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Martin Lorenz

Martin Lorenz © Roger Rossell

grew up in Zurich, Switzerland. He studied percussion at the Conservatories of Zurich and Amsterdam and at the Conservatoire National de Région Rueil-Malmaison near Paris, his teachers being Horst Hofmann, Jan Pustjens, Marinus Komst, Peter Prommel, Gaston Sylvestre and François Bedel. His interest in music theatre led him to take part in master classes with Jean-Pierre Drouet und Georges Aperghis.

Since 1999, Martin Lorenz has worked as a freelance percussionist on the contemporary and experimental music scene and has realized solo and chamber music projects with assorted partners: with Sebastian Berweck, with Conrad Steinmann, with Simone Keller, with Teodora Stepancic and others. These partnerships have resulted in collaborative projects with composers such as Annesley Black, Antoine Chessex, Luc Döbereiner, Hugues Dufourt, Edu Haubensak, Virgil Moorefield, Bernhard Lang, Daniel Weissberg and Alfred Zimmerlin, whose works Martin Lorenz has premiered. Between 2002 and 2015 Martin Lorenz was a member of the ensemble Collegium Novum Zurich. This collaboration is documented in many recordings, in particular the concert for percussion "Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich..." by Georg Friedrich Haas, conducted by Enno Poppe.

Martin Lorenz began to use electronics to complement his arsenal of percussion instruments, and thus expanded his spectrum of expressive forms towards installation work and music on the fringes of alternative club culture. To release these works Lorenz founded his own label Dumpf Edition. This versatile approach is also characteristic of his work as a composer; his oeuvre includes solo and ensemble pieces, written for collaboratibe ensembles such as Ensemble werktag Zurich or Ensemble für Neue Musick Zurich. He worked together with the theatre director Johannes Müller for Sophiensaele, Berlin and the collective Schauplatz International for HAU1, Berlin. For his work as a composer Martin Lorenz was awarded with the Werkbeitrag des Aargauer Kuratoriums 2010 and the Werkjahr für Komposition der Stadt Zürich 2016.

2014 Tobias von Glenck and Martin Lorenz founded Trabant Echo Orchestra, a chambermusic ensemble which puts contemporary music in the historical context of the american avantgarde music of the 70ies and 80ies: open musical forms, crossover concepts and minimalism in the tradition of Julius Eastman, Terry Riley, Arthur Russell.

Shared Space I

23 Nov 2018 - 20:00

Shared Space and Series:: present a weekend of contemporary music around the Wandelweiser and Berlin based Sacred Realism collectives

Shared Space I

Jürg Frey: Colours of Silence (2017/2018) two keyboards/percussion
Antoine Beuger: Lieux de passage (2007) for clarinet and ensemble
Cat Lamb: Curvo Totalitas (2017) one tam-tam, one steel sheet, two synthesizers

doors: 20:00 start 20:30

Shared Space II

24 Nov 2018 - 20:00

Shared Space and Series:: present a weekend of contemporary music around the Wandelweiser and Berlin based Sacred Realism collectives

Shared Space II

Teodora Stepancic: another trio (2018)
Jürg Frey: Ombres exactes sans dureté (2009)
Michael Pisaro: Concentric Rings in Magnetic Levitation (2010-2011) for three musicians

doors: 20:00 start 20:30

Zapparoli / Lorenz / Hofmann /// Voutchkova

17 Apr 2019 - 20:00
© Frank Scheffka (Biliana Voutchkova) © Zapparoli, Hofmann, Lorenz with the artists

Biliana Voutchkova - vl/voc
Amati Lenta 2, a variable piece for violin and mini cassette tapes/solo version

Marta Zapparoli - elec
Martin Lorenz - perc
Sebastian Hofmann - perc

compositions and conceptual pieces from Alex Buess and Marta Zapparoli

door: 20:00 begin: 20:30

Zapparoli/Hofmann/Lorenz + Anaïs Tuerlinckx

22 Sep 2023 - 20:30
22 Sep 2023 - 23:59
Zapparoli/Hofmann/Lorenz © Marta Zapparoli | Anaïs Tuerlinckx © Anaïs Tuerlinckx/Possible Motive

Doors 20.30 Uhr | Concerts 21 Uhr | Tickets (AK | Box Office) € 10,--

Anaïs Tuerlinckx – inside piano, objects anaistuerlinckx.com

Zapparoli/Hofmann/Lorenz
Marta Zapparoli – cassette decks, tape machines, antennas, radioreceivers, sdr, detectors
Sebastian Hofmann – percussion, electronics
Martin Lorenz – percussion, electronics
PHONOMENIARITMO II @youtube youtu.be/lp0BwmG1S9I