Kim Märkl

Kim Märkl ( born July 22, 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA) is an American writer, composer and clarinetist.

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  • 3.1 Musical fairy tale about classical music instruments
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Biography

Training

Kim Märkl was born in Cleveland, Ohio and began her musical training with Angelo Fortini, who gave her along with her ​​father, a drummer, the first musical ideas. Your Bachelor of Music degree in clarinet she received from Indiana University Bloomington and a Master of Music from Northwestern University, Chicago, where she studied with Robert Marcellus. Further studies with Larry Combs had great influence on their musical development. In 1985 she received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, where she graduated with a soloist diploma.

Life and work

Kim Märkl is now a sought-after chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician and teacher. She has performed at the festivals of Spoleto, Tanglewood and Aspen and played in various orchestras in Germany and Switzerland. In 2002 she founded with her husband, Thomas Key Märkl, violinist with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the recording studio Atlantic Crossing, where she works as a producer, composer and author. Her special interest is the combination of stories with music, with their work in Germany listed and are issued by several publishers in Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Her works have been performed and recorded by well-known actors and musicians, including Sky du Mont, Hélène Grimaud, Ingolf Turban, turban Dietlinde, Christian Tramitz, Sunnyi Melles, Steven Isserlis, Alex Dorow and August Zirner.

Awards

Leopold

  • The story of the Ring of the Nibelung (Zimmermann Verlag Frankfurt )
  • 2011: Song of the Toreador ( Monarda Publishing House) - Nominated
  • 2013: Jazz dreams in Cleveland ( Monarda Publishing House) - Nominated

Discography (selection)

Musical fairy tale about classical music instruments

Published by Monarda Publishing House

  • Stradivarius gift for narrator ( Christian Tramitz ), violin ( Key -Thomas Märkl ) and String Orchestra
  • The Snake Charmer for Narrator ( Sky du Mont ), clarinet (Kim Märkl ), guitar ( Christian Gruber ) and tabla ( Tobias Ott )
  • Jazz dreams in Cleveland for Narrator ( August Zirner ) and Jazz Quartet (Four Core)
  • The king's daughter for Narrator ( Gabriele Lehner ) and Flute ( Natalie Schwaaber )
  • Song of the Toreador for narrator (Alex Dorow ) and guitar ( Gruber & Maklar )
  • Pearls of opera for narrator ( Sunnyi Melles ) and soprano ( Maria Callas )
  • Mozart's Magic Night in Nymphenburg for narrator (Stefan Wilkening ) and piano ( Hélène Grimaud )
  • Soluns legacy for narrator ( Christian Tramitz ) and percussion ( Christian Pilz )

Other recordings

  • The mysterious box for narrator, violin and string orchestra (Zimmermann Verlag Frankfurt )
  • Land of the Midnight Sun for narrator and cello (Zimmermann Verlag Frankfurt )
  • Sleep well little bear (Zimmermann Verlag Frankfurt )
  • Musings of French fireplaces (Central German publisher)

Compositions

  • Love, theft and woodworm - Confessions of a violin dealer for actors and a violinist
  • The violinist for actors, violinist and piano
  • Stations of the Cross for clarinet and string quartet
  • Meereszauber - Ballet
  • String Song for Violin and Piano
  • Street Scene for clarinet and drums
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