www.Franck-Holzkamp.de www.Scherm.de
Composer of “The Labyrinth” (II)
Libretto: Gerd Scherm
1966
Born in Münster, he lives in Munich as a composer, conductor, and pianist. He studied composition at the Detmold University of Music with Prof. Jürgen Ulrich, with piano as his main instrument.
During his studies, he spent two extended stays in Israel as a volunteer in a kibbutz Ma’agan , then the beginning of the opera תרנכ ( Kinneret ) – Scenes from the shores of the Sea of Galilee after an original libretto.
1991
Mozart Composition Prize ’91 for the chamber music work Soundscape . Major in conducting with Prof. Karl-Heinz Bloemeke .
1992
Invitation as a composer to the International Chain Festival, Holland with the trombone quartet Courtyard Music .
1993
Completion of תרנכ as a piano reduction; participation in the German University Forum of Young Composers with the string trio Perfect Night .
1994
World premiere of Piano Concerto and renewed invitation to the International Chain Festival, Holland with Let’s look at it this way based on my own text for voice and ensemble.
1996
Premiere of the Laudate Dominum in St. Marien, Lemgo; subsequently, a commissioned composition, Requiem, for soloists, narrator, children’s choir, choir, and orchestra. The beginning of Casanova – or: Mature Singing, based on a libretto by Dr. Mathias Beilein .
1997
World premiere of Pater Noster in the Prague Philharmonic Hall.
Piano solo program with exclusively his own works in Bielefeld.
Completion of the Symphony “The Six Fundamental Emotions” .
Composition of the Concerto for basset clarinet and orchestra .
Start of the Piano Solo concert series for the Munich Cultural Bureau .
1999
Freelance pianist with various ensembles of the BR, e.g. Munich Radio Orchestra, Johann Strauss Ensemble.
Continuation of Piano Solo .
World premiere of the Variations sur le Néant for violin and string orchestra and the subsequent commissioned work Slow Air in Memory of Yehudi Menuhin for violin and orchestra in Göttingen.
Musical Director of the Munich Trinational Music and Theatre Festival;
Composition and rehearsal of the stage music Happy New Year .
1999-2010 Conductor of the Brass Orchestra St. Wolfgang/ Obb . eV
2000
Once again musical director of the Trinational Music and Theatre Days with a revival of Happy New Year ; subsequently invited to the “ Fête des Nations ” in Lyon, France.
Composition and rehearsal of the stage music Music in the Air .
2nd prize at the Vienna String Quartet Composition Competition for Slow Air for Lost Lovers .
2001
Wedding with Alexandra Vogt ( dedicatee of Slow Air ), performance of Refugee Song based on a text by Hilde Marx at the State Theatre in Oldenburg.
Again musical director of the Trinational Music and Theatre Festival; composition and rehearsal of the stage music Seven Colours .
2002
Haarmann, a German Singspiel about the legendary mass murderer Fritz Haarmann and the horrific events of the years 1918–1925 based on a libretto by Georg Büttel.
Days of Contemporary Music at the Interim, Munich; performance of
Courtyard Music in the version for strings.
2002 Cultural Prize Winner of the Erding District with the St. Wolfgang Music Association
2003
Piano Solo II program with own works in Bielefeld.
In June the Haarmann score was completed.
Beginning of intensive collaboration with Gerd Scherm, based on his poems, the song cycle Mondspuren for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, cello and piano.
2004
Notturni – Piano and poetry for the night at the Kulturforum Fürth, also with Gerd Scherm.
Composition of the incidental music for A Fräulein is sold by Ödön von Hórvath on the occasion of the world premiere of the fragment at the international Hórvath Days in Murnau.
Incidental music for Woyzeck by Georg Büchner.
Recording a jazz CD.
Composition and rehearsal of the stage music for The Funeral Feast by
Jörg Maurer at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Cultural Summer 2004.
There is also a duo program called The Return of AntiKristof with Christoph Süß.
As a pianist, premiere of new compositions by Wilfried Hiller.
Birth of son Paul Georg.
2005
Continuation of the duo program The Return of Antikristof with Christoph Süß.
Premiere and further performances of the commissioned work Slow Air for sentimental Reasons by the Newton Saxophone Quartet.
In June the opera Casanova – or: The Mature Song was completed .
Composition and rehearsal of the stage music and the musical Edelweiss and Royal Blue at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Cultural Summer 2005.
2006
Continuation of the duo program The Return of Antikristof
with Christoph Süß.
First visit to the Bayreuth Festival: Tristan and Isolde.
Further performances of the commissioned work Slow Air for sentimental Reasons by the Newton Saxophone Quartet.
2007
Juror at the “Lions Piano Competition” in Westphalia.
Arrangements of stage music for Süßstoff at the Munich Volkstheater.
Start of collaboration with Prof. Harald Lesch with the Physics&Music program On the foundations of existence , among others, in the Munich Lach- und Schießgesellschaft with the Viennese cabaret artist Günter Gunkl .
Another visit to the Bayreuth Festival: Parsifal.
commissioned and conducted a film score for Friederich Wilhelm Murnau’s expressionist silent film TABU! for the Bad Urach Festival.
Performance of the suite from Casanova – or: mature singing in the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle in Bielefeld.
Iduna – Mythological Fantasy for Flute and Strings .
Continuation of On the Foundations of Existence in the Lach- und Schießgesellschaft and the Lustspielhaus.
Nordic night song for mixed choir, horn and harp based on an original poem.
2008
Commissioned composition for the Göttingen concerts in the old town hall Deirdriu´s Dream for soprano, clarinet and string quartet after an original poem – dedicated to Einojuhani Rautavaara on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Performance of the suite from Casanova – or: mature singing at the Munich Volkstheater.
Performance with Prof. Harald Lesch at the 850th anniversary of the city of Munich with Notturno No. 6 .
Birth of the second son Erik Wilke.
Completion of the opera The Labyrinth – The Magic Flute , Part Two , based on a libretto by Gerd Scherm; preview performance of individual arias at the Logenhaus Fürth.
2009
Prize winner of the Herbert Baumann Foundation composition competition with the piece RunenLaute for guitar.
In recognition of “outstanding services to Bavarian brass music” the award of the Bronze Medal of Merit by the Music Association of Upper and Lower Bavaria eV
Cantus Metallicus for brass orchestra and double bass, premiere November 2009 in St. Wolfgang/ Obb .
2010
World premiere of the Elegia for cello solo by Sven Ahnsjö .
Completion of Symphony Nos. 2&3 “Dem Menschenkind” (Second part with choir after the poem “Schlußstück” by Rainer Maria Rilke; finale with solo soprano after the poem “ In the middle of the big city” by Christian Morgenstern – premiere in Freiburg in 2003).
Performance of the Cantus Metallicus in Borgentreich / Westphalia.
Moving to Celle/Lower Saxony.
2011
World premiere of Winter Landscape for cello and piano in Munich.
Birth of daughter Gesa Eydís .
World premieres Musica Masonic Cellensis and “For Gesa” in Celle.
World premiere of the Sonatina Visurgia in Hoya /Weser.
Completion of the Aurora Borealis – Revontulet for Prof. Harald Lesch.
2012
Trip to Finland. Performance at Sibelius’s grand piano in Ainola (Sibelius’s house)
in Jarvenpää with the Largo from Symphony No. 4 and piano music by Sibelius.
Performance of the piano solo program in Bargfeld , Kassel, Dessau and Celle.
2013
World premiere of the incidental music for Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind at the Schlosstheater Celle.
Musical director of the first opera production at the Schlosstheater Celle: 28 performances of The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart in a chamber music arrangement by Holzkamp open air in the castle courtyard.
Another trip to Finland. Premiere of Aurora Borealis – Revontulet with the Tuusulanjärvi String Ensemble under the direction of the composer.
Piano Solo ” Finlandia ” with works by Finnish composers and the Largo from Symphony No. 4.
2015
Completion of the fourth symphony on the occasion of the 150th birthday
by Jean Sibelius Sinfonia n:o 4 Jean Sibeliuksen muistolle .
2016
Return to Munich . Worked as a conductor, composer, and music teacher.
2017
1st Prize Harmonia Classica for Moment Musical , Vienna with CD release.
Radio feature “The Music of the Freemasons” in BR 4 KLASSIK – FAH in conversation with Ulrike Zöller.
Composition of ” Haavoittunnut Enkeli /The Wounded Angel” after the Finnish national picture by Hugo Simberg for viola and orchestra on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Finnish state and presented to the Finnish Ambassador, Her Excellency Ritva Koukku -Ronde and Merja Sundström, Counsellor for Culture and Press at the Finnish Embassy in Berlin.
2018
Award winner “… dedicated to Placidus ” of the composition competition on the occasion of the 300th anniversary.
Birthday of Placidus von Camerloher with “Placido” – piano solo on the Andante of the Sinfonia E-flat major (ca. 1750) by PvC .
“Auf d´Nacht ” – Musical evening entertainment ossia : Bavarian diversion
for string trio in six movements plus a prelude and postlude.
2019
World premiere of “Auf d´Nacht ” – Musical evening entertainment ossia : Bavarian Divertimento by members of the Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra in the Oetkerhalle .
2020
Motet ACDC – Adorate Cherubim, Dominum Cantu .
Publications of the Casanova Suite and the Sonata in B and their premiere at the Pocket Festival on August 9th in Bad Kötzting in the Bavarian Forest.
Composition of the Sonata in D , Sonata in C , Sonata in F .
” musica in isolamento ” (in times of Corona) for wind instruments.
Publication and premiere of Pohjoinen * Nord * Norden
for flute and cello on August 3 at a chamber music festival in Lapland.
Composition of the opera “The Labyrinth” with Gerd Scherm as librettist.
2021
Chamber and piano music.
FOR ALAIN DELON piano solo.
CD release with works for 2 clarinets and piano.
Resumption of conducting activities.
2022
Completion of the Missa for soloists, choir,
Children’s choir and orchestra for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
The Benedictus has been in the hands of His Holiness since the summer of 2018, who accepted the dedication and kindly bestowed his blessing on the entire project.