Hans Zender

Hans Zender ( born November 22, 1936 in Wiesbaden ) is a German conductor and composer.

Life

Zender began his musical studies in 1956 first at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule in August Leopolder (piano ) and Kurt Hessenberg (composition). In 1957 he moved to the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, where he studied with Edith Picht - Axenfeld (piano), Carl Ueter (conducting) and Wolfgang Fortner (composition).

From 1959 to 1963 he worked as a conductor at the Municipal Theater in Freiburg im Breisgau, then as chief conductor of the Opera of Bonn. In 1969 he was appointed to Kiel, where he worked as a music director until 1972. In 1971 he began his work as Chief Conductor of the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, which he, as a critique to a " precision instrument of modern music " shaped. In 1984 he was Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and the local State Orchestra. In 1987 he moved to the position of chief conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Radio Hilversum and the Principal Guest Conductor of the Opéra National in Brussels, tasks, which he fulfilled until 1990.

From 1988 to 2000 Zender was a professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. He is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg (since 1985) and the Academy of Arts in Berlin (1989 ) and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (1995). In 1964 he received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome and in 1967 he was awarded the Prize of North Rhine- Westphalia for music.

Since 1999 he has been a regular guest conductor of the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden -Baden and Freiburg. In the academic year 2005/2006 Zender was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin.

2011 Zender was at the invitation of Walter Fink of 21 Composer, which was presented in the annual Komponistenporträt the Rheingau Music Festival.

Awards

Works

• Canto I-VI for various occupations I: for chorus, flute, piano, strings and percussion (1965 )
• II: for soprano, choir and orchestra on a text by Ezra Pound (1967 )
• III: for soprano, tenor, baritone, 10 instruments and live electronics on texts by Cervantes (1968 )
• IV: for 16 voices and 16 instruments ( 1969/1972 )
• V: for voices with percussion ad lib. (1972/1974)
• VI: for bass-baritone, mixed choir a cappella and tape ad lib. (1988)

Writings

• Hans Zender. The senses think. Texts on music from 1975 to 2003. Edited by Jörn Peter Hiekel. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-7651-0364-0. ( Almost a complete edition of the texts Zender )
• Happy New Ears. The adventure to listen to music. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1991, ISBN 3-451-04049-2. ( Out of stock )
• We never climb into the same river. How listening to music is changing. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau ² 1998, ISBN 3-451-04511-7.

Interviews

• Music for me is very strong musikalisiertes word - Hans Zender to his methods of composition, the " Cantos " and " logos fragments ". An interview by Dietrich Heißenbüttel. In: New Journal of Music, No. 5, 2013, pp. 8-11.