Music education projects (selection)

  • Coin toss: A participatory concert with choirs, brass bands, drama groups and music students as part of The Seven Lives of Maximilian (2019). Concept: Dietmar Wiesner and Bernhard Gander
  • Exploding drawers - collage for the orchestral work hukl . Concept: Barbara Balba Weber, SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg (2015)
  • Monsters And Angels : A staged concert based on a concept by Axel Petri-Preis, director: Christoph Zauner (2014)

Teaching activities and leading masterclasses (selection)

  • ARCO - Université de composition franco-autrichienne: International summer course (Marseille, 2019)
  • Ticino Musica Festival Academy Masterclass : International Young Composers Academy (Lugano, 2018)
  • pulse. 10th International Ensemble and Composers Academy for Contemporary Music (Graz, 2017)

Discography

Full length

Splits

  • Impaling Prophecy on the album #onthemove (Mariam Vardzelashvili and Vira Zhuk, 2018, redpmusic)
  • Bourée bourée on the album Double Bach ( Annette Bik, violin, 2018, col legno)
  • hukl on the album Donaueschinger Musiktage 2012 (2013, NEOS)
  • bejing on the album ShortCuts (2010, ein_klang records)
  • Legs and stockings on the album Donauschinger Musiktage 2008 (2009, NEOS)
  • king's message on the album Alpenglow (2008, col legno)
  • poème concret on the album unerhört - New Music from Tyrol (2005, ORF)
  • Mr. Vertigo on the album born to be off-road (2004, ein_klang records)

Web links

literature

  • Ender, Daniel: The Value of Creativity. Erste Bank commissioned a composition from 1989–2007. Eighteen portrait sketches and an essay . Vienna, special number 2007.
  • Petri Prize, Axel: Music around us. Contemporary music modules. Bernhard Gander: Peter Parker (2004) . Vienna: Dorner, 2009. ISBN 978-3-7055-1185-9 .
  • Petri Prize, Axel: Quote, montage and collage by Bernhard Gander. Some notes on the use of tonal set pieces . In: Terz Magazin, January 2012. Online: http://terz.cc/magazin.php?z=44&id=136 (query: May 2, 2016).
  • Petri-Preis, Axel: "I don't see any difference between a classical sonata and a metal song". Bernhard Gander in conversation . In: Terz Magazin, January 2013. Online: http://terz.cc/magazin.php?z=1&id=307 (query: May 2, 2016).
  • Polaschegg, Nina: horror films, comics & heavy metal. The Austrian composer Bernhard Gander . In: MusikTexte - Magazine for New Music, Issue 144 / February 2015, pp. 5–9.
  • Wolf, Thomas: On the relationship between new music and popular music in Austria, presented using the parameters popularity and economic success, authenticity, repetition and simplicity and with two examples - Bernhard Gander: "Fluc'n'flex", Bernhard Lang: "Gesang des fourth daemon ” . Diploma thesis at the Philological and Cultural Studies Faculty of the University of Vienna, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dražić, Lena: The State Opera is cheap entertainment. Bernhard Gander - a composer portrait in seven episodes . In: Austrian music magazine, year 69/2014, issue 6, Vienna a. a .: Böhlau, pp. 70–76, here p. 70.
  2. ↑ Petri-Preis, Axel: "I don't see any difference between a classical sonata and a metal song". Bernhard Gander in conversation. In: Terz Magazin, January 2013. Online: http://terz.cc/magazin.php?z=1&id=307 (query: May 2, 2016).
  3. ↑ Polaschegg, Nina: Horror Films, Comics & Heavy Metal. The Austrian composer Bernhard Gander. In: MusikTexte - Magazine for New Music, Issue 144 / February 2015, pp. 5–9.
personal data
SURNAME Gander, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Thurn near Lienz