Marco Hertenstein

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Marco Hertenstein (* 1975 in Lahr / Black Forest ) is a German composer and university professor .

Life

Hertenstein received varied music lessons from the age of six. The contact with different styles of music from jazz and pop to classical music was formative for his further career. He completed his composition studies with Enjott Schneider at the University of Music and Theater in Munich in 2003. Since then he has lived as a freelance composer in Munich. On behalf of the International Bach Academy Stuttgart , he composed Partita Nova for the renowned violin virtuoso Julia Fischer . The violist Nils Mönkemeyer commissioned him with Luce morenda , which he also recorded on CD.

In 2004 he composed Großer Lärm based on Franz Kafka for the Kafka Borges Festival in Prague . His children's opera The Lost Thoughts was premiered in 2008 at the Stadttheater Kaufbeuren and re-enacted in 2009 at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz . After Patrick Süskind's Das Parfum , L'odeur de l'assassin was created , which the dedicatee Nils Mönkemeyer launched in 2009 in the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris.

The Collegium Bratananium under the direction of the conductor and composer Johannes X. Schachtner commissioned him in 2011 with the choral work So you go now on a text by Georg Christian Schemelli . For the 70th birthday of the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the hip-hop band Einshoch6 , Hertenstein arranged the music, which the two ensembles recorded together on CD. In 2016 the flute virtuosos Sir James Galway and Philipp Jundt interpreted the world premiere of the concert for two flutes and string orchestra Shades of Love Music by Hertenstein as part of the Gonjiam Music Festival in the South Korean capital Seoul .

Marco Hertenstein also appeared as a composer for film and television in appearance, for which he with, among others, in 2006 Rolf-Hans Müller award for film music of the SWR on the occasion of Television Film Festival Baden-Baden was excellent.

He taught at the Department of Art Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and is a lecturer in the history of film music at the University of Music and Theater in Munich.

Selected Works

Stage works

  • Das Leben ein Traum (2004), spoken opera based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca for four percussionists, violin and tape; World premiere (2004): Allerheiligen-Hofkirche, Munich, director: Vera Nolte
  • Dawn (2006), ballet for the ensemble of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich
  • Lost Thoughts (2008), children's opera; World premiere (2008/09): Stadttheater Kaufbeuren and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich

Orchestral works

  • Concerto for flute and orchestra (2002); World premiere (2002): Soloist: Philipp Jundt, Orchestra of the University of Music and Theater in Munich, Conductor: Volker Hiemeyer
  • Concerto for violin and orchestra (2003); World premiere (2003): Soloist: Rudens Turku, Orchestra of the University of Music and Theater in Munich, Conductor: Volker Hiemeyer
  • Großer Lärm (2004) for mezzo-soprano and string orchestra and harp based on an autobiographical prose sketch by Franz Kafka; World premiere (2004): Kafka-Borges Festival, Prague, Czech Republic (2004)
  • Concerto for bass trombone and wind orchestra (2006); World premiere (2006): Stadtcasino Basel, Switzerland (2006), soloist: Dani Vesel, Stadtmusik Basel, conductor: Philipp Wagner
  • Das Tor zur Fabelwelt (2010), musical fairy tale based on texts by Leonie Swann; World premiere (2010): Stadthalle Tuttlingen, soloists: Lucia Huang and Sebastian Euler (Duo d'Accord), Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, conductor: Leo Siberski
  • Shades of Love (2016), concerto for 2 flutes and string orchestra; World premiere (2016): Gonjiam Music Festival, Seoul Arts Center Seoul, South Korea, soloists: Sir James Galway and Philipp Jundt, flutes, Korean Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Marco Hertenstein

Choral works

  • So you go now (2011) for 8 part choir according to Georg Christian Schemelli; World premiere (2011): Collegium Bratananium, conductor: Johannes X. Schachtner

Chamber music

  • Partita Nuova (2004) for violin solo and tape; World premiere (2005): Stiftskirche Stuttgart, commissioned by the International Bach Academy Stuttgart, interpreter: Julia Fischer
  • Luce Morenda (2013) for viola solo; CD production (2013): Nils Mönkemeyer, Bach and more, Sony 2013
  • Agnetes Traum (2015) for flute and piano, metamorphosis after Friedrich Kuhlaus ballet music from the opera “Elfenhügel”; World premiere (2015): Ohji Hall, Tokyo, Japan (2015). Performers: Philipp Jundt, flute, Miyuki Washimiya, piano
  • Großstadt-Lieder (2016), song cycle with poems by Masche Kaléko and Kurt Tucholsky

for soprano and ensemble; World premiere (2016): Bavarian Insurance Chamber, Munich

Awards

  • 2004 Franz Grothe Young Talent Award for film music
  • 2006 Rolf-Hans Müller Prize for Film Music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nils Mönkemeyer: Bach and more  ( 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. , CD meeting message; musikderzeit.de, accessed February 18, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.musikderzeit.de  
  2. ^ The lost thoughts , Augsburger Allgemeine; augsburger-allgemeine.de, accessed February 18, 2017
  3. ↑ Gonjiam Music Festival , presenting Hertenstein's Shades of Love; gonjiamfestival.com, accessed February 18, 2017
  4. ↑ WS 2008/09 Marco Hertenstein , Winterkolleg "Echt / Falsch" of the Department of Art Studies; kunstwissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de, accessed February 18, 2017
  5. ↑ Marco Hertenstein , IMDbPro; pro-labs.imdb.com, accessed February 18, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hertenstein, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest