Tobias Rank

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Tobias Rank

Tobias Rank (born April 3, 1968 in Leipzig ) is a German pianist and composer .

Life

Tobias Rank spent his childhood in Leipzig . From 1984 to 1990 he studied piano , composition , harpsichord and improvisation there at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music . In these and following years he was particularly interested in the different expressions and varieties of new music. The first choir and song compositions were created.

His activities as a stage music composer and stage musician at theaters in Leipzig, Halle / Saale and Erfurt as well as his preoccupation with chansons , silent film music , world music and literature were decisive for Rank's musical development . Most of Tobias Rank's compositions are settings of romantic or contemporary poetry . With the band Puella Turbata he gave concerts in Germany, as a solo pianist Rank was invited to Mexico and Southeast Asia.

In 1999 Tobias Rank founded the traveling cinema Laster der Nacht together with Gunthard Stephan . The mobile cinema is on the move in Europe with a specially prepared vintage fire engine. The performances mostly take place open air in the summer months. Old and new silent films of various genres are projected with 16 mm projection technology and accompanied live with violin and piano.

In 2007, Rank composed the song cycle Über den Jäger hunts the larger dog based on texts by Peter Huchel on behalf of the Federal Cultural Foundation .

From 1992 to 2013 Tobias Rank worked as a lecturer for piano and song design at the University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. He held courses and lectures at the Theater Academy in Saxony as well as at universities and institutes in Hamburg, Copenhagen, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Athens. In 2014/15 Rank held a visiting professorship at the University of Bangkok.

Tobias Rank is the father of four sons. He lives in Leipzig and Setzsteig.

Compositions

Choir

  • Three chants for four-part mixed choir a cappella based on texts by Walther Rheiner (1988)
  • Tira la piedra de hoy. Motet for four-part mixed choir a cappella based on a text by Juan Ramón Jiménez (1995)
  • Five madrigals for four-part mixed choir a cappella based on texts by Juan Ramón Jiménez (1999)
  • Recuerdos. Four chants for three-part mixed choir a cappella based on texts by Juan Ramón Jiménez (2000)
  • Through many masks. For three-part mixed choir a cappella based on texts by Friederike Mayröcker (2001)
  • Throw away today's stone. For four-part mixed choir a cappella based on a text by Juan Ramón Jiménez (2002)

Solo voices

  • Three Jimenez chants for soprano, alto and transverse flute (1996)
  • Orillas. For countertenor, two tenors and bass based on a text by Juan Ramón Jiménez (1998)
  • One only / Hochroth. For three female voices a cappella based on texts by Karoline von Günderode (2001)

Singspiel

  • What's up frog Singspiel for four singing actors, saxophone and piano based on a children's book by Max Velthuijs (1996)

song

Melodrama

  • Mr. Tinnitus is setting his foot. Based on a text by Helene Krumbügel for voice and piano (2001)
  • Romance from the moon, from the moon. Based on a text by Federico Garcia Lorca (2002)
  • The boy in the moor. Based on a text by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (2016)

Prices

  • Improvisation competition Leipzig 1994 - special price
  • Improvisation competition Bern 1996 - sponsorship award
  • Jazz Young Talent Award Leipzig 1996
  • Puppet Festival of Art Prague 2002
  • Festival Synagura Erfurt 2002 - audience award
  • Festival Traumspiele NRW 2003 - special price
  • Festival of Cultures Zagreb 2004 - Music Innovation Prize
  • Beethoven Foundation Bonn 2008 - "Beethoven + Film in Public Space"
  • Children's Culture Exchange Munich 2009 - 1st prize winner

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The moon swims quietly through my blood - CD recording label Raumklang [1]
  2. ↑ Puella Turbata - CD recording label Raumklang [2]
  3. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur July 26, 2014 [3]
  4. ↑ Märkische Allgemeine February 12, 2013 [4]
  5. ↑ Kreuzer , May 13, 2013 Interview Tobias Rank [5]
  6. ^ Forum Design Magdeburg [6]
  7. ↑ Baritonale Hamburg 2008 [7]
  8. ↑ LVZ July 31, 2015 Portrait of Tobias Rank [8]
personal data
SURNAME Rank, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd April 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig