George A. Speckert

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George A. Speckert 2017 in Hanover

George A. Speckert (* 1951 in St. Louis , Missouri , USA ) is an American composer , music teacher , school principal , author and violist as well as a lecturer in film music and media relations .

Life

George A. Speckert is a descendant of a family from Baden . His great-grandparents emigrated to America from there in 1883. His grandparents still ensured that their grandchildren were bilingual.

Speckert studied music at the University of Evansville on the Harlaxton campus ; in the main subjects viola with Gerald Fischbach and Irene Breslau as well as piano. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1973 with cum laude . In addition, in-depth Speckert in master classes with Paul Rolland the subject string pedagogy at Eduard Melkus the baroque ways of playing and composing in master classes with Brian Blyth Daubney and John Corigliano .

In 1973 Speckert followed "his great love to the home of his ancestors" and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he initially taught in the city of Bünde in North Rhine-Westphalia as a teacher at the local youth music school. In 1976 he took over the management of the Löhner Musikschule in Löhne , and in 1980 he took over the management of the Municipal Music School in Bad Salzuflen . In 1984 he moved to Hanover , where he initially ran the music school of the state capital Hanover , and from 1995 onwards full-time.

In 1996 George A. Speckert was awarded the Hanover Prize by Birgit Breuel for his conception of the cultural kaleidoscope series of events developed in the run-up to the Expo 2000 world exhibition . In 1998 he took over the artistic direction of the then KulturKaleidoskop - made in Hannover project, with which the Lower Saxon state capital also had its own internet presence for the first time - even before its website hannover.de .

After the world exhibition in 2001, Speckert began leading various multimedia courses at the Volkshochschule Hannover , leading projects in the field of e-learning and electronically supported learning. As the project manager for the media bus , he received the European Award of Excellence City for Children from the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) on June 7, 2011 from the Secretary General Frédéric Vallier .

From 2002 the composer first worked as a lecturer for film music at the Offenburg University . In 2005 Speckert was elected chairman of the examination committee for digital media design of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK). In 2008 he also took on the teaching assignment for active media design at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences .

In 2013, Speckert as director and film musician, together with Klaus Vespermann as editor and the cameraman René Grupe, produced a film documentary in the Ecumenical Church Center Mühlenberg about the life story of the Holocaust survivor and former inmate of the subcamp Hanover-Mühlenberg Henry Korman .

Works (selection)

Fonts

  • Use of audio-technical media in music schools. Edited by the Association of German Music Schools e. V. (VdM). VdM, Bonn circa 1987, ISBN 3-925574-02-6 .
  • New media in music. Bosse Verlag, Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7649-2664-3 .
  • Hugo Spechtshart - ars nova. The discovery of new music. A reconstructed biography. Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 2016, ISBN 978-3-7959-0998-7 .

Music editions

  • Ostinati. Fun at the piano, trying, improvising, fantasizing, transforming. Zimmermann, Frankfurt am Main, approx. 1986, DNB 350235988 .
  • Indian chants for strings (= Indian chants for strings ). Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel et al. 2007, ISMN M-006-53426-5
  • Tango for strings , score and parts for Tantalizing tango. The smell of tango. Monster tango. The daring white of her eyes. Pizz-a-tango. Roses and thorns. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel u. a. 2008, ISMN M-006-53730-3
  • Ready to play. Popular Movie Hits. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel et al. 2012, ISBN 979-0-00654192-8 .

Records

  • Requiem for a World After. Daviton, 1981.

Film music

  • Secret Places , University of Evansville, Harlaxton, 2016
  • Image film , Offenburg University, 2014
  • Music and direction for the documentary Henry Korman. The last survivor of the Hanover-Mühlenberg concentration camp
  • Trailer for the film festival up-and-coming , 2013
  • Doping in wine cellars , Behring Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 2003

Web links

Commons : George A. Speckert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j George A. Speckert: Vita / contact on their own website speckert.eu/ , last accessed on May 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b dpa , AS: Hanover Prize for good ideas for the world exhibition / Commissioner General praised “extremely interesting results”. In: New Press . November 15, 1995 (digitized version ) on the speckert.eu website , last accessed on December 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ↑ a b gk: designed the summer of culture during the world exhibition / George A. Speckert: project manager for the culture kaleidoscope , article on the Deister Woche page . Weekly newspaper for the city of Barsinghausen, the large community of Wennigsen and Nienstedt and Eimbeckhausen , edition of September 6, 2000, [Hanover]: Madsack, 2000, [newspaper clipping o. S.]
  5. ↑ George A. Speckert: KulturKaleidoskop / Ressourcen / Research site on the speckert.eu page , last accessed on May 4, 2017.
  6. ^ George A. Speckert: Vita / European Award of Excellence "City for Children". on the speckert.eu page , last accessed on December 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ a b Proof of the Common Union Catalog (GVK)
  8. ↑ a b video on Youtube
  9. ↑ Secret Places at Youtube.com , last called on December 20, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Speckert, George A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, music teacher, school principal, music writer violist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri , USA