Alexander Keuk

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Alexander Keuk (born 13 October 1971) is a German composer and music journalist.

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Life

Born in Wuppertal, [1] Keuk completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman from 1990 to 1992 after his Abitur. From 1993 to 1999 he studied musical composition with Hans Jürgen Wenzel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. [2] He graduated with a thesis on The 7 Sonatas for 2 Violins by Allan Pettersson, followed by a postgraduate education. (among others with Wilfried Krätzschmar) in composition, which he completed in 2001 with a Konzertexamen. Starting during his studies, Keuk has been working as a freelance author for the cultural editorial department of Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten since 1996.

Since 2002 he has been working in Dresden as a freelance composer and music journalist. [3] He regularly writes articles for the Neue Musikzeitung , [4] the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and the specialist magazine Positionen  [ de ]. From 2001 to 2003 Keuk was the managing director of the Saxon Society for New Music. Since 1992 he has been on the board of the International Allan Pettersson Society and was chairman of the Dresdner Kammerchor [5] until 2018.

In 1999 he was a scholarship holder of the Sächsische Kulturstiftung and the Sächsischer Musikrat  [ de ] in Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf. Three times he received a working scholarship from Freistaat Sachsen. [6]

In cooperation with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau  [ de ] and the Theater an der Parkaue  [ de ] a music theatre for children was created in 2003. For several years Keuk also worked with pupils on composition projects at Dresden schools.

On the occasion of Dresden's 800th anniversary, Keuk was commissioned by the city of Dresden and the Dresden Philharmonic to compose the orchestral work Mehr Licht!, which was premiered in May 2006 in a cycle concert of the orchestra. [7]

Compositions

Stage music

Orchestra and music ensemble

Vocal musik

Chamber music

Electronic Music

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References

  1. ↑ "Keuk, Alexander". Datenbank Neue Musik.
  2. ↑ "KEUK, Alexander Komponistenlexikon – Deutscher Komponistenverband". www.komponistenlexikon.de.
  3. ↑ "Alexander Keuk, Autor auf Musik in Dresden".
  4. ↑ Alexander Keuk | nmz – neue musikzeitung Contributions by Alexander Keuk for the Neue Musikzeitung
  5. ↑ "Jubiläumskonzert des Dresdner Kammerchores in der Dreikönigskirche". DNN – Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten .
  6. ↑ "Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen: Archiv 2010". www.kdfs.de. Archived from the original on 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  7. 1 2 Wiermann, Barbara. "musiconn.performance". musiconn.performance — Das Eingabe- und Recherchetool für die Musikwissenschaft.
  8. ↑ "Vineta-Exerzitien – Keuk, Alexander". Datenbank Neue Musik.
  9. ↑ "Uraufführungen – Dresdner Kammerchor". www.dresdner-kammerchor.de.
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