Sebastian Berweck
Sebastian Berweck | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 7, 1971 Villingen, Germany |
| Genres | Contemporary classical, electroacoustic |
| Occupation(s) | Pianist, performer |
| Website | www |
Sebastian Berweck (born 1971 in Villingen, Germany) is a German pianist and performer, known for his work in experimental and electroacoustic contemporary music. He has premiered over 320 works, many of them written for him,[1] and is particularly noted for his exploration of live electronics, extended techniques, and performance-based practices.
Career
Berweck studied piano with James Avery at the Freiburg University of Music, where he also attended composition seminars with Mathias Spahlinger, Johannes Schöllhorn, and Cornelius Schwehr. He continued his studies in contemporary chamber music in Hanover with Darlén Bakke. During his undergraduate years, he spent one academic year at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (HAMU) with Jan Panenka. He also attended master classes with Bernhard Wambach, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Earle Brown. From 2008 to 2013, he completed his PhD at the University of Huddersfield, supported by the DAAD, with a dissertation titled It worked yesterday – On (re-)performing electroacoustic music.[2]
He has performed at major international festivals including MaerzMusik, Wien Modern, Warsaw Autumn, Ultraschall Berlin, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Steirischer Herbst, and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, where he taught electroacoustic performance from 2014 to 2021.[3] His work in electroacoustic performance has been featured by German national cultural radio, including Gestern hat’s noch funktioniert – Die Tücken der elektroakustischen Musik (July 2020), which presented him as an expert on historical performance practices,[4] and Boten des Retrofuturismus – Das Synthesizer-Trio Lange//Berweck//Lorenz (January 2021), which highlighted his work with the ensemble.[5]
Berweck has appeared with orchestras such as the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Wiener Symphoniker, Symphoniker Hamburg, and the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien. He has premiered over 320 works,[6] including pieces by Sarah Nemtsov, Alvin Lucier, Bernhard Lang, Jennifer Walshe, Annesley Black, Enno Poppe, Christina Kubisch, Michael Maierhof, and Martin Schüttler.
His recordings appear on more than 30 albums, such as Wergo, Mode, Col Legno and Kairos,[7] and have been broadcast by Deutschlandfunk, WDR, SWR, HR, and Radio France. Field Notes Berlin described him as “one of the most prominent pianists and performers of experimental contemporary music” in a 2022 profile.[8]
Berweck’s extended-piano work has been profiled in publications such as *Positionen* (Issue 87, 2011)[9] and *Musik der Zeit*.[10] He was also the subject of broadcasts on WDR3 (2010), SWR2 (2018), and Deutschlandfunk Kultur (2020).[11][12] His collaborations with the artist collective stock11 have also been profiled by *Musik der Zeit*.[13] The synthesizer trio Lange//Berweck//Lorenz has been featured in *MusikTexte*, which praised the group for achieving “a precision landing on the sonic aesthetics of the analog era.”[14]
The 2021 recording of Bernard Parmegiani's Stries, with Lange//Berweck//Lorenz, was released by Mode Records[15] and was praised by the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik as “a masterpiece of historical reconstruction.”[16] The ensemble's archival projects were further chronicled in Neue Musikzeitung as “a pre-digital journey of discovery.”[17]
Teaching and research
In addition to his performance career, Berweck has given lectures and masterclasses at institutions such as Harvard University, Stanford, UC Berkeley, SUNY Buffalo, the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, and the Philipps University of Marburg.
His writings on performance practice, electroacoustic music, and the revival of historical live-electronic works have been published in journals such as Positionen, MusikTexte, eContact!, and Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
Selected publications
- Berweck, Sebastian (2013). It worked yesterday – On (re-)performing electroacoustic music. PhD thesis, University of Huddersfield.
- Berweck, Sebastian (2017). "Cooperation and Collaboration between Interpreter and Composer in Electroacoustic Music." In Kathleen Coessens (ed.), Experimental Encounters in Music and Beyond. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ISBN 978-94-6270-110-6.
- Berweck, Sebastian (2016). "Live-Elektronik zwischen Bricolage und Professionalität." In Thomas Schäfer, Michael Rebhahn (eds.), Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik, vol. 23, Mainz: Schott, pp. 74–80. ISBN 978-3-7957-1117-7.
- Berweck, Sebastian; Erel, Korhan (2020). "Visibility in electronic music – Sebastian Berweck and Korhan Erel in conversation." Podcast. internationales-musikinstitut.de (issued 20 Oct 2020).
- Berweck, Sebastian (2016). "Reviving Parmegiani’s ‘Stries’ (1980): Translation of Historic Analogue Works into the Digital Domain." eContact!, vol. 17, issue 4. eContact.ca.
- Conlee, Jade (2015). "Is performance political? An interview with pianist Sebastian Berweck." Blatt 3000, issue 3, pp. 33–35. ISSN 2199-9716.
Selected discography
- Cheap Opera 1 / Répétitions / DW30 / Loops for Klaus Schulze (Bernhard Lang, Lange//Berweck//Lorenz) – 2021
- Extended Piano – 2013
- stock11 – Compilation – 2012
- SAIS (Klaus Lang, Trio Nexus) – 2014
- Broken Line (Alvin Lucier, Trio Nexus) – 2015
- Stries (Bernard Parmegiani, Broeckaert/Berweck/Lorenz) – 2021
External links
References
- ↑ "Premieres". sebastianberweck.de. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ Berweck, Sebastian (2013). It worked yesterday – On (re-)performing electroacoustic music (Thesis). University of Huddersfield.
- ↑ "Darmstädter Ferienkurse: Artists". IMD Darmstadt. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ "Gestern hat's noch funktioniert – Die Tücken der elektroakustischen Musik". Deutschlandfunk Kultur. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ↑ "Boten des Retrofuturismus – Das Synthesizer-Trio Lange//Berweck//Lorenz". Deutschlandfunk Kultur. 19 January 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ↑ "Premieres". sebastianberweck.de. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ "Sebastian Berweck – Discography". Discogs. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ "Sebastian Berweck". Field Notes Berlin. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ↑ Kreidler, Johannes (2011). "extended piano – Der Pianist und Performer Sebastian Berweck". Positionen (87).
- ↑ "Extended Piano". Musik der Zeit. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ "CD‑Vorstellung: Extended Piano von Sebastian Berweck". WDR 3. 28 Nov 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ Rebhahn, Michael (10 July 2018). "Extended Piano – Sebastian Berweck an Tasten und Elektrogeräten". SWR2. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ "stock11.de". Musik der Zeit. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ Friedl, Reinhold (2021). "Revolutionäre Methodik". Musiktexte (172).
- ↑ "Stries (Mode Records)". Mode Records Bandcamp. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ↑ Nonnenmann, Rainer (2021). "Rezension zu Bernard Parmegiani: Stries". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
- ↑ "Prä-digitale Entdeckungsfahrt". Neue Musikzeitung. 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
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