Reinbert Evers

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Reinbert Evers (born August 23, 1949 in Dortmund ) is a German guitarist and composer and is one of the most important initiators of contemporary music .

Life

Evers studied guitar with Maritta Kersting at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf and with Karl Scheit in Vienna. He graduated with honors. He also attended lectures in musicology , German studies and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

In 1976 he was appointed professor for guitar at the Detmold University of Music in Münster. Since 1995 he has been dean of the music college.

He prefers new music. He became internationally known through the world premiere of Royal Winter Music II by Hans Werner Henze in 1980 in Brussels. He premiered more than 120 compositions, such as by Dieter Schnebel , Onutė Narbutaitė , Bojidar Spassov , Sidney Corbett , Luca Lombardi , Manfred Trojahn , Jens-Peter Ostendorf , Anatol Vieru , Bojidar Dimov , Osvaldas Balakauskas ( Odyssey From B To C on the Album Mirage from 2006), Günther Becker , Anatolijus Šenderovas ( I also stretched my arms - Mirage ), Peteris Vasks , Edison Denisov , Guo Wenjing , Tilo Medek , Jo Kondo , Helmut Oehring and Chen Xiaoyong .

Numerous CD and radio recordings are available, among others with the flautist Robert Aitken .

Tour trips on behalf of the Goethe Institute took him through Europe, Africa, Asia and the USA. He holds international master classes and was a lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses of the International Music Institute Darmstadt from 1998 to 2000 .

From 1999 to 2001 he was artistic director of the European Music Festival Münsterland and is chairman of the Society for New Music Münster. He is co-founder of proGitarre and was the program designer for KlangZeit Münster from 2000 to 2006. He is also artistic director of the St. Christopher Summer Festival guitar festival in Vilnius and advisor to the Münster International Guitar Festival and the Münsterland Festival.

Prices

  • 1980: Art Prize of the City of Dortmund

literature

  • Józef Powroźniak: Guitar Lexicon . Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 1979, p. 187 f.
  • Maurice J. Summerfield: The Classical Guitar. Its Evolution, Players and Personalities Since 1800 . 5th Edition, Ashley Mark Publishing Company, Newcastle upon Tyne 2002, ISBN 1-872639-51-8 , p. 115.
  • Peter Päffgen: ... on the other hand, an interpreter also has the task of "educating" his audience ... (An interview with Reinbert Evers). Guitar & Laute (1980), 6, pp. 13-17.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Fricke: Myth guitar: history, interpreters, great hours. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-020279-1 , p. 210.
personal data
SURNAME Evers, Reinbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical guitarist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund