Sven Hermann
musician and composer [*1974
in Bühl/Baden]
life /
works
/
solo repertoire
/
writings
- accordion studies with
Teodoro Anzellotti and Alois Müller
- 1995-99
accordion studies with Mie Miki-Schenck,
Folkwang Hochschule Essen, Germany
- 1997-2001 studies
in composition with Nicolaus A. Huber,
Folkwang Hochschule Essen, Germany
1997 winner of the internal
Köhler-Osbahr-Competition at the Folkwang Hochschule
2000
founded Interzone perceptible together with electric bass player
Matthias Hettmer [more]
2002
in cooperation with Matthias Hettmer artistic director of
kopfHörer/experimentelle musik elektrovisuell in Bühl/Baden (Germany)
[more at www.akw-baden.de (in German only)]
2002/2003
teaching "electronic media
and live-electronics" at Dortmund University / Germany [with Matthias Hettmer]
as composer perfromances in
Germany and abroad [see works]
as performer solo and ensemble
concerts [without interzoneperceptible]:
- cooperation with Ensemble
Musikfabrik NRW, Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, Ensemble Varianti Stuttgart, Neue
Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble "Giraffe bleue" Baden/Switzerland, Schlagquartett
Köln, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
- performances at the Wittener
Tage für Neue Kammermusik 1997, Witten/Germany, the Internationale Ferienkurse
für Neue Musik in Darmstadt/Germany 1998, the Eclat-Festival 1999 in Stuttgart/Germany,
the Donaueschinger Musiktagen 1999, Donaueschingen/Germany, the Festival Neue
Musik Rümlingen/Switzerland 2000, the EXPO 2000 Hannover/Germany, the Festival
Ensemblia 2001 in Mönchengladbach/Germany
- Juli-August 1999 solo-concert
tour in the USA
- 1999 performances with
the group "Jack the dog" [Chicago Ill.]
- 1999-2000 several music
theatre-projects with Daniel Ott: Biel, Zürich, Rümlingen [all Switzerland],
Bielefeld/Germany, Hannover/Germany [with Peter Zumthor]
- 2000 selected for the fifth
Nachwuchsforum of the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Köln for his interpretaion
of "Augenbildermusik" by Martin Schüttler
- 2001 selected for the sixth
Nachwuchsforum der Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Köln for his composition "ILI
XV" for electric bass as performed by Matthias Hettmer
currently lives in Essen,
Germany