Composer
Biography:
Thomas Blomenkamp has worked as a freelance composer and pianist since completing his studies in 1982 and lives with his wife, the soprano Dorothee Wohlgemuth, and their children Leah and Aaron near his hometown of Düsseldorf.
Born in 1955, after successes in chamber music at "Jugend musiziert" and graduating from high school, he decided to study music: piano with Herbert Drechsel and David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf (concert exam), composition with Jürg Baur at the Cologne University of Music (diploma ). He completed master classes for piano and chamber music with Ditta Pasztory-Bartók, Rudolf Buchbinder, Andor Foldes, Sandor Végh, Rainer Kussmaul, William Pleeth and the Amadeus Quartet, received the North Rhine-Westphalia Promotional Prize for young artists and was a prizewinner, among others. at the International Composition Competition in Budapest (the jury included György Ligeti).
This was followed by grants from the Richard Wagner Association in Düsseldorf and the »Stichting Culturele Uitwisseling Nederland Duitsland«, stays in London, Amsterdam and Vienna and the award of the music prizes of the city of Duisburg and the Bergische Biennale Wuppertal.
The premiere of the opera The idiot (after Dostojewskij), a commission for the 50th anniversary of the United Municipal Theaters Krefeld/Mönchengladbach, made him famous in Germany in 2001. Renowned conductors such as Frank Beermann, Anthony Bramall, Karel Mark Chichon, Kenneth Duryea, John Fiore, Toshiyuki Kamioka, Lothar Königs and Jürgen Kussmaul conducted performances of his stage and orchestral works.
Numerous commissions for orchestras (Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, Northwest German Philharmonic, German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra), ensembles (Cherubini Quartet, Berlin Saxophone Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic Octet, Rivinius Piano Quartet), choir (cathedral music at the Freiburg Cathedral) are associated with performances at important places of concert life such as the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Düsseldorf Tonhalle, the Duisburg Mercatorhalle, the Glocke in Bremen, the Leipzig Gewandhaus or the Berlin Philharmonic as well as in many European countries, in Japan and the USA - response to a work that is now 70 works of all genres.
Albums:
Orchestral Works – Chamber Music – Piano Music:
