biographies
of the members of ensemble Intégrales
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soprano
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violin/viola/e-violin
violoncello
double bass/e-bass |
saxophone
clarinet/ bass clarinet
flute, |
piano/synthesizer
percussion
sound design |
guitar
e-guitar |
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 Burkhard
Friedrich - saxophone, composition
artistic director
Burkhard
Friedrich (born 1962 in Berlin) studied composition and classical
saxophone in Stuttgart, Lübeck and Berlin. He has been a
recipient of the Heinrich-Strobel Stipend granted by the Southwest
German Radio and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and
the cultural office Hamburg.
His chamber opera "Lancelot's Spiegel" won the 1st prize
at an international Competition for Opera Writing in Austria.
The opera was premiered 2003 in Austria. His second opera “Imitation
of Life”, based on films and novels of David Lynch and Bret
Easton Ellis was premiered 2005 at the opera in Hamburg. His musictheatre
“Galaxy Hotel”, based on a novel by the japanese writer
Haruki Murakami will be premiered 2009 in Hamburg .
Burkhard Friedrich awarded various international prizes for his
compositions and interpretations of contemporary music for solo-saxophone
and chambermusic with saxophone. In cooperation with the "Deutschlandradio”
ensemble Intégrales released a portrait - CD with chamber
music by Burkhard Friedrich in October 2002, a CD with his chamber
opera “Lancelots Spiegel” 2004 and a CD named “musicbox”
with his recent works in spring 2008.
As a saxophonist Burkhard Friedrich performed and produced all
over Europe and lot of Solo- and chambermusic works for CD, which
are written for ensemble Intégrales by well known and young
contemporary composers. Burkhard Friedrich co-founded ensemble
Intégrales , he is promoting and performing in concert
series with improvised and notated music in Hamburg and lives
as a free-lanced composer and saxophonist in Hamburg.
Burkhard Friedrichs works are performed in various festivals such
as “Bregenzer Festspiele”, “Steirischer Herbst”
and”WIEN MODERN”.
www.burkhard-friedrich.com
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Barbara
Lüneburg - violin, viola, e-violin
artistic director
Barbara
Lüneburg performing on the violin and the viola has made herself
a name as both an interpreter of classical and contemporary music.
She won various violin competitions, including the "Prize for
the Best Interpretation of Contemporary Music", awarded at
the 4th International Music Competition for Young Culture in Düsseldorf,
which displays her special interest in the new music field. Barbara
Lüneburg has premiered numerous solo- and chamber music works
throughout her career.
In addition to being a member of various chamber music and contemporary
music ensembles, she regularly performs as a soloist of classical
and new music in Germany and abroad. Barbara Lüneburg records
for radio broadcast, CD- and TV- productions and plays at various
international music festivals such as Schleswig Holstein Music Festival,
Bodensee Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele (Austria), Gaudeamus Festival,
the Munich Biannual and the Tongyeong International Music Festival
(Korea).
As a recipient of grants and scholarships from the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Scholarship of the German People
she studied a/o. at the Tshaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with
Zorija Schichmurzaeva and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
(London) with David Takeno.
Barbara Lüneburg is a founding member of ensemble Intégrales.
Currently she working on her PhD thesis on "An investigation
of the performer's role as an interface between composer and instrument
and between composition and audience in contemporary music"
at Brunel University/London. www.barbara-lueneburg.com
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 Ashley
Hribar - piano, synthesizer
Australia
born, pianist Ashley Hribar, is the recipient of many scholarships
and prizes including the 2005 International Gaudeamus Interpreters
Competition (Amsterdam), the South Australian Emerging Artist’s
Award (2003), Australian Post Graduate Award 2001, The Dame Ruby
Litchfield Scholarship (2000) and first prizes in: The Geoffrey
Parsons' Accompanist Award (2003), The Adelaide Eisteddfod Keyboard
Concerto Competition (1996), The Miriam Hyde Piano Competition
(1994), and The Australian Polish Arts Award (1994).
In addition to his passion for classical music, Ashley Hribar
has devoted much of his time to performing contemporary music.
As soloist as well as active chamber musician Ashley Hribar has
given live national broadcasts for Australia's ABC Classic FM
as well as for 3MBS, 5 MBS, and Radio Adelaide and the Bavarian
Radio (Germany). During 2005 he toured Germany giving lecture
recitals premiering new music by Australian and German composers.
He has studied in Australia and Germany (as a recipient of a DAAD
scholarship) with a number of distinguished pedagogues and concert
artists including: Dr. Graham Williams, Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling,
Stefan Ammer, Stephen McIntyre, Elanora Sivan and Gordon Fergus-Thompson.
His interests have extended beyond live performance composing
music for Film, Television and Dance Theatre. His music for the
Australian short Film “Ngoppun” directed by Gina Rings
2000 was broadcast nationally on Australian SBS Television.
Ashley
Hribar is a member of ensemble Intégrales since 2006. (www.ashleyhribar.com)
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 Oleg
Dziewanowski, percussion
Oleg
Dziewanowski won various competitions for percussion and the interpretation
of contemporary music throughout his career. Since 2003 he has
been a recipient of a scholarship of the Friedrich-Jürgen-Sellheim-society.
In
addition to being a teacher at the conservatory for music and
theatre Hannover, Oleg Dziewanowski performs regulary as a soloist
and chamber musician in Germany and abroad. He is invited to various
international festivals like the "World music days"
at Luzern/Switzerland, Easter-festival Innsbruck/Austria or the
Music Days Hannover/Germany.
He
studied a.o. at the music academy of Gdanks/Poland with Prof.
M. Adrjanczyk at the conservatory for music and theatre Hannover
with Prof. A. Boettger (specialising in contemporary music). In
addition to his career as a percussionist Oleg Dziewanowski is
also performing in the electronic music scene a.o. with sound
installations.
Oleg Dziewanowski is a member of ensemble Intégrales since
2006.
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Kai
Wessel - countertenor
Kai
Wessel studied music theory with Roland Ploeger, composition with
Dr.Friedhelm Döhl and voice with Ute von Garczinsky at the
Lübeck Academy of Music, as well as baroque performance practice
at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with René Jacobs.
He received numerous prizes including the special prize for the
German Theater Society for the best interpretation of a contemporary
work (1988) and a prize at the Musica Antiqua Competition of the
Flanders festival in Bruges.
Kai Wessel is invited to international music festivals all over
the world. His repertoire reaches from baroque operas to contemporary
music (M.Kagel, S.Sciarrino, B.Friedrich). He works as well under
conductors like Philippe Herreweghe, Ton Koopman, Nicolaus Harnoncourt
and Reinhard Goebel as with Hans Werner Henze. His work is documented
by numerous radio and CD-recordings.
Kai Wessel works at the Academy of Music Cologne as a teacher for
singing and baroque performance practice and is regularly invited
as a guest teacher in Germany, Austria and Poland. (www.kaiwessel.com)
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 Maria
Boulgakova - soprano
Maria
Boulgakova studied singing at the Tshaikovsky conservatory Moscow
with Prof. K.Kadinskaya and at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with
Prof. Ute Niss, as well as composition at the conservatories in
Moscow, Hamburg and Lübeck with Uri Kasparov, Manfred Stahnke
und Dieter Mack. She was recipient of a scholarships from the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for her studies in Germany. For
her excellent final examn she received the highest distinction.In
2005 she was one of the few selected participants of masterclasses
with Grace Brumbry at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival.
As a soloist she performed at festivals in Holland, Germany, Hungary
and Russia. ensemble Intégrales collaborated with her as
a composer as well as soprano.
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 Henning
Kaiser - tenor
Henning
Kaiser studied voice with Willfried Jochens (Hamburg).
He sang in numerous opera and oratorio projects (amongst others
at the Wiener Festwochen, the Bayrischen Staatsoper München
and the Hamburgische Staatsoper) and performed under conductors
like Thomas Hengelbrock, Ivor Bolton and Konrad Junghänel.
Henning Kaiser was invited to many prestigious festivals like the
"Festival for Early Music" in Utrecht, the "Osterfestspielen
Luzern", the "Early Music Festival Copenhagen", the
"Bodenseefestival"and the "Melbourne Festival".
Besides his performances as a soloist he is also a dedicated ensemble
singer and works with a.o. the Weserrenaissance Bremen, the Himlische
Cantorey and Cantus Cölln. Since 1999 he performs with ensemble
Intégrales.
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 Marko
Ciciliani - sound design, composition
Marko
Ciciliani (*1970, Croatria/NL) explores his very own path through
the new music world. He dares the beauty as well as the ugly, chaos
stands next to order. Ciciliani’s music easily combines seemingly
contradictory materials giving his composition a feeling of experiment
and playfulness, which captures the audience with its surprising
turns and changing colours.
Active as a performer and improviser himself Ciciliani more recently
gives a considerable amount of control over his work to the interpreters.
He provides flexible forms, musical materials that still have to
be furnished or compositional guidelines for sections that have
to be worked out. In ensemble Intégrales he has found an
congenial partner in his aim to create a ‘multiple authorship’
of his music.
His music is performed in both Americas, Europe and Asia and at
international festivals like the Bregenzer Festspiele, Zagreb Biennale,
Gaudeamus Week, Wien Modern, Proms in Paradiso/Amsterdam, Ars Nova
SWR, Das Neue Werk NDR, ‘Activa’ of Berlin or the Playground
Touch in Bern.
Since
2002 he additionally works for ensemble Intégrales as their
sound designer.
www.ciciliani.com
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 Sascha
Demand - guitar, composition
Sascha
Demand works as a freelance musician in the fields of composition,
improvisation and classical guitar. In the years 1995-97 he was
artistic leader of the concert series "Konzertreihe für
neue Musik - besides the cage" in Krefeld. Later on he founded
the "Kultursalon Chateau Scherrer- Demand" in Hamburg,
for which he was artistically responsible until December 1999.
In 2000 Sascha Demand went to South Italy for further studies
in composition.
Sascha Demand regularly performs in Germany and abroad. His music
shows unusual playing techniques, which are often closely connected
to elements of improvisation. Especially on the electric-guitar
he develops a unique musical language by working with singular
tones and their modifications in a highly sensitive way.
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 Sonja
Lena Schmid - Violoncello
studied
Cello and chamber music in Hamburg, Amsterdam and The Hague with
a „Huygens“-stipend of the Dutch government and a „ZEIT“
stipend of the foundation Deutschen Stiftung Musikleben. She has
won numerous prizes, amongst them 1. prize at the competition„Elise
Meyer“, 1. prize at the international chamber music competition
„Charles Hennen“, Netherlands, and a special award for
the best interpretation of a contemporary work uat the international
competition „Schubert und die Moderne“ in Graz. She
was chosen for the Dutch „Toptalent“- programme in 2006.
Since her finals in 2007 she has been working freelanced. Her
emphasis lies on chamber music of the "classic" as well
as contemorary reprtoire.
She is guest at renowned European festivals like Aix-en-provence,
Festival européen Paris, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Peasmarsh Festival. Her concerts
were broadcasted by SWR, WDR, NDR, ORF , Deutschlandradio and
Radio France.
Her special interest is the theatre: She has been in productions
of Hamburger Thalia Theater and Biennual Munich and also performs
scenic-music programmes. Sonja Lena Schmid is a member of ensemble
Intégrales since 2007.
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 John
Eckhardt - double bass, electric-bass, composer
John Eckhardt started his musical carrier on the electric-bass and
performed in numerous jazz-projects. He studied classical double
bass in Lübeck with Prof. Jörg Linowitzki and between
2000 and 2002 with a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange
service (DAAD) with Robert Black in the USA.
John Eckhardt does solo performances with contemporary music, improvisation
and live-electronics a.o. in the Carnegie Hall, Cité de la
Musique and at the Goethe-Institute New York. He is a member of
many different new music groups, as well as jazz ensembles and ensembles
in the improvised music scene, giving concerts with double bass
and e-bass at international festivals all over the world. As a soloist
he regularly performs with world premieres in all of Germany. His
work is documented through various CD-productions.
As a composer he works on the connection between acoustic instruments
and live-electronic using self-developed software. John Eckhardt
worked with ensemble Intégrales since 2005
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 Michael
Wagener - clarinet
Michael
Wagener studied clarinet with Dietrich Hahn (Hamburg). 1997 he
completed his studies with the concert exam.
In 1994 he was with the Amen Ensemble Hamburg prize winner at
the "Deutscher Hochschulwettbewerb". He plays in various
orchestras and ensembles (Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg,
Sinfonieorchester Osnabrück, NDR Ensemble "das neue
werk", Hamburger Kammerensemble, Anemos Ensemble).
Michael Wagener teaches at the Hamburger Conservatory.
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 Satoshi
Oba - guitar
Satoshi Oba was born in Kawasaki, Japan. He accomplished his study
with a concert exam at Prof. Hempel in Hamburg. Being a prize
winner of several international guitar-competitions, he makes
his appearance in many different countries of Europe as well as
Japan. He is a regular guest interpreter in South America, Denmark
and Yugoslavia. Radio- and TV-productions in many European countries.
Satoshi Oba 's career is influenced by the intensive cooperation
with composers of contemporary music.
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flute
- n.n.- temporary vacancy
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