Volker Blumenthaler

composer & photographer

1985 musical portrait during the exhibiton of Villa Massimo/Rome in Kassel/Germany,
composing project with Hans Werner Henze in Deutschlandberg/Austria

1986 exchange concert Cologne - Amsterdam
"Musikalische Sprachräume" Academie of the Arts Berlin
festival "Active Music" Dortmund/Germany

1990 performances with the compositon lovers maze in USA (New Orleans, Chicago, New York)

1991 Henze-Festival Hamburg/Germany
festival for New Music "Made in Leiden" Leiden/Netherlands

1993 performances in Australia with the Dutch Duo Contemporain
CD Made in Leiden BS-0194

1996 Six-Days-Opera III Nuremberg/Germany (Jason and Medea)
FACETTEN ´96 cultural weeks in Meerbusch/Germany

1997 Bavarian Days of Music Kracow/Poland
musical portait Goethe-Institute of Boston/USA
II Encontro Brasileiro de Clarinetistas, Univeridade de Brasilia/Brasilien,
MUSICA NUOVA FESTIVAL Senigallia/Italy

1994/98 invited to the "International Vacation Course of New Music" in Darmstadt/Germany

2000 CrossSound Festival Juneau-Alaska/USA
"The Singing Garden" Leiden/Netherlands,
Symposion Myriam Marbe Nuremberg/Germany, CD Myriam Marbe and others (marc aurel edition)

2001 change/exchange - ¿Orpheus? project between New York University andHochschule für Musik Nürnberg

2002 EAST-WEST-CAGE / EAST MEETS WEST-TAGE NEUER MUSIK Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg

2003 Project BLASPHEMIE - Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik and Ensemble Phorminx
exchange concert between Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg and the Academy of Music Krakau/Poland
Opera Late Night Staatstheater Nürnberg "Crosssound"

2004 "Rituals and their abstraction in contemporary music" - project with the Ensemble Phorminx and the Cusanus-Werk (Münster, Frantz-Hitze-Haus)
CD 2x2 in cooperation with the composer Cord Meijering

2005 hoti chronos for APOCALYPSE-cycle of Max Beckmann - project with the Ensemble Phorminx
BOTH SIDES (Contemporary Music and Jazz) - TAGE NEUER MUSIK Hochschule für Musik Nuernberg
Seoul/Korea: composition project with Il-Ryun Chung and Cord Meijering, poetry of Korean poets
CD The Japanese Garden BS08-086

2007 LAUTER FARBEN - music and dance for Japanese poems from the 10th century till now (Tage Aktueller Musik Nuernberg)

2008 HENZE-PROJECT Hochschule für Musik Nuernberg in cooperation with the Academy für Tonkunst Darmstadt

2011 concerts with the AsianArtEnsemble Berlin
Taipei/Taiwan-TMC International Music Camp-workshop and lecture

2013 John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium Music and Movement University of New Mexico
Aktuelle Musik 013, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg: chamber opera ...war ein eigensinnig Kind!
Mein Name ist Anne Frank Kantate (Nürnberg and Farmington (Greater Detroit)/USA)
CD Mein Name ist Anne Frank - more MRP-JCN-0113
DVD My name is Anne Frank Berkley High School

2014 literary project with Otto Winzen Ein Piano im Garten: photographs of Verdun and music: altri pensieri (3 pieces for Violoncello Solo)

2015 perfomances of early colours with solists of Ensemble Phorminx and the Art Avenue Company Corporation Ensemble (Daegu/Korea) in Korea, Italy and Germany;
complete version of the chamber opera ...war ein eigensinnig Kind! performed by Kammeroper Reutlingen.

2016 Festival Aktuelle Musik, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg labili arti - carte blanche Portrait Volker Blumenthaler and AsianArtEnsemble Berlin
Erlangen unerhörte Musik with Ensemble Phorminx,
literary project with Otto Winzen: photographs for Camilla auf meinen Füßen MundoNet Publishers Frankfurt,
...war ein eigensinnig Kind! performed in Tübingen and Nürnberg.

2017 literary project with Otto Winzen: photografies for Luther/Luther? MundoNet Publishers Frankfurt
Nuernberg-Leiden: Lover´s Maze - compositions of Burkhardt Soell and Volker Blumenthaler for soprano, piano and violoncello
Berlin: TURBULENZEN-international festival for current intercultural music

2018 literary project with Otto Winzen: photographs for Versuch, seinen Autor zu treffen MundoNet Publishers Berlin,
Trio Schattengeburt in Münster, Rheine, Vreden, Darmstadt und Tübingen performed by Ensemble Phorminx,

2019 Kammeroper Reutlingen: UA Pontormos Schatten chamber opera
literary project with Otto Winzen: photografies for Ein Haus in Berlin MundoNet Publishers Berlin
Exhibitions: Gartengalerie Münster, Galerij Amber - Leiden NL, Le jardin garde le sourire (5 photos)
2020 broadcast production (Bayerischer Rundfunk) of the cycle Drei Farben for French Horn and Violoncello at the abbey of Auhausen (Interprets: Wilfried Krüger/French Horn and Volker Blumenthaler/Violoncello

2021 broadcast portrait (Bayerischer Rundfunk) on the occasion of 70th birthday
literary project with Otto Winzen: photographs for Der letzte Blick MundoNet Publishers Berlin
2022 CD Nachspiele Works for Violoncello and Piano - Volker Blumenthaler-Cello and Uta Walther-Piano
First performances: Wendungen for french horn and accordion (Pegnitzschäfer-Klangkonzepte Nuernberg) innuendo for sheng and string quartett (AsianArt Ensemble Berlin)
literary projects with Otto Winzen: Photografies for Roter Granit Edition 6065
photo book: Yehliu/Taiwan (a photografic journey through a bizarr landscape) edition Blumenthaler Nürnberg
2023 die männer die steine Threnody - dedicated to the homosexual victims of the Nazi regime (text Klaus Missbach, idea Wilfried Krüger, Ensemble Pegnitzschäfer Klangkonzepte in co-production with the Staatstheater Nürnberg) Premiere Nürnberg Nazi Party Rally Grounds/Zeppelin Tribune, literary projects: Photographies for: Hwei-Lee Blumenthaler Chang: You can let go of everything except chopsticks a cookbook with Taiwanese recipes Rubicon Verlag 2023, Otto Winzen: Krummer Wald Edition 6065