Video interview with York Hoeller, winner of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Music
"Spheres," a six-movement work for orchestra by German composer York Hoeller, has earned the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Nature, love inspires Grawemeyer Award-winning piece.
York Hoeller, winner of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
Video transcript
York Hoeller 2010 Grawemeyer Award Winner in Music
Of course, I compose in the style which I understood, or which I believed to understand and that was at the age of 10 or eleven. It was just the style of Haydn and Mozart. Later on I played Beethoven. At about 15 I played Brahms and so I composed just in the style of the composers which were in the focus of my interest.
Integrating electronic sounds and instrumental sounds and how to find the real convincing relationship between the two media. If the electronic sounds are too abstract and they don’t have anything to do with traditional instrumental sounds, one has a feeling, well that this is one world and here’s the other world. It depends on the sensitivity and the ear of the composer to find a good solution.
The other idea I have is to, how do I say, to create a foundation maybe next year,maybe in two years or so, which would mean performances of my music would be supported or I would create a composition prize for young composers.
