Stefan Litwin

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Stefan Litwin (born September 30, 1960 in Mexico City ) is a German pianist, composer and music teacher.

Life

Litwin was born in Mexico, where his parents, who had to flee Vienna and Berlin from the Nazis as Jews, found refuge. From 1977 he studied piano, interpretation and composition in Switzerland and the USA. His teachers included Christoph Keller, Jürg Wyttenbach , Frank Weinstock , Gilbert Kalish (piano); Walter Levin , Charles Rosen (interpretation); John Lessard and Herbert Brün (composition.)

pianist

Litwin performs internationally as a concert pianist and has a. a. worked with the conductors Christoph von Dohnányi , Michael Gielen , Marek Janowski , Peter Rucizka , Hans Zender , Brad Lubman and Michael Stern. His chamber music partners include / belonged to Irvine Arditti , Kolja Blacher , Bruno Canino , Alban Gerhardt , Ib Hausmann, Lena Neudauer , Aurèle Nicolet , Eduard Brunner , Michael Riessler , Gustav Rivinius , Christian Tetzlaff , as well as the Arditti- , Danel- , Pellegrini- , Prazák and LaSalle String Quartet . In addition, there is regular activity as a song accompanist for singers and actors, including HK Gruber , Roland Hermann , Henry Herford , Salome Kammer , Gisela May , David Moss and Hanns Zischler .

Litwin has premiered many contemporary works and has worked with composers such as Luigi Nono , Luciano Berio , Hans Zender , Herbert Brün , Frederic Rzewski , Johannes Kalitzke , Jörg Widmann , Alexander Goehr and Michael Gielen . In addition, in lecture concerts he brings the most diverse works of piano and chamber music literature closer to the audience, commenting and demonstrating on the piano. For years, Litwin and Nuria Schoenberg-Nono organized evenings in Europe and the USA on the life and work of Arnold Schönberg and Luigi Nono.

Litwin's musical work is documented in television and radio productions in Europe and the USA as well as numerous CD productions with his own compositions as well as works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Ravel, Janácek, Schönberg, Berg, Webern, Eisler, Schostakowitsch, Helmsman, Schnabel, Kahn, Cowell, Ives, Rzewski, Barraqué, Boulez, Nono, Bernstein and Durand.

Litwin has been professor for piano, chamber music, new music and interpretation at the Saar University of Music since 1992 . From 2003 to 2005 he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , then Distinguished Artist in Residence at Christ College, Cambridge University. Since 2008 he has also been a regular guest lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the George C. Kennedy Distinguished Professor .

composer

Litwin is increasingly devoting himself to composing. In addition to a series of chamber music and vocal works, he has also written the full-length music theater night with guests based on Peter Weiss in recent years .

Works (selection)

  • Sonata y destrucciones, 1998
  • Lyon 1943 (Pièce de résistance), 1999
  • Clean or unclean? , Satire for four voices, 2001
  • Thoreau's Nightmare , 2003
  • Allende, September 11, 1973, 2004 rev. 2012
  • Lyon 1943 (Pièce de résistance), scenes for piano and orchestra, 2005
  • The Bells (Edgar A. Poe), melodrama for voice and piano, 2006
  • »... but not hell.« (Imre Kertész), 2008/09
  •  244.37 for 6 clarinets and prepared piano, 2011
  •  Four songs based on Karl Kraus, 2012/15
  • El Once, 2013
  • Among Friends for 6 voices and prepared piano, 2014
  • Night with guests Music theater based on Peter Weiss for 6 actors and 8 instruments, 2016
  • To All Posterity (Shakespeare), 2017
  • Stößt (Kafka) for soprano, bass clarinet and prepared piano, 2017
  • About things in the country (Chacheperesseneb / Assmann) for bass and prepared piano, 2018
  • Children's scenes for 8 players and sampler, 2018

Discography

  • Webern: String Trio, Quartet Rondo, Piano Quintet / Schönberg: Ode to Napoleon with LaSalle Quartet, Kenneth Griffiths, 1986
  • Bach, Mozart, Beethoven: Originals & Arrangements / Transscriptions with LaSalle Quartet, 1988
  • Artur Schnabel: Sonatas for violin with Christian Tetzlaff, 1989
  • Schönberg: Complete chamber music for strings and piano with Arditti Quartet a. a., 1995
  • Jean Barraqué: Complete works with Klangforum Wien, Jürg Wyttenbach a. a., 1995
  • Leonard Bernstein: Works for Piano, 1997
  • Joël F. Durand: Concerto for Piano and orchestra ao Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bradley Lubman a. a., 1998
  • Review modernity. Orchestral music in the 20th century (8 CDs) SWR Sinfonieorchester, Michael Gielen u. a., 1999
  • Beethoven: 8th Symphony, 3rd Piano Concerto, Great Fugue, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen, 2000
  • Henry Dixon Cowell: American Piano Concertos Radiosinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Michael Stern, 2001
  • Programs 1-3. Works by Schönberg, Berg, Liszt, Wagner, Nono, Sciarrino, Litwin, Wolpe, Kahn and others, 2001
  • Berg, Webern: Chamber music , with Arditti String Quartet, 2003
  • Perspectives 1st Beethoven: 1st piano concerto, performance + lecture. Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bradley Lubman, 2004
  • Perspectives 2nd Schubert: Sonatas D 894 + 960, Schönberg: Piano pieces op.11 + 19, 2006
  • Programs 4 - The Bells. Works by Debussy, Gielen, Ravel, Litwin, Liszt, 2007
  • Perspectives 3. Schumann: Sonata op.11, Performance + Lecture, 2010
  • Erich Itor Kahn: Nenia, string quartet, Ciaccona with Leonardo quartet, Lucas Fels a. a., 2010
  • Programs 5 - Sonata y Destrucciónes. Works by Shostakovich, Litwin, Eisler, Janácek, 2013
  • El Once - Chile, 11. September 1973. Works by Litwin, Frederic Rzewski, book + 2 CDs, 2013
  • »... but not hell.« Music for Imre Kertész. Works by Litwin, Webern, G. Klein, BA Zimmermann, with Ensemble Resonanz, Hanns Zischler, 2014

Publications

  • Child scenes. Notes on an update, Stefan Litwin in conversation with Christoph Keller in: Moving and Moving. The concept of motif in arts and sciences, Berlin 2017
  • The creative gap, in: Dancing in chains. Translation as an interpretive art, 2008
  • Farewell to utopia? On the radicality of old age using the example of Beethoven's piano sonata op.101, in: Radikalität des Alters, 2006
  • Music as History - History as Music, Arnold Schönberg's Piano Concerto op.42, in: Dissonanz, Zurich 1999
  • On the meaning, form and limits of musical transcription, in: Schnittpunkte, 1998
  • On Schönberg's Ode to Napoleon, in: Music Concepts, 2001

Footnotes

  1. ^ Avant-garde and exile. In: Ibero-American Institute. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Georg Beck: Reversing conditions, making them recognizable. In: nmz online. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ferdinand Zehentreiter: »... but not hell.« Stefan Litwin composes Imre Kertész . In: The luck of atonal storytelling. Studies on Imre Kertész . Dresden 2010.
  4. ↑ Splitting on the razor blade. In: nmz online. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  5. ^ Eva Behr: Text, Music, Scene. Motifs in Stefan Litwin's music theater night with guests . In: Moving and Moving. The motif term in arts and sciences . Berlin 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Litwin, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city