Thomas Reuter (musician)

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Thomas Reuter (born January 20, 1952 in Eisenach ) is a German composer , choir director and pianist specializing in improvisation music .

Life

Thomas Reuter was born in 1952 in Eisenach, Thuringia, as the son of the conductor Rolf Reuter and the singer Anemone Rau . In his childhood he received piano and violin lessons. After graduating from the Thomas School in Leipzig , he studied music from 1970 to 1976 at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music in Leipzig . His teachers included Fritz Geißler and Siegfried Thiele in composition, Hans Volger in piano and Rolf Reuter in conducting. He received further inspiration from the composer and priest Lothar Reubke , and he took private singing lessons in Dresden.

He then worked as a senior assistant for choir, music theory, composition and improvisation at the special school for music in Halle / Saale. He also worked as a composer. He created chamber music works for the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Dresden Philharmonic . His pieces were performed in the GDR and in the so-called Eastern Bloc . In 1989 his father conducted the orchestra of the Komische Oper (with the soloist Jan Vogler ) at the world premiere of Reuter's cello concerto. He was repeatedly awarded music prizes in the GDR. The musicologist Gilbert Stöck (2008) counted him among those composers in the Halle-Magdeburg region “who were completely or primarily involved in exploring new and newest material positions”.

In 1977 he co-founded the group Freie Musik Dresden . He was active as a diverse improvisation musician. From 1998 to 2011 he formed the IndiviDuo with the violinist Rike Kohlhepp . In 2003 they formed the nu ART trio with saxophonist Andreas Krennerich . In 2008 he entered the PLASMA 8 with Krennerich. In 2012 he formed the duo SELBANDER with the singer Angelika Remlinger . In 2013 the trio jo.FEUERBACH was formed with Remlinger and Krennerich .

He is also the choirmaster of the women's chamber choir vocaLumen in Hanover . For the ensemble he set several poems by the poet Paul Celan to music .

In addition, he is musically active in the Christ Community.

Awards

Works (selection)

His works were u. a. Published by CF Peters and Verlag Neue Musik .

  • Wandlungen (1980) for flute, string trio and piano
  • Graduations (1982/83) for flute, viola and violoncello
  • Zeitspiele (1983) for piano
  • Wind quintet (1984/85)
  • String Quartet (1985/86)
  • Half of Life (1986) for soprano, oboe, violin, cello and piano

literature

  • Thomas Heyn : In a small country of order and security. Young composers from the GDR and their music . In: MusikTexte 8 (1990) 33/34, pp. 44-50.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Heyn : In a small country of order and security. Young composers from the GDR and their music . In: MusikTexte 8 (1990) 33/34, pp. 44–50, here: p. 49.
  2. ^ Michael Heinemann : Staatskapelle and New Music . In: Matthias Herrmann , Hanns-Werner Heister (Ed.): Dresden and advanced music in the 20th century. Report on the colloquium organized by the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music and the Institute for Musicology at the "Carl Maria von Weber" Academy of Music in Dresden (= Music in Dresden . Vol. 6). Part 3: 1966-1999 . Laaber, Laaber 2004, ISBN 3-89007-511-8 , pp. 243-268, here: pp. 252 and p. 254.
  3. ^ Andrea Wolter: Contemporary chamber music in Dresden 1966-1999 . In: Matthias Herrmann , Hanns-Werner Heister (Ed.): Dresden and advanced music in the 20th century. Report on the colloquium organized by the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music and the Institute for Musicology at the "Carl Maria von Weber" Academy of Music in Dresden (= Music in Dresden . Vol. 6). Part 3: 1966-1999 . Laaber, Laaber 2004, ISBN 3-89007-511-8 , pp. 269–288, here: p. 276.
  4. ^ Project for the new season of the Komische Oper . In: Neue Zeit , September 29, 1989, vol. 45, edition 230, p. 4.
  5. ↑ First performance at the Berliner Festtagen. Programs with renowned artists and orchestras . In: Neues Deutschland , October 18, 1989, vol. 44, edition 245, p. 1.
  6. ^ Gilbert Stöck: New music in the districts of Halle and Magdeburg at the time of the GDR. Compositions, politics, institutions . Schröder, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-926196-50-7 , p. 238.
  7. ↑ Hans Stieber Prize Winner at the State Association of Saxony-Anhalt German Composers e. V. ( Memento from October 13, 2019)
  8. ↑ Christoph Rink: Chronology of the Handel price . In: Announcements of the Friends and Supporters of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2012, pp. 20–25, here: p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Reuter, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, choir director, pianist and vocalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach