Barbara Buchholz
Barbara Buchholz ( born December 8, 1959 in Duisburg, † April 10, 2012 in Berlin) was a German bass player, live electronics engineer and composer. The last musician living in Berlin, was one of the world-renowned theremin players.
Career
Buchholz studied flute, guitar, bass and singing at the University of Bielefeld. Since the early 1980s, she worked as a performer and composer in interdisciplinary projects and in the field of theater music. In the German Women Jazz Orchestra Abundant Female she made a name for himself as a bassist. She produced Tap It Deep - " MIDI-fied " tap dance and music, as well as human interactivity and Theremin Berlin- Moscow.
In the late 1990s, she met Lydia Kavina know, the great-niece inventor of the theremin Lew terms, and learned with her in Moscow the theremin. Buchholz is the theremin as a full-fledged instrument within jazz, improvised music and new music. In a contemporary context, they developed new sound possibilities and playing techniques.
Together with Lydia Kavina founded Barbara Buchholz 2005, the Touch platform! Do not Touch! for the theremin in new music. For the two Thereministinnen and ensemble composed, among others, Moritz Eggert, Michael Hirsch, Caspar Johannes Walter, Juliane Klein, Peter Gahn, Gordon Kampe and Sidney Corbett.
In the field of jazz and improvised music, she has performed with various ensembles. On their album " Moonstruck " (2008) jazz musicians Arve Henriksen and Jan Bang worked with; from 2008 was Barbara Buchholz member of the Jazz Big Band Graz, on the album Urban Folktales (ACT ) and she was involved with, she has performed at the JazzFest Berlin 2010. When performing with her solo program Theremin: Russia with Love was assisted Barbara Buchholz projection artist pedda Borowski.
In various contemporary orchestral works she played the Thereminstimme, including " The Little Mermaid ", a ballet by John Neumeier with music by Lera Auerbach, the opera " Left Hand " by Moritz Eggert, or " Bestmann - Opera" by Alex Nowitz.
Barbara Buchholz came in 2009 at the talent show Das Supertalent, where she played the theremin and an audience of millions imagined. She reached the semifinals with her instrument.
Barbara Buchholz died on 10 April 2012 in Berlin after a long battle with cancer.
Prizes and awards
In 1989 she was a prizewinner in the " jazz scene NRW" with the duo Wild marriage play jazz and in 1995 she was awarded a Silver Amadeus in the competition " Creative Music " for the duo sheet, bass and Bellaphonie. In 1996 she was awarded the first prize at the City of Herford with the group Tap It Deep Jazz Competition. Followed in 1998 by a second prize in the composition competition for jazz and improvised music in OWL for the trio of the future with Matthias Muche, trombone and Frank Wingold guitar. 2002 Buchholz received a special prize in the composition competition of Bielefeld NRW for her interactive video music project Waves with the video filmmakers Zeha Schröder and the engineer Sascha Kramski. A grant from the Cultural Ministry NRW 2003 enabled her to stay on a working Theremin Moscow. On January 8, 2011 Barbara Buchholz received the Westfalen- Jazz Award at the Jazz Festival Münster for their repositioning of the theremin in music.
Discography (selection)
- Touch! Do not Touch! (2006; WERGO ), along with Lydia Kavina & chamber ensemble Neue Musik Berlin
- Theremin: Russia with Love (2006; intuition )
- Moonstruck (2008; intuition )