Katharina Nohl

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Katharina Nohl (* 1973 in the GDR ) is a German composer and pianist .

Live and act

Nohl studied piano, performance and musicology . in Southampton , Ferrara and London . She then lived in Munich for some time and then studied with Alfons Kontarsky at the Mozarteum Salzburg and with Werner Bärtschi .

She has been a composer since 2015. Her first work was the reinterpretation of the Turkish folk song Üsküdar'a gider iken by Fazıl Say . In 2016 she released her debut album Creating Childhood on OehmsClassics .

She has been giving international concerts since 2017.

Nohl composed the work By the Baltic Sea for the Youth Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg . The world premiere took place with her as a pianist in July 2019 in St. Petersburg .

Nohl is co-founder of the Swiss Female Composers Festival . In cooperation with the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), the festival for women composers will take place for the first time in 2020.

She has lived in Switzerland since 2002, is married and has two daughters.

Compositions (selection)

piano

Piano solo:

  • 2015: Üsküdar'a gider iken
  • 2016: In Memory - dedicated to a friend
  • 2017: German dance
  • 2018: Crystal

Piano 4 hands:

  • 2017: The Munot bell

orchestra

  • 2018: The Munot bell
  • 2019: By the Baltic Sea

Discography

  • 2016: Creating Childhood (Oehms Classics)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Editing: Piano concert with Katharina Nohl in Ortrand - Niederlausitz Aktuell. Retrieved on August 28, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Creating Childhood Album on prestomusic.com. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ely Cathedral - Lunchtime Concert - Katharina Nohl Article on elycathedral.org. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ 88 piano keys ... and more! Article on nordagenda.ch. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ From Lusatia to the World Article from July 23, 2019 by Catrin Würz on lr-online.de. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
  6. ^ Swiss Female Composers Festival website of the festival. Retrieved August 28, 2019. (English)
personal data
SURNAME Nohl, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH GDR