Friedrich Heinrich Kern (composer)
Friedrich Heinrich Kern (born March 19, 1980 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German composer, pianist, and glass harmonica player . Classically trained, it is characterized by a stylistic spectrum that ranges from acoustic instrumentation to electronic music. Friedrich Heinrich Kern lives in New York City.
Life
Friedrich Heinrich Kern began as a young student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim in the subject of piano and received lessons from Rudolf Meister . Shortly afterwards he studied composition at the same time, among others with Ulrich Leyendecker , Ernst Bechert and Sidney Corbett , as well as piano with Rudolf Meister and Ok-Hi Lee. After a year as a scholarship holder at Seoul National University , he was a visiting student at Wesleyan University in Connecticut / USA for one year in 2007 with a Baden-Württemberg scholarship . He received important impulses from studying with Matthias Pintscher in New York . In 2008 he received a MacCracken Research Fellowship. Kern teaches at New York University .
Current projects include the composition Von Taufedern und Sternen for soprano and orchestra, premiered by the Baden-Baden Philharmonic; … Pour une nuit seule , a string quartet, written for the JACK Quartet, and Eins.Zwei for piano and percussion, premiered by the Either / Or Ensemble New York.
At the beginning of March 2018 the album The New Paganini Project , created in collaboration with the German violinist Niklas Liepe and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern , was released by Sony Classical, for which Kern reworked Niccolò Paganini 's 11th Caprice for violin and orchestra.
Works
Compositions (selection)
- Of baptismal feathers and stars for soprano and orchestra - 2010
- Les Adieux for two violins - 2009
- "... pour une nuit seule" for string quartet - 2009
- One.Two for piano and percussion - 2009
- Fanfare - movimiento sin progresión for brass instruments - 2008
- Ellipses for violin and piano - 2007
- Anima II (Kern vs. Gould) for piano and loudspeaker - 2007
- Almost Romance for tuba and orchestra - 2007
- Anima for Korean Komungo and Speakers - 2006
- Essence - Ballet Music for Korean Gayageum Quartet and Ensemble - 2006
- 5 songs for baritones and piano - 2005
- No traces ... no fixed points for soprano, speaker and ensemble - 2004
- Waltz for cello and piano - 2004
- Nightshade for piano four hands - 2002
- Impromptu for piano solo - 2001
Arrangements
- Sleeping Beauty arrangement of the ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for harmony music- 2009
- Hansel and Gretel arrangement of the opera by Engelbert Humperdinck for harmony music- 2008
- Viva Verdi! Arrangement for harmony music on themes by Giuseppe Verdi - 2003
Web links
- Works by Friedrich Heinrich Kern in the catalog of the German National Library
- Friedrich Heinrich Kern on the New Music USA website
- Website of Friedrich Heinrich Kern
- Compositions at Inter-Note
- Cecilia Music Concept Verlag ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of the arrangements for harmony music
- Myspace
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Music Information Center (MIZ) ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Do it piano: Friedrich Heinrich Kern . Dortmund.de; accessed on December 20, 2018.
- ^ Composers forum.de ( Memento from July 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Homepage of the music department. ( September 10, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ) Wesleyan University
- ↑ a b Homepage of the music department. New York University
- ^ Philharmonie.baden-baden.de Baden-Baden Philharmonic
- ^ The New Paganini Project. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kern, Friedrich Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Germany |