Karsten Gundermann
Karsten Gundermann (born October 1, 1966 in Dresden ) is a German composer . He lives as a freelance composer in Hamburg .
Life
He attended Hans Jürgen Wenzel 's children's composer class and then studied with Udo Zimmermann at the Dresden University of Music .
From 1990 he studied at the National Academy for Chinese Theater in Beijing . In 1993 he composed the Peking opera Die Nachtigall based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen . The opera was performed in 2010 as part of the Rheingau Music Festival in the Palais am Zoo in Frankfurt am Main .
In 2003 he composed the Sino-German seasons and times of the day based on Goethe's eponymous cycle of poems on behalf of the RIAS Chamber Choir and Concerto Köln . In June 2010 his compositional arrangement of Le cinesi , a baroque opera with music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and a libretto by Pietro Metastasio , premiered at the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival.
Movie
- 2002: Crazy about Paris
- 2002: Shot off
- 2010: Faust II reloaded - I love the one who desires the impossible!
Web links
- Works by and about Karsten Gundermann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Karsten Gundermann in the archive of contemporary composers of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
- Portrait: Karsten Gundermann online magazine of the Goethe-Institut China, June 2010
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- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 3, 2010, page 37.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gundermann, Karsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |