Ludger Vollmer
About Ludger Vollmer
As a composer, the opera is my strongest weapon. The opera is prospering. There is no place that is not affected by its force. (Ludger vollmer)
Born 1961 in Berlin, Ludger Vollmer began his career as an engineer before he decided to study music in 1984. He studied violin, viola and composition in Weimer and Leipzig and graduated in 1990. Member of several professional orchestras he took lessons in improvisation in Leipzig and achieved a degree in educational improvisation in 1998. At the same time he visited masterclasses in composition with Alfred Schnittke and Dmitrj Terzakis. 1997 he was nominated for a scholarship for Villa Massimo in Rome.
Vollmer's works range from sacred music and world music projects including improvisations to large-scale opera. Among his stage works are Gegen die Wand ("Against the Wall") after the same-named film by Turkish director Faith Akin, the youth opera Border after Euripides and Lola rennt ("Run, Lola, Run"), based on the same-named film by tom Tykwer. The abuse of religion and its violent consequences are the topic of his opera Crusades premiered at the Freiburg Theatre in 2017. The same year, the theatre of Hagen presented the "Road Opera" Tschick, Vollmer's setting of the eponymous successful novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf. In 2019, Vollmer's opera The Circle, a musical version of Dave Eggers' novel of the same name, premiered at the Deutsche Nationaltheater in Weimar.
In the composition of his music theatre works, Vollmer developed his compositional technique F.R.A.M.E. ("Fast Rhythm Advanced Music Experience"), a musical-dramatic structure characterised by a succession of short scenes and sharply accentuated rhythms.
Ludger Vollmer was awarded the European Tolerance Award in 2009 for Gegen die Wand ("Against the Wall"). On the occasion of the European Capital of Culture year 2010, the production of the world premiere was invited to Istanbul. He received the Weimar Prize in 2014, and the Thüringen Composition Award 2017. In 2020, Vollmer was elected President of the State Music Council Hamburg. He lives and works in Hamburg.
Worklist
Chronology
ab dem siebenten Lebensjahr Violinunterricht an der Musikschule Berlin-Köpenick
Mitglied des Jugend-Sinfonieorchesters Berlin-Köpenick
daneben privates Aufbaustudium im Fach Viola bei Prof. Heinz Rudolf, Hochschule für Musik Dresden
rege Kammermusiktätigkeit
Heirat mit der Violinistin und Instrumentalpädagogin Friedrun Vollmer geb. Minor, zusammen haben sie fünf Kinder
Besuch von Seminaren bei Prof. Alfred Schnittke, Hochschule für Musik Hamburg
erfolgreiche Teilnahme an verschiedenen Kompositionswettbewerben
Abschluss der Hochschulstudien mit dem Konzertexamen im Fach Komposition und dem Erwerb der Diplome für Komposition sowie Pädagogik der Improvisation
Mexico-Tournee mit dem Tanztheater "Der Dreispitz"
Lehrtätigkeit als Gast an der staatlichen Hochschule Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli in Mexico City
Studienaufenthalt in Istanbul
Beginn der Arbeiten zur Oper "Gegen die Wand" nach dem Film von Fatih Akin
Einladung der Bremer Produktion der Oper "Gegen die Wand" in die europäische Kulturhauptstadt Istanbul anlässlich des Kulturstadtjahres 2010
Weimarpreis 2014
Uraufführung der Oper The Circle, eine Vertonung des gleichnamigen Romans von Dave Eggers am Deutschen Nationaltheater in Weimar
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