Sebastian Gottschick

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Sebastian Gottschick (born April 23, 1959 in Düsseldorf ) is a German conductor , composer and violinist .

Career

Gottschick studied at the music academies in Düsseldorf , Cologne , Berlin , Munich and Hamburg as well as with scholarships from the DAAD and the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation at the Juilliard School in New York ( MA , 1989). He studied violin with Helga Thoene , Max Rostal and Thomas Brandis , composition with Jürg Baur , Frank-Michael Beyer and Wilhelm Killmayer , and conducting with Klauspeter Seibel and Otto-Werner Mueller .

From 1979 to 1987 he was concert master of the Berlin Chamber Opera . In 1989 he began working with the Ensemble Oriol Berlin , first as concertmaster (until 1993) and then as artistic director (until 1999). With a program that has become characteristic of Gottschick since then, which confronts both well-known and unknown works of the Baroque and Classical periods with those of the younger modern period , the Ensemble Oriol won not only in Berlin (Critics' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung 1999) but also at festivals ( Berliner Festival , Lake Constance Festival , Musiktage Hitzacker ) and through guest performances in Europe, the USA and Mexico, an independent profile in the international music business.

From 1994 to 2003 he was musical director of the Neue Opernbühne Berlin , with the performance of works such as Handel's Flavio in the Kesselhaus in the Kulturbrauerei (2000) and Bruno Madernas Satyricon (2003) as well as guest appearances in Las Palmas , Madrid and Lisbon . Since 2003 he has been working regularly as a conductor and composer with the ensemble für neue musik zürich , for which he wrote his Partita (2008), the Ives Songbook (since 2006) and together with Christoph Coburger Memento Mori (2011). Since 2005 he has also been the musical director of the ensemble für stadtebewohner (Vienna / Berlin), with whom he performed the world premiere of Johannes Harneit's chamber opera idiot (2005, in collaboration with Klangforum Wien and vocal ensemble NOVA) and the musical comedy Arbeit ist Urlaub (2007 ) based on Guy Debord and realized the performance Schlafen in Wien (2009).

As a co-founder and violist , he has been a member of the Manon Quartet in Berlin since 1994 .

As publisher for the Copenhagen publishing house Samfundet , he is responsible for the works of the Danish composer Matthias Ronnefeld , which he has made known through numerous performances and radio broadcasts and CDs .

Sebastian Gottschick lives in Cologne and teaches violin at the Cologne University of Music.

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • Two orchestral pieces (1976). Composition prize of the city of Düsseldorf and world premiere by the Siegerland Orchestra with live recording by WDR 1976
  • lumina for flute, violin, violoncello and piano (1976). Commissioned by the BDI , world premiere in Würzburg 1977, WDR production 1978
  • Piano Trio (1979). First performance at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music in 1979, first performance of the new version Alice Tully Hall , Juilliard School, New York 1989
  • Orchestral piece (1981). SDR production in 1983 with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra under Bernhard Kontarsky
  • Seven songs (1982/83). First performance at the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1984
  • Five pieces for two pianos tuned quarter-tone apart (1988/2008). First performed at Paul Hall Hall, Juilliard School, New York 1988
  • Partita for flute, bass clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello (2009). World premiere by the ensemble for new music zurich , Zurich 2009
  • Whispers of Heavenly Death after Walt Whitman , for medium voice and chamber ensemble (2009/2010). World premiere in the chamber music hall of the Philharmonie Berlin in 2009 with Omar Ebrahim and the Ensemble Oriol Berlin, world premiere of the complete version in 2010 in the Tonhalle Zurich with Omar Ebrahim, Jeannine Hirzel and the ensemble für neue musik zurich
  • Notturno for clarinetto d'amore and string quartet (2002/2011). Commissioned by the Potsdam Music Festival, world premiere in 2011 with Lorenzo Coppola and the Manon Quartet Berlin
  • Four chorales for violin and piano (2010). First performance Ithaca, NY and Toronto 2010 by Ariadne Daskalakis and Miri Yampolsky
  • Memento Mori : Overture for the dead Swiss, for singers, speakers and chamber ensemble (with Christoph Coburger , 2011). World premiere in Zurich with the ensemble for new music Zurich , 2011
  • Entreacte / Umbaumusik I-II (2012), world premiere in Zurich with the ensemble for new music in Zurich 2012

Edits

  • Choral arrangements: Thanks, thanks to the Lord (based on a Flemish song), Who appeared for salvation ( Melchior Teschner ), He wakes me up every morning ( Rudolf Zöbeley ), Now looking up and happy ( Johann Crüger ), ed. by Friedemann Gottschick, Carus-Verlag, 1976
  • Gustav Mahler , Symphony No. 4, arranged together with Johannes Harneit for chamber ensemble and soprano, world premiere with Sinfonietta Leipzig, Berlin, Hebbel am Ufer , 2004, published in print by Sikorski, Hamburg, undated)
  • Arrangements for violin, saxophone quartet and piano, commissioned by the Alliage Quintet (since 2006): George Enescu , Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 ; Darius Milhaud , Le boeuf sur le toit ; Béla Bartók , 1st Rhapsody ; Maurice Ravel , Tzigane ; ders., violin sonata
  • Ives Songbook (since 2008). Songs and instrumental pieces by Charles Ives , arranged for voice and chamber ensemble, several world premieres, recording with the Ensemble for New Music Zurich in hr -Sendesahl Frankfurt 2010 CD see Discography

Discography (selection)

  • Mozart , Sinfonia concertante / Haydn , piano concerto in D major . Ensemble Oriol Berlin, IPPNW -Concerts No. 3, 1992
  • Henry Purcell / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Alban Berg . Manon Quartet Berlin, IPPNW-Concerts No. 11, 1995
  • Franz Schubert / Henry Purcell / Leoš Janáček . Manon Quartet Berlin, IPPNW-Concerts No. 31, 1998
  • Matthias Ronnefeld, I hear the drummers strike the sky . Ensemble Moments Musicaux, Dacapo Records 1999
  • Charles Ives, A Symphony, Holidays I: Washington's Birthday . Ensemble Oriol Berlin, Kreuzberg Records 2000
  • Matthias Ronnefeld, In the evening the autumn forests resound . Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, Dacapo Records 2000, honored with the Danish Music Award 2001
  • Giacinto Scelsi , Anagamin Celui qui choisit de revenir ou pas . Ensemble Oriol Berlin, edition rz 2002
  • Daniel Fueter, Forelle Stanley (chamber opera in two acts). ensemble for new music zurich , co-production with Swiss radio and television, 2 CDs, Musiques suisses, Grammon Portrait 2011
  • Charles Ives, A Songbook . ensemble for new music zurich , HatHut Records 2012

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Jan Brachmann, Coronation Fantasies in the Mirror of the Bride's Eyes , Berliner Zeitung, July 22, 2000; Uwe Friedrich, Opera in the Kulturbrauerei: Sebastian Gottschick electrifies Handel's "Flavio" in Prenzlauer Berg , Tagesspiegel, July 21, 2000
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Fuhrmann , Bruno Madernas Satyricon in a production of the Neue Opernbühne Berlin in the Staatsbank: If you have something, then you count on something , Berliner Zeitung, February 14, 2003
  3. ↑ a b Memento mori , ensemble for new music in Zurich, video on vimeo.com
  4. ↑ Work is vacation  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ensemble for city dwellers, 2007, video on mondemp3.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / mondemp3.com  
  5. ↑ Choral arrangements (1976) by Sebastian Gottschick in Carus-Verlag, 1976 (digital copies)
  6. ↑ Dirk Wieschollek, CD review of the Ives Songbook (PDF; 190 kB), Schweizer Musikzeitung, April 2013
personal data
SURNAME Gottschick, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor, composer and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf