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 Franke, Bernd

BIOGRAPHY
  WORKS
Bernd Franke (b.1959)

1959 Born in Weissenfels/Saale
Studied at the Leipzig Conservatory “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“: Composition (Siegfried Thiele) and Conducting (Wolf-Dieter Hauschild)

1980-83 Foundation and Direction of the Group „Junge Musik“ Leipzig

1981-85 Meisterschüler (Senior Student) Academy of Arts, Berlin

since 1981 Lecturer at Leipzig University and Leipzig Conservatory (FMB)

1981 Hanns Eisler Prize and Mendelssohn Scholarship

1987 Composition Prizes: 9. Internationales Kompositionsseminar der Stiftung Künstlerhaus Boswil (Switzerland), Kucyna International Composition Prize Boston (USA)
since 1987 several workshops at the Stiftung Künstlerhaus Boswil (Switzerland)

1988 Composer Workshop, Gaudeamus Foundation Amsterdam (collaboration with Ton de Leeuw and Chu Wen Chung)

starts cycle half-way house - SOLO XFACH (for Joseph Beuys) with Solo 3fach

1989 Leonard Bernstein Fellowship, Tanglewood Music Center (USA) (Study with Leonard Bernstein, Lukas Foss, Louis Krasner and Oliver Knussen)

1993 Lecture tours/workshops in Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Carrollton, Minneapolis (USA)

1994 Jury member, “Münchener Biennale für Neues Musiktheater" at the invitation of Hans Werner Henze
Lecture and concert tours (Goethe-Institute) in Atlanta (USA)

1996 Lectures and concert tours in Atlanta und Jacksonville (USA)

1996-98 Artistic Director "Neue Musik in der Galerie Beck" Leipzig/Düsseldorf

1998 Foundation of Ensemble SOLO XFACH for authentic performance of works in the growing cycle half - way house - SOLO XFACH (for Joseph Beuys)

2000 First production with the Ensemble SOLO XFACH with Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt
half - way house - SOLO XFACH Porträtkonzert on the 15 October in the Deutscher Pavillon of the EXPO 2000 in Hanover with the Ensemble SOLO XFACH

2001 starts with the new cycle CUT

2002 new publisher with C.F. Peters Frankfurt-New York-London exclusively
Member of the Akademie der Künste in Dresden
Projects for the Goethe Institute in New York and Toronto world premières in New York, Pittsburgh, Saarbrücken, Leipzig

2003 Composer of the Year at the Kaustinen Festival in Finland

2004 starts with the new cycle LINES
http://www.berndfranke.de/


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