Stefan Pohlit
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
- Ikaros ( piš-raw ) for orchestra (world premiere in 2006 by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Schreier)
- Zarzurah for orchestra (2007/2017)
- strings for small orchestra (2009, world premiere by the Orchester National de Lorraine, conducted by Jacques Mercier)
- Taroq for orchestra (world premiere in 2012 by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR under Matthias Pintscher )
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
- Website of the composer
- Stefan Pohlit's publisher's website at Edition Juliane Klein with further information
- Short biography on the SWR website
- Short biography on the website of the International Society for Ekmelic Music (Salzburg)
- Short biography on the website of the magazine "Kunstmusik"
- Interview of the composer Moritz Eggert on the "Bad Blog of Musick"
- Stefan Pohlit on Soundcloud
- Stefan Pohlit on YouTube
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
- ↑ Interview with Stefan Pohlit from March 20, 2018 in Die Rheinpfalz . Retrieved August 21, 2018.
- ↑ Report by Dinçer Gökçe from February 26, 2018 in Hürriyet (English). Retrieved September 14, 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Pohlit, Stefan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and music theorist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |