Sarah Nemtsov
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Sarah Nemstov is a German composer.
Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg and started her music lessons and composing aged eight. She started playing the oboe aged 14.
She studied composition under Nigel Osborne
and Johannes Schöllhorn, and oboe under Klaus Becker, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. At the Universität der Künste Berlin, she continued her oboe studies under Burkhard Glaetzner, and her composition at post-graduate level with Walter Zimmermann
.
Her second opera, L'Absence, to her own libretto after Edmond Jabès
will be premiered at the 2012 Munich Biennale
.
She became a full-time composer in 2007. She is married to the pianist and musicologist Jascha Nemtsov.
Nemtsov was born in Oldenburg and started her music lessons and composing aged eight. She started playing the oboe aged 14.
She studied composition under Nigel Osborne
Nigel Osborne
Nigel Osborne MBE, FRCM is a British composer.He serves as Reid Professor of music at the University of Edinburgh and has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.He studied composition with Kenneth Leighton ,...
and Johannes Schöllhorn, and oboe under Klaus Becker, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. At the Universität der Künste Berlin, she continued her oboe studies under Burkhard Glaetzner, and her composition at post-graduate level with Walter Zimmermann
Walter Zimmermann
Walter Zimmermann is a German composer.Zimmermann studied composition in Germany with Werner Heider and Mauricio Kagel, the theory of musical intelligence at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht , and computer music at Colgate University in New York.Zimmerman's works are infused by a personal...
.
Her second opera, L'Absence, to her own libretto after Edmond Jabès
Edmond Jabes
----Edmond Jabès was a Jewish writer and poet, and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II.- Life :...
will be premiered at the 2012 Munich Biennale
Munich Biennale
The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...
.
She became a full-time composer in 2007. She is married to the pianist and musicologist Jascha Nemtsov.
Stage works
| Premiere | Title | Description | Libretto and source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan 2006, Alte Zeche, Barsinghausen Barsinghausen Barsinghausen is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the Deister chain of hills approx. 20 km west of Hanover... , (original version); 24 Nov 2009, Hubert-Burda-Saal, Munich (revised version) |
Herzland | Chamber opera in five acts, 30' | after the correspondence between Paul Celan Paul Celan Paul Celan was a poet and translator... and Gisèle Celan-Lestrange |
| 3 May 2012, Munich Biennale Munich Biennale The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over... |
L'Absence | Opera in five acts with prologue and epilogue | the composer, after Livre des Questions by Edmond Jabès Edmond Jabes ----Edmond Jabès was a Jewish writer and poet, and one of the best known literary figures to write in French after World War II.- Life :... |
External sites
- Sarah Nemtsov official website