Clockwork
Award winning at chor.com Composer’s Competition “Nocturne” 2024
You’re desperately trying to fall asleep when you hear a clock, or maybe even two clocks, ticking somewhere in the room. Who hasn’t had this experience? The constant ticking hammers its way into your consciousness until sleep is no longer an option. Time suddenly becomes tactile, and the clock begins to speak. And if clocks can talk, why not turn voices into clocks?
These ideas form the basis of Marc L. Vogler’s composition Clockwork. Speaking in rhythms, the singers transform themselves into clocks that disturb the night’s sleep. They start chatting, get embroiled in polyphonic metrical conflicts and interlock with one another in various ways, just like the cogwheels of a clock. Rhythmically precise, the work develops a captivating groove. Sonic planes occasionally break through the ticking, making Clockwork a highly entertaining and expressive work.
The composer Marc L. Vogler has already won numerous prizes for his work. Clockwork was awarded 3rd prize at the “Nocturne” competition run by the Voktett Hannover as part of the chor.com congress.
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Marc L. Vogler
| 1998Marc L. Vogler (*1998) is a German composer, conductor and pianist. Rheinische Post called him « A Pioneer in Composition », Olivier Latry described his music as « Icily Full of Truth ».
He is Award Winner of the prestigious German Composition Award Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2022 as well as of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Opus One 2020). In the 2024-26 seasons, Vogler will be working as Composer in Residence at Oper Dortmund.
Having composed his first opera at the age of 16 (premiered at the Gelsenkirchen Opera House), he continued his path with academic studies of contemporary music in Düsseldorf and Cologne at the renowned Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln majoring in composition (Prof. Manfred Trojahn, Prof. Brigitta Muntendorf, Prof. Miroslav Srnka), orchestra conducting and piano. That gave him the opportunity to establish himself in the world of well-known classical music festivals and obtain engagements throughout Europe.
His music was performed e.g. by WDR Sinfonieorchester, Magdeburgische Philharmonie, Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, Niederrheinische Sinfoniker and Ensemble Musikfabrik and was broadcasted on WDR 3 radio, NDR, Deutschlandfunk and WDR television.
Further performances include concerts in Milan Cathedral (Italy), New Opera West Los Angeles (USA), ARTER Istanbul (Turkey) and during the Cordouan UNESCO Celebration (France). In 2017, his work was presented in an article for Der Spiegel magazine. Since 2018, he obtained composition commissions e.g. for Europäisches Klassikfestival, Oper Bielefeld, AchtBrücken festival of Cologne Philharmonie and BTHVN 2020.
We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/6-questions-for-marc-l-vogler/
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Marc L. Vogler
| 1998Marc L. Vogler (*1998) is a German composer, conductor and pianist. Rheinische Post called him « A Pioneer in Composition », Olivier Latry described his music as « Icily Full of Truth ».
He is Award Winner of the prestigious German Composition Award Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2022 as well as of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Opus One 2020). In the 2024-26 seasons, Vogler will be working as Composer in Residence at Oper Dortmund.
Having composed his first opera at the age of 16 (premiered at the Gelsenkirchen Opera House), he continued his path with academic studies of contemporary music in Düsseldorf and Cologne at the renowned Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln majoring in composition (Prof. Manfred Trojahn, Prof. Brigitta Muntendorf, Prof. Miroslav Srnka), orchestra conducting and piano. That gave him the opportunity to establish himself in the world of well-known classical music festivals and obtain engagements throughout Europe.
His music was performed e.g. by WDR Sinfonieorchester, Magdeburgische Philharmonie, Hungarian Philharmonic Orchestra, Niederrheinische Sinfoniker and Ensemble Musikfabrik and was broadcasted on WDR 3 radio, NDR, Deutschlandfunk and WDR television.
Further performances include concerts in Milan Cathedral (Italy), New Opera West Los Angeles (USA), ARTER Istanbul (Turkey) and during the Cordouan UNESCO Celebration (France). In 2017, his work was presented in an article for Der Spiegel magazine. Since 2018, he obtained composition commissions e.g. for Europäisches Klassikfestival, Oper Bielefeld, AchtBrücken festival of Cologne Philharmonie and BTHVN 2020.
We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/6-questions-for-marc-l-vogler/
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