Harald Weiss

Life

White made ​​his preliminary studies from the Lower Saxony Braunschweig School of Music in violin, piano, music theory and ear training. From 1968-1972 he studied music education, conducting and composition at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, it joined a percussion studies at the Musikhochschule Hamburg.

It was followed by numerous engagements as a conductor and performer with various bands. From 1973-1976 Weiss was composer for the Municipal Theater in Bielefeld and from 1973-1983 Lecturer rhythm and arrangement at the State Academy of Music and Theatre in Hanover.

In 1980 he received a scholarship Lower Saxony artists in the music business. In 1983, an additional grant from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Art, before moving to Mallorca in 1984. A year later, he received a grant from the city of Berlin.

1986 got white from the Villa Massimo scholarship as well as to study in Rome. Six years later, the premiere of the opera was followed by " Amanda's Dream" at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. In 1993 he again received a Lower Saxon art scholarship, this time in the field of film. In 1997, the opera was "The specter. Musical theater for children and adults " premiered. In 2000, White betreutete at Expo 2000, the project " journey through the night. A performance at sea and on land in seven stations ".

Awards and Honors

Weiss received numerous awards throughout his career, including in 1975 he was a prizewinner at the composition competition of the West German Radio. A year later, he received a prize at the International Composition Competition of the City of Hamm, in 1977 another at the International Composition Competition of the Staatstheater Braunschweig. 2010 White was honored by the Iwanson Sixt Foundation contemporary dance " for his contributions to contemporary dance " with the Isadora Award 2010.

1982 White was awarded the Culture Prize of Lower Saxony, two years later the culture of Bielefeld and the Bernhard Sprengel Prize for Music. In 1991 he was the "Amadeus" in silver in the national competition " creative music ". Anno 1992 he received the Golden and the Silver Pyramid for the video clip 's brand at the Photokina in Cologne. In 1993 he received a prize of the television premiere at Berlin Video Festival. In the same year, the Prix special du jury, Mondial de la video followed in Brussels. In 1995, he received an award for the play of the year of Bahia Aplaude in Salvador, Brazil.

On 24 March 2012, the Lower Saxony Minister of Culture Johanna Wanka gave the Schauspielhaus Hannover Harald Weiss the Praetorius Music Prize 2012 in the category of Lower Saxony Composition Prize.

Works

  • Ark, Musical Theatre (1984 )
  • Masquerade ball, music theater (1985 )
  • Ade, music theater (1987 )
  • Winter songs, voice and instruments (1988 )
  • Amanda's dream, musical theater in two acts and a break ( 1988-91 )
  • My Wooden Dancing Shoes, percussion and voice ( 1990)
  • The Other Paradise, an acoustic film ( 1995)
  • The specter, musical theater for children and adults (1995 /96)
  • Journey into Night, tape composition (2000)
  • Silent Walls, string quartet (2003)
  • Prayer for violin and string orchestra ( 2006)
  • Night music for solo guitar, guitar choir, string orchestra and percussion
  • Bremer Requiem for soprano, boy soprano, tenor, flugelhorn, chorus and orchestra. A work commissioned for the 32nd German Protestant Church in Bremen ( 2009)
  • Black in mind and there was light, Requiem for boys' choir, chamber orchestra, boy soprano, soprano and Tenorosolo. Dedicated to the Hannover Boys Choir. Premiere: October 31, 2009, NDR Broadcasting Center Lower Saxony, Hannover
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