Volker David Kirchner

Volker David Kirchner (born 25 June 1942 in Mainz) is a German composer and violist.

Biography

Kirchner studied at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1956 to 1969 under Günter Kehr and Günter Raphael. Following this he studied with Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Köln from 1959 to 1963, and then under Tibor Varga at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1964 to 1965, Kirchner played in jazz ensembles in Cologne, and played in several high-level ensembles as a violist, including the hr-Sinfonieorchester in Frankfurt from 1966 to 1988. He moved to Mainz and became a freelance composer in 1989. Invited by Walter Fink, he was the third composer featured in the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1992.

He has written works for musical theater, the Bavarian State Opera, Staatsoper Hannover, Katholikentag, etc. Among awards he has won the 1994 Rheingau Musikpreis of the Rheingau Musik Festival and the 2007 Peter Cornelius Medal.

Selected works

Opera
Sacred music
Orchestra
Concertante
Chamber music
Keyboard

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