Steffen Schleiermacher

Steffen Schleiermacher is normally active being a composer, a conductor, and a pianist focusing on modern music. From 1980 to 1985, he examined on the Leipzig Musikhochschule under Siegfried Thiele and Friedrich Schenker (structure), Gerhard Erber (piano), and Günter Blumhagen (performing); with the DDR Akademie der Künste with Friedrich Goldmann (structure). He afterwards examined piano with Aloys Kontarsky. He provides performed as soloist using the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, as well as the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Schleiermacher continues to be the artistic movie director of the Outfit Avantgarde, the Gewandhaus Musica Nova concert series, and an annual modern music celebration in Leipzig. He provides gained an award in the Gaudeamus Competition (1985), the Hanns Eisler Award (1989, for his Concerto for viola and chamber ensemble), the Schneider-Schott Music Award (1992), and continues to be awarded residencies on the Villa Massimo, Rome (1992), as well as the Cité des Arts, Paris (1998). Schleiermacher’s compositional affects consist of Indonesian gamelan and traditional Japanese sacred music. His discopgraphy contains music by Satie, Schoenberg, Hauer, Feldman, and Cup, aswell as the piano music of John Cage.