Jörg Iwer

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Jörg Iwer (2017)

Jörg Iwer (born August 10, 1957 in Essen ) is a German conductor , composer and arranger .

Life

From 1977 to 1984 he studied choral conducting, conducting and composition at the Folkwang University of Music in Essen with Reinhard Peters , Wolfgang Hufschmidt , Nicolaus A. Huber and Guido Knüsel and took a master class with Kurt Masur in 1983 .

This was followed by engagements at theaters in Pforzheim , Detmold , Trier and Wittenberg , which was followed in 1998 by the appointment of general music director. National and international guest appearances have taken him to numerous German orchestras as well as to Milan , Thessaloniki , Paris , Lugano , Minsk , Szczecin , China , Taiwan , USA and Singapore .

Jörg Iwer lived as a freelance artist in Berlin and taught at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin from 2002 to 2008 . From 1991 to 2001 he was artistic director of the Villingen-Schwenningen Symphony Orchestra . In 2009 he returned and worked there as musical director until the end of 2017. He currently lives and works mainly in Lutherstadt Wittenberg .

In addition to his preoccupation with classical music, he works as a conductor and instrumentator both in the field of film music - for example as a guest conductor with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg - and in cross-over projects with groups or individual artists from the fields of pop, jazz and rock. A particularly intensive collaboration has existed since 2004 with the composer Karim Sebastian Elias (“Rhythm is it”, “Siegfried”, “Gerdas Schweigen”, etc.) and with the Cantus Buranus project by the Corvus Corax group .

Works (selection)

Symphonies

  • Strandgut (WP 1991, Liederhalle Stuttgart)
  • Le Semenze (premiere 1995, Franziskaner-Konzerthaus Villingen)
  • Scenes pour percussion et orchester , composed for Reto Weber (WP 2000, Franziskaner-Konzerthaus Villingen)

Operas

Oratorios

  • Wittenberg 1517 ("... and wouldn't have love ...") (UA 2000, Theater Wittenberg)

Pieces for children

  • Children's ballet Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (Premiere 1992, Stadttheater Trier)
  • Concerto grosso The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats (WP 2001, commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival )
  • Sound poem The Sad Knight or Don Quixote de la Mancha (WP 2002, commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival)

Songs

Quotes about Jörg Iwer

  • "(...) One hears the conductor Jörg Iwer's latest orchestral composition with great interest, as the works presented in recent years made people sit up and take notice (...) The first approach to the Sinfonia - the generic name chosen refers to older models and also to sideways to the suite - initially produces the comprehensibility so vehemently demanded by Anton Webern . That means: formal and sentence-like structures are present at all times and clearly understandable even when you first hear them. "Ulrich Dalm; in: Südwest-Presse , Ulm, March 21, 1995.
  • “(...) The premiere of the Scenes for Percussion and Orchestra by Jörg Iwer revealed features that we already know from other works by the conductor-composer: clear form, distinctive sound. That a sonic event was imminent was not only proven by the unusual instruments used by the soloist Reto Weber (...) In addition to the musical and acoustic impression, the visual impression (...) The audience was enthusiastic. (...). “Peter Schinnerling; in: Südkurier , Konstanz, October 5, 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Media information on the presentation of the Schwarzwald-Baar Culture Prize. 2012, pp. 6-7 .;
  2. ↑ Claudia Hoffmann, Christina Nack: A musician with many facets says goodbye. History and local history association Villingen e. V., 2018 .;
personal data
SURNAME Iwer, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH eat