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Christoph Staude

b. 1965

German composer

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Born 1965. Christoph Staude is a German composer.

Christoph Staude (born 30 September 1965) is a German composer.

Life Born in Munich, Staude studied 1984–86 at the University of the Arts with Witold Szalonek and in 1986–91 at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Rolf Riehm and Bernhard Kontarsky. Since 1995, he lives as a freelance composer at the near Neuss. There, he initiated the series Hombroich: New Music in 1997. He received commissions and radio productions from SWR Baden-Baden for the Donaueschinger Musiktage, WDR Cologne for the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, HR Frankfurt, SDR Stuttgart, BR Munich and the AUDI-AG-Kulturfond, Ingolstadt.

Honours 1992 Stipendienaufenthalt im Deutschen Studienzentrum Venedig 1986/87 Preisträger beim Wettbewerb der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart für junge Komponisten 1987 1. Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb des International Center of New Music Sources (ICONS), Turin 1988 Preisträger beim Kompositionswettbewerb des Trio Basso Köln; 2. Preis beim Wettbewerb der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart 1999 2. Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb der musik-theater-werkstatt am Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden 2003 Preisträger im internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb der Elisabeth-Schneider-Stiftung Freiburg 2005 Förderpreis des Berliner Kunstpreis

Compositions Stage music Wir. Music theatre piece, libretto: Hans-Georg Wegner (after the eponymous novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin). Premiere 2006 Munich (Munich Biennale)

Orchestral work Anangke (1985). 2nd symphonic fragment Schacht (1986). 3rd symphonic fragment 3 Noirailles (1993) Areal, Landschaft für Klavier und Orchester (1997). Premiere 2002 Munich, Münchner Philharmoniker, Ltg. G. Schmöhe, Jan Philip Schulze, piano Kohinoor, Skizze zur Reise des Simurgh (2004/05). Premiere 2005 Saarbrücken, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Ltg. P. Marchbank

Vocal compositions Psalm 88 (1986) for three-part mixed choir and orchestra Le Livre des Météores, Szenarium in 7 Installationen (1989/90) für Sopran, Bariton und Orchester Trifoglio (2000) for alto voice and string quartet. Text: Yagi Jūkichi, Osip Mandelstam, Tsangyang Gyatso Kodex (2001) for soprano and 7 instrumentalists (text from the Nuremberg Code des IPPNW, 1947). UA Nürnberg Seven last words (2004) for soprano and piano after James Joyce Eines Schattens Traum (2008) for choir and orchestra

Chamber music Eisharmonie (1985) for two pianos to twelve hands Nachbild for viola solo (1986) Streichquartett I (1986). Premiere Turin, Arditti Quartet Befund. Streichquartett II (1988) All’aperto. 18 Scherben (Streichquartett III) (1992) Fundament (1999). Fragment for organ Per speculum in aenigmate (1999) for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano Interior Zone (2002) for Ensemble. Premiere Hombroich, ensemble recherche Streichquartett VI (2003)

Releases on CD Nachbild for viola solo (1986); Intersound GmbH München ISPV163CD, Eckart Schloifer, Vla. Obduktion (1988) for saxophone solo; New Saxophone Chamber Music WWE 1CD 31890 col legno, Johannes Ernst, Sax. Morpheus, Tanz/-Szene für 6 Schlagzeuger (1990); Donaueschinger Musiktage 1990, col legno AU 31819 Intercut / Zwischenschnitt. Fünfzehn Fundstücke für Sextett (1999). Dokumentation Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 1999 Staude-Porträt-CD Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (Deutscher Musikrat) Wergo-6546-2 (2000)

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German composer

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