'Bad
Boy of Musick' Moritz
Eggert
will take to the C3 stage in Gdansk with the electric guitar duo Shraeng.
Pianist
and composer Moritz
Eggert
was born in Heidelberg in 1965. His works have been honoured
repeatedly, such as with the composition
prize of the Salzburger Osterfestspiele, the Schneider-Schott prize,
the 'Ad Referendum' prize in Montréal, the Siemens
Förderpreis for
young composers, and the Zemlinsky Prize. In 2003 he became a member of
the 'Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste'.
In
1991 he founded the A*Devantgarde festival for new music with Sandeep
Bhagwati. Moritz Eggert’s music has often been at the center
of
media attention. He wrote a soccer
oratorio
and the music for the opening ceremony of the German FIFA World Cup
2006. The German yellow press berated his opera The
Snail
(librettist and director: Hans Neuenfels) as a 'vile porn opera'.
Another of his operas, Freax
(premiere 2007), created a scandal around it’s director
Christoph
Schlingensief. A collage of all 22 Mozart operas for the Salzburger
Festspiele (Oral
Pole Mazy Brats – All Operas by Mozart)
was also greeted with controversial reactions. In recent years he has
also incited a heated discussion on the state of contemporary music,
both as creator of the Bad
Blog of Musick
and in articles and lectures for various publications. Bordellballade is
one of his most recent premieres (first performed at the Kurt Weill
Fest 2010 in Dessau).
www.moritzeggert.de
Shraeng are
Frank Wingold and Ralph Beerkircher: An electric guitar duo that
specifically uses classical playing techniques whilst also making use
of effects and distortions (wahwah pedal, tremolo, modulation).
Unusual interpretations develop, the composed material is handled
freely, rich orchestral sound colours and large dynamic range.
Simultaneously, both musicians are commited to a meticulous and
detailed
performance of the composition.
www.shraeng.de