Works by Eberhard Kloke
Biography
Born in Hamburg
in 1948, Eberhard Kloke began his career as a répètiteur and conductor in Mainz, Darmstadt, Düsseldorf and Lübeck, before he was appointed General Music Director in Ulm in 1980. He took on the same position in Freiburg/Breisgau in 1983.
Kloke was General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra from 1988 to 1994, also leading the Nuremberg Opera and the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra from 1993 to 1998. He was awarded the German Critics’ Prize in 1990.
Kloke’s artistic work centres above all on modern music and realising new conceptual approaches to music; in Freiburg, Bochum and Nuremberg he organised and conducted large-scale cycles of contemporary music programmes (the works performed including Götterdämmerung_Maßstab und Gemessenes, Jakobsleiter, Ein deutscher Traum, Aufbrechen America, Prometheus, Jenseits des Klanges). He has been living in Berlin
since 1998, working as a freelance conductor, project initiator and composer.
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Since 2002 Kloke has been published as a composer and arranger by Universal Edition (Vienna), since 2017 also by Schott-Music (Mainz), since 2018 by Sikorski (Hamburg) and since 2019 also by Boosey&Hawkes (New York-London-Berlin).