Stefan Keller (composer)

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Stefan Keller (born December 8, 1974 in Zurich ) is a Swiss composer .

Life

Keller studied oboe , composition and music theory in Zurich , Utrecht , Berlin ( Hanns Eisler University of Music ) and Paris ( IRCAM ). His teachers included Ernest Rombout , Michael Jarrell , Hanspeter Kyburz , Hans Ulrich Lehmann and Wolfgang Heiniger . His works are performed by the Ensemble Modern , the Ensemble intercontemporain , the Ictus Ensemble , the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart , the Ensemble Mosaik , the Zafraan Ensemble and the Ensemble ascolta in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

For his work he was awarded the Composition Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart (2004), the Hanns Eisler Prize for Composition and Interpretation of Contemporary Music (2005 and 2006) and the startup! Music Prize of the Friends of the University of Music Berlin. From 2006 to 2016 he was a lecturer for instrumentation, music theory and the analysis of new music at the Berlin University of Music. For 2019/2020 he was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. He lives in Berlin.

Create

Stefan Keller's music is characterized by a preoccupation with rhythm. Based on rhythm theories and practices in particular from Viennese classical music , Indian music and heavy metal , he tries to "reanimate" this aspect, which he believes has been lost in contemporary music in the course of liberation from traditional musical parameters . This is how works were created, the electric guitar ( driven , 2007; Breathe , 2016; hybrid gaits , 2017), drum set ( Soma or die Lust am Fallen Lassen , 2015; hybrid gaits , 2017) or tabla ( prélude , 2010; Phoenix , 2017) and combine the rhythmic idioms of the underlying musical styles with contemporary art music.

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What the tihāī and the harmonious cadences of European classical music have in common is the purposeful movement from tension to relaxation, towards the “resting points of the mind”, as Heinrich Christoph Koch puts it. (…) The two final turns have the punctuational function in common: they represent the strongest means of structuring in the respective musical language. It is remarkable that such a similar effect can be achieved with such different means in some respects.

Works (selection)

  • String quartet (2003)
  • always there for bass clarinet, live electronics and live video (2005)
  • Sextet (2006)
  • driven for ensemble (2007)
  • prélude for tabla and live electronics (2010)
  • Stepover for clarinet, bassoon, percussion and viola (2011)
  • Jump! for large ensemble (2011)
  • Power in appearance for ensemble (2012)
  • Dark is the WAR for five votes (2014)
  • Swing for piano trio (2015)
  • Hammer for saxophone, percussion and piano (2015)
  • Soma or the pleasure of letting go for ensemble (2015)
  • Breathe for piano, electric guitar, accordion and live electronics
  • Phoenix for tabla and live electronics
  • hybrid gaits for drum set , keyboard, electric guitar and 3 wind instruments (2017)

Publications

  • Tact and "tāl". A comparative study of European and North Indian classical music. Thesis. University of Music "Hanns Eisler", Berlin 2006. Online short version (PDF; 426 kB)
  • Extended references. In: MusikTexte, 148, Zeitschrift für Neue Musik, February 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ensemble Modern - Shop - CDs - they are. The international composition seminar. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b http://brahms.ircam.fr. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b ECLAT concert 1 - ECLAT. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Archive of Concerts 2015 - Music of the Centuries. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Fondazione Prometeo. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b c Ultrasound Berlin 2016 - Young Sound Speech . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on May 24, 2018]).
  7. ↑ a b ECLAT concert 12 - ECLAT. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  8. ^ Stefan Keller: Stefan Keller - Composer: Vita. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Villa Massimo | Future scholarships. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  10. ↑ cf. Section on curriculum vitae and program booklet text on [1]  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hfmdd.de  
  11. ↑ Lecture at the symposium “Râga and Tâla: Classical Indian Music and New Music. Prerequisites and Aspects of a Dialogue ”of the Berlin Institute for New Music, Klangzeitort on 2/3 December 2006, p. 16 ( PDF )
  12. ↑ stefankellercomposer: Stefan Keller: Composition for Tabla solo and live electronics. February 1, 2011, accessed May 24, 2018 .
  13. ↑ - Ultrasound - Festival program on Saturday, January 19th, 2013 . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on May 24, 2018]).
  14. ^ Soyuz 21. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, September 21, 2016, accessed on May 24, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
  15. ↑ stefankellercomposer: Stefan Keller - Phoenix (Tabla & live electronics, 3 excerpts, Milan 2017). June 7, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8th 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland