Jan Masanetz

Jan Masanetz (* 1979 in Leipzig ) is a German composer .

From 2004 to 2009 he studied composition with Manfred Trojahn at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf and then completed a master class with Wolfgang Rihm at the University of Music Karlsruhe . He was funded by the German National Academic Foundation , the Aribert Reimann Foundation for the promotion of contemporary piano song and the Wilfried Steinbrenner Foundation for the promotion of serious music.

His father was the literary scholar and Fontane researcher Michael Masanetz (1953-2019).

Performances (selection)

Premiere organ piece prelude, song and swan song (commissioned by the German Evangelical Church Congress 2007; performed by Zsigmond Szathmáry in Cologne)
WP The Rhymer's Ayre (3) , performed by the International Ensemble Modern Academy in the off-program of the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007.
UA A Farewell for soprano and ensemble, Ensemble orkest de ereprijs (NL) at the 14th Young Composers Meeting 2008 in Apeldoorn.
UA Seingalt Symphony , German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern , Saarbrücken John Kalitzke the SR-festival "Mouvement. Festival for New Music "
UA North Sea. Two Fantasies MDR-Rundfunkchor, David Jones , Leipzig 2008.
tarts & vicars Arditti Quartet, Darmstadt Summer Course 2010.
fantasia di bravura MDR-Rundfunkchor, Howard Arman , Leipzig 2010.

1st prize in the composition competition of the Mozart Foundation from 1838 in Frankfurt am Main for The Rhymer's Ayre (1) , 2006
3rd Prize of the Günter Bialas Composition Competition 2007 of the University of Music and Theater Munich and the GEMA Foundation for Die Liebende again (Bettina Fragments I) , 2007
1st Prize of the International Composition Competition of the Association of Friends of the MDR broadcasting chores for Nordsee.Zwei fantasies ., 2008
Prize winner of the Saarbrücken Composers' Workshop, 2009