Karsten Gundermann
Biography
Karsten Gundermann (* October 1 1966 in Dresden ) is a German composer . He works as a freelance composer in Hamburg .
He attended the composition class children of Hans Jürgen Wenzel and then studied at the Dresden University of Music in Udo Zimmermann .
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From 1990 he studied at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre in Beijing . In 1993 he composed there the Peking Opera , The Nightingale, based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen . The opera was established in 2010 as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival in the Palais am Zoo Frankfurt listed.
In 2003, he wrote on behalf of the RIAS Chamber Choir and Concerto Köln, the Chinese-German Year and Hours after Goethe's poem of the same cycle. In June 2010, his compositional processing of Le Cinesi, a Baroque opera with music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and a libretto by Pietro Metastasio , premiered at the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival.
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