Tristan Schulze

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Tristan Schulze (born March 22, 1964 in Annaberg-Buchholz ) is a German musician and composer.

Life

Tristan Schulze learned to play the piano at the age of five, the cello at the age of twelve and the organ at the age of 15 . He studied cello at the Dresden Music Academy and played in various Dresden orchestras such as the Landesbühnen Sachsen and the Dresden Philharmonic . In 1992 he moved to Vienna and studied composition and conducting at the Vienna University of Music. Study trips took him to India , where he studied Indian classical music, as well as to Mexico , Senegal and Argentina .

Tristan Schulze recorded several CDs for ORF with the Austrian author Christine Nöstlinger and wrote the soundtrack for the award-winning universe production Bees - a life for the queen .

In 1995 Schulze founded the String Trio Triology , consisting of two violins, Aleksey Igudesman and Daisy Jopling and himself on the cello . Concert tours have taken her to many European countries, Japan, Mexico, Australia and the USA over the course of 14 years. During this period Tristan Schulze wrote about 100 compositions for two violins and cello, including a concerto for triology and symphony orchestra. Triology recorded four CDs, one of them together with jazz guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel . They played concerts with Bobby McFerrin and Julian Rachlin , Hans Zimmer brought in Triology for the film scores for The Way to El Dorado and Spanglish as a contributor to Hollywood.

In collaboration with the pianist Yu Horiuchi, the CD East was created with some of his compositions for piano and cello.

In recent years he has written numerous pieces of music for children, Der Bär… (2001) for orchestra and speaker, which was performed by the Tonhalle Zurich and the Munich Chamber Orchestra , among others . He set Fratricide on Rappottenstein (2002) and Kalif Storch (2003) for members of the Vienna Philharmonic , and in 2005 he wrote the children's opera Sleeping Beauty . In 2010 he wrote Peters Wolf im Zoo , a sequel to Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, and set Puss in Boots , which premiered in November 2010 at the Vienna Musikverein .

In October 2008 his orchestral work 18 Preludes and Septupelfugue for brass septet and orchestra was premiered in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna.

Some of his compositions have been published by the music publisher Doblinger.

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personal data
SURNAME Schulze, Tristan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg-Buchholz