Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.[1][2]

Globokar's work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann. His music places great emphasis on spontaneity and creativity, and, unlike the work of Sciarrino and Lachenmann, often requires improvisation. His extensive output is largely unknown outside of experimental music circles.

As a trombonist, he has premiered works by Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, René Leibowitz, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Toru Takemitsu, as well as his own compositions.[3][4]

Biography

Globokar was born in Anderny, France. In 1947 he moved to Yugoslavia, where he attended DIC in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Here, he played jazz trombone until 1955, at which point he relocated to Paris in order to study at the Conservatoire de Paris. At the Conservatoire, he studied composition with René Leibowitz (a noted student of Arnold Schoenberg) and trombone with Andre Lafosse. In 1965, he moved to Berlin and began composition lessons with Luciano Berio, whose Sequenza V he later performed.[5]

In the later 1960s he worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen on some of his compositions from the cycle Aus den sieben Tagen, and co-founded the free improvisation group New Phonic Art. From 1967 to 1976 he taught composition at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. In 1974, he joined IRCAM as the director of instrumental and vocal research, a post which he occupied until 1980.[6]

After leaving IRCAM, he conducted a number of high-profile orchestral groups, including the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Westdeutscher Symphonie, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, among others. From 1980 until 2000, he directed 20th-century music performance at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole near Florence.

In 2002, Globokar was bestowed with the Prešeren Award for his life-time work.

Musical style

Globokar's music is notable for its spontaneity, energy, and innovative use of unorthodox instrumental and compositional techniques. His works often feature indeterminacy and improvisation, reflecting his own background in Jazz and free improvisation. His pieces employ a variety of extended techniques. For example, in his solo percussion piece Toucher, the performer narrates a story while simultaneously playing the syllabic patterns on a percussion array.

Works (selection)

Stage works

* Miserere (1982) for five narrators, Jazz trio and orchestra
* Réalités / Augenblicke (1984) for five singers, tape, film and slides
* Sternbild der Grenze (1985) for five singers, mezzo soprano, baritone and 18 musicians

Orchestra works

* Part 1: Zerfall (2000) for two orchestral groups and tape playback
* Part 2: Mars (2001/02) for two orchestral groups, tape and live-electronic
* Part 3: Hoffnung (2003/2004) for two orchestral groups and sampler

Ensemble works and vocal music

Chamber music

Solo works

References

  1. ↑ Tempo 2007 "Vinko Globokar was born on 7 July 1934, at Anderny, France, of Slovenian parents. He settled in Yugoslavia between 1947 and 1955, and this was decisive, since it was during this period that he made his debut as a jazz trombonist.
  2. ↑ Lloyd E. Bone, Eric Paull, R. Winston Morris Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire: The Euphonium Source Book 2007 p461: "Vinko Globokar (1934–) Vinko Globokar was born on July 7, 1934, in a Slovene immigrant family living in Anderny in France. From the age of thirteen to the age of twenty he lived in Ljubljana, where he finished secondary music school."
  3. ↑ http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/myt/mit/en9618101.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.munzinger.de/search/kdg/Vinko+Globokar/193.html
  5. ↑ "Globokar, Vinko". G. Ricordi & Co. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  6. ↑ http://www.goethe.de/ins/cz/prj/myt/mit/en9618101.htm
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