Uwe Strübing
Hans Uwe Strübing was born in Ravensburg in 1956. From an early age he played the organ at various churches. Starting in 1969, he also tried composing music. He didn’t take a straight course to music, though: only after he had completed his biology and pharmaceutics degree (1982) did he take up his music studies at the Nuremberg conservatory, studying composition with Gottfried Müller and Vivienne Olive.
The first time Strübing’s work was acknowledged on a national level was in 1985 when he received an award for his "Adventsmusik I, op. 2” at a composition contest held by several Berlin parishes. Since then, his works (in particular church music) have been performed at Bamberg Cathedral, St. Blaise's Cathedral (St. Blasien, Germany), St. Lawrence Church in Nuremberg and St. Matthew Church in Munich. In 1999 he won an award at the Günter Bialas Composition Contest for his "Der Traum von den fünf großen H" for flute, harp and piano.
Uwe Strübing incorporates many different aspects in his artistic work and, in doing so, pursues his own idea of contemporary classical music while also acknowledging recent trends. His work includes any genre of art music: besides church music (Stabat Mater, Magnificat, Mass), chamber and orchestral music (eight symphonies to date, including his 3rd Symphony "Bildnisse im Eis" that premiered in August 2000, as well as several concertos) he also composed a number of piano works (including four sonatas and three concertos), choral music and lieder as well as an opera titled "Aus der Welt" that is based on a novel by Jakob Wassermann (libretto by Rainer Fliege) and that was composed on the occasion of the Millenary of the city of Fürth where it premiered to great success in 2007. In addition, Uwe Strübing has written movie scores and music for computer games. His work has been captured in a number of CD and radio broadcast recordings.
Uwe Strübing about himself: “To me, music is the primary second language. I write music to express all those things that affect me beyond my day-to-day life. When I’m working with musical sounds it becomes very easy for me to express things that would take hours to be explained with words: music, to me, is the perfect medium to translate complex matters in a brief way.”
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