Prasqual

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Prasqual during a concert in Cologne, October 2017

Prasqual ( proper spelling : PRASQUAL ; bourgeois Tomasz Praszczałek ; * 1981 in Jelenia Góra , Poland ) is a composer , sound architect , conductor , pianist and director .

Life

Prasqual studied composition with Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Poznan . In 2005 he graduated with honors. This was followed by postgraduate studies in composition with York Höller in Cologne and Manfred Trojahn in Düsseldorf, electronic composition with Hans Ulrich Humpert in Cologne, conducting with Rüdiger Bohn in Düsseldorf and piano with Klaus Oldemeyer in Cologne. Prasqual took composition courses with Brian Ferneyhough , Péter Eötvös , Mark Andre , Christian Wolff and Karlheinz Stockhausen . He was a scholarship holder of the DAAD , the Deutsche Bank Foundation , the Kunststiftung NRW and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The focus of his work are opera and stage projects, electronic music , microtonality and the movement of music (s) in space. In the 2018 summer semester and 2019 winter semester, Prasqual was a lecturer at the Musisches Zentrum of the Ruhr University Bochum .

Prasqual lives and works alternately in Cologne , as a scholarship holder in the artist village Schöppingen and as artist in residence in Posen .

Works

  • My Data & Me: una storia d'amore (2019) Opera
  • In | de | Finite (2019) Concert
  • UDAYA (2019) String Quartet No. 1
  • Conversations with Death (2019) Concert for contralto, basso profondo, recitator and two historic orchestras
  • EUFOLIA (2017) ballet music for electronic music in the space
  • RE: a stage ritual in 28 moments (2017) countertenor, oboe / English horn, and 20 musicians moving in space
  • MASHRABIYYA. The poem of wandering light (2017) for oboe / English horn, French horn, 93 orchestra musicians in 6 groups in space and electronic music
  • Liebeslieder (Love Songs) (2016) staged work for 6 performers and 1 musician
  • INFOLIA (2015) ballet music for electronic music in the space
  • Dreiklangskulpturen for Museum Jerke (2016) electronic music in space
  • MUQARNYAS (2015) for accordion, two orchestras in 6 groups in the space and electronic music
  • NEVERMORE ...? (2014) ballet music for 2 percussion players and electronic music in the space
  • 5 Gesänge aus dem Käfig / 5 Songs from the Cage (2014) for mezzo soprano, baritone, recitator, orchestra in 7 groups and electronic music in the space
  • Musique pour le Roi Primordial (2014) for piano
  • Architecture of Light, third part of the opera project Orlando (2013) for soprano, trumpet-player, 23 orchestra-musicians moving in the space and electronic music
  • Six Wings of Angels (2012) electronic music for ballet for 8 loudspeakers in the cubic space
  • Six Portraits (2012) for piano
  • Polski Blues (2011) several compositions for pupils and musicians
  • OPHELIA (2011) for 3 singers, instrumental ensemble en electronic music in the space
  • Portal (2011) for piano
  • Moses muss singen (2010) music theater for 4 singers, 1 actor, 4 instrumental players and the Voice of God
  • PERNYAI (2010, rev. 2016) for clarinet, piano and string quartet
  • YMORH (2010) for 22 musicians
  • RITO (2009) for 2 sopranos and orchestra in 8 groups
  • CARP & BREAD (2008) for children voices and instrumental ensemble
  • FURIA (2008) for violin, clarinet, percussion and piano
  • LIFE (2008) for orchestra
  • OKKO. Lebensfragmente (2007) for piano 4-hands
  • TOMBEAU (2007) for cello and piano
  • SALTO MORTALE (2007) for string orchestra and electronic sounds
  • L'una vuota (2005) for organ
  • ESTER (2005) for 5 soloists, choir and chamber orchestra
  • Concerto for viola and orchestra (2005 rev. 2008) for viola and orchestra
  • 4 songs (2004) for soprano and piano
  • Dear Felix (2004) for recitator and piano
  • Mother Nature (2003) electronic music
  • Mother Nature, Come to Daddy (2003) for clarinet, double bass, percussion and tape
  • Flash (2002) for 2 flutes and piano
  • Right now (2002) for clarinet and viola
  • Recordare (2002) for mixed 8-part choir
  • 3 poems (eecummings) (2001) for soprano and piano
  • Lux Aeterna (2001) for 4 male voices
  • Suite (2001) for harp
  • Pranajama (2001) for 8 wind instruments and percussion
  • SATOR (2000) for soprano and ecological reusable materials

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tomasz "Prasqual" Praszczałek | Artist | Culture.pl . In: Culture.pl . ( culture.pl [accessed October 26, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b The composer PRASQUAL - "Light that cannot be seen with eyes" . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed October 26, 2017]).
  3. ^ Cyrano Kommunikation GmbH: Kunststiftung NRW. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Music Center - Lecturer . In: Ruhr University Bochum . ( ruhr-uni-bochum.de [accessed on July 27, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Scholarship recipients 2012 - Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen . In: Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen . ( stiftung-kuenstlerdorf.de [accessed on October 26, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Scholarship holders 2017 - Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen . In: Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen . ( stiftung-kuenstlerdorf.de [accessed on October 26, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Prasqual
ALTERNATIVE NAMES PRASQUAL; Praszczałek, Tomasz (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-German composer, sound architect, conductor, pianist and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Jelenia Góra , Poland