On October 13, 2018, the Zafraan Ensemble will play a portrait concert with chamber music works by Jan Müller-Wieland. Texts by Hans Fallada, Walter Kempowski and Uwe Johnson will be presented.
October 13, 2018, start at 7:30 p.m.
Location: KunstKirche Buchholz near Rostock
Organizer: Association for New Music Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania eV
Compositions by Jan Müller-Wieland
Texts by Hans Fallada, Walter Kempowski and Uwe Johnson
Program:
Father Image
Piano Quartet
Rondo
Naufragio
Sonata
Ascension
Libero, Fragile
Martin Posegga (saxophone), Clemens Hund-Göschel (piano), Emmanuelle Bernard (violin), Josa Gerhard (viola), Martin Smith (cello)
Jan Müller-Wieland, born in Hamburg in 1966, studied composition with Friedhelm Döhl and conducting with Günter Behrens at the Lübeck University of Music in the 1980s and completed postgraduate studies with Hans Werner Henze at the Cologne University of Music. He has received numerous awards, such as the South Westphalian Philharmonic Sponsorship Prize, the Hanseatic City of Lübeck Sponsorship Prize, was a scholarship holder from the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, as well as the Cité des Arts in Paris, and the Leonard Bernstein Foundation for a composition course with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood Music Center. In 1992/93 he received a scholarship from the Academia Tedesca “Villa Massimo” in Rome. Other prizes followed, such as the Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the Berlin Senate Prize for Cultural Affairs. Jan Müller-Wieland was composer-in-residence at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, the 3rd Feldkirch Festival, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow and the Beaux Arts Trio in the USA. In 2002 he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s Composer Prize.
Jan Müller-Wieland is a member of the Academy of Arts in Hamburg and has been professor of composition at the Munich University of Music and Theater since 2007.
As a conductor, he works with many orchestras and ensembles, such as the South Westphalian Philharmonic, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, the Chamber Players of Boston, the Federal Youth Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Ensemble UnitedBerlin, the Munich Philharmonic and many others
