Blum Pia
Blum Pia
Strassburgerallee 29
CH-4055 Basel (BS)
Schweiz
Tel: +41 (0)61 681 69 69
Mobile: +41 (0)76 735 93 25
Strassburgerallee 29
CH-4055 Basel (BS)
Schweiz
Tel: +41 (0)61 681 69 69
Mobile: +41 (0)76 735 93 25
Genre: Classical Music
Biography
The pianist, organist and composer Pia Blum was born in Dagmersellen/LU in 1967. She attended piano courses at the Lucerne Conservatory while still training as a kindergarten teacher and then studied music in Zurich (MHS) and Lucerne, where she obtained her piano teaching diploma in 1995 (E. Serman). She then continued her studies at the MHS Bern with E. Rademacher (piano improvisation) and U. P. Schneider (composition). She attended master classes in New York, Darmstadt and Vienna and won the "Emmy-Henz-Dièmand-Preis" for a rendition of a contemporary composition at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Künste in Vienna. Years of performing at home and abroad followed - and she taught at music schools and privately; she also gave courses at the Instrumentalfortbildung BL, and at the MHS Basel. Finally, she learned to play the organ (S. Doll and B. Müller), which led her to numerous premieres of pieces by Swiss composers and also much traditional music. She also composes and participates in interdisciplinary projects (with Copa&Sordes); she lives and works in Basel.
Work list
Adagio (1998)
Instrumentation: for flute and piano
This piece is reminiscent of Erik Saties music and minimal music in the sense that it uses minimum material for maximum effect.
The piano is somewhat pedalled and the melody of the flute reserved but tone sensitively reproduced.
Duration: 4' 20"
Collage à M. Duchamps (1999)
for Claudia Brunner with class
Instrumentation: any instrumentation
Texts: Adolf Wölfli, Erich Kästner, William Shakespeare
Commissioned by Claudia Brunner for her contrabass class. This piece consists of musical material which can be compiled either freely or based on certain rules. Aesthetically it is a homage to John Cage and Christian Wolff.
Duration: 3' 00"
Instrumentation: any instrumentation
Texts: Adolf Wölfli, Erich Kästner, William Shakespeare
Commissioned by Claudia Brunner for her contrabass class. This piece consists of musical material which can be compiled either freely or based on certain rules. Aesthetically it is a homage to John Cage and Christian Wolff.
Duration: 3' 00"
Saier & Hug
Rochstrasse 9
D-10178 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (0)30 28097089
contact@musikverlag-saier-hug.com
www.musikverlag-saier-hug.com
D-10178 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (0)30 28097089
contact@musikverlag-saier-hug.com
www.musikverlag-saier-hug.com
Omnia tempus habent (2000)
Instrumentation: for flute
With text from the Vulgate.
This piece is in the first part experimental, that means each interpreter must find his/her own way of arranging and choreographing the speaking and performing. The middle part should sound like an ecstatic dance. The third part presents very little rhetorical material to be performed affectionately with the utmost intensity. It disapears into silence.
Duration: 9' 00"
Instrumentation: for keyboard instrument e.g piano, harpsichord or clavichord
Texts: Jürg Laederach
This piece is a kind of scene and parodies historical musical material (chromatic scale). The performer must approach the score in the same manner as an actor acquires a role.
Duration: 4' 40"
Portrait (2001)
for Christian Gusenski
Instrumentation: for violin, piano and electronic tape
Relates to a picture by Christian Gusenski whereby the colours and forms of the 'portrait' are set in music.
Stop watches are required in the realisation of this piece because the timing is seperated into seconds.
To receive the CD you can contact Pia Blum (pia-blum@bluewin.ch) directly.
Duration: 7' 55"
Instrumentation: for violin, piano and electronic tape
Relates to a picture by Christian Gusenski whereby the colours and forms of the 'portrait' are set in music.
Stop watches are required in the realisation of this piece because the timing is seperated into seconds.
To receive the CD you can contact Pia Blum (pia-blum@bluewin.ch) directly.
Duration: 7' 55"
"Verrückt nach Licht" or "Ich verlasse mich auf Gott" (2002)
for Christine Heggendorn and Renate Rindlisbacher
Instrumentation: for organ and piano
Duration: 18' 00"
Instrumentation: for organ and piano
Duration: 18' 00"
Saier & Hug
Rochstrasse 9
D-10178 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (0)30 28097089
contact@musikverlag-saier-hug.com
www.musikverlag-saier-hug.com
D-10178 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 (0)30 28097089
contact@musikverlag-saier-hug.com
www.musikverlag-saier-hug.com
"Mein Herz weint wie Todesgesang - Bruno Manser" (2004)
Instrumentation: for playback (bells of Chartes), solo alto recorder and recorder ensemble (bass, tenor, alto, soprano)
Duration: 18' 50"
Manuscript
Farbkreis erste und zweite Fassung (2005)
Instrumentation: for piano
For the painted colour circle exhibition by Bettina Müller.
Duration: 10' 00"-30' 00"
Sieben Lieder zu Gedichten von Meret Oppenheim (2006)
Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano and piano
The lieder are based on limited sound material that I developed by means of the Fibonacci series. This is enriched here by quarter tones in the voice. To all intents and purposes the lieder are in the spirit of a Meret Oppenhein surrealism.
Duration: 15' 00"
Musikverlag Saier&Hug Ltd.
Rochstrasse 9
D-10178 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 302 809 70 89
contact@musikverlag-saier-hug.com
www.musikverlag-saier-hug.com/
D-10178 Berlin
BRD
Tel. +49 302 809 70 89
contact@musikverlag-saier-hug.com
www.musikverlag-saier-hug.com/
Das Buch der Musik (2008)
48 Taoist paintings, in order to improvise over them
Instrumentation: for two pianos
Duration: 48' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for two pianos
Duration: 48' 00"
Manuscript
for Bea
Instrumentation: for trombone
"Projektion" ist ein Versuch, den Vorgang einer Projektion musikalisch darzustellen. Meist steht als Projektionsfläche ein 4/4-Takt, gegen den sozusagen gespielt wird. Oder anders ausgedrückt: hier wird auf ein Raster eine den Puls umgebende Klangfläche, die auf der 12-Ton-Reihe des Konzertes Op. 24 von A. Webern beruht, projiziert. Die rhythmische Struktur besteht aus einem "freien" Vorspiel, aus figurativen Teilen und einem Nachspiel. Zwischen Vorspiel I und Vorspiel II darf ausgewählt werden.
Instrumentation: for trombone
"Projektion" ist ein Versuch, den Vorgang einer Projektion musikalisch darzustellen. Meist steht als Projektionsfläche ein 4/4-Takt, gegen den sozusagen gespielt wird. Oder anders ausgedrückt: hier wird auf ein Raster eine den Puls umgebende Klangfläche, die auf der 12-Ton-Reihe des Konzertes Op. 24 von A. Webern beruht, projiziert. Die rhythmische Struktur besteht aus einem "freien" Vorspiel, aus figurativen Teilen und einem Nachspiel. Zwischen Vorspiel I und Vorspiel II darf ausgewählt werden.
Schneestudie (2017)
frei nach ‹verschneiter Ostersonntag› von Christian Gusewski
Instrumentation: für Violine solo
Duration: 20' 00"
Instrumentation: für Violine solo
Duration: 20' 00"
Instrumentation: piano
Duration: 3' 30"
JOU PU TUAN (2018)
für Philippe
Instrumentation: für Cembalo
Duration: 4' 57"
Instrumentation: für Cembalo
Duration: 4' 57"
Instrumentation: for prepared piano and/or for percussion
Nam is a comprovisation, i.e. one part is fixed and the other part is improvisational.
Repertory
Earl Brown: December 1952
John Cage: Tacet 4:33
John Cage: For Marcel Duchamp
John Cage: Seven Haiku
John Cage: Cheap Imitation
John Cage: Sonates & Interludes
John Cage: Songbooks für Klavier
John Cage: Wintermusik für Klavier
John Cage: Ina Landscape für Klavier
Tan Dun: 8 Sketches in hunan Accent
Hans N. Kuhn: Gehörbildung für Klavier
György Kurtág: 12 Mikroludien für Klavier
Pauline Oliveros: Lullaby für Daisy Pauline für tape und Stimme
Arvo Pärt: Fratres für Violine und Klavier
Arvo Pärt: Annum per Annum
Dieter Schnebel: Bagatellen für Klavier
Salvatore Sciarrino: Prélude pour le Piano
Peter Sonderegger: 73 Pezzi degli Scrovegni für Klavier
Ernst Albrecht Stiebler: Klavierstück 1987
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück IX
Galina Ustvolskaja: 6 Sonaten für Klavier
Christian Wolff: Edges für Klavier
Last updated: 2023-12-05 10:43:45