Gerhard Stäbler

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Gerhard Stäbler (born July 20, 1949 in Wilhelmsdorf near Ravensburg ) is a German composer .

biography

Gerhard Stäbler studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and organ with Gerd Zacher in Detmold and Essen . From the beginning he was not only active as a composer, but was also politically and organizationally involved. Stäbler designed the “Active Music” festival with new music and also acted as the artistic director of the World Music Days of the “ International Society for New Music ” (IGNM) in the Ruhr area in 1995 .

From 2000 to 2010 and since it reopened in autumn 2015, Stäbler and his partner Kunsu Shim have been running the EarPort in Duisburg Inner Harbor as a place for experimental music and the encounter between the arts. From here, Stäbler developed an intensive activity in the field of performance music.

Another focus of work is the educational area. In workshops and seminars for composition and improvisation, Stäbler worked with young musicians from many countries. As composer in residence , visiting professor and performance artist he worked in North and South America as well as in the Middle and Far East .

music

Stäbler's music often leaves the framework of the conventional by including elements in his compositions that break through the conventional performance situation (and thus the conventional audience expectation), be it through gestures or movements in space, be it by means of light and fragrance design or through active inclusion of the audience: It is always important to him to stimulate the imagination, to sensitize ears and other senses to new, unexpected patterns of perception and thought. This is where Stäbler's predilection for the interlocking of composition and improvisation comes from , which thrives on the unique tension between the performers in the still open and only preformed moment. Nevertheless, Stäbler's music is always extremely well thought-out in its processes and characterized by sophisticated constructions that do not affect the direct musical message.

successes

After performance and dance projects at the Ultima Festival in Oslo and the Folkwangfest Essen in autumn 2001, Stäbler devoted himself to the realization of the music for the dance theater Endstation ZASPA by the choreographer Avi Kaiser for the theater Gdańsk (premiere May 2002) and the Tanzhaus Düsseldorf (May 2002) . In the 2001/2002 season he was composer-in-residence at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Duisburg-Düsseldorf, which commissioned his opera Madame la Peste (premiere April 26, 2002, Duisburg). The first performance of the compositions Die Reise for ensemble and playback (commissioned by the IVES Ensemble, Amsterdam) and Timescape for percussion and orchestra (commissioned by the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra) followed in May 2002. In autumn 2002, Stäbler traveled to Montréal with concerts, workshops and lectures , Toronto, New York and Dublin.

Stäbler received compositions from the ensemble The Apartment House, the Bavarian Radio and the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music . Together with the German-Korean composer Kunsu Shim , he undertook a longer tour to Seoul (Korea), on which he staged the music theater futuressencexxx . In the spring of 2004, Stäbler was visiting professor at the American State College Evergreen (Washington). The year 2005 was marked by an extensive tour to the American west coast with performances and workshops in San Francisco, Santa Rosa and at the Pacific Rim Festival in Santa Cruz. KlangWand , a socio-cultural project for mixed choir, accordion, drums, a dialect band, one or more music associations and electronic sounds was premiered in Mariahof near Trier in September 2005.

In May 2006, Stäbler was composer in residence at the festival "Mouvement - Music of the 21st Century" of the Saarländischer Rundfunk in Saarbrücken, in autumn of the same year the premiere of the first chamber opera Afternoon Sun followed in the South Korean capital Seoul and at the end of October the night pieces I premiered in Düsseldorf –IV for piano quintet and voice, which refer to Robert Schumann 's piano pieces of the same name op. At the end of January 2007, the world premiere of Tsuki, Subaru , a concert for the Japanese mouth organ Sho and orchestra took place in Duisburg , in May the premiere of Wasser.Zeichen for orchestra, random ensemble, choir and playback and in October 2007 the world premieres of two chamber music for the Dresden days of contemporary music, as well as at the end of the year with the critically acclaimed new music theater work last things after Paul Auster at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg.

On the occasion of various concerts and master classes in 2007, Stäbler presented his compositional work upon invitation in Greece, England, Austria, Singapore, Australia and various cities in Germany. At the end of April 2008, the Sappho trilogy for soprano, choir, divided orchestra and playback, commissioned by the Duisburg Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio, premiered during the WDR festival in the Duisburg landscape park. This was followed by invitations to the Summer Academy for New Music Theater of the European Center for the Arts Hellerau (Dresden), the Darmstadt Summer Courses (world premieres “… ins Offene…” for the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and “] upon dry land [” for the duo conflict) Composition master class in Crete, to the Klangspuren Schwaz (world premieres “Fund.Stücke” and “Mirrors” for the ensemble ascolta), to the Sonic Fusion Festival in Edinburgh and to a tour to Lebanon. In 2009, Stäbler worked on a new piece of music theater for the youngest on behalf of the Mannheim National Theater.

From 2000 to 2010, Gerhard Stäbler and Kunsu Shim directed the Duisburg center for contemporary music “EarPort”. The two composers have lived and worked in Düsseldorf and on the Lower Rhine since 2012, where they performed a series of performance concerts at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the concert series "Naturally beautiful!" (with interactions between old and new music) at Schloss Benrath . A focus of Stäbler's work in 2012 was the examination of the work and effects of John Cage , a. a. in the project of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf CAGE 100 with concerts in the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Robert-Schumann-Saal as well as the re-performances of futuressenceXXX in combination with Cages Europeras 3 and 4 at the Ulm Theater. In 2013 he was invited to portrait and performance concerts in Reykjavík , Korea, Japan and Portugal, among others .

In 2014 works were premiered at the Borealis Festival Bergen, the Bergen International Festival, the Karlsruhe Festival "ZeitGenuss" and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. In June 2014 the premiere of the music theater Erlöst Albert E. took place at the Ulm Theater. In addition, Stäbler was invited again to the Muziek Biennale Niederrhein and to the IGNM World Music Days in Wroclaw. In 2015 the music theater The Color and the chamber opera Simon at the Norske Opera in Oslo as well as … Run away so / it stays green… for soloists, choirs and ensembles at the Festival Eight Bridges in the City Hall of Cologne premiered at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg . In 2016 he and Kunsu Shim designed the music series Im Gegenüber for the Diocese of Würzburg with numerous performance  concerts and the world premiere of Echo - Narcissus for soprano, vocal ensemble and orchestra. Also in 2016 was the concert for orchestra Wild Colors on behalf of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg.

Prizes and awards

In 1982 he received the " Cornelius Cardew Memorial Prize ", which was followed by other awards, prizes, commissions and grants. In 2003 he was awarded the music prize of the city of Duisburg .

literature

  • Paul Attinello: Gerhard Stäbler. In: Nicolas Slonimsky (Ed.): The Baker's Dictionary. New York 1992
  • Paul Attinello: Gerhard Stäbler. "Live / the opposite / daring" - music, graphic, concept, event. Friedberg 2015
  • Christa Brüstle:  Concert Scenes. Movement, performance, media. Music between performative expansion and media integration 1950–2000. (Supplements to the Archives for Musicology 73), Stuttgart 2013
  • Stefan Fricke: Music about music. Analytical appendix to Gerhard Stäbler's “… im Trellis…” for brass quintet. In: Between Enlightenment & Culture, Hamburg 1993
  • Werner M. Grimmel: Break out. The composer Gerhard Stäbler. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 160.1 (1999), 45–47
  • Jutta Lambrecht: Meeting Gerhard Stäbler. The LandMarks project. In: Forum Musikbibliothek, Volume 29 1, 2002, pp. 52–58
  • Felipe de Jesús Sánchez Padilla: Con Gerhard Stäbler . (Interview) In: La Nota Musical, 3/1994 ( Mexico City )
  • Reinhard Schulz: Without open listening, the brains gelatinize . Interview with Gerhard Stäbler, in: NMZ 1/1993, 53
  • Portrait of Gerhard Stäbler. In: The Ongaku Geijutsu, 4/1994 (Tokyo)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Mouvement - Music in the 21st Century , Chronicle of the ARD

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personal data
SURNAME Stäbler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmsdorf