Martin Christoph Redel (born 30 January 1947) is a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

music theorist Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. '' The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the " rudiments", that ...

percussionist A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

and university teacher.

Life

Martin Christoph Redel was born in Detmold on 30 January 1947 as the son of the flutist Kurt Redel and the pianist Erika Redel-Seidler. He studied percussion with Friedrich Scherz and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn,

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and

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at the ''Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie'' (today: ''

Hochschule für Musik Detmold The Hochschule für Musik Detmold is a university-level music school situated in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Academics The Hochschule offers performance degrees in composition, all orchestral instruments, piano, voice, opera, ar ...

''). He then continued his studies at the ''

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'' with

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. In 1971 he became a lecturer in music theory and ear training at the Detmold Academy of Music. In 1979 he was appointed professor of composition and Redel led the Detmold Academy as rector from 1993 to 2001. In this capacity, he was also chairman of the Rectors' Conference of Germany's conservatoires and vice-president of the Association Européen des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC). From 1992 to 2004, Redel was President of

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Germany, which subsequently appointed him its Honorary President and on whose behalf he directed the composition courses for young people at Schloss Weikersheim for more than 40 years. His works have been interpreted by soloists such as Wolfgang Boettcher, Jörg Brückner,

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, Thomas Christian,

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, Diemut Poppen,

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, Kurt Redel, Gerhild Romberger,

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, Hariolf Schlichtig, Wen-Sinn Yang or

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. Conductors such as

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, Räto Tschupp, Gilbert Varga and

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(among others) have conducted performances of Redel's works. He has performed with the

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, the Bavarian, Central German and North German Radio Symphony Orchestras, the

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, the Basel Radio Orchestra, the State Theatre Orchestras of Wiesbaden and Darmstadt, the Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne and the chamber orchestras of Munich, Heilbronn, Stuttgart, Pforzheim and Detmold. Chamber music and chamber ensembles such as the "ars nova ensemble" (Nuremberg), Brandis-Quartett, "das neue werk" (Hamburg), Ensemble Horizonte (Detmold), Ensemble Slavko Osterc (Ljubljana), Scharoun-Ensemble (Berlin), The Boston Musica Viva (Boston) or Trio Jean Paul played premieres and first performances. Portrait concerts and lectures have taken him to the conservatoires in Bremen, Dresden, Lübeck, Munich and Saarbrücken, the

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, the conservatoires in Łodz and Wrozław (Poland), the Birmingham Conservatoire of Music (UK), the '' Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa'' (Portugal), the ''

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'' (Santiago de Chile), Sangmyung University in Seoul (Korea) and the Music Department of Colorado College in Colorado Springs (USA). As a composer, Martin Christoph Redel gained national and international recognition early on. His catalogue of works currently (2022) includes 97 works (orchestral works, chamber music, solo works for various instruments and vocal music).''Werkeverzeichnis''
on https://martin-redel.de He has also appeared as a percussionist.

Awards

* 1971: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff Prize of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe * 1972: Promotion Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Music * 1972: Promotion Prize of the State Capital Stuttgart (''Dispersion for chamber ensemble'') * 1973: Promotion Prize for Young Artists of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia * 1977: Promotion Prize of the Composition Prize of the Walter Kaminski Memorial Foundation (''String Quartet II'') * 1977: Promotion Prize of the City of Mannheim for Young Artists (together with

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) * 1977: Special Prize of the Music Critics at the "''Rassegna Internazionale Gino Marinuzzi per Giovani Compositori''" in San Remo/Italy (''Strophes for Orchestra'') * 1978: Composition Prize of the "''Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker''" (''String Quartet II'') * 1978: Promotion Prize of the Cultural Prize Silesia of the State of Lower Saxony * 1978: "''Mention d'Honneur''" at the Prix Arthur Honegger, Paris (''String Quartet II'') * 2008: "''Menzione speciale"'' at the ''6° Concorso Internazionale di composizione "Romualdo Marenco"'', Novi Ligure/Italy (''Sonnet pour cornet'') * 2010: "''Menzione speciale''" at the ''8° Concorso Internazionale di Composizione "Romualdo Marenco"'', Novi Ligure/Italy (''Maskerade for alto saxophone solo'') * 2014: 1st prize at the ''12° Concorso Internazionale di composizione "Romualdo Marenco"'', Novi Ligure/Italy (''TrombOnly. Solo for tenor trombone'') * 2019: 2nd prize at the composition competition of the XX Weimar Spring Days for Contemporary Music (''Disput for horn and orchestra''). No first prize was awarded. * 2020: "Mullord Award" (2nd prize) at the International Composition Competition of the Álvarez Camber Orchestra (London) for "''Ferne Nähe - Requiem für Streichorchester''" op. 91 (2017/18).

References

External links

*
''Werkeverzeichnis von Martin Christoph Redel''
on ''Klassika.info''
Website of Martin Christoph Redel
{{Authority control German composers 1947 births Living people Music theorists 20th-century German musicologists