Daniel Muck (musician)

Daniel Muck (born November 13, 1990 in Vienna ) is an Austrian conductor and composer .

Musical career

He began his musical training at the Staatz Music School in violin, double bass, tenor horn and percussion. After attending the music high school in Vienna , he completed his double bass concert studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2015 .

At the age of 16 he took over the leadership of the Staatz youth band , where he was Kapellmeister until 2015 . He has been conductor of the Vienna Youth Symphony Orchestra since 2014, head of the Young Wind Philharmonic Orchestra of Lower Austria since 2016 and chief conductor of the Vienna Youth Symphony Orchestra since 2018.

At the age of 14 he began to compose. In summer 2009 he was a commissioned composer and guest conductor with the Austrian Brass Band at the Klassikfestival at Schloss Kirchstetten , where he premiered his Symphony No. 1 “Limes” in July 2013 with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra.

He was also commissioned to write solo concerts for the following Austrian orchestral musicians: trombone concerto for Wolfgang Strasser ( Vienna State Opera ), bass trombone concerto for Mark Gaal ( Vienna Philharmonic ) and tuba concerto for Rainer Huss ( radio symphony orchestra ). He also writes arrangements, including for “Phil Blech Wien”.

Muck received three composition awards from the Austrian Composers' Association, the recognition award from the state of Lower Austria and one award from the Dr. Ernst Koref Foundation awarded. His works were u. a. Played in the Wiener Musikverein , Porgy & Bess , Wiener Konzerthaus , Grafenegg, Brucknerhaus Linz, Salzburg Festival, Konzerthaus Berlin and Carnegie Hall New York . Productions as a conductor and arranger with soloists such as Natalia Ushakova , Piotr Beczała , Ryan Speedo Green or the Vienna Boys' Choir. Guest conductors with the orchestra of the Technical University of Vienna and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Lower Austria.

He won the Chamber Orchestra of New York's Respighi Prize in 2013. In July 2014 he was a guest conductor with the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey and received the special award at the Busan Maru International Music Festival in South Korea the following autumn. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York in December 2014 and won the Brazosport Original Composition Contest in Texas in January 2015. In 2016 he was awarded the prize at the Strauss “BePhilharmonic” ( Vienna Philharmonic ) contest .

Since October 2016 he has been teaching “symphonic wind music” at the Franz Schubert Institute at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna .

Works (selection)

Symphony orchestra

• Symphony No. 1 "LIMES"
• CERES - Historia Planetulae
• ERIS - Historia Planetulae
• Musikgymnasium Wien Fanfare
• BRAN - Dracula Castle
• BLACK ICE - black ice
• The Nibelungen Fountain in Tulln

Wind band

• Silvanus
• Wizard Overture
• Magicus
• ATRA FEMINA - The black woman in Staatz
• Dancing Bubble (based on an artwork by JaniJanJ.)
• Sonus Industriae - The sound of industry
• The Light Stone
• Multa Nocte - In the dead of night
• EXIT
• AURA - snatch to the past (based on a work of art by JaniJanJ.)
• DELOS
• STATE

Solo concerts with orchestra

• Concerto for Jazz Trio
• Concerto for rock band
• Concerto for Trombone
• BASSIC - Concerto for Double Bass
• Concerto for bass trombones
• Concerto for tuba
• DUPLEX - Double Concerto for Tenor and Bass Trombones
• UNA for violin, drum and orchestra

Vocal works

• MISSA NOVA for choir and organ / ensemble / orchestra
• Hallelujah for choir, organ and orchestra
• De Baptismo for solo voice and organ
• Moonlight for solo voice, choir, band and orchestra

Chamber music

• MouseCatch
• ARANEUM
• Oraculum Apollonis
• Come together (based on a work of art by JaniJanJ.)
• Monumentum
• triumvirate

Web links

• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Home. Retrieved March 30, 2017 . 
2. ^ Daniel Muck | Franz Schubert Institute for Wind and Percussion Instruments in Music Education. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .