Christoph Staude

Christoph Staude (* 1965 in Munich ) is a German composer .

Life

Staude studied 1984–86 at the Berlin University of the Arts with Witold Szalonek and from 1986–91 at the Frankfurt University of Music with Rolf Riehm and Bernhard Kontarsky . Since 1995 he has lived as a freelance composer at the rocket station / museum Insel Hombroich near Neuss. There he initiated the series Hombroich: New Music in 1997 . He received u. a. Commissions and radio productions from SWR Baden-Baden for the Donaueschinger Musiktage, WDR Cologne for the Witten days for new chamber music, HR Frankfurt, SDR Stuttgart, BR Munich and the AUDI-AG-Kulturfond, Ingolstadt.

Honors

• 1992 scholarship stay at the German Study Center Venice
• 1986/87 laureate in the competition of the state capital Stuttgart for young composers
• 1987 1st prize in the composition competition of the International Center of New Music Sources (ICONS), Turin
• 1988 winner of the composition competition of the Trio Basso Cologne; 2nd prize in the competition of the state capital Stuttgart
• 1999 2nd prize in the composition competition of the music-theater-workshop at the Wiesbaden State Theater
• 2003 Prize winner in the international composition competition of the Elisabeth Schneider Foundation Freiburg
• 2005 Award of the Berlin Art Award

Works (selection)

Stage work

• We . Musical theater piece. Libretto : Hans-Georg Wegner (based on the novel of the same name by Evgeni Zamyatin ). Premiere 2006 Munich ( Munich Biennale )

Orchestral works

• Anangke (1985). 2nd symphonic fragment
• Schacht (1986). 3rd symphonic fragment
• 3 Noirailles (1993)
• Areal, landscape for piano and orchestra (1997). World premiere 2002 Munich, Munich Philharmonic , conducted by G. Schmöhe, Jan Philip Schulze , piano
• Kohinoor, sketch for Simurgh's journey (2004/05). Premiere 2005 Saarbrücken, RSO Saarbrücken , headed by P. Marchbank

Vocal compositions

• Psalm 88 (1986) for three-part mixed choir and orchestra
• Le Livre des Météores, scenario in 7 installations (1989/90) for soprano, baritone and orchestra
• Trifoglio (2000) for alto voice and string quartet. Texts: Yagi Jūkichi , Ossip Mandelstam , Tsangyang Gyatso
• Codex (2001) for soprano and 7 instrumentalists (Text: from the Nuremberg Codex of the IPPNW , 1947). WP Nuremberg ( Pegnitzschäfer sound concepts )
• Seven last words (2004) for soprano and piano after James Joyce
• Eine Schattens Traum (2008) for choir and orchestra

Chamber music

• Ice Harmony (1985) for two pianos for twelve hands
• String Quartet I (1986). WP Turin, Arditti Quartet
• Finding. String Quartet II (1988)
• All'aperto. 18 Shards (String Quartet III) (1992)
• Foundation (1999). Fragment for organ
• Per speculum in aenigmate (1999) for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano
• Interior Zone (2002) for ensemble. WP Hombroich, ensemble recherche
• String Quartet VI (2003)

Publications on CD

• Afterimage for viola sola (1986); Intersound GmbH Munich ISPV163CD, Eckart Schloifer, Vla.
• Autopsy (1988) for saxophone solo; New Saxophone Chamber Music WWE 1CD 31890 col legno, Johannes Ernst, Sax.
• Morpheus, dance / scene for 6 percussionists (1990); Donaueschinger Musiktage 1990, col legno AU 31819
• Intercut. Fifteen found pieces for sextet (1999). Documentation Witten days for new chamber music 1999

Staude portrait CD edition contemporary music (German Music Council) Wergo-6546-2 (2000)

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Staude in the catalog of the German National Library