Martin Fabian

Martin Fabian (2009)

Martin Fabian (born April 1, 1978 in Schwarzach im Pongau ) is an Austrian composer and conductor .

Life

Fabian received his first musical training in 1986 in recorder lessons . He began taking clarinet lessons in 1988 with Fritz Kronthaler von den Querschläger . He was also a member of the school wind orchestra and the school choir, and in 1996 he passed the gold award for young musicians. From 1996 to 1997 he was clarinetist with the Salzburg Military Music under Hannes Apfolterer . From 1998 to 1999 he was trained as a conductor with Emil Rieder . In 2000 he took over the traditional music band Werfen as Kapellmeister and began studying instrumental and vocal pedagogy at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg , majoring in clarinet. He has been teaching clarinet and saxophone at the Musikum Salzburg since 2002. He later began studying composition and music theory at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Ernst Ludwig Leitner . Fabian works as a speaker at the seminars for young musicians of the Salzburg Brass Band Association and at the folk dance week in Sankt Margarethen im Lungau . On the occasion of “200 years of home defense”, Martin Fabian was commissioned with the work “Heimat Friede Freiheit” to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the struggles for freedom of 1809. Concert tours took him to Italy , Belgium , and in 2006 to China . Martin Fabian is Kapellmeister of the Solvay factory band and the Gmunden city band.

Works

Fabian wrote his first compositions and arrangements as part of the IGP studies. In 2005 he was awarded a first prize in a composition competition for a mountain fair for choir and brass ( "Loferer Steinberg Fair"). 2006 saw the inclusion of “Traumbilder” for wind orchestra in the catalog of compulsory pieces for valuation games of the Upper Austrian Brass Music Association (OÖBV), recording on CD by the Upper Austrian Military Music.

In 2008 he was awarded first prize at the “Schnopfhagen Composition Competition” of the Province of Upper Austria for flute, clarinet and string trio. He wrote works for the competition “ Prima la musica ”, performed in Salzburg, Upper Austria and Vorarlberg , for wind instruments and wind orchestras as well as literature for school ensembles, with a focus on zither and dulcimer .

Web links

• Data in the Salzburgwiki
• Traumbilder - compulsory piece of the OÖBV 2007/2008 for level B.
• Upper Austrian brass band association