Thomas Jahn (composer)

Thomas Jahn (born December 29, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German composer and trombonist .

Thomas Jahn

Life

Jahn studied composition with Heinz Friedrich Hartig , Ernst Pepping ( counterpoint ), Frank Michael Beyer ( instrumentation ), Josef Rufer ( dodecaphony ), Werner Krützfeld ( music theory ) and with Hans Werner Henze . He also studied trombone with Fritz Ramin and Horst Raasch and conducting with Alfred Bittner and completed studies in arranging pop music with Anita Kerr in Los Angeles .

Jahn worked as the musical director of the Thalia-Theater Hamburg , lecturer in the peer music publishing house and music teacher at a ballet school. Together with colleagues he founded the “Ensemble Hinz & Kunst”, where he creates the combination of composition and trombone.

Jahn lives in Hamburg today .

Awards

• Record award “Artist of the Year” 1976 for the collective composition Strik bei Mannesmann
• Sponsorship award of the Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg 1979
• Prize of the jury of the international composers' seminar in Boswil 1979 for the collective composition Mongomo in lapis lazuli
• Church music prize of the city of Neuss 1995 for Magnificat '95
• Prize of the German Music Council 1998 for Blooming Landscapes for a cappella choir

Discography

• The songs (arrangements) from the children's TV series “Rappelkiste” 1973, Ensemble Hinz & Kunst, Polydor 2432 117
• The Schmidt family 1975 from “The Great Janosch Parade”, Ensemble Hinz & Kunst, Polydor International 2432 149
• Strike at Mannesmann (collective composition) 1976, Ensemble Hinz & Kunst, plans S 30 E 100
• O rte and times / tempos e luoghi 1988, Norma Enns, Ensemble L'art pour l'art, Col Legno, AU 31811
• Kernlieder ( Stille sein ) 1994, William Reimer-Baritone, Justus Zeyen-Piano, Canzona 1994
• Ten Dance Studies in Jazz Idiom ( Swinging Trombones ) 2000, Berliner Posaunenquintett, Koch Schwan, 3-6429-2
• Ten Dance Studies in Jazz Idiom ( Meine Spätlese ), 2013, Robert Kozanek, brass section of the Czech Philharmonic, Rajchman recording studio, JR 0347-2

Publications

• I have a dream in: "Between cultures, new aspects of musical aesthetics I", Hans Werner Henze (Ed.), S. Fischer Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1979
• Tender buttons. A poetic music theater in: "Between Enlightenment & Culture Industry", Volume II, Hanns Werner Heister, Karin Heister-Grech, Gerhard Scheit (eds.), Von Bockel Verlag Hamburg, 1993

literature

• Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, Luca Lombardi (eds.): Angela or practical school-making music in "Music in transition - from bourgeois to socialist music culture", Damnitz Verlag Munich 1977
• Hans Werner Henze: The Fifth Cantiere in Montepulciano, a protocol in “The English cat, a work diary 1978–1982”, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1983
• Jens Brockmeier (ed.): The art workshops of Montepulciano 1976–80 in Hans Werner Henze: “Music and Politics”, writings and talks 1955–1984, extended new edition, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag Munich, 1984
• Hanns-Werner Heister: In memory , to Thomas Jahns Orte und Zeiten / Tempi e luoghi , Inlet to the CD Orte und Zeiten / Tempi e luoghi , Col legno Musikproduktion AU 31811, 1991
• Hanns-Werner Heister and Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer (eds.): Thomas Jahn in “Composers of the Present”, Edition text + kritik Munich 1992
• Carl Dahlhaus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht, Kurt Oehl (eds.): Thomas Jahn in Brockhaus Riemann Musiklexikon, supplementary volume, series Musik Piper-Schott Mainz 1998
• Hanns-Werner Heister: Performance as 'work in progress': to Thomas Jahn's 'Tempo giusto' for octet, a work commissioned by 'Ensemble Acht' , Impulse, ed. vonkammermusik heute eV, issue No. 9 Hamburg, 2004

Web links

• Website by Thomas Jahn
• Works by Thomas Jahn in the catalog of the German National Library