VOLKER DAVID KIRCHNER - Schott Music
VOLKER DAVID KIRCHNER - Schott Music VOLKER DAVID KIRCHNER - Schott Music
CHRONOLOGY Born on 25th of June 1942 in Mainz Begins to study the violin at the age of five; first attempts at composition at the age of eight 1956–1959 Studies at the Peter-Cornelius-Konservatorium in Mainz with Günter Kehr (violin) and Günter Raphael (composition) 1959–1963 Studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne Courses with Bernd Alois Zimmermann Performs as a clarinettist and pianist in jazz groups 1962–1964 Solo violist of the Rheinisches Kammerorchester Cologne 1964–1967 Member of the Kehr-Trios; tours South America, North Africa and the Near East Explores Indian Music 1966–1968 Member of the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt 1970 Co-founder of the Ensembles 70 Wiesbaden up to 1974 Composes incidental music for more than 20 stage plays 1974 Förderpreis (musical award for further studies) of the Land Rheinland-Pfalz “Die Trauung”, opera after Gombrowicz 1975/76 String Sextett “Orphischer Gesang” 1977 Kunstpreis of the Land Rheinland-Pfalz 1977–1979 “Die fünf Minuten des Isaak Babel”, “Golgatha”, Piano Trio 1980 “Das kalte Herz” (1st version), 1st symphony “Totentanz” 1981–1985 “Bildnisse I und II” for orchestra; Violin Concerto; “Nachtstück”; String Quartet; “Mysterion”; “Belshazar”; Songs on texts by Goethe; Piano Sonata 1986/87 World premiere of “Belshazar” at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich; “Orfeo”-Cycle, after poems by Rilke 1988–1990 “Das kalte Herz”, new version, world première in October 1988, Munich Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz; Requiem “Messa di pace” for soloists, mixed-voice choir and orchestra, world première in Moscow in June 1990 as a part of the festival “Music Culture of Today”; “Erinys”, world première in Wuppertal in April 1990; “Schibboleth” 6
1992 Member of the advisory board of the Villa Musica Foundation, Mainz Received the Gutenberg Medal of the City of Mainz Symphony No. 2 “Mythen”, world première in Wiesbaden in July as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival; “Bildnisse III” 1993 “Missa Moguntina”, world première in Mainz Cathedral in November 1994 Won the first prize of the Rheingau Music Festival Award “Hortus magicus”; string Sextet “Gethsemani” 1995 Composition Award of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung and the Kreissparkasse Hannover “Inferno d’amore”, first staged performance in March, Niedersächsisches Staatstheater Hannover; clarinet quartet “Exil” 1997 “Concerto for horn and orchestra”, world première at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival; “Labyrinthos”, chamber opera, written for the of the opening of the small theatre of the Mainz Staatstheater in October 1997; “Der Leiermann” 1998 “Aus den 53 Tagen”, Passion music for the 93rd Catholics’ Day; “Concerto for Oboe”; “Gesang im Feuer”; sextets “Il canto della notte” and “Orphischer Gesang II” 1999 “Memento”; “Menuha”, part 2 of the Ghetto trilogy with “Der Leiermann” and “Gesang im Feuer” 2000 Opera “Gilgamesh”, world première at the Hannover Niedersächsisches Staatstheater as part of the EXPO 2000 in May Volker David Kirchner lives near to Mainz 7
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1992 Member of the advisory board of the Villa <strong>Music</strong>a Foundation,<br />
Mainz<br />
Received the Gutenberg Medal of the City of Mainz<br />
Symphony No. 2 “Mythen”, world première in Wiesbaden in<br />
July as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival; “Bildnisse III”<br />
1993 “Missa Moguntina”, world première in Mainz Cathedral in<br />
November<br />
1994 Won the first prize of the Rheingau <strong>Music</strong> Festival Award<br />
“Hortus magicus”; string Sextet “Gethsemani”<br />
1995 Composition Award of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung<br />
and the Kreissparkasse Hannover<br />
“Inferno d’amore”, first staged performance in March,<br />
Niedersächsisches Staatstheater Hannover; clarinet quartet<br />
“Exil”<br />
1997 “Concerto for horn and orchestra”, world première at the<br />
Schleswig-Holstein Festival; “Labyrinthos”, chamber opera,<br />
written for the of the opening of the small theatre of the<br />
Mainz Staatstheater in October 1997; “Der Leiermann”<br />
1998 “Aus den 53 Tagen”, Passion music for the 93rd Catholics’<br />
Day; “Concerto for Oboe”; “Gesang im Feuer”; sextets “Il<br />
canto della notte” and “Orphischer Gesang II”<br />
1999 “Memento”; “Menuha”, part 2 of the Ghetto trilogy with<br />
“Der Leiermann” and “Gesang im Feuer”<br />
2000 Opera “Gilgamesh”, world première at the Hannover<br />
Niedersächsisches Staatstheater as part of the EXPO 2000 in<br />
May<br />
Volker David Kirchner lives near to Mainz<br />
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