Urs Liska

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Urs Liska (born May 23, 1973 in Stuttgart ) is a German pianist and music theorist . His pianistic focus is on the romantic art song on the one hand and on the performance of new music in ensembles and orchestras on the other. He also performs improvised and composed electronic music .

Life

Liska received his first piano lessons from Rudolf Dennemarck in Stuttgart. This was followed by studies at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he studied piano with James Avery , song design with Ramón Walter and music theory with Eckehard Kiem . The pianistic training was completed in the master class for song composition with Irwin Gage at the Zurich Conservatory . Additional studies in musicology followed at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Universität der Künste Berlin .

Urs Liska maintains an artistic activity that is not limited to playing solo piano and composing songs. In addition to the classical repertoire, he is engaged in contemporary music in the ExVoCo and VARIANTI ensembles as well as in the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Basel Symphony Orchestra. He is co-founder and organizer of the "Initiative for New Music SUONO MOBILE". One focus is also the area of ​​live electronic and computer music.

He had appearances at festivals, a. a. in Amsterdam (“Klap op de Vuurpijl” festival), Darmstadt (summer courses for new music), Munich (“Festspiel +” as part of the opera festival), Oslo (“Ultima” festival), Paris (Théatre musical de la ville + Center Pompidou), Salzburg (Mozarteum), Stuttgart, Vienna, Zurich, Japan and Indonesia.

He lives with his family in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Scholarships

Projects

song

In the 2000s Liska dealt with the songs of Arnold Schönberg . In cooperation with Deutschlandradio Kultur , he produced a complete recording of the songs, which for the first time includes all songs (see discography ).

In this context, the first part of the Gurre-Lieder was set up with two- to eight-handed piano accompaniment, which is based on the partial premiere in a concert on January 14, 1910 in the Ehrbar Hall in Vienna . It is based on the original early versions of the songs - reconstructed as part of the Arnold Schönberg Complete Edition - as well as the arrangements of the orchestral parts made by Anton Webern for this concert, which Urs Liska edited from the handwritten sources.

Opera

In the 2010/11 season Liska took on the role of solo pianist in Mauricio Kagel's “Lieder-Oper” “Aus Deutschland” in a new production by the Freiburg Theater , under the musical direction of Fabrice Bollon and directed by Calixto Bieito . In this opera, the piano largely takes on the role of the opera orchestra and is only occasionally supported by smaller groups of instruments (from the “off”).

electronics

  • Music of the times - old and new music with countertenor and synthesizer / computer, together with countertenor Daniel Gloger . Mainly church concerts.
  • GRAFT , an acoustic-electronic improvisation collective, emerged from the time at Akademie Schloss Solitude . With Daniel Hjorth, Carl Rosman and Sam Hayden (Glenn Larsson a. G.).

Discography

CDs

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Schönberg: Piano Arrangements (on www.capriccio.at)
  2. ^ Arnold Schönberg: Complete songs (on www.capriccio.at)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Liska, Urs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart