Thomas Schubert (composer)

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Thomas Schubert (born January 10, 1961 in Regensburg ; born Thomas Lachnit ) is a German composer , song accompanist , conductor and concert organizer .

Life and professional activity

After graduating from the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Regensburg, he studied conducting and composition at the Musikhochschule in Munich and musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University . During his student days he already gained experience as a conductor, répétiteur and as a song accompanist.

Thomas Schubert primarily composes vocal music that does not leave the realm of tonality . As literary sources of inspiration he chooses texts from antiquity, the books of the Old and New Testaments as well as spiritual texts of the natives of North America . He also set poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin , Rainer Maria Rilke , Georg Trakl , Else Lasker-Schüler and Rabindranath Tagore to music .

Thomas Schubert went on concert tours to North America and Japan . As a song pianist, he worked with singers such as Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö , Kurt Moll , Walter Berry , Lucine Amara, Agnes Giebel , Florian Prey , Daniel Johannsen and others.

From 2003 to 2004 Schubert was a scholarship holder at the International Artists' House Villa Concordia in Bamberg . He initiated several series of events dedicated to the art song and in 1991 founded the Bavarian Franz Schubert Society , the Schubertiade Regensburg , the Regensburg Master Classes in Voice and the International Master Classes in Voice . He took over the artistic direction of the Franz Schubert Society Vienna Woods in the Baden near Vienna district in 2006. He designed and presented the Schubertiade at Hernstein Palace , the Hernstein Palace Concerts and concerts at Heiligenkreuz Abbey .

Some of his compositions were broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk , and he was also heard as an interpreter during the recordings.

Thomas Schubert is a descendant of Franz Schubert's grandfather Carl Schubert (1723–1787). His father comes from Mährisch-Altstadt , the place from which Franz Schubert's ancestors on his father's side also come.

Award

Works (selection)

Song cycles

  • Gitanjali
  • Rilke triptych
  • The seasons
  • 5 songs based on poems by Hölderlin
  • Echoes from ancient Japan
  • Circle of Life
  • A little autumn cycle

Edits

  • 5 Negro Spirituals
  • 3 Purcell realizations
  • A small German cantata KV 619 (Mozart)
  • 8 Mörike songs (Hugo Wolf)

Single songs

  • Because of you
  • I Wrote Your Name
  • A Christmas Wish

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sudentenland Volume 31, Bogen Verlag 1989, p. 163.
  2. ↑ City of Regensburg: Culture Awards and Scholarships [1]
  3. ↑ Oberpfälzer Kulturbund: Composers [2]
  4. ↑ a b Works by Thomas Schubert on BR-Klassik , announced in the NMZ , accessed on July 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lachnit, Thomas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg