Stefan Pohlit

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Stefan Pohlit (* 1976 in Heidelberg ) is a German composer and music theorist .

Career

Stefan Pohlit received his first composition lessons from 1992 to 1995 from Róbert Wittinger. From 1995 he studied composition with Theo Brandmüller (Saarbrücken), with Detlev Müller-Siemens and Roland Moser (Basel), with Gilbert Amy (Lyon) and, from 1999 to 2005, with Wolfgang Rihm and Sandeep Bhagwati , as well as music theory with Bernd Asmus and Peter-Michael Riehm in Karlsruhe.

From 1999 he devoted himself to intensive oriental studies, traveled to the Middle East and stayed in Turkey in 2003/04 as a guest of the composer Nevit Kodallı. In 2007 he moved to Turkey, taught at times as a foreign expert at the State Conservatory in Ankara and received his doctorate in 2011 from the music research institute MİAM of the Technical University of Istanbul with a dissertation on the tuning system of the Kanun player Julien Jalal Eddine Weiss. From 2012 to 2014 he taught as a junior professor at the State Conservatory for Turkish Music at the TU Istanbul. In February 2018, Pohlit won a lawsuit against the TU Istanbul in Turkey for his dismissal. He is the brother of the composer Hannes Pohlit .

In addition to his artistic work, Stefan Pohlit has emerged as a publicist and through lectures. Pohlit's works have been discussed on the radio since 1995, in 2013 in a one-hour portrait by Hessischer Rundfunk. He has lived and worked in Germany since 2018.

Awards

  • Sponsorship award from the German Association of Composers (1993)
  • Scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate in the Société Franz Schreker , Paris (1996)
  • Scholarship from the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR (2005 and 2006)
  • Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg State Foundation (2003)
  • DAAD scholarship (2007)
  • Advancement award of the master class of the RSO Stuttgart (2009)

Selected Works

Solo works

  • Orpheus' Lament for harp (2004)
  • Dafne for violin (2015)
  • Jacob's ladder for violin (2015)

Chamber music

  • gurêz for four recorders (2002, commissioned by the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet ; published by Channel Classics in 2003)
  • desertum (revised version) for flute and piano (2003/17)
  • Rose and Nightingale (revised version) for tenor recorder and percussion (2005/17)
  • de-sero for string quartet (world premiere in 2006 by the Stadler quartet)
  • Confessions for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello (2008/12)
  • clairvoyance for violin and violoncello (2010)
  • rain for string quartet (2017)
  • XY for santur, percussion and string quartet (2017/18)

ensemble

  • sinfonia funebre for harp and ensemble (flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, cello) (2015)
  • Tombeau de Julien Bernard for ensemble (flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass) (2016)

orchestra

Vocal music

  • See, I died as a stone ... for mezzo-soprano and ensemble (2002; recorded in 2009 by Ensemble Phoenix Basel )
  • Love Is My Religion for countertenor and tenor recorder (2013)

Web links

literature

  • Şefik Kahramankaptan: Bizi bizden daha iyi bilen bir Alman bestecisi , Andante 6/20086 (Dec. 2008), pp. 56–7
  • Ulrike Böhmer: Succumb to fascination… , Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 4/2013 (June 2013), 35–39
  • Michael Rebhahn: Introducing: Stefan Pohlit , HR2-Kultur, Feb. 5, 2012, 10 p.m.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Stefan Pohlit from March 20, 2018 in Die Rheinpfalz . Retrieved August 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ Report by Dinçer Gökçe from February 26, 2018 in Hürriyet (English). Retrieved September 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Pohlit, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg