Peter Michael Hamel
Peter Michael Hamel ( born July 15, 1947 in Munich) is a German composer.
Life and work
Peter Michael Hamel had since the age of five piano lessons from his great aunt Amalie Jensen - Pletsch, learned violin, cello and horn and studied under private composition lessons with Fritz Büchtger composition with Günter Bialas at the Munich Academy of Music, as well as musicology with Thrasybulus Georgiades in Munich and Carl Dahlhaus in West Berlin. At the same time he dealt with free jazz, political cabaret, musique concrète, and wrote plays and television play music for productions of his father Kurt Peter Hamel ( 1911-1979 ).
Between 1969 and 1974 he worked mainly with American composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman and Terry Riley, attended seminars by Karlheinz Stockhausen in part and as an employee of Josef Anton Riedl at the multi -media projects, improvising with jazz musicians, but also with Luc Ferrari or Carl Orff. He also worked in the group he co-founded Between, whose debut album was called in 1971 and started in 1973 with Dharana and 1974 with the Jazz & Poetry production Hesse Between Music attracted attention. Hamel also played numerous record one under his own name, usually by electronic means, as well as the prepared piano and the organ (including Organum, Colours of Time, Bardo and Transition).
A fellow of the Villa Massimo in Rome Hamel wrote 1979/80, his first full- length stage work A human dream, premiered in 1981 at the Staatstheater Kassel Dieter Dorn. In 1987 he was the lyric opera Kassandra for the Frankfurt festivals. His first symphony was premiered in 1988 by The clearing the Munich Philharmonic under Sergiu Celibidache, 1990 saw a violin concerto for Christiane Edinger in the series musica viva in Munich. From 1994 to 1996 Hamel was a visiting professor at the Musikhochschule in Graz. On the 100th anniversary of the Munich Philharmonic in 1995 Missa emerged, followed oratorios such as passion and human rights. Perhaps his most radical musical theater project Shoah, also known as radio composition (BR / WDR ) deals with the Holocaust apart ( 1996).
As an author, Hamel was familiar with the book Through music to the self ( 1976), in which the links between human consciousness and music are described. This was Hamel as one of the precursors of the New Age Movement, of which he but always distanced himself, especially since he came into existence with more complex symphonic works.
From 1997 to 2012, he was professor of composition and music theory at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg in the wake of György Ligeti. In 1998 he was appointed a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg and was there from 2001 to 2012 chairman of the music section. His company founded in 1998 Intercultural Music Institute in Aschau im Chiemgau, he created a working beyond the boundaries of academia provides a forum for the dialogue of cultures, for harmonic basic research, acoustic art, group improvisation and ethnomusicology.
Awards
Numerous prizes paid tribute Hamels work, including prizes of the cities of Bonn (1974 ), Stuttgart (1975 ) and Munich ( 1977), the GEMA Foundation (1981 ), and twice " Rostrum of Composers ", Paris. He was also "Composer in Residence" at the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival 1988. 1988 he received the Schwabing Art Prize. On the occasion of his 60th birthday Hamel was honored for his choral music with the Gerhard- Maasz Prize, elected to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and was honored with the publication of his selected writings ( A new sound). In 2008 he the Gerda and Günter Bialas Prize. On the occasion of his academic adoption, he received an honorary doctorate from the Hamburg Academy of Music in June 2012.