Thuringia Bräm

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Thuringian Lukas M. Bräm (born April 10, 1944 in Basel ) is a Swiss conductor and composer . From 1999 to 2001 he was rector of the Lucerne School of Music.

Life

Bräm graduated 1963 Matura at the Gymnasium am Münsterplatz in Basel. He studied piano (diploma), conducting (diploma) and composition in Basel as well as musicology at the University of Basel and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In addition, he continued his education in Siena and Salzburg. From 1970 to 1973 he worked in the United States as a conductor and répétiteur under Max Rudolf in the opera department of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, at the Santa Fe Opera and at the Aspen Music Festival and School . During this time he also took part in the 9th Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition (for conductors) in New York. He also earned a Masters of Arts in composition from the University of California, Berkeley .

From 1973 to 1987 he was director of the music school of the music academy of the city of Basel . From 1974 to 1987 he was President of the Chamber Art Basel concert series. From 1987 to 1999 he worked as director of the Lucerne Conservatory and from 1999 to 2001 as founding rector of the Lucerne School of Music . Until 2006 he led the orchestral conducting class in Lucerne. He was also a member of the board of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires from 2000 to 2006. He gave guest courses at home and abroad a. a. at the Lucerne and Zurich Conservatories and at the University of Florida . From 1987 to 2002 he co-led the master classes in Lucerne.

In 1970 he made his debut as a conductor with the Basel Radio Symphony Orchestra . From 1984 to 1990 he was President of the Jeunesses Musicales de Suisse. From 1987 to 2006, Bräm was chief conductor of the Junge Philharmonie Zentralschweiz. From 1976 to 2009 he was director of the Regio-Choir Binningen / Basel and regular guest conductor of the Kammerphilharmonie Pardubice. He has been President of the Jury of the Concours du Festival de Musique Sacrée de Friborg since 1985 and President of the Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition of the Danzig Music Academy since 2003 . Bräm was also a member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2004 to 2011 .

family

Bräm is married to the Swiss-American psycholinguist Penny Bräm Boyes, who has a doctorate , and has two children. His wife is the head of the Swiss Sign Language Database in Zurich. With her he gave a lecture at the International Conference for Improvisation Lucerne 1996 on the attempt to classify the conductor's expressive gestures .

Musical creation

Bräm was influenced by composers such as Anton Webern , Pierre Boulez and John Cage .

He composed more than 100 works. His most famous compositions include the Angelus Silesius Cantata , the Requiem for CS and Litteri un Schattä - Luci e ombre . As a guest composer he was a. a. 1999 at the Groupe Lacroix and 2006 at the Hokuto International Music Festival.

Awards

  • 1973: First prize at the Niccola de Lorenzo Composition Competition at the University of California, Berkeley
  • 1992: Edwin Fischer Prize from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
  • 2005: Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne

Discography (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • The composer as mediator - the teacher as animator . In: New Music for Young People and Laypeople (1980), pp. 39–42.
  • Music and space. A collection of contributions from a historical and artistic point of view on the meaning of the term “space” as a sound carrier for music . GS-Verlag, Basel 1986, ISBN 3-7185-0057-4 .
  • Preserve and open. A reader on "50 Years of the Lucerne Conservatory, 1942-1992" . Music edition Nepomuk, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-907117-04-2 .
  • Research and development (R&D) at the future music academies in Switzerland . Swiss Science Council, Bern 1997.
  • Spirituality and the Contemporary Composer . In: Annette Landau, Sandra Koch (eds.): Songs beyond people. The conflict area music - religion - belief . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-03-400566-0 , pp. 177-189.
  • The orchestra as an educational tool. 20 years of the Junge Philharmonie Zentralschweiz (1987–2007) . Lucerne School of Music, Lucerne 2007, ISBN 978-3-033-01270-7 .
  • DORE bears fruit. Thoughts on applied music research based on the "Giornata sulla ricerca" of March 25, 2011 in Lugano . In: Dissonanz 114 (2011), pp. 71–72.

literature

  • Thuringia Bräm . In: Internationale Musikfestwochen Luzern (Ed.): “From alphorn call to synthesizer sound”. Swiss music from 150 years of the City Hall of Lucerne (Kornschutte). August 17 - September 11, 1991 . Walter Labhart, Endingen 1991, ISBN 3-9520167-0-5 , p. 117.
  • Braem, Thuering LM In: Europa Publications (Ed.): International Who's Who in Classical Music 2012 . 28th edition, Routledge, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-85743-644-0 , p. 112.
  • Andreas Fatton: C'est beau, le rouge. Thuringian Bräm's chamber opera “Aloïse Opéra” in the Gare du Nord Basel (May 2010) . In: Dissonanz 111 (2010), pp. 64–65.
  • Thuringia Bräm . In: Hans Steinbeck, Walter Labhart (Hrsg.): Swiss composers of our time. Biographies, catalog raisonnés with discography and bibliography . Amadeus, Winterthur 1993, ISBN 3-905049-05-8 , pp. 55-57.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former students of the high school on Münsterplatz . Retrieved January 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j International Who's Who In Classical Music 2012.
  3. ↑ Lucerne International Music Festival 1991, p. 117.
  4. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Musinfo website. Retrieved January 12, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musinfo.ch
  5. ^ Fritz Schaub : Art and Culture Prize. He does great things for young people . In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung , September 17, 2005, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Bräm, Thuringia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bräm, Thuringia Lukas M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel