Ulrich Schultheiss

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Ulrich Schultheiss (born March 18, 1956 in Nuremberg ) is a German composer and university professor .

General

Ulrich Schultheiss has been working as a composer, arranger and producer in the field of contemporary music and functional music since the mid- 1980s . His musical language is often permeated with elements from other genres and cultures. His compositions are performed in most European countries, in states of the former Soviet Union, in the USA and Canada, in Central and South America and in the Far East. There are also radio recordings and CD productions at home and abroad. Schultheiss was active for many years as an interpreter of his own works, especially with various cabaret programs. In addition to his artistic activity, he works as a professor of music theory at the Musikhochschule of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

His main research interests are:

Life

Ulrich Schultheiss received instrumental lessons ( piano , later also cello and violin ) from the age of four . At the age of 11 he joined the pianist Erich Appel at the Nuremberg Conservatory as a young student . Before he graduated from high school, he won several prizes at the Jugend musiziert competition in various fields, including federal prize winners in the piano four-handed / 2 pianos category.

After a short study visit to the Medical Faculty of the Università di Ferrara / Italy , he studied at the University of Music in Würzburg . His teachers included u. a. the pianist Julian von Károlyi , the music theorist Zsolt Gárdonyi and the composer Bertold Hummel , with whom Schultheiss took the master class diploma.

Ulrich Schultheiss was a lecturer at various German training institutions, including at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich , at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at the University of Music in Würzburg , where he ran the New Music Studio with Christoph Wünsch from 2000 to 2002 directed. In 2002 he was appointed professor for music theory at the Detmold University of Music in Münster.

Awards

Ulrich Schultheiss has won numerous national and international composition competitions, including several GEMA prizes.

  • 1982: 2nd prize at the Richard Trunk composition competition
  • 1984: 1st prize at the Armin Knab competition for composition in Würzburg
  • 1984: 2nd prize at the European composition competition for orchestral music in Basel
  • 1984: Scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria and stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris
  • 1985: 1st prize in the composition competition for choral music of the GEMA Foundation in Berlin
  • 1985: 1st prize in the composition competition for orchestral works of the GEMA Foundation on the occasion of the European Year of Music
  • 1985: Culture Prize of the City of Würzburg
  • 1986: State sponsorship award for young artists from the Free State of Bavaria
  • 1987: Scholarship from the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation
  • 1994: Scholarship from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and stay at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben
  • 2000: 2nd prize at the "International Composing and Arranging Award of Sibelius Music"
  • 2006: Finalist at the International Saxchoir Composition Competition in Birmingham (National Saxchoir of Great Britain)
  • 2006: Finalist at the Coups de Vents - Concours international de composition pour orchester d'harmonie (France)

Compositions

Ulrich Schultheiss' catalog raisonné contains over 150 compositions for solo instruments, chamber music , orchestral works , singing and electronic music . There are also a number of arrangements by other composers, such as George Gershwin . Together with the actors Reinhard Mahlberg and Bernhard Weck, cabaret programs were created, including “ Merkt Ihr nischt ” with texts by Kurt Tucholsky and “ How to revolutionize while cleaning lamps ” (music: Ulrich Schultheiss).

  • Solo works
    • due pezzi for piano (1982)
    • Piano pieces: Part I (1986)
    • Piano pieces: Part II (1992)
    • game over for piano (2001/2002)
    • ritorna la nebbia for piano (2002)
    • Resonance for piano (2005)
    • no rest for piano (2006)
    • notturno for violin (1986/1991)
    • blue-S for violin (1991/93)
    • blue-S for viola (1993)
    • blue-S for violoncello (1991)
    • Tango minutes for guitar (1999/2000)
    • Etude for dulcimer (1989/90)
    • Elapsed a Touch for Organ (1994)
    • Etude for marimbaphone (1994)
    • bone talk for trombone (1999)
    • saxtitude for saxophone (2001)
    • no rest for soprano saxophone (2001)
    • b @ sso for bass clarinet (2003)
    • souvenir for piano (2010)
    • la dorada for guitar (2010)
    • nuvole for guitar (2011)
    • bubbles for guitar (2012)
    • Gone for Flute (2013)
    • lost in variations for marimbaphone (2019)
  • Chamber music
    • Adagio String Trio (1986)
    • String Quartet N ° 1 (1982)
    • String Quartet N ° 2 (1984)
    • blue strings for string quartet (1994)
    • String Quartet N ° 3 (1996)
    • String quartet N ° 4 rituals (2004)
    • movimenti I… IV for piano quintet (1988/89)
    • Vexiere for violin and piano (1990)
    • Tango minutes for violin and guitar (2001)
    • blue-S-for-3 for 3 cellos (1992)
    • deux par deux for violoncello and piano (1984)
    • Intermezzi for violoncello and piano (1987)
    • Coconut run for violoncello and piano (2006)
    • ritual a tre for 3 recorders (2005)
    • ping pong for 4 bass recorders (2008)
    • Nuances for alto flute and guitar (1988)
    • Tango minutes for flute and guitar (2000)
    • ballo for oboe and guitar (1995)
    • no rest for saxophone and guitar (2002 / rev. 2006)
    • ch @ nges for bass clarinet and piano (2003)
    • no time to loose for bass clarinet and piano (2006)
    • catch me! for bass clarinet and tenor saxophone (2008)
    • Lost on Dec 26 for bass clarinet, violoncello and piano (2005)
    • Lost on Dec 26 for bass clarinet, bass trombone and piano (2006)
    • b @ sso doble for 2 bass clarinets (2003)
    • ballo for soprano saxophone and marimbaphone (1995/2001)
    • witch hunt for alto saxophone and piano (2001)
    • okay, okay for alto saxophone and piano (2005)
    • pink sky for alto saxophone and piano (2005)
    • three funky pieces for saxophone and piano (2006)
    • chaconnita & fugato for soprillo saxophone and piano (2006)
    • rata´tui saxophone quartet N ° 1 (1997)
    • time out saxophone quartet N ° 2 (2001)
    • witch hunt for saxophone quartet (2003)
    • witch hunt for 12 saxophones, optionally with percussion (2001)
    • From my rag bag for 3 brass instruments (2001)
    • Faust Paraphrases for 2 pianos (1987)
    • ECO for piano four hands (2004)
    • duell (tt) for marimbaphone and piano (1998)
    • Splash! for 2 marimbaphones, vibraphone and percussion (2009)
    • dinner for two for guitar and marimbaphone (2008)
    • Emphasen for clarinet / flute, violoncello and piano (1992)
    • slowburn for clarinet / flute, trombone, piano and drum set (1994)
    • five fo (u) r three for flute, violoncello and piano (2004)
    • El Sitio for guitar ensemble (2007)
    • Tan! Go for guitar orchestra (2009)
    • twelve for 12 cellos (2010)
    • bossa news for alto saxophone, trombone, piano and double bass (2010)
    • tango sulle corde for violin and guitar (2011)
    • ritornell for violin and guitar (2011)
    • mind the gap for violin and violoncello (2012/2013)
    • snapshots for violin, violoncello and marimbaphone (2014)
    • suite pour deux for flute and violoncello (2014)
    • zick zack for tenor recorder and accordion (2014)
    • zick zack for clarinet and accordion (2014)
    • zick zack for soprano saxophone and accordion (2015)
    • paso doble for viola and accordion (2015)
    • taste of fado for violin, violoncello and piano (2016)
    • zick zack for soprano saxophone and piano (2016)
    • tracks for flute, bass clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello (2016)
    • upside down for saxophone, trombone, piano and bass (2016)
    • Carousel for clarinet / bass clarinet, accordion and bass (2017)
    • Rrrondo for accordion ensemble (2018)
    • Jeux de vent for woodwind ensemble (2018)
    • a tonal affair for soprano saxophone and violoncello (2019)
    • trouble in paradise for alto saxophone, bass clarinet and piano (2019)
    • Dialogue for accordion and 6 cellos (2020)
    • Countdown for violoncello and piano (2020)
  • Vocal music
    • Five songs for singing based on texts by Hermann Hesse (1982)
    • Cantata for choir, organ and chamber orchestra (1984)
    • Carmina humana for choir and orchestra (1995)
    • tributes for choir a cappella (2001)
    • Heine, Heine for voice and piano (2003)
    • colors of my past for chamber ensemble (2015)
  • Orchestra / ensemble
    • fragment for orchestra (1983)
    • Acrostic poem for orchestra (1983)
    • fra virgolette for orchestra (1984)
    • l´oggetto for orchestra (1985)
    • Down East for strings (1985)
    • Chatterbox for orchestra (1989/90)
    • Potted and forgotten for orchestra (1991/92)
    • Poème for strings (1994)
    • blue strings for strings (1994)
    • Layers for orchestra (1995)
    • Tango minutes for orchestra (1999/2000)
    • witch hunt for orchestra (2000)
    • Don't stop grooving for saxophone orchestra (2005)
    • Les Métropolitains for symphonic wind orchestra (2006)
    • Metropolitains for saxophone orchestra (2007)
    • colors of my past for instrumental ensemble and vocals (2015)
  • Concerts
    • Skip Jack for soprano saxophone, marimbaphone and strings (1997/2010)
    • Capriccio for two cellos and strings (2010)
    • Facets for violin and orchestra (2014)
    • Tango minutes for orchestra with accordion (1999/2017)
  • Electronic music
    • Music for a Church [syntett n ° 1] (1982)
    • moments digitales [syntett n ° 2] (1983)
    • fiaba music for a sound sculpture (1985)

Discography

  • Tango minutes for flute and guitar, Duo Arrabal, Ambitus Musikproduktion, tango nuevo, amb 96834
  • timeout, Paragon Saxophone Quartet, Bach & Beyond, Saxtet Publications, Cat. Ref. 409
  • witch hunt, Tribune Saxophone Octet, Tribune, Prologue Records, PLG 001A
  • witch hunt, for saxophone and piano, played by Peter Nichols and Margaret Ozanne, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM Publishing), OUP Oxford
  • witch hunt, Spiral Saxophone Quartet London, In-Spiral
  • witch hunt, Yorkshire Saxophone Choir
  • mind the gap, Duo Rossel, two moments in a city, Klassik Radio 4012476557229
  • bubbles, Stefan Barcsay, children's corner, raccanto, rc019
  • no rest, Gerard McChrystal and Craig Ogden, pluckblow, Meridian Records, Ref: CDE84546
  • nuances, Elisabeth Riessbeck and Klaus Jäckle, NCA Hamburg, NCA 60169
  • chacconnita & fugato, for soprillo and piano, Nigel Wood and Jonathan Taylor, Soprillogy, Saxtet Publications, Cat. Ref. 417
  • deux par deux, Alexander Baillie and James Lisney, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM Publishing), OUP Oxford
  • Les Métropolitains, Birmingham Symphonic Winds, Premieres & Encores Vol. 2
  • zick zack a 3, Fire, Rain & Espresso, Augemus Verlag

Publications

  • Contemporary composers (KDG), eds. Hanns-Werner Heister, Walter Wolfgang Sparrer, Wittinger, Róbert von Ulrich Schultheiß, edition text + kritik,
  • The music in past and present (MGG), personal part in 17 volumes (2007), Wittinger, Róbert von Ulrich Schultheiß, Verlag Bärenreiter and Metzler
  • Music and University, Eds. Lenz Meierott and Klaus Hinrich Stahmer, From the perspective of early musical education: Fears of contact with the general music theory of Ulrich Schultheiß, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann
  • Article in Peter Hollfelder : Piano Music - International Chronological Lexicon. Florian Noetzel, Verlag der Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1999, ISBN 3-7959-0770-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schultheiss, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg