Friedrich Gauwerky

Friedrich Gauwerky (2005)

Friedrich Gauwerky (born February 17, 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German cellist, university professor and interpreter with a focus on new cello music.

biography

Gauwerky made his debut in Hamburg at the age of twelve, and at the age of 17 he received the Prize of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra in 1968. Between 1965 and 1970 he was supervised by Wilfried Boettcher, then until 1971 by Arthur Troester at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater.

In 1971 Gauwerky joined Siegfried Palm's cello class at the Rhineland State University for Music in Cologne . In 1976 he became Palm's assistant, followed in 1977 by the artistic diploma examination and the concert exam. Two master classes with Enrico Mainardi - 1969 in Salzburg and 1972 in Cologne - rounded off his training.

From 1984 to 1989 Gauwerky taught the major artistic subjects violoncello and chamber music at the Cologne University of Music in Wuppertal. At the same time he taught at the Rheinische Musikschule (Conservatory of the City of Cologne). He was a lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music in 1986, 1988 and 1994. In addition to his teaching activities, Gauwerky has always performed as a soloist and chamber musician. From 1972 to 1976 he was a cellist in the piano trio of the Cologne University of Music, with which he was awarded at the 1976 Mendelssohn Competition of the German University of Music. In 1974 he became principal cellist in the Rheinisches Kammerorchester Cologne and in 1987 in the Frankfurt Ensemble Modern, before accepting an appointment at the University of Adelaide in Australia in 1989. There he taught from 1989 to 1997 as a lecturer for violoncello, chamber music and new music.

During his time at the University of Adelaide, Gauwerky headed the string department of the university from 1994 to 1996 ("Head of Strings"). His duties also temporarily included leading the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra. As the first cellist of the Australian Elision Ensemble, he again campaigned for contemporary music from 1990 to 1997. Gauwerky's center of life has been back in Cologne since 1996. From there he goes on concert tours around the world as a soloist and chamber musician - u. a. in the piano trio with the violinist Saschko Gawriloff and the pianist Kristi Becker - and as a soloist with symphony orchestras.

Since 1989 Gauwerky has also been teaching in the form of guest lectureships as well as international master courses and master classes in Europe, the USA and the successor states of the former Soviet Union, including so far at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the University of California in San Diego, in Cambridge / UK, Huddersfield / UK, Liege, Odessa, Hanover, Dresden, Siegen, Arnsberg, Mannheim, Würzburg, Salzburg, Linz, Sydney, Wellington, Christchurch, Stellenbosch and Edmonton. In addition to his concert activities, he has made radio and television productions in Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia as well as LP and CD productions for companies such as Deutsche Grammophon, Ricordi, Etcetera, Ed. MF Bauer or ABC Classics.

Awards

• 1968: Prize of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg
• 1976: Prize of the Mendelssohn competition of the German music academies

Discography

• JS Bach: The Complete Chorals in an Arrangement for String Ensemble
• Gdansk baroque music . Danziger Verlagsgesellschaft, Klausdorf / Schwentine (No. 66.21727-O1)
• Danzinger wedding and chamber music . Danziger Verlagsgesellschaft, Klausdorf / Schwentine (No. 66.23727-O1-1)
• F. Pütz: Cello Music for Violoncello Solo . AMP Records, Cologne (AMP 4785-K).
• Ch. Delz: piano quartet . Grammont, Lausanne (CTS-P 18-1 (LP); CTS-P 18-2 (CD)).
• Works for violoncello solo by Dallapiaccola, Stockhausen, BA Zimmermann, T. Medek. Ed. Michael F. Bauer, Frankfurt a. M. (MFB FG)
• Klaus K. Hübler: Feuerzauber for violoncello, three flutes and harp. Wergo / Deutsche Grammophon (WER 6524-2).
• Richard Barrett: Ne songe plus a fuir for violoncello solo (Etcetera, KTC 1167)
• Brian Ferneyhough: Time and Motion Study No. 2 for violoncello solo and electronics (Etcetera, KTC 1206)
• Thomas Reiner: Three Sketches (1986) for violoncello solo; Newton Armstrong: Two Studies in Presence (1993) for violoncello solo; Felix Werder: Violoncello Solo (1993) ABC Classics, Sydney 456 682-2.
• Richard Barrett: Von Hinter Demmerz for Violoncello solo and Ensemble as part of Opening of the Mouth . ABC Classics 465 268-2.
• Friedrich Gauwerky cello solo . ALBCD 013, Albedo-records Oslo. In it: Y. Höller: Sonata for violoncello solo ; T. Cary: Messages ; V. Heyn: Blues in B-flat ; K. Saariaho: Petals and R. Barrett: From Behind The Pain . e
• Rainer Linz: The Rehearsal , NMNCD 0007, NMA Publications, Australia.
• From Johann Sebastian Bach to Bernd Alois Zimmermann . BME Records Germany 4018518032013. Therein: JS Bach: Suite No. 1 G major BWV 1007; BA Zimmermann: Sonata for Cello solo (1960); Y. Diederichs: Eslo (1988); B. Spassov: Oga (1981); E.-M. Marton: Solo per violoncello (1971); P. Hindemith: Sonata for violoncello solo op. 25/3.
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann Chambermusic (Albedo, Norway, AlbCD 022). Therein: BA Zimmermann: four short studies , intercomunicazione , presence etc.
• brave new world prosodisch - literary musical performance (Klanglogo 701), together with Michael Basse (text and recitation), Volker Heyn (composition and electronics) and Frieder von Ammon (electric guitar)
• John Cage. Solo for cello (WERGO WER 6693 2). In it: John Cage: Solo for cello , 59 1/2 seconds for a string-player , Atlas Eclipticalis (version 2 2 violoncellos), Variations I (version for violoncello solo), Etudes Boreales I-IV .
• Ruben Sverre Gjertsen: Fluent e for violoncello solo, + 3db records, Bergen, + 3db 007.
• John Cage: Etudes Boreales, Harmonies, 10'40.3 " (Wergo, WER 6718 2).
• Manfred Trojahn: Chamber Concert (1973), NEOS 11060.

Publications

• Brian Ferneyhough, Time and Motion Study No. II . In: Osnabrück Contributions to Systematic Musicology Volume 11 (Digital & Multimedia Music Publishing 2006).
• Order receiver? Co-creator? John Cage's complex relationship with the interpreter. In: New magazine for music 5/2012.
• The violoncello and electronic media. In: Neue Musikzeitung , 6/2012 - 7/2012.
• The violoncello in engagement with electronic media. In: off-topic. Journal for Media Arts 1/2012.

literature

• Martin Herchenröder : The importance of the interpreter. In: Neue Musikzeitung , 12/2008.
• Volker Kalisch: The cellist Friedrich Gauwerky. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 6/2007, pp. 50–52.
• Manfred Karallus: Beyond the border. To the cellist Friedrich Gauwerky. Booklet text for the CD Friedrich Gauwerky - Cello solo (Albedo ALBCD 0013, 1999).
• Maria Kostakeva: A life on the move. The cellist Friedrich Gauwerky. In: Neue Musikzeitung 12/1998 - 1/1999.

Web links

• Website by Friedrich Gauwerky