Peter Aderhold
Peter Aderhold (* 1966 in Berlin ) is a German composer and conductor .
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Peter Aderhold studied from 1982 to 1988 at the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin , majoring in conducting (with Horst Förster , Olaf Koch , Heinz Rögner ) and composition ( Günter Kochan ). In 1988 he passed his state examination in composition with the ballet music Diana; He premiered this as a conductor on the occasion of the GDR Music Days in Berlin in 1990 with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra ; it was broadcast several times on radio and television. From 1988 to 1993 he worked as Kapellmeister at the Rostock Theater , before moving to the United Theaters in Krefeld / Mönchengladbach as Kapellmeister in 1994/95 . Since 1991 he has been the chief conductor of the State Youth Orchestra of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (including first prize in the “Youth and Music in Vienna” competition in 1997).
From 1995 to July 2000 he was the first conductor and deputy general music director at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven . Since August 2000 he has lived in Berlin as a freelance composer and conductor. He was responsible for the musical direction of several productions (including In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass and Bremer Freiheit by Adriana Hölszky ) at the Berlin Chamber Opera . As a guest conductor, he also worked with the Staatskapelle Berlin , Dresden Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Schwerin , Schwerin Philharmonic and the Hallische Philharmonie. Since 2003 he has directed the Academic Orchestra Berlin .
Aderhold wrote symphonic works as well as the chamber opera Odysseus und der Fremde for the Zurich Opera House (2001) and the Luther opera on the occasion of the reopening of the Erfurt Opera House . In 2008 he performed his composition Fanfare for Orchestra with the Academic Orchestra Berlin on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. In 2011 he wrote Meditation - Concerto for Alphorn and Orchestra for the same orchestra. His Concerto for one Player with two Saxophones and Orchestra , written for Branford Marsalis , was premiered on February 12, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main by him and the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra under Sebastian Weigle .
From 2011 to 2012, Aderhold was visiting professor at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" in Babelsberg (composition technique, instrumentation and conducting in the film music course) and is a lecturer at the University of Music "Hanns Eisler" Berlin (instrument science, musical composition, ear training) .
On April 22, 2016, his second opera, Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf of the same name , premiered at the Braunschweig State Theater . Sang: Milda Tubelyte (Orlando), Lydia Moellenhoff (Virgina), Mirella Hagen (Sascha and others), Anne Schuldt (Pepita and others), Matthias Stier (Queen and others), Rossen Krastev (Nick Greene and others)
Prizes and awards
In 1984 he received the third prize in the composition competition of the GDR Music Days for "Music for Flute and Orchestra". For his ballet music "Diana" he received the "Criticism Prize" at the GDR Music Days in 1990 from the Music Criticism Committee of the GDR's Association of Composers and Musicologists . Together with the State Youth Orchestra, he was awarded the Culture Prize of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 1997 . In 2000 he was a prizewinner of the composition competition “Teatro minimo” of the Zurich Opera House and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur
- ^ Price of Criticism . In: Neue Zeit , March 6, 1990, vol. 46, issue 55, p. 4.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Aderhold, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |