Reinhard David Flender

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Reinhard David Flender (born August 20, 1953 in Bergneustadt ) is a German music and cultural scientist and composer. In 1999 he founded the Institute for Cultural Innovation Research at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg, and has been its director ever since. On October 1, 2015, he also took over the management of the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater.

Life

Reinhard Flender studied piano from 1972, first at the Hamburg University of Music , then at the Northwest German Music Academy in Münster; there he passed his artistic maturity examination in 1976. During this time, I created my first own compositions. 1977–1981 Flender studied ethnomusicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he obtained a Master of Arts; in addition, he received composition lessons from Josef Tal . In 1984 he received his doctorate at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg. Flender has been teaching at the Hamburg University of Music since 1983, where he was appointed professor in 1991. In the same year his work "Threnos II" was awarded at the international composition competition in Vienna. In 1987 he took over the management of the classical music department of the international peermusic publishing house in Hamburg. In 1999 he founded the Institute for Cultural Innovation Research at the Hamburg University of Music, of which he has been director ever since. 2008–2011 he was managing director of Peermusic Classical GmbH. From 1989–1999 Flender was the artistic director of the “Hörwelten” festival, and in 2001 he and the French composer Henry Fourès founded the international academy for contemporary chamber music “Opus XXI” (until 2007 “Jeunesse Moderne”). From 2008 to 2011 he was the curator of “KLANG! Netzwerk Neue Musik ”, a funding project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting new music. In 2011 Flender took over a professorship for musicology and cultural management at the University of Music and Theater . Since October 1, 2015, he has headed the Institute for Culture and Media Management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Flender, Reinhard / Rauhe, Hermann : Pop music - history, function, effect and aesthetics. Darmstadt: Scientific Book Society 1989
  • Flender, Reinhard / Rauhe, Hermann : Keys to Music - New Insights into the World of Music. Revised new edition, Mainz: Schott 1998
  • Flender, Reinhard (Hrsg.): Free ensembles for new music in Germany . Mainz: Schott 2007
  • Flender, Reinhard (ed.): Innovation from tradition . Mainz: Schott 2010
  • Flender, Reinhard (ed.): Open spaces for art and culture . LIT Publisher: Münster 2013.
  • Svensson, Jenny (Ed.): The dynamic of cultural change - Festschrift Reinhard Flender on the 60th birthday LIT Verlag: Münster 2013.

Works (selection)

Chamber music works

  • Hard Rain (1982/1998) for violoncello and piano
  • Perkussiana (1986) for soprano saxophone, piano and percussion
  • Threnos III (1992) for violoncello, 2 pianos and 2 percussionists
  • Duo in two movements (1992) for violin and piano
  • Memorare (1995) for guitar, clarinet, viola and double bass
  • Threnos IV (1995) for 2 pianos, solo violin, 2 percussionists and string quintet
  • Trio in one movement (1998) for violin, cello and piano
  • Phantasmorgana (1999) for piano solo
  • Eucharisto (1999) for string quartet
  • Sofia Orthi (2004) for 2 cellos, piano and percussion
  • 2nd string quartet (2004)

Orchestral works

  • Threnos II (1991) for 2 pianos, violin and chamber orchestra
  • Concerto (1995) for piano and orchestra
  • Aurora (1996) for wind quintet, harp, piano and string orchestra
  • Lacrimae (1999–2004) for clarinet and string orchestra

Vocal works

  • Pirkei Tehillim (1989) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
  • Two Hebrew Choral Psalms (1990) for 12-part choir
  • Sternenklang (1993) for soprano and chamber orchestra
  • My dear blue rider (1997) Chamber opera based on texts by Else Lasker-Schüler for soprano and 14 instrumentalists
  • Herbst (2002) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra

Discography

  • Flender, Reinhard: Aurora, Threnos IV, Pirkei Tehillim, Memorare - Orchesterakademie Hamburg, Quatour Danel, Mark Lubotsky, conductor: Elmar Lampson . Col Legno WWO 1 CD 200007

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Change in management of the KMM institute. KMM Hamburg, September 14, 2015, accessed on November 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Flender, Reinhard David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flender, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergneustadt