Tobias van de Locht

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Tobias van de Locht (born March 15, 1975 in Duisburg ) is a German conductor and composer .

Career

Tobias van de Locht studied piano and conducting in Düsseldorf , attended master classes in choral conducting ( Eric Ericson , Stockholm), organ ( Daniel Roth , Paris) and film music ( John Frizzell , Los Angeles) and graduated with a Master of Business Administration from European Management Academy in Paris. After his studies he had his first engagements with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Dortmund Symphony Orchestra. From 2004 to 2008 he was chief conductor of the Metropol-Orchester, from 2008 to 2012 music director of the Kaarster Chamber Orchestra and from 2012 to 2015 chief conductor of the Sinfonia Königswinter . Since 2008 he has been chief conductor of the Sinfonia Düsseldorf, since 2016 also chief conductor of the Witten Symphony Orchestra and the Malcolm Arnold Festival Orchestra Weimar. The orchestras with which he worked as a guest conductor include the Philharmonia Aachen, the Braunschweiger Kammerorchester, the Duisburg Philharmoniker , the Ötztaler Sinfoniker (Austria), the Rhein-Ruhr-Philharmonie , the Sinfonieorchester Ruhr, the Segeberger Sinfonieorchester and the Sinfonietta Wuppertal. There has also been a special connection since 2013 with the brass ensemble NRW Brass, which he has conducted several times since 2012. He has performed in halls such as the Essen Philharmonic and the Cologne Philharmonic and at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Ruhr Piano Festival .

As a composer, Tobias van de Locht has so far created three symphonies, solo concerts for clarinet , tuba and violoncello, as well as other orchestral works, choral and chamber music , as well as music for cinema (Kräkow) , television (including the documentary The Secret of Drama, shown on NDR ) and Theater ( Hamlet was staged six times with his drama music), music for children (The Little Hobbit , Elves, Twelve , Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella ) as well as orchestrations and arrangements that are published by Schott Mainz and the Edizioni Suvini Zerboni. Tobias van de Locht's music was a. a. Commissioned by the European Film Philharmonic and performed by important ensembles such as the Babelsberg German Film Orchestra , the Bach Choir, the Schwab-Ahlert Duo, the Hamburg Philharmonic and the Wandsbeker Sinfonieorchester.

He works alongside professional ensembles such as B. the Ensemble Vivazza also with youth and amateur orchestras, sits on the board of the Federation of German amateur orchestras (BDLO), in the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia and in the jury of the German orchestra competition . Since 2014 he has been a lecturer at the Landesmusikakademie NRW Heek , where he leads the annual seminar for wind ensembles. He also worked as a co-producer on the DVD editions of British TV series a. a. for the Munich label Koch Media ( Department S ), was a guest lecturer at the Film Academy Kassel and led a directing class with two film lecturers in Düsseldorf, which he taught in film music and film analysis.

He was given special support by the English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold, whose assistant and friend he was. Tobias van de Locht is the first conductor to perform all nine of Arnold's symphonies as a cycle. So he conducted z. For example, on King's Day 2014, the Dutch premiere of Symphony No. 8 in Dordrecht near Rotterdam. In addition to Malcolm Arnold, Tobias van de Locht is also a conductor, editor and editor for the work of Howard Blake (The Snowman) and Bernard Herrmann ( Taxi Driver ).

Despite the occasional atonality, Van de Locht's compositional style does not dispense with memorable melodies and attaches importance to craftsmanship and contrapuntal skill as well as skillful and effective instrumentation. He likes to work with the cast of narrator and orchestra and calls this when German dubbing actors such as Eckart Dux ( Psycho ), Horst Sachtleben ( Columbo ) or Hans-Georg Panczak ( Luke Skywalker ) stand with him in front of the orchestra and their original texts live to the corresponding Recite film music in a new guise, "Synchronous Music Theater". He worked particularly often with the actor and director Jörg Pleva , who died in 2013, and for whose films and theater productions he has also been writing the music since 2005 (The secret of the art of acting, The phoenix greets you).

Works (selection)

  • Symphony No. 1 op.48
  • Symphony No. 2, Op. 56
  • Symphony No. 3 op.63
  • Synchronous Music Theater IV
  • Concerto for clarinet and orchestra No. 1 op.6 and No. 2 op.45
  • Setting op. 52 for speakers and wind instruments
  • Four songs op. 60 for soprano and wind ensembles
  • Concerto for harp and orchestra op.65
  • Concerto for tuba and orchestra op.67
  • Sonata for harp op.46
  • Il compagno Don Camillo ( Alessandro Cicognini )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b enthusiastic orchestra (ed.): Flyer chamber music for wind instruments 2017 . S. 2 .
  2. ↑ Tobias van de Locht - head of the Sinfonia Königswinter wants to form a small symphony orchestra . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . April 2, 2013 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed on August 15, 2017]).
  3. ↑ RP ONLINE: Kaarst: Tobias van de Locht celebrates its premiere in Kaarst. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  4. ^ Tobias van de Locht - The Bernard Herrmann Society. Retrieved August 15, 2017 (American English).
  5. ↑ Westdeutsche Verlags- und Werbegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG: Figure 3 from article: Premature Christmas for Vhs orchestra . In: lokalkompass.de . ( lokalkompass.de [accessed on August 15, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Evangelical Church Community Annen »2016» April. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Tobias van de Locht - SPD Erkrath. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  8. ^ Essen Philharmonic. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Chamber music for wind instruments | State Music Academy NRW. Retrieved on August 15, 2017 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Locht, Tobias van de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg