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Volker Blumenthaler - composer

Celloplayer

german

biography

Volker Blumenthaler, born 1951 in Mannheim/Germany.

  • studies in cello ( with Hans Adomeit, Wolfgang Mehlhorn und Johannes Goritzki), composition (with Hans Vogt and Jürg Baur) and musical theory at Mannheim and Cologne,
  • 1979-87 part-time lecture-ship for musical theory at the Academy of Music Rhineland/Cologne,
  • 1989/90 guest lectures at the National Chiao Tung University Hsinchu/Taiwan
  • from 1992 to now teacher for composition and musical theory at the Nuremberg-Augsburg School of Music (Hochschule fuer Musik Nuernberg-Augsburg)
  • since 1993 also regular activities as author of broadcast-features for "Commentaries on New Music" ( SWF Baden-Baden )
  • 1994/95 workshops for analysis and composition at the National Institut of the Arts in Taipei/Taiwan
  • 1997 guest lecture at the Harvard University in Cambridge/USA (about the chamber opera Jason and Medea / Black enshrouds Red )

scholarship

  • 1977 and 1982 invited by Hans Werner Henze to take part in the festival "cantiere internazionale d´arte" in Montepulciano/Italy
  • 1979 Gulbankian Foundation for the "International Course for Professional Choreographers and Composers" in Guildford/England
  • 1979-83 composer in residence/studio of the Brahms-Foundation Baden-Baden
  • 1982 German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome/Italy
  • 1987 Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann scholarship of the City of Cologne

awards

Concerts/Festivals/Projekts ( selection )

  • 1985 musical portrait during the exhibiton of Villa Massimo/Rome in Kassel/Germany,
    composing project with Hans Werner Henze in Deutschlandberg/Austria
  • 1986 exchange concert Cologne - Amsterdam,
    "Musikalische Sprachräume" Academie of the Arts Berlin,
    festival "Active Music" Dortmund/Germany
  • 1990 concerts with the compositon "lovers maze" in USA (New Orleans, Chicago, New York)
  • 1991 Henze-Festival Hamburg/Germany,
    festival for New Music "Made in Leiden" Leiden/Netherlands
  • 1993 concerts in Australia with the Dutch Duo Contemporain
  • 1994 project "Response" Frankfurt/Gerrnany
  • 1995 Huddersfield-Festival/England,
    festival Mayo Musical Murcia/Spain
  • 1996 Six-Days-Opera III Nuremberg/Germany,
    FACETTEN ´96 cultural weeks in Meerbusch/Germany
  • 1997 Bavarian Days of Music Kracow/Poland,
    musical portait Goethe-Institute of Boston/USA,
    II Encontro Brasileiro de Clarinetistas, Univeridade de Brasilia/Brasilien,
    MUSICA NUOVA FESTIVAL Senigallia/Italy
  • 1994/98 invited to the "International Vacation Course of New Music" in Darmstadt/Germany.
  • 1999 Internationales Pianoforum ...antasten... Heilbronn,Germany
  • 2000 CrossSound Festival Juneau-Alaska/USA,
    "The Singing Garden" Leiden/Netherlands,
    Symposion Myriam Marbe Nuremberg/Germany
  • 2001 change/exchange - ¿Orpheus?
    project between New York University and
    Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
  • 2002 EAST-WEST-CAGE / EAST MEETS WEST
    TAGE NEUER MUSIK Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg
  • 2003 Project BLASPHEMIE - Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik and Ensemble Phorminx,
    exchange concert between Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg and the Academy of Music Krakau/Poland,
    Opera Late Night Staatstheater Nürnberg "Crosssound"
  • 2004 "Rituals and their abstraction in contemporary music" - project with the Ensemble Phorminx and the Cusanus-Werk (Münster, Frantz-Hitze-Haus)
    CD 2x2 in cooperation with the composer Cord Meijering
  • 2005 Music for the APOCALYPSE-cycle of Max Beckmann - project with the Ensemble Phorminx,
    BOTH SIDES (Contemporary Music and Jazz) - TAGE NEUER MUSIK of "Hochschule für Musik Nuernberg"
    Seoul/Korea: composition project with Il-Ryun Chung and Cord Meijering, poetry of Korean poets
  • 2006 GLOBAL EAR FESTIVAL Dresden
  • 2007 LAUTER FARBEN - music and dance for Japanese poems from the 10th century till now (Tage Aktueller Musik Nuernberg)
  • 2008 HENZE-PROJECT Hochschule für Musik Nuernberg in cooperation with the Academy für Tonkunst Darmstadt
  • 2009 book and CD - APOCALYPSE cycle of Max Beckmann
  • 2010 LABILI ARTI - CD (telos)
  • 2011 concerts and CD-project with the AsianArtEnsemble Berlin,
    Taipei/Taiwan-TMC International Music Camp-workshop and lecture

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