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Charlotte Since (2007)

Charlotte Seither (born August 31, 1965 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a German composer . She is a member of the GEMA Supervisory Board and the Presidium of the German Music Council (DMR).

Life

Charlotte has since studied composition, piano , German and musicology in Hanover and Berlin and received her doctorate in 1998 . From 1987 to 1991 she was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. As " Artist in Residence " she lived and worked in the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (1999), in the Palazzo Barbarigo Venice (1993), in the Akademie Schloss Solitude (1995/2008), on Civitella Ranieri / Italy (2012), in ArtLab Johannesburg (2015) and Villa Aurora Los Angeles (2000). She was the first German to win first prize in the “ Prague Spring ” international composition competition (1995). In 2009 she received the Rome Prize for the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo and lived in Italy for a year. In 2010 she was awarded the Praetorius Music Prize of the State of Lower Saxony. She is the winner of the German Music Author's Prize 2014. In 2020, Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters awarded her the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Since then Charlotte has worked regularly with renowned performers such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra London, ASKO Kamerkoor Amsterdam, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart , BBC Singers London , SWR Vocalensemble Stuttgart, VocaalLab Amsterdam and Ensemble Modern and is a guest at numerous international festivals (Gaudeamus Amsterdam, Warsaw Generations -Festival, BBC Proms, Prague Spring, Grame Lyon, Gaida Festival Lithuania, Nuova Consonanza Rome, Posener Spring, Muzica Conteporanea Bucharest, Cantiere Internazionale Montepulciano, Voix Nouvelles Royaumont, Viitasari / Finland, Lacma Los Angeles, IFWM Festival Seoul etc.) . At the ISCM World Music Days in Tongyeong / South Korea (2016) she represented Germany in the opening concert with an orchestral piece.

As a guest composer, she has received invitations from the Goethe Institute in Santiago de Chile, Lisbon and Tashkent and is a sought-after juror and speaker at international symposia. She is a jury member at numerous competitions (International Paderewski Composition Competition Poznań / Poland, Premio di Trieste / Italy, German Music Competition, Felix Mendelssohn Competition of the German Music Universities, German National Academic Foundation, German Music Competition of the German Music Council, Ensemblia Mönchengladbach, etc.) . Her works are performed in most of Europe, Asia, Canada, South America and the USA.

She is a member of the GEMA Supervisory Board, the Executive Board of the German Composers' Association (DKV) and the Presidium of the German Music Council (DMR). In addition, she is a member of the Presidium of the Guardini Foundation, the Advisory Board of the Federal Youth Orchestra (BJO), the Bogliasco Foundation Fellow Advisory Board / Italy, the Academy of German Music Authors of GEMA (ADMA) and the Advisory Board of the GEMA Foundation.

Charlotte has lived in Berlin since then. She is married to the legal scholar Hartmut Aden .

Work aesthetics

Charlotte Seither's works deal with special sound phenomena, which are often microscopic in structure and worked out down to the last detail: “It's a kind of hubris that interests me, the whirring of the unequal, in which what is just perceptible is split up further and further branched into the interior. Seen in this way, I need less and less material, but I am getting to an increasingly differentiated language. The more I dissolve, the more it joins together. "

Awards and grants

  • 1988–1991: German National Academic Foundation
  • 1990: Musica Viva scholarship from the city of Pforzheim
  • 1992: Lower Saxony junior scholarship from the Minister for Science and Culture
  • 1993: Artist grant at the German Study Center in Venice
  • 1994: 1st prize in the composition competition of the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra
  • 1995: 1st prize in the Prague Spring International Composition Competition
  • 1995: Artist grant from Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart
  • 1995: Wilfried Steinbrenner Foundation grant
  • 1995/1996: Artist grant at Künstlerhof Schreyahn
  • 1999: Artist grant Citè des Arts Paris
  • 1999: Franz Liszt scholarship from the Liszt School of Music Weimar
  • 2002: Promotion Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
  • 2003: Artist grant at Weikersheim Castle
  • 2004: 1st prize in the International Composition Competition Ciutat de Palma (Spain)
  • 2004: Composition Prize of the Berliner Cappella
  • 2005: Scholarship for the Young Academy of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
  • 2006: Artist grant KunstRaum Sylt
  • 2007: Zonta Female Composers Prize
  • 2009: Scholarship from the Federal Minister of Culture for the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome
  • 2010: Praetorius Music Prize of the State of Lower Saxony
  • 2012: Artist Fellow of the international artist residence Civitella Ranieri / Italy
  • 2012: Palatinate Prize for Music
  • 2013: Scholarship from the Bavarian Minister for Research and Culture for the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg
  • 2014: Artist Fellow of the International Künstlerhaus Bogliasco Foundation
  • 2014: German Music Author Award , Contemporary Choral Music category
  • 2020: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

Works

Stage works

  • Fidelio is silent Opera by Ludwig van Beethoven / Charlotte Seither (2020, in preparation)
  • other / even opera (1998-2000)

Orchestral works

  • She who speaks for orchestra (2019)
  • Distant encounter. Trois Adieux for Ludwig van B. for chamber orchestra (2018)
  • Inscription. Commentary on BWV 4 for choir and orchestra (2016)
  • Language of Leaving for orchestra and 12 voices freely based on Francesco de Lemene (2012/13)
  • Five pieces to cross the river for orchestra (2012)
  • Recherche sur le fond for orchestra (2011)
  • Shadow and clarity. Verse for Heinrich Kleist for soprano and string orchestra (2010)
  • Labeling the depth from the inside for eighteen players (2010)
  • Essay on Shadow and Truth for orchestra (2007)
  • Essay on Shadow and Truth (Chapter I) for orchestra (2007)
  • Living gardens for nineteen players (2002/03)
  • Paires d'alternances for orchestra (2001)
  • L'uno dall'altro for small orchestra (1993)
  • objet diaphane chamber symphony for 13 instruments (1993)

Chamber music

  • raw material for ten players (2019)
  • Chercher le chien for flute, bass clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, cello and piano (2013/14)
  • Tre acque con ombre for violin, viola, cello, clarinet and piano (2013)
  • Seul avec des ombres for alto flute solo (2011)
  • Equal ways of difference for piano trio (2011)
  • More reasons for reality for bass clarinet, flute, violin, cello and piano (2012)
  • Running circles for two pianos and two drums (2011)
  • Floating Edge with Branches for two bass clarinets (2010)
  • Waiting for T for trumpet, trombone, violoncello and percussion (2009)
  • Deixis for cello solo (2009)
  • Cry for violin solo (2009)
  • Far from distance for clarinet, violoncello and piano (2008)
  • Scusi for tenor recorder and piano (2008)
  • Never real, always true for accordion solo (2008)
  • Gran passo for piano (2006)
  • Itinéraire for piano (2005)
  • Inventaire de départ for accordion and electronics (2005)
  • Unknown friends for bass clarinet, trombone, piano and percussion (2003)
  • Corps croisé for string quartet (2002)
  • Heart shape, crater for accordion (2001)
  • Echoes, edges for piano (2001)
  • Himmelsspalt for organ (2000/01)
  • Playing both ends towards the middle for violin and violoncello (2000)
  • merging strain for violoncello (1999)
  • Peser ses mots for double bass recorder / bass recorder, bass clarinet / Bb clarinet, piano, percussion, violoncello and double bass (1997)
  • Coq-à-l'âne for three players with sound producing objects (1997)
  • Alleanza d'archi for violin, viola and violoncello (1996)
  • Sound and beat for piano (1996)
  • Champlève for violin, violoncello and piano (1994)
  • Frames and fingers for three drummers (1992)

Vocal works

  • Hear do. Six speaking acts for voice solo freely based on Friedrich H. (2020)
  • Schweigebilder for voice solo (2017)
  • Few Syllables of Happiness for voice solo (2015)
  • Another style of silence for voice solo (2013)
  • light and name. Beating for 12 vocal groups in the room (2012/13)
  • Thirteen Blowings for voice solo (2012)
  • Feinstaub I-IV for voice solo (2012)
  • Guarda in giù for 12-part choir
  • Let go . Solo I-III for voice with hand percussion (2012)
  • The long distance from zero to one for voice solo (2010)
  • Haut terrain for 12-part choir (2010)
  • Dopo domani for voice and piano (2008)
  • Passage innocent for 12 voices (2006)
  • Mint chisel. Three small pieces for voice and piano freely based on Franz Kafka (2006)
  • koy for bass voice solo (2005)
  • The Bright Edge of Fear and Awakening Scene for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone and five instruments (2007)
  • All'aperto for 16-part chamber choir (2004)
  • Admission and Return Eleven fragments for soprano and piano after Franz Kafka (2004)
  • One-woman-opera for voice with hand percussion (2004)
  • Hora for 8-part vocal ensemble (2003)
  • Ricordanza for 15-part choir a cappella (2003)
  • Dir, mir zu for mezzo-soprano and piano (2001)
  • Seeds of noises for six voices (2000)
  • Herzfalter for tenor and piano freely based on Sonnet XIX by Francesco Petrarca (2000)
  • Monad's face for soprano, bass clarinet and violoncello (1997)
  • Seven pronouncements for male voice and piano (1997)
  • Waters, earth and air I for female voice, bass flute, bass clarinet, piano and two percussionists (1997)
  • Waters, earth and air II for female voice, bass flute, accordion and drums (1997)
  • Da mia parte for deep female voice based on a text by Giorgio Bassani (1994)
  • Liquid devices for soprano, flute, two percussionists and violoncello (1993)
  • Fra l'altro for chamber choir of ten voices (1991)

literature

  • Waltraud Schwab: “I need sweat made concrete” , interview, in: TAZ , June 20, 2015, p. 24 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Since then, Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate