Gerald Resch

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Gerald Resch (born May 5, 1975 in Linz ) is an Austrian composer.

Life

Gerald Resch studied composition from 1993 with Iván Eröd at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as well as musicology, philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna (Mag. Phil. With the work German string quartets of the 1980s , 1998). In 1995/96 he received an Erasmus scholarship at the Cologne University of Music with York Höller . 1996–2000 he attended Michael Jarrell's composition class at the Vienna Music Academy / University (Mag. Art.). In 1997 he and his fellow students Reinhard Fuchs, Miguel Gálvez-Taroncher, Marcel Reuter, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Ališer Sijaric, Johannes Maria Staud and Robert M. Wildling founded the composer group »Gegenklang« for joint artistic projects (especially the organization of concerts), also the publishing house edition 21. In 1998 he was a joint study fellow at the Conservatoire National de Paris with Michael Levinas and Alain Poirier. In 2001 he was on a dissertation grant from the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Austrian Historical Institute to study the orchestral works of Giacinto Scelsi in Rome. In 2001/02 a postgraduate degree in composition followed at the Art University Graz with Beat Furrer. 2017 habilitation in composition.

Even during his studies, Resch also worked as a music journalist (Salzburg Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein Vienna, Mozarteum Salzburg, MGG, KdG, etc.). He moderated concerts for the Jeunesse Musicale Austria and the Kunstverein Alte Schmiede in Vienna. In 1999, 2000 and 2003 he was a lecturer in composition at the summer courses of the »Musik-Palette« Tulln. As a freelance publisher he created the piano reductions for Wolfgang Rihm's Deus passus , Morton Feldmans Neither and Christian Ofenbauer's scene PenthesileaEinTraum . 2000-04 Resch was a board member of the IGNM section Austria. At the Conservatory of the City of Vienna, from 2002 onwards, he organized a series of lectures on applied music analysis. Since 2004 Resch has been a university teacher for music analysis at the Bruckner University in Linz, 2004-08 he was a teacher for ear training and composition at the music school Vienna-Margareten, since 2008 he has been a university teacher for sentence theory, ear training, form theory and analysis at the University of Music Performing arts Vienna. He was composer-in-residence at the composers' forum Mittersill einklang in 2002, at the Weimar Spring Festival for New Music in 2003 and 2007-08 for two years with the Wiener Concert-Verein. From 2007-09 he was a guest composer at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London as part of the Soundings Festival, in 2011 one of the main composers at the Vienna modern festival, and in 2020 at the Davos Festival. From 2007-14 Resch was music curator at the Alte Schmiede Art Association in Vienna.

Awards, grants

Works (selection)

  • Torn Time / Shading for String Quartet (1995/98)
  • Fragments for mezzo-soprano (after Friederike Mayröcker ; 1997)
  • Fantasy on Triads for piano (1998/2000)
  • A garden. Paths that Branch for Viola and Seven Instruments (2000)
  • Splitter for soprano and clarinet (after Waltraud Seidlhofer ; 2003)
  • Passages for bassoon solo (2004)
  • Schlieren for violin and orchestra (2005)
  • Five attempts after Italo Calvino for piano trio (2006)
  • Knot for bassoon and chamber orchestra (2007)
  • Window for string orchestra (2008)
  • Land for orchestra (2008)
  • Grounds for Ensemble (2009)
  • Figures for clarinet (or alto saxophone) (2009)
  • Cantus Firmus for orchestra and choir ad libitum (2010)
  • Branches for flute, clarinet, violoncello and piano (2010)
  • Collection Serti for spatially distributed ensemble (2011)
  • Al fresco for violoncello (2011)
  • Antipodes for trombone and ensemble (2012)
  • Seven madrigals based on contemporary love poems for five voices and accordion (2013)
  • Bossa Nova Arabica for orchestra (2013)
  • The parishioner . Singspiel for five singers and five instruments (2015)
  • Tiresias' breasts . Opera povera for puppet show (after Guillaume Apollinaire ; 2015)
  • Islands for orchestra (2016)
  • Gulliver's journey . Family Opera (after John von Düffel ; 2016)
  • String Quartet No. 2 "Copies" (2017)
  • per speculum for saxophone and chamber orchestra (2017)
  • Night wind finder . 12 haikus for voice and piano (based on HC Artmann ; 2018)
  • Con moto for seven instruments (2018)
  • Titania dream . Pocket Opera (based on William Shakespeare ; 2018)
  • String Quartet No. 3 "attacca" (2019)
  • Hanni . Monologue with music (based on Franzobel ; 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Culture Prize 1522014 Governor Dr. Josef Pühringer: The architects Prof. DI Laurids Ortner and Prof. Mag. Manfred Ortner receive the Grand Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria . State correspondence No. 152 of August 13, 2014, accessed on March 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Resch, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz