Georges Lentz

Georges Lentz (born October 22, 1965 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourg composer living in Sydney ( Australia ) and Berlin .

Life

Lentz studied music at the Paris Conservatory from 1983 to 1990 and at the Hanover University of Music and has lived in Australia since 1990. 2012–2013 he received a scholarship from the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg . Georges Lentz lives in seclusion, writes very little and only very rarely accepts compositions. He always spends part of the year in Berlin .

Lentz has been working on a Caeli enarrant .. ("The Heavens Tell ..." - Psalm 19) series of works since 1989 . His orchestral work Guyuhmgan was honored in 2002 at the “Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs” of UNESCO in Paris. Lentz rarely writes new works. His last works for the time being are a viola concerto for Tabea Zimmermann , Monh , which was premiered by Tabea Zimmermann in July 2005, a one-hour work for solo electric guitar , Ingwe (2003-2009) for the young Australian guitarist Zane Banks, and Jerusalem (after Blake) (2011–2015) for orchestra and electronics.

His music has been performed by leading orchestras (including the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Bamberger Symphoniker, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, ORF Symphonieorchester Wien, Nederlands Radiofilharmonisch Orkest, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra London, Hallé Orchestra Manchester, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Saint Louis Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic , Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony).

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SURNAME	Lentz, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Luxembourg composer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luxembourg