Ulf-Diether Soyka

Ulf- Diether Soyka ( born June 5, 1954 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer, conductor and lecturer and has three grown sons ..

Soyka completed his graduate studies at Friedrich Cerha (composition) and Otmar Suitner ( orchestral conducting ), and that teaching music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. From 1979 to 1981 he was a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition in 1983. He then worked as a freelance composer and took occasional conducting activities ( premieres 1938 displaced composer ). He fulfilled numerous commissions and since 2000 also professor of music theory and composition at the Conservatory Prayner, Vienna.

Musical creativity and composition style

Soyka wrote previously preferred music for the concert hall, for orchestra, chamber music, choral works, operas, etc. His compositional style described Dr. Werner Pelinka 1987 in the cultural magazine "tomorrow ": " Soykas Music is the Dodecaphony required but the dogmatic serial, but a extended twelve-tone system of notation which is determined by the melodic and rhythmic idea from the feeling. This component of the " emotional " associated causes a spontaneous understanding of the listener, even if it is not able to track the run by the "ratio" structures and details. His musical language is varied, both melodic and beautiful sound and rhythmically alive and powerful ". Soyka explored - assuming - even relationships between chromatic and microtonal, and brought since 2007 mikrointervallische chamber music works for publication, including in his 2012 concert set (very melodic ) opera " Ninja" (wherein the microtonality one of the " main characters " is the robot Androido assigned a leitmotif in order to adequately represent the " emotionality ").

Compositions (selection )

  • Operas ( eg " Leyla ", premiered in 2003 at the Künstlerhaus Vienna), " Terpsichore ", " Ninja" and Others
  • Ballets (eg, " The Idol", premiered in 1990 at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt)
  • Three piano concertos (CD with Alma Sauer and Oliver Dohnanyi 1987 premiere at the Philharmonie in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1993 Soloist: Rena Rzaeva, Conductor: Rauf Abdullaev )
  • Two violin concertos ( premieres: Gernot Winischhofer, Elena Denisova )
  • Cello Concerto ( premiered by Mark Varshavsky )
  • Horn Concerto ( for James Lowe, Birmingham 2004)
  • Symphonies ( the first premiered in 2006 in Bulgaria, Conductor: Grigor Palikarov )
  • Masses, oratorios (eg Requiem with Consolation, Pentecost oratorio and others)
  • Choral works
  • Song cycles
  • Chamber Music
  • Microtonal Chamber Music ( ISCM concert with H.-A. strain Mikroton enharmonic organ, etc.)

Opus

Soykas working directory is organized into work groups:

  • Opus 1, masses, oratorios, sacred music;
  • Op 2 chamber music in smaller ensembles;
  • Op 3 larger chamber ensembles;
  • Opus 4 Streich-/Kammerorchester;
  • Op 5 instrumental concerts;
  • Op 6 song;
  • Op 7 film, dance, light music and audio art;
  • Op 8 School Music;
  • Opus 9 keyboard solo;
  • Opus 10 Orchestra;
  • Opus 11 Choir;
  • Opus 12: Operas;

Conducting activities (selection)

  • In ORF- hall Vienna (Johann Nepomuk David, Pro Arte Orchestra )
  • In the Great Hall of the Musikverein Vienna ( Golden Hall ) Vienna ( Ulf- Diether Soyka, 2 Saxophone Concerto, with the premiere NÖ.Tonkünstlerorchester )
  • Austrian Music Festival in Bulgaria 2001 - 2003 (Suite for String Orchestra, world premieres of the opera Plovdiv Philharmonic and others)
  • Repertoire by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms and Others
  • Numerous premieres, such as music composer in 1938 displaced

Awards

Professional activities and functions in the musical life

1982-1983 teaching (high school ) 1983 Austrian State Scholarship for composition. Thereafter, a freelance composer and occasionally conducting activities. Soyka wrote in the next few years a number of large commissioned works, and since 2000 has been professor of music theory and composition at the Conservatory Prayner, Vienna.

Other perennial features: high school teacher, director of a church choir, a board member of the Austrian Composers Society ( E- Music ), lectures on English and Australian music universities, Musikpublizistische articles in various journals ( Ö.Musikzeitschrift and others), led by music symposia, functions in AKM, ÖGZM, music union, etc., Speaker of the Vienna summer Seminars for new music creation and management of an ensemble for new music, coordination of Pro-Arte orchestra, founded and concert organization of the "Project premieres " speaker in intercultural Ekmelik Symposium Salzburg, etc.

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