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First name: Thomas
Last name: Blomenkamp
Dates: 1955
Category: Quartet
Nationality: german
Opus name: Toccata, Tombeau und Torso, Drei Stuecke fuer Klavierquartett (2009)
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Information: Thomas Blomenkamp has been a freelance composer and pianist since completing his studies in 1982. He lives with his wife, the soprano Dorothee Wohlgemuth, and their children Leah and Aaron near his native city of Düsseldorf. Born in 1955, Blomenkamp decided to pursue a musical career after winning prizes in chamber music from Germany’s youth competition “Jugend musiziert” and completing his A-levels. He took a performance degree in piano with Herbert Drechsel and David Levine at the Robert Schumann Institute, Düsseldorf, and degree in composition with Jürg Baur at Cologne University of Music; he also attended master classes in piano and chamber music with Ditta Pasztory-Bartók, Rudolf Buchbinder, Andor Foldes, Sandor Végh, Rainer Kussmaul, William Pleeth and the Amadeus Quartet. After receiving a young artist’s grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and winning several prizes (including one from the Budapest International Composers Competition with György Ligeti on the jury), he was awarded scholarships from the Düsseldorf Wagner Society and the “Stichting Culturele Uitwisse-ling Nederland Duitsland”, undertook studies abroad in London, Amsterdam and Vienna, and won music prizes from the City of Duisburg and the Wuppertal Biennale. Blomenkamp’s name became well-known in Germany following the premiere in 2001 of his opera Der Idiot (after Dostoevsky), commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Krefeld-Mönchengladbach Municipal Theatres. Thereafter his stage and orchestral works were performed by conductors of the stature of Frank Beermann, Anthony Bramall, Karel Mark Chichon, Kenneth Duryea, John Fiore, Toshiyuki Kamioka, Lothar Königs and Jürgen Kussmaul. There followed many commissions from orchestras (Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker), instrumental ensembles (Cherubini Quartet, Berlin Saxophone Quartet, Berlin Philharmonic Octet, Rivinius KlavierQuartett) and choruses (Dommusik of Freiburg Minster), performances at such leading concert venues as the Bonn Beethoven House, the Düsseldorf Tonhalle, the Duisburg Mercator Hall, the Glocke (Bremen), the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Berlin Philharmonie, and tours of many European countries, Japan and the United States – all of this in response to a body of music that has grown to encompass 70 works in all genres. (https://neos-music.com/?language=english&page=output.php%3Fcontent%3DKuenstler/Blomenkamp_Thomas.php)