Sebastian Vogel (musician)

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Sebastian Vogel (* 1971 in Magdeburg ) is a German musician and performer who mainly works for the theater with his musician colleague Thomas Kürstner .

Vogel studied musicology, composition and German and has since worked as a musician and composer on German-speaking stages, including in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Hanover, Hamburg, Zurich, Munich and Vienna.

Vogel and Kürstner met in the early 1990s while studying musicology and German in Halle (Saale). Her spectrum includes theater music, film and dance music as well as readings, audio books, novel settings, chamber music, and vocal music. From 2001 to 2003 both were musical directors at the Frankfurt Theater am Turm . In 2003 they moved to the Burgtheater in Vienna as composer and resident musician . This is where the stage music for the world premieres of Elfriede Jelinek's Das Werk , Babel and Gert Jonke's The Sunken Cathedral was created . Together with director Nicolas Stemann , they developed the improvisational-performative art format Hazard Bar . For the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Salzburg Festival and the Schauspiel Köln he composed, together with Thomas Kürstner, the stage music for Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kontrakte des Kaufmanns (premiere, 2009) and for JW Goethe's Faust I / II (2012). In collaboration with the director Armin Petras , the music for Werner Bräunig's novel adaptation Rummelplatz (USA, 2009) and Jonathan Littell's novel Die Wohlgesinnten (premiere, 2011) were created for the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin , as well as the music for the film adaptation by Juli Zeh's novel Schilf (director: Claudia Lehmann ). In the summer of 2013, the song cycle Auf rises der Mond, based on poems by Alexander Blok for mezzo-soprano, string quartet, piano and modular synthesizer, premiered for the literature and music festival Weg durch das Land (NRW) .

Vogel lives with his family on a farm near Berlin.

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SURNAME Vogel, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and performer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg