Margarete Huber

Margarete Huber (* in Neresheim ) is a German singer and composer . She works as a concert and opera singer and as a composer for concerts and music theater.

Life

education

Margarete Huber attended the Oberstufenkolleg Bielefeld with the main subjects music and art, and then studied singing, musicology and composition at the University of the Arts , the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Bremen . In addition, she completed master classes with György Kurtág , Barbara Schlick and Nigel Rogers . Huber lives in Berlin .

singing

As a singer (soprano), she is particularly specialized in baroque singing, bel canto technique and contemporary vocal music . Margarete Huber made her debut with the operatic world premiere of Georg Katzer's L´homme machine-Der Maschinenmensch at the Rheinsberg Castle Theater . Since then she has sung numerous roles in opera and concert. Their spectrum ranges from virtuoso leading roles in baroque operas ( Agrippina to L'Orfeo ) to new music with over 50 world premieres . She sings recitals with well-known repertoire from baroque to modern, and rarities such as premieres of rediscovered songs by Charlotte Schlesinger or alpine yodel songs. She sang with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Kaliningrad State Symphony Orchestra and the Brandenburg Concerto. She is a member of the Berliner Ensemble für Neue Musik ensemble xenon ., And sings in a duo with the pianists Fidan Aghayeva-Edler and Tomas Bächli, and in a duo with the harpsichordist Eva Schulze. In addition to composed music, she also sings concerts with free improvisation . International singing engagements, etc. a. ( Konzerthaus Berlin , Festival Musica Antiqua Montenegro, Dresden Days of Contemporary Music , L´accademia amore, Greek Opera Festival, Festival New Music Basel, Days for Early Music, Diagonale, Musiktheatertage Vienna, International Congress Microtonality, Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, John McIntosh Theater London, Hamburg State Opera, Gare du Nord Basel, Sophiensæle Berlin, Berlin Cathedral, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle , Festival Vieux média - La Générale Paris.)

composition

As a composer, Huber writes works for chamber music , orchestra , opera , musical theater and electroacoustic music and uses historical techniques from European and non-European music as well as experimental, objects, soundscapes , electronics, circuit bending and visuals. In 2011 she was invited to the “First German-Polish Composition Workshop” and to the “International Microtonality Congress”. Her chamber opera Schattenlos (Libretto: Steffen Thiemann), which premiered in 2017 at the Schlossplatztheater in Berlin , was performed again in the second season in 2018. Huber's compositional approach was presented in a composer portrait of the Cooperativa Neue Musik in 2018.

International composition performances, a. a. in the Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, Musiktheatertage Vienna, Festival Vieux Média-La Generale Paris, Diagonale, Theater Festival Munich, International Competition for Vocal Art, Festival New Music Basel, Randspiele , European Festival , First German-Polish Composition Workshop, Festival Visits Chemnitz, Transart Festival, Theater Gütersloh, Rudolf-Oetker-Halle , Kunsthalle Neuwerk Konstanz, Concours international de piano d´Orléans, Sophiensæle Berlin, Franconian Summer , Guardini Foundation, Unheard of Music Berlin, Festival Klangwerkstatt Berlin , Schlossplatztheater Berlin, Theater Brandenburg, Gare du Nord Basel, Printemps des Poètes , Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin, Kaskadenkondensator Basel, Festival As You Like It.

Awards

Prices:

• Youth competition "Quite different" (1st prize)
• Infernale (1st prize)
• International Music Competition for Young Culture (2nd Prize)
• Prix ​​Marguerite de Reding of the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein (1st Prize)

Scholarships:

• Study grant from the Markelstiftung
• Scholarship holder of the music theater academy of the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden.
• Scholarship holder at the art festival inspections "Wolkenkuckucksheim", Chemnitz

Repertoire (selection)

Opera and musical theater

(Performed roles :) Claudio Monteverdi L'Orfeo ( Ninfa / Euridice / La Musica ), Claudio Monteverdi L'incoronazione di Poppea ( Valletto / Amore ), Georg Friedrich Händel Agrippina (Nerone), Georg Friedrich Händel Acis and Galatea ( Damon ), Georg Friedrich Händel Alcina ( Oberto ), Johann Georg Conradi The beautiful and faithful Ariadne ( Phaidra ), Johann Gottfried Schwanberger Romeo e Giulia ( Benvoglio ), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Così fan tutte ( Dorabella ), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Le nozze di Figaro ( La Contessa / Marcellina / Cherubino ), Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos ( Echo ), Kurt Weill The Threepenny Opera ( Lucy ), Victor Ullmann The Emperor of Atlantis ( drummer ), Manos Tsangaris “tiny musical theater miniatures ” ( singer ), Georg Katzer L´homme machine - Der Maschinenmensch ( WP ) ( The Singing Machine ), Frieder Butzmann Juhrop ( WP ) ( woman ), Ralph Benatzky and others "Mein Essen mit Victor", ( operetta singer ), Anabel Sarabi and others "Utopia 100" ( WP ) ( singer) n ), Verdi, Bellini, Mozart a. a. "AMMO-NITE" ( Violetta / Elvira / Contessa ), Miika Hyytiäinen Performing Scene - Debussy ( WP ) ( singer ), ensemble xenon / Teresa Reiber Improvisationplus ( WP ) ( singer ), Margarete Huber "Nautilus Korallis Spiralia" (WP) ( Singer ), "Oedipus Lost" (WP) ( Iokaste )

World premieres

(World premieres of new works, in musical theater or concert, by a. A. :) Liz Allbee , Klaus Barm, Detlef Bensmann, Guy Bettini, Wojciech Blazejczyk, Jeffrey Arlo Brown, Frieder Butzmann, Sidney Corbett , James Etherington, Christoph Funabashi, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Bardo Henning , Ralf Hoyer , Neo Hülcker, Miika Hyytiäinen, Bettina Junge, Gordon Kampe , Katharina Karrenberg, Georg Katzer , Christian Kesten, Rainer Killius, Benjamin Lang , Jamie Man, Hans-Jürg Meier , Andrea Neumann , Michael Renkel , Anabel Sarabi, Christoph Schiller , Klaus Schöpp, Andreas Staffel, Sebastian Stier , Katarzyna Taborowska-Kaszuba, Marcus Thomas, Anouschka Trocker, Johannes Wallmann , Steffi Weismann , Markus Wettstein, Ruth Wiesenfeld, Antje Vowinckel , Grace Yoon, Rafal Zapala, and Helmut Zapf

Cantatas and songs

(Listed cantatas and songs:) Antonio Vivaldi Lunga dal vago volto / Amor hai vinto / Il povero mio cor , Georg Friedrich Händel Mi palpita il mio cor , Joseph Haydn Arianna a Naxos , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Exultate Jubilate , Henry Purcell Selected songs , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Complete Songs , Hugo Wolf Goethe-Lieder , Claude Debussy Ariettes oubliées , Maurice Ravel Cinque mélodies populaires grecques , Lili Boulanger Clairières dans le ciel , Hanns Eisler newspaper clippings / Selected songs , Charlotte Schlesinger Five Songs , Samuel Barber Hermit Songs , György Kurtag Drei Inscriptions , Luciano Berio Folk Songs , György Ligeti Der Sommer , Bardo Henning Stanzas of meditation , James Etherington retelling

Improvised music

Improvisations in permanent ensembles (formerly: "Margaretes Zimmer", "2:13 Ensemble", "babels besen". Currently, since 2012: ensemble xenon , and since 2014 also "huber plus pohl"). In addition, free collaborations with musicians and dancers (including Yuko Kaseki , Anna Melnikova, Stephanie Maher, Jenny Haack) and solo improvisations.

Compositions (selection)

Opera / musical theater works

• 2017: Schattenlos chamber opera for baritone, bass baritone, piano and 4-channel feed (viola, harpsichord, zither, percussion, electronic sounds, breathing sounds (libretto: Steffen Thiemann ))
• 2015: Oedipus Lost Music theater scenes: Opera for the blind : baritone & electronics, Eternal love: piano, Noche interminabile: voices & night noises, sound & smoke: car noises & navy voice, Happy days: soprano, concrete: voice & instrumental ensemble, you are not your parents' child: cello. (Music partly played, partly live)
• 2015: Cloud Cuckoo Opera Interactive music theater project
• 2014: SCREAM music theater for 2 Korg organs, synthesizer with circuit bending, trumpet, 4 natural voices, 1 voice soprano, playback, video, drawing, stroboscope (as part of Sinkorswim )
• 2013: il vento / raving about soprano, speaking voices, e-piano with circuit-bending, oboe, baroque organ, instrumental ensemble, city noises, bird sounds and light-controlled audience participation
• 2013: Perfect Hotel Musiktheater for saxophone, trombone, violin, viola, double bass, soprano, speaker, tape and audience participation
• 2012: Vision in White Scene for tenor, piano, speaker and beggar's drum (Text: Bertolt Brecht )
• 2012: Haussprüche, musical theatrical scenes for Hannah Höch for soprano, accordion and percussion
• 2011: Giardino utopico / your utopia , music theater for soprano, instrumental ensemble and tape
• 2010: Aria of the day for soprano, piano with preparations, tape
• 2006: Springteufel chamber opera for dramatic coloratura soprano, lyrical soprano and natural voice (mezzo-soprano) (Text: Kathrin Röggla )

Orchestral works

• 2005: Inside for orchestra

Chamber music

• 2018: GREEN for piano and tape
• 2016: NOW for string trio
• 2016: Vieux média for voice and porta sound with circuit bending
• 2015: Miedzyzdroje for viola and violoncello
• 2014: Rituals in outer space for viola and tape
• 2012: fra un po´ for Sipsi and breath sounds
• 2012 indeed? for saxophone, trombone, melodica, objects, violin, viola, double bass
• 2011: Genshagen for flute, saxophone, electric guitar, piano, 2 violins, objects, soprano and tape
• 2010: nel cielo e in altri luoghi for violin, viola, electric guitar, tape
• 2010: the birds stand in the air and scream for piano and tape
• 2008: svolta for flute, sheng, baglama, violin, violoncello, double bass
• 2008: he bowed his ear to me for six female voices and piano
• 2008: Seven pieces for solo voice for 2 coloratura sopranos, 2 lyrical sopranos, 1 dramatic soprano, 1 mezzo-soprano, 1 alto
• 2007: trena for harp solo
• 2007: seduction of Europe for 18 votes
• 2005: STRONG for wind quintet
• 2005: hello! Hello! for 5 children's voices & feed
• 2005: Härtsfeld for oboe, trumpet, guitar, piano
• 2004: veggio negli ochi della lume for soprano and piano
• 2004: ANA for mezzo-soprano and guitar
• 2000: so for flute, trumpet, guitar, percussion, piano, violin, metal objects, melodica, paper, egg slicer, white noise
• 2000: waldstück for flute, guitar, percussion, melodica, metal objects and soprano
• 1999: Isomerism for flute, guitar, percussion, melodica, metal objects and soprano

Installations

• 2015: Visual music video with drawn visual music
• 2013: Seeing and hearing go by video with drawn and danced visual music
• 2011: Ways to Hellerau Theatrical video / sound installation for 3 videos with 3 speakers

Discography

• il vento / swarm , composition, singing, voice: Margarete Huber - La Musica
• Transforma - music in space for five sopranos , composition: Johannes Wallmann, text: Stéphane Mallarmé, soprano: Ksenija Lukic, Maacha Deubner, Susanne Serfling, Anita Schuppan, Margarete Huber, Integral-Art
• Music in Germany Vol. 26 - Sacred space and sound experiment , with: Johannes Wallmann “Inner Sound” for 4 orchestral groups and sopranos Part I, soprano: Maacha Deubner, Ksenija Lukic, Susanne Serfling, Margarete Huber; Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin; Karl Anton Rickenbacher Conductor - RCA Red Seal BMG Classics
• Kryptonale , festival recording, etc. a. with: Margarete Huber (composition & soprano) Nautilus Korallis Spiralia for voice - Kryptonale-Cd
• Not Missing Drums Project - Offline Adventures , etc. a. with Aleks Kolkowski, Matthias Bauer, Axel Dörner, Alex Nowitz, Andrea Neumann, Elisabeth Böhm-Christl, Bardo Henning, Margarete Huber -Leo Lab CD

Publications

• Margarete Huber concept piece , in: Urs Peter Schneider (Hrsg.): Conceptual music. An annotated anthology , Bern 2016
• Margarete Huber Wolkenkuckucksoper , in: Begehungen eV (Ed.): Inspections No.12 Wolkenkuckucksheim , Chemnitz 2015
• Margarete Huber DEINE UTOPIE , book project for UTOPIA 100, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden 2011
• Margarete Huber “Europa is made” for 18 voices - new music with young singers in: T. Rhode-Jüchtern / M.Petersen (eds.): Europe is made - variations of a bottom-up construction , Vienna 2010
• Harald Hahn / David Fuhr (eds.): Praise of Despair - songs and texts to poems by Theodor Kramer with drawings by Margarete Huber , Ibidem Verlag 2006
• Margarete Huber On free improvisation , in: G. Nauck (Hrsg.): Positions. Texts on current music , Berlin 2000

Teaching

Margarete Huber teaches singing at the ta-musikatelier in Berlin , and her students have already received awards from "Jugend Musiziert". She was invited to the International Microtonality Congress as a lecturer for voice & microtonality , headed the composition workshop - From Bach to Today at Oberstufenkolleg Bielefeld , voice & movement workshop at the Soundance Festival , and in a team with Hans-Jürg Meier , Christoph Markus Schiller and Markus Wetstein Improvisation workshops for composition students at the Zurich University of the Arts .

Web links

• Literature by and about Margarete Huber in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Margarete Huber
• Homepage of ensemble xenon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Culture database: Margarete Huber accessed on August 8, 2014
2. ↑ https://margaretehuber.wordpress.com/vita-2/
3. ^ Kulturserver Berlin: Margarete Huber's composition vita, accessed on August 8, 2014
4. ↑ Ensemble Xenon ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 8, 2014. 
5. ^ Cooperativa Neue Musik , accessed on August 8, 2014.
6. ↑ Culture database: Margarete Huber accessed on August 8, 2014