Chris Seidler

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Chris Seidler (born Christiane-Ute Seidler on May 20, 1960 in Blankenstein ) is a German composer , jazz singer , author and director of the Opera School in Gelsenkirchen.

Life

Chris Seidler comes from a musical Hattingen merchant family on his mother's side. Her mother Marga-Milla Seidler geb. Kirchmeier (1932-2004) was the daughter of the pastry chef, chef and restaurateur Hugo Kirchmeier.

Father Wilhelm-Johannes Seidler (1930-2003) also came from a family of musical restaurateurs. Brother Ulrich Seidler, the resident pianist at Düsseldorf's Breidenbacher Hof , encouraged his then five-year-old sister to compose because she invented melodies from morning to night. Two years of piano lessons were of little use. From then on, her committed brother gave her piano lessons and became her musical trailblazer. The Seidler siblings won numerous competitions as a duo (piano, singing). The highlight for both of them was a performance with the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg in 1979 in the Westfalenhalle Dortmund (RTL Lion Awards) with their song The Reason Why . Invitations to numerous TV and radio broadcasts followed.

After graduating from the Theodor-Körner-Gymnasium in Bochum-Dahlhausen , Chris Seidler began studying in Cologne. On the weekends she worked with her brother on new songs and music productions for commercials. She was shaped by her early collaboration with Jerry van Rooyen , who wrote the big band arrangements for their first musical songs. During his studies (1980–1985) in Cologne, Chris Seidler received radio commissioned works (SDR, SWR, WDR, and RTL).

In 1982 she worked as a composer and jazz singer for the Südfunk-Orchester des Süddeutscher Rundfunk under the direction of the orchestra leader Erwin Lehn . Bernd Rabe , Erwin Lehn's main arranger, arranged Seidler's musical and jazz songs. In 1985 Chris Seidler performed for the first time with his own jazz band in the machine hall of the Stollwerck chocolate factory. Bassist of the band, software developer and owner of SCALACS Informationstechnik GmbH Carlo (Karlheinz) Rafalski, became her partner in 1989 and her husband in 1991, with whom she has lived and worked artistically in Gelsenkirchen since 1990.

1992–1993 Seidler and Rafalski founded the artist group PD-ART together with Klaus Urban (drummer for Fritz Brause ) and produced the experimental concept album Atmospheres ( music publishers Hans Gerig ). Since Atmospheres, Chris Seidler has mainly been writing larger works. In parallel to her compositional work, she taught young talents, gave impulses and led musical and artistic projects.

In 1999, through the collaboration with the author and Grimme Prize winner Michael Klaus and the conductor Koen Schoots, the work Fellini, Fellini was premiered in the large house of the Musiktheater im Revier .

Foundations and projects

  • In 2001 Chris Seidler's project work MUS-E NRW began for the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Germany on the recommendation of artist friend Claudia Lüke .
  • In 2005 Chris Seidler founded the Gelsenkirchen Opera School together with the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Germany in the gymnasium of the elementary school at the Erzbahn.
  • 2010 Foundation of the non-profit association Opera School e. V.
  • 2010 Preview of the children's opera Kater Moshe in the Chemnitz Opera House on the occasion of the Saxon Theater Days.
  • 2011 Moshe the tomcat in the music theater in the Revier

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Klaus: Remscheider Generalanzeiger website accessed by Chris Seidler on January 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ Hans-Jörg Loskill: WAZ, September 13, 1999 Website accessed by Chris Seidler on January 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ Musical Yearbook 2000, Andreas Luketa, Verlag Peter Pomp - pages 125 and 306
  4. ↑ MIR: Schillertheater NRW website accessed by Chris Seidler on January 4, 2018.
  5. ↑ Scenes, Pictures, Moments - 40 Years of Musiktheater im Revier, Klartext Verlag, 2001, p. 123
  6. ↑ Eva Heller, page 26 ff. MUS-E ZEIT website accessed by Chris Seidler on January 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ De goed voorbereide geest / Lectoraat Theatrale Maakprocessen voor de opera van morgen, Faculteit Theater, Hogeschool voor de Künsten Utrecht / Uitgeverij International Theater & Filmbboks, Amsterdam, 2011 / pages 86–95
  8. ^ Opera School website accessed by Chris Seidler on January 4, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Seidler, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, jazz singer, author
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Blankenstein