V6

Saturday, 27 February 2010

3 pm, Festival Café iin the Hotel Fürst Leopold/FIGARO vor Ort

„In discussion with Helmut Oehring“

Moderation: Bettina Volksdorf (MDR Figaro),
Stefan Lang (Deutschlandradio Kultur)
Music: Matthias Bauer (Double Bass)

5 Poems in Music/ Helmut Oehring (*1961)
for voice and double bass

Baudelaire (Helmut Oehring (*1961)
for voice and double bass

Moon of Alabama
version for voice and double bass according to Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht


Helmut Oehring was born in 1961 in Berlin to deaf parents. After completing an apprenticeship in the building trade from 1978 to 1980, he worked in various professions before developing an intense interest in composition in 1984. Helmut Oehring is primarily an autodidactic composer and guitarist. However, from 1990 to 1992 he studied under the composer Georg Katzer, one of the pioneers in the GDR of new electronic music, and later won a scholarship to stay at the Villa Massimo in Rome from 1994 to 1995. Subsequently, Helmut Oehring has won numerous prizes for his music, including the Hanns Eisler Prize awarded by Deutschlandradio Kultur, the Italian Orpheus Chamber Opera Prize and the Schneider Schott Music Prize. In addition, he has received the Hindemith Prize (1997) and the Arnold Schoenberg Prize (2008) for his large body of work, which meanwhile encompasses around 160 pieces in almost all genres. In this discussion with moderators from MDR Figaro and Deutschlandradio Kultur, Helmut Oehring will talk about his exciting biography and give some insights into his wide-ranging activities as a composer.

The Kurt Weill Festival Dessau in cooperation with MDR Figaro



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