Helena Winkelman

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Helena Winkelman (born February 27, 1974 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss - Dutch composer and violinist .

Live and act

Helena Winkelman at the world premiere of her work Bandes déssinées ( Munich Chamber Orchestra , 2012)

Helena Winkelman comes from a family of musicians and received her first violin lessons at the age of five. She studied violin at the Lucerne Conservatory with Herbert Scherz and Gunars Larsens, at the Heidelberg-Mannheim University of Music with Valery Gradow and in New York with Daniel Phillips. At the Basel Music Academy she studied with Thomas Füri and composition with Roland Moser , where she graduated , and Georg Friedrich Haas . She completed master classes with Gidon Kremer , Hansheinz Schneeberger , Beat Furrer , Peter Eötvös , György Kurtág and Pierre Favre, among others .

Since 1997 she has been working as a freelance composer and violinist. She plays solo recitals and chamber music concerts and is dedicated to both outdoor and style improvisation . In 2011 she took over the artistic direction of the Camerata Variabile Basel.

In 2001 she won the Pro Musicis Award as a violinist in Paris and then gave concerts in Carnegie Hall ( Weill Recital Hall ) and in the Salle Cortot Paris . She recorded for Radio DRS 2 , WBGH Boston and SDR Stuttgart. She played at the Open Chamber Music Festival in Prussia Cove and made guest appearances at the Bastad Festival (Sweden), the Alpentöne Festival (Switzerland), the Menuhin Festival Gstaad and the Davos Festival. From 2003 to 2008 she was a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado . In 2013 she was composer in residence at the Ernen Festival and in 2014 at the Lockenhaus Festival.

Winkelman has received composition commissions from the Harvard Musical Association Boston , the Menuhin Festival Gstaat, the Basel Sinfonietta , Pro Helvetia , the IGNM Basel, the chamber music festival IMS Prussia Cove, the Basel Chamber Orchestra , the Camerata Zurich , the Lucerne Festival and the Alpine Tones Festival. Her works have also been performed worldwide, including by the Ensemble Phoenix Basel , the Arditti Quartet , the Schumann Quartet , the Munich Chamber Orchestra and numerous soloists. In 2015 she represented Switzerland (SGNM / ISCM Switzerland) at the ISCM World New Music Days in Slovenia.

Winkelman has lived in Basel since 1998.

Prices

  • 1995: First prize at the International Andrea Postacchini Competition in Fermo , Italy
  • 1996: Walther Bringolf Prize of the City of Schaffhausen
  • 2001: Pro Musicis Award, Paris
  • 2016: Georg Fischer Prize of the City of Schaffhausen
  • 2017: Swiss Music Prize

Works (selection)

Opera / music theater

  • Extravagancia , chamber opera about the play of the same name by Rafael Spregelburd, 2010
  • Satanica , chamber opera / music theater based on a libretto by Rafael Spregelburd, 2010
  • Das Allmachtsrohr , music theater based on texts by Adolf Wölfli , 2014

Duos

  • Rondo with a Janus head for violin and violoncello , 2001
  • Rota Orat Taro Ator. For violin and piano, 2004
  • Gravitation I and II for violin and piano , 2001/2002
  • KLE-E-ENGEL (Angels for Friends) for violin and accordion , 2018
  • Vis à Vis Goya for cello and piano
  • Quatres danses suisses for piano four hands

String quartets

  • Quadriga Quartet. String quartet No. 1 in four movements. World premiere by the Arditti Quartet in 2011
  • Papa Haydn's Parrot. String quartet No. 2 in 8 movements. Paraphrase on the bird quartet Op. 33 No, 3 by Joseph Haydn .
  • The clock. String quartet No. 3 in one movement.

Solo concerts

  • Tree Talk, for two solo cellos and string orchestra, world premiere in 2011
  • Miorita , double concerto for trumpet / Büchel / animal horns and alphorn / Büchel / animal horns accompanied by a chamber orchestra
  • Canto Circolare for violin and string orchestra, world premiere in 2017
  • Double concerto for two recorders and string orchestra, world premiere in 2018
  • Atlas Concerto for solo cello, string orchestra and timpani in three movements.

Trios

  • Diurné for Piano Trio (2018), a counterpart to Schubert's Notturno
  • 12 Micro - Bagatelles for piano trio (2020)
  • Louange for baryton, viola and violoncello (2014)

Ensemble works

  • Herrgott und Teufel for piano, two shawms, two speakers, string trio and 2 percussionists, premier 2001
  • From the Ashes ... for a large ensemble about the Phoenix myth, premier 2006
  • Foreigners. For dulcimer, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and double bass
  • Chill t'horn. For dulcimer, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and double bass, WP 2010
  • Rock resonance. For Sheng , Daegum, Changgu and string trio , WP 2012
  • Dream interpretation. For harp, string quartet, clarinet and flute and four reciting poets, WP 2011
  • Messages from a pure land. For Shakuhachi , Koto , Ko-Tsuzumi , string quintet and trumpet, WP 2016
  • Suonen. For reinforced flute quartet and tape, WP 2017
  • Keeping Watch. For oboe d'amore and string quintet over a text by Hafiz, UA Ernen Festival 2016

Orchestral works

  • Vers l'ouvert for symphony orchestra without double wood, premier 2008
  • Bandes déssinées for string orchestra, premier 2012
  • SKAN for wood and brass instruments and percussion, WP 2016

Works for brass music, big band, natural horns and alphorns

  • ROAD RUNNER for big band (also versions for wind orchestra and small wind orchestra), UA 2017
  • Appel à la licorne (unicorn hunt) for 6 natural horns in D and a valve horn
  • Encirclement for 8 alphorns or natural horns (2 in E, 2 in F, 1 in G, 1 in Gb, 1 in As, 1 Be (büchel)) and four shell horns (optional).

Works with voice

  • 6 HAIKUS. For bass baritone, string trio, guitar and small percussion instruments, world premiere in 2007
  • CANTO 33. For vocal ensemble (19 solo voices), percussion, double bass clarinet and harp, on the last song of Paradisos (Canto 33) by Dante Alighieri , world premiere in 2015
  • Magic and spells from ancient times for 8 female voices and instrumental ensemble, world premiere in 2013
  • FourUnited. Eight new folk songs in the four national languages ​​for mixed choir and ensemble, world premiere in 2014
  • BLAGA 11. Settings of 11 poems from Poemele Luminii by the Romanian poet Lucian Blaga, for soprano and violin / viola, in Romanian, world premiere (5 poems) 2016
  • RONDE DES LUTINS for ensemble and 8-part male ghost choir, for sCHpillit, Lucerne Festival
  • Gargoyles. 5 settings of Alemannic poems (Jean-Christophe Meyer) about the gargoyles of Basel Minster , for tenor, violin, viola and piano

Works for solo instruments

  • Impromptu. For piano, 2007
  • Sami's piece. For piano, 2004
  • Ciaconna. For violin, 2000
  • Canto Quinto. For violin and electronics, 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Helena Winkelman, Prix International 2001. In: Pro Musicis. October 26, 2006, accessed December 14, 2019 (fr-fr).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Chamber Music Days Moments musicaux: Henlena Winkelman. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Naturklänge - Klänge am Ursprung - From folk songs and countries in Schubert VII Top of Switzerland I. Accessed on December 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Helena Winkelmann to the ISCM WMD , musikzeitung.ch
  5. ↑ Swiss composers at the ISCM WMD , iscm-switzerland.ch
personal data
SURNAME Winkelman, Helena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen