Georges Lentz

Georges Lentz ( born October 22, 1965 in Luxembourg ) is a Sydney (Australia) and Berlin-based composer Luxembourg.

Life

Lentz studied from 1983 to 1990 music at the Paris Conservatory and at the Musikhochschule Hannover and has lived in Australia since 1990. 2012-2013 he was a fellow of the International Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg. Lentz always spends part of the year in Berlin.

Works

His music is influenced by astronomy, the endless expanse of the Australian landscape and the Australian Aboriginal Painting, and is an expression of spiritual and religious beliefs, doubts and questions of the composer. It is used by leading orchestras (Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, Nederlands Orkest Radiofilharmonisch, Hallé Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Symphony ) and in famous concert halls listed ( Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Sydney Opera House). The composer since 1989, working on a " Caeli enarrant ... " ( " The heavens are telling ... " - Psalm 19) titled plant cycle. His orchestral work " Guyuhmgan " was honored at the 2002 " UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers " of UNESCO in Paris. Lentz rarely writes new works. His time last works are a viola concerto for Tabea Zimmermann, " Monh ", which was premiered by this in July 2005, as well as an hour-long work for solo electric guitar, Ingwe ( 2003-2009 ) for the young Australian guitarist Zane Banks.

All works are published by Universal Edition in Vienna.