Nikola Lutz

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Nikola Lutz (born February 23, 1970 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German composer , saxophonist and tarogatist . She is mainly active in the field of new music and experimental art. As a composer, Lutz is primarily dedicated to electronic music and the human voice. In addition to independent compositions in new music, she set numerous performances and dance performances to music .

Live and act

Lutz studied classical saxophone from 1989 to 1990 with Jean-Marie Londeix at the CNR de Bordeaux and from 1992 to 1996 at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart (saxophone with Bernd Konrad and music theory with Rainer Wehinger ). From 1997 to 1998 an artistic postgraduate course followed, and from 1999 to 2001 vocal training with Stephanie Haas.

In 1996 she began to work on composition. At the same time she expanded her instrumentation with electronics, initially as an addition to the saxophone instrument, then increasingly independent. Various instrumental works, pieces for electronics and stage works as well as radio plays are performed.

Since 2000 she has focused on performance and works with Bernhard Eusterschulte (direction) and Fabian Chyle (choreography). Setting of numerous stage works (see below). She has been using the computer as a musical instrument since 2003; she developed an interest in spatial definition of music (multi-channel technology). Up to now this development had its climax in the music theater "Irregehen" with 8-channel sound installation and 8-channel live sampling.

Lutz also participated in world premieres of the following composers: Makiko Nishikaze , Wolfgang Motz , Frederik Zeller , David Mason , Eva Barath , Gerhard Braun , Ricardas Kabelis , Dieter Kaufmann , Christopher Henry Kauffman , Walther Erbacher , Thomas Mrf. Brunner , Mark Lorenz Kysela , Andreas Krennerich , Violeta Dinescu , Helmut Öhring , Steffen Schleiermacher , Orm Finnendahl , Hans Koller , Nadir Vassena , François Rossé , Petr Pokorný and Christoph Haas . As a soloist in the field of new music, Lutz is a member of the ensemble "Duo Nikola Lutz - Armin Sommer" (saxophone and percussion).

With the video artist Kasumi and the projection artist Volker Illi , she performs audiovisual live performances. Her band "Linako's Lovely Loops" (with Christian Weber, bass, Günter Weiss, guitar, and Joke Lanz, turntables) is dedicated to free improvisation. In addition, she plays so-called noise art with "Linako & SuddenInfant".

In 2001 she initiated the Stuttgart Saxophone Festival together with Andreas Krennerich. She founded her own label “Linako Records” in 2005. Since 2006, she has been teaching classical saxophone at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts.

Compositions

  • 2006 road trip - audiovisual performance by and with Kasumi (USA) - video and Nikola Lutz - music
  • 2005 Dancer - short film by Kasumi (USA) - video and Nikola Lutz - music
  • 2005 Irregehen - music theater premiere January 28, 2005 theater rampe stuttgart
  • 2004/2005 Ex.It - dance performance - commissioned by Crossover Art Concepts
  • 2004 MisplacedX - Performative installation by Fabian Chyle and Nikola Lutz - UA Eclat Festival Stuttgart 2004, commissioned by SWR
  • 2003 Exit No7 - dance performance - Herold Passage Stuttgart - 10/2003 commissioned by COAC
  • 2003 The formula based on the story Bartleby by H.Melville - dance theater
  • 2002 Speaking with mechanic birds - sound installation
  • 2002 Archaeological miniature with Pick-Nick - music performance by and with Nikola Lutz - premiere March 16, 2002 Gedok Stuttgart
  • 2001 Setting of the radio play From crying you get thirsty for SWR Stuttgart (broadcast on September 29, 2001)
  • 2001 The fish for countertenor and electronics (for Daniel Gloger )
  • 1996 Two Worlds - Saxophone Quartet

Discography

  • 2015 Infinite Jest - green recorder
  • 2005 Seismic Energy - linako records
  • 2005 White Loops - linako records (with Peter Kowald )
  • 2002 SuddenInfant - SudnInfnt live in Basel
  • 2000 Tango l'inconnu - 1st Edition
  • 1999 Saxophonic Ensemble B
  • 1999 short film Art2Art
  • 1998 MAH-JONG SaxString - General Black is the Nightmare of the Moon

Awards

  • Federal award at Jugend musiziert
  • 1998 Scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg for the Art2Art project
  • 2000 Scholarship from the Hermann Haake Foundation
  • 2002 Artist in Residence at dellarte / Schloss Honhardt
  • 2005 placement in the competition "Dancing the Screen" of the gallery Fluctuating Images with the film dancer by Kasumi / Nikola Lutz
  • 2010 First place at: 'Les concours internationaux d'interprétationde la musique d'aujourd'hui', Paris, also audience award

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personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Nikola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau