Günter Buhles

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Günter Buhles (born December 23, 1943 in Homburg ) is a German composer and music journalist specializing in new music and jazz. He created works for symphonic orchestras as well as for chamber ensembles , also vocal music for the concert hall and the stage. His jazz compositions are located in the border area to new music.

biography

Buhles comes from a family in which music was played in an amateur way. From a young age he had lessons on the instruments violin , trumpet , saxophone and flute . As a pianist he is self-taught . He played early on in various ensembles of classical music from the baroque to the avant-garde and founded his own ensembles, especially modern jazz . He wrote his first own compositions around 1965. Buhles studied musicology (in addition to psychology , sociology and German studies ) at the universities of Saarbrücken and Karlsruhe . From 1972 to 1975 he completed a course in electronic music with Peter-Michael Fischer in Karlsruhe, and during this time also took part in workshops on improvisation and composition. Since then, Buhles has devoted himself intensively to compositional work and has - especially since the 1980s - recorded many performances with international ensembles. He also works as a saxophonist and flautist. He does not see his music as avant-garde , but rather as “ transavant-garde , it is socially and internationally rooted. But it is not affirmative, but a counterworld. "

Buhles has been writing for newspapers since 1967 - as an editor for over 20 years - and international magazines, still working as a freelancer today. He works on book publications and documentaries. Contributions to Das Orchester , Deutscher Musikrat, Opernglas , Jazz Podium , yearbook Jazzforschung (Graz), Wiener Musik Galerie, “JAZZ” (Basel).

Works

Important of the compositions by Günter Buhles already listed are: Concerto for Orchestra (1973/1995), released in 1999 on a CD by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Ulm, Sound Circle Music - LC 3798 - SCM 66211; Concerto for percussion and orchestra European Conditions (1992); Concerto for alto saxophone, piano and orchestra Prisma (1974/99); Room music for large orchestra, string quartet, oboe and organ Tempus in spatio sonat (1994); Chamber Symphony Little Symphony of New York City (1996); Münster cantata for mixed choir, solos, alto saxophone, organ and string orchestra Blick nachinnen (1998/99); Die Judenbuche , opera based on Droste-Hülshoff (2001/02); Wind Quintet No. 1 (1972); String Quartet No. 1 (1986); Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet No. 1 “White Rose” (1994); Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano Las Vegas Elegy & Tango (1997); "Prisma" (2000) concerto for alto saxophone, piano and orchestra, Four Songs of American Classics , piano songs based on Poe and Whitman (2003); Sonata for bass clarinet and piano Stage Work - Hommage to Thelonious Monk (2004); Quintet for clarinet and string quartet No. 2 “Rondeau prismatique” (2008); Essay for orchestra (2005/06); In the review of the premiere of Five Miniatures for Orchestra (2011/12), the Südwest Presse Ulm wrote on May 6, 2013 under the heading “Exciting symphonic sound mix”: “You can well imagine that the composition, which is catchy despite its free tonality, has a fixed Place in contemporary orchestral music. ”In 2014, the Sirius Quartet from New York City premiered String Quartet No. 5 Beaulieu in the rooms of the Ulm School of Design in front of a large audience. The Südwest Presse reported on October 27, 2014: “Günter Buhles' quartet began almost classically with a children's song-like melody. But immediately the 2nd violin broke out of the strict scheme with jazzy sounds and opened the playfully swinging gate wide. The whole work was played out in such cleverly placed changes, surprised in the second movement with a wonderful viola solo, which Ron Lawrence was stupidly successful, and finally ended in the fourth movement after a little battle between minimal music and cantilena in the slowly fading Morendo. "The Sirius Quartet with Gregor Hübner interpreted a further work by Buhles in Ulm and Langenau in autumn 2017 with Four Quartet Movements.

In February 2017, the saxophone soloist Dieter Kraus premiered the work Auf dem Podium from 2014 in the version as a saxophone sonata with the pianist Susanne Lohwasser at a lecturer's concert in the Ulm Music School . (There is also a version of this four-movement sonata as a concerto for wind instruments in Bb (alternatively E-flat) and chamber orchestra.) This work is the follow-up piece to the saxophone concerto performed by Lee Konitz in Frankfurt / Oder and Potsdam in 2000 and by Klaus Graf in Ulm in 2006 Prism. In 2017, On the Podium with Dieter Kraus appeared on recordings.

Since 2011 works by Günter Buhles have been published by Edition Rhapsodie.

collaboration

In the field of orchestral music, Buhles worked with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder) , the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Ulm , the Südwestdeutsche Sinfonietta Stuttgart, the Ulm University Orchestra, the Collegium Musicum Ulm (Münsterkantorei), the symphony orchestra of the Ulm / Neu- Ulm, with the conductors James Allen Gähres , Christoph Campestrini , Stefan Ottersbach, Hans Norbert Bihlmaier, Thomas Mandl, Burkhard Wolf, Michael Eberhardt, Friedrich Fröschle , Maddalena Ernst. In chamber music, the English Lindsay String Quartet, the Amati Quartet, the Saxophone Quartet Saxofourte, the Trio Chalumeau, the Passereaux Quintet, the Heidenheimer Ensemble Audite Nova and the Sirius Quartet from New York were some of the performers alongside soloists such as Michel Lethiec (clarinet) , Burkhard Harstorff (bass clarinet), Marcus McLaren (piano), Dieter Kraus (saxophone), Evelyne Zoller (harp), Andreas Weil (organ) and vocal soloists such as Ks. Martha Dewal , Ks. Hans-Günther Dotzauer, Thomas W. Kuckler, Söhnke Mohrbach, Girard Rhoden , Katharina Mazzalla. The chamber opera Die Judenbuche (based on Droste-Hülshoff) by Buhles was produced in 2003 at the Ulm Theater.

As a jazz musician, Buhles has worked with Allen Blairman , Karl Berger , Bernd Köppen , Boy Raaymakers , Lee Konitz, Frank Wunsch , Klaus Graf , Gregor Hübner and Lucas Heidepriem , among others.

In 2017 Unisono-Records released the CDs Works for Orchestra (UNIREC7214) and Chamber Music with Woodwinds (UNIREC7210). In 2018 the CD Lee Konitz - PRISMA - by Guenter Buhles (QFTF / 040) was released on the CD label QFTF .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Buhle's thoughts on music
  2. ↑ In the program booklet for the world premiere of Essay for Orchestra in October 2010, Buhles wrote: “The constants of my conception are: improvised topics versus constructivist processes; Symmetry in the proportions with own construction principles only remotely based on classic forms; Tonality as a prerequisite, but in different light and with every possibility of opening; no disclosure of melos and symbolic motifs, of palpable pulse and metrically directed flow. "
  3. ↑ Exciting symphonic sound mix. Südwest Presse, May 6, 2013. Accessed June 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ World premiere with jazzy fun in the HfG archive. Südwest Presse of October 27, 2014. Accessed June 27, 2015.
  5. ↑ The Südwest Presse ( Sirius Quartet with Joo Kraus: Fun, Groove and Improvisation ) wrote on November 6th, 2017: "Hübner improvises with the same enthusiasm about Stings 'Englishman in New York' as he gets into the tough 'Four Quartet movements' by Günter Buhles kneels. Four sentences that demand maximum concentration from the audience. "
  6. ↑ Ulmer Töne on two silver discs , Südwest Presse December 5, 2017
  7. ^ Edition Rhapsodie on the website of Seña Music GmbH ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Buhles, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg