Eduard Demetz

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Eduard Demetz (born March 2, 1958 in Bozen , South Tyrol , Italy ), also Edoardo Demetz , is an Italian composer and conductor .

biography

Eduard Demetz studied piano with Michaela Schneider-Cuvay and orchestral conducting with Ulrich Weder at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . In addition, he completed master classes and seminars with Gary Bertini , Pierre Boulez , Péter Eötvös and Vinko Globokar . He composed a. a. Works for chamber orchestra, symphony orchestra, choir, piano, piano trio and for various brass ensembles and is also active in the field of music for film, theater and television (for example for Bavaria-Film in Munich). He received various awards for his work. Demetz teaches composition elements for didactics at the Conservatory in Bolzano , is on the artistic advisory board of the “Band for New Music ” Windkraft and a member of the Transart Festival for contemporary culture. From 2002 to 2012 he was artistic director of the valgardenamusika festival .

Demetz 'works were u. a. Performed throughout Europe by the soloists Thomas Demenga and Thomas Larcher , the Ensemble Modern , the Ensemble intercontemporain , the Klangforum Wien , the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra , the Petersen Quartet , the Arditti Quartet , the Tyrolean Landestheater and the Haydn Orchestra from Bozen and Trento. In 2005 Per vidula y tlavier was played by the Merlin Ensemble at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Manhattan . In the same year, a composer focus was dedicated to him in the Merano Music Weeks, with his work Im Klang being premiered by the Linz Bruckner Orchestra under the direction of Dennis Russel Davies. In 2012 a CD was released by ORF containing his works Minus , Ludus tarantulae , Doi , Flying Carpet and Rondo de banda .

On the occasion of the refugee crisis , Demetz organized the musical project Ardadioungo for the opening of the Transart Festival in Museion on September 9, 2015 together with migrants living in Bolzano . In November of that year he won the composition competition announced by the Artemis Quartet with his string quartet broken islands ; the work was premiered by the Artemis Quartet on May 23, 2016 in Berlin.

Awards

Works

From 1990 to 1994 Demetz composed the music for the children's theater productions Lusor de Luna , Sintflut and Standstill by Karl Prossliner (Theaterthek Naturns ). This was followed by a large number of independent works:

  • Runner in the Park for soprano, clarinet, piano (1995)
  • Trio a quattro for violin, violoncello and piano (1996)
  • Uno e mezzo for piano solo (1998)
  • Palapirn for two trumpets, horn and trombone (1998)
  • Tras for orchestra (1998)
  • The color H for four horns (1999)
  • For piano for piano solo (1999)
  • Verso il silenzio for two cellos and ensemble (1999)
  • Yogurt and Banana, music without cholesterol for flute, violin, viola and guitar (2000)
  • Mask play for soprano and ensemble (2000)
  • 7 short stories for piano and orchestra (2001)
  • Prisoner of MAB , Chamber Opera in Four Pictures (2002)
  • Per vidula y tlavier for violin and piano (2002)
  • Rondo de banda for brass octet (2002)
  • Batadum for six percussionists (2003)
  • Below sea level , sound collage for the parking garage of the Therme Meran (2003)
  • OT for flute, oboe, clarinet, guitar, accordion, piano, harpsichord and percussion (2003)
  • Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke for speaker and twelve instruments, text by Rainer Maria Rilke (2003; revised version 2014)
  • Audio collage for the exhibition Eros & Night by Gotthard Bonell in the Kurhaus Meran (2004)
  • Stanze , string quartet (2004)
  • In the sound for orchestra (2005)
  • Ludus tarantulae for two oboes, English horn and harpsichord (2006)
  • Silent Foot for flute, accordion, strings and percussion (2006)
  • Frut blanch for mezzo-soprano, marimba, piano and orchestra (2006)
  • Music for the film Walter Pichler, the sculptor by Traudi Messini (2007)
  • Audio collage (electronically processed) for the exhibition Margarethe Maultasch, History of a Demonization at Castle Tyrol near Meran (2007)
  • Flying Carpet for clarinet, violin, piano (2007)
  • Motor Road for symphonic wind orchestra (2007)
  • Kernhaus for four percussionists, with Selma Mahlknecht and Konrad Laimer (2007)
  • Sensibus for mixed choir and three percussionists (2008)
  • Minus for accordion solo, ensemble and samples (2008)
  • Primordiale for large brass ensemble (2008)
  • Dan la lum for orchestra (2009)
  • Chedul for tuba and three percussionists (2009)
  • Songs on the clothesline for mixed choir, texts by Ernst Jandl (2009)
  • Creation is not heard for ensemble, for the picture Limits of Mind by Paul Klee (2010)
  • Veris , sound collage for the product advertising of the company Südtirol Pur (2010)
  • Shadow music for bassoon and string quartet (2010)
  • Doi for two bass clarinets and samples (2011)
  • Triphonia for wind instruments, accordion and percussion, collective work with Marcello Fera and Herbert Grassl (2011)
  • Music for the film Standstill - Chronicle of a failure in the province by Karl Prossliner (2012)
  • Steps and Sand for voice, Paetzold bass recorder and accordion (2012)
  • And they understood all languages for four trumpets (2012)
  • Stairway for flute and organ (2013)
  • Maulwerk for voices and live electronics (2013)
  • 4 sound campaigns for live electronics and choir (2013)
  • UE1 for clarinet, bass clarinet and live electronics (2013)
  • Festival trailer for the 28th Bolzano Film Festival (2014)
  • 4 tracks for accordion and samples (2014)
  • Chuchotè for bass clarinet and Paetzold bass recorder (2014)
  • Paravis for accordion, clarinet, bass clarinet, live electronics and chamber orchestra (2014)
  • Nauz for soprano, alto, tenor, violoncello, accordion, percussion and samples, text by Roberta Dapunt (2015)
  • Plug in City for 16 wind instruments (2015)
  • broken islands for string quartet (2015)
  • Duo for recorder and harpsichord (2016)
  • Trio for flute, clarinet and accordion (2016)
  • Pole for flutes, recorders, harp, harpsichord (2017)
  • Enlightenment - a division of time for two speaking voices, four clarinets and samples, text by Arno Dejaco (2017)
  • Creeper for violoncello and samples (2017)

style

Demetz sees himself influenced by very different styles of music: from classical piano literature, rock from the 1970s or Ladin folk songs. For him, music means communication, because "music wants to be communicative"; he also declared: "Art, music and literature want to be real".

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lecturers at the Conservatory. Bolzano Conservatory, accessed on November 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ team. Wind power music. Retrieved February 8, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Contact. Transart, accessed September 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ CDs. Wind power music. Retrieved February 11, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Ardadioungo. In: Transart.it. Retrieved September 10, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Georg Mair: Just take a step . In: ff - South Tyrolean weekly magazine . No. 37 , September 10, 2015, p. 48–50 ( online [accessed September 10, 2015]).
  7. ^ Artemis Quartet, biography. (No longer available online.) Impresariat Simmenauer, archived from the original on September 25, 2016 ; Retrieved September 25, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.impresariat-simmenauer.de
  8. ↑ Markus Larcher: Jewelry and Context . In: ff - South Tyrolean weekly magazine . No. 39 , September 25, 2008, pp. 67 ( online [accessed February 8, 2013]).
  9. ^ Transart: String quintet by the Virtuosi Italiani with world premiere by Eduard Demetz. (No longer available online.) In: Südtirol Online. Athesia , September 17, 2010; archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved September 25, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Rare experiment . In: ff - South Tyrolean weekly magazine . No. 43 , October 27, 2011, p. 49 ( online [accessed February 8, 2013]).
  11. ↑ Ferruccio Delle Cave: Perfect Coming Together . In: Dolomites . October 21, 2011 ( online [accessed February 8, 2013]).
  12. ↑ Information brochure on the 38th Festival of Contemporary Music Bolzano 2012. (PDF; 832 kB) p. 22 , accessed on February 10, 2016 .
  13. ^ Eduard Demetz: Speech in the Cultur-Nacht , RAI Sender Bozen , November 5, 2011 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Demetz, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demetz, Edoardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano