Bernhard Kießig
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- Jazz pianist
- Composer
- Academic teacher
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- The Academic Project
- Staatstheater Darmstadt
- Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main
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Bernhard Kießig is a German pianist, especially jazz pianist, composer and lecturer. He composed part of the oratorio Eins for Ökumenischer Kirchentag 2021.
Career
Kießig studied Protestant church music and jazz piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, on a scholarship of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung. He was a recipient of prizes of both Jugend musiziert and Jugend jazzt, and played in the Landesjugendjazzorchester Hesse. He founded a jazz quartet, The Academic Project, supported by the "Live Music Now" foundation, and recognised in the Frankfurt jazz scene. He worked at the Staatstheater Darmstadt as pianist and repetiteur for opera and ballet. In 2013, Kießig became referent for pop music at the Evangelische Landeskirche in Hessen und Nassau. Beginning in 2018, he has also worked as pianist for the dance faculty at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt.
He was commissioned to compose parts of the oratorio Eins for Ökumenischer Kirchentag 2021 in Frankfurt. It was published by the Dehm-Verlag and first performed in a livestream concert on 4 May 2021, with Kießig as the pianist.
Works
- Eins, oratorio, a 2021 collaboration for the Ökumenischer Kirchentag 2021 in Frankfurt
References
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| url = https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kultur/oratorium-eins-von-peter-reulein-und-bernhard-kiessig-17337519.html
| title = Oratorium "Eins" : Ein Gott, ein Glaube, eine Taufe
| newspaper = FAZ
| date = 13 May 2021
| language = de
| access-date = 4 June 2021
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| url = https://www.dehm-verlag.de/shop/mc-eins.asp
| title = EINS / Ökumenisches Oratorium in vier Bildern für Solisten, Chor, Orchester und Band
| publisher = Dehm Verlag
| date = 2021
| language = de
| access-date = 4 June 2021
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| url = https://www.hfmdk-frankfurt.info/index.php?id=528&no_cache=1&tx_mnmportrait_pi1%5Buid%5D=6104
| title = Bernhard Kießig / Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben
| publisher = Musikhochschule Frankfurt
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| access-date = 28 June 2021
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| url = https://www.oekt.de/presse/nachrichten/pm-digitale-urauffuehrung
| title = Digitale Uraufführung / Oratorium EINS
| publisher = Ökumenischer Kirchentag 2021
| date = 8 March 2021
| language = de
| access-date = 28 June 2021
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External links
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- [https://archiv.luminale.de/en/projects/1000-and-1-years/ 1000 and 1 Years] archiv.luminale.de 18 March 2018
- Bernhard Kießig: [https://www.popularmusik-nordkirche.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Bernhard-Kiessig-zur-Monatslied-Wirkanalyse.pdf Einschätzung zum Monatslied-Projektder Nordkirchebezogen auf dessenWirkanalyse] (in German) popularmusik-nordkirche.de April 2021
- [http://www.trumpetmeetsorgan.de/beschreibung Trumpet meets Organ] (in German) trumpetmeetsorgan.de
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Category:German classical composers
Category:German male conductors (music)
Category:Composers of Christian music
Category:Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts alumni
Category:Academic staff of the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts
Category:Musicians from Frankfurt
Category:21st-century German classical composers
Category:21st-century German conductors (music)
Category:21st-century German composers
Category:German male classical composers
Category:20th-century German male musicians