Michel Roth

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Michel Roth (born June 26, 1976 in Altdorf UR , Switzerland ) is a Swiss composer, music researcher and university professor .

Life

Michel Roth studied musicology and German literature for a year at the University of Basel and then composition and music theory with Roland Moser at the Basel School of Music. After graduating with distinction, there were two more years of study at Detlev Müller-Siemens . In 2001 he was appointed to the Lucerne School of Music , where he worked as a professor for composition and music theory and headed the studio for contemporary music. In this role, Michel Roth worked with Sofia Gubaidulina , Pierre Boulez , Péter Eötvös , Helmut Lachenmann and George Benjamin and developed the Contemporary Art Performance course in cooperation with the Lucerne Festival Academy . In 2011 he was appointed professor of composition and music theory at the Basel University of Music , where he is also a member of the research department.

As a composer, Michel Roth has worked with many well-known performers from home and abroad, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Basel Sinfonietta , the Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne , the Musikkollegium Winterthur , the Klangforum Wien , the Ensemble Mosaik Berlin, the Ensemble Phoenix Basel , the Ensemble Ascolta Stuttgart, the Stuttgart Vocalsolisten and the Jack Quartet. He was a guest at numerous international festivals, such as the Lucerne Festival , the Musica Viva (Munich) , the Witten Days for New Chamber Music , the Warsaw Autumn , the Days for New Music Zurich and as a visiting composer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses . In 2003 he was commissioned by the Swiss Tonkünstlerverein, in 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2015 by the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia , and numerous prizes and grants followed, including the 2007 BMW Composition Prize from Musica Viva Munich for his orchestral piece "The Walk". His first opera "Im Bau" was staged by Georges Delnon at the Theater Basel in 2011 , the contemporary operetta "Die Künstliche Mutter" was created in 2016 as a co-production by the Lucerne Festival and Gare du Nord Basel (supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation ). Ricordi Verlag publishes a wide range of his more recent works .

In addition to his practical work, Michel Roth researches and publishes on music theory topics and was music curator of the four interdisciplinary exhibition projects "Harmony and Dissonance" (2006), "Neo-Impressionism and Modernism" (2008), "LINEA" (2011) and "Dieter Roth and Music "(2014) in the Kunsthaus Zug and in the Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin.

Works (selection)

Musical theater

  • "Räuber-Fragmente" (after Robert Walser) for actors, improvising soloists, saxophone, guitar and double bass 2011
  • "Im Bau" (after Franz Kafka) for soprano, oboe, violoncello and piano 2011
  • "The artificial mother" (based on Hermann Burger) for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, two actresses and ensemble 2016

Orchestral works

  • "Arnold Schönberg: Three Piano Pieces op.11", arranged for orchestra by Michel Roth in 1999
  • "The song awakens love", piano songs by Gustav Mahler arranged for orchestra by Michel Roth in 2003
  • "Night piece from the opera Der ferne Klang by Franz Schreker", arranged for chamber orchestra by Michel Roth in 2006
  • "The Walk" for two baritones and orchestra 2007
  • "rebotco" for orchestra 2012
  • "The Last World" for percussion solo and orchestra 2018

Ensemble works

  • "Schöllenen" for Ensemble 2001
  • "Time going back to you" for 6 voices and ensemble 2006
  • "PESSOA" for 9 voices and ensemble 2007
  • "molasse vivante" for ensemble 2007
  • "MOI" for large ensemble (after tapes by Giacinto Scelsi) 2012/13
  • "DOUBLE QUINTET" for wind and string quintets and a director 2017
  • "pod" for large ensemble and live electronics 2017

Chamber music

  • "verinnerung" for piano trio 2001
  • "exhaustion" for string trio 2002
  • "verrückung (... Boogie-Woogie)" for piano quartet 2003 / rev. 2010
  • "Quellmund" for oboe and string trio 2004
  • "HOAX. Variations for Two Guitars" 2004
  • "molasse vivante" for piano duo 2004
  • "Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd" for flute, piano and percussion 2005
  • "Zwirn" for four natural horns 2007
  • "Wendungen" for speaker and piano quintet (as a counterpart to Schönberg's "Ode to Napoleon") 2014
  • "(w) hole" for string quartet 2018

Solo works

  • "Sounds or Animals" for natural horn 2006
  • "Trois Têtes de Giacometti" for percussion 2007
  • "Tête - Crâne" for clarinet 2007
  • "KAVALKADE" for double bass 2007
  • "Eins und Alles" for organ 2008
  • "Plaie et Douceur" for viola 2009
  • "Room expansion signals" for eighth tone horn and electronics 2011
  • "The tongue of the glacier" for singing double bass players 2015
  • "LAUT" Etude for trombone 2016

Fonts (selection)

  • "Analyze Varèse", in: Felix Meyer and Heidy Zimmermann (eds.): Edgard Varèse: composer, sound researcher, visionary , a publication by the Paul Sacher Foundation Basel and the Museum Tinguely, Schott, Mainz ea 2006, p. 480– 481. ISBN 978-3-7957-0455-1
  • Matthias Haldemann (Ed.): Harmony and Dissonance. Gerstl Schönberg Kandinsky. Painting and music on the move , Kunsthaus Zug in collaboration with the Lucerne School of Music, introduction by Christian Meyer, detailed interdisciplinary conversation text by Andreas Brenner, Matthias Haldemann, Michel Roth and a final discussion with Pierre Boulez, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006. ISBN 978-3 -7757-1821-9
  • “The magical square” and “Schönberg, the inventor” in: Lucerne School of Music, Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna (ed.): The magical square, an approach to the visionary Arnold Schönberg , multimedia book box with 10 print and play objects, one CD and a puzzle case by and about Arnold Schönberg, numerous original articles a. a. by Ch. Meyer, M. Roth, M. Böggemann, UP Jauch, C. Emmenegger, A. Jacob, E. Fess and a preface by Nuria Schönberg-Nono, Edizioni Periferia, Poschiavo / Luzern 2006. ISBN 978-3-907474 -23-5
  • "Arnold Schönberg's concept of timbre melody" and "Harmony and dissonance, perception and mediation", in: Claudia Emmenegger, Elisabeth Schwind, Olivier Senn (eds.): Music - Perception - Language , report of the symposium of the same name on the occasion of the Lucerne Festival Summer 2006, Series: A publication by the Lucerne School of Music, Chronos Verlag, Lucerne 2007, pp. 59–80. ISBN 978-3-0340-0875-4
  • “Creative potential. Composing in Central Switzerland ”in: Alois Koch (Hrsg.): Kreative Provinz. Central Switzerland Music Landscape , Pro Libro Verlag, Lucerne 2010, pp. 218–245. ISBN 978-3-905927-06-1
  • “'Draw a straight line and follow it'. A phenomenology of the line in music “, in: Matthias Haldemann (Ed.): Linea. From outline to action: The art of the line between antiquity and the present , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2010, pp. 291–310. ISBN 978-3-7757-2795-2
  • “'Bousculer le temps, bousculer l'espace', allusion and assembly technique in Maurice Ravel's opera 'L'Enfant et les Sortilèges'”, in: Michael Kunkel ea (ed.): Music - Letters - Music. Art and research at the University of Music Basel , Saarbrücken 2013, pp. 80–126. ISBN 978-3897274815
  • Dieter Roth and the music. Discography , Edizioni Periferia, Poschiavo / Luzern 2014. ISBN 978-3906016344
  • Dieter Roth and the music. 'And away with the minutes' , catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthaus Zug and in the Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Edizioni Periferia, Poschiavo / Lucerne 2014. ISBN 978-3906016320
  • "Mimesis and Mimicry: (Self) critical comments on the music-theoretical and compositional application of sonograms", in: Michael Kunkel (Ed.): Les Espaces Sonores. Moods, sound analyzes, spectral music , Pfau Verlag, Büdingen 2016, pp. 78–96. ISBN 978-3897275416
  • “Smorzando. Chopin on the MP3 player ", in: Journal of Sonic Studies, 13 (2017) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/323348/323349/0/0
  • The playing technique of the trombone , Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 2017. ISBN 978-3761823675
  • The playing technique of the drums. Mallets, stimulators, applications , Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel 2018. ISBN 978-3761824061
  • “In the concretion of immediacy. The humoral function of music ”, in: Matthias Haldemann (Ed.): Comedy of Daseins. Art and humor from antiquity to today . Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2018, pp. 414–435. ISBN 978-3775744317

Discography

  • "PATERA" for 4 horns and 4 percussionists (Müller & Schade 5042/2) 2003
  • "Verinnerung" for piano trio (musiques suisses CTS-M88) 2004
  • "molasse vivante" for piano duo (musiques suisses CTS-M107) 2007
  • "Trois Têtes de Giacometti" for percussion solo (musiques suisses CTS-M121) 2009
  • "PESSOA" for 9 voices and ensemble (musiques suisses CTS-M120) 2009
  • "Kavalkade" for double bass solo (Dux 0800/0801) 2010
  • Grammont portrait "Michel Roth" (musiques suisses CTS-M136) 2012
  • "Robber fragments" for actors, improvising soloists, saxophone, guitar and double bass (musiques suisses CTS-M137) 2012
  • "Mondrian cycle": "exhaustion" for string trio, "verinnerung" for piano trio, "verrückung (... Boogie-Woogie)" for piano quartet (NEOS 11506) 2015

Literature on Michel Roth

  • Michael Kunkel: 'I could add that ...'. Claims or speculations about Michel Roth's composition "The Walk" after Robert Walser. In: Dissonanz 107 (2009), pp. 8-11.
  • Thomas Gartmann: "Imaginary productions. Thomas Gartmann in conversation with Michel Roth about the chamber opera Under Construction." In: Michael Kunkel ea (Ed.): Music - Letters - Music. Art and research at the University of Music Basel , Saarbrücken 2013, pp. 328–347. ISBN 978-3897274815 .
  • Florian Besthorn: "Expressive polyphony in longitudinal and cross-sections. Articulation layers in Hermann Burger's novel The Artificial Mother (2016) and in the music theater adaptation of the same name by Michel Roth (2016), in: Silvan Moosmüller, Boris Previšić and Laure colon stone (ed.) : Moods and polyphony of the Enlightenment , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, pp. 354–374, ISBN 978-3835330757

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personal data
SURNAME Roth, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer, music researcher and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdorf UR , Switzerland