Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann ( born June 19, 1973 in Munich) is a German composer and clarinetist. He lives in Munich and Freiburg.

Education and Career

1980 Widmann received his first clarinet lessons. A year later, he was a composition student of Kay Westermann ( born 1958 ), later by Hans Werner Henze, Wilfried Hiller, Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm. His clarinet He studied at the Academy of Music in Munich and at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. After the master class diploma in Munich in 1997, he has studied at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe. Since 2001 he has been a professor of clarinet at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. In January 2008, Widmann has signed at the Institute for New Music, the Music Academy of Freiburg also a contract for half a professor of composition in the succession Mathias Spahlinger.

Musical work

Jörg Widmann is successful as a clarinetist and composer alike. As a soloist, he is a guest at major orchestras at home and abroad and has performed with conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Sylvain Cambreling and Kent Nagano. Several clarinet concertos have been dedicated to him and premiered by him in 1999, he played in the " Musica Viva " the music for Clarinet and Orchestra ' by Wolfgang Rihm and 2006 with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cantus ' Aribert Reimann.

In his work as a composer Jörg Widmann is dedicated to different genres. He has designed a trilogy on the projection vocal forms for instrumental forces, for example, for large orchestra. It consists of the works of song ( premiered in 2003 and on CD played by the Bamberger Symphoniker with Jonathan Nott ), choir ( first performed in 2004 by the German Symphony Orchestra with Kent Nagano ), and fair, which in June 2005 by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction Christian Thielemann has been premiered. 2007 premiered his orchestral work Armonica Pierre Boulez and the Vienna Philharmonic. Centrally located in the chamber music oeuvre are his string quartets: I. String Quartet (1997 ), followed by Choral Quartet and hunting quartet, which was premiered by the Arditti Quartet in 2003. 2005 completed the first performances of the Fourth String Quartet and of trial over the joint ( V. string quartet with soprano) Juliane Banse and by the Artemis Quartet, the series of works, which is thought to be a great quartet cycle.

Honors, Memberships

Works (selection)

• Absences school opera (1990 )
• Kreisleriana Concert Piece for Violin and Chamber Orchestra ( 1993)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1997)
• Five Fragments for clarinet and piano (1997)
• Nocturne for piano, clarinet and cello ( 1998)
• Fever fantasy for piano, string quartet and clarinet ( with bass clarinet ) (1999 )
• Implosion for Orchestra ( 2001)
• Light Study I for Orchestra ( 2001)
• Free pieces for ensemble (2002)
• Absurdity for Trumpet and Orchestra ( 2002)
• String Quartet No. 2 (Choral Quartet ) (2003 )
• Hall study for piano (2003)
• The face in the mirror music theater in 16 scenes, libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig (2003) Premiere of the revised version by the composer on April 17, 2010, German Opera on the Rhine, Dusseldorf Opera House

Widmann's works are published exclusively by the publisher Schott Music.

Discography

• The String Quartets, Leipzig String Quartet (MDG 2008)
• Octets, Schumann F Major (1824 ) and Widmann (2004 ), ( Cavi -music 8553209 harmonized mundi 2009)
• Erkki -Sven Tüür - Strata (ECM 2010) with Carolin Widmann and the Nordic Symphony Orchestra under Anu Tali
• J. Widmann - Elegy (ECM 2011) with the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Christoph Poppen