Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann

Born: June 19th, 1973
Country of origin: Germany

Upcoming:

Eleven Humoresques
May 30th, 2012 | Robert-Schumann-Saal - Düsseldorf - Germany

Five Fragments
June 15th, 2012 | Musikhochschule, Kammermusiksaal - Stuttgart - Germany

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Chronology

1973

Born in Munich on 19 June
from 1984

Studies composition with Kay Westermann in Munich
from 1986
Studies clarinet at the Munich Hochschule für Musik
1994-95
Studies clarinet with Charles Neidich at the New York Juilliard School of Music
1994-96
Studies composition with Hans Werner Henze and Wilfried Hiller in Munich
1996
Cultural Encouragement Award from the City of Munich
1997
Bavarian State Award for Young Artists
1997-99

Studies composition with Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe

1998

Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music, Forberg-Schneider Foundation

2001

Louis Spohr Medal, Seesen

 
 
from 2001

Professor of clarinet at the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik

2002

Schneider-Schott Music Award, Mainz

Hindemith Prize, Schleswig-Holstein

 

2003

Encouragement Award, Ernst-von-Siemens Music Foundation

Honorary Award, Munich Opera Festival

Das Gesicht im Spiegel selected as the most important world premiere of the 2003/04 season by Opernwelt magazine

2004

Arnold Schoenberg Prize, Vienna Schoenberg Centre and the Berlin German Symphony Orchestra

2005

Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

 
2006

Composition Award, SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg for 'Zweites Labyrinth'

Claudio Abbado Composition Award, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Academy

2007

Music Award, Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation

2008
Residency in Dubai, supported by the Simens Arts Program
2009
Elise L. Stoeger Prize of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, New York