Karl Maihoroff - Vita
Karl Maihoroff, 1955 born in Bitburg
/ W.-Germany
Publication of first poems at grammar school.
Writing will be a basis of his livelihood for
the coming decades.
Karl Maihoroff works as a conductor with distinguished orchestras and ensembles.
In
2006 Maihoroff initiated a composerclass at Loveno/Como.Coaching and
mentoring young musicians from different cultures of Middle East like
East-Western Divan.
Plays:
"Gegenstimme einer Päpstin" (1985),
"Beuys in Beda" (1986),
"Das Klavier", szenische Illusion für
Tasteninstrumente und Tonband (2001).
Awards:
1981
- 1984 |
grant from belgium
Ministry of Culture |
1982
- 1983 |
grant Dr. Berg'sche
Stiftung (Paris, masterclass Olivier Messiaen) |
1984 |
Finalist organ competition
Haarlem/NL
(only four competitors were admitted for final round) |
1983
- 1986 |
Composer in residence,
Dr. Hanns-Simon-Stiftung |
2004
|
Nomination Society of Fellows, Harvard University |
Guest professor and judge for international
competitions:
1978 |
lecturer position
for piano University Koblenz - Landau Youngest Composer ever to teach at this university |
1983 |
guest professor at
Juilliard School of Music, New York. Youngest Composer ever to teach at Juilliard |
1994
/ 1995 |
In 1994 / 1995 Maihoroff
founded and directed the screenwriting-courses TRIER
together with the international renowned lecturer Syd
Field, Beverly Hills.
With the growing success of nationwide participants
he became in 1999 managing director (head of programs)
at the screenwriting courses in Paris (Centre Européen
d'Ecriture Audiovisuelle).
Programs and regular meetings of
the members at the magnificent palace of the New Jewish
Museum (Musèe de l'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme). |
2006 |
Founder and artistic director of the Collegium Musicum University Choir and
Orchestra Luxembourg
|
Topics:
2010
|
he wrote a transcription of Mussorgsky´s "Pictures at an Exhibition" for organ and a guide for maestros "Conductor´s Companion". |
2011/12 |
he was responsible for a composerclass at the historic concerthall (Promotionsaula Trier) |
2013 |
artist – in – residence at Parma (Italy) and Klagenfurt (Austria |
2014/15
Conception, Consulting and Supervising for the retrospective of
contemporary composers
Alexander Mullenbach, Luxembourg, Gerhard Stäbler, Düsseldorf and
Aivars Kalejs Riga
As a judge for
international competitions he is involved in finding prospective
projects,
candidates and laureates.
He lectures at universities and is head of workshops for a new
approach to music- and
art management.
Performance of contemporary
works composed by Kagel and Ligeti at Paris and Rome.