Bertl mothers

Bertl Mütter (born July 6, 1965 in Steyr , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian musician , composer and author .

Life

As a child, Bertl Mütter first wanted to be an opera singer and later a pastor. He graduated from the Bundesgymnasium Werndlpark in Steyr and then studied theology at the University of Graz . In order to concentrate exclusively on his career as a musician in the future, he finished his theology studies in favor of studying music (trombone, jazz and some voice) at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts , which he successfully completed in 1990 with a diploma.

Bertl Mütter began the newly introduced artistic doctoral program at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in 2010 , which he was the first to do in 2013 with a treatise on searching, finding, inventing, discovering sound and the Rigorosum. artium graduated.

Mütter lives freelance in Vienna.

music

Solo play is at the center of Mother's musical work. There was and is intensive duo work with the Slovak pianist Miki Skuta, the hurdy-gurdy player Matthias Loibner and the composer Christoph Cech , literary encounters with HC Artmann , Ernst Jandl , Franzobel , Josef Haslinger and - until his death - with Gert Jonke . There were also meetings with interpreters of medieval music (Ars Choralis Coeln, Witte-Maria Weber).

Awards

1989 Music Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
1992 grant from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
1994 winner of the Österreichbild prize from the Werkstadt Graz
2002 State grant for composition from the Federal Chancellery
2003 Anton Bruckner scholarship from the Office of the Upper Austrian Provincial Government
2003 composer in residence, Composers Forum Mittersill
2005 working grant from the Republic of Austria

Discography

Solo CDs

border wars (1993/2007)
written images (2000)
schubert: winter trip: mothers (2001)
parlando (2004)
muetters muellerin (2006)
muetters poet's love - after schumann after heine (2007)
mother and child songs - Nachmahler (2011)

Ensemble CDs

abcd (1993), together with Armin Pokorn.
SENTIMENT (1994), together with Dimitrios Polisoidis and Siggi Haider. On behalf of the cultural department of Lower Austria for the exhibition "Alfons Mucha - The Slavic Epic"
timbre (1995), together with Lauren Newton , Elisabeth Tuchmann, Oskar Mörth
kadash am berg (1997), text: Roland Heer ; Recitation, voice, trombone: Bertl Mütter; Music: Kadash
camerata obscura | batpulse (1997), together with Florian Bramböck , Christoph Cech , Hans Steiner
Lobgesang (1997), together with Christoph Cech
Fresh Goods (2000), together with Franui
timbre plus (2003), together with Lauren Newton , Elisabeth Tuchmann, Oskar Mörth, Fritz Hauser , Joëlle Léandre , Urs Leimgruber
10 initial epilogues (2009), together with Miki Skuta

Compositions

2000, if you will, it's a string quartet (for which I apologize) , Brucknerhaus Linz
2001 schubert: winter trip: mothers , audio courses , Vienna concert hall

In 2001 . get up for piano quintet with obligatory trombone, start , Salzburg

2001 passagiere - Arnold Schönberg on the 50th anniversary of his death , a live room installation for invisible musicians, brass bands, poets, dandies and soubrettes, Kunsthalle Steyr

2001 is fine , for Nouvelle Cuisine, Vienna

2002 aeiou for deep quintet , for the Janus Ensemble , Grabenfest, Vienna

2003 gone. escape music , for soprano / Eb clarinet and bass clarinet

2003 spinning together for big band and harmony music

2003 import. play out for bass clarinet, horn, violoncello and speaker / puppeteer, composers forum Mittersill

2003 6 patriotic excerpte for two trombones

2004 forbidden geographic-erotic sonata for soprano and bass flute

2004 ortsende by maria taferl for large wind orchestra and big band

2004 ognatango , for the tango ensemble ognat

2005 nushu for two bass clarinets (Duo Stump-Linshalm)

2005 pour elise (oryctérope, bleue) pour un seul cor anglais

2005 muetters muellerin

2006 muetters poet's love

2006 trombohuwabone. A serious jandliade from Bertl Mütter

2007 woodpiece with brass (Elliott Carter Quintet)

2007 piano sonata contextualized; for a pianist, prepared to act spontaneously ( Christopher Hinterhuber )

2007 born. rondo. for toy piano with inner voice ( Isabel Ettenauer )

2008 milifagott for bassoon solo (Maria Gstättner)

2009 rondo profondo for Kontraforte (Robert Buschek)

2009 UNK. shout. for five optimists and one tenor European Forum Alpbach

2009 miniature miniatures for large orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

2010 mother and child songs (Nachmahler)

2010 quarksquirks for dulcimer, vl, kb, tb and voice

2011 1 + 1 + 1 = 1 (discursus trinitatis) for va, vc, tb and mixed choir, on behalf of and for Philipp Harnoncourt

2011 dsudl (the difficult and the easy) , a piece of music laboratory

2012 sostenuto (mothers' morton's memories)

2013 düdt [tilt] for accordion duo
2013 ... from further away than you can think.
2015 "morendo vivace - viavace morendo" (mvvm) - for trombone, bass trumpet and voice. WP 10/2015 in Reichraming
2016 "ad: MACH (AUT)" - for vocal quartet or SATB choir, optionally with trombone. WP 1/2016 in Wels
2016 "OPERAN! About escape. - A seven-stage musical theater from the school of amazement." WP 9/2016 in Vienna