Rudolf Kelterborn

Rudolf Kelterborn ( born September 3, 1931 in Basel ) is a Swiss composer and conductor.

Life

Kelterborn laid in 1950 graduated from high school. He attended courses in conducting with Igor Markevitch in Salzburg. He studied conducting with Alexander Krannhals, music theory with Gustav Güldenstein and Walter Müller from Kulm and composition with Walther Geiser at the Music Academy of Basel as well as musicology at Jacques Handschin at the University of Basel. He then formed with Willy Burkhard ( Zurich ), Boris Blacher (Salzburg ), Günter Bialas and Wolfgang Fortner ( Detmold ) on. In the years 1956 and 1960 he attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses.

From 1956 to 1960 he taught music theory and conducting at the Music Academy of Basel. From 1960 to 1968 he taught music theory, music analysis and composition at the Northwest German Music Academy in Detmold. In 1963 he was appointed professor. From 1968 to 1975, from 1980 to 1983 he worked at the Conservatory and Musikhochschule Zurich. From 1980 to 1983, he then taught at the University of Music Karlsruhe. In 1983 he returned to Basel, where he became director of the Academy of Music. As a guest lecturer, he worked in the USA, in England, Lithuania ( Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy ), Japan ( Kunitachi Music College ), China ( Shanghai Conservatory of Music ) and Russia (Saint Petersburg Conservatory ). His students include, inter alia, Hartmut Fladt, Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini, Alfons Karl Zwicker, Martin Schlumpf, Andreas Pflüger, Martin Jaggi and Martin Christoph Redel.

From 1969 to 1974 he was editor in chief of the Swiss music newspaper and from 1974 to 1980, he headed the Department of Radio Swiss Radio DRS. In 1987 he founded with Heinz Holliger and Jürg Wyttenbach the Basel Music forum. In 1992 he was composer in residence at the Cheltenham Festival. Kelterborn's works have been performed throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. He is also active as a conductor.

Honors and Awards

Works

Kelterborn created compositions of all genres, including five operas, orchestral works and solo instruments, voice, electronics, chamber music and vocal works.