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Volker Blumenthaler - composer
german
biography
Volker Blumenthaler, born 1951 in Mannheim/Germany, studies in cello, musical theory and composition in Mannheim and Cologne, among others with Hans Vogt and Jürg Baur, 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 University of Harvard Cambridge/USA (about the chamber opera Jason and Medea / Black enshrouds Red )
scholarships
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 Academie Villa Massimo in Rome/Italy
1987 Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann scholarship of the City of Cologne
awards
1982 award for young composers of the City of Stuttgart (first prize)
1987 prize at the "Concours International de Composition Musical Opera & Ballet" Geneva/Switzerland for the symphony "Leviathan"
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 Akademy of Music Krakau,
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)
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