Composer
Biography:
HORST LOHSE, born in Kulmbach in 1943, studied composition with Helmut Eder in Salzburg and Bertold Hummel in Würzburg. The focal points of his oeuvre are vocal compositions (among others based on Rubén Darío, Federico García Lorca, Wolfgang Hilbig, Ingo Cesaro and Gioconda Belli), experimental music theater (Sabelita scenes), dance theater (The Adventures of Beautiful Mahan) as well as ensemble and orchestral works in dialogue with philosophy / Mythology (La morte d'Orfeo, Sisyphus, Tower of the Winds), fine arts (Time is a boundless river, Prelude of Spring, AllerleiRauh, Gateway to the Deep) and literature (A. Schmidts Monde, Epitaph for Nizami, Night Pieces) . He wrote commissioned works for the Bavarian Radio, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and numerous ensembles for new music (ars nova ensemble, Ensemble Phorminx, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Janus Ensemble, oenm. oesterreichisches ensemble for new music, Antidogma-Ensemble, Pegnitzschäfer sound concepts etc.). For his work, Horst Lohse has received the Friedrich Baur Prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, the ETA Hoffmann Prize from the city of Bamberg, the Culture Prize from the Upper Franconia Foundation, the Orchestral Composition Prize from the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft and the Society for New Music, and the Composition Prize the city of Stuttgart. From 1986 to 2010 he was artistic director of the Days for New Music in Bamberg, from 1987 to 1993 he was a lecturer and juror at the composition competition of Jeunesses Musicales Germany. Guest lectures and portrait concerts have taken him to festivals in Germany (Pianoforum "...antasten..." Heilbronn, Days of New Music Weimar, Musica rara Festival Erfurt and many others), the Netherlands (Made in Leiden), Italy (Festa Europea della Musica Rome), France (Semaines musicales internationals d'Orléans), Ireland (Mostly Modern Series Dublin), Poland (Westival Sztuka Architektury Szczecin), Romania (George Enescu Festival Bucharest), Russia (Sound Ways St. Petersburg), the USA and Brazil (Festival Eleazar de Carvalho) .
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