Gordon Kampe (born 10 September 1976) is a German composer and academic teacher.

Career

Kampe was born in

Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Herne () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area directly between the cities of Bochum, and Gelsenkirchen. History Herne (ancient Haranni) was a tiny village until the 19th century. When the mining of c ...

, Germany. He completed an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1995 and studied after his ''

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'' composition with

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(Rostock) and Nicolaus A. Huber (Essen). In 2008, he finished his dissertation about fairy tale opera of the 20th century at the

Folkwang University of the Arts The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in ...

. Kampe is notably interested in the opera. Since 2009 he has written a number of commissioned works, among other for the

Stuttgart State Opera The Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Opera) is a German opera company based in Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Staatsorchester Stuttgart serves as its resident orchestra. History Performances of operas, ballet and ...

(''Zivilcourage. Musik für einen Platz'', world premiere 2009), the Oldenburg State Theatre (''ANOIA'', world premiere 2012) and the

Deutsche Oper Berlin The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004, the ...

(''Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna'', world premiere 2013). The world premiere of ''PLÄTZE. DÄCHER. LEUTE. WEGE. Musiktheater für ein utopisches Bielefeld'' took place at

Bielefeld Opera The Bielefeld Opera is the venue of Städtische Bühnen Bielefeld (Municipal stages Bielefeld) in Bielefeld, Germany. It is a ''Dreisparten Haus'' (three-department house), offering Play (theatre), plays, music (opera, musical theatre), and ball ...

in 2015. Kampe's opera ''

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'', based on the film with the same name by

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, premiered at the

Aalto Theatre The Aalto Theatre () is a performing arts venue in Essen, Germany, and is home to the city's opera company Aalto-Musiktheater and the ballet company Aalto Ballett. The serve as the venue's orchestra. The theatre opened on 25 September 1988 with R ...

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

in 2023. Kampe has been a professor of composition and music theory at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger College or university school of music, universities of music in Germany. It was founded in 1950 as ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik'' (Public college of music) on the base of t ...

since 2017. He lives and works in

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, Germany.

Awards

* 2007 Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart52. Kompositionspreis 2007
Archive (in German) . Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart. Retrieved 18 January 2016. * 2011 Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart56. Kompositionspreis 2011
Archive (in German). Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart. Retrieved 18 January 2016. * 2016 Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize * 2016

Schneider-Schott Music Prize The Schneider-Schott Music Prize is a cash award bestowed to an outstanding composer, performing artist, or music ensemble in classical music—with emphasis, but not mandatory, on contemporary music. From 1986 to 2006, the prize was awarded annua ...

Scholarships

* 2007

Cité internationale des arts The Cité internationale des arts is an artist-in-residence building complex which accommodates artists of all specialities and nationalities in Paris. It comprises two sites, one located in the Marais and the other in Montmartre. Approximately ...

* 2008 Künstlerhof Schreyahn * 2017/2018

Villa Massimo Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo (), is a German cultural institution in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo. The fellowship of the German Academy in Rome, often referred to as the German Rome P ...

Memberships

* 2019

Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg The Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg e.V. is a not-for-profit association of artists, founded in 1950 by the organ-builder and writer Hans Henny Jahnn. It now includes architecture, visual arts, performing arts, literature, media Media ...

Discography

* ''Gordon Kampe: HAL / High Noon: Moskitos / Ripley-Musik V / Qs Nachtstück / Picard / Gassenhauermaschinensuite'' WERGO 2011 (WER 6581 2) * "Nischenmusik mit Klopfgeistern", ''Decoder Ensemble für Aktuelle Musik'', Ahornfelder 2015 (AH27) * "Falsche Lieder", ''Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart: Drama'', col legno 2014 (WWE 1CD 20413) * "heavy metal", ''Beatrix Wagner – Spiegelungen'', Edition Zeitklang (ez 44046) * "zu drei Stücken entzwei", ''Magic Flute Remixed'', GENUIN 2006 (GEN 86078)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kampe, Gordon 1976 births Living people German opera composers German male opera composers 21st-century German classical composers People from Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia Rostock University of Music and Theatre alumni Ruhr University Bochum alumni 21st-century German male musicians