Volkmar Studtrucker

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Volkmar Studtrucker (2015)

Volkmar Studtrucker (* 3. January 1960 in Erlangen ) is a German composer , who initially as a jazz musician worked.

Life

Studtrucker began his training in 1971 on the jazz piano with Thomas Fink . While still at school he began to play in the groups Triton , Papa Caliente (LP Tango for Gesine 1984) and the Freddy Freeloader Group (LP Hello Goodbye , 1983), with which he also made radio recordings. From 1982 he studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg with Karl-Heinz Schlüter and Barbara Appel. In 1986 he graduated as a state-certified music teacher in Nuremberg.

Honors

  • 1984: "Excellent performance" at "Musical talents introduce themselves" with the band Triton on October 28, 1984 in the Fürth town hall
  • 2018: Culture Prize of the City of Herzogenaurach

Works

  • Four Seasons (1997). Chamber music for violin and piano
  • Morning Symphony (1999). Symphony in four movements
  • Sinfonia del diletto (Symphony of Wellbeing) (2004). Symphony in five movements
  • A European Symphony (2005). Symphony in nine movements for orchestra, choir and two soloists (mezzo-soprano and baritone)
  • Piano concert No 1 (2007)
  • X-Ray Hydra (2012). Nine pieces of music composed from "sounding" X-rays, project with the Smithsonian Institution
  • Puro Piano (2014). Eighteen pieces of music for piano solo summarized on CD of the same name.
  • Opus XVII (2015). Piano variations over the four seasons

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Herzogenaurach: Culture Prize and Culture Promotion Prize 2018
  2. https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/sed/projects/star_songs/index.html
  3. Flirt with romance. First performance of Studtrucker's first piano concerto