Reinhard Gramm (composer)

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Reinhard Gramm (2008)

Reinhard Gramm (born May 10, 1961 in Gütersloh ) is a German musician and composer. He works as a trombonist in the trombone department of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover , as well as a composer and arranger for various groups.

Career

Reinhard Gramm was born in Gütersloh as the third of four children of the married couple Walter and Irmgard Gramm (née Arndt). He studied school music (teaching post for secondary level I) and biology at Bielefeld University, instrumental pedagogy ( trombone major ) at the Detmold University of Music and church music at the University of Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . From 1987 on he worked as a church musician and trombonist in Gütersloh and Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock. Since 2003 he has been the responsible state trombonist for the Stade district (identical to the Stade district ) in the trombone work of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover .

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The first compositions were written in 1972 for piano. In the meantime, the focus of his compositional activity is on music for brass instruments. Gramm combines different styles in all of his works, with the search for unusual timbres being his trademark.

His duties as a state trombonist include visits to the trombone choir, the management of courses and leisure time, the church music D and C training in the field of wind choir conducting, advice on sheet music and instrument issues, the issuing of sheet music and sound carriers, planning and implementation of state trombone festivals and editorial work for the trombone choir magazine . In addition, he is responsible for the musical direction of various wind groups. Compositions and arrangements for trombone choir and brass ensemble. Reinhard Gramm has been a member of the EPiD's Public Committee since 2004. In 2010, Gramm aroused media interest with his German Football Fanfare 2010 for Vuvuzela and brass quartet.

At the 2015 Kirchentag in Stuttgart, the Brassoratorium Anne - So That We Can Be Smart was premiered. Gramm composed nine pieces of music between which text passages are read that come from his wife's pen. After its world premiere, the piece was performed over 20 more times across Germany.

Sheet music editions (selection)

  • Reinhard Gramm, Suite for young winds and partita to Auf and Makes the Hearts Wide in Tones of Hope, Vol. 1, Landesarbeit der Ev. Trombone Choirs in Baden 1998, Heiko Petersen, Armin Schaefer (Eds.)
  • Reinhard Gramm, A few grams and Gospiel in Töne der Hope, Vol. 2, Landesarbeit der Ev. Trombone Choirs in Baden 2001, Heiko Petersen, Armin Schaefer (Eds.)
  • Reinhard Gramm, Go ´n go in tones of hope, Vol. 3, regional work of the Ev. Trombone Choirs in Baden 2006, Heiko Petersen, Armin Schaefer (Eds.)
  • Reinhard Gramm, various pieces for young wind players in tones of hope junior, regional work of the Ev. Trombone Choirs in Baden 2007, Heiko Petersen, Armin Schaefer (Eds.)
  • Reinhard Gramm, We are the little ones in Gloria 2002, Strube Verlag, Munich-Berlin (2001)
  • Reinhard Gramm, Grant us peace graciously , Strube Verlag, Munich-Berlin (2004)
  • Reinhard and Marita Gramm, Joseph in Egypt , a three-course music game about the biblical Joseph story, Strube Verlag, Munich-Berlin (2004)
  • Reinhard Gramm, Entrata per ottoni , four-choir, Strube Verlag, Munich-Berlin (2005)
  • Reinhard Gramm, New like the day God made , fantasy, prelude, sentence to a melody by Christoph Spengler, text by Friedemann Schmidt-Eggert, Strube Verlag, Munich-Berlin (2006)
  • Reinhard Gramm, Let the children come to me , five pieces for young winds and trombone choir, Strube Verlag, Munich-Berlin (2007)
  • Reinhard Gramm, Popfantasie and You´re so magic in Music for Church and more , deHaske Verlag, Heerenveen (Netherlands), Ed. Heiko Petersen (2008)
  • Reinhard Gramm, Möge die Straße , prelude and sentences to the melody by Markus Pytlik, published in Bläserheft IV for Kirchentage , Strube (2009)
  • Reinhard and Marita Gramm, Ester - die Sternenkönigin , a three-course music game about the biblical love story between Ester and Xerxes, Strube (2009)
  • Reinhard Gramm, Because of you , wind fantasy about a song for the ÖKT 2010 in Munich, Strube (2010)
  • Friedel W. Böhler, Reinhard Gramm, Jürgen Hahn, 3x3 + 1 wind pieces, including Slow Motions a . a., Strube (2011)
  • Reinhard Gramm, Suite Bretonne , through Bretagne in six movements (Mont St. Michel, Le Dossen, Huelgoat, Carnac, Pont Aven, Les Phares de Bretagne), Strube (2013)
  • Reinhard Gramm, El Pampero , Suite in five movements about the Argentinean fine weather wind (Strube Verlag, 2015)
  • Reinhard Gramm, The thoughts are free (Strube Verlag, 2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brass oratorio told by the Jewess Anne Frank. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gramm, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gutersloh