Compositions
Index of works - selection
Stage Entertainments
Lamento
Szenische Klagegesänge gegen den Krieg - Songs of lament against the war
for 3 vocalists, 3 actress, 7 musicians and choir
using original german, italian, serbian, romanian, russian, irish, swedish, corsian laments, a german song of soldiers and a yiddish dance, poems by F. Rückert,
M. Dauthendy, H. Seidel and bible passages (Lamentations of Jeremiah) - First release 2007
performers of the first release
Antje Seele - soprano, Maria Schlestein - mezzosoprano, Christina Holzinger - alto,
Franka Anne Kahl, Katrin Heinrich, Karin Hartmann - actress, mixed choir
Elke Erben - violin, Judith Sikora - viola, Silke Dietrich - cello, Johanna Bartz - flute,
Katharina Meyer - clarinet, Anja Engel - french horn, Michael Rappold - percussion,
Raik Liebling - light, Doreen Rother - conzeption, stage directing, conducting
Lilie: Kerstin Steinberg
König Rother
Opera, scoring the medieval gleenmans epic "König Rother" by a nameless poet
Ist Lieb ein Feur - When Love is like Fire
Musical play about life and work of the baroque poet Sibylla Schwarz
libretto: Henriette Sehmsdorf / Ulrich Frohriep
Composition mandat of the OPERNALE 2014 in cooperarion with Künstlerhaus Lukas Ahrenshoop (grant)
world premiere at 1. August 2014 at the baroque castle Griebenow
20 performances at different locations
during the OPERNALE on Tour 2014
performers: Susanne Groß - actress (Sibylla), Barbara Ehwald - soprano, Lars Grünwoldt - baritone
Beate Bugenhagen/Thomas Friedländer - cornet, Matthias Schneider/Benjamin Saupe - harpsichord
Henriette Sehmsdorf - stage direction, Tom Hornig - stage design, Stefanie Gruber - costume
OPERNALE 2014 als Preisträger "Land der Ideen - Kultur"
Sibylla Schwarz was the youngest daughter of Christian Schwarz, the mayor of Greifswald and lived from 1621 to 1638 during the Thirty Years' War.
She received a private education and began to translate dutch baroque poems into german.
Later Sibylla wrote her own poems about friendship, love, world and death to mark different events like jubilees, birthdays and other festivities.
Soprano: Anja Kamischke
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Lilith - a project, that will set the poem "The children of Lilith" by Isolde Kurz
in music (voices, instruments and choir) ...work in progress..
Instrumental Music - Selection
Ebenen - a piece for violoncello and marimba
These experimental pieces can be combined in different ways. First, they can be used as solo parts. Second, they can be combined together but with a large degree of freedom for the soloists. Finally, there is a score for cello with marimba accompaniment.
six piano pieces inspired by poems by Mario Wirz
The six piano pieces were composed for a reading with the poet Mario Wirz. To express the different, multi-faceted moods of the poems I also used unusual sounds, rhythms, concepts and noises.
1 atem.puls
1 breath.pulse
2 traum.klang
2 dream.sound
3 zeit.raum
3 time.space
4 kreis.wellen
4 circle.waves
5 fabel.wesen
5 legends.creatures
6 ab.gesang
6 swan.song
penta..chord for five musicians, located at different places in the room
for flute, clarinet, french horn, violoncello and glockenspiel
The musicians are located at five different places (see the plan) behind the audience. This will allow the audience to experience and realise the motion of the sound, and the changing of acoustic colour in the room.
Aufbegehren - a piece for flute traverse, strings and marimba / xylophone
This composition is aimed at expressing the relatioship between the individual and the society. But it is also a hommage to the beautiful sound of the flute traverse.
Vocal Music
aphorisms for sopran0, baritone, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, violoncello and contrabass
The composition is scoring the following three aphorisms:
1 To arrive the spring you have to swim
against the current
2 Blind faith has an evil glance
3 A little piece of stupidity can ruin all the wisdom
Regen. Blüten. Steine. - rain. blossoms. stones
This vocal music was composed for 2 female vocalists and voices for choir to celebrate an exhibition in the Art galery of "Alte Kachelofenfabrik" Neustrelitz in 2004. The paintings of the artists Marion Kahnert (Sweden) and Kitty Hubbard (USA) were inspired by the exciting relationship between humans and their enviroment. At the first release, the singers of the choir were singing, speaking, and making noise amidst the audience. In so doing, they animated the audience to participate in the performance.
tohuwabohu - tohubohu
tohuwabohu - a poem by the austrian poet Ernst Jandl. In this poem he is playing with words, syllables, parts of words, letters, and change their definitions, connotations and associations. The poem can be compared with a graphic art. The composition follows this intension humerously.
Kraniche - song of cranes
a piece for soprano, saxofone and live electronic with originale calls of the cranes - lyrics by Tom Rother
In Schwärmen ziehen Kraniche südwärts am herbstlich blauen Himmel.
Ihr sehnsuchtsvoller Schrei durchdringt die Stille ringsumher.
Kahl und verlassen liegt das Land, wo fern vom menschlichen Gewimmel
sich See und Wald und Feld im Wechsel dehnen bis zum Meer.
"Komm folge uns!", so scheint der Ruf der Kraniche mir zu verkünden.
"Du kannst dem Winter und der Kälte doch, wie wir, entfliehn!
Dort in der Fremde wirst du neues Glück und neue Freunde finden.
Komm, schwing dich auf, es ist ganz leicht! Willst du nicht mit uns ziehn?"
"Ich kann nicht mit euch ziehn, zu fest bin ich an dieses Land gebunden, / zu schwer wiegt die Erinnerung an frohe Sommerzeit,
an helle Tage, warme Nächte - hier hab ich die Kraft gefunden, / die mich ertragen lässt den kalten Hauch der Dunkelheit."
"Ich kann nicht mit euch ziehn. Die Fremde würde doch nur fremd mir bleiben. / Zu viel schon hab ich hier gelitten und geliebt, gelacht.
Und irgendwann wird neues Licht die lange Dunkelheit vertreiben; / noch folgte stets ein neuer Morgen jeder langen Nacht."
In Schwärmen ziehen Kraniche nordwärts am frühlingsblauen Himmel. / Ihr hoffnungsvoller Schrei durchdringt die Stille ringsumher.
Im Farbenrausch erwacht das Land, wo fern vom menschlichen Gewimmel / sich See und Wald und Feld im Wechsel dehnen bis zum Meer.
other songs
Venedig - Venice for soprano and keyboard
Vollmond - full moon for soprano and piano
Minneliedvertonungen - 16 songs of minstrel for vocalists instruments (lyrics from the Codex Manesse ) see ... "Musikprojekte/Minnelieder"
song arrangements for "Ceol"
song arrangements for "Papillon"