Peer Baierlein (born 16 May 1972 in Stuttgart, West Germany) is a German musician and composer.
Peer Baierlein (born 16 May 1972 in Stuttgart, West Germany) is a German musician and composer.
Peer Baierlein started playing the accordion at the age of 7 and then switched to the trumpet when he was 9. After several years in the local brass band he started his professional studies at the early age of 16 at the Musikhochschule Köln in Germany. He first became a classical trumpet teacher before beginning his studies with Prof. Malte Burba as an orchestra musician at the Musikhochschule Köln and with Arno Lange at the 'Deutsche Oper' in Berlin. In 1996, he moved to Leuven in Belgium to study with his favourite jazz-trumpet player Bert Joris at the Lemmensinstituut. Upon completion of his studies, he moved for a year to New York City in 2000, to take lessons form John McNeil and to play his instrument abroad. He then came back to Belgium, where he finished his studies for jazz trumpet and -after that- specialised as ‘lead-trumpet’, also at the Lemmensinstituut. Between 2005 and 2007, Peer Baierlein has been studying classical composition with Piet Swerts. He continued his studies from 2008 - 2011 and followed a special education for composing film music and classical orchestration with a.o. Denis Pousseur, Victor Kissine and Jean-Luc Fafchamps. From 2011 - 2013 he was a student for 'new media' at the 'Hochschule für Musik und Theater' in Hamburg.
Since 2007 he has been working as a composer, musical director and musician for numerous theaters in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Productions for which he composed all of the music have won all theatre, director and actor awards in German-speaking countries.
Since 2016, Peer Baierlein has been composing for classical orchestra, vocal and instrumental ensembles.
The first commissioned works for the 'Hessische Staatsballett' under the direction of Tim Plegge and the 'Mecklenburgisches Staatsballett' ("Ballet X Schwerin") under the direction of Xenia Wiest will follow in 2022.
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Derek Bermel is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary. He is the recipient of various awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy in Rome's Rome Prize awarded to artists for a year-long residency in Rome.
York Höller is a German composer and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
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Marc Piollet is a French conductor. After positions at the Staatstheater Kassel and Volksoper in Vienna, he was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden from 2004 to 2012.
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Christian Rathgeber is a German classical tenor with a focus on concerts. He made many recordings, both as a soloist as a member of vocal ensembles and choirs.
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