Cord Meijering
Cord Meijering (* 1955 in Esens , East Friesland ) is a Dutch composer .
Life
Meijering first studied guitar with Olaf Van Gonnissen and composition with Johannes Fritsch and Dietrich Boekle at the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt . From 1983 to 1986 he studied with Hans Werner Henze at the Cologne University of Music . Meijering completed his training from 1990 to 1992 as a master class student and scholarship holder at the former East Berlin Academy of the Arts with Hans Jürgen Wenzel . This was followed by various teaching activities in theory and composition at the universities in Nuremberg and Karlsruhe . Meijering has been director of the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt since 2005 , where he still teaches the composition class for children and young people he founded in 1991.
His works have been shown at the Festival de Tardor Barcelona , the Styrian Autumn in Graz, the Festival d´ Evian , the Frankfurt Feste , the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, the CrossSound Festival in Juneau and Sitka , Alaska and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York .
Meijering is co-founder of the Ensemble Phorminx and now lives in Darmstadt .
His oeuvre includes compositions for orchestra , chamber music , dance theater , opera and film .
In May 2006 the first two movements of “New Songs from Italy and Germany” for a small orchestra (orchestra of the Darmstadt State Theater , conducted by Norbert Biermann) took place. The work is dedicated to his teacher Hans Werner Henze on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
In March 2007, a new 70-minute work for ballet entitled ELISABETH.IKONE was performed on the 800th birthday of Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia (commissioned by the Eisenach State Theater, dramatic design by Bernd Weißig). ELISABETH.IKONE was selected as one of the ten most important productions worldwide in an international selection of critics by BallettTanz magazine. A film was also produced under the same title, directed by Marian Czura .
Awards
- 1985 Grant from the city of Stuttgart for the orchestral composition "the voice of the winter"
- 1987 recognition at the international composition competition "Hambacher Prize" for the string trio "... moves ..."
- 1996 the "Bad Homburg Sponsorship Award" for the composition "Nights of 1990"
- 1991 MacDowell Inc. New York scholarship for a work stay in Peterborough NH USA.
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| SURNAME | Meijering, cord |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Esens , East Frisia |