Paul Leonard Schäffer

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Paul Leonard Schäffer (born March 16, 1987 in Hanover ) is a German composer , conductor and pianist .

Life

Schäffer received his first piano lessons at the age of five and shortly afterwards became a member of the Hanover Boys Choir . At the age of 16 he received his first organ lessons from Torsten Meyer . He studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main with Gerhard Müller-Hornbach , church music with Martin Lücker (organ) and orchestral conducting with Wojciech Rajski at the same university. Further studies with Beat Furrer and Marc Andre , as well as song accompaniment and accompaniment lessons with Eugen Wangler and Helmut Deutsch supplemented his musical training.

He was a scholarship holder of the Aribert Reimann Foundation , the "Paul Hindemith and Heinrich Mann Scholarship" of the State Music Council of Hesse and has been supported by Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Frankfurt am Main e. V. funded. In 2014 he was a finalist in the orchestral composition competition of the Weimar Spring Festival for contemporary music .

His works have been performed by the International Ensemble Modern Academy , the Jena Philharmonic and the Ensemble l'Autre mOnde . Performances took place at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden , the Alte Oper Frankfurt and as part of the Rheingau Music Festival , the Bayreuth Festival of Young Artists , the Kassel Music Days and the Karlsruhe Handel Festival .

In February 2012 he made his debut as musical director of the Threepenny Opera with the State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate at the Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen. The production was awarded the golden bird at the 3rd Papageno Award.

In January 2016 he took over the musical direction of the Figuralchor Frankfurt .

Awards / grants

Works (excerpt)

song

  • Six songs based on poems by Georg Trakl (2011), for baritone and piano ; Premiere: January 25, 2011, UdK Berlin
  • Five landscapes based on poems by Georg Heym (2013), for bass and piano; WP: December 1, 2014, Deutsche Oper Berlin, commissioned by the German Singing Competition in Berlin

Chamber music

  • Ipuwer's warnings based on an ancient Egyptian poem (2009), for two sopranos and percussion; Premiere: October 31, 2009, Alte Brüderkirche Kassel, commissioned by the Kasseler Musiktage 2009
  • Three interludes for ensemble on period instruments (2013); Premiere: August 17th, 2013, Eberbach Monastery as part of the Rheingau Music Festival 2013

Musical theater

Orchestral works

  • et par la porte ouverte la perspective du hasard for orchestra (2013); Premiere: April 27, 2013, E-Werk Weimar

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Website of Paul Leonard Schäffer , Vita Paul Leonard Schäffer.
  2. ↑ Junge Spieltheater Ludwigshafen ( Memento of the original from February 23, 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. , Awards for the young play theater Ludwigshafen. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.junges-spiel-theater.de
  3. ^ Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Frankfurt am Main eV , directory of supported musicians.
  4. ↑ Landesmusikrat Hessen ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Paul Hindemith and Heinrich Mann Scholarships. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landesmusikrathessen.de
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g catalog raisonné , website Paul Leonard Schäffer.
personal data
SURNAME Schäffer, Paul Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover