Thomas Buchholz

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Thomas Walter Buchholz (born August 27, 1961 in Eisenach ) is a German composer and music teacher .

Life

Thomas Buchholz was born in 1961 in Eisenach, the son of oratorio singer and vocal teacher Kurt Wichmann and concert pianist and music teacher Jutta Buchholz , née Gensty. His father was the editor of Pier Francesco Tosi's singing school . Buchholz went to school in Eisenach and from the age of six received lessons in singing , piano , organ and music theory at the Eisenach music school . He then trained as a piano maker at the Julius Blüthner Pianofortefabrik in Leipzig. He then worked as a piano tuner in Eisenach and as a musical instrument restorer at Michaelstein Monastery in Blankenburg.

From 1983 to 1988 he studied singing with Rudi Ploß , composition with Günter Neubert and music education with Hans-Georg Mehlhorn at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig . From 1988 to 1992 he was a master class student for composition with Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He also took composition courses with Rudolf Kelterborn , Witold Lutosławski and John Cage .

From 1988 to 1992 he was an assistant for music theory at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . He taught composition , instrumentation , counterpoint and new music . From 1993 to 1995 he was a research assistant at the Heinrich Schütz House of the Schütz Academy in Bad Köstritz . There he researched Georg Anton Benda and historical music. Afterwards he worked at the Handel House in Halle until 1999 and dealt with regional music history. In the same year he was appointed visiting professor of composition at the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory in Armenia . He also took on teaching positions for ensemble management at the Leipzig University of Music and at the BIP Creativity Center in Leipzig and teaches in the Saxony / Anhalt composer class. From 2011 to 2018 he worked as a choir and orchestra conductor and teacher of music theory at the Free Waldorf School in Halle. Since 2018 he has been working as a pedagogical employee at the IWK Institute for Further Education in Saxony-Anhalt.

Since 1996 he has been chairman of the Saxony-Anhalt Association of German Composers (LVDK). In addition, from 1999 to 2003 he was President of the Standing Conference on Contemporary Music in Central Germany . Buchholz is a board member of the German Composers' Association (DKV) Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt. He was also the artistic director of the Hallische Musiktage from 1996 to 2012 . From 2010 to 2014 Buchholz was head of buw. Member of the jury for the International Komitas Festival at Schloss Prötzel . He also worked as a jury member at the composition competition for the Handel Prize of the City of Halle , the Hans Stieber Prize , the Berlin International Guitar Competition and the Leipzig City Composition Prize .

Its 170 works (at Schott Music and the Verlag Neue Musik moved to Berlin) were in 16 countries of Europe , Japan and the United States listed. CD and radio recordings were made, also as a harpsichordist and organist. He worked with Reinbert Evers , Howard Arman , Thomas Blumenthal , Matthias Sannemüller , John Holloway , Thomas Müller , Georg Christoph Biller , Christfried Brödel , Clemens Flämig , Martin Schmeding and Carin Levine . Buchholz gave workshops on the subject of new music in Ufa , Yerevan , Bern , Brno , Michaelstein , Vilnius , Riga , Prague and Saint Petersburg .

plant

Buchholz has been involved with new music since his youth . These include his compositions Eruption (1990/91), String Quartet (1988) and Zwei Rhapsodien (1990). In his first chamber symphony Eruption , he incorporated sonorous and punctual elements. He later used Renaissance and Baroque styles . The chamber symphonies Perotinus (1994) and Ellipse (1995) and the cycle for chamber orchestra Five Baroque Etudes (1998/99) were created. His orchestral music includes several larger works, including Wintermusik I (2004), Die Stadt (2006), Tod des Odysseus based on a text by Heiner Müller (2009), Fraktale (2010), The Young Person's Guide to New Music (2010), Klingelfranz (2011) and Counter-Impulse (2013). A creative focus, the choral music is. The great choral cycles include Orplid (1998), Armenia clamans (1999), Letare Germania (2006), Luther arcades (2008), Novalis Madrigal (2010) and Nongenti (2015/16). Buchholz combines contemporary compositional techniques with tonal cells to form a unity, in which he breaks through classical settings as well as complex avand-garde structures. An example of this are Les dances imaginaire for two orchestras (2008) and Armenian hymns for alto solo, 2 oboes and choir (2013). Chamber music comprises around 70 works, including cyclical compositions such as domino per due pianoforti (1992), Trois Airs Baroques (1998/99), Vierzehnbedingungen zu Bach (1999), RICERCAR and CHORAL (1999/2000), UNDEUTschLICHt - eleven caricatures for two harps (2003), KRUNK for string quartet (2005) and Tetraktys (2009). The German National Library registers a total of over one hundred published works.

Awards and grants

Discography

  • 1996: Luther Arcades
  • 1998: Chamber Symphonies VI - IX ( Thorofon )
  • 1999: eruption
  • 2000: Loving occupation ( Kreuzberg Records )
  • 2001: Music in Germany 1950-2000 - Solo & Singing 1970-2000 ( Red Seal )
  • 2003: Air
  • 2004: Nostradamus I ( Stylton )
  • 2007: New music for string orchestra in the Handel House, Halle / Saale
  • 2008: Canticle of the Sun ( MDG )
  • 2008: every year
  • 2010: UNDEUTschLICHt - cycles for ensembles (Kreuzberg Records)
  • 2011: Snapshot 20 years (Kreuzberg Records)
  • 2011: Composers from Saxony-Anhalt, Vol. 3
  • 2011: Glory to God for everything ( Querstand )

Fonts

  • Creative use of musical and historical sources. Comments on my Chamber Symphony vii “Ex-sequi” (1995) . In: Ingeborg Stein (Hrsg.): This side and hereafter conceptions in the 17th century. Interdisciplinary colloquium from 3rd to 5th February 1995 . Quartus-Verlag, Jena 1996, ISBN 3-931505-14-6 , pp. 276-284. (= Special series of monographs, vol. 4)
  • Reception of music from the Schütz period in compositions of the 20th century . In: Ingeborg Stein (Hrsg.): Reception of old music. Log tape. Colloquium on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of Heinrich Schütz's death. Heinrich-Schütz-Haus research and memorial site, Bad Köstritz 1999, ISBN 3-9806208-3-2 , pp. 153–170. (= Special series of monographs, vol. 6)
  • Some abstract figures of baroque structural elements in compositions of the 20th century . In: Contributions to the Colloquia 1998–2001 . Heinrich Schütz House Research and Memorial Center, Bad Köstritz 2002, ISBN 3-9806208-4-0 , pp. 81–88. (= Contributions to musical source research, vol. 5)

literature

  • Buchholz, Thomas. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition, German Association of Composers, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-55561-410-X , p. 157.
  • Gert Richter: Thomas Buchholz . In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Edition Text & Criticism, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-86916-164-8 .
  • Buchholz, Thomas. In: Axel Schniederjürgen (Ed.): Kürschner's Musicians Handbook. 5th edition, Saur Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-24212-3 , p. 59.
  • Christoph Sramek : Buchholz, Thomas . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): Music in past and present (MGG). Supplement, Bärenreiter, Kassel [u. a.] 2008, pp. 77-79.
  • Christoph Sramek: Thomas Buchholz. Sketch sheets on the life and work of the Halle composer . Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7333-0809-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Rink: Handel Sponsorship Award - Handel Research Award . In: Announcements of the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2014, pp. 11–13, here: p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Buchholz, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchholz, Thomas Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach , GDR