Steffen Schleiermacher

German composer

Steffen Schleiermacher (born Halle, 3 May 1960) is a German composer, pianist, and conductor.

After studying at the Leipzig Music School with Siegfried Thiele, he continued working there as a music theory and ear training assistant. From 1985 until 1986, he was a master student at Akademie der Künste in Berlin with Friedrich Goldmann. In addition, he took a master course in piano at the Köln Music School with Aloys Kontarsky in 1989/1990. In 1988, he founded the Ensemble Avantgarde which is devoted to contemporary classical music.

Schleiermacher's prizes and fellowship awards include the Gaudeamus Competition (1985), Kranichstein Music Prize (1986), Hanns Eisler Prize of the GDR Radio for his Concerto for Viola and Chamber Ensemble (1989), Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation, Munich (1991), Mendelssohn Scholarship awarded by the GDR Ministry of Culture (1988), German Music Council Fellowship (1989/90), Fellowship of the Kulturfond Foundation (1992–94, 1997), Fellowship of the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1992), Japan Foundation Fellowship (1997) for study for several months in Japan, and Fellowship of the Cité des Arts in Paris.

His recording releases include most works by composers such as Erik Satie, Philip Glass, Morton Feldman and Arnold Schoenberg. For Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm he has recorded the complete piano music of John Cage. He also plays pieces by Asian composers - such as Toshio Hosokawa and Ichiyanagi (Japan); and Slamet Abdul Sjukur, Michael Asmara and Soe Tjen Marching (Indonesia).

Steffen Schleiermacher is related to the influential 19th century protestant theologian and Plato-translator Friedrich Schleiermacher.

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Works

Auto Werk mit Hup Raum
Balance, Four Microludes (Hommage à György Kurtag)
Balance, Four Microludes (Hommage à György Kurtag): 1.
Balance, Four Microludes (Hommage à György Kurtag): 2.
Balance, Four Microludes (Hommage à György Kurtag): 3.
Balance, Four Microludes (Hommage à György Kurtag): 4.
Das Tosen des staunenden Echos
Echo for Five Pianos
Lîla
Merseburger Ouvertüre mit F. L.
Netz Werk
Obophon
Three Pieces for Viola and Bass Clarinet
Three Pieces for Viola and Bass Clarinet: Hoch Zeit
Three Pieces for Viola and Bass Clarinet: Schei-Dung
Three Pieces for Viola and Bass Clarinet: Steit Fall
Three Reconciliations to Heiner Müller
Three Reconciliations to Heiner Müller: Bildbeschreibung
Three Reconciliations to Heiner Müller: Herakles
Three Reconciliations to Heiner Müller: Philktet
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: After the Earthquake
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: At Sea
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: At the Mountain Brook
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: At the Mountain Lake
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: In the Castle Ruin
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: In the Cave
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: In the Lowlands
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: In the Mine
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: In the Slate Mountains
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: On the Highway
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: On the Island
Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: On the Mountainside
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