Ekkehard Klemm

Ekkehard Klemm

Ekkehard Klemm (born December 1, 1958 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a conductor , composer and former rector of the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden .

Career

At the age of ten, Klemm became a member of the Dresden Kreuzchor and remained so until 1977. This was followed by studies from 1979–1984 at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden in the subjects of conducting with Siegfried Kurz and Hartmut Haenchen , and composition with Manfred Weiss and Rainer Kunad and Wilfried Krätzschmar and piano with Heidrun Richter. From 1984 to 1988, Klemm was 1st Kapellmeister and at times musical chief conductor at the Landestheater Altenburg and from 1988 to 1994 chief conductor at the Greifswald Theater and the Vorpommerschen Sinfonieorchester Greifswald.

Klemm was chief conductor of the newly founded Theater Vorpommern from 1994 to 1996 and conductor at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz in Munich from 1996 to 1999 . From 1999 to 2004 he was deputy chief conductor at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz. In 2003 he was appointed professor of conducting at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden . There he took over the leadership of the conducting training and is artistic director of the university symphony orchestra. In 2010 he was elected rector of this institute and held this office until 2015. In 2013, Klemm was elected President of the Association of German Concert Choirs (VDKC). At the 2017 Association Day, he was re-elected for another four years. He was in charge of the VDKC's application to include “Choral music in German amateur choirs” in the list of intangible cultural heritage. The application was successful at national level in 2014. Until 2007 he was a permanent guest conductor at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich and since 2004 he has been the artistic director of the Singakademie Dresden eV

In October 2016, Klemm was elected chief conductor of the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen . He took up the position at the beginning of the 2017/2018 season. With the concept composers in region , the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen was successful within the funding program “Excellent orchestral landscape” of the federal government and will receive additional funding for the performance of contemporary music from and in the region in the years 2018-2020.

Musical work

Ekkehard Klemm has made guest appearances at numerous national and international theaters and orchestras. As a theater bandmaster, he promotes new music. In Munich ( Prinzregententheater and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz) he conducted the premieres of the works When Time Overflows by Vladimir Tarnopolski and The Quake by Awet Terterjan as well as the German premieres of the operas Das Sonnenhaus by Einojuhani Rautavaara and Die Maiden by Peter Bengtson . In Munich he directed the premieres of the operas The English Cat by Hans Werner Henze , Majakowskijs Tod by Dieter Schnebel and Luigi Nono's Intolleranza . In Dresden he performed the key operas by Wilfried Krätzschmar, the oratorios Confessio saxonica by Manfred Weiss and MenschenZeit by Lothar Voigtländer as well as many orchestral works, among others by Lothar Voigtländer ( Orchestermusik III ), Alexander Keuk , Friedrich Goldmann ( Weg Gewirr Outlook ), Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz ( archaic landscape with healing grief ), Nina Shenk , Jörg Herchet ( Jakobus cantata from THE SPIRITUAL YEAR in the chamber evening of the Saxon State Orchestra ) and Christian Münch ( chants and harmonies ) for the premiere. With this he advanced to become a conductor who did not only deal with the older Dresden works with the greatest intensity ( Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber , first performance of Weber's masses with historical instruments, St. John Passion by Georg Gebel and St. John Passion by Christoph Ludwig Fehre , Faust scenes and Genoveva by Robert Schumann , Lukas Passion by Rudolf Mauersberger ), but regularly supports the composers who work and teach in Dresden and introduces them with major works in his programs. In the concerts of the university symphony orchestra, at least one student composition under Klemms direction was heard every year.

As a composer, Klemm has performed with a string quartet (premiered in 1982 in Dresden, soloist quartet of the Komische Oper Berlin ), with the ensemble piece Psalmen (premiered in Apolda, Altenburg, Greifswald and Jena in 1988 and 1989), with various chamber music works and 3 in 1 for four choirs and orchestra (first performance in 2006 by the Singakademie Dresden and the Collegium 1704 , Prague) based on texts from sacred writings, Dietrich Bonhoeffers and Christoph Eisenhuths in appearance. At the Bach Festival in Dresden in 2016 the composition ricercar a 5.9 was premiered in the Kreuzkirche with the soprano Anja Zügner, the Singakademie Dresden and the orchestra of the Dresden State Operetta .

student

In particular, Klemm's most successful students to date include:

Oksana Lyniv , assistant to Kyrill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera and since 2017 GMD in Graz; Moritz Gnann , assistant to the Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Lennart Dohms, professor at the Bern University of the Arts ; Manuel Pujol, choir director at Theater Dortmund ; Cornelius Volke, Deputy Choir director at the Semperoper Dresden ; Diego Martin-Etxebarria , 1st Prize, Asahi Prize and Hideo Saito Prize of the 17th Tokyo International Music Competition for Conducting and, since 2016, Kapellmeister at Theater Krefeld-Mönchengladbach

Web links

• Literature by and about Ekkehard Klemm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Ekkehard Klemm
• Homepage of Ekkehard Klemm on the website of the Dresden University of Music

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professor Ekkehard Klemm new President of the Association of German Concert Choirs , press release from May 14, 2013, accessed on February 5, 2017.
2. ^ "Choral music in German amateur choirs" included in the nationwide directory of intangible cultural heritage , press release of December 16, 2014.
3. ↑ Bernd Klempnow: Music for half a million Saxons . In: Saxon newspaper . October 25, 2016 ( online [accessed October 25, 2016]).