Bernhard Kießig
EducationHochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main
Occupations
  • Jazz pianist
  • Composer
  • Academic teacher
Organizations

Bernhard Kießig (born 1966) 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.[1]

He was commissioned to compose parts of the oratorio Eins for Ökumenischer Kirchentag 2021 in Frankfurt.[2] It was published by the Dehm-Verlag[2] and first performed in a livestream concert on 4 May 2021,[3] with Kießig as the pianist.[4]

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Bernhard Kießig / Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben" (in German). Musikhochschule Frankfurt. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "EINS / Ökumenisches Oratorium in vier Bildern für Solisten, Chor, Orchester und Band" (in German). Dehm Verlag. 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  3. ↑ Holze, Guido (13 May 2021). "Oratorium "Eins" : Ein Gott, ein Glaube, eine Taufe". FAZ (in German). Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "Digitale Uraufführung / Oratorium EINS" (in German). Ökumenischer Kirchentag 2021. 8 March 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
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