Hans Thomalla

Hans Thomalla (* 1975 in Bonn ) is a German composer .

biography

Thomalla studied composition at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts from 1994–1999 . He then worked as a dramaturge assistant at the Stuttgart State Opera , where he was responsible for, among others, Helmut Lachenmann's music theater Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern as a production dramaturge . From 2002 to 2007 he was a DAAD and Stanford University doctoral student at Stanford, where he continued his studies with Brian Ferneyhough . Since 2007 he has taught at Northwestern University in Chicago as a composition professor , where he is also director of the Institute for New Music. His works have been performed at international festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage , the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, the Paris Festival d'Automne and the Witten Days for New Chamber Music . Performers of his works have included Ensemble recherche , Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble musikFabrik , Arditti Quartet , Spektral Quartet, Ensemble Modern and the Munich Philharmonic . His first opera Fremd was premiered in July 2011 in the Great House of the Stuttgart State Opera . Thomalla's second opera, Kaspar Hauser , was commissioned by the Freiburg Theater and premiered there in April 2016.

2004: Kranichstein Music Prize
2006: Christoph Delz Prize
2006–2007: Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center
2009: CIRA Grant (Collaborative Initiatives for Research in the Arts) from Northwestern University
2011: Promotion Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
2013: Faculty Research Grant from Northwestern University
2014–2015: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2017: Guggenheim grant

wild.thing for amplified piano, 2 percussionists (2002–2003)
Momentsmusicaux for flute, clarinet, piano, viola, cello (2003-2004)
Noema for 2 prepared pianos (2004)
Pieces Character for oboe, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello (2005)
Song for saxophone, piano, vibraphone (2007–2008 / 2012)
Album sheet for string quartet (2010)
Album sheet II for saxophone quartet (2011)
Wonderblock for ensemble (trumpet, trombone, guitar [electr.] Piano, drums [2 players], violoncello) (2012–2013)
Fracking for saxophone, string trio (2013)
Bagatelles for string quartet (2015)

Ausruff for chamber orchestra or large ensemble (1 Fl, 1 Ob, 2 Clear, 2 Trp, 1 Trp, Hfe, Klav, Git, 2 Perc, strings: 6-5-4-4-1, live reinforcement) (2007)
The Brightest Form of Absence - multimedia composition (Video: William Lamson) for soprano, ensemble (1 ob, 1 clear, 1 Hr, 1 Trp, 1 Pos, 1 Tub, Klav, Schlgz, strings: 1-1-1- 1-1), live electronics, video (2011)
Fleeting - Intermezzo for orchestra (2 perc, electric git [ossia: Klar], strings: 10-8-8-6-3) (2011)
Ballad for piano, orchestra (3-0-3-3, 3-4-3-1, 3 percussion, Hfe, Str: 14-12-10-8-6) (2016)

Three Desert Songs for soprano, piano (2011)
Duet and Dream - from the opera "Kaspar Hauser" for countertenor, soprano, piano (2016)
I come near you for choir (6 soprano, 6 alto, 6 tenor, 6 bass), ensemble (saxophone, bass clarinet, bassoon, piano, drums, violin, viola, violoncello) (2016)

Fremd - opera in three scenes, an interlude and an epilogue for dramatic soprano, choir (8 altos, 16 tenors, 16 basses), orchestra (2 fl, 2 ob, 2 clear, 2 boutiques, 4 ears, 2 trp, 2 pos , 1 tub, 2 beats, piano, git, str: 10-8-8-6-3), hall instruments (1 trp, 1 sax, 1 pos, 3 beats), marching band (1 fl, 1 clear, 4 Trp, 4 Pos), live electronics (ad lib.) (2005–2011)
Kaspar Hauser . Opera in three acts (text by the composer) for countertenor (Kaspar Hauser), 8 singers, orchestra (2 Trp, 2 Pos, Tub, Sax, Hfe, Klav, Acc, Big drum, Str: 8-6-6 -4-2), sound design (2013-2015). UA. on April 9, 2016 in the Freiburg Theater

Foreign opera in three scenes, an interlude and an epilogue by Hans Thomalla. Recording from the Stuttgart State Opera. col legno 2012 (WWE 2SACD 40403)
Portrait CD "Hans Thomalla: Momentmusiceaux / wild.thing / Cello Counterpart / Pieces Character" WERGO 2008 (WER 6571 2)
The Brightest Form of Absence . Multimedia composition for soprano, ensemble, live electronics and video. On: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2011, NEOS 2012 (NEOS 11214-16)
Exhaust for chamber orchestra. On: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007, Vol. 2, NEOS 2008 (NEOS 10825)

Aspects of analytical composing. In: Jörn Peter Hiekel (ed.): Composing in the present. Texts of the 42nd International Summer Courses for New Music 2004. on behalf of IMD. (= Darmstadt Discourses. 1). Pfau-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2006, ISBN 3-89727-337-3 , pp. 96-112.
Counterparts. In: Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Frank Cox, Wolfram Schurig (Ed.): Facets of the Second Modernity. Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-936000-17-7 , pp. 229–241.
'To the edge of the moment'. Composing as creating the present. In: Jörn Peter Hiekel (Ed.): Vorzeitbelebung. Past and present reflections in music today. Wolke Verlag, Hofheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-936000-85-6 , pp. 71-82.
Traces of Meaning - Contradictions in Contemporary Music Theater. In: Anke Roeder, Klaus Zehelein (ed.): The art of dramaturgy. A manual. Henschel Verlag, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-89487-655-5 , pp. 58-70.