Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar (* July 7, 1934 in Anderny, France) is a Slovenian trombonist and composer.

Life and work

Vinko Globokar grew up in Tucqueugnieux, an environment of Slovenian emigrants village in the Lorraine mining area. The parents were Slovenes. The father worked as a miner and sang in the Slovenian village choir. Globokar heard Slovenian folk music, taking piano lessons from a teacher Slovenian - and was in the school with the French language and culture familiar: The tension between two cultures influenced his childhood. From the age of 13 to 21 years of age Globokar lived in Ljubljana ( Slovenia), where he made his debut as a jazz musician under Bojan Adamič. From the year 1949 Globokar studied at the Conservatory trombone and a year later became a member of the Radio Jazz Orchestra. 1955-1959 continued Globokar be trombone studies at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Lafosse continued. He played in those years in a number of ensembles and studio orchestras music of various styles, from jazz to symphony. 1960-63, he graduated from a four-year private composition and conducting with René Leibowitz. By Leibowitz and his circle Globokar was on the anthropologist Claude Lévi- Strauss, Jean- Paul Sartre and others aware whose thinking inspired him manifold.

His acquaintance with Luciano Berio led Globokar 1964 to Berlin, where he first studied with Berio further. After a year as a member of the Center for Creative and Performing Arts in Buffalo / USA (1965 /66) he shared his time between composing and henceforth giving concerts. Since 1968 Globokar taught at the Musikhochschule in Cologne trombone and moved his residence to Cologne in 1969. In the same year he founded alongside together with Michel Portal, Carlos Alsina Roqué and Jean -Pierre Drouet, the free improvisation ensemble New Phonic Art, which set the standard with his game. Towards the end of the 60s Globokar became increasingly well-known and highly appreciated by the interplay of his skills as a composer and performer. 1973 to the Institute for acoustic research and coordination ( IRCAM ) was appointed as Head of vocal / instrumental research, Globokar moved with the beginning of his work in 1976 returned to Paris. In 1979 he left the Institute and has since lived in Paris as a freelance composer and trombonist.

He taught composition at various institutes and universities in Europe and the USA. At the same time he is considered a leading trombonist of contemporary music. From 1983 to 1999 Globokar was Professor of Chamber Music at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (near Florence). The originality of Globokar work is partly in his dual role as composer and performer - the composer is to sound from performers and game inspired technical innovations or made ​​aware of psychological issues that affect behaviors of musicians.

Globokar composed works for orchestra, for chamber orchestra and choir music. In addition to his extraordinary skills as a trombonist who influenced many contemporary composers (he played premieres of works by Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, René Leibowitz and Louis Andriessen ), he is also a theorist of the avant-garde.

Globokar led to a number of works for trombone and developed on the instrument new playing techniques.

Awards

Works

Compositions (selection )

  • Vendre le Vent for piano, percussion, five wood - and four brass
  • Broadcasts for soloists and twenty musicians
  • Discours II for five trombones
  • Discourse III for five oboes
  • Discours IV for three clarinets
  • Fluids for brass and percussion
  • Etude I for nineteen soloists
  • Etude II for orchestra
  • La ronde for instruments
  • Drama for piano and percussion
  • Inhalation study for Oboe
  • VIOE for choirs and three orchestras
  • Accord for soprano, trombone, cello, flute, organ and percussion
  • Dream interpretation for four choirs, celesta, harp, vibraphone and guitar
  • Airs for eight voices, trumpet, clarinet and two assistants
  • Positions for soprano, choir and orchestra with multimedia presentation
  • Carrousel for four singers and sixteen instruments
  • Miserere for voices and orchestra
  • Dialogue on air for Accordion
  • Toucher for percussion solo
  • Dialogue on Earth for solo percussion
  • Notes for a pianist
  • Les Emigrés for ensemble with multi-media presentation
  • The Angel of History, Part 1 decay for 2 orchestral groups and tape
  • La Prison for 8 instruments
  • Radiography d'un roman, 39 "chapters" in five different languages ​​with choir, vocal soloists and percussion

Writings

  • Inhalation, exhalation, 1994, ISBN 3-923997-60-4
  • Laboratory ( texts to music from 1967 to 1997 ), 1998, ISBN 3-930735-23-7
Buffalo, New York Gaudeamus International Composers Award Integrated Authority File
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