Gerhard present

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Gerhard Present (born June 21, 1957 in Graz ) is an Austrian composer and conductor .

Life

After graduating from high school, from 1976, Gerhard Present studied composition with Iván Eröd and conducting with Milan Horvat at the Graz University of Music (now University of Music and Performing Arts Graz ) and received diplomas in these subjects with distinction in 1982 and 1985, respectively . In 1985 he received a teaching position at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. There he led a composers workshop until 1999 in which he rehearsed 48 concert programs. From 1986 to 1992 he was assistant at the chair for music theory with Iván Eröd as well as in the conducting class of Milan Horvat and with the university orchestra. In 1992 he became professor for music theory , form theory and music analysis, conducting, ensemble for new music , string chamber music and the like. a. appointed to this university.

Present shows long-term conducting activities, especially of contemporary music and own works. He is the founder and since 1988 artistic director of the ALEA ensemble . He has been Vice President since 2003 and President of the “Styrian Tonkünstlerbund” since 2005.

Gerhard Present is married to the violinist Sigrid Present-König.

Prizes and awards

  • 1981: Music Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
  • 1983: Appreciation award from the Federal Minister for Science and Research , state grant for composition
  • 1984: 1st prize from Creditanstalt Vienna for "Quintet"
  • 1989: Composition prize for “Prelude and Toccata” and compulsory optional piece at the International Guitar Competition, Berlin
  • 1992: Austrian Promotion Prize for Music from the Federal Minister for Education and Art for "Symphonic Fragment"
  • 1996: Franz Joseph Reindl Prize for “La Tâche”, the City of Vienna's Music Promotion Prize
  • 1997: Theodor Körner Prize for "Sonata del Gesù"
  • 2010: Finalist of the "International Music Prize for Excellence in Composition"
  • 2011: Honorary Associate of the "National Academy of Music" (Colorado)

Performances

Present's works have so far seen around 900 performances in over 20 countries, including at the IGNM World Music Festival in Graz in 1982 at the Styrian Autumn Festival and in 2002 in Hong Kong , at the Musikforum Munich, at the “Nuovi Spazi musicali” festival in Rome and at the “ Witold Lutosławski” Festival "In Lublin / Poland, in the" Austrian Cultural Forum "and in Carnegie Hall (Recital Hall) in New York, in the Graham Gallery in Washington DC and in the Altavista Tower / Arlington / USA; in the " Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien " and in the Wiener Konzerthaus at the festivals "Österreich heute" and "Hörzüge", in the "Carinthisches Sommer", at the "Aspects Salzburg", in the " Styriarte " Graz and in the concert series of the Art association “ Alte Schmiede Wien”, “die other string” and “Steirischer Tonkünstlerbund” in Graz.

His works have been broadcast on Bavarian Radio, on radio stations in Poland, the Czech Republic, on "Hong Kong Radio 4 RTHK" and in Austria. He had composition commissions from the “Austro mechana”, from the “Society of Friends of Music in Vienna”, from the “Ensemble Kontrapunkte”, from the “ Austrian Cultural Forum ” New York, from the “International Liezen Cello Competition”, from the Creative Center Vienna, from Styrian Singers Association, Ambitus, MundART and the Vienna Art Trio.

Works

Works for orchestra / chamber orchestra

  • "Symphonic Fragment (Half Symphony)" (XXVI: 1991/1992), Austrian Music Promotion Prize 1992
  • "Scherzo - ma non troppo scherzando" (XXV: 1991), WP Wiener Konzerthaus 1994
  • “Hermitage” - Concerto for small orchestra (XXVIII: 1992/1993), commissioned by the Austrian Chamber Symphony Orchestra for the Wiener Konzerthaus in 1993
  • “Configurations - Three States for Piano and Orchestra” (Piano Concerto) - (XI: 1981/1982), WP IGNM World Music Festival in the Festival Styrian Autumn 1982
  • “Song” for high soprano and small orchestra (IX: 1981) - engl. Text by the composer
  • “Himmelslicht” - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (XXIb: 1986–2007) - Premiere Steirischer Herbst / Krieglach 1987 with brass and percussion, orchestral version 2007
  • “Music for big band and orchestra” (VIII: 1980) - premier International Week of Encounters Graz 1981

Chamber orchestra

  • “La Tâche” for string orchestra (XXXIb: 1995) - Franz Joseph Reindl Prize 1996
  • “Chaconne” for fourteen instruments (XXXIII: 1996/1997) - commissioned by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, UA Wiener Musikverein 1997
  • “Partita sagrada op. 60” for chamber orchestra (LX: 2009/2010) - commissioned by the Kontrapunkte ensemble, WP Wiener Musikverein 2010
  • “Marcia funebre” for chamber ensemble (XXVII: 1992 / rev. 1997) - World premiere of the IGNM World Music Festival 2002 in Hong Kong

Solo works

  • "Solo" for a woodwind (Fl, Ob, Cl, Sax, Fg ad lib.) (VI: 1979)
  • "The long run" - improvisations for instrument and tape (XII: 1982–1983 / 1995)
  • "Sonata regina per SF" for violin solo (XXII: 1987)
  • "A Rayas" for cello solo (XLIII: 2001/2002)
  • "Profondo" for solo bass or double bass (and piano ad lib.) (XVII: 2005/06)
  • "Toccata" for piano (XVI: 1985/1986)
  • "Bagatelle (avant et après)" and "Bagatelle # 2 (hier et demain)" for piano (LXIII: 2011)
  • "Encore Piece" for accordion solo (or piano solo) and audience (XXXIV: 1997)
  • "Dies Irae" for organ (LII: 2006)
  • "Prelude and Toccata" for guitar solo (XVII: 1985/1986)

Works for strings

without piano

  • "Canzona op. 50" for violin and violoncello (L: 2004)
  • "Four dances for two violins" (XXIV: 1989/1990)
  • "Easy Duos" for two violins (LVI: 2007-08)
  • "Sounds Of Wood" (The Makers) - Trio for Vl, Vla, Vc (XXXVII: 1998)
  • "La Tâche" - 2nd string quartet (XXXIa: 1994/1995) - also version for string orchestra (1995)
  • "Missa" for string quartet (XLII: 2001)
  • "Big Apple" - 4th string quartet (LVII: 2008)
  • "Big Ben" for string trio (LXVI: 2012)

with piano

  • “Sonata del Gesù” for violin and piano (XXXV: 1997–1999), Theodor Körner Prize 1997
  • "Rondino" for violin and piano (IV: 1978/1979)
  • "Sonatina Gemella" for violin and piano (XIX: 1986)
  • "Arietta ritmica" for violin (viola) and piano (XV: 1984)
  • "Notturno" for violin and piano (XLVIIg: 2003/06)
  • "Sonata al dente" for violoncello and piano in one movement (XXIII: 1988–1990)
  • "Erödiana (Capriccio Erödico)" for violoncello (bassoon) and piano (XXXII: 1996)
  • "Trio intricato" for violin, violoncello and piano (XIV: 1983–1985)
  • "Tête-à-tête-à-tête" for violin, violoncello and piano (or accordion) (2nd Trio - XXXb: 1995/1998)
  • "Four Melodic Pieces" for violin, violoncello and piano (3rd Trio - XLVII: 2004)
  • "Extravaganza" for violin, violoncello and piano - 4th Trio (LXVII: 2012/13)

Works for wind instruments or mixed

  • "Himmelslicht" - Concerto for trumpet, brass and percussion (XXIa: 1986–1987) - WP Steirischer Herbst / Krieglach 1987
  • "PEGAU" or "Petite Symphonie du Pégaü" for wind orchestra or wind quartet in various ensembles (XXXIXd: 2000/2004)
  • "Rhapsody" for brass quintet (LVIII: 2008)
  • "Fanfare" for brass ensemble or brass quintet (VII: 1980/1999)
  • "Fanfare" for saxophone quartet (LXVIII: 2013)
  • "Quintet" for Fl, Ob, Cl, Hn u. Fg (X: 1981)
  • "Hard-Rock" for five clarinets (incl. Bhn and BCl) (XXXVIII: 1999/2000)
  • "Marcia funebre" - quintet version for Fl, Cl, Pn, Vl, Vc (XXVIIb: 1992/1997)
  • "Extravaganza" for Tp, Pos & Pn (LXVII: 2012)
  • "Arietta ritmica" for melody instrument (Bfl, Fl, Cl, Tp) and piano (XV: 1984)
  • "Erödiana (Capriccio Erödico)" for bassoon (violoncello) and piano (XXXII: 1996)
  • "Twin Suite" for flute (recorder, left) and guitar (XVIb: 1985)

Vocal works

Songs

  • "Five Melodies" (English, German, French texts) for solo voice (XXIX: 1993/1994)
  • "Halbdunkle Lieder" for medium voice and piano quartet (Texts Gerhard Present, David Present) (IL: 2004), versions for high voice / medium voice and piano (ILb / c: 2004)
  • “Song” for soprano, violin and piano (IXb: 1981/1990), engl. Text by the composer, originally for soprano and small orchestra
  • "Lieder aus der Hütte" for soprano, flute, oboe, viola and violoncello based on five texts by Martin Krusche (V: 1979)

Choral works

  • "Fantasy over a Bach chorale" ("Who only lets God rule") for four-part a cappella choir (and organ ad lib.), (XX: 1986/1987)
  • "Missa minima" for four a cappella voices (XLI: 2001), commissioned by "Ambitus"
  • “Pater noster” for four a cappella voices (LIV: 2006), commissioned by Styria. Singing Association for Styria cantat I
  • “Psalm” for three upper voices and baritone (LXI: 2010), commissioned by Steir. Singing Association for Styria cantat IV
  • "Oh Tannenbaum, you carry a green branch" for four-part mixed choir (XLb: 2001)
  • "S'Geld" for four-part mixed choir a cappella freely based on words by Johann Nestroy (XLa: 2001)
  • “Fine Sign” for four-part mixed a cappella choir (LIX: 2009), commissioned by Styria. Singers' Association for "Folksong in a New Dress"
  • “Der kleine Vampir” for six-part a cappella upper voice choir (LXII: 2011), commissioned by the Singakademie Graz-Liebenau

Edits

  • "Concerto for trombone" (Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow) - arrangement for trombone and orchestra (vb: 1979) - (original trombone and wind orchestra)
  • “De Profundis” (Psalm by A. Salieri ) - arrangement for choir and kl. Orchestra (XIIIb: 1983) - (original choir and organ)
  • " Five songs after Friedrich Rückert " by Gustav Mahler , version for medium voice (baritone, mezzo) and piano quartet (XLIVa-e: 2002/2003)
  • "Gesänge des Harpners" by Franz Schubert from "Wilhelm Meister" (Goethe) DV 478-480 - version for baritone and piano quartet (XLVIII: 2003/2004)
  • "Fantasy Quartet" in D for string quartet (LVa: 2007/2008), based on piano pieces by WA Mozart : 1st Fantasy KV 397, 2nd Minuet KV 355, 3rd Adagio KV 540, 4th Rondo KV 485
  • WA Mozart : "Trios" in G major and B major for two violins and violoncello (also for violin, viola and violoncello), based on the duos KV 423 and KV 424 (LXVf / g: 2012)
  • Franz Schubert : "Trio" in B flat major, D 471, arrangement for two violins and violoncello (LXVb: 2012)
  • "Le Tango perpétuel" ( Erik Satie ) for two violins and violoncello (LXVe: 2012)
  • “Prelude No.2” by George Gershwin - arrangement for piano quintet (Xb: 1981) - also for piano quartet or for flute, violin, cello and piano
  • “Three chorale preludes and arias” based on models by JS Bach, completed and arranged for string quartet (XLVId: 2003/2005): 1. Jesus, my joy BWV 753, 2. Who only lets God rule BWV 691, 3. Jesus, mine Zuversicht BWV 728, 4th aria: Are you with me BWV 508 - also version for string trio
  • “Nocturnal Umtrieb” by Iván Eröd from the crocodile songs (text: Richard Bletschacher ), arranged for baritone and piano quartet (LIb: 2005)
  • "Cinq Chansons cryptiques" by Kurt Schwertsik based on texts by Erik Satie op. 50 (1985) in a notated interpretation for medium voice and piano quartet (LId: 2005)
  • “Zerlina ERFURT Edition” - editing and publication of (so far 29) works by the composer (1907–1990) for violin and piano or piano solo from the manuscripts (2004–2011).

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personal data
SURNAME Present, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz