Thomas Nathan Kruger

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Thomas Nathan Krüger (born October 28, 1986 in Sangerhausen ) is a German composer .

School time and studies

Krüger received his first instrumental lessons in the accordion at the age of seven . He received a basic five-year vocal and piano training as a student in the music branch of the Pforta State School from 2001 to 2006. There he also gained his first experience as a conductor and completed his training as a choir director with his Abitur in 2006. During his school days he began to compose for the choirs and ensembles of the Pforta State School. In addition to a choral symphonic cycle and incidental music for Klaus Pohl's suicide in Madrid , the one-hour melodrama John Maynard was created , which was premiered in November 2005 by 50 students from the state school. Until he started studying composition in April 2007, he received lessons from Uwe Krause as a pupil of the Halle composer's class at the Halle / Saale Conservatory. One of Krüger's first attempts at composing was setting the poem Verfall by Georg Trakl to music . The composition for baritone and piano was awarded in 2005 at the youth composition competition Saxony-Anhalt. His works were also awarded and performed in the following years. He was given the opportunity at an early stage to work both with the Chamber Ensemble Neue Musik Berlin and with musicians from the Sinfonietta Dresden Chamber Orchestra .

During his composition studies with Michael Obst at the Liszt School of Music Weimar from 2007 to 2012, he wrote solo and chamber music works as well as orchestral pieces that were performed by ensembles such as the Staatskapelle Halle and the Jena Philharmonic . His first string quartet , entitled Positions , was premiered in 2009 by the musicians of the Minguet Quartet. Max Nyffeler described these nine miniatures in the Neue Musikzeitung as "surprisingly versatile and musically precisely formulated character pieces" . After Thomas Nathan Krüger received the Franz Liszt Prize in 2010 from the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Liszt School of Music Weimar e. V. was awarded, he completed a semester abroad at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz . There he received lessons from Beat Furrer and attended the analysis courses from Georg Friedrich Haas . In the course of his studies, Krüger experienced various stimulating assessments of his artistic work at various international master classes. In addition to a one-week course in contemporary improvisation with Friedrich Schenker , he received lessons from Annette Schlünz , Nigel Osborne , Clarence Barlow and others. a. Since 2008 he has been passing on his experience as a composition lecturer on the courses of the Saxony-Anhalt composer class to children and young people. In 2012 he led the composition course of the mu: v-Camp - an initiative of Jeunesses Musicales - at Weikersheim Castle . Along with his pedagogical experience as a composition teacher, he was already in demand for placement projects at elementary schools and grammar schools in Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Baden-Württemberg and has been a member of the New Music Baden-Württemberg Network since 2013. He was already composing music for children and young people during his studies at the Weimar Music Academy. This is how the work stumbled, fallen - suite, fantasy and appendix for guitar solo was created in 2011 on behalf of the Weimar Guitar Association as a compulsory piece for the Anna Amalia guitar competition. As part of the Weimar Spring Days for Contemporary Music , works by him were premiered several times, among others by the State Youth Ensemble New Music Thuringia and the guitar ensemble of the Weimar Music School.

After successfully completing his diploma studies, he moved to the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts in 2012 . Parallel to his employment as an assistant to the studio management in the New Music studio, he took up a master’s degree in Caspar Johannes Walter’s composition class, which he is expected to finish in spring 2015. In addition to his studies, he works for the initiative for new music SUONO MOBILE and organizes together with Christof M Löser, Malte Giesen , Christian Kemper u. a. Events with contemporary music. In 2013, the continuous development of a series of concerts under the title FEUERBACH global began and the ensemble SUONO MOBILE global was founded . The collective - consisting of young composers and experienced instrumentalists - impresses with its virtuoso handling of unconventional instruments and has made a name for itself through concerts in Hamburg, Berlin and Stuttgart. The ensemble feels artistically connected to the composer Michael Maierhof , on whose work Krüger has already written a diploma thesis.

Works (selection)

  • clouded blooming (2008) for four orchestral groups
  • Positions (2008) for string quartet with cassette recorder
  • Trio for two or the one-armed bandit (2009) for clarinet with TamTam and piano with woodblocks
  • Spieltrieb 1 - Wikipedia cadences (2010) for percussion solo, ensemble and video
  • Kind and Kagel - game (in pictures) for ensemble and projection surfaces (2010) for 5 instrumentalists, singer, tape and video
  • stumbled, fallen (2011) for guitar solo
  • FLECKEN (2011) for 5 instruments
  • attach, deposit (2012) for 6 instruments
  • Tre pezzi del Principe (after Gesualdo) (2013) for string orchestra
  • Air [almost .....] (2014) for viola, violoncello and double bass

Awards and grants

  • Prize winner at the youth composition competition Saxony-Anhalt 2005, 2006 and 2007
  • Franz Liszt Prize 2010
  • Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (2010–2015)

Publications

  • Between the tones: The international congress "Microtonality - Practice and Utopia" at the Stuttgart University of Music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffi Rohland: Courage and performance were rewarded. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . November 30, 2005, accessed January 31, 2020.
  2. ↑ Florian Kehrmann: Moving Sounds - Sounding Pictures. Weimar Spring Festival Festival for contemporary music. New music newspaper . Edition 7/2012, accessed on January 31, 2020.
  3. ^ Weimar: Minguet Quartet gives master class and two concerts. New music newspaper . October 17, 2008, accessed January 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Thomas Nathan Krüger. Positions. New Music Publishing House . Accessed January 31, 2020.
  5. ↑ Lecturers in the Saxony-Anhalt composer class. komponistenklasse-sachsen-anhalt.de. Accessed January 31, 2020.
  6. ↑ Weikersheimer Soundmaps - composition course mu: v-Camp 2012 ( Memento of 26 April 2014 Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Weimar Series - published by Edition Chanterelle in Allegria Musikverlag. gitarreverein-weimar.de. Accessed January 31, 2020.
  8. ↑ Anna Schürmer: Weimar Spring Days brought young virtuosos to the fore. Thuringian national newspaper . April 10, 2013, accessed January 31, 2020.
  9. ↑ For the 55th time Hallische Musiktage. New music newspaper . October 27, 2010, accessed January 31, 2020.
  10. ↑ Contemporary music with vigor. 15th Tonkünstlerfest and 13th youth composition competition of the DTKV Sachsen-Anhalt. New music newspaper . February 2007, page 53.Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  11. ↑ Ute van der Sanden: Meeting of the youngest composers in Germany. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . November 10, 2006, accessed January 31, 2020.
  12. ^ HfM Weimar - Composition prices ( memento from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  13. ^ Artistically outstanding, socially committed: Franz Liszt Prize 2010 for composition student Thomas Krüger ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  14. ^ Table of contents of issue 130 of MusikTexte. Musiktexte.de. Accessed January 31, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Thomas Nathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Sangerhausen