Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka
Biography
Before he became known as an Oscar-nominated composer, producer and pianist, Volker Bertelmann had long been keen to absorb countless influences and push his creative limits, experimenting at an early age already with just how different he could make the piano sound through preparations.
Discography
Solo
(selection)
A Different Forest, 2019
Sony Classical
What If, 2017
City Slang, Temporary Residence
A NDO CY, 2015
Temporary Residence
Abandoned City, 2014
City Slang
Foreign Landscapes, 2010
Label: Fat Cat
Snowflakes & Car Wrecks, 2009
Label: Fat Cat
Ferndorf, 2008
Label: Fat Cat
Room To Expand, 2007
Label: Fat Cat
Versions Of The Prepared Piano – Remixes, 2007
Various Artists
Label: Karaoke Kalk
The Prepared Piano, 2005
Label: Karaoke Kalk
Substantial, 2004
Label: Karaoke Kalk
Band
Tonetraeger: „Wortbrot“, 2007
OST: Hauschka & Torsten Mauss
Label: Strawberry Kills
Music A.M.: „Unwound From The Wood”, 2006
Production and Music: Hauschka, Luke Sutherland, Stefan Schneider
Label: Quatermass
Music A.M.: „My City Glittered Like A Breaking Wave”, 2005
Production and Music: Hauschka, Luke Sutherland, Stefan Schneider
Label: Quatermass
Music A.M.: „A Heart & Two Stars“, 2004
Production and Music: Hauschka, Luke Sutherland, Stefan Schneider
Label: Quatermass
Tonetraeger: „This Is Not Here“, 2004
Production and Music: Hauschka & Torsten Mauss
Label: Quatermass
Tonetraeger: „Spieleabend“, 2002
Production and Music: Hauschka & Torsten Mauss
Label: Spinner Ace Records
Orchestral Works
Materials, 2016
for prepared piano, percussion, string ensemble and tape
Commissioned by Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen
I Slag and Coke
II Phase Transition 1
III Octenol
IV Phase Transition 2
V Iron
World Premiere: 20 January 2017
Zeche Zollverein, Essen
Hauschka, prepared piano
Kai Angermann, percussion
WARPED TYPE - Andreas Huck, Roland Nebe, visuals
Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen
Johannes Klumpp, conductor
7 separate pieces, each with a different orchestration:
I - In Daylight (múm)
II - In Rippling Ink (Hauschka)
III - In a Bathtub on a Hilltop (múm)
V - In Anonymous Waves (múm)
VI - In Hushed Decent (Hauschka)
Gewandhaus Leipzig
orchestral work in 3 movements, approx. 30 minutes
Gewandhaus Leipzig
2. From Ashes (for large orchestra)
MDR Radio Choir
MDR Symphony Orchestra
conductor: Kristjan Järvi
World Premiere 11 September 2014
Jazzfest Leipzig
conductor Kristjan Järvi
Madeira
Jazzfest Leipzig
conductor Kristjan Järvi
Penn Station
World Premiere 11 September 2014
Jazzfest Leipzig
conductor Kristjan Järvi
World Premiere 11 September 2014
Jazzfest Leipzig
conductor Kristjan Järvi
Film
Directed by Joe Penna
Your Honor, 2020
Directed by Edward Berger
Directed by Franka Potente
Directed by Franics Lee
co-composed w/ Dustin O'Halloran
Directed by Caroline Link
Directed by Alla Kovgan
Directed by Haifaa Al Mansour
Directed by Rob Petit
Directed by Hank Levine
Directed by Nick Murphy
Music co-composed w/ Dustin O'Halloran
Directed by Saul Dibb a.o.
Directed by Giacomo Battiato
Directed by Simon Curtis
Directed by Edward Berger
Animation, Short
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Director: Vanessa Jopp
Gunpowder, 2017
Director: J Blakeson
Patrick Melrose, 2017
Director: Edward Berger
Director: Anthony Maras
Director: Greg Kohs
Director: Marius Markevicius
Director: James Franco
Director: Garth Davis
Nominations "Best Original Score": Golden Globe, BAFTA Award, Oscar
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Director: Craig MacNeill
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Director: Stephanie Martin
Director: Doris Dörrie
Actor & Music: Hauschka
Film Score: Hauschka & Torsten Mauss
Theatre
The Ballad of the Flying Dutchman, 2014
Director: Sebastian Baumgarten
based on Hauff, Heine, Hudtwalcker, Fitzball, Marryat and Wagner
Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
Puppen, 2011
Director: Kevin Rittberger
Music: Hauschka and Stefan Schneider
Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
Die Marquise von O., 2010
Director: Kevin Rittberger
Text: Heinrich von Kleist
Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen
Wagner-Hörschule, 2006
Director: Sebastian Baumgarten
Remix of Parsifal
Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
Dance
Kampnagel Hamburg
Choreography: Lukáš Timulak
Choreography: Alexandra Waierstall
Composition: Volker Bertelmann
Beethovenfest Bonn
Choreography: Alexandra Waierstall
Composition and piano: Volker Bertelmann/ Hauschka
tanzhaus nrw
EXIT Festival International, MAC Créteil (2014)
Gdansk Dance Festival (2014)
ZKM Karlsruhe (2014)
Dresden Music Festival (2018)
Choreography: Stephen Shropshire
Theater Augsburg
ORCHESTRAL WORK
MATERIALS
Commissioned by Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen
Commissioned by Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen, Volker Bertelmann’s composition for prepared piano, percussion and string orchestra had its world premiere at Zeche Zollverein in January 2017 in a former coal mine with steel plant and was performed in Hellerau and Berlin in June and July 2017. The work reflects on phase transitions between solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter and is staged with live visuals by WARPED TYPE.
Materials, 2016
for prepared piano, percussion, string ensemble and tape
Commissioned by Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen
I Slag and Coke
II Phase Transition 1
III Octenol
IV Phase Transition 2
V Iron
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World Premiere: 20 January 2017
Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Hauschka, prepared piano
Kai Angermann, percussion
WARPED TYPE - Andreas Huck, Roland Nebe, live visuals
Folkwang Kammerorchester Essen
Johannes Klumpp, conductor
Further dates:
15 June 2017, Festspielhaus Hellerau w/ MDR Symphony Orchestra
13 July 2017, Neue Meister concert series w/ Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin
14 January 2018 w/ Szczecin Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Hall, Szczecin, Poland
ORCHESTRAL WORK
CASCADES
Commissioned by mdr, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
The fundamental, melancholic feeling of being in a state of floating, somewhere indefinable between loss and departure, was the subject of Hauschka's to date most comprehensive orchestra work "Cascades". Significantly, this triptych starts with the end. Loss, death, stand here at the beginning. The words "Nothing left. I lost everything." are spread by the choir in countless repetitions in a wide layer. For the middle part "From Ashes", the sound searcher Hauschka found an icily cold, crystal-clear string sound. The final movement "Perspective" for orchestra and choir is then anything but a celebratory symphonic finale. The music puts a question mark at the end of the optimistic words the text "Now, now future’s coming", the choir gets lost in unarticulated murmuring. "In this way 'perspective' is at the same time the start of loss", writes the composer. Beginning and end come together, another circle closes.
(Taken from a text on Hauschka’s orchestral work by music publicist Ilja Stephan, translation: Phil Cooksey)
CASCADES (2014, orchestral work in 3 movements)
World premiere: 20 January 2015, Gewandhaus Leipzig
1. Loss (for large mixed choir)
2. From Ashes (for large orchestra)
3. Perspective (for large orchestra and mixed choir)
Hauschka: piano
MDR Radio Choir
MDR Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Kristjan Järvi