Steffen Schleiermacher

Steffen Schleiermacher ( May 3, 1960 in Halle ( Saale) ) is a German composer, pianist and conductor.

Life

Steffen Schleiermacher is a descendant of the philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher. He received piano lessons since 1966, attended from 1968 to 1978 the Stadtsingechor to hall and put his Abitur in 1978. From 1980 to 1985 he studied piano with Gerhard Erber, composition with Siegfried Thiele and Friedrich Schenker and conducting with Günter Blum Hagen. From 1984 to 1988 he was Head of the boy music of the Leipzig Academy of Music. After graduating he worked from 1986 to 1987 master class in composition with Friedrich Goldmann at the Academy of Arts in Berlin and in 1989/90, he completed a fellowship from the German Music Council postgraduate studies for piano with Aloys Kontarsky at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Until 1988 he was also assistant for music theory and New Music in Leipzig.

Since 1988 he directs the concert series " Musica Nova " at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, in 1989 he founded the Ensemble Avantgarde 1993 to 2000, head of the January festival at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, from 2000 to 2010 director of the festival " sound noise " at the Central German Broadcasting.

From 1989 concerts have taken him concert and lecture tours to many countries in Europe, America and the Far East, including with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlin, the Munich Philharmonic, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and other orchestras such as under Vladimir Ashkenasy, Ingo Metzmacher, Fabio Luisi and Vladimir Jurowski. About 60 recordings with various labels ( Hathut, WERGO, music production Dabringhaus & Grimm ), including the first recording of the complete piano works of John Cage.

Numerous commissions, among others, in recent times for the Bonn Opera ( " cocaine " 2004), the Gewandhaus Orchestra ( " antitype " in 2006, " The glow of the Singing Crystals " 2009), the Church Music Festival Oslo ( " Four Pieces to interpolate the Bach Mass" 2008), the WDR Symphony Orchestra ( " the invocation of drunken oasis " 2009), musikFabrik ( " the roar of the astonished echoes " 2009) and RIAS chamber Choir ( " Ataraxia " 2009).

Currently working on compositions for the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Orchestre Français des Jeunes, the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin and the Festival " pélerinage " Weimar.

Schleiermacher is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Arts.

Compositions (selection )

Solo

• By itself ( text by Paul Fleming ) (2009 ) - for baritone with woodblock (one performer);
• Balance - four small pieces - for György Kurtág (2008) - for piano;
• Image Description - 2nd approach to Heiner Müller ( 2000) - for piano;
• Question! on August Stramm (2005) - for contrabass flute, bass flute version for;
• Heracles - first approximation to Heiner Müller ( 2000) - for piano;
• Soundscapes in the Piano - 12 Pieces for Young Pianists ( 2000) - for piano;
• Piano and pianos (1997) - for piano and tape;
• Klungkung (2006) - for piano;
• Long Overture - with G.F.H. (2003) - for organ;
• Lîla (2003) - for piano;
• Merseburger Overture - with F.L. (2004) - for organ;
• Nadie nos ha visto ( to Goya ) (2008 ) - for guitar;
• Philoctetes - 3rd approach to Heiner Müller ( 2003) - for piano;
• Drinking song, a love wood ant (2003) - for nail violin;

Chamber Ensemble

• Eight! (2002) - for 4 french horns and 4 percussionists;
• Auto Repair with Hup space (2005) - for brass ensemble, sampler, and tape;
• Respiratory Los (1998) - for trombone and accordion;
• Johann Sebastian Bach path Go - Shadows over the f -minor Invention ( 2010) - for viola, vibraphone, and piano;
• Com.PAKT in.takt (2002) - for trumpet, alto sax, percussion, and piano;
• Compressed air ( 1999) - for five flutes,
• Echoes (2003) - for five pianos;
• Rather what Madonna & Janet & Björk as for Nicolaus & Helmut & Hans (2000) - for saxophone, piano, and percussion;
• A serious change - Homage to Mendelssohn -Bartholdy (2010) - for clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello and;
• EIS SHADOWS with Mozart ( 2005) - for twelve wind instruments and contrabass;
• Fanfarenklänge - after Paul Klee ( 2010) - for four bassoons;
• Hard eaten (1994 ) - for string quartet;
• Five Pieces for Five Young Players (1991 ) - for small ensemble (fl, bs, v, vc, perc );
• For F ( 1991) - for clarinet and string quartet;
• Shape ... slivered (1997) - for clarinet, cello, and piano;
• Song of Apsyrtos (1985 ) - for chamber ensemble (whether cl, pno, perc 3. );
• Believe detention (2000) - for ensemble (fl, cl, bs, tp, hr, tb, tb, pno );
• Grace Go (1997) - for piano and percussion;
• Heracleum ( 1992) - for saxophone quartet;
• Inside the Trance Machine (1999) - for six percussionists, so version for four percussionists;
• Sound mortis (2010) - for organ and three trumpets;
• Change of scenery (2001) - for small ensemble (fl, whether, cl, perc, pno, v, vc );
• Music for violin, harp and chamber ensemble (1991);
• Network (2002) - for ensemble (fl, whether, cl, tp, hr, tb, pno, perc, kb, tape);
• Obophon solo ( 2003) - for 6 Oboes;
• Obsessionato (2006) - for octet ( clarinet, horn, bassoon, string quintet );
• Pavane for a dreaming Elephants ( 2009) - for woodwind quintet;
• Pasibutbut (1994 ) - for five clarinets;
• Quartet for Oboe damore, Viola, Double Bass, and Guitar (1986);
• Quintet for Violin, Cello, Flute, Clarinet, and Piano (1989);
• Sharp Harp ( 2003) - for harp with clarinet, and flute;
• Fluctuating equilibrium - Hommage à Paul Klee ( 2004) - for saxophone quartet;
• Six Bagatelles (1986 ) - for small ensemble ( fl, cl, pno, perc, va, vc );
• GAP! (1999) - for shakuhachi and small ensemble ( bcl, pno, perc, v, va, vc );
• Jam ( 1999) - Quartet for clarinet, trombone, cello, and piano;
• Faltering Fluent (1995 ) - for oboe, bassoon, viola, and guitar;
• Addiction Dream ( 2004) - for piano and string quartet;
• Taches - Hommage à Hans Hartung (2007) - for flute, percussion, and piano;
• Three Pieces for Viola and Bassclarinet (2002);
• Triptych - Hommage à Max Beckmann ( 2009) - for two pianos;
• Despite reaction I ( 1994) - for chamber ensemble (whether cl, tp, harp, perc, va, vc );
• Despite reaction II ( 1996) - for chamber ensemble ( if, cl, tp, harp, perc, va, vc );
• Despite reaction III (1997) - for chamber ensemble ( if, cl, tp, harp, perc, va, vc );
• Despite reaction IV (1997) - for chamber ensemble ( if, cl, tp, harp, perc, va, vc );
• Petrified Circling (2008) - for tp, tb, vc, e - guit, 2 perc, piano;
• Yatz Hatz (2005) - for bassclarinet and bass guitar;
• Characters in the sound - Hommage à Paul Klee ( 2005) - for two pianos;
• Time Difference (1997) - for three instrumental units (fl if, cl, bs - perc, pno - 2v, va, vc );
• Ceremony (1988 ) - for chamber ensemble (2 whether, tb, pno, perc, va, vc, kb ;)
• At the Fourth (1991 ) - for two pianists and two percussionists;
• Twelve Children's Pieces for two identical instruments ( 1989) - for two wind instruments;

Mechanic Music

• Hommage à RILEY - plenty glassed (2001) - for midi -keyboard;
• Four Pieces for two pianos prepared player (1999);
• Five Pieces for fairground organ (1997) - version for player piano (2004);
• In armor! (2005) - for two player pianos;
• SiK2Cl2Mn (2009) - for player piano;

Chamber Orchestra

• The roar of the astonished echoes ( 2009);
• Concerto for viola and chamber orchestra (1987);
• Kreon - Hommage à Varèse (1987);
• Sisyphus (1997)

Voice / Choir with and without instrument

• ATARAXIA (2008) - for 2 or 4 mixed choirs - text: Meister Eckhart, Seneca, Heraclit and from the Anguttara nikaya;
• The Testament of Oedipus (2002) - for 2 voices, sax, percussion, sampler, and tape - text: Heiner Müller, Sophocles;
• Dedalus (2005) - for voice, clarinet, cello, and piano - text: Thomas Rose holes;
• The finger nose is missing the skull (2004) - for 12 voices - text: Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg;
• The evocation of drunken Oasis ( 2009) - for Hilliard Ensemble and orchestra;
• Mankind (2000) - for voice and prepared piano - text: August Stramm;
• Angels Slaughter (2003) - for voice, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and - text: Leonore Kandel;
• Marsyas (2008) - for baritone, 2 trumpets, piano, 2 perc - text: Franz Fühmann;
• MUZIKA (2000) - for 5 voices and prepared piano - text: Hyacinth Freiherr von Wiesner;

O painful pleasure - for Gesualdo di Venosa and with (2009) - for five voices, clarinet, viola, and accordion;

• Psalm # 62 (2003/2006) - for mixed choir;
• Psalm # 88 (2001) - for mixed choir;
• Psalm # 116 (2010) - for five voices;
• Star Seamless Light ( 2010) - a tribute to Robert Schumann - for big choir - text: Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz;
• Drip Blood (2003) - for children choir and brass quintet - text: August Stramm;
• Una cava di nostalgia - Gesualdo di Venosa Homage (1996 ) - for 5 voices and 11 instruments;
• Four choirs on poems by Georg Trakl (1984 /85);
• If my pain hurts you - for Gesualdo di Venosa and with (2009) - for five voices, clarinet, viola, and accordion;
• Teeth (1997) - for 12 voices and percussion;
• Time Bridges ( 2005) - for 5 male voices and string quartet - concert project with music by Steffen Schleiermacher, Josquin de Prez, Ockeghem, and Johann Sebastian Bach;

Orchestra

• Spell. Movement - with Beethoven's First ( 2010);
• The glow of the singing crystals (2008);
• Gassenhauer with Foghorn (2001) - for theremin and woodwinds & brass with percussion, harp, and piano;
• Home. Woe. After. Liszt (2004) - for player piano and orchestra;
• Keil (1998) - for saxophone and orchestra;
• Music for Timpani and Orchestra (1984 /85);
• Pulse color shadows (1994);
• Silence and sound (1991);

Prizes and awards