Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann Was Born In Munich In 1973. He Studied The Clarinet First With Gerd Starke At The Munich Hochschule Für Musik And Later With Charles Neidich At The Juilliard School In New York. His Great Passion Being Chamber Music He Regularly Makes Music With Partners Such As Tabea Zimmermann Heinz Holliger András Schiff Kim Kashkashian Hélène Grimaud. As A Soloist He Guest-Performs With Major Orchestras At Home And Abroad And Has Given Concerts With Conductors Such As Christoph Von Dohnányi Sylvain Cambreling And Kent Nagano. Several Clarinet Concertos Have Been Dedicated To And Premiered By Him. In 1999 He Performed 'Musik Für Klarinette Und Orchester' By Wolfgang Rihm As Part Of 'musica Viva' And In 2006 'Cantus' By Aribert Reimann With The WDR Symphony Orchestra. Since 2001 Widmann Has Been Professor Of Clarinet At The Freiburg Staatliche Hochschule Für Musik In Succession To Dieter Klöcker. At The Age Of Eleven Widmann Began To Take Composition Lessons With Kay Westermann And Later Continued His Composition Studies With Hans Werner Henze Wilfried Hiller And Wolfgang Rihm. For His Compositional Achievements He Received The Belmont Award For Contemporary Music Of The Forberg Schneider Foundation In 1999 The Schneider-Schott Music Award And Paul Hindemith Prize In 2002. In 2003 He Was Awarded One Of The Encouragement Awards Of The Ernst Von Siemens Music Foundation And The Honorary Award Of The Munich Opera Festival. His Opera Das Gesicht Im Spiegel Was Selected By The Jury Of Experts Of The Opernwelt Magazine As The Most Important World Premiere Of The Season 2003/04. In 2004 Widmann Received The Arnold Schoenberg Prize Of The Arnold Schoenberg Centre Of Vienna And The Berlin German Symphony Orchestra. Widmann Is A Fellow Of The Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg And Full Member Of The Bavarian Academy Of Fine Arts. In 2004 Jörg Widmann Was Composer-In-Residence At Various Festivals And Orchestras Such As The Berlin German Symphony Orchestra NDR ’das Neue Werk’ And The Salzburg Festival. In 2006 Widmann Received The Composition Award Of The SWR Symphony Orchestra Of Baden-Baden And Freiburg For Zweites Labyrinth As Well As The Claudio Abbado Composition Award Of The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Academy. At The Centre Of His Chamber Music Œuvre Are His String Quartets String Quartet No. 1 1997 Followed By Choralquartett And Jagdquartett Which Was Performed For The First Time By The Arditti Quartet In 2003. The Work Cycle Intended As A Large Cycle Of Quartets Was Completed By The World Premieres Of String Quartet No. 4 And Versuch Über Die Fuge String Quartet No. 5 With Soprano With Juliane Banse And The Artemis Quartet. For Large Orchestra Widmann Has Conceived A Trilogy About The Projection Of Vocal Forms On To Instrumental Ensembles. The Trilogy Consists Of The Works Lied Premiered In 2003 And Recorded On CD By The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra With Jonathan Nott Chor Premiered In 2004 By The German Symphony Orchestra With Kent Nagano And Messe Which Received Its World Premiere With The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra Under The Direction Of Christian Thielemann In June 2005. In January 2007 Pierre Boulez And The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Premiered Widmann's New Orchestral Work Armonica. Future Projects Include The Premiere Of A Long Awaited Violin Concerto For Christian Tetzlaff And The Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Moreover 2007 Sees A New Piano Piece Commissioned By The Carnegie Hall For Yefim Bronfman And A New Orchestral Work For Paavo Järvi And The Hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt Both To Be Premiered In December. read less