Jan Kopp

Jan Kopp An ( born July 13, 1971 in Pforzheim ) is a German composer, musicologist and writer. Focus of his artistic work are contemporary compositions. He is a student of Wolfgang Rihm, Helmut Lachenmann and Marco Stroppa. In addition to creating and dealing with new music in articles and radio broadcasts, his interest is their referral to an expert about circles addition, continuous, wide audience. He is therefore involved in numerous student projects.

Life

Jan Kopp An was born on 13 July 1971 at Baden, Pforzheim. From 1982, he received private piano lessons, the same year made ​​his first self-taught compositions. While still a student he began in 1987 a preliminary study for composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. After school and civil service in 1991, he studied from 1992 in Heidelberg, German studies, musicology and philosophy. Starting in 1994, published his first contributions to the SWF and other radio stations. The composition course he continued from 1997 with Helmut Lachenmann on. From 1998 to 2000, Kopp Project Manager at Sound Forum Heidelberg. In 2000, he completed his liberal arts studies with a thesis on the novel " The Death of Virgil " by Hermann Broch and then devoted himself to 2002, studying composition with Marco Stroppa at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. Since 2002, Kopp lives as a freelance composer and music publisher in Stuttgart.

2003 Kopp took a long trip to South America after Argentina and Uruguay, to keep at the Universities of Cordoba and Montevideo and the Conservatory Río Cuarto lectures on contemporary European vocal music and take part in performances in Córdoba and Río Cuarto.

Since 2002, Kopp led various composition projects with students, including 2002 and 2004 at the German Pupils Academy (DSA). In 2005 he was a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. Since 2006 he is a regular lecturer at the workshop "Youth composed Baden -Württemberg". In addition, he teaches private composition.

Performances

Kopp's compositions have been performed at various festivals at home and abroad, including at the " Darmstadt Summer Courses ", the " Heidelberger Frühling " in " Eclat ", the " Weimar Spring Festival of Contemporary Music ", the " March Music ", the " Sound Workshop Berlin ", the " Daegu Contemporary Music Universiade " (South Korea), the " Festival of New Music Zurich ," the festival " ATEMPO " (Venezuela ) and the " Núcleo Música Nueva " (Uruguay ). Commissions were issued to him, inter alia, on the Stuttgart State Theatre, the Siemens Arts Program, the SWR and the Orchestra of the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Prices

For his compositions Kopp has received several awards, so in 1995 with the award of the German piano construction industry for " sound shadow / Black Block" and in 2002 with the first prize of the " Weimar Spring Festival of New Music " for the " Akhmatova Madrigal ", the 2004 also GNM has been proposed for the world Music Days in Zagreb, as well as an invitation to the 7th Nachwuchsforum the Ensemble Modern for " Akhmatova song ". He was a scholar of the Foundation of the German People ( 1994-98 ), the Darmstadt summer courses (1998), the Mozart Foundation Frankfurt / Main ( 2000/2001), the SWR (2006) Heinrich Strobel Foundation, the Arts Foundation of Baden- Württemberg ( 2006), and Bartels Foundation Foundation Basel (2010).

Works

Compositions

Solo Voice

  • 2007 la cigarra for soprano, clarinet, viola and piano; Text: Spanish Encyclopedia, article " cigarra " (UA October 5, 2007, Remchingen )
  • 2006 siempre for soprano, clarinet, viola and piano; Text: Federico García Lorca (UA 5 October 2007, Remchingen )
  • 2006 shadowboxing ( La ultima aventura de Don Quijote ) for counter-tenor with obbligato hand mirror; Text: Abel Martín (UA December 6, 2006, Montevideo / Uruguay)
  • 2005 Schlegel's shadow for countertenor and five instruments (Fl, Clear, vc, pf, Schlzg ); Text: Friedrich Schlegel ( UA 6 November 2005, Festival " Sound Workshop Berlin 2005 " )
  • 2005 aunque for soprano, bass clarinet, viola and piano
  • 2004, for mezzo- soprano, clarinet (B ), viola and piano; Text: Eduardo Spinelli (UA 13 July 2004, Robert Bosch Hall in Rotebühlzentrum, Stuttgart) (UA revised October 5, 2007, Remchingen )
  • 2004 ends for mezzo- soprano, alto flute, ( B-/Bass- ) Clarinet and Viola; Text: words from the Apocalypse of John (UA January 14, 2005, Museum Wiesbaden) Commissioned by the Ensemble Phorminx (Beckmann project)
  • 2003 March - II Songs Three Songs on Poems by Heinar Kipphardt for tenor and piano (world premiere July 17, 2004, New Theatre Stuttgart )
  • 2002 Akhmatova song for mezzo-soprano and clarinet (A); Text: Anna Akhmatova ( engl Alexander Nitzberg ) (UA 15 November 2003, Gustav- Siegle -Haus, Stuttgart)
  • 2001 Akhmatova Madrigal for soprano, clarinet ( B), violoncello; Text: Anna Akhmatova Andrejewna ( engl Alexander Nitzberg ) (UA April 7, 2002, Hall At Palais Weimar Festival " 3rd Weimar Spring Festival " )
  • 1993 March songs. Six Songs on Poems by Heinar Kipphardt for tenor and piano (revised 2000) ( UA 25 June 2002 Freiburg / Breisgau)

Vocal Ensemble

  • 2009 Seven lichens for five singers ( SMATB ) and four instruments ( fl, cl, vc, cb ) (UA 22 October 2009 Heidelberg)
  • 2006 boundaries of responsibility for six singers with signs ( SMATBarB ) and three instruments ( fl, cl, Schlzg ); Text: collage of words and syllables of L. Heintzen ( Prinzhorn Collection ) (UA July 5, 2006, Heidelberg) (UA revised March 29, 2007, Hall of Mirrors Heidelberg)
  • 2004 Certainly, for six voices ( SMCTBarB ); Text: Franz Kafka (UA March 7, 2005, Heilig- Kreuz-Kirche Berlin / Festival " maerzmusik " ​​)
  • 2000 Einstein ( Bembo Madrigal ) for five voices ( SCATB ); Text: Piedro Bembo (UA February 8, 2003, the theater house Stuttgart-Wangen/Festival " Eclat 2003 ' )
  • 2000 Choralfantasie using the chorale " Break forth, O beautiful morning light " by JS Bach for six voices and eight instruments ( SSAATB, Fl, EH / Ob, Klar, Fg, pno, Va, Vc, Kb ) (UA February 8, 2002, Stuttgart)
  • 1997 breathing for six voices and six instruments ( AATBBB, Fl, Clear, Vc, Kb, 2 Perc ); Text: phonemes (UA March 20, 1998, Hall of Mirrors Prince Carl Heidelberg / Festival " Heidelberger Frühling " )

Orchestra / large ensemble

  • 2005 Shadow ( game - a stringed ) dance Helmut Lachenmann's piano piece Shadow Dance, arranged for large ensemble ( 2.2.2.2 - 2.2.1 - 1 Ad hoc.5 Schlzg - Hfe, pno - 2.2.2.1 ) (UA November 26, 2005, Musikhochschule Stuttgart)
  • 1996 electricity for large orchestra (UA 17 February 1997 TH Darmstadt) Commissioned by the Orchestra of the TH Darmstadt

Instrumental Chamber Music

  • 2009 Return for oboe, double bass, piano, drums and obligate conductor (UA 2 December 2009 Related Categories )
  • 2006 Luigi Nono, ¿ Dónde estás hermano? arranged for flute, English horn, clarinet (B ), violin and piano (world premiere September 16, 2006, Córdoba / Argentina)
  • 2003 aggregate ( second state) for five woodwinds with change obbligato instruments and conductor ( Picc-/C-/G-/Bass-Fl, Ob, EH / OA, Es-/A-/Bassett-/Bass-/Kb-Kl, Fg / Cfg ) (UA first state June 21, 2004, Forum new music theater, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) (UA 2 state March 29, 2007, New Theatre Stuttgart )
  • 1999 frame string quartet ( UA September 11, 1999, Burg Frankenstein / Darmstadt)
  • 1998 Three interludes by Johannes Brahms ( opp. 119/1, 76 /4, 117/1 ) arranged for chamber ensemble (Ob, EH, Clear, Fg, theorbo, V, Kb) (UA 10 March 2000, St. Anne's Chapel Heidelberg)
  • 1995 Quartet fragment. 3 Cello Quartet ( UA 5 December 2000 Musikhochschule Stuttgart)
  • 1994 Klangschatten / Black block for 2 Pianos (UA May 26, 1995, Berlin)
  • 1993 stagnation for Ob, Klar, Fg, Horn ( UA April 1, 1994, Weikersheim )

Solo pieces

  • 2008-10 punching for piano with mobile preparation
  • 2007 breastfeeding for solo double bass
  • 2006 shadowboxing ( La ultima aventura de Don Quijote ) for counter-tenor with obbligato hand mirror (UA December 6, 2006, Montevideo / Uruguay)
  • 2002 Akhmatova piece for clarinet in A ( solo version of Akhmatova Song ) (UA 11 April 2003, Teatrino de la Tapalanda, Rio Cuarto / Argentina)
  • 1995 Fragment for Piano (UA 28 October 1999 Heidelberg)

Ad hoc ensemble

  • 2002 Waiting ... for Suono MOBILE for piano, string instrument, tubular bells, source tape and 288 Wasserschlücke world (UA 28 April to 3 May 2002 in Stuttgart )
  • 2002 Rise & pulling for four power brokers and obligate launcher ( UA 4 February 2002, Musikhochschule Stuttgart / Festival " Eclat 2002 ' )

Youth compositions before 1993

Texts

As a publicist Kopp wrote reviews for the lexicons " contemporary composers " and "The New Grove Dictionary", manuscripts for radio broadcasts of the SWR and the Germany radio culture and supplies, etc. for the magazine " music lyrics " as well as numerous program notes.

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