Jan Kopp (composer)

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Jan Kopp (born July 13, 1971 in Pforzheim ) is a German composer , musicologist and publicist . The focus of his artistic work is on contemporary compositions. He is a student of Wolfgang Rihm , Helmut Lachenmann and Marco Stroppa . In addition to creating and dealing with new music in articles and radio broadcasts, he is also interested in communicating it to a broad audience that goes beyond expert circles. He is therefore involved in numerous school projects.

Jan Kopp

Life

Jan Kopp was born on July 13, 1971 in Pforzheim, Baden. From 1982 he received private piano lessons, and in the same year he wrote his first self-taught compositions. In 1987, while still at school, he began studying composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe . After high school and community service in 1991, he studied German, musicology and philosophy in Heidelberg from 1992 . From 1994 published first contributions for the SWF and other radio stations. In 1997 he continued his composition studies with Helmut Lachenmann . From 1998 to 2000 Kopp was project manager at KlangForum Heidelberg . In 2000 he completed his liberal arts studies with a master's thesis on the novel The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch and then devoted himself to studying composition with Marco Stroppa at the Stuttgart Music Academy until 2002 . Since 2002 Kopp has lived as a freelance composer and music journalist in Stuttgart.

In 2003, Kopp went on a long trip to Argentina and Uruguay in South America to give lectures on contemporary European vocal music at the universities of Córdoba and Montevideo and the Conservatory Río Cuarto and to take part in performances in Córdoba and Río Cuarto.

Since 2002 Kopp has led various composition projects with students, a. a. 2002 and 2004 at the German Student Academy (DSA) . In 2005 he had a teaching position at the University of Heidelberg . Since 2006 he has been a regular lecturer at the workshop " Youth composes Baden-Württemberg ". He also teaches composition privately.

Performances

Kopp's compositions have been performed at various festivals at home and abroad. a. at the " Darmstädter Ferienkurse ", at the " Heidelberger Frühling ", at " Eclat ", the " Weimarer Spring Days for Contemporary Music ", the " MaerzMusik ", the "Klangwerkstatt Berlin", the "Daegu Contemporary Music Universiade" (South Korea), the " Days for New Music Zurich ", the " ATEMPO " festival (Venezuela) and the " Núcleo Música Nueva " (Uruguay). Composition orders were given to him. a. from the Stuttgart State Theater , the Siemens Arts Program , the SWR and the orchestra of the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Prices

Kopp has received several awards for his compositions, for example in 1995 with the German Piano Industry Prize for "Klangschatten / Schwarzer Block" and in 2002 with the First Prize of the "Weimar Spring Days for New Music" for the "Akhmatova Madrigal", which was also awarded in 2004 by the GNM was proposed for the World Music Days in Zagreb, as well as with an invitation to the 7th Young Talent Forum of the Ensemble Modern for "Achmatowa-Lied". He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation (1994-98), the Darmstadt Summer Courses (1998), the Mozart Foundation Frankfurt / Main (2000/2001), the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR (2006), the Art Foundation Baden- Württemberg (2006) and the Bartels Foundation Basel (2010).

Works

Compositions

Solo part

  • 2007 la cigarra for soprano, clarinet, viola and piano; Text: Spanish lexicon, article "cigarra" (WP October 5, 2007, Remchingen)
  • 2006 siempre for soprano, clarinet, viola and piano; Text: Federico García Lorca (WP October 5, 2007, Remchingen)
  • 2006 Spiegelfechterei (La ultima aventura de Don Quijote) for countertenor with an obligatory hand mirror; Text: Abel Martín (WP December 6, 2006, Montevideo / Uruguay)
  • 2005 Schlegel's shadow for countertenor and five instruments (Fl, Klar, Vc, Klav, Schlzg); Text: Friedrich Schlegel (Premiere November 6, 2005, Festival "Klangwerkstatt Berlin 2005")
  • 2005 aunque for soprano, bass clarinet, viola and piano
  • 2004 it for mezzo-soprano, clarinet (B-flat), viola and piano; Text: Eduardo Spinelli (WP July 13, 2004, Robert-Bosch-Saal im Rotebühlzentrum, Stuttgart) (WP revised October 5, 2007, Remchingen)
  • 2004 Ende for mezzo-soprano, alto flute, (Bb / bass) clarinet and viola; Text: Words from the Apocalypse of Johannes (WP January 14, 2005, Museum Wiesbaden) Commissioned by Ensemble Phorminx (Beckmann project)
  • 2003 March songs II . Three songs based on poems by Heinar Kipphardt for tenor and piano (premiere July 17, 2004, Neues Theaterhaus Stuttgart )
  • 2002 Achmatowa-Lied for mezzo-soprano and clarinet (A); Text: Anna Achmatowa (German Alexander Nitzberg ) (premiere November 15, 2003, Gustav-Siegle-Haus, Stuttgart )
  • 2001 Akhmatova madrigal for soprano, clarinet (B-flat) and violoncello; Text: Anna Andrejewna Achmatowa (German: Alexander Nitzberg) (Premiere April 7, 2002, Saal Am Palais Weimar, Festival "3rd Weimar Spring Days")
  • 1993 March songs . Six songs based on poems by Heinar Kipphardt for tenor and piano (revised 2000) (premiered June 25, 2002, Freiburg / Breisgau)

Vocal ensemble

  • 2009 Sieben Lichen for five singers (SMATB) and four instruments (Fl, Kl, Vc, Kb) (WP October 22, 2009, Heidelberg)
  • 2006 Limits of responsibility for six singers with signs (SMATBarB) and three instruments (Fl, Kl, Schlzg); Text: Collage of words and syllables by L. Heintzen ( Prinzhorn Collection ) (WP July 5, 2006, Heidelberg) (WP new version March 29, 2007, Spiegelsaal Heidelberg)
  • 2004 Certainly for six votes (SMCTBarB); Text: Franz Kafka ( WP March 7, 2005, Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Berlin / Festival "maerzmusik")
  • 2000 once (Bembo Madrigal) for five voices (SCATB); Text: Piedro Bembo ( Premiere February 8, 2003, Theaterhaus Stuttgart -Wangen / Festival "Eclat 2003")
  • 2000 Choral fantasy using the chorale "Brich an, o Schöne Morgenlicht" by JS Bach for six voices and eight instruments (SSAATB, Fl, EH / Ob, Klar, Fg, Klav, Va, Vc, Kb) (premiere February 8, 2002 , Stuttgart)
  • 1997 breathing for six voices and six instruments (AATBBB, Fl, Klar, Vc, Kb, 2 Perc); Text: Phoneme (WP March 20, 1998, Hall of Mirrors Prince Carl Heidelberg / Festival "Heidelberger Frühling")

Orchestra / large ensemble

  • 2005 Schatten (spiel - ein Saiten) tanz Helmut Lachenmann's piano piece Schattentanz, arranged for a large ensemble (2.2.2.2 - 2.2.1 - 1 Ad-hoc. 5 Schlzg - Hfe, Klav - 2.2.2.1) (WP November 26, 2005, Musikhochschule Stuttgart)
  • 1996 Strom for large orchestra (premiere February 17, 1997, TH Darmstadt) Commissioned by the orchestra of the TH Darmstadt

Instrumental chamber music

  • 2009 Kehren for oboe, double bass, piano, percussion and obligatory conductor (premiere December 2, 2009, Backnang)
  • 2006 Luigi Nono, ¿Dónde estás hermano? arranged for flute, english horn, clarinet (B-flat), violin and piano (premiered September 16, 2006, Córdoba / Argentina)
  • 2003 Aggregate (2nd state) for five woodwinds with interchangeable instruments and obbligato conductor (Picc- / C- / G- / Bass-Fl, Ob, EH / OA, Eb / A- / Bassett- / Bass- / Kb-Kl , Fg / Kfg) (WP 1st state June 21, 2004, Forum Neues Musiktheater, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt) (WP 2nd state March 29, 2007, Neues Theaterhaus Stuttgart)
  • 1999 Gestell string quartet (premiered September 11, 1999, Burg Frankenstein / Darmstadt)
  • 1998 Three Intermezzi by Johannes Brahms (opp. 119/1, 76/4, 117/1) arranged for chamber ensemble (Ob, EH, Klar, Fg, Theorbe, V, Kb) (WP March 10, 2000, St. Anna Kapelle Heidelberg)
  • 1995 Quartet fragment. 3rd Cello Quartet (premiered December 5, 2000, Musikhochschule Stuttgart)
  • 1994 Klangschatten / Schwarzer Block for 2 pianos (premiered May 26th 1995, Berlin)
  • 1993 Suspension for Ob, Klar, Fg, Horn (premiere April 1, 1994, Weikersheim Castle)

Solo pieces

  • 2008–10 punches for piano with mobile preparation
  • 2007 Breastfeeding for double bass solo
  • 2006 Spiegelfechterei (La ultima aventura de Don Quijote) for countertenor with an obligatory hand mirror (WP December 6, 2006, Montevideo / Uruguay)
  • 2002 Akhmatova piece for clarinet in A (solo version of Akhmatova song) (WP 11 April 2003, Teatrino de la Tapalanda, Rio Cuarto / Argentina)
  • 1995 Bruchstück for piano (premiere October 28, 1999, Heidelberg)

Ad hoc ensemble

  • 2002 Waiting… for SUONO MOBILE for piano, string instrument, tubular bells, tape and 288 gulps worldwide (premiere April 28 to May 3, 2002, Stuttgart)
  • 2002 advance and passage for four pullers and obligatory throwers (premiere February 4, 2002, Musikhochschule Stuttgart / Festival "Eclat 2002")

Youth compositions before 1993

  • 1989 Zeitgeist music theater for solos, choirs and orchestra. Text collage
  • 1989 Zeitgeist for orchestra
  • 1989 Lost Me for soprano, string quartet and large orchestra based on a text by Gottfried Benn
  • 1988 Traumbilder II 2nd cello quartet (Premiere November 1992, Karlsruhe)
  • 1989 The Denker Chamber Opera for two singers and a small orchestra
  • 1987 Traumbilder 1st cello quartet (premiered June 1988, Stephanssaal Karlsruhe)
  • 1987 Husband and wife walk through the crab barracks for baritone and large orchestra based on a text by G. Benn
  • 1987 Two poems by Rainer Maria Rilke for soprano and small ensemble
  • 1987 Der Soldat for tenor and small ensemble based on a text by Joseph von Eichendorff

Texts

As a publicist, Kopp wrote articles for the lexica " Composers of the Present " and " The New Grove Dictionary ", manuscripts for radio broadcasts for SWR and Deutschlandradio Kultur as well as articles for the magazine " MusikTexte " and numerous programs.

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personal data
SURNAME Kopp, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kopp, Jan Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German contemporary composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim