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  Theodor Ross

Biographical Notes

1947

ab 1967

: born in Snedwinkula, Münsterland

: studies music in Cologne, later Vienna

 

 

 

Stage music
since 1968 ca. 80 productions and acoustic stage design for the Schauspielhaus Köln, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Schillertheater Berlin ...
among other things for Augusto Fernandez-productions like Perikles by Shakespeare, Hamburg (ZDF-Produktion), Das große Welttheater by Calderon de la Barca, Ein Traumspiel by Strindberg, both in Berlin, Königsblut by Ibsen, Hamburg
an other stage directors like Karl-Heinz Stroux, Elmar Gehlen, Ulrich Heising, Wolf Stresemann
 
Ensemble work
since 1969 member of the Kölner Ensemble für Neue Musik
hundreds of concerts with Mauricio Kagel, f.e.1973 South-east-Asia-Tour,1974 Southamerika-Northamerika-Canada-Tour; solo performance as musician and music actor at radio-, record-, CD- and TV-productions of Kagel´s work: for example Blues Blue (1980) with Jean-Francois Jenny-Clark and Michel Portal at the Berliner Jazztagen (Philharmonie) and as TV-production of the Swiss TV
member of the Ensembles musica negativa, Zürich, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Rainer Riehn, five concerts at Bienale Venedig 1970
1974 founding member of the Ensembles Pantomimusitäten with Wilhelm Bruck and Elmar Gehlen; Tours and performances in Europa, for example London-Mime-Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Bienale München (1994), Mexicotour, Festival Guanajuato; TV-productions in Mexiko (Canale Once) and Zagreb
from 1978 concerts in France, Italy, Germany with Musique Vivante, Paris
from 1979 in Stockhausen-Ensemble, piece for guitar in Der Jahreslauf/Dienstag aus Licht; Record at Deutsche Grammophon 1981, German gramophone prize; concerts: WDR Köln, Châtelet Paris, Holland-Festival Amsterdam (1992), Alte Oper Frankfurt (1991), Foundation Gulbenkian, Lissabon (1992), Oper Leipzig (1993), etc.
 
1983 Ensemble Intercontemporaine, Paris, Pierre Boulez
1992 founding member of the Vierten Sparte in Staatstheater Kassel and performances during DOCUMENTA IX
 
Orchestral work
since 1996 guitarist in Symphony Orchestra des WDR Köln; worked with nearly every German Radio Symphony orchestras (guitar, E-guitar, E-bass and banjo-pieces)
world premieres of Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Helmut Lachenmann, Alfred Schnittke, Rolf Riehm, Frank Martin, Vinko Globokar and many others...
conductors: Steven Forster, Michael Gielen, Pierre Boulez, Rafael Kubelik, Lothar Zagrozek, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Gary Bertini, Inbal ...

Orchestratours in Europe, Japan, Israel

   
Aurel Nicolet, B.Altmann, Pierre Boulez, Theodor Ross: von Hans Zumsteg    
     
Literary work
-since 1971 Der Flopstock, short radio play for the WDR; Der Flopstock was printed in Neue Züricher Zeitung
-since 1982 ca. 80 privat books as unique or with minimal number of copies (ca. 2-120 copies)
-Zeitzeichen, WDR: Andres Segovia, 1983
1990 radio play as introduction to the scenical composition Das ist kein Weinen, er singt..., Radio Bremen
for the DuMont Buchverlag (publishing house): Mauricio Kagel, Nachruf zu Lebzeiten, (Kagel.../1991)
Formerinnerung for a painter, musician and actor, world première: 1994 Posnang, Polen:
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ein musikalisches Abenteuer für Kinder im Hartmann&Stauffacher-Verlag (publishing house): order work for the Niederrheinfestival 1996
the scenical documentation Georg Trakl: Offenbarung und Untergang;
1999 the texts Kabarett oder Intelligenz macht geil; Biographical things about Lisa Fitz and a description of her work titled wie is´n die in echt
 
Bruck-Ross Duo
1972 foundation of Wilhelm Bruck-Theodor Ross Duo

 
Solo work as guitarist
for example solist in Hans Werner Henze´s Sinfonia 6, world première Munich 1972, conductor: Rafael Kubelik
Soloconcerts and radio productions Old and New Music
1977 Solotour Turkey, member of honour in the Philharmonical Company Ankara
Filmmusic
since 1976 music for TV-movies and documentations by Anne Dorn, Domnik, Roland etc., WDR cologne
 
Arrangements
1980 Beatles for Classic Guitar Universal-Edition Vienna,
Jacques Offenbach-arangements:
- Dialogues: Ba.Ta-Clan for the Staatsoper Hamburg 1983
- Daphnis und Cloe for actors and multiinstrumental quartet, Deutsches Theater Göttingen, 1985
- Orpheus in der Unterwelt for actors and multiinstrumental trio, Landestheater Kreis Wesel 1997
 
Music for radio plays
1987 for Ich küsse ihren Hund, Madame... by Ludwig Fels, direction: Ulrich Heising, SFB Berlin
order compositions:
- for musica nova Bremen: Das ist kein Weinen, er singt...for three actors, trombone, percussion and three basses, world première 1990
- Smog-Box for live-heartbeat, actors, piano, guitar, percussion- world première 1992
- Musikdramulett for two music actors, Festival der Neuen Kammermusik Hannover
 
Theatre productions
Ross, Formerinnerung, 1994 (direction,music), worls première Posnang Poland
Landestheater im Kreis Wesel:
- Schiller, Die Braut von Messina 1996 (direction, stage set, music)
- Molière, Die Zwangsheirat, 1996 (direction, stage set, music)
- Ross, Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1996 (the same)
- Wedekind, Sex,Politik, Gewalt, 1997 (the same.)
- Platen, Der romantische Oedipus, 1997 (direction, stage set with Andreas Auffenberg, music)
- Machiavelli, Mandragora, 1998 (direction, stage set, music)

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