Composer

Burkhard Friedrich (born 1962 in Berlin) studied composition and classical saxophone in Stuttgart, Lübeck and Berlin. He has been a recipient of the Heinrich-Strobel Stipend granted by the Southwest German Radio and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the cultural office Hamburg.

His chamber opera "Lancelot's Spiegel" won the 1st prize at an international Competition for Opera Writing in Austria. The opera was premiered 2003 in Austria. His second opera “Imitation of Life”, based on films and novels of David Lynch and Bret Easton Ellis was premiered 2005 at the opera in Hamburg. His musictheatre “Galaxy Hotel”, based on a novel by the japanese writer Haruki Murakami was premiered 2009 in Hamburg and performed 2010 in Berlin, his multimedia-installation “Cittá Utopica” (commission by WIEN MODERN/Sammlung Essl) will be premiered in autumn 2010 in Vienna.

Recently, Burkhard Friedrich is composing the performance-Installation “no significant change” in collaboration with the Video artist Timo Schierhorn, which will be premiered in April 2011 at the Hamburger Staatsoper-opera stabile.

Burkhard Friedrich was awarded various international prizes for his compositions and interpretations of contemporary music for solo-saxophone and chambermusic with saxophone. In cooperation with the "Deutschlandradio” ensemble Intégrales released a portrait - CD with chamber music by Burkhard Friedrich in October 2002 and a CD with his opera “Imitation of Life” in autumn 2005. His CD “musicbox” with recent works was published in spring 2008, “the musicbox-project completed” was published January 2010 on the internet label plakatif.net. A CD of his chamberopera “Lancelots Spiegel” is published by “Klangdebuts” Graz/Austria.

As a saxophonist Burkhard Friedrich performed and produced all over Europe and the U.S lot of Solo- or chambermusic works for CD, which are written for him or ensemble Intégrales by well known and young contemporary composers.

Since summer 2008 he is the artistic director of the pedagogical project “Klangradar 3000 – contemporary music and composition in public schools” and is promoting seminars and workshops about compositional education in public schools at musicuniversities.

For further informations please look at http://www.ensemble-integrales.com http://www.burkhard-friedrich.com http://www.klangradar3000.de http://www.youtube.com/vicglamour or at vita.

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