Ernst Ueckermann

Ernst Ueckermann

Ernst Ueckermann (Estcourt, 1954) is a South African composer and pianist.

His formal music studies were conducted at the Johannesburg Art School, Royal College and Royal Academy of Music in London, Musikhochschulen Wuerzburg and Freiburg Germany, with Professors Kirsti Hjort, Bertold Hummel and Helmut Barth. He has participated in numerous master classes with members of the Melos Ensemble, Brahms Trio, Moscow piano trio and some of the world’s foremost pianists.

His pianistic career gained momentum during his student years culminating into a busy international career. Concerts and recordings have been done in many capitals all over the globe as soloist, with diverse chamber music ensembles, and as accompanist. Compact disks, radio productions and Television concerts have also been produced for amongst other; the Bavarian Broadcasting Company, West German Radio and Television, Swiss Radio (Zuerich), Rádio Portugal, Azores Television, Korean Television, Adv Vienna and Television Cultura in Brazil.

Ernst Ueckermann’s compositions cover works for orchestra, chamber music, solo pieces and four song cycles, several of which have been commissioned. He received composition prizes in 1980 and 1982. Numerous compositions have been recorded by diverse broadcasting companies and have been performed at international festivals. His work which includes three manuals on "Creative Harmony" is published by the Braun-Peretti Verlag Bonn.

He currently lectures composition techniques at the University of Cologne and heads a piano and chamber music class at the Musikhochschule Wuerzburg.

Publications

Kammermusik for String-trio, Woodwinds, Vibraphon, Cembalo and Doublebass

1978

               Wuerzburg
               Production1978

Kaleb for two Pianos

1978

               Wuerzburg
               Production1978

Le dormeur du val for Voice, Marimba

               and Doublebass.

1986 Freiburg 

                                                               Commission for the
               international Doublebass Festival.
                                                               Production 1998

Le Mal for Voice, Marimba and Doublebass

1995 Wuerzburg

                                                               Production 1998

Xosha-Xosha

               for Violoncello and Piano

1994 Mannheim

                                                               CD Production 1997
                                                               Published 2000 Verlag Braun-Peretti

Endzeit

               for Violoncello and Piano

1994 Mannheim

                                                               CD Production 1997
                                                               Published 2000 Verlag Braun-Peretti

Prelude for Piano and Choir

                  Commissioned by the Frankfurter Gesellschaft fuer
                  Literatur und Musik for the Heine centenary

1997 Wiesbaden

               CD Production 1997

Zwei

               Gesaenge

1982

               Wuerzburg
               Production 1982

Japanischer

               Liederzyklus

BR Production 1998

Japanese songcycle

BR Production 1998

Kreative

               Harmonielehre

Published 1999 Verlag

               Braun-Peretti

External links

* Website: Ernst Ueckermann
* DREAMS / Contrabaixo Ibero-Americano

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