Hannes Pohlit

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Hannes Pohlit (born August 21, 1976 in Heidelberg ) is a German composer, pianist and conductor.

Hannes Pohlit (2020)

Life

Hannes Pohlit grew up in Rhineland-Palatinate and from 1992 to 1995 - together with his brother Stefan Pohlit - received his first composition lessons from Róbert Wittinger . After graduating from high school, he studied composition with Hans Zender (Frankfurt am Main) and Reinhard Pfundt (Leipzig), conducting with Gert Bahner (Leipzig) and Gunter Kahlert (Weimar) and music theory with Gesine Schröder (Leipzig). After three years as a répétiteur and conductor at the Erfurt Opera House , he founded the “ensemble leipzig 21” in Leipzig in 2006, a special ensemble for contemporary music, and conducted concerts with the Jena Philharmonic and the Thuringian Philharmonic Gotha-Suhl. From 2010 to 2015 he was teaching music theory at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . Since 2017 Hannes Pohlit has been a full-time lecturer for score playing and score studies at the Institute for Conducting and Opera Coaching at the Liszt School of Music Weimar . Hannes Pohlit's works have been published by Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag since 2013 . As a pianist, Hannes Pohlit stood out primarily with works by Franz Liszt and with his own works, and gave piano recitals in the Leipzig concert series " Blüthner Classics". In summer 2014 he was invited as composer in residence to that of Hans Werner Henze founded Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte of Montepulciano , where among other things, his Sinfonietta for large orchestra Il Vento ( The wind ) under the direction of Roland Böer came to the premiere. For the new production of JW Goethe's Faust at the Thuringian State Theater Rudolstadt, he created a new symphonic drama music in 2014/15. Hannes Pohlit has lived in Leipzig since 1998.

Works

(in chronological order):

  • Chamber Symphony (2007–2009) for 11 solo instruments; World premiere 2009, Leipzig; Conductor: Hannes Pohlit
  • Nachtstück (2008) for small orchestra; First performance 2009, Gotha; Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha, conductor: Hannes Pohlit
  • Sextet for Strings (2010) for two violins, two violas, two cellos; First performance 2010, Leipzig; Ensemble "Music and the Present" (Publisher: Friedrich Hofmeister)
  • La Chapelle de François Liszt (2010), paraphrase on three piano works by Franz Liszt for orchestra (commissioned by the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra Saalfeld-Rudolstadt for the Franz Liszt Year 2011), first performance 2011, Saalfeld; Thuringian Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Daniel Huppert (Publisher: Friedrich Hofmeister)
  • Contemplations (2011), lyric pieces for solo violoncello and small orchestra; First performance 2011, Leipzig; Soloist: Paul Jakob Fricke (violoncello), Conductor: Hannes Pohlit (Publisher: Friedrich Hofmeister)
  • Paraphrases de Tango sur des mélodies de Carlos Gardel for piano solo (2012–2013) (three volumes, publisher: Friedrich Hofmeister)
  • Il Vento; Sinfonietta per grande orchestra (2013–2014) in memoria di Hans Werner Henze dedicata a Carlo Pasquini I. Zefiro; II. Intermezzo: Consolazione; III. Notte di tempesta; First performance 2014, Montepulciano; Symphony Orchestra of the RNCM Manchester, conductor: Roland Böer (commissioned by the Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano), (publisher: Friedrich Hofmeister)
  • Ada for two violins and violoncello (2013); First performance 2014, Montepulciano; Jelena Citakovic, Uta Woyniewicz (violins), Jacopo Francini (violoncello)
  • Secret / For Ada (2013) for piano solo; First performance 2014, Munich; Hannes Pohlit, piano
  • Les Lumières de la Nuit; Two Nocturnes for Piano Trio (2014); 1. Les Cloches, 2. Le Retour au Jardin d'Eden; First performance 2014, Montepulciano; Klaus Nerdinger (violin), Jacopo Francini (violoncello), Hannes Pohlit (piano), commissioned by the Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano (publisher: Friedrich Hofmeister)
  • Twelve pieces to Goethe's "Faust" for solos, choir and orchestra (2014/2015); Incidental music for JW Goethe's "Faust - The Tragedy First Part" (commissioned by the Thuringian State Theater Rudolstadt ); World premiere 2015, Ensemble of the Rudolstadt Theater, Thuringian Symphony Orchestra Saalfeld-Rudolstadt , conductor: Oliver Weder
  • Nel Fiume eterno; per clarinetto di bassetto e quartetto d'archi (2015/16); I. Ondina; II. Il Fiume invisibile; III. Farfalla; World premiere 2016, Bamberg; Martin Bewersdorff (basset clarinet), Ravel Ensemble (publisher: Friedrich Hofmeister)
  • Sonatina for violin and piano (2017)
  • Humanité; Sacred concert for violin and organ for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation 1517/2017; I. Wake up; II. A New Song We Begin; III. Come God, Creator, Holy Spirit; World premiere 2018, Nikolaikirche Leipzig, Stefan Arzberger (violin), Simon Reichert (organ) (Publisher: Friedrich Hofmeister)
  • 1st organ symphony ("Psalms-Symphonie"; 2019, dedicated to Denny Ph. Wilke)
  • 2. Organ Symphony ("Weeping, Lamenting, Worrying, Feeling"; 2019/20, dedicated to Nathan J. Laube)

Web links

Individual evidence

  • "A cycle - just like in nature" (Lisa Berins, in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 28, 2014)
  • "Via detours to the goal" (Holger Pöschl; portrait article in Die Rheinpfalz , January 10, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Pohlit, Hannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, pianist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg