Johannes Kalitzke

Johannes Kalitzke is well known for his progressive design of structure, which integrates electronic methods with strategies evolved by various avant-garde composers. Frequently Kalitzke’s compositions are limited in their selection of expression, due to their slim limitation on the amount of records employed. The digital noises he uses are usually manipulated and his end item, while unified and coherent, is definitely often challenging towards the listener. He continues to be steadfast in keeping a progressive position in his compositions; even though many additional composers through the past due twentieth and early twenty first generations have retreated right into a even more accessible style, persuaded melody, lucidity, and much less dissonance are even more workable elements. He has created in a number of styles, including opera, vocal, choral, symphonic, and chamber. And in addition, Kalitzke’s music isn’t broadly performed or on saving. Nevertheless, several brands, including RCA, CPO, and Col Legno, possess released discs of his music. Kalitzke in addition has had an effective career like a conductor, leading both regular traditional repertory and modern music. Johannes Kalitzke was created in Cologne, Germany, on Feb 12, 1959. From 1974-1976 he primarily researched sacred and chapel music, after that enrolled in the Musikhochschule Köln, where his main teachers had been composer and Boulez-student York Höller (structure), Wolfgang von der Nahmer (performing), and Aloys Kontarsky (piano). Kalitzke researched in the Paris-based IRCAM (1982-1983), after that and still the best center specialized in electro-acoustical music. While there, he also got private structure lessons from Vinko Globokar and got further studies back Cologne in the Musikhochschule with Hans Ulrich Humpert. In 1984 Kalitzke started appearing like a conductor and 2 yrs later on was appointed movie director of the Discussion board für Neue Musik, in Geselkirchen, keeping the post until 1991. During this time period he created his huge choral function Das Labyrinth der Lieder, for voices, huge orchestra, and tape (1987). Kalitzke offered as conductor from the Musiktheater im Revier (1988-1990), also in Gelsenkirchen. In 1991 Kalitzke, along with three others, founded Musikfabrik NRW (North-Rhine-Westphalia), an ensemble specialized in the functionality of contemporary music. From 1991-1997 he offered as the group’s conductor and creative director. Kalitzke started his opera Molière oder expire Henker des Komödianten in 1995 and finished it in 2000. From 2001 Kalitzke provides appeared frequently as the principle guest conductor from the ?-sterreichisches Outfit für Neue Musik. His recordings are the 2005 Naxos problem of his Symphony No. 3 as well as the Violin Concerto by Ulrich Leyendecker.