Peter Florian (pianist)

Peter Florian - January 2013

Peter Florian (born March 11, 1944 in Klausenburg , (then Kolozsvár ), Hungary , today Cluj-Napoca , Romania ) is a pianist and composer living in Germany since 1972 . He is chairman of the district Osnabrück composers eV

Life

Peter Florian studied at the Klausenburger Musikgymnasium and at the Conservatorul de Muzică "Gheorghe Dima" . His teachers majoring in piano were Prof. György Halmos (a pupil of Liszt -Schülers Emil von Sauer ) and Prof. Eliza Ciolan (student of Alfred Cortot ). He passed his final exam in the subjects of piano and chamber music. In 1964 he won first prize at the Republican Festival in Bucharest . In 1972 he received a scholarship in the soloist class of Prof. Dahlgrün in Hanover . In 1973 he was awarded the Primera medalla at the international music competition "Maria Canals" in Barcelona . He has given concerts in numerous European countries and in the Far East . He has been involved in radio recordings, records and CD productions and has given master classes in Germany, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, China and Korea.

Since 1978 Peter Florian has been a lecturer in piano at the Osnabrück Municipal Conservatory (today Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences ) and has held a professorship there since 2000. Retired since 2014. Between 2006 and 2017 he led a piano remedial class for gifted students together with the Korean pianist Hee Jung Kim in team teaching at the Osnabrück Music and Art School. He has also been chairman of the Osnabrück composers circle since 1996.

Works

• Quintet - for wind instruments and piano ( premiered by Meppen 1976)
• Kaleidoscope - for violin, horn and piano (WP Lingen 1977)
• Traum-Traum - for oboe, clarinet, horn and piano (WP Meppen 1977)
• Premiere - for variable cast (WP Meppen 1977)
• Über-Legungen - for variable cast (UA Meppen 1978)
• Fan keys - for piano and sequencer / tape (WP Osnabrück 1981)
• 1983 Trio - for flute, violoncello and piano (WP Osnabrück 1983)
• 1984 Serpentine - for a variable line-up (UA Vienna 1984)
• Achtopol 84 '- for guitar and harpsichord (WP Vienna 1984)
• 1985 Reise um den Tag - for cello orchestra, slide show and dancer (WP Osnabrück 1985)
• Four interludes to poems by Gisela Breidenstein - for piano (WP Osnabrück 1986)
• Hölderlin Fantasy - for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano and tape (WP Osnabrück 1987)
• Barcarole - for violin, violoncello and piano (WP Osnabrück 1987)
• Psaume transilvanienne - for clarinet and piano (WP Osnabrück 1988, Ed.Billaudot, Paris)
• "In an institute" - performance for strings and percussion (WP Osnabrück 1988)
• 1990 Still life - for variable instrumentation and tape (WP Budapest 1990)
• State of the Art - Computer Music & Image Composition (WP Budapest 1990)
• 1991 "Objets trouvées" - computer - ballet music (WP Osnabrück 1991)
• Meeresstille - for guitar ensemble and tape (1st version) (WP Osnabrück 1991)
• 1993 "OsMOSE" - large-scale performance (commissioned for the 1993 KlangArt Festival)
• "P (f) utsch" - video performance (WP Münster 1993)
• 1994 Nocturno - for piano and tape (WP Osnabrück 1994)
• Reflections on Nussbaum - for vibraphone, double bass and piano (WP Osnabrück 1994)
• Nänie - for piano (WP Osnabrück 1995)
• Five Palmström Songs - for a cappella choir (WP Osnabrück 1996)
• MINIMAX - for choir, dance ensemble and sequencer (WP Osnabrück 1997)
• Epitaph for HC for e-piano and tape (WP Osnabrück 1997)
• In Remarque's footsteps - for e-piano, tape and gramophone (WP Osnabrück 1998)
• Vesper transilvaniensis - for piano (WP Osnabrück 1999)
• 2001 Oh John ... Hommage a John Cage - for prep. Piano, polaroid camera and tape (UA Osnabrück 2001)
• Reflections on 6 Haikus by Weöres - for saxophone, guitar and piano (UA Szeged 2002)
• Windkinder - for children's choir and percussion (WP Osnabrück 2003)
• Triptych - electroacoustic collage based on pictures by Felix Nußbaum (Premiere Osnabrück 2003)

Web links

• Information about Peter Florian on the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences website

Individual evidence

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