Hans-Jürg Meier

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Hans-Jürg Meier (born December 22, 1964 - December 1, 2015 ) was a Swiss composer , recorder player , and choir director.

Live and act

Hans-Jürg Meier grew up in Rüschlikon and lived in Basel . He studied recorder with Conrad Steinmann at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and composition with Roland Moser at the Hochschule für Musik Basel . He started composing in 1991, since 1995 he has also worked with sound installations and since 1998 with free improvisation music. From 1997 to 2001 he worked at the Kaskadenkondensator Basel and from 1999 to 2004 he was the artistic director of the festival for improvised and composed contemporary music in the Gare du Nord Basel . In 2001 he won the Prix ​​Marguerite de Reding of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein with the improvisation quartet Babels Besen . In 2004/05 he was a member of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma (ISR) and in 2006 completed a work stay at the Spazio culturale of the ISR in Venice . He was also President of the Swiss Music Edition (sme).

The focus of his composition was increasingly on thematic musical translations from architecture, in conjunction with the connection to nature, form and beauty.

As a recorder player Meier u. a. in the ensembles babels besen , GNOMensemble and ensemble arcimboldo .

Meier lived with his partner, the musician Sarah Giger and their son in Basel.

Compositions (selection)

  • 1991: weiland for alto recorder and harpsichord
  • 1993: presso il passo di cristallina for 2 Renaissance recorders
  • 1993: slightly quint-heavy for recorder, bass clarinet, viola, violoncello and 2 percussionists
  • 1996: d'une autre vie for tenor recorder, violoncello and vibraphone
  • 1994–1995: par le murmure déchiré for soprano, 3 renaissance recorders, percussion and tape
  • 1999–2001: colors de la rose for alto flute (flute), oboe (english horn) and soprano saxophone (alto saxophone)
  • 2001–2002: the rest of the span is not life, but time for voice (alto), flute, bassoon, trumpet, viola, violoncello and piano
  • 2002–2004: nodo for saxophone quartet
  • 2005: volgere lo sguardo al cielo for oboe, trumpet in Bb (also soprano saxophone or Bb clarinet) and guitar
  • 2006: criptoportico for transverse flute, natural horn and double bass
  • 2007: volta bianca for recorder quintet (renaissance instruments)
  • 2008: les mots jaunes (suddenly this whole) for mezzo-soprano and transverse flute
  • 2008–2009: annunciazione / ánemos - from the blowing of the wind in the curtain for soprano, alto, and 9 instruments
  • 2010: Existence is not essential (sestiere - prima lettura) for wind ensemble
  • 2011–2012: wingert in the early morning for soprano, 4 renaissance traverses and lute
  • 2012: locus for melodica & objects, saxophone (baritone & alto), trombone, violin, viola, double bass and soprano
  • 2013: su e giù (sestiere, seconda lettura) for string ensemble
  • 2014: petite danse macabre for sopranino recorder, clarinet, cor anglais, violin, castanets, temple block, zinc, trumpet, horn, trombone, lute and harp
  • 2015: translucent (diaphanés) for three transverse flutes and percussion
  • 2015: tre for Lithophon

Sound installations (selection)

  • 1995: Zwischentor und Angel for tape
  • 2000: uei nfg trz for three tapes
  • 2000: weighed for four tapes
  • 2012: wobbling gravity, installation music

Improvisation (selection)

Hans-Jürg Meier was also an important protagonist of improvised music and has played in permanent improvisation ensembles since 1998:

Choir direction (selection)

Hans-Jürg Meier also directed choirs and vocal ensembles for many years:

  • bandi di voci (1997-2004)
  • Capriccio Choir Birsfelden (2002–2006)

Discography

  • vox dilecti mei. (Pan Classics). Contains: Hans-Jürg Meier: wingert in the early (2011–2012) and works by Renaissance composers.
  • ARTE quartet. (Grammont portrait; 2005): Contains: Hans-Jürg Meier: nodo (2002–2004), and works by Rico Gubler , Nadir Vassena , Gary Berger and Andréas Stauder.
  • Portrait of Mischa Käser . (Grammont 2005) Contains: Works by Mischa Käser. Performers: Mischa Käser, Hans-Jürg Meier, Christina Omlin, Collegium Novum Zurich .
  • hans-jürg meier. colors de la rose. presso il passo di cristallina. diaphanés (translucent). (edition wandelweiser records 2019) Contains: Hans-Jürg Meier: colors de la rose (2001), presso il passo di cristallina (1993) and diaphanés (translucent) (2015).

Concert recordings

  • Concert recordings by the ensemble arcimboldo with the repertoire of the Bogenhauser artists' band , with Hans-Jürg Meier on the bass recorder.
  • Concert recording of the world premiere of Hans-Jürg Meier's composition TRE (2015) for Lithophon.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SME: All persons. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://www.dissonance.ch/fr/actualite/194
  3. ↑ http://www.arcimboldo.ch/ensemble/arcimboldo_projekte_Bogenhauser_Kuenstlerkapelle.htm
  4. ↑ Hans-Jürg Meier TRE (2015) for Lithophon. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Hans-Jurg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer and recorder player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1964
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 2015