Peter Gahn

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Peter Gahn (* 1970 in Münster ) is a German composer .

Peter Gahn in the Museum Folkwang (2014)

Life

Peter Gahn was born in Münster and grew up in Düsseldorf . At the age of 16 he took part in courses for computer music and later for composition at the Cologne University of Music . In 1991 he enrolled at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, where he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic composition with Ludger Brümmer . As a DAAD scholarship holder , Gahn traveled to Japan in 1997 , where he lived until 2005 and completed another composition course with Jō Kondō at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music by 2001 . He then took up a position as a lecturer in computer music / composition at the Senzoku Music Academy Kawasaki and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, which he held until 2005. Since 2005 Gahn has continued his compositional work in Germany. Since 2015 he has been Professor of Composition / New Media / Sound Studies at the Nuremberg University of Music .

Gahn has received numerous awards for his musical work, including the 26th Irino Prize for Chamber Music in 2005 and 1st place in the Stuttgart Composition Prize in 2013. Gahn also received scholarships from the ZKM in Karlsruhe and the Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture and the Goethe-Institut Seoul. In 2009 he received a residency grant for the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris .

Compositional creation

Peter Gahn's compositional style is shaped by the multi-perspective compositions by Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Luigi Nono , as well as by Japanese gagaku music , in which the same musical idea is performed slightly differently by different instruments. This principle of heterophony can be found in many of Gahn's works as a musical structure. For example, the composition Did you mean: RED can be performed as a solo piece for piano, as well as a trio or quintet version. The individual works are thus part of a larger complex of works. By bringing together options in areas of instrumentation, but also the execution of musical ideas, different perspectives open up, which can be taken up by the listener. Composing in work complexes can be seen as characteristic of Peter Gahn's musical creativity.

Compositions

Solo works

  • also without language for guitar (1992)
  • with borrowed prospect for piano (1997/8)
  • engraved dreams for Koto (1999)
  • mitsu na for trumpet (2000)
  • atonoba I for percussion (2002/3)
  • ink, colors and gold on paper II for accordion (2005)
  • ink, colors and gold on paper III for percussion (2005/6)
  • Did you mean: RED - solo version for piano (2006)
  • Did you mean: Red II - solo version for piano (2007)
  • Move the Fault for Toy Piano (2008)
  • Night vision - version for live electronics (2011)
  • Mapo-daero (noon) I for sopranino recorder (2012-14)

Chamber music

  • with a borrowed view - environment 1 for piano, clarinet, cello, percussion (1997/8)
  • reading unicorn skulls - the town (engraved dreams) for clarinet, violin, drums, koto, 4 Hyoshigi (Japanese tonewoods) (1999)
  • Ablicht mit Riten for 7 tubas, percussion, feeds (2000)
  • gifts of unknown things for clarinet, bassoon, violin, violoncello, piano, percussion, 2-channel electronics (2001)
  • atonoba I + II for flute, violoncello, piano, percussion (2002)
  • ink, colors and gold on paper I for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, 2 violins, cello (2004)
  • ink, colors and gold on paper II & III, surroundings 1 & 2 for accordion, percussion, flute, violoncello, live electronics (2005-7)
  • Did you mean: RED - trio version for clarinet, cello, piano (2006)
  • Did you mean: RED - Quintet version for piano, clarinet, violoncello, trumpet, violin (2006)
  • Did you mean: RED II - ensemble version for piano, percussion, tuba, clarinet, flute, violoncello (2007)
  • inner upper level - version for voice and violoncello (2008/13)
  • inner upper level - version for clarinet and violoncello (2008/13)
  • Stokes Shift - trio version for 2 theremines, piano (2009)
  • Night vision for voice, live electronics, drums or piano ad lib. (2010/11)
  • Dtang - to a performance and a text by Eunji Chi for clarinet, violoncello, piano, speaker (2012)
  • Mapo-daero (noon) I-III for sopranino recorder, percussion, accordion (2012-14)
  • Diagonals in cubic spaces for trombone, percussion (2013)
  • Diagonals in cubic rooms I-III for trombone, percussion, trumpet, cello, piano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola (2015)

Ensemble and orchestral music

  • with a borrowed view - environment 1 + 2 for flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, piano, viola, cello, double bass (1997-2000)
  • Tôgaku for choir (SATB), orchestra (2 fl., 2 clar., 2 ob., 2 b., 2 Hr., Perc., Str .: 8-6-5-4-2) (2002)
  • Nachtsicht II for orchestra (Picc., 2 Fl., 2 Ob., Englhr., 2 Klar., Bklar., 2 Fg., Kfg., 4 Hr., 3 Trp., 3 Pos., Tb., Pk. , 2 Schlgz., Str., Live electronics ad lib.) And optional speaker (2011)

Musical theater

  • open bridges for shamisen, noh dancers (2003)
  • Gewölle for dancers, violoncello, voice, live electronics, rope jumpers (2008)

Web links

Commons : Peter Gahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.editionjulianeklein.de/composers?composer_id=100002
  2. ↑ http://www.petergahn.de/profile-dt.html
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hfm-nuernberg.de
  4. ↑ http://www.stuttgart.de/item/show/374541/1/9/503456
  5. ↑ http://www.petergahn.de/profile-dt.html
  6. ↑ http://www.editionjulianeklein.de/composers.php?composer_id=100002§ion=portrait
  7. ↑ http://www.petergahn.de/works-dt.html
personal data
SURNAME Gahn, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster