Carsten Braun

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Carsten Braun (right) with the Minister of State for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann at the award ceremony of the BKM Prize for Cultural Education 2011

Carsten Braun (* 1978 in Simmern / Hunsrück ) is a German composer and music teacher .

Life

Carsten Braun studied school music, history, composition and ear training at the Weimar University of Music and the University of Mainz . a. with Hans-Jürgen Kaiser and Egidius Doll (organ), Bernd Frank (piano), Joachim Beez and Jürgen Blume (composition).

Early works consist in part of free-tonal compositions, especially his organ works, and show a high proportion of chamber and church music. Since 2004 he has shifted his work to the fields of film, rock and electronic music. At the same time, Carsten Braun was a lecturer for practical school piano playing and composition at the University of Mainz from 2005 to 2010 and a jury member at the 1st Koblenz Composition Competition in 2007.

From 2009 to 2014 he was musical director of the Schinderhannes Festival in Simmern / Hunsrück . There he worked with directors Daniel Witzke and Joerg Steve Mohr, among others . In the German festival landscape, the Schinderhannes Festival was able to conquer a niche for itself by dispensing with repertoire pieces in favor of contemporary world premieres. The catchy melodies and colorful arrangements by Braun play a decisive role in this.

Between 2009 and 2011 he wrote the music for the nationwide award-winning project The Unknown War for the Landesmusikjugend Rheinland-Pfalz . His requiem was the focus of the project and the basis of the multimedia staging and didactic preparation that was designed around it. For the first time, the music of the Requiem combines his classical background with his weakness for electronic music. On November 11, 2017, on the occasion of the anniversary of the end of the First World War , the Requiem was performed in the Belgian city of Arlon by choirs and ensembles from Germany and Belgium .

In 2015 his musical Genoveva, based on texts by Peter Nüesch, was premiered at the Mayen Castle Festival. Here, Braun interwoven medieval sounds with modern rock sounds.

In autumn 2015 Braun set to music the introductory poem from Alice in Wonderland , All in a golden Afternoon, on behalf of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America . The composition premiered as the only musical contribution to the Alice150 festivities on October 9, 2015 at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway in New York.

In March 2018, the premiere of his Gloria setting for choir, orchestra and soloists (commissioned by the Cologne Concert Choir) took place under the direction of Jonas Manuel Pinto in the Cologne Philharmonic .

Works (selection)

  • Christmas Greetings for mixed choir, piano and strings (WP December 2000)
  • 6 character pieces about the chorale O Heiland, tear open the heavens for organ (premiere November 2005)
  • The 150th Psalm for alto solo, mixed choir and orchestra (premiere December 2005)
  • Musical Elin - Encounter with Time (WP September 2006)
  • Oh dear, as long as you can love song cycle based on Ferdinand Freiligrath (premiere September 2007)
  • Nun Gute Nacht song cycle based on Clemens Brentano (premiere September 2008)
  • Requiem The Unknown War Version for mixed choir, children's choir, orchestra, brass quintet and electronics (premiered May 2010)
  • Musical Julchen (premiere June 2010)
  • Requiem The Unknown War version for soprano solo, piano and brass quintet (premier May 2011)
  • Balance of incidental music for "Jedermann" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal for soprano solo, mixed choir, piano and string quartet (premiere March 2011)
  • Musical Carl Zuckmayers Schinderhannes (premiere June 2012)
  • Musical Genoveva (premiere June 2015)
  • All in a golden afternoon by Lewis Carroll (WP October 2015)
  • Gloria for soli, mixed choir and orchestra (WP March 2018)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hochschule für Musik ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 27, 2012
  2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: juror at the composition competition in Koblenz, 2008 ), accessed August 27, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zonta-koblenz.de
  3. ↑ SWR Landesart - Report on the Schinderhannes Festival 2012 , accessed on March 5, 2016
  4. ↑ 3700 visitors were drawn to Schlossplatz in Simmern , accessed on August 27, 2012
  5. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: "Julchen" is followed by a robber captain ), accessed on August 27, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.journal.lu
  6. ^ Music project The Unknown War , accessed on August 27, 2012
  7. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: The Unknown War - a musically multimedia project against forgetting ), accessed on August 27, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.sczech.de
  8. ↑ SWR Landesschau , November 16, 2017, accessed on March 20, 2018
  9. ↑ musicals - Das Musicalmagazin , issue 175 (October / November 2015) ibid. P. 79 Article by Rolf-Ruediger Hamacher on the premiere of the musical "Genoveva , accessed on October 7, 2015
  10. ↑ Blickpunkt Musical , Issue 77 (July - September 2015) ibid. P. 34f Article by Christian Spielmann about the world premiere of the musical Genoveva , accessed on October 7, 2015
  11. ↑ SWR Landesschau , November 23, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2016
  12. ^ Homepage of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America , accessed March 2, 2016
  13. ↑ Homepage , accessed on March 2, 2016
  14. ^ Homepage of the Cologne Philharmonic , accessed on March 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmern / Hunsrück