Adriana Hölszky
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Adriana Hölszky is an Romania
n-born German music educator, composer and pianist who has been living in Germany
since 1976.
, Romania
. In the years 1959-1969 she studied piano with Olga Rosca-Berdan at the music school in Bucharest. In 1972, she began to study composition with Ştefan Niculescu
as parallel to piano studies at the Bucharest Music Conservatory. In 1976 she moved with her family to Germany. Here she continued her studies, and in 1977-1980 she studied composition at the Musikhochschule
in Stuttgart with Milko Kelemen
, and chamber music with Günter Louegk. During her studies she performed as a pianist of the Trio Lipatti.
In 1977 and 1978, she participated in the International Mozarteum Summer Academy, and in 1978-1984 regularly in the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 1980 she received a teaching position at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
, and in 1983 a grant from the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg
. In 1986 she took first place at the Composers' Forum of the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 1987 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony
. In 1992 she took composition seminars in Tokyo and Kyoto, and at the IRCAM
in Paris. Her increasing international popularity was shown by three concerts she performed in Athens, Thessaloniki and Boston in 1993.
Between 1997 and 2000, Hölszky was professor of composition at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre
, and since 2000 she has been professor of composition at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. Since 2002 she has been a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin
.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n-born German music educator, composer and pianist who has been living in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
since 1976.
Biography
Hölszky was born in BucharestBucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
. In the years 1959-1969 she studied piano with Olga Rosca-Berdan at the music school in Bucharest. In 1972, she began to study composition with Ştefan Niculescu
Stefan Niculescu
Ştefan Niculescu was a Romanian composer.Niculescu was born in Moreni, Dâmbovita. He was credited with introducing his own brand of heterophony, a technique based on superimposing melodic material onto variations of itself in order to create textures that are propelled by thematic energy as well...
as parallel to piano studies at the Bucharest Music Conservatory. In 1976 she moved with her family to Germany. Here she continued her studies, and in 1977-1980 she studied composition at the Musikhochschule
State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
The State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is a professional school for musicians and performing artists in Stuttgart, Germany...
in Stuttgart with Milko Kelemen
Milko Kelemen
Milko Kelemen is a Croatian composer.- Life :Milko Kelemen studied under Stjepan Šulek in Zagreb, under Olivier Messiaen in Paris and Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg amongst others....
, and chamber music with Günter Louegk. During her studies she performed as a pianist of the Trio Lipatti.
In 1977 and 1978, she participated in the International Mozarteum Summer Academy, and in 1978-1984 regularly in the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 1980 she received a teaching position at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
The State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart is a professional school for musicians and performing artists in Stuttgart, Germany...
, and in 1983 a grant from the Arts Foundation of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
. In 1986 she took first place at the Composers' Forum of the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. In 1987 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
. In 1992 she took composition seminars in Tokyo and Kyoto, and at the IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
in Paris. Her increasing international popularity was shown by three concerts she performed in Athens, Thessaloniki and Boston in 1993.
Between 1997 and 2000, Hölszky was professor of composition at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre
Rostock University of Music and Theatre
The Rostock University of Music and Theatre is a college of music in Rostock, Germany. The Hochschule opened in 1994 and is situated in a former cloister named Katharinenkloster in the hanseatic city of Rostock...
, and since 2000 she has been professor of composition at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. Since 2002 she has been a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
Awards
- 1978 Prize of the International Chamber Music Competition in Florence
- 1979 1st Price of the Valentino Bucchi Composition Competition in Rome
- 1980 Prize of the International Chamber Music Competition in Colmar France)
- 1981 Gaudeamus Prize, Bilthoven (Netherlands)
- 1982 Max Deutsch Paris Prize, Prize of the City of Stuttgart, Composition Prize of the East German Cultural Foundation
- 1985 1st Price EnsembliaComposition Competition, Monchengladbach
- 1985 Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize, Mannheim GEDOK Price
- 1988 Prize of the City of Stuttgart
- 1989 1st Prize at GEDOK International Composition Competition
- 1990 Artist Award Heidelberg and Mainz Schneider-Schott Music Prize
- 1991 Rome Prize of the Villa MassimoVilla MassimoVilla Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo....
- 2003 Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Stage works
| Premiere | Title | Description | Libretto and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04 Jun 1988, Munich Biennale Munich Biennale The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over... |
Bremer Freiheit | Singwerk auf ein Frauenleben | Thomas Körner, after the play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making... |
| 20 May 1995, Theater an der Wien Theater an der Wien The Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music... / Wiener Festwochen |
Die Wände | Musiktheater in 3 acts, 90' | Thomas Körner, after the play Les Paravents The Screens The Screens is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Its first few productions all used abridged versions, beginning with its world premiere under Hans Lietzau's direction in Berlin in May 1961... by Jean Genet Jean Genet Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing... |
| 29 May 1997, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn | Tragoedia (Der unsichtbare Raum) | Work with theatrical spaces, for orchestra and tape, 60' | Thomas Körner (the libretto was used to provide the lengths of each segment of the work, the text itself is not used) |
| 26 Sep 1997, Bühnen Graz/ steirischer herbst | Der Aufstieg der Titanic | opeRatte for six singers, sound effects and tape | |
| 19 May 2004, Schwetzingen Festival Schwetzingen Festival The Schwetzingen Festival is an early summer festival of opera and other classical music presented each year from May to early June in Schwetzingen, Germany.... |
Der gute Gott von Manhattan | Musiktheater | Yona Kim, after the radio play of Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.-Biography:Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of a headmaster. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna... |
| 17 Nov 2007, Stuttgart State Opera | Giuseppe e Sylvia | Musiktheater in 3 acts, 90' | Hans Neuenfels Hans Neuenfels Hans Neuenfels is a German writer, poet, film producer, librettist, theatre director and opera director.- Biography :... |
| 25 Apr 2008, Rokokotheater, Schwetzingen Festival Schwetzingen Festival The Schwetzingen Festival is an early summer festival of opera and other classical music presented each year from May to early June in Schwetzingen, Germany.... |
Hybris/Niobe | Drama for voices | Yona Kim, after the opera Niobe by Agostino Steffani Agostino Steffani Agostino Steffani was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer.-Biography:Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto. At a very early age he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice... , themes by Ovid, Shakespeare, The Bible and texts from Landplagen by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was a Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement.-Life:... |
Other works
- Piano Sonata, 1975
- String Quartet, 1975
- Constellation for orchestra, 1975–76
- Monologue for female voice and drums, 1977
- ... There were black birds for five female voices and percussion, 1978
- Il était un homme rouge for 12 voices, 1978
- Comment for Lauren for soprano, 8 brass and timpani, 1978
- Space for four orchestral groups, 1979–80
- Omnion for tape, 1980
- Questions I, for soprano, baritone, violin, cello and piano, 1980
- Questions II for soprano, baritone, violin, cello, flute, piccolo, guitar and piano, 1981
- Flux re-flux for alto saxophone, 1981–83
- Inner Worlds I for String Trio, 1981
- Inner Worlds II for String Quartet, 1981–82
- Arcades for two flutes and string quartet, 1982
- Inlay I for flute, violin and piano, 1982
- Decorum for harpsichord, 1982–83
- Inlay II for flute, violin, harpsichord and piano, 1982–83
- Inlay III for flute, violin, two pianos, 1982–83
- Controversia for two flutes, two oboes and violin, 1983
- Erewhon for 14 instruments, 1984
- Sound projector for 12 strings, 1984–85
- New Erewhon for ensemble, 1984–85/90
- Props for nine instruments, 1985
- ... And again darkness I für Pauken and piano, 1985/90
- ... And again darkness II for timpani and organ, 1986
- Always silent for four choruses, 1986
- Hörfenster for Franz Liszt for piano, 1986–87
- Fragments from 'Bremer Freiheit' for accordion, and drums cymbalon, 1988
- Suspension bridges - String Quartet 'to Schubert', two string quartets, octets may be played simultaneously, 1989–90
- Hunting wolves back for six timpani, 1989–90
- Caravan - reflection on the sound of walking for 12 timpani, 1989–90
- Flutes of the light, 'game face' for female voice, five horns and other instruments ad lib., 1989–90
- Message (E. Ionesco), for mezzo-soprano, baritone, narrator and electronics, 1990
- Light Aircraft for violin, flute and orchestra, 1990
- Segments I (for seven centers of sound) for piccolo flute, euphonium, double bass, piano, cymbalom, accordion and percussion, 1991–92
- Segments II for piano and percussion, 1992
- Segments III for oboe, double bass and accordion, 1992
- Miserere for accordion, 1992
- A honeycomb sound for violin, 1993
- World ends for 4 Brass, 1993
- A due - wave study for 2 clarinets, 1993
- Painting of a slain (JMR Lenz) for 72 voices, 1993
- On the night for the orchestra, 1994/2001
- Cargo for Orchestra, 1995
- Arena for Orchestra, 1995
- Qui audit me for alto flute, viola, guitar and speaker (ad lib.), 1996
- Clouds and moon for accordion and cello, 1996/2006
- Avance Impulsion mécaniques for clarinet, euphonium, cello and piano, 1997
- And I looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire ... for organ, 1997
- Spin 2 for violin and keyboard, 1998
- High Way for accordion and 19 Instruments, 1998–99
- Gamut of myths, for six percussionists, string orchestra, 1999
- High Way for accordion and ensemble, 1999/2003
- Oon the other side for 3 soloists and orchestra, 2000
- High Way for One for Accordion, 2000
- Dream song for percussion, 2000
- Mask and color for baritone (mezzo soprano) and piano, 2000, text: Michael Krüger
- Umsphinxt ... A puzzle for birds of prey, text by Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
's "The desert grows' for 48stg choir, 2000–01 - On the other side for clarinet, harp, accordion and orchestra, 2000–03
- On behalf of all the light '(second part) for choir and organ, 2004
- Lemurs and ghosts for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 2004–05
- Like a bird Hommage à György KurtágGyörgy KurtágGyörgy Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...
for Violin, 2006 - Maneuvers for two clarinets and orchestra, 2006
- Demons for chorus and orchestra, 2006
- Snowbirds (like a bird II) Hommage à György KurtágGyörgy KurtágGyörgy Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...
for violin and piano, 2006 - Countdown for Counter Tenor and Orchestra, 2007. Text: Ver du Bois
- Grid for bassoon, 2008
- The dogs of Orion for 8 voices, 2010
Prominent students
- Carsten HennigCarsten HennigCarsten Hennig is a German football player. As of January 2009, he plays for SV Wehen Wiesbaden II. He made his debut on the professional league level in the 2. Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt on September 22, 1996 when he started in a game against Stuttgarter Kickers.-External links:...
(1967) - Olga NeuwirthOlga NeuwirthOlga Neuwirth is an Austrian composer.As a child at the age of seven, Neuwirth began lessons on trumpet. She later studied composition in Vienna at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts under Erich Urbanner, while studying at the Electroacoustic Institute...
(born 1968) - Eunyoung Esther Kim (1973)
- Benjamin Lang (1976)
- Karola Obermüller (1977)
- Marios Joannou EliaMarios Joannou Elia- Education :Marios Joannou Elia studied composition with Adriana Hölszky at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Mozarteum, Salzburg.Further composition studies led him to Klaus Huber at the University of Music in Basel...
(1978) - Sagardía (1978)
- Jolanta Debicka
- Wistinghausen Martin (1979)
Further reading
- Eva-Maria Houben: gelb. Neues Hören. Vinko Globokar, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky. Saarbrücken 1996, S. 262.
- Jean-Noel von der Weid: Die Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig 2001, S. 472. ISBN 345817068-5
- Beatrix Borchard (ed.) Adriana Hölszky, Klangportraits Band 1, furore-Verlag.
- Wolfgang GratzerWolfgang GratzerWolfgang Gratzer is an Austrian musicologist.He finished his humanistic studies at the University of Salzburg . There he also finished his doctoral studies with the dissertation “Zur ‚wunderlichen Mystik‘ Alban Bergs” in 1990...
/Jörn Peter Hiekel (ed.): Ankommen:gehen. Adriana Hölszkys Textkompositionen. edition neue zeitschrift für musik, ed. Rolf W. Stoll, Mainz 2007
External links
- Biography
- Biography of Hölszky on the website of the Association Contemporary Opera, Berlin
- Profile of Hölszky's compositions in a private online music magazine.