Barbara Buchholz
Barbara Buchholz (8 December 1959 – 10 April 2012[1]) was a Berlin-based German musician and composer. She was one of the leading theremin players of the world.
Life
Buchholz was born in Duisburg. She studied flute, guitar, bass guitar and singing at the Bielefeld University. She earned her first success as a bass player in the German woman jazz band Reichlich Weiblich.[2] Since the early 1980s she worked on various interdisciplinary projects both as performer and composer. She produced e.g. Tap It Deep - „midified“ Steppdance and music, Human Interactivity and Theremin: Berlin-Moscow.
At the end of the 1990s Buchholz met
She played the theremin in various contemporary works, like The Little Mermaid, a ballet by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, and in the operas Linkerhand by Moritz Eggert and Bestmann-Opera by Alex Nowitz.
In 2009 Buchholz participated in the talent show - the
Death
Barbara Buchholz died on April 10, 2012, in Berlin after a long battle with cancer.
Selected discography
- Touch! Don't Touch! (2006; Wergo), together with Lydia Kavina & Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
- Theremin: Russia with Love (2006; Intuition)
- Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos (2007; Rune Grammofon), together with Susanna
- Moonstruck (2008; Intuition)
External links
References
- ^ Obituary in Jazz on Blog (German)
- Spiegel Online(in german), accessed 30 January 2010
- ^ Ohne Sahne, bitte!, Zeit Online (in German) the internet branch of Die Zeit, Germany's most widely read weekly newspaper, accessed 30 January 2010
- ^ Theremin Spielerin in Castingshow - Die Urgroßmutter aller Synthesizer, Die Tageszeitung website (in german), accessed 30 January 2010
- ^ (in German) Barbara Buchholz in Supertalent 2009, ClipFish website, accessed 26 December 2009