Roland Graeter
Roland Graeter (* 1954 in Stuttgart ) is a German musician , composer , artist and initiator of the 2011 Music Marathon .
Life
Even during his youth and while studying architecture, music played a central role in Graeter's life. 14 years of cello lessons, intensive self-study and voice training with Dietburg Spohr and Stefanie Haas testify to this . After graduating from the University of Stuttgart in 1980, Greater began to deal consistently with improvisation for voice and cello.
From 1985 solo appearances followed in Europe and the USA. He has performed in duos with Rainer Bürck, Dietburg Spohr, Phil Minton , Barre Phillips and Jean-Marc Montera , among others . Roland Graeter lived in Provence (southern France) from 1998 to mid-2008, where he turned a ruined farmhouse into a sensitive architecture made of glass, steel and natural stone as a meeting place for musicians. There he had the idea for the Music Marathon 2011 project in September 2008 , which Graeter has been preparing since then. In 2011 he took part in the auditions for Das Supertalent , but did not make it to the semifinals after three negative votes.
Musical work
The center of Graeter's musical work is the idea of the duo with itself. His music draws on the interplay between the interlocking and independence of voice and cello. For Graeter, there is architectural or intuitive access to music.
The architectural approach (composition, concepts) is better imprinted in the collective consciousness because of its reproducibility. Intuitive music, on the other hand, is for him an awake intoxication of onomatopoeic trance and ends in oblivion, but it also creates structure, form and meaning out of the moment - as in the realm of language free speech.
Works
- Music for the theater productions by Bruno Boussagol sombre printemps , Avignon Festival 1989 and 1991 and Paris 1993
- Music for dance and theater productions in France 1995
- Chanterelles: Music performance with 10 musicians on the CD of the same name, Rotebühlzentrum Stuttgart 1998
Awards
- Scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg for improvised music in 1989 and 1992
- Music Creative Prize , Kunsthalle Schirn , Frankfurt am Main, 1993
- Scholarship Künstlerhaus Edenkoben 2001
Discography
- 1990: loose music
- 1992: night singing and ecstasy
- 1995: my seldom grays
- 1997: chanterelles
- 2008: ulm concert
Web links
- Literature by and about Roland Graeter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Roland Graeter's website
- music marathon 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Graeter, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, improviser and initiator of the musikmarathon 2011 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart , Germany |