Leonard Küßner

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Leonard Küßner at the 71st International Cannes Film Festival 2018

Leonard Küßner (born November 23, 1993 in Gengenbach ) is a German composer , orchestrator and musician .

Life

Leonard Küßner was born in Gengenbach in 1993 and grew up in Offenburg . At the age of seven he received his first composition lessons, accompanied by training on the piano, classical percussion and music theory . After graduating from high school , he studied film music and sound design at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg from 2014 to 2017 . Workshops and recordings at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg , the Musikhochschule Mannheim under Joerg Reiter as well as seminars with Florian Sitzmann ( Sons Mannheims ) and orchestral recordings deepened his education.

Leonard Küßner lives and works in Berlin .

Act

As composer and orchestrator, film music and symphonic works have been recorded by the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg under conductor Jörg Iwer , chamber music recordings with the Slovak Sinfonietta Orchestra with mezzo-soprano Felicitas Brunke and soprano Raphaela Stürmer, as well as recordings with tenor Daniel Kluge ( Stuttgart State Opera ).

In 2016, together with theater director Annette Müller, sound designer Christian Kessler and motion designer Jonathan Rieder, he was involved in founding the theater collective “Frida Herzkomplott”, which specializes in interdisciplinary performance formats.

In the same year the music for the silent film "Ludwigsburg Symphony" premiered in front of 8,000 listeners at the open air of the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival under the direction of Pietari Inkinen and the Castle Festival Orchestra.

In 2018, the collaboration with the Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg and the sopranos Samantha Gaul and Katharina Ruckgaber at the Freiburg im Breisgau Theater followed .

In addition to his work as a composer, Küßner is also active as a percussionist in various orchestras and ensembles and has performed with the soloists Sebastian Breuninger (1st concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra ), Matthew McDonald (1st solo double bassist of the Berlin Philharmonic ) and Anne Romeis ( SWR Symphony Orchestra) ). Concert tours have taken him to Italy, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, among others.

Küßner made his international debut as a composer at the 71st Festival de Cannes , where the film L'Aria del Moscerino (director: Lukas von Berg) celebrated its world premiere as part of the “Next Generation Awards”.

Works (selection)

Orchestral works

  • 2015: Ludwigsburg Symphony , world premiere on July 16, 2016, Festinwiese, Seeschloss Monrepos, Ludwigsburg, Orchestra of the Castle Festival
  • 2016: Loneliness , four-movement poem setting after Paul Celan for orchestra, soprano and mezzo-soprano, first recording by the Štátny komorný orchestra Žilina / Slovakia

Filmography

  • 2013: Without words. Short film
  • 2014: My little friend made of feathers. Short film
  • 2015: seven sisters. documentary
  • 2016: Around us the world - Eastern European migrant workers in Germany. documentary
  • 2016: Derailed. Short film
  • 2016: Attraction. Experimental dance film
  • 2016: Ludwigsburg Symphony. Documentary silent film
  • 2017: L'Aria del Moscerino. Animation film
  • 2018: C4RE. Animation film
  • 2018: the duet. World's first Dolby Atmos radio play
  • 2018: Identity key cultural heritage. report

theatre

  • 2016: Story Offenburg
  • 2017: choice hairstyle
  • 2017: Memories of November 9th, the diaries of Victor Klemperer (premiere at the Salmen Memorial, Offenburg)
  • 2018: The Goldne Topf - based on ETA Hoffmann (world premiere at Theater Freiburg im Breisgau )

Awards

  • 2017: German Business Film Award
  • 2018: Next Generation Short Tiger

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Badische Zeitung: A theater project wants to help rethink democracy - Offenburg - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Film Academy celebrates the city: A cinematic homage to Ludwigsburg . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Marcel Wehn ​​- Documentary | Corporate Film - Ludwigsburg Symphony. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b The golden pot . ( freiburg.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  5. ^ Badische Zeitung: 24-year-old composer from Offenburg celebrates its premiere at Theater Freiburg - Offenburg - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  6. ^ Lahrer Zeitung, Germany: Kippenheim: The soloist's joy in playing is contagious - Lahrer Zeitung . ( lahrer-zeitung.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  7. ^ Badische Zeitung: Chamber orchestra shines - Ettenheim - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  8. ^ Badische Zeitung: Mozart for openness instead of walls - Ettenheim - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  9. ^ Badische Zeitung: Offenburg film composer honored at the Cannes Film Festival - Offenburg - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Film - Blue Flower. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 28, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.blaue-blume.tv  
  11. ↑ Documentary about an unusual family: Seven sisters and a death . In: Spiegel Online . November 2, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed June 28, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Around Us the World - Eastern European Migrant Workers in Germany. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Victoria Cregan: Derailed. October 13, 2016, accessed June 28, 2018 .
  14. ^ Marcel Wehn: Ludwigsburg Symphony. July 2016, accessed June 28, 2018 .
  15. ^ Lukas von Berg: L'Aria del Moscerino. November 22, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
  16. ↑ SOUND WORLDS: A Dolby Atmos evening with the Film Academy | FKTG - Television and Cinema Technology Society. Accessed June 28, 2018 .
  17. ^ Story Offenburg: Actors in a trailer . In: News of the Ortenau - Offenburger Tageblatt . ( bo.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Web Commerce GmbH www.w-commerce.de: choice of hairstyle. Retrieved June 28, 2018 (German).
  19. ^ Diaries of Victor Klemperer: Testimony of the persecution . In: News of the Ortenau - Offenburger Tageblatt . ( bo.de [accessed on June 28, 2018]).
  20. ↑ Jürgen Reuss: The golden pot - Anna-Elisabeth Frick adapts ETA Hoffmann at the Freiburg Theater as a shrill party. Retrieved June 28, 2018 (German).
  21. ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy: The Prize Winners 2017. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 28, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bmwi.de  
  22. ↑ FFA Filmförderungsanstalt | Others. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Küßner, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, orchestrator and musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Gengenbach