Robin Hoffmann (composer)
Robin Hoffmann (* 1970 in Bielefeld-Gadderbaum ) is a German musician and composer .
Life
Hoffmann attended a seminar for music educators majoring in guitar with Thomas Bittermann to Dr. Hoch's Conservatory Frankfurt am Main. He received his artistic training majoring in guitar from Michael Teuchert at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (diploma 1999), and chamber music new music from Bernhard Kontarsky . At the same time he took composition lessons with Claus Kühnl and composition instrumental with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang University in Essen (Diploma 2001).
Hoffmann lives as a freelance composer and guitarist in Frankfurt am Main and has been a lecturer in music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts since 2005 . He appears as a composer for various instrumental and vocal formations and as an interpreter of his own works. His artistic activity includes interdisciplinary collaboration with visual artists, writers and dancers, arrangements for various rock bands and experimental improvisation, most recently as speaker / sound producer-soloist with Sergej Newskis Fluss , together with the Klangforum Wien.
In 2001 he and Mark L. Kysela founded STROM - the ensemble of authors, under whose name the two musicians develop performances and collective compositions using live electronics.
Performances and premieres took place in various European countries, in Japan, the USA and Australia at festivals such as the Warsaw Autumn, ECLAT Stuttgart, the Witten Days for New Chamber Music, KLAPSTUK Leuven, open systems, Essen, Kryptonale Berlin, UltraSchall Berlin, Sound Actions Munich, nova música, Aveiro or the Stockholm New Music Festival. Robin Hoffmann has worked with well-known performers such as Tabea Zimmermann, Christian Dierstein, Nikola Lutz , Michael M. Kasper, Sebastian Berweck, the Ensemble Modern , the composers slide quartett, the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the Ensemble Atmosphere.
Robin Hoffmann has been playing in a guitar duo with Christopher Brandt since 1996, accompanied by individual engagements at the Theaters Gießen, Darmstadt, Oper Frankfurt, the RSO Frankfurt or the ohton Ensemble, Oldenburg.
He gave guest lectures and workshops on the complex of topics: "Music and language, body music, movement" at the Protestant Academy Loccum, University of Essen, Academy of the Arts Berlin, IK2004 and at the Dresden Days for Contemporary Music.
Robin Hoffmann co-founded the Frankfurt Society for New Music in 2003.
Robin Hoffmann's works are published by Edition Peters .
Prizes and awards
- 1995–97 grant from the Mozart Foundation, Frankfurt for composition
- 2000 Selection for the 5th GNM Young Talent Forum
- 2001 Folkwang Prize Composition
- 2002 1st prize at the 3rd German Study Prize of the Körber Foundation ("Bodycheck - how much body do people need?")
- 2004 Scholarship Prize of the Darmstadt Summer Courses
- 2005 Stuttgart Composition Prize
- 2006 Kranichstein Music Prize in Composition
- 2010: Kranichstein Music Prize
- 2019 Hans Werner Henze Prize
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catalog raisonné at Edition Peters. ( 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.
- ↑ Sounds, layered like cairns. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 30, 2010, p. 46.
Web links
- Works by and about Robin Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Robin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld-Gadderbaum |