Sven Helbig

Sven Helbig ( * 1968 in ironworks town ) is a German composer, music producer and director.

Biography

Sven Helbig founded in 1996 together with the horn player Markus Rindt the Dresden Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra specializing in new, symphonic music in remarkable productions and was the first European symphony orchestra exclusively for contemporary music. He finished his role in 2007 to devote more attention to their own musical work. It emerged first orchestral pieces, film scores and compositions for electronic music ( Breakcore ).

His musical career began Sven Helbig as a clarinetist, and later guitar, piano and percussion to it. He studied music in Dresden and was there from 1995 to 2008 lecturer in percussion at the University of Music " Carl Maria von Weber". Sven Helbig's versatile talents have made him a sought-after producer for crossover projects.

After his first international publication of Mein Herz brennt (2004) Pet Shop Boys were aware of him. They began at this time to work on the soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin silent film classic Battleship Potemkin, which should be a combination of electronic and orchestral music. The work was premiered at London's Trafalgar Square in September 2004 in front of 25,000 spectators.

Meanwhile Sven Helbig was as a producer, composer and arranger, inter alia, worked for Rammstein, Pet Shop Boys, Snoop Dogg, Arctic Circle 18 and the Fauré Quartet.

In recent years, the multi-talented artist also worked successfully as a director. Under his direction, created music videos, stage shows and theatrical multimedia events. So he staged example the high-rise symphony for the 800th anniversary of Dresden, in which the musicians of the orchestra individually sat in the balconies of a GDR prefabricated. In the 1989 historical significance came Prager Straße this saw 10,000 visitors an intertwining of music, light and video. In 2009, he staged on behalf of the MDR Symphony Orchestra Children of freedom on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of German reunification. In 2011, he wrote on behalf of the 33rd German Protestant Church Congress, the choral work, since your heart will be. The production of 150,000 candles, floating candles 20,000, a facade illumination of Dresden's Old Town experienced approximately 200,000 people.

Helbig's works are in the tradition of the total work of art. He often draws equally responsible for the content, music and staging.

Projects

  • 2004: Premiere of The Battleship Potemkin on London's Trafalgar Square
  • 2006: production of high-rise symphony for 800th anniversary of Dresden (director, lighting design, music)
  • 2006: The Mover Ballet, 250 solar panels were dancing to his music during the opening of the world 's largest solar park in Arnhem
  • 2007: MTV Europe Music Awards ( EMA): Music for Snoop Dogg
  • 2007: String Quartet for the film Beyond the lake
  • 2009: Music Video The Colour Of Snow - Arctic Circle 18 (director)
  • 2009: Music Video Happy Go Lucky - Arctic Circle 18 (director)
  • 2009: Children of Freedom - Arctic Circle 18 with MDR Sinfonieorchester MDR and children's choir ( staging, orchestral and choral arrangements )
  • 2011: Premiere ballet The Most Incredible Thing at Sadler 's Wells, London ( orchestral arrangements )
  • 2011: There will your heart be also - choral work for the opening of the 33rd German Protestant Church Congress in Dresden ( composition, directing )
  • 2011: soundtrack to the movie Blutzbrüdaz
  • 2013: Journey Into Fear, choral works based on texts by Sibylle Berg, world premiere at Staatstheater Stuttgart
  • 2013: Wagner -reloaded, 200.Geburtstag by Richard Wagner with Apocalyptica and orchestra, world premiere at the Arena / Leipzig in July 2013, Director: Gregor Seyffert, ( orchestral arrangements )

Discography

  • Discography excerpts
  • 2003: Album My heart is burning - Torsten Rasch ( producer), with René Pape and Catherine Bach Thal, published by German Grammophon
  • 2004: Battleship Potemkin album - Pet Shop Boys ( producer)
  • 2008 album The Colour of Snow - Arctic Circle 18 ( Orchester-Arrangements/Produzent )
  • 2009: album love is for everyone - Rammstein ( orchestral and choral arrangements )
  • 2009: Album pop songs - Fauré Quartett ( arranger / producer)
  • 2010: Album MTV Unplugged Live aus'm MV - Sido - ( arranger / producer)
  • 2010: Album Free - Arctic Circle 18 ( Orchester-Arrangements/Produzent )
  • 2011: Album The Most Incredible Thing - Pet Shop Boys ( Orchester-Arrangements/Produzent )
  • 2013: Album Pocket Symphonies - with the Fauré Quartet & MDR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kristjan Järvi

Awards of his productions

  • 2004: ECHO Klassik for Best World Premiere for My heart burns to Torsten Rasch
  • 2010: ECHO Klassik in the category Classical without Boundaries for pop songs of Fauré Quartett
Battleship Potemkin (album) Gesamtkunstwerk Mutter (Album) Katharina Thalbach Deutsche Grammophon
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