Fredrik Schwenk

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Fredrik Schwenk (born October 20, 1960 in Munich ) is a German composer and music teacher .

Life

Fredrik Schwenk grew up in Munich and after his first attempts at composition he received cello lessons from Erich Bruckner and composition lessons from David Llywelyn, later piano lessons from Daniel Herscovich. After graduating from high school and doing basic military service, he studied art history and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University from 1981 to 1987 and studied composition with Wilhelm Killmayer at the Munich University of Music and Theater . In 1989 he received a scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. From 1991 to 1993 he led the opera workshop and in 2005 and 2006 the radio play workshop of the Bayreuth International Festival of Young Artists . At first he was a co-initiator and founding member from 1992 to 1999, together with Moritz Eggert and Sandeep Bhagwati, board member of A • DEvantgarde eV Projects for New Music .

After teaching assignments at the Munich University of Music and Theater and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, as well as a full-time lectureship at the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Music , he has been professor of music theory and composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater since October 2000 . Together with Peter Michael Hamel , he directed Studio 21, which is funded by the Zeit Foundation in Hamburg. From 2004 to 2010 he was the dean of all artistic courses. Since 2009 he has been artistic director of the Opus XXI Academy for contemporary music. As a co-initiator, he leads the international CoPeCo (Contemporary Performance and Composition) master’s course in contemporary music between the universities of the Estonian Academy of Music , the Royal Academy of Music Stockholm , CNSMD Lyon and the University of Music and Theater Hamburg.

Among the numerous national and international awards are the grant from the Hindemith Foundation (Blonay CH 1990), the cultural grant from the City of Munich (1992), the Carl Orff Prize for contemporary music theater (Munich, 1995) and the Franz Josef Reinl Foundation (Vienna 1998) mentioned.

Works (selection)

Musical theater

  • 1985 Das Schlüsselloch, chamber play in one act based on the drama by Jean Tardieu , Munich 1985
  • 1990 The Divided Nobleman, puppet game based on motifs from the novel of the same name by Italo Calvino , Munich Biennale 1991
  • 1992–95 Pan in Oslo, opera in two acts based on Knut Hamsun and Knut Faldbakken , 1995 Carl Orff Prize
  • 2007 go go go, music theater based on Thomas Bernhard , opera silens Hamburg 2008

Spiritual works

  • 2000 Dies Septimus, Chamber Oratorio by Carl Laukvik, Benediktbeuern 2000
  • 2007 Confessiones XI, for mixed choir based on Augustine , Hamburg 2007
  • 2010 Quadrivium, Passion for 4 percussionists and speakers, Hamburg 2011

Songs

  • 1999 Vier Lieder im Volkston, based on poems by Clemens Brentano , Augsburg 1999
  • 2003 Lähainen ranta ja kaukainen / Nahes Ufer, fernes Ufer, seven Finnish songs based on Viljo Kajava, Zither 7, Munich 2008
  • 2003 Seven songs, based on poems by Meret Oppenheim , Hamburg 2004
  • 2004 Agur speaks, from the sayings of Salomon, Hamburg 2004
  • 2006 The blue hour, based on poems by Gottfried Benn , Potsdam 2007
  • 2008 Die Rote Blume, nine songs based on poems by Gustav Mahler , with Christianne Stotijn and Joseph Breinl, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) 2009

orchestra

  • 1995 Cape Town Energy, for symphonic wind orchestra, Euroton Festival, Wertingen 1997
  • 1999 Pro * Epimetheus, Metamorphoses for large orchestra, Halle Opera Orchestra, conducted by Roger Epple , Halle 1999
  • 2004 Points of light of mirrored silence, for zither and chamber orchestra
  • 2013 Sturm Stoff Träume, for violoncello and orchestra, Orchestra of the Oldenburg State Theater , Niklas Schmidt violoncello, conducted by Marcus Bosch , Oldenburg 2013

Chamber music 1

  • 1989 first trio for violin, violoncello and piano, first A * Devantgarde Festival Munich 1989, Moritz Eggert, piano
  • 1990 first string quartet, rev. 1993, Munich 1993, Artus Quartet
  • 2006 second string quartet, Hamburg Mozart-Saal 2006, Auryn Quartet
  • 2011 second trio for violin, violoncello and piano with swan song for violoncello solo, Munich Academy of Fine Arts

Chamber music 2

  • 1993 Folsomstreet for alto flute and knocking noises, Munich 1993
  • 1996–2001 Three Sonatinas for Piano, Augsburg 1996 (No. 3, Rudi Spring ) and Munich 2002 (No. 1–3, Andreas Skouras )
  • 2008 Night Hawks for Bohlen-Pierce clarinet and clarinet, Hamburg 2008, Nora-Louise Müller and Anna Bardeli
  • 2011 New Children's Scenes for Piano, Schnittke Academy Hamburg 2012, conducted by Brenno Ambrosini

Chamber music 3

  • 1993 attempt on the true way to recreate C. Ph. E. Bach for tenor chopping board and piano, Schlosskonzerte Leitheim 1994, Rudi Spring, piano
  • 1994 Landscape for Richard Long for Altzither, Zither 1, Munich 1995, Georg Glasl
  • 2007 Second Suite Arrabalesque, tango suite for treble and bass zither, accordion, double bass and speaker, portrait concert, Zither 7, Munich 2008

Lectures (selection)

  • Academy of the Arts Hamburg

Sound space - spatial sound, music in the tension field of architecture

  • Mozart Hall of the Provincial Lodges in Lower Saxony in Hamburg

Pascal Dusapin

  • Künstlerhaus Ulm

Exhibition opening of the Künstlerhaus Almut Glinin / Kurt App lecture

  • Mozart Hall of the Provincial Lodges in Lower Saxony in Hamburg

Wilhelm Killmayer

  • Høgskolen i Tromsø / Norge

Vocation and profession - composers in the beginning of the 21st century Composer's Crisis - the problem of aesthetic and style in the age of broken systems

European music theater in transition

Publications in specialist magazines, books and daily press

  • Sound space - spatial sound, music in the tension field of architecture
  • Zither of the future - future of the zither
  • Notes on a quiet instrument
  • Concert band today
  • Peter Kiesewetter - Gil
  • The history of church music in Germany after 1945, Bärenreiter Kassel

Discography

  • Dulcimer dulcimer, ORF 1996 NYX 1112
  • Landscapes, Cavalli Records 1999, EAN 4028183001153
  • Garden full of joys and sadness, Cavalli Records 2000, EAN 4028183002372
  • Andreas Skouras, fortepiano and piano, works by Haydn and Schwenk, Cavalli Records 2005, EAN 4028183001290
  • Tango Nuevo, duo arrabal 2000, EAN 4011392968348
  • Fagottissimo, 1991, whether 01.215
  • between stones, Martin Mallaun, Zither, 2005, ISBN 3221702825

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Pan, Fredrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music teacher, professor of music theory and composition
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich