Thomas Larcher

Thomas Larcher ( born September 16, 1963 in Innsbruck) is an Austrian composer and pianist.

Life

Thomas Larcher completed his education at the Vienna Music Academy at Heinz Medjimorec and her somewhat (piano ) and Erich Urbanner (composition). Already during his studies he became known as a pianist in the classical, mainly contemporary music. Among other things he played with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Dennis Russell Davies and Franz Welser- Möst and worked closely with composers such as Heinz Holliger, Olga Neuwirth and Isabel Mundry together. His chamber music partners are Natalie Clein, Mark Padmore, Alban Gerhardt and Others As founder and director of the festival " sound tracks" (1994-2003) and " Music in the Giant " (since 2004), he established himself successfully as a program designer.

For several years, Larcher devoted himself primarily to the composition and is now considered one of the principal composer of new classical music in Austria. His early works ( " Naunz ", " Cold Farmer ", "Octopus ", etc.) are mainly characterized by the confrontation with the piano and chamber music ensembles. In recent years, his work includes in addition to chamber music (2nd and 3rd string quartet, "My Illness Is the Medicine I Need", " Splinters " for cello and piano, " Bohemia lies by the sea - Enigma" for baritone, clarinet, violin, cello and piano), increasingly, music for orchestral and ensemble casts, as well as for voice or solo instruments with orchestral accompaniment ( " Free Radicals ", "The Night of the Lost ", "Red and Green", " Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ," " Nocturne - Insomnia", "How the euro came to Bern and how he disappeared ", etc.). Several of his compositions, including works commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, the South Bank Centre London, Wigmore Hall in London, the Zaterdagsmatineen Amsterdam and the BBC writes Larcher for internationally renowned soloists and ensembles such as the London Sinfonietta, the Artemis Quartet, Heinrich Schiff, Matthias Goerne, Till Fellner, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Mark Padmore, Viktoria Mullova, Matthew Barley. For his " Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra ", which was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2011, he was awarded the 2012 Grawemeyer Award in the International Award.

Awards

Works

  • Red and Green for large orchestra (2010)
  • Still for viola and chamber orchestra ( 2002)
  • Here, today, for cello, orchestra and tape CD ( 2005)
  • Today, for soprano and orchestra (2005/ 06)
  • Radicals for Piano and Orchestra ( 2006/rev. 2007)
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2008/2009)
  • Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (2011)
  • Nocturne - Insomnia for ensemble (2008)
  • As the euro came to Bern and how he disappeared for ensemble (2012 )
  • The night of the Lost for baritone and ensemble ( 2008)
  • My Illness Is the Medicine I Need for soprano and ensemble (2002/ 13, occupation moderately advanced version of My Illness Is the Medicine I Need for soprano, violin, cello and piano)
  • The game is made ​​for 24 - part chorus (2012 )
  • Cold Farmer, String Quartet No. 1 (1990 )
  • IXXU, String Quartet No. 2 (1998-2004)
  • Madhares, String Quartet No. 3 (2006/ 07)
  • Kraken for violin, cello and piano ( 1994-97 )
  • Four pages for cello (1997)
  • Mummies for cello and piano (2001)
  • Fibers for clarinet, cello and piano (2006)
  • Sonata for cello (2007)
  • Splinters for cello and piano (2012 )
  • Duo for Violin and Cello (2012 )
  • My Illness Is the Medicine I Need for soprano, violin, cello and piano (2002)
  • Bohemia lies by the sea for baritone, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2008)
  • Piano Piece 1986
  • Naunz for piano (1989 )
  • Noodivihik for piano (1992 )
  • Antenna Requiem for H. (1999)
  • Smart Dust for piano (2005)
  • What Becomes / What is for Piano (2009)
  • Poems, 12 pieces for piano and other children (2010)

Discography (selection)

CDs with music by Thomas Larcher

  • Naunz (ECM, 2001)
  • IXXU ( Thomas Larcher with the Rosamunde Quartet) (ECM, 2006)

Thomas Larcher as an interpreter

  • Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert: Piano Pieces (ECM, 1999)
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