Dirk D'Ase

Dirk D'Ase (born October 31, 1960 in Antwerp ) is an Austrian composer of Flemish origin.

Live and act

Dirk D'Ase studied composition with Luciano Berio , Friedrich Cerha ( University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna ) and Krzysztof Penderecki . Extensive research trips took him through the southern part of Africa, which he completed in 1989 with a diploma thesis on South East African traditional music. His travels and research in Africa have had a fundamental impact on his compositional thinking. His most important works include seven operas , four solo concerts , a symphony , orchestral works and orchestral songs. D'Ase was “Composer Of The Year” at the Brussels Opera La Monnaie (conducted by Gerard Mortier ), composer in residence at the Festival van Vlaanderen and the Vienna Conservatory.

His works were u. a. in the Vienna Musikverein , Wiener Konzerthaus at the Carnegie Hall New York, Juilliard School of Music, the Brussels Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra of Cologne and at the Bregenz Festival listed. For the 2003/04 season he was appointed composer in residence by the Wiener Concert-Verein at the Wiener Musikverein. In the same season, his opera Einstein was launched in Ulm to mark Albert Einstein's 125th anniversary and his cello concerto was performed at the Bregenz Festival, for which he was awarded the Vienna Symphony Composition Scholarship.

Commissioned by the Vienna Mozart Year 2006, D'Ase wrote his full-length opera Joseph Herzog on a libretto by Robert Schindel . After his portrait concert at the Bregenz Festival in 2008, an ORF CD with three of his instrumental concerts with Sylvain Cambreling , Klangforum Wien , Ulf Schirmer, Wiener Concert-Verein, Peter Burwik and ensemble XX. Century presented with recordings from the Wiener Musikverein and Konzerthaus in the Radiokulturhaus.

In 2012 D'Ases opera Azrael was played at Wien Modern and in 2011 his opera L'intruse was premiered on behalf of the Vlaamse Opera - to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize award to Maurice Maeterlinck in Ghent, Antwerp and Rotterdam. In 2010/11 the Münchner Rundfunkorchester performed under the direction of Ulf Schirmer Okavango Raincolors, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Gegenwartsplitter and the Ensemble Kontrapunkte Silberfluss, Feuermond ... as a commission from the Wiener Musikverein. He is the course director (course for composition and music conducting) and has a composition class at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna .

style

“ In his music, Dirk D'Ase deals with the special properties and timbres of the instruments and the human voice. He develops supple, characterizing vocal and instrumental lines that combine large interval jumps with tone repetitions in a meaningful and catchy manner. Its keynote is the sounds of seconds, in many shades from biting sharpness to a drifting carpet of sound, often layered on top of one another or dissolved into fleeting instrumental gestures. “D'Ase has acquired his own rhythmic technique, which has become a characteristic of his compositions and is based on the basic principle of African traditional music: the interlocking system . To do this, he drew inspiration from field research on extensive trips to Africa: concerts with black African musicians, whether with traditional or township music , offered D'Ase visual lessons in spontaneous, immediate, enthusiastic and inspiring music-making. From a technical point of view, it was above all the screwed structures of so-called inherent patterns that he incorporated into his compositions: complex rhythms that, as such, make audible virtual lines that are not played but can be perceived. Each instrument plays an individual rhythmic pattern, the interplay of all instruments interweaves the rhythms and results in a new rhythm of their own. D'Ase also uses this technique in sound design, in which individual melodies grow together to create a new virtual sound quality. He often works with small note values, but always contrasts this with slow cantilenas ; “Speed” and “density” could be the guiding words for D'Ase's music creation. “Everything I do, I look for in and out of life,” says Dirk D'Ase, formulating a kind of artistic credo that seems to be realized not only in the vital features of his instrumental music, but also in the human-interpersonal conflicts with which D 'Ase, constantly exploring the dramatic: The world, life, people - everything for him is based on emotions and reactions that can be tamed or not, which one has to face in any case.

Operas

• L'intruse (2011), commissioned by the Vlaamse Opera
• Joseph Herzog (2004/2006), commissioned by the Vienna Mozart Year 2006
• Einstein in America (2001/2003), commissioned by the Ulmer Theater
• Arrest (1999/2000), commissioned by the Neue Oper Wien
• Azrael (1998), commissioned by NetZZeit, Vienna
• Diary of Ronald Hansen (1996), commissioned by Transparant, Antwerp
• Red Rubber (1992/1993), commissioned by the European Capital of Culture, Antwerp'93

Compositions (excerpt)

• Einstein ... fragments
• Brecht orchestral songs
• Okavango Raincolors
• Don Juan's passions
• Trio d'Or
• Turrini orchestral songs

Orders (extract)

• Wiener Musikverein ( Silberfluss, Feuermond ... , clarinet concert)
• Wiener Konzerthaus ( Burning Day )
• Bregenz Festival (Trio d'or)
• Neue Oper Wien (Brecht orchestral songs, opera arrest )
• Wiener Concert-Verein ( fire light ... nightshade , cello concert )
• Brussels Opera (Ottetto)
• Klangforum Wien (Violin Concerto)
• Ulmer Theater ( Einstein Opera in America )
• Hugo Wolf Quartet (2nd string quartet)
• Flanders Festival (Footprints, Hommage a Scott Joplin)
• Arnold Schoenberg Chor , Vienna ( The true life of singers )
• Quatuor Danel, France (1st string quartet)
• Antwerp '93, European Capital of Culture ( Red Rubber Opera )
• 6 Capricci for solo double bass 1982, world premiere in 1991

Composer in Residence / Composer Portraits

• Bregenz Festival 2008 (composer portrait)
• Wiener Concert-Verein as “Composer in Residence” in the Wiener Musikverein 2003/04
• “ Composer in Residence ” at the Vienna Conservatory Private University 2002/03
• “Composer Of The Year” at the Brussels Opera (Dir. Gerard Mortier) 1990/91
• Brussels Opera 1991 (composer portrait)
• “Composer In Residence” at the Flanders Festival 1988/91
• Wiener Urania 1987 (composer portrait)

CD releases

• Portrait concert at the Bregenz Festival 2008 (Zappel Music 2010)
• Cello concerto, violin concerto and accordion concerto (ORF 2008)
• The Passions of Don Juan (Vienna 2008)
• Einstein in America, Franklin's incendiary speech (Ulmer Theater 2006)
• Arrest, opera in one act ( Neue Oper Wien 2001)
• States of Mind, Music for Mallets and Flute (Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Vienna 2000)

literature

• Make music, love - and shut up! Albert Einstein's Relationship to Music, Schwabe AG Basel, 2006 Arnold Jacobshagen , Montage - Cycle - Sound Symbol. Einstein compositions by Paul Dessau, Philip Glass and Dirk D'Ase
• Dirk D'Ase and his music-dramatic work with special consideration of the world premiere “Einstein, Traces of Light” (Bruno Berger-Gorski, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna 2007)
• Red Rubber / An opera project from the idea to the world premiere (Brigitte Pinter, Institute for Music Sociology, University of Music Vienna 1993)
• African Adventures / The Music of South-East Africa in a documentation and a musical form analysis based on 17 music examples (Dirk D'Ase, Institute for Folk Music Research, Vienna University of Music 1989)

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1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae at the Music and Art University of the City of Vienna ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 9, 2015. 
2. ↑ The German Stage, 2001
3. ↑ http://www.schwabe.ch/schwabe-verlag/buecher/buchdetails/musisiert-lieben-und-maulhalten-3509/?cHash=9ea462c3b9240a42be5e2cfd4fd38e3e  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically saved as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Dirk D'Ase in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dirk D'Ases website
• Wiener Musikverein: The virtuoso clarinet as jazz drums
• Music Information Center Austria (mica)