Thomas Cornelius

Thomas Emanuel Cornelius (* 1986 in Schleswig ) is a German composer , organist and conductor .

Thomas Cornelius learned organ with Eberhard Lauer and Wolfgang Zerer , composition with Reinhard Bahr and Oliver Korte and conducting with Hannelotte Pardall. He attended the University of Music Lübeck and the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg .

Cornelius regularly plays with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and has played under conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt , Christoph Eschenbach and Thomas Hengelbrock , Kent Nagano . He also works regularly in film and television productions. Since 2017 he has been guest conductor of the Polish choir and orchestra Zespół Śląsk.

Works (excerpt)

• 2013/2015: Three prayers - Prayer for Serenity, Ave Maria and Pater noster for 4-part mixed choir
• 2014: Ubi caritas et amor for 4- to 8-part mixed choir
• 2015: Agnus Dei for choir, solos and orchestra (in addition to Mozart's Mass in C minor)
• 2015: I think that's why I speak for 8-part mixed choir
• 2017: Lux Aeterna for choir, solos and orchestra
• 2018: Metamorphoses - From Kaispeicher to Elbphilharmonie for organ solo (first organ solo composition for the Klais organ of the Elbphilharmonie )
• 2018: Prelude to the Missa solemnis (Beethoven) for organ solo (commissioned by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk for the 3rd Hamburg International Music Festival 2018)
• 2018: Stille Wasser Leben for 8 to 14-part mixed choir (commissioned by the Marburg University Choir)
• 2019: The four elements - fire water earth air for organ solo (for the Klais organ of the Elbphilharmonie )
• 2019: Heaven on Earth for 8 to 18-part mixed choir (commissioned by the German-German Chamber Choir)
• 2019: Resurrection for organ solo (commissioned by Orgelstadt Hamburg eV for the 2019 organ year on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Arp Schnitger's death)
• 2019: Pros and epilogues I and II for choir, solos and orchestra (to frame Bach's Christmas Oratorio - commissioned by the Kantorei der Elisabethkirche Marburg)

Honors

• 2014: Bavarian TV Prize

Web links

• Homepage of Thomas Cornelius

Individual evidence

1. ^ Report on the organ in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. In: concerti.de. January 18, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 . 
2. ↑ compositions. Retrieved September 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Organ Day Program 2.3.19. In: elbphilharmonie.de. Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, March 2, 2019, accessed on September 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ dd chamber choir. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .