Gerald Eckert

Gerald Eckert (born December 27, 1960 in Nuremberg ) is a German composer , cellist and painter who lives in Eckernförde .

biography

Gerald Eckert studied physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg from 1983 to 1984 , before studying cello, piano and conducting at the Nuremberg Conservatory from 1985 to 1990 . From 1987 to 1992 he studied mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and since 1989 composition with Wilfried Jentzsch . This was followed by composition studies with Walter Zimmermann at the Folkwang University in the Ruhr area and from 1992 to 1995 he studied at the Folkwang University in Essen, where he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and electroacoustic composition with Dirk Reith . He also took part in various composition courses with James Dillon , Brian Ferneyhough and Jonathan Harvey .

In 1996/97 he worked and researched at the CCRMA ( Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics ) at Stanford University, California / USA. In 1998 he was a lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music and at the International Festival & Seminar in Akiyoshidai / Japan. In 2000/01 a teaching position for composition and architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt followed .

In 2000 he realized the dance project “Poesie” with Diane Neiman and the Ensemble Horizonte, and that year he also received a scholarship at the Schleswig-Holstein artist house in Eckernförde . In 2006 he was composer in residence at the Zurich Days for New Music. In 2008 he realized a project for the New Music Network in collaboration with the Berlin Academy of the Arts and the State of Brandenburg, together with the choreographer Kathinka Walter . In 2011 he realized the dance project “Gegenüber 2” together with the choreographer / dancer Mikael Honesseau .

Since 1989 he has also been working on his own pictures and has realized various exhibitions and installations since 1994. Catalogs appeared in 1995, 2006 and 2007.

Gerald Eckert is co-initiator of the “Chiffren” festival in Kiel 2006 and the “ProvinzLärm” festival in Eckernförde in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013.

Since 2012 he has held a professorship for composition at the Chung-Ang University in Seoul - Anseong / South Korea.

Eckert's works are published by Edition Gravis .

Prices (selection)

In 1993 Eckert received a prize at the Luigi Russolo competition in Italy as well as the “C. Gulbenkian Prize ”in Portugal. In 1996 he was awarded the Kranichstein Music Prize.

In 2003 he was awarded a prize (honorable mention) at the “Salvatore Martirano Competition” in the USA as well as first prize at the 30th International Competition Bourges 2003 in France and first prize at the 3rd international composer competition “Elisabeth Schneider Prize " in Freiburg. In 2005 he received a scholarship from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and the first prize of the 50th Stuttgart Composition Prize 2005. In 2006 he received a scholarship for Venice , Künstlerhof Schreyahn 2009, Villa Aurora Los Angeles 2010, Villa Serpentara / Rome (Olevano Romano) 2010 and that Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop 2013.

Works (selection)

• Aisthanómenon for violoncello and tape for violoncello and tape (1989/90)
• AnachórèsisB for bass fl, vl, db, pf + 2 perc (1990/92) 19 min
• Sound spaces for 2-channel tape (1991) 5'30 min
• AnachórèsisA for Alto Fl, Vl, Kb, Pf + 2 Perc (1992) 17 min
• Nôéma for violoncello solo (1992/93) 17 min
• Aux mains de l'espace for 4-channel tape (1993) 15 min
• Aphelion for orchestra (1993/94) 23 min
• Ambient soundscapes Les vestiges d'un clin d'oeuil disparu for 4-channel tape (1994) 12 min
• Klangraum Interaktiv I for 4 (8) -channel tape and room control (1994) 31 min (with D.Reith and Th. Neuhaus)
• In sich Ohne Weg for 2-channel tape (1994) 12'47 "min
• ... are always empty ... for ensemble (1994) 4 min
• On the certainty of the moment for double bass solo (1994/95) 13 min
• Klangraum Interaktiv II for 8-channel tape and interactive lighting control (1995) 12 min (with D.Reith and Th. Neuhaus)
• Les contours de la lumière des jadis for ensemble (1995) 12 min
• Spoken, replaced for 8-channel tape (1995) 12–15 min (with D.Reith and Th. Neuhaus)
• Diaphane for 2-channel tape (1995) 11 min
• Shadow, raised for soprano, Vl and Vc (1995) 14 min
• Remembered time, broken for clear, Vl + piano (1996) 19 min
• Nen for clarinet solo (1996/97) 14 min
• How clouds lay around the times for soprano, fl, acc and perc (1996/97) 14 min
• L'étendue des fins éclats, éparse for violin solo (1997) 15 min
• Nachtschwebe for large orchestra (1997/98) 21 min
• folded moment for Fl, Klar, Vl, Vc and Perc (1997/98) 15 min
• the silent countenance for bass flute (and picc) (1998) 17 min
• Fragments ... solidified solder for Klar (Ktb-Klar), Pos, Akk, Pf, 2 Perc, Va and Kb (1998/99) 23 min
• noir rugueux for violoncello (1999)
• des nothing, lost shadows for flute (alto fl, picc), fag, trp, pos, pf, 1 (2) perc, va and kb (1999/2000) 15 min
• Rises, faults for organ (2000) 20 min
• Curvature of the Moments for Violin, Viola and Violoncello (2000) 15 min
• darkened fractions for viola d'amore (2000) 12 min
• Ogives for string trio (2000) Arrangement of the four piano pieces "Ogives" by Erik Satie
• Klangraum II for piccolo and tape (1991/2000) 5'30 min
• Levitation, extinguishing for flute (alto fl.) And percussion (2000/01) 12 min
• Night bow for flute and violoncello (2001) 11 min
• Schächte - Les nuages ​​d'automne for flute, viola and harp (2002) 15 min
• open - fin des terres for ensemble and tapes (2002) 17 min
• from the inside - grain size for viola and tape (2003) 9 min
• ... the time of the day ... music theater for an actor, ensemble and tape (2003) 15 min
• Nen II for flute, electric guitar and drums (2003) 2 min
• pfadlos die Nacht for ensemble ( 2003/04 ) 31 min
• Interference I for Fl, Vc, e-chin, electronics and tape (2004) 21 min
• Nen III for large bass recorder (2004) 12 min
• Night of a time for Fl. Ten.-sax (sop.-sax), guitar, vla and percussion. (2004) 19 min
• Inscriptions for organ and percussion (2003/2005) 23 min
• Field 3. for flute and harp (2005) 9 min
• Creth (shaft 29) for ensemble and tape (2005) 24 min
• Nen V for cor anglais, violin and percussion (2005/2006) 10 min
• Aube for organ (2006) 11 min
• in the finite, stretchable for accordion (2006) 12 min
• Threads for flute, harp, accordion and violoncello (2006) 22 min
• Approaching Petrarch Study for 4 (12) voices, flute and violoncello (2006) 14 min
• Nen VI for flute, oboe and clarinet (2006) 4 min
• Nen VII for flute, violoncello, electronics and tape (2007) 10'29 "min
• Prisma - du fond d'un naufrage for electronic sounds (tape) (2007) 2'10 "min
• Absence - traces éloignées for 4 piccoli and 2 percussionists (2007) 12 min
• void for 2 percussionists (2007) 30 min
• Study on Nelly Sachs for voice and ensemble (2004/08) 12 min
• Traits - lointain for seven wind instruments and double bass (2006-08) 21 min
• nor for percussion solo (2008) 14 min
• Sequences for choir, ensemble, dance, video and electronics (2008) 75 min
• Nen VIII for tenor recorder and percussion (2008) 9 min
• Counter Twilight for voice and flute (2008) 10 min
• At the edges of the measure for two ensemble groups (2003/2009) 25 min
• noya for clarinet, violoncello and percussion (2009) 12 min
• empty rooms for Fl, Ktb-Klar, Pf, Vln (and Perc.) (2009) 5 min
• Echoes for ensemble (2009/10) 17 min
• Threads for flute, harp, accordion and violoncello (2006-10) 21 min
• Tratto (two scenic monologues) for voice (s) and small. Ensemble (2010) 20 min (sop., (Baritone), clear (bass-clear), Schlgzg and Vla)
• Nen X for dance, violoncello and electronics (2011) 17 min
• At the edges of the measure for two ensemble groups (2005–11) 25 min
• more than the sand ... - Weg cantata for soloists, choir and ensemble (2011/12) 40 min

Publications

• Catalog: "Oil paintings - ink drawings" (Bochum 1995); since 2005: PFAU-Verlag, Saarbrücken
• Gerald Eckert: Aspects of the fold in: Polyphony & Complexity, Ed .: Mahnkopf, Cox, Schurig, Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2002
• Matteo Nanni: "Gerald Eckert", in: Composers of the Present, 27th supplement, June 2004
• Matteo Nanni: "Gerald Eckert About the End", in: CD booklet, col legno WWE 1CD 20231
• Gerald Eckert: "About contexts" in: Lichtschwwärztes, Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken 2006
• Gerald Eckert: oil paintings, ink drawings; Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken 2005
• Gerald Eckert: "Light blackened", graphics (Indian ink), photographs, scores; Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken 2006
• Catalog: "Light blackened", ink drawings, photographs, scores PFAU-Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2006
• Nicolaus A. Huber: "More than black and white - thoughts for glances in:" Light blackened ", PFAU-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2006
• Dieter Schnebel: "On Gerald Eckert's musical graphics in:" Light blackened ", PFAU-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2006
• Saskia Reither: "irrevocable" in: CD booklet (Gerald Eckert "Aphel") edition zeitklang CAL 13020
• Gerald Eckert: "Thought Fragment" in: Positions (Contributions to New Music, No. 67, May 2006)
• Catalog: "Moments", (oil) pictures, works on paper (together with Erwin Doose and Otto Jeschke), Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster, 2007
• Meret Forster: "expansive and weightless" in: CD booklet (Gerald Eckert "chamber music"), NEOS NEOS 10 811
• Gisela Nauck: "Randgang. On the sound aesthetics of Gerald Eckert" in: Positions (Contributions to New Music, No. 80, August 2009)
• Gerald Eckert: "Geometry of Perspectives" in: Newspaper 4´33´´ of the New Music Network, Berlin, October 2009
• On the edges of measure - the composer Gerald Eckert, edited by Gisela Nauck, Wolke Verlag, Hofheim, 2013

Web links

• Works by and about Gerald Eckert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Gerald Eckert
• imd.darmstadt.de via G. Eckert. Archived from the original on January 13, 2005 ; Retrieved November 3, 2015 .