Hermann Schwander
Hermann Schwander (* 1948 in Böblingen ) is a German timpanist , percussionist and university teacher .
Life
Schwander received his first music lessons from his father when he was six. He completed his percussion studies at the University of Music in Würzburg with Siegfried Fink . During his activity as the solo timpanist of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, he was commissioned to lead the drum class at the Nuremberg Conservatory in 1976, an activity which he expanded as a full-time teacher from 1977 onwards. From 1986 to 1997 he was deputy director of the Meistersinger Conservatory, from which the University of Music emerged in 1998. In 2001 he was appointed professor.
Schwander is a founding member of the Nuremberg group “ Neue Pegnitzschäfer ”, which is committed to maintaining current music.
In 1986 he organized the 1st German Percussion Symposium in Nuremberg, which received international attention, and then founded the German-speaking drum association " Percussion Creativ ", which he headed for almost 10 years. The percussion quartet Cabaza , which he founded in 1983 , received the Nuremberg Culture Promotion Prize in 1992 and the Wolfram-von-Eschenbach Prize (Central Franconia Culture Prize) in 1995 . In 2005 Schwander and his master class graduate Sławomir Mscisz founded the “Marimba Festiva” initiative with the international marimba competition that takes place every two years.
In addition to his teaching work as a professor at the Nuremberg University of Music , he works as a speaker at institutes in Germany and abroad. For twenty years, Schwander was in charge of the drums group of the “Bavarian State Youth Orchestra” and was invited to national and international competitions as a juror. Part of his chamber music work is documented in radio productions and CD recordings.
Schwander retired in 2013. His successors at the Nuremberg University of Music are Radek Szarek and Jochen Schorer .
Discography (selection)
- CABAZA "Percussion Quartet", cpo
- CABAZA "Vol.2", cpo
- CABAZA "La Caccia", cpo
- CABAZA "In The Eye Of The Storm", cpo
- CABAZA "I - Shr" (Ritual II) from "Yüen Shan" by Michael Ranta
- Myriam Marbe, Marc Aurel Edition
- Contemporary German Music, DGG
- Siegfried Fink i el seu grup de percussio, EDIGSA
- Drums in Concert, Thorofon
- Talking drums, thorofon
- Drums, thorofon
- 50 years of ION
items
- Gyula Racz (ed.): The great book of drum practice. ConBrio Verlag, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-940768-43-8 ( publisher link ).
- Werner Heider . In: Composers in Bavaria. Volume 39.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nuremberg University of Music. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 22, 2015 ; accessed on January 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwander, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German timpanist, drummer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boeblingen |