Torsten Rasch

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Torsten Rasch (2019)

Torsten Rasch (* 1965 in Dresden ) is a German composer .

Life

He quickly began to play the piano at the age of six and sang in the Dresden Kreuzchor between 1975 and 1983 . He then played in a rock band, before studying composition and piano at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden from 1986 to 1990 . a. with Rainer Lischka . After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he emigrated to Japan , where his interest in film music developed and he wrote the music for more than 40 films. In 1999 he also composed the melodrama Völuspa - The Seherin Face , which the Dresden Symphony Orchestra performed with Katharina Thalbach . In 2002 he returned to Germany, where he became known in particular through the song cycle Mein Herz brennt , which is based on songs by Rammstein , and was awarded the Classic ECHO .

He worked with the Pet Shop Boys on the soundtrack Battleship Potemkin , a setting of the classic film by Sergei Michailowitsch Eisenstein .

His first opera, the opera "Rotter", based on a text by Thomas Brasch , was premiered in 2008 by the Cologne Opera.

His opera The Duchess of Malfi , commissioned by the English National Opera , premiered in London in 2010. The German premiere took place on March 23, 2013 in the Chemnitz Opera . In 2011, Rasch's orchestral work Wouivres was premiered in Chemnitz , a commissioned composition for the London Philharmonic Orchestra , the planned performance of which in London had not materialized.

For 2019/2020 he was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome

Torsten Rasch lives in Berlin.

Web links

Commons : Torsten Rasch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of The Duchess of Malfi ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at theater-chemnitz.de, last accessed on January 13, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theater-chemnitz.de
  2. ↑ Villa Massimo | Future scholarships. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ A Dresdener with English fame. In: Theaterzeitung Die Theaterzeitung Chemnitz, autumn 2011, p. 5. Online ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theater-chemnitz.de
personal data
SURNAME Quickly, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden