Christian Jost

Christian Jost

Born: October 17th, 1963
Country of origin: Germany

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Heart Sutra
Conductor: Christian Jost
November 20th, 2013 | Neues Theater - Halle - Germany

Rumor
Conductor: Yordan Kamdzhalov
March 21st, 2014 | Theater - Heidelberg - Germany

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Chronology

1963
Born in Trier on 17 October
1983-88
Studies composition with Bojidar Dimov in Cologne
1988/89
Studies compositiion and conducting with David Sheinfeld at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Scholarships of the Stiftung Kulturfonds des Deutschen Volkes and the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (Foundation of Arts and Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia)
1989
World premiere of "fragile eggshell mind" for speaker and chamber ensemble in San Francisco
1994
World premiere of "Odyssée surréale" for 23 solo strings at the Internationale Fredener Musiktage
1996-98
Travels regularly to the People's Republic of China and works intensively with various Chinese orchestra
1997
World premiere of "TiefenRausch" for violin and orchestra in Koblenz
1999/2000
First "Composer in Residence" of the Bonn Beethovenhalle Orchestra: world premiere of "The End of the Game" for large-scale orchestra

World premiere of "Paradox" for soprano, cor anglais, viola, violoncello and piano in Berlin
2001
World premiere of the music drama "Phoenix resurrexit" at the festival Mittelrhein Musik Momente

First concert performance of the one-act opera "Death Knocks" based on Woody Allen's play of the same named in Hannover

World premiere of "DiesIrae", concerto for trombone and orchestra in Saarbrücken and of "KOMA" for mezzosoprano and piano in Bern
2002
World premiere of the percussion concerto "Cosmodromion" in Stettin
2003
Encouragement Award of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation

World premiere of "LuxAeterna", concerto for saxophone and orchestra in Den Haag
2003/04
"Composer in Residence" of the Weimar Staatskapelle, world premiere of "CocoonSymphony" for orchestra
2004/05
"Composer in Residence" of the Düsseldorf Deutsche Oper am Rhein: world premiere of the opera "Vipern - eine mörderische Begierde in 4 Akten" (commissioned by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in a co-production with the Berne City Theatre)

"Composer in Residence" of the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz: first performance of the complete Requiem trilogy ("Pietà", "DiesIrae", LuxAeterna")

First scenic performance of the one-act opera "Death Knocks" at the Erfurt Theatre
2006
World premieres of the choral opera "ANGST - 5 Pforten einer Reise in das Innere der Angst" in Berlin, of the orchestral work "Miserere" in Kaiserslautern and "Mozart's 13097 Tag", Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in Winterthur
2007
World premieres "Konzert für Orchester" in Brüssel and of the clarinet concerto "Heart of Darkness" in Berlin, as well as "Sepulchral City" for clarinet, violoncello and piano at the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival
2008
World premiere of the opera "Die arabische Nacht" at the Theatre of Essen
2008/09
"Composer in Residence" of the Berlin Komische Oper

World premieres of the orchestral work "Suspense" in Bremen, of the opera "Hamlet" at the Berlin Komische Oper and of the orchestral work "CodeNine" at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival
2009
The opera "Hamlet" is elected to the world premiere of the year by the journal "Opernwelt"
2010/11
"Composer in Residence" at the Theater Dortmund
2011
World premières of the concertino for violin and chamber orchestra "Der Zaubergarten" at the AUDI Sommerkonzerte Ingolstadt and of the children's opera "Mikropolils" at the Komische Oper Berlin
2012
World premières of the opera "Rumor" at the Vlaamse Opera Antwerp, of the dance theatre "DnA" at the Oper Graz and of the orchestral work "Taipei Horizon" in Amsterdam
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The composer and conductor Christian Jost lives in Berlin.