Juerg Hanselmann

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Jürg Hanselmann, 2013

Jürg Hanselmann (born September 23, 1960 in Grabs , Canton St. Gallen) is a Swiss - Liechtenstein pianist , composer and teacher . He teaches piano and composition at the Sargans Cantonal School.

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Jürg Hanselmann grew up in Schaan (Principality of Liechtenstein) and received his first piano lessons from Regina Enzenhofer at the Liechtenstein music school in Vaduz. The first compositions date from his early youth.

At the age of 17 he was a student of Albert Schneeberger and Kristina Steinegger at the Bern Conservatory, today's Music University of the Arts. There he obtained the soloist diploma "with distinction". His further training led him to London to the Hungarian pianist Louis Kentner and to Frankfurt am Main to the Russian pianist Irina Lein-Edelstein .

From 1983 he completed a three-year training course in composition and analysis with Sándor Veress , who was a student of Zoltán Kodály and who had studied piano with Béla Bartók . He also attended master classes with Mieczysław Horszowski and the Beaux Arts Trio .

Sandra & Jürg Hanselmann, 2013

His pianistic concert activities took Hanselmann to Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Holland, Italy and several times to the USA. During his concert activities there were duo performances with his wife Sandra Hanselmann. The Duo Hanselmann deals with literature for piano duo. CD recordings with piano duo works by Johannes Brahms and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger have been released on the Prezioso label. Further works for two pianos have been published by Carus-Verlag and Berner Verlag Müller & Schade.

As a lied accompanist, Hanselmann works with the Austrian tenor Karl Jerolitsch, with whom he released a recording of his Hesse lieder circle for the Bern music publisher Müller & Schade. Hanselmann gave chamber music concerts in a trio with Claudio Veress and David Inniger. Among other things, works by Sándor Veress were performed several times. In addition, in the Segantini Trio, he shares a love for music and painting with the cellist Katharina Weissenbacher and the clarinetist Franco Mettler. To found the trio in 2017, Hanselmann composed his second clarinet trio "Triptych". Jürg Hanselmann's compositional work is also published by the Bern publishing house Müller & Schade. In 2012, Hanselmann was awarded first prize for his work “Ricercare” for wind quintet at the composition competition of the Deutsche Oper Berlin as part of the chamber music series “Klang der Welt”.

The CD recordings by Jürg Hanselmann and the Duo Hanselmann include a complete recording of the piano works by Josef Rheinberger on 11 CDs (Carus Verlag), as well as 2 CDs with piano works by Nikolai Karlowitsch Medtner (1993 and 1998), 1 CD with works for 2 pianos by Johannes Brahms. A collection of piano pieces on the subject of “The Railway in Piano Music” includes not only his own works, but also Rossini's Un petit train de plaisir and Honegger's piano arrangement of his orchestral piece Pacific 231 , a first recording in this piano version.

Since March 2015 Hanselmann has been President of the International Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Society IRG, based in Vaduz.

Awards / prizes

Jürg Hanselmann, 2017
  • 1980: Eduard Tschumi Prize, Bern
  • 1980: Prize from the Jubilee Foundation of the Swiss People's Bank, Bern
  • 1983: Migros competition, Zurich
  • 1987: Rotary Prize, Liechtenstein
  • 1991: Culture Prize of the International Lake Constance Conference, Munich
  • 2005: Josef Gabriel von Rheinberger Prize, Vaduz
  • 2012: 1st prize in the composition competition "Sound of the World" of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Works

Instrumental music

Piano music solo
  • Lyric Pieces, 1976/1979
  • Four piano pieces, 1983
  • Lyric Pieces, 2001
  • Passacaglia (homage to Rheinberger), 2003
  • Three pieces of railroad , 2004
  • Railway Sonatina , 2005
  • 1st Sonata, 2005/2006
  • 'Nachtstück, 2006
  • Toccata American , 2006
  • Windspiel , 2007
  • Three concert studies, 2007
  • “Abendstern” - Four pieces for piano, 2011
  • Youth album, 2011
  • Two album sheets for Rebecca, 2011
  • Passacaglia, 2013
  • 8 epigrams in canonical form, 2013
  • Four night pieces for piano, 2014
  • A Little Musical Nonsense (Sonatina Buffa) for piano, 2015
  • Autumn sonata for piano, 2015
  • 6 preludes for piano, 2016
  • 11 mood pictures in canonical form for piano, 2016
  • 2nd sonata for piano, 2016
  • 4 concert studies for piano, 2016
  • 4 elegiac pieces for piano, 2017
  • Segantini studies for piano, 2018
  • November, seven mood pictures for piano, 2018
  • Children's scenes, 2019
  • January, 8 mood pictures for piano, 2019
  • Two Ophelia Fantasies for piano, 2019
  • Hymn 2007, arrangement for piano
Piano music for several players
  • Elements , 1993/1994
  • Youth album for piano with one, two, three & four hands, 1996
  • Tabulatura (old dances and tunes) for 2 pianos and percussion, 2005
  • Tabulatura (old dances and tunes), version for 2 pianos, 2005
  • Sonata for two pianos, 2008
  • SALtarello , 2010, arranged as a concert version for two pianos
  • Paradise Lost , 2010, arranged as a concert version for 2 pianos
  • Tarantella, 2010, arranged as a concert version for 2 pianos
  • Toccata for two pianos, 2013
  • Notturno for two pianos, 2013
  • Sonata for piano 4 hands, 2015
Concert works
  • Dies Irae , Variations for two pianos and orchestra, 2005
  • Concerto for the left hand, for piano and orchestra, 2008
  • Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, 2016
Orchestral works
  • Sinfonietta for orchestra, 2007
  • Hymn for orchestra, 2007
  • Hymn for string orchestra (short version), 2007
  • Hymn for harp and strings (short version), 2009
  • Partita for chamber orchestra, 2009
  • SALtarello , concert overture for large orchestra 2009
  • Paradise Lost for orchestra, 2010
  • Tarantella for orchestra, 2010
  • “Euridice” - Notturno for orchestra, 2011
  • Ikarus for string orchestra, 2013, rev. 2018
Chamber music
  • “Lamentationes” for viola and piano, 2007–2008
  • Partita for string quintet, 2009
  • Ricercare for wind quintet, 2011
  • "Orfeo" - Notturno for piano and wind quintet, 2011
  • Toccata for piano and wind quintet, 2014
  • Trio for piano, violin and violoncello, 2014
  • Trio for piano, clarinet and violoncello, 2015
  • Autumn sonata for harp, 2015
  • 3 Elegische Vocalisen for soprano, clarinet and piano, 2016
  • Notturno for violin, violoncello and piano, 2016
  • Sonata for clarinet in A and piano, 2016
  • 2. Trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano, "Triptychon", 2017
  • Sonata for violin and piano, 2018

Vocal music

Songs with piano accompaniment
  • Liederkreis based on poems by Hermann Hesse for voice (tenor) and piano, 2011
  • Three songs based on poems by Sebastien Fanzun for tenor and piano, 2012
  • “Matutinal”, song cycle based on poems by Sebastien Fanzun for tenor and piano, 2013
  • On walls, song circle based on poems by Georg Trakl, 2016
A cappella choir
  • 2 sacred chants for mixed choir, 2010
cantata
  • Written in sand , cantata for solos, choir and orchestra based on poems by Hermann Hesse, 2011

Edits

  • Music of the Renaissance, 2008 (23 dances and tunes from organ tablature books, set up for piano four-handed lessons)
  • Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Singspiel Der poor Heinrich , op.37 (instrumentation)
  • Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Concerto for Pianoforte in E flat major JWV 128 (instrumentation)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JH on tour of America and as a prize winners' concert at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, April 2012
  2. ↑ Liedersoirée with a performance of “Hesse-Liederkreis” in Bern, JH and K. Jerolitsch, tenor
  3. ↑ The Railway in Piano Music , Prezioso CD No. 800.062
  4. ^ Website of the International Rheinberger Society
personal data
SURNAME Hanselmann, Juerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Liechtenstein pianist, composer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Grabs