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Gordon Kampe
Kampe at the premiere of Dogville in 2023
Born	(1976-09-10) 10 September 1976 (age 49) Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Occupations	Composer Academic teacher
Known for	Contemporary music
Website	gordonkampe.de

Gordon Kampe (born 10 September 1976)^[1] is a German composer and academic teacher.

Career

Kampe was born in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.^[2] He completed an apprenticeship as an electrician in 1995 and studied after his Abitur composition with Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky (Rostock) and Nicolaus A. Huber (Essen).^[2] In 2008, he finished his dissertation about fairy tale opera of the 20th century at the Folkwang University of the Arts.^[1]

Kampe is notably interested in the opera. Since 2009 he has written a number of commissioned works, among other for the Stuttgart State Opera (Zivilcourage. Musik für einen Platz, world premiere 2009),^[3][4] the Oldenburg State Theatre (ANOIA, world premiere 2012)^[5][6] and the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna, world premiere 2013).^[7][8] The world premiere of PLÄTZE. DÄCHER. LEUTE. WEGE. Musiktheater für ein utopisches Bielefeld took place at Bielefeld Opera in 2015.^[9]

Kampe's opera Dogville, based on the film with the same name by Lars von Trier, premiered at the Aalto Theatre in Essen in 2023.^[10]

Kampe has been a professor of composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg since 2017.^[11] He lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

Compositions (selection)

• High Noon: Moskitos for orchestra (2003/06)
• heavy metal for flute solo (2008)
• Zehn Symphonien for saxophone quartet (2011)
• Spione for orchestra (2017)
• Fat Finger Error for orchestra (2018)
• Schummellümmelleichen, an operette for countertenor and ensemble, text by Schorsch Kamerun (2018)
• Ich will lächeln, lächeln, lächeln, an opera, based upon Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, text by Thierry Bruehl (2019)
• remember me for string ensemble and live electronics (2019)
• I forgot to remember to forget for six voices and record players (2020)
• Dogville, an opera in 18 scenes, based on a Lars von Trier film (2020/21)
• boxen! for timpani and orchestra (2023)
• immermeeehr, a children's music theater piece, text by Maria Milisavljević [de] (2024)

Awards

• 2007 Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart^[12]
• 2011 Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart^[13]
• 2016 Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize^[2]
• 2016 Schneider-Schott Music Prize^[14]

Discography

• Gordon Kampe: HAL / High Noon: Moskitos / Ripley-Musik V / Qs Nachtstück / Picard / Gassenhauermaschinensuite WERGO 2011 (WER 6581 2)
• "Nischenmusik mit Klopfgeistern", Decoder Ensemble für Aktuelle Musik, Ahornfelder 2015 (AH27)
• "Falsche Lieder", Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart: Drama, col legno 2014 (WWE 1CD 20413)
• "heavy metal", Beatrix Wagner – Spiegelungen, Edition Zeitklang (ez 44046)
• "zu drei Stücken entzwei", Magic Flute Remixed, GENUIN 2006 (GEN 86078)

References

Further reading

• Drees, Stefan. 2008. "Gordon Kampe", Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG), edited by H.-W. Heister, W.-W. 37. Nachlieferung, Sparrer, München: edition text + kritik, ISBN 978-3-86916-361-1
• Neuner, Florian. 2010. "'Informationen aus dem Gamma-Quadranten'. Die musikalischen Parallelwelten des Gordon Kampe", MusikTexte 125, p. 5–9
• Kampe, Gordon. 2012. Topoi – Gesten – Atmosphären. Märchenopern im 20. Jahrhundert, Saarbrücken: Pfau, ISBN 978-3-89727-446-4 (Dissertation)
• Kampe, Gordon. 2015. (with Ivan Bazak, Katharina Ortmann) Plätze. Dächer. Leute. Wege. Die Stadt als utopische Bühne, Bielefeld: transcript, ISBN 978-3-8376-3197-5

External links

• Official website