Jürgen Groezinger

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Jürgen Grözinger (born September 5, 1963 in Ulm ) is a German percussionist , composer , festival director, music curator and DJ (aka Jueri Gagarino).

Career

Jürgen Grözinger learned to play various instruments as a child and soon concentrated more and more on drums . He gained his first stage experience as a drummer in the Ulmer Knabenmusik , now the Ulm Young Wind Philharmonic . As a young drummer he won two federal prizes in the Jugend Musiziert competition  . He studied music at the University of Music and Theater in Munich and the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, majoring in classical drums, and cultural management at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg . Engagements as a solo timpanist in the Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, the Kammerakademie Potsdam and the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin followed. In the field of contemporary music he played in the Klangforum Wien or the Berliner Ensemble Mosaik.

In 1995 Jürgen Grözinger founded the European Music Project , which aims to penetrate the boundaries between composed music and improvisation, classical concert hall reception and club settings. Since 1996 he has been the artistic director of the cross-genre and cross-style festival for new music at the Ulm City Hall, which he founded . The festival programs reflect the ongoing engagement with social and aesthetic issues and value systems, range from classical modernism to contemporary works and lead to non-European music as well as to electronically influenced club culture.

Jürgen Grözinger performed in the Berlin clubs Berghain , Cookies , Week12End , Bar TAUSEND , often as the DJ of the Yellow Lounge project of Deutsche Grammophon , and developed lounge models for the Rundfunkchor Berlin , the Kasseler Musiktage and the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, where he was at Interaction with orchestra performing the Philharmonic Nights .

On behalf of Deutschlandfunk , he wrote the work OrientOccident for Sufi singers, Arab musicians and the European Music Project in 2003 , which premiered in the town hall in Ulm and has been broadcast by Deutschlandfunk Kultur since then . In WERGO his re-interpretation was published by Terry Riley's In C and Inside the Dream with compositions by Jürgen Grözinger and his arrangements of pieces Erik Satie . These pieces by Jürgen Grözinger are published by Schott Music . As a producer and musician, he initiated the CD / DVD productions David Lang - Elevated (Cantaloupe Music, 2005) and Giacinto Scelsi / Michiko Hirayama - Canti del Capricorno (WERGO, 2007).

Jürgen Grözinger has been designing the Klassik Klub on WDR3 since 2015 .

For the 125th anniversary of the completion of the Ulm Minster Tower , he composed the work Höher! , performed on May 29, 2015 by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Ulm , the Junge Bläserphilharmonie Ulm, the Münsterkantorei Ulm and their motet choir , the Oratorienchor Ulm and the choir of the Ulm Theater as well as Fola Dada under the musical direction of Friedemann Johannes Wieland on the Ulmer Münsterplatz was premiered.

For the Theater Pforzheim he composed the incidental music for Hans Hametner's production of Euripides ' Die Frauen von Troja (The Downfall) in the adaptation of Walter Jens , which premiered on September 23, 2017.

Roberto Scafati choreographed a ballet on Jürgen Grözinger's full-length composition Acqua for percussion, tape, violin, electronics and playback vocals, premiered on November 23, 2017 in the Ulm Theater.

Also in 2017, Grözinger worked together with Anna Clementi , Leo Chadburn and Ziv Frenkel at the world premiere (in concert at the Tête à Tête Festival London, staged in the Acker Stadt Palast Berlin) of the musical theater piece The Mark on the Wall by Stepha Schweiger based on the story of the same name by Virginia Woolf With.

Essays

In 2006 he wrote about the South African composer Kevin Volans for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik .

In 2015, at the invitation of the Südwest Presse and the city ​​of Ulm , Jürgen Grözinger presented his idea of ​​how cultural awareness in a city can overcome borders in the lecture series “Ulm Speeches for Europe”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ European Music Project: Idea and Form. In: Grözinger Music. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ new music. In: Stadthaus Ulm. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Kanold: You can move. 15 years of “new music in the city hall of ulm” . In: New magazine for music . No. 04 , 2010, p. 77 .
  4. ↑ Radio Choir Lounge. In: Rundfunkchor Berlin. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  5. ↑ MaerzMusik: Jürgen Grözinger. In: Berliner Festspiele. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Tanja Nedwig: A Moment With: Jürgen Grözinger. In: WAIT A MO blog about fashion, art, photography, Berlin and thoughts on current affairs. May 31, 2013, accessed July 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ John L. Walters: The devil you know. In: The Guardian. July 11, 2002, accessed July 20, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Jürgen Grözinger. In: Schott Music. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ David Lang "Elevated". In: Cantaloupe Music. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  10. ^ Canti del Capricorno. In: Schott Music. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  11. ↑ WDR3 Klassik Klub. In: WDR. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  12. ↑ was steady @ 125 - actors in the interview. Interview with Jürgen Grözinger. (No longer available online.) In: Stadt Ulm. Archived from the original on February 5, 2018 ; Retrieved July 18, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ulm.de
  13. ↑ Juergen Groezinger - HIGHER! In: YouTube. August 4, 2015, accessed July 18, 2017 .
  14. ↑ The Women of Troy (The Downfall). In: Theater Pforzheim. Retrieved on February 5, 2018 (German).
  15. ^ The Mark On The Wall - Tête à Tête - The Future of Opera. Retrieved May 5, 2018 (UK English).
  16. ↑ Jürgen Grözinger: Many roads lead to freedom. The composer Kevin Volans on Africa and the musical avant-garde. In: New magazine for music . No. 5 . Mainz 2006, p. 16-17 .
  17. ^ Jürgen Grözinger: Ulm Speech for Europe. How the city's cultural awareness can overcome borders. edition stadthaus, Volume 17, Ulm 2016, ISBN 978-3-934727-41-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Groezinger, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gagarino, Jueri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German percussionist, composer, music curator and DJ
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm