Thüring Bräm

Thüringstrasse Luke M. Bräm ( born April 10, 1944 in Basel ) is a Swiss conductor and composer. From 1999 to 2001 he was rector of the Musikhochschule Luzern.

Life

Bräm graduated in 1963, graduating from the High School on Cathedral Square in Basel. He studied piano ( diploma ), conducting ( Diploma) and composition in Basel as well as musicology at the University of Basel and the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. In addition, he continued his education in Siena and Salzburg. He worked from 1970 to 1973 in the United States as a conductor and accompanist under Max Rudolf in the opera department of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, at the Santa Fe Opera and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He also earned a Master of Arts degree in composition at the University of California, Berkeley.

From 1973 to 1987 he was Head of the School of Music of the Music Academy of Basel. From 1974 to 1987 he was president of the chamber concert series Art Basel. From 1987 to 1999 he served as director of the Conservatory of Lucerne and from 1999 to 2001 as founding rector of the Musikhochschule Luzern. Until 2006, he led the class in Lucerne for orchestral conducting. He also served from 2000 to 2006 on the board of the Association Européenne des conservatoires. He gave guest courses at home and abroad, among others at the conservatories of Lucerne and Zurich and at the University of Florida. From 1987 to 2002 he co - directed the master classes in Lucerne.

In 1970 he made ​​his conducting debut with the Radio -Sinfonieorchester Basel. From 1984 to 1990 he was president of the Jeunesse Musicales de Suisse. Bräm was from 1987 to 2006 chief conductor of the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra of Central Switzerland. From 1976 to 2009 he was Head of the Regional Choir Binningen / Basel and a regular guest conductor of the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. He is since 1985 President of the jury of the Concours du Festival Sacred Music de Fribourg and since 2003 President of the Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition of the Music Academy in Gdansk. Bräm continued 2004-2011 Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Family

Bräm is married to the doctoral Swiss- American psycholinguist Bräm Penny Boyes and has two children. His wife is the director of sign language database of Switzerland in Zurich. With her he held during the International Meeting for improvisation Luzern 1996 a lecture about the attempt a classification of the expressive gestures of the conductor.

Musical work

Bräm was influenced by composers such as Anton Webern, Pierre Boulez and John Cage.

He composed more than 100 works. Among his most famous compositions include the Angelus Silesius cantata, the Requiem for CS and Litteri un Schattä - Luci e ombre. As a guest composer he was, inter alia, 1999 Groupe Lacroix and 2006 worked at the Hokuto International Music Festival.

Awards

Discography (selection)

Writings (selection )

• The composer as an agent - the teacher as an animator. In: New Music for Young People and laypersons (1980 ), p.39 - 42nd
• Music and space. A collection of articles from historical and artistic point of view on the meaning of the term "space" as a sound carrier for the music. GS -Verlag, Basel, 1986, ISBN 3-7185-0057-4.
• Keep and open. A reading book "50 Years of the Lucerne Conservatory, 1942-1992 ." Music Edition Nepomuk, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-907117-04-2.
• Research and development (R & D ) to the future music academies in Switzerland. Swiss Science Council, Bern 1997.
• Spirituality and the contemporary composer. In: Annette Landau, Sandra Koch ( ed.): Songs beyond the human. The field of conflict Music - Religion - Faith. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-03-400566-0, pp. 177-189.
• The orchestra as an educational tool. 20 years Junge Philharmonie Central Switzerland (1987 - 2007). Hochschule Luzern - Musik, Lucerne 2007, ISBN 978-3-033-01270-7.
• DORE bearing fruit. Thoughts on the applied music research, starting from the " Giornata sulla ricerca " of March 25, 2011 in Lugano. In: dissonance 114 (2011), pp. 71-72.