Jonathan Bepler

Jonathan Bepler (* 1959 in Media , Pennsylvania ) is an American composer , guitarist , singer and installation artist .

Life

Jonathan Bepler studied composition with Louis Calabro , Joel Chadabe and Vivian Fine , singing with Frank Baker and Theodore Uppman and music performance with Milford Graves , Bill Dixon and Min Tanaka at Bennington College in Bennington / Vermont until 1993 .

From 1985 to 1996 he was the guitarist of the Glenn Branca Ensemble , with whom he toured three times in Europe, the USA and Asia. In addition, he began composing his first opera in 1987. During his student days, he was involved as a choreographer and singer in the performance of several baroque operas (including Gluck's Orpheo ed Euridice ).

From 1993 onwards, the first sound installations ( Source to Sound ), drama and ballet music were created. From 1996 he worked as a composer on the film series Cremasters by Matthew Barney . In 1997 he was the baritone soloist at the world premiere of Burkhard Stangl's opera Der Venusmond on the Empire State Building .

From 2000 he worked at the Berlin Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz as a composer a. a. with Sasha Waltz and Lisa Densem . In 2003, the piece California was created in collaboration with John Jasperse for the Festival International de Danse a Cannes . In 2006 the Ensemble Modern performed its Fascia (concert piece for orchestra, children's choir, opera soloists and foley artists ) at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt .

Installations

• Automation of Accidental Gestures computer-aided sound installation and sculptures by Sue Rees (with Fred Lomberg-Holm , Jennifer Monson , Hope Clarke , Tom Goralnik , Dan Froot and others) and others. a. in New York, Miami and Pittsfield, 1992-95
• Source to Sound , sound installation, 1993
• On Balance , audio installation, 2000
• The Order , sound installation for the Cremaster cycle exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , 2003
• Double quartet for: together again for the first time , video and sound installation, 2005

Compositions

• Innana , dance opera (with Christina Svane ), 1987
• The Great Belzoni , Cabaret Opera, 1990
• Keep Your Hands Off , chamber piece for piano, saxophone, cello, bass, guitar and drums, 1997
• Primary Orifice for the Glenn Branca Ensemble, 1998
• Ruins , video opera project, 1999
• Transient Symphony: Oratorio for Hillside and Valley , mobile soundtrack for the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial , 2003
• The Rape of the Sabine Women , video opera project with Eve Sussman , 2005
• Gezeiten , music for the dance play by Sasha Waltz, 2005
• Fascia , concert piece for orchestra, children's choir, opera soloists and foley artists, 2006

Discography

• Masterpieces of Fantasy , 1997
• Cremaster 5 , Original Soundtrack Recording, 1998
• Alternative Schubertiade (Anthology), 1999
• Music for Cremaster 2 , 1999
• State of the Union (Anthology), 2001
• Music for Cremaster 3 , 2002
• Transient Symphony , 2003

Web links

• Jonathan Bepler's homepage