Thomas Pernes

Thomas Pernes ( born February 25, 1956 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer and performance artist.

Pernes studied piano with Bruno Seidlhofer and composition with Roman hood -Ramati. The world premiere of String Quartet No. 1 in 1976 at the Vienna Konzerthaus marks the beginning of his career in contemporary music. In the coming years, performances and orders from different operators and institutions will follow. In the early 1980s began Thomas Pernes to expand the field of classical avant-garde, by integrating elements of folk music and jazz in his works, as he used also electronics to extend the compositional possibilities.

In the 1990s, the development of its own, called a sound theater musical theater form which has as a characteristic rather than an action sequence, the representation of human states, feelings, associations in one predetermined by the music drama followed.

Works (selection)

  • Innocent III (1992 )
  • Songs of an Imaginary Voice (1992 )
  • 4th String Quartet: ... this broken time (1993 /94)
  • Perikato / Blackbox I and II: Concept and group project with Karl Ritter ( 1994/95/98 )
  • Solstice (1995 )
  • Alpine Glow II ( 1995)
  • Revolution No. 10: Radio Experience ( 1996)
  • 3 sound theater: The image (1997)
  • The Shepherd on the Rock: orchestral version of the concert aria by Franz Schubert ( 2002)
  • Sea of ​​Rains: Radio Experience ( 2002)
  • 4 sound theater: The window to Paradise ( 2003/ 04)
  • Perndorff: Group project with Andy Manndorff (2003/ 04)
  • Magic 06: opera in 3 parts ( 2004/ 05)
  • HELIOS: for string orchestra (2005)
  • From strangers: musical theater by Ernst Jandl (2007/ 08)

Discography

  • Perikato Blackbox I ( CD, Blackbox 1995)
  • For ... For ... With ... (CD, ORF 1997)
  • Perikato Blackbox I and II (CD, Teepee 1998)
  • Perndorff (CD, NotTwo 2004)
  • 4 sound theater: The window to Paradise (DVD, Extraplatte 2004)
  • Solstice - glowing Alps (CD, Extraplatte 2006)
  • 06 The Magic Flute (CD, Extraplatte 2006)
  • String Quartets ( CD, Bruckner House 2007)
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