Thomas Gabriel (composer)
Thomas Gabriel ( born August 25, 1957 in Essen) is a German church musician, composer and arranger.
Life
Gabriel studied in his hometown Catholic church music at the Folkwang -Hochschule. From 1983 to 1986 he served as cantor at the Church of Our Lady of Recklinghausen. Freelance it was 1987/1988 worked for the West German Radio and the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen. From 1989 to 1991 he was District cantor at St. Martin Idstein, 1992-1997 Regional cantor in Saarbrücken. Since 1998, he acts as a cantor for the Regional Institute of Sacred Music in the Diocese of Mainz with a focus on New Sacred Song for the deaneries Offenbach, Rodgau and Blessed city on the Einhard Basilica of St. Peter in Marzellinus and Blessed city.
Gabriel are many concerts as an organist, harpsichordist and pianist of the particular as Thomas Gabriel Trio, whose artistic focus is in jazz arrangements of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Since 2013 Thomas Gabriel is a member of the Ecumenical Association " intact eV " to promote the new hymn, art, culture and education.
Gabriel lives apart from his wife and has founded a new family. Contrary to common practice of the Catholic Church led this - apparently due to good personal contacts with the Bishop of Mainz Cardinal Lehmann - not to his dismissal from the church service.
Works
- Daniel, rock oratorio
- Creator Spiritus. Gregorian changes
- The countries of the stars, for women's choir and harp
- The Lord is my shepherd, Liturgy of the Word for Youth Choirs
- Immutemur, for 3 female voices, vibraphone and three cellos
- Mainz fair for 3stg. gem. Choir, keyboard (organ, piano) and wind instruments ( trumpet, saxophone, trombone), text by Raymond Weber
- Manic herzeleit, songs from the Middle Ages For 4st. gem. Choir, soloists and instruments
- The angel in you Fairs and Songs
- Organ meets guitar. Apocalyptic cascades of sound
- Popule Meus, motet for 5- st.gem. Choir / a cappella
- 1999: Martin in Mainhatten, Musical
- 2002: Emmaus, oratorio, text: Eugen Eckert
- Misa de Solidaridad for Solo, 4stg. mixed choir and instruments ( Bolivian Partnership Fair )
- 2003: compositions and arrangements for the opening service at the Ecumenical Church at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
- Compositions and arrangements for the closing service at the 95th German Catholic in Ulm
- 2004: Christian Guys - Sacred works for male choir, Ulm Catholic
- 2004: Boniface, oratorio, text: Barbara non-whites
- 2005: Missa Mundi, closing Mass for World Youth Day 2005, World Premiere August 21, 2005: European Kyrie, a South American Gloria ( with guitars and panpipes) and an Indian Credo ( with sitar ), African drum rhythms dominate the Sanctus, didgeridoos sound in the Australian Agnus Dei
- 2005: Rachel - The Musical, Musical, world premiere on 10 August 2005 at the Arena in Trier, then closed ideas for participants of World Youth Day in Trier and from 17 August in Cologne.
- 2006: Missa Terra Supermontale - fair for the Oberbergische country; Premiere spring 2006
- 2006: Towards the Sun musical about the life of St. Edith Stein with text by students of Edith Stein School Darmstadt
- Blessing of children - kid stuff children's songs for adults; Texts, inter alia, Eugen Eckert
- 2006: Saarbrücken exhibition, trade fair for Catholic in Saarbrücken. From this fair there is a CD recording.
- 2006: Stations of the Cross - Oratorio
- South Tyrolean Fair - commissioned by Association of Church Choirs South Tyrol
- 2006: Gospel Music of King Solomon; Gospel from the book of Proverbs
- 2007: SIMEON - Advent Oratorio, Music: Thomas Gabriel; Text Eugen Eckert
- 2008: mass4men - a fair for Male Choir ( collection, Kyrie, Gloria, Responsorial Psalm, Offertory, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Communion, Thanksgiving ) as a work commissioned for the 97th German Catholic Congress in Osnabrück. Also from this exhibition there is a CD recording.
- 2010: Junia - Oratorio, text: Eugen Eckert