Thorsten Encke

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Thorsten Encke in September 2018 in the Misburg community center

Thorsten Encke (born January 24, 1966 in Göttingen ) is a German cellist , composer , conductor .

Life

Thorsten Encke, born in Göttingen in 1966 , studied violoncello and conducting with Friedrich-Jürgen Sellheim at the University of Music and Theater in Hanover and with Lynn Harrell at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in the USA . For the concert exam Thorsten Encke played Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto together with the NDR Radiophilharmonie . After graduating with the concert exam in 1995 and successes in various international competitions, Encke received a teaching position at the Hanover University of Music and Theater. He then got an engagement in Gera as first solo cellist in the local Philharmonic Orchestra . In 1999 he quit this position to work as a freelance musician.

In April 2005, Encke won the composition competition at the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades .

In 2011 Thorsten Encke co-founded the orchestra musica assoluta , which he has led as conductor and artistic director ever since. Clarinetist Sharon Kam was a guest there as a soloist.

In 2012, Encke was Composer in Residence at the Tension Festival in Heimbach . His work Preludes was premiered during this festival . Christian Tetzlaff , Volker Jacobsen, Gustav Rivinius , Edicson Ruiz , Sharon Kam, Isahy Lantner, Stefan Rapp and Lauma Skride played under Encke's direction .

On behalf of Norddeutscher Rundfunk , Encke composed the concerto for clarinet and orchestra (2018) , which Sharon Kam premiered as a soloist with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under the baton of Joshua Weilerstein in early January 2019 at the Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen in Hanover.

Works (selection)

NDR Radiophilharmonie in the large broadcasting hall of the NDR-Funkhaus (standing from left): Thorsten Encke, Sharon Kam and Joshua Weilerstein ;
January 11, 2019, the day after the world premiere of the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

Compositions

  • 2013: “Wanderer” fantasy , based on motifs from Richard Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen
  • 2015: Foreboding for 4 horns, Bamberg: GHS Edition
  • 2017: Concerto for violincello and orchestra (2017) , world premiere in 2017 in Kiel
  • 2019: Concert for clarinet and orchestra , premiered in January 2019 at the NDR-Funkhaus Hannover

Recordings

  • 2017: Aprèsludes for piano (2008, 2017) with Julia Bartha on the Coviello label
  • 2018: A portrait. Thorsten Encke , Cologne: CAvi Music

Web links

Commons : Thorsten Encke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thorsten Encke: Questions to Thorsten Encke on the page thorsten-encke.de [ undated ], last accessed on December 19, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d Thorsten Encke: Biography on the page thorsten-encke.de [ undated ], last accessed on December 19, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library (DNB)
  4. ↑ Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Ed.): NDR Radiophilharmonie, symphony concert on January 10th and 11th, 2019 , Hanover 2019, p. 13
  5. ↑ a b o. V .: Melcher Trio on the page kulturkreis-winsen.de [undated], last accessed on December 19, 2018
  6. ↑ a b c Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Ed.): NDR Radiophilharmonie, symphony concert on January 10 and 11, 2019 , Hanover 2019, p. 10
  7. ↑ Thorsten Encke's website - Works for Chamber Music Ensemble , accessed on January 21, 2019
  8. ↑ a b Stefan Arndt: Verirrte Schatten / A spectacular concert by the NDR Radiophilharmonie with a clarinet concert for Sharon Kam , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 12, 2019, p. 25
  9. ↑ First performance by the NDR Radiophilharmonie in 2013, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Ed.): NDR Radiophilharmonie, symphony concert on January 10 and 11, 2019 , program booklet, Hanover 2019, p. 9
  10. ↑ Compare the information from the DNB
  11. ↑ Thorsten Encke website, Works for Orchestra , accessed on January 15, 2019
  12. ↑ Description with audio samples from JPC.de , accessed on January 20, 2019
  13. ↑ Compare the information from the DNB
personal data
SURNAME Encke, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen