Thomas Desi

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Thomas Desi (also Thomas Dézsy ; born March 10, 1967 in Bludenz ) is an Austrian author, director and composer, as well as artistic director of the music theater festival Musiktheatertage Wien .

Life

Desi studied music theory (with Diether de la Motte ) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , as well as conducting and composition, and was the musical director of the orchestral association of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien and the music theater group Totales Theater Wien.

In 1989 Desi founded the project KlangArten - New Music together with Christian Utz and in 1994 the music theater ensemble ZOON.

Thomas Desi was the assistant director of David Pountney's production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera The Soldiers 2007. As a musician with live electronics, he performed in the Frankfurt group TEXTxtnd , curated the performance festival “Das Offene Ohr” at OK Linz, the producer -Meeting "NewOp11" for new music theater in WUK Vienna, organized the multi-part music / science series Re-Cycling Vienna and attended the opera management course in Como 2014 of Opera Europa .

Together with Eric Salzman Desi published the work The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body , as well as on the theater work of Zoon From Project to Product as a Process and on the Viennese music theater scene. Theater workshops in London and New York complemented the work of ZOON MUSIKTHEATER, Thomas Desi's production platform, with which more than 40 music theater productions were created between 1994 and 2014, which were in GarageX, dietheater, Wiener Konzerthaus , Brut, Ankerbrotfabrik, Semperdepot and at the Nestroyhof theater Hamakom could be seen. Desi is a co-founder of the Free Musiktheater Wien network.

Musical theater productions were shown at the Bregenz Festival , in New York at the Thalia Symphony Space and at the Center for Contemporary Opera . Thomas Desi has been the artistic co-director of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN festival, which he co-founded, since 2014. His opera project "Tarkovski. The 8th Film" was nominated for the Fedora Opera Prize 2018.

Musical theater works

  • Hoffmanniana - musical theater for Andrei Tarkovski, 2004
  • Demonstration certification, 2005
  • Status analysis, 2005
  • CCTV - Closed Concert Tele Vision, 2005
  • Freud complex, 2006
  • In the Ungargassenland - music theater based on Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Malina, 2007
  • Operation Orlac, 2008
  • Gunny Fames - a media reflection on M. Haneke's "Funny Games", 2009
  • Baroque Form Phase, 2009
  • Lust the Widow, 2009
  • Invisible Nights - For Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 2010
  • The Polish Orpheus - A Comic Opera, 2010
  • The Budapest Interrogation - A Noir Melodrama, 2011
  • Tactics - A Post-War Theater, 2012
  • The Rorschach Text, 2012
  • The Monte Carlo window cleaner (reconstruction), 2013
  • The third realm of dreams, 2013
  • Pizzeria Anarchia (libretto), 2015
  • Ujamaa Paradise - An Afrikan Community Opera, 2015
  • Tanzcafé confidentiality - based on the book by Sonja Schiff "10 things I learned about life from old people", 2017
  • Töneschmuggler - instrumental theater for young people, 2017, Bregenz Festival
  • The confusion - chamber opera based on a text by Helga Utz, 2020, siren opera theater

Discography

  • Iiiiiicredible. Sampling anthology, CD, 1995
  • Thomas Desi: Jush-Tush. Totales Theater Vienna, CD, 1993
  • Rapf-Kont-Desi-Eröd-Bednarik-Soyka , KKM-Klaus Kovariks Musikothek, 2099-2 (Austrian contemporary composers)
  • Marx. Songs based on texts by Heine, Hölderlin, Shakespeare, Brecht / Eisler, GROB, Cologne 2004.
  • Your song produced by Oliver Augst & Marcel Daemgen, 2013, Kuckuck Schallplatten / ERP Musikverlag

literature

  • Bernhard Günther (Ed.): Lexicon of contemporary music from Austria. mica, Vienna 1997, p. 347 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eric Salzman, The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body . Oxford University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 0190282762 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Desi: FROM PROJECT TO PRODUCT AS PROCESS . ZOON, Vienna 2013.
  3. ^ Kristine Tornquist: Questions to the musical theater . edition Atelier, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902498-68-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Desi, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dézsy, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Bludenz