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Estermann Kurt
- Allgemeine Information
- Ausbildung
- Tätigkeiten
- Aufführungen (Auswahl)
- Auszeichnungen
- Stilbeschreibung
- Pressestimmen
- Kontakt, Links
Allgemeine Information
Kurt Estermann was born into a family of musicians in Innsbruck in 1960. He received his musical education first in Innsbruck, then at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, studying harpsichord, organ, composition and church music. He also received several awards and prizes for his compositions, which, apart from Austria, also took him to Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Since 1990, he has been the organist at the monastery in Wilten. In 2000, he was appointed full professor for ecclesiastic composition at the Mozarteum.
Ausbildung
| Zeitraum | Ausbildung | Instrument | AusbildnerIn | Organisation | Ort |
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1979 - 1989
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composition | ||||
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1979 - 1989
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church music | ||||
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1979 - 1989
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church music | ||||
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1979 - 1989
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Tätigkeiten
| Zeitraum | Tätigkeit | Organisation | Ort |
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2000
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full professor for ecclesiastic composition | ||
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1990
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organist at the monastery in Wilten | ||
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jury member for the Slatkonia prize |
Aufführungen (Auswahl)
| Zeitraum | Aufführung | Werk | Organisation | Ort |
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2003
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Carinthian Summer, cathedral in Klagenfurt | |||
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2005
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Thaliatheater | |||
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2006
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Geistliche Abendmusiken, Schottenkirche Vienna | |||
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2007
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Akademietage Regensburg, Regensburg Cathedral | |||
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2007
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St. Mary | |||
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2010
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2012
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Auszeichnungen
| Time Period | Auszeichnung | Werk | Auszeichnende Organisation |
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1985
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award: International organ contest in Bruges | ||
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1987
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music promotional award Tirol | ||
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1989
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Paul Hofhaimer award | ||
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1989
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recognition award | ||
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1995
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composition award | ||
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1995
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recognition award | ||
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1997
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promotional award | ||
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1998
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first prize for artistic accomplishment | ||
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2004
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second prize for artistic accomplishment in the field of opera |
Stilbeschreibung
Being confronted with predetermined forms forces new content - whereas the direction is focused on the field of tradition alternating between adaptation and dismantling. Openness towards the latest trends measures itself against the evaluation of its own identity: expressive sound and thought-out structures, emotions and experiments with numbers and intervals, consequence and permanent questioning - the vast field of contemporary means of expression has to keep proving itself through compositional forming. (Kurt Estermann, 2002)
Pressestimmen
11. September 2007
Kurt Estermanns third symphony lived on the rhythm-oriented formation of the material and moments of figurative-abstract ambivalence concerning all associations related to neo-classicist expressiveness, while the final part was dominated by prominent rhythm.
Der Standard (Andreas Felber)
