Samir Odeh-Tamimi

Samir Odeh-Tamimi ( Arabic سمير عودة تميمي; Hebrew סמיר עודה־תמימי; * January 5, 1970 in Jaljuliya near Tel Aviv ) is a Palestinian - Israeli composer .

Life

Samir Odeh-Tamimi's musical language is anchored in his exploration of Western European avant-garde and Arabic music practice. Born in Jaljulia near Tel-Aviv and enthusiastic about both European classical music and the aesthetics of new music, the composer came to Germany at the age of 22 and studied musicology and composition. In addition to working with compositional models such as Giacinto Scelsi and Iannis Xenakis , he also found his way back to dealing with the musical culture of his home country during this time.

Samir Odeh-Tamimi's works can now be heard at renowned festivals and he has received composition commissions from Deutschlandfunk, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Donaueschinger Musiktage , the European Center for the Arts Hellerau , WDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk / musica viva, among others . In 2010 his music theater work Leila und Madschnun was premiered at the Ruhrtriennale in Bochum. As part of the project into Istanbul initiated by Ensemble Modern and the Siemens Arts Program in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, he composed an ensemble work in 2008 inspired by a stay in the Turkish metropolis. He also works closely with the Boulanger Trio and the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart: For example, the singers visited Samir Odeh-Tamimi's parents' home near Tel Aviv as part of a commissioned composition for the Eclat Festival, where they got to know the composer's musical roots.

His oratorio Behind the Wall , commissioned by the RIAS Chamber Choir on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of German reunification, was heard in Jerusalem and Dresden after the Berlin premiere. In the anniversary concert of the SWR on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the work Gidim for orchestra and electronics, which deals with Sumerian rituals for the dead, was launched. In October 2018 the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra premiered the Šamaš Viola Concerto , named after the sun god of Babylonian mythology. As early as 2016, the Clarafestival in Brussels commissioned him with an intermezzo for a staged version of Bach's St. John Passion, directed by Pierre Audi. L'Apokalypse Arabe I , embedded in the two parts of the Passion, is based on texts by the Lebanese poet Etel Adnan and was performed again in 2017 at the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and in 2018 at the Opera Rouen. For the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence , Samir Odeh-Tamimi is currently working on a further development of the work into a full-length music theater that will be premiered in 2021.

For the Neue Vocalsolisten and the Zafraan Ensemble, inspired by the tragedy of Sophocles and André Gide and Heiner Müller, the work Philoctetes was created . Samir Odeh-Tamimi is spending the summer months of 2019 as a scholarship holder of the Tarabya Culture Academy in Istanbul. The 2019/20 season starts with the world premiere of TIMNA , a work for choir, percussion, flute, viola, cello and double bass commissioned by the SWR, which will be heard at the ECLAT Festival. It continues with a collective music theater project, presented in May 2020 at the Munich Biennale. In April 2020, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform the work Rituale from 2008 , which was last interpreted by the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin at the Berlin Festival Ultraschall last season .

In cooperation with the RBB and Kairos, the Berlin Zafraan Ensemble recently presented a much-praised portrait CD with chamber music works by the composer, which can be considered exemplary for the intensity of his tonal language in its existential dimension. Further recordings of his works have also been published by WERGO . Samir Odeh-Tamimi has been a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin since 2016 and received the GEMA Music Author's Prize in the same year .

Awards and grants

• 1999–2000 scholarship from the Arab Student Aid International Foundation
• 2002 scholarship from the DAAD / Hochschule für Künste Bremen
• 2003 First prize in the composers' competition of the Elisabeth Schneider Foundation with the Ensemble Aventure Freiburg
• 2006/07 scholarship from the German Academy Casa Baldi, Rome
• 2008 Scholarship from the Berlin Senate for a six-month stay in Paris
• 2008 one month stay in Istanbul as part of the "into project" of the Siemens Arts Program and the Ensemble Modern
• 2008 Performance of several works as part of the Klangspuren Schwaz
• 2012 Composer in Residence 2012 of the orgel-mixturen 8th International Festival for Contemporary Organ Music of the Art Station St. Peter (Cologne)
• 2014 Composer in Residence 2014, Festival Artes Vertentes in Tiradentes, Brazil
• 2016 German Music Author Award
• Since 2016 member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
• May - August 2019: Scholarship holders of the Tarabya Culture Academy, Turkey

Works

(G. RICORDI & CO. MUNICH) Chronological catalog raisonné, as of 08/2019

• Anín (1999) for eight instrumentalists, Afl. Kl (Bkl). 2 rooms Vl. Va. Vc. Kb., World premiere: Tel Aviv, April 5, 2000 / D: 8 min.
• Ahinnu (2001) for three amplified recorders, 3 recorders (with percussion)., World premiere: Oldenburg, August 3, 2001 / D: 4 min.
• Hutáf Al-Arwáh II (2001) for 11 instrumentalists, Bfl (Afl). Kl (Bkl). Mr. Tr. Bps. Schlzg. Klav. Vl. Va. Vc. Kb., World premiere: Bremen, November 16, 2003 / D: 8 min.
• Ahinnu II (2002) for seven instrumentalists, Fl (Picc). If. Kl (Bkl). Schlzg. Vl. Va. Vc., World premiere: Wiesbaden, February 9, 2003 / D: 7 min.
• Bukká (2003) for string orchestra, strings: 5. 5. 4. 3. 1., world premiere: Berlin, August 12, 2003 / D: 7 min.
• Ja-Nári (2003) for trumpet, horn, bass trombone and percussion, world premiere: Freiburg, June 28, 2003 / D: 6 min., Version for oboe, clarinet, contrabassoon and percussion on request, world premiere: Donaueschingen, October 13, 2005 / D: 6 min.
• Tamáni I (2003) for violoncello solo, world premiere: Palermo, November 13, 2003 (No. 1) / D: 5 min.
• Zikkrá (2003) for solo percussion, world premiere: Strasbourg, November 12, 2003 / D: 6 min.
• Hálatt-Hissár (2003–2004) for a speaker and 31 instrumentalists, spr. / 3 (picc). 3. 3 (Bkl). 2. Kfg. / 4. 3. 3 (3 fps). 1st / 2th beats / 0. 0. 0. 0. 6., world premiere: Bochum, April 3, 2004 / D: 14 ​​min.
• Li-Umm-Kámel (2004) for flute, piano and percussion, world premiere: Basel, May 15, 2004 / D: 8 min.
• Námi (2004) for soprano and 5 instrumentalists, S. Blfl. 3 Va. Cem., World premiere: Munich, October 6, 2004 / D: 6 min.
• Ratháa (2004) for double bass and accordion, world premiere: Saarbrücken, May 22, 2004 / D: 7 min.
• Shattíla (2004/2005) for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano, world premiere: Paris, May 29, 2005 / D. 5 min.
• Gdadrója (2004/2005) for three sopranos and 41 musicians, 3 pp. / 2. 2. 2. 1. Kfg. / 2. 2. 2 (bps). 1. / Klav. 2 rooms / 8. 6. 5. 4. 2., world premiere: Donaueschingen, October 15, 2005 / D: 9 min.
• Li-Sabbrá (2005) for recorder and percussion, world premiere: Nuremberg, June 9, 2005 / D: 6 min.
• Rojagdád (2005) for three sopranos, alto and countertenor, world premiere: Amsterdam, September 10, 2006 / D: 4 min.
• Láma poím ... (2005/06) for orchestra with Ud, Ud (ver.) / 2. 1. Eh .. 2. Bkl. 2. / 3. 3. 3. 0. / 1 ​​beat. / 8. 8. 8. 6. 4., first performance first version: Stuttgart, July 27, 2006, first performance definitive version: Schwaz, 6 September 2008 / D: 11 min.
• shira shir (2006) for baritone and orchestra, text: Jizchak Katzenelson, Bar. / 3. 3. 3. 1. Kfg. / 4. 3. 3. 1. / 2 beats (Tomtom, large Tr., Chinese basin; thunder sheet; Tchanchiki). / 16. 14. 12. 10. 8., world premiere: Berlin, January 27, 2007 / D: 7 min.
• Tslalim (2006) for accordion, world premiere: Munich, February 16, 2007 / D: 10 min.
• A memory for forgetting (2006) for piano, world premiere: Kassel, November 5, 2006 / D: 5 min.
• Madih (2006) for four Arab musicians and chamber ensemble, Ney. Ud. Qanun. Djoza. / If. Kl. Fg (Kfg). Ps. Mr. Schlzg. Vl. Vla. Vc. Kb., World premiere: Kassel, September 27, 2007 / D: 12 min.
• Challomot [Dreams] (2007/08) for voice, recorder, trombone, piano and percussion, texts: Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, world premiere: Cologne, April 5, 2008 / D: 27 min.
• Aufbruch (2008) for string orchestra, 4th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, world premiere: Munich, March 13, 2008 / D: 11 min.
• Tamáni II (2008) for violoncello solo, world premiere: Panicale (Umbria) / D: 8 min.
• Challom Kattan (2008) for flute solo with large frame drum, world premiere: Bremen, May 17, 2008 / D: 3 min.
• Skià (2008) for piano, world premiere: New York, September 9, 2008 / D: 10 min.
• Cihangir (2008) for chamber ensemble, 1. 1 (Eh). 2. 1 (Kfg). / 1. 2. 1. 0. / 2 beats. / 1. 1. 1. 2. 1., commissioned by Siemens Arts Program (project "into"), world premiere: Frankfurt, October 11, 2008 (Ensemble Modern) / D: 15 min.
• Rituale (2008) for orchestra, commissioned by musica viva / BR, world premiere: Munich, February 6, 2009 (BR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Tamayo )
• Jabsurr (2009) for violoncello and piano, commission: Festival Zeitkunst and Kira Auguste Princess of Prussia, world premiere: Berlin, November 7th, 2009 (Julian Arp, Vc .; Casper Frantz, Klav.)
• Madjnun (2009) for recorder and string orchestra, commissioned by Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW, world premiere: Munich, November 19, 2009 (Munich Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Liebreich)
• Philaki (2009) for seven instrumentalists, world premiere: Berlin, January 20, 2010 (Horenstein Ensemble)
• Uffukk (2010) for cello solo, world premiere: Wismar, March 12, 2010 (Julian Arp) / duration: 9 min.
• Madjnun II (2010) for recorder and male choir, world premiere: Cologne, March 25, 2010 (Jeremias Schwarzer, blfl; WDR choir, conducted by Rupert Huber)
• Leila and Majnun (2010) for baritone counter, small choir and ensemble. Theatrical story based on Nizami, music: Samir Odeh-Tamimi, text: Albert Ostermaier . World premiere: Bochum, August 20, 2010 (musikFabrik, ChorWerk Ruhr, director: Peter Rundel) / D: approx. 2 hours
• Behind the Wall (2010). Oratorio based on a poem by Christian Lehnert. Commissioned by the RIAS Chamber Choir on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of German reunification. World premiere: Berlin, Radialsystem V, October 1, 2010. Artistic direction: Hans-Christoph Rademann, RIAS Chamber Choir, musikFabrik - Ensemble for New Music, Gesa Hoppe (soprano), Christophe Mortagne (tenor), Frank Wörner (baritone), Romain Bischoff (Baritone)
• Garden of Knowledge (2010/2011) for six voices and two trombones. World premiere: ECLAT Festival New Music Stuttgart, Theaterhaus, T1, Sunday, February 13, 2011
• Ka anna ha (2011), WP: March 27, 2011, Escalier du Chant / Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano; Martin Nagy, tenor; Guillermo Anzorena, baritone)
• Spiegel der Erde (2011) based on the poem of the same name by Adonis, premiere: May 29, 2011, Escalier du Chant / Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
• Léxis (2011) based on the poem "The Color of Water" by Adonis, Premiere: Sept. 25, 2011, Escalier du Chant / Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
• Amál (2012) for two pianos, WP: Feb. 15, 2012, Hamburg, The Sound of Israel, an event by the Elbphilharmonie (Duo Amál)
• O people, save me from God (2012) for five voices, premier: 9 September 2012, Musikfest Stuttgart, Südkirche, Esslingen (New Vocal Soloists)
• χωρίς όνομα (Choris Onoma, no name) (2012) for organ, premiere: October 7th, 2012, organ-mixturen 2012, 8th International Festival for Contemporary Organ Music, St. Peter, Cologne (Dominik Susteck)
• Ód (Noch) (2012) for shawm and accordion, Premiere: 4th Nov. 2012, Former Synagogue Hainsfarth (mixtura)
• Headlands (2013) for soprano, clarinet, trombone, violoncello, piano and percussion, premier: November 24, 2013, Berlin, Villa Elisabeth, ZEITKUNST Festival
• Huwa (2013) for baritone and piano trio, WP: September 4th, 2013, Hamburg Laeiszhalle / September 8th, 2013, Berlin Radialsystem (Boulanger Trio)
• Jarich (Mondgott) (2013/14) for three female voices and electronics (part of the Mediterranean Voices project), WP: Feb. 9, 2014, Stuttgart (Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart), D .: 10 min.
• Ringparabel (2014), string quartet, premier: June 5, 2014, Odenburg palace concert (Ventapane Quartet)
• Mansūr (2014), based on texts by and about the Sufi mystic Mansūr Al-Hallāğ, for large choir, 4 brass instruments and 2 percussionists, premiere: July 26, 2014 Salzburg Festival (Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, members of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Conductor: Rupert Huber)
• Ód (2015) for oboe d'amore and accordion, WP: May 15, 2015, Zepernik
• L'Apocalypse Arabe I (2015/16), text: Etel Adnan, WP: March 10, 2016, Klara Festival, Brussels, D: 9 min.
• alif :: split in the wall (2016), concert experiment, ensemble: Zafraan Ensemble, composers: Stefan Goldmann and Samir Odeh-Tamimi, installation: Chiharu Shiota, premiere: March 18, 2016, location: Radialsystem V, Berlin, approx Hours
• LÁMED (2014), for piano trio and tenor bass trombone, WP: 20.09.2014, Belo Horizonte, 12 '
• Mansur (Al-Hallāğ) for choir, 4 brass instruments and 2 percussionists, with texts by and reflections on the Sufi mystic Mansur al-Hallag, WP: July 26, 2014, Salzburg, 18 '
• Ód (2015) for clarinet and accordion
• Ód (2015) for oboe d'amore and accordion, WP: May 15, 2015, Zepernik
• Adád (2016) for shawm and accordion, WP: 23.01.2016, Berlin, 8 '
• L'Apocalypse Arabe I (2016), for choir and ensemble, text: Etel Adnan, WP: 10.03.2016, Brussels, 9 '
• Palmyra (2016) for ensemble, WP: October 29, 2016; Heidelberg, 13 '
• Polígonos (2016) for piano and electronics, WP: June 17, 2017, Stuttgart, 23 '
• Ramádi (2016) for choir and two percussionists, WP: October 28, 2016, Essen, 10 '
• Solo for viola (2016) World premiere: March 18, 2016, Berlin, 7 '
• Solo for violin (2016), world premiere: March 18, 2016, Berlin, 7 '
• Capricornus (2017), WP: 29.09.2017, Berlin, 18 '
• Gidim (2017) for orchestra, WP: July 8th, 2017, Freiburg, 18 '
• Lámed II (2017) for saxophone solo, 7 ', portrait CD Zafraan Ensemble 2017
• Lámed III (2017) for bass clarinet solo, 7 ', portrait CD Zafraan Ensemble 2017
• Lámed IV (2017) for trumpet solo, 7 ', portrait CD Zafraan Ensemble 2017
• Šamaš (2018) Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra, WP: October 31, 2018, Stuttgart, 18 '
• TIMNA (2019) for mixed choir, percussion, flute, viola, cello and double bass, WP: February 9, 2020, Stuttgart, 17 '

Discography

Odeh-Tamimi, Samir: Works (Madjnun II / Jabsurr / Ahinnu II / Shira Shir / Philaki / Garden of Knowledge / Gdadroja); Artists: Jeremias Schwarzer, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Ensemble musikFabrik, Radio Kammerphilharmonie Hilversum; Label: Wergo; Release date: 10/01/2011

Odeh-Tamimi, Samir: chamber music (Lámed, Uffukk, Li-Sabbrá, Lámed II, Alif, piece for violin solo, Lámed III, Li-Umm-Kámel); Artists: Zafraan Ensemble, Salome Kammer, Manuel Nawri; Label: Kairos; Date of publication: 01/26/2018

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1. ^ Homepage Kunststation St. Peter (Cologne), accessed on October 9, 2012

Web links

• Biography and catalog raisonné at Ricordi Verlag