Sarah Nemtsov

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Sarah Nemtsov (née Reuter; born May 28, 1980 in Oldenburg ) is a German composer .

Artistic career

In 1987 she received her first music lessons and composed her first compositions. From 1998 to 2000 she was a junior composition student at the Hanover University of Music and Theater with Nigel Osborne . Since 2000 she studied oboe and composition at the same institution and later at the Berlin University of the Arts . Her most important composition teachers were Johannes Schöllhorn and Walter Zimmermann , with whom she passed her master's degree with distinction.

Her works are performed at international festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the International Summer Courses for New Music Darmstadt, the Munich Biennale, the ISCM World New Music Days, the Strasbourg Festival Musica, Ultrasound Berlin, MaerzMusik, the Bregenz Festival, the SPOR Festival Denmark , FRUM Iceland, the Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Wien modern, Klangspuren Schwaz, Israel Festival or Musik 21 Niedersachsen. In the 2014/2015 season, Sarah Nemtsov was the composer for Erfurt's Neue Noten and was represented with works in three symphony concerts by the Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2014 she was a guest lecturer for composition (focus on music theater) at the Cologne University of Music.

In 2012 she received the German Music Author Award in the category of young talent and in 2013 the Busoni Composition Award of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. She has received various grants (including a stay at Villa Serpentara, Olevano, Italy 2011) and was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation from 2003 to 2007.

Works

Her catalog raisonné includes over 100 compositions in various genres.

Several of her works have been published by Ricordi , and some works have also been published by edition nova vita, Moeck Verlag and Peermusic Classical Hamburg. Her chamber opera Herzland, based on Paul Celan's correspondence, premiered in 2006 in Hanover. a. also presented in the series “unheard of music” (Berlin). In 2011, a new production of Herzland took place at the Bavarian State Opera . The vocal work Hoqueti was premiered on October 16, 2011 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage . Her cycle Zimmer (2013–2014) was presented in 2014 by the Ensemble Adapter at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 2015 she contributed a short opera ( ALT / DEFEKT ) for the Salzburg Pocket Opera Festival and developed the evening 4 Rooms with old and new music in cooperation with the soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop .

Her full-length opera L'ABSENCE (2006–2008) based on the Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès was premiered in May 2012 at the 13th Munich Biennale . The opera was published by Peermusic Classical. In 2017 her new opera Sacrifice premiered at Oper Halle.

Compositions (selection)

Stage works

- Sacrifice (2016) Opera in 4 acts for 5 singers, 3 actors, instrumental ensemble, orchestra, electronics, video and a silent choir - Libretto: Dirk Laucke

- Alt / Defekt (2015) Chamber opera for countertenor, actor and 4 instruments - to texts by James Joyce

- L'Absence (2006–2008) Opera in 5 acts for 12 singers, speakers, dancer and orchestra - based on the Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès

- Herzland (2005) for 2 voices and 4 instruments - (new version 2009 for 2 voices and chamber orchestra) - on excerpts from the correspondence between Paul Celan and Gisèle Celan-Lestrange

Orchestral works

- dropped.drowned (2017) for large orchestra

- scattered ways (2015) for orchestra

- SHESH (2014) for string orchestra

- Stairs in the Sea (2006–2008 / 2012) for orchestra

- Helix (2004) for orchestra

ensemble

- white wide eyes (2014) for 23 instruments with electronics and projection

- Room I-III (2013) layering for 8 musicians

- A LONG WAY AWAY. Passagen (2010–2011) Staged cycle for 10 instruments

Vocal works

- OR.Towards (2016) for 6 voices, 6 instrumentalists, objects and light

- Siebenfacher Trost (2013) song cycle for John Dowland's A Pilgrim's Solace with new translations and variations by Mirko Bonné - for 2 voices and 6 instruments

- Hoqueti (2011) for 6 solo voices with additional instruments to dream texts by W. Benjamin, Th. W. Adorno and B. Brecht

- Moon at Noon (2009) for soprano and ensemble based on poems by Emily Dickinson

Chamber music

- SKOP (2016) for (amplified) accordion solo

- Journal (2015) for 5 instruments with electronics

- white eyes erased (2014/2015) for keyboard and drum set

- running.out of tune (2013) for 2 harpsichords with electronics

- WOLVES (2012) for oboe and prepared piano

- Briefe.Puppen (2012/2014) for electric guitar and drums

- Six characters (2010) for cello and prepared piano

- Memories - Splitter (2009) string trio

- In memory (2007) string quartet

- Twenty sketches (2005) for piano solo

- deconstructions (2003) 2 movements for violin and piano

Awards

2016: Winner of the RicordiLAB composition competition

2014–2015: Composer for Erfurt's Neue Noten (Philharmonic Orchestra Erfurt, GMD Joana Mallwitz )

2014: Composition grant from the Berlin Senate

2013: Busoni Composition Prize

2012: German Music Author Award (GEMA) in the category "Promotion of Young Talent"

2011: Scholarship from the "Villa Serpentara" (Italy), composition scholarship from the Berlin Senate, ZONTA music prize

2009: "Wilfried Steinbrenner Foundation" grant

2007: "Hanns Eisler Prize" for composition and interpretation, "Aribert Reimann Foundation" grant

2003–2007: Scholarship holder for composition at the German National Academic Foundation

1995–1999: Winner of the competition "Young people composed" (five times in a row)

Private

Sarah Nemtsov is married to the pianist and musicologist Jascha Nemtsov . Her mother is the painter Elisabeth Naomi Reuter . Sarah Nemtsov was a member of the Klangnetz e. V. With her husband Jascha Nemtsov, she opened the space for art and discourse in Berlin-Charlottenburg in May 2015 - a gallery and an event location. She also initiated the Orte - Mekomot project - a concert tour (2015–2016) with contemporary compositions and traditional Jewish chants through former synagogues in Germany and Poland. The project was u. a. funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Remembrance, Responsibility, Future Foundation.

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SURNAME Nemtsov, Sarah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reuter, Sarah (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg