Erik Kross

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Erik Kross (born February 5, 1956 in Leipzig ) is a German composer and musician. In his childhood he received piano, church organ and music theory lessons at the music school. After graduating from high school, he studied piano at the Cottbus Conservatory and classical composition in Dresden .

During his studies he was a rock musician in various bands. After his studies he played in the folk groups Folklander and Wacholder . In 1981 he co-founded the Trio Heureka , a chamber orchestra for contemporary music.

Since then, Kross has worked as a freelance artist, from 1987 to 1993 as a lecturer at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig and at various theaters. Since 2008 he has been head of the musical class at the Plön district music school .

Erik Kross lives in Berlin .

Instruments

Compositions and arrangements

Chamber music

  • Chamber Concert No. 1 (1984/85)
  • Chamber music for accordion and bassoon (first performance 1986 in Cottbus)
  • Mjaskowskij-Instrumentation (WP: 1994 in Gera)
  • Concertino for church organ and 2 saxophones
  • Blue Skies ( Irving Berlin )
  • Faust - Suite

Incidental music

  • Biedermann and the firestarters
  • The butter robber from Säckingen
  • Our man
  • The town
  • What you want
  • Hangovers, clowns and the like Philippine
  • The jungle Book
  • Vampire
  • The Dragon
  • The beautiful and the Rübezahl
  • Troubled Peter. Singspiel by Erik Kross. Musical class at the district school of Plön & Ostholstein, 2008.
  • and much more.

Own albums and participation

  • Fresh out into the wide field. Folklander group , LP (1980)
  • Ein Kessel Rotes, LP (1981)
  • Axion esti . Folk oratorio. Theodorakis / Elitis, LP (1983)
  • Broken glass. 1848, LP (1984)
  • Zeitzeichen, LP (1989)
  • ohrakel, heureka, CD (1991)
  • Noise on the way home. Folkländers Bierfiedler, CD (1991)
  • From the western side of the world. Barbara Thalheim , CD (1991)
  • Original soundtrack The City. Music for M. Schindhelm's piece. heureka & N.Thym-Hochrein, CD (1991)
  • Pat's English. Tape 1. heureka & Dee Winter, MC (1994)
  • Nice feeling. Detlef Bunk, CD (1996)
  • For example hippos. Scarlett O´ (1998)
  • New songs. Barbara Thalheim (1999)
  • Robber songs. Folksession Vol. 2, CD (1999)
  • hikes. heureka, CD (2000)
  • California Impressions. acoustic guitar. detlef bunk, CD (2000)
  • Dreamland amnesias. Reinhard Kuhnert , CD (2000)
  • Holger Güttersberger sings Brel. Live recording, CD (2000)
  • my connections. 10 pop guitar pieces between Folk, Latin, Blues & New Age (2002)
  • Ralph & Ralf. Live 2002/2003. Live recording, CD (2003)
  • Bunkis animal life. 15 animal pieces for guitar easy to almost easy by Detlef Bunk (2003)
  • two stones. acoustic guitar. detlef bunk (2003)
  • Because of Emil his indecent lust. Claire Waldoff songs with Maggy Domschke, CD (2004)
  • Outpourings ... from Ralph & Ralf. . Studio production, CD (2005)

Musicological work

  • Collaboration with: Jürgen B. Wolff [edit.]: Bibliography of literature on German folk song: with location information in the most important archives and libraries of the GDR / according to content. u. practical aspects zsgest. by Jürgen B. Wolff and Erik Kross. Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-7444-0046-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kross, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig