Ulrich Schultheiss
composer | komponist
Gerard McChrystal, saxophonist (UK)
Jun 1, 2024 | Frankfurt/M. (D)
Yuri Jang (violin) and Tobias Hagedorn (organ) play the premiere of "DayDream" as part of the "HörBar Weekend" in Frankfurt's Herz Jesu Church.
May 4, 2024 | Marl (D)
The recorder quartet Flautando Köln together with Albrecht Maurer and Heikko Deutschmann present the crossover performance "Jack & Jill - Patterns of Love and Laughter" with lyrics by Ronald D. Laing and music by Ulrich Schultheiss and others at the Theater Marl as part of the Ruhrfestspiele 2024. Video Trailer
photo (c) Christina Feldhoff
Apr 27, 2024 | Münster (D)
Matias de Oliveira Pinto and Elisabeth Fürniss perform pas de deux for two violoncellos as part of the concert "Original und Fälschung" in the concert hall of the Musikhochschule Münster. pas de deux was premiered in Brazil in 2023 by Matias de Oliveira Pinto and Fábio Presgrave.
Apr 21, 2024 | Hagen (D)
Organist Katrin Klopf played Verstrichen ein Hauch... alongside works by Olivier Messiaen and Petr Eben as part of the "neuer geist. neue musik" concert series in Hagen's Heilig-Geist-Church.
Apr 17, 2024 | Augsburg (D)
Christian Segmehl (sax) and Paul Rivinius (piano) play witch hunt together with works by Jules Demersseman, George Gershwin, Darius Milhaud and Astor Piazolla in the concert "Sax and Piano" of the Tonkünstlerverband Augsburg at the Fronhof Rokokosaal.
Apr 9, 2024 | BR2Radio (D)
In a production of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, the renowned Henschel Quartet from Munich plays the 1st Piano Quartet Movimenti 1 - 4.
Mar 10, 2024 | New York (USA)
Musicians from the Kaufman Music Center's Special Music School in New York perform works by Ulrich Schultheiss at the Kaufman Music Center Contemporary Music Festival in Merkin Hall. Information on the organizer's website.
Mar 9, 2024 | Potsdam, NY (USA)
Megan Henry (sax.) performs witch hunt in the quartet version with Clair Ames (sax.), Kerri Rauschelbach (t. sax.) and Nathaniel Cobb (b. sax.) at the Sara M. Snell Music Theater in Potsdam, NY, along with works by James DiPasquale and Warren Benson.
Feb 25, 2024 | Wertheim (D)
The Ava Saxophone Quartet plays witch hunt as part of the concert "Of great masters and distant lands" at the Schlösschen in the Hofgarten Wertheim.
Feb 20, 2024 | BR2Radio (D)
Thomas Hitzlberger and Georg Schütz perform the Faust-Paraphrases for two pianos in a production by the Bavarian Radio.
Dec 5, 2023 | Cluj-Napoca (RO)
Patricia Marchiș (sax), recently awarded at the 'International Jazz in the Park Competition 2023' in Cluj-Napoca, has released her debut album 'Metamorphosis' with an arrangement of Ulrichs' song wanted for sax and jazz combo. The album by Marquis Noir is available on the well-known streaming portals. YouTube
Nov 9 & 10, 2023 | Perpignan (F)
The Duo Fortecello (Anna Mikulska, violoncello and Philippe Argenty, piano) played deux par deux at the 'Festival Aujourd'hui Musiques' at the Théâtre de l'Archipel in Perpignan (F). There is a video on Facebook with a small excerpt.
2023 | Recklinghausen (D)
Newly released is the CD "RAPHAEL, SCHULTHEISS, ZABEL - ZWEI KLAVIERE" by Jay Jung-Hoon Wang and Rainer Klaas, including the Faust-Paraphrasen from 1987. More information below.
Oct 29, 2023 | Bad Brückenau (D)
The Ava Saxophone Quartet plays witch hunt as part of the concert "Von großen Meister und fernen Ländern" in the Marienkirche in the Staatsbad Bad Brückenau.
Sep 3, 2023 | Schokland (NL)
The Ensemble Black Pencil presents its
new CD entitled "Black Pencil: SCHOKLAND" at the Soundwalk in the
UNESCO World Heritage Site Schokland (NL). It includes WINDSPEL for viola (Esra
Pehlivanli), BIRDSONG for recorder (Jorge Isaac) and DROPS IN THE WIND for
accordion (Marko Kassl) by Ulrich Schultheiss. Audio
more
... new CDs
CD Black Pencil: Schokland
On this CD, members of the ensemble Black Pencil perform works for solo instruments inspired by the World Heritage Site Schokland in the Netherlands: windspel for viola (Esra Pehlivanli), birdsong for recorder (Jorge Isaac) and drops in the wind for accordion (Marko Kassl), among others. Audio
CD Two Pianos
Jay Jung-Hoon Wang and Rainer Klaas play Faust-Paraphrasen from 1987 on the CD entitled "RAPHAEL, SCHULTHEISS, ZABEL - ZWEI KLAVIERE". Other titles on the CD are the 'Toccata' op. 45 by Günter Raphael and 'Erstarrte Tänze' by Frank Zabel.
CD Nature
On the CD entitled "NATURE" by Patricia Pagny's piano class at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern, Paola Lepori plays ritorna la nebbia and Fabienne Mittaz Nachklang zu Robert Schumann's «Des Abends» among others. Info
Videos
L'oggetto
"The Object - or how to destroy an ideal world". The score of the 1985 ballet suite has recently been digitised. A separate website provides brief information, music and sound samples. The first performance took place in Osnabrück in 1986 with the Osnabrück Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Jean-François Monnard.
Emphasen
The score of this trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano from 1992 has been revised and digitised. Music and sound samples can be found on a separate website. The premiere took place in 1993 at the Wuerzburg Residence.
Vergossen & Vergessen
for four concertante woodwinds in orchestra. Written for the Weimar Staatskapelle under the impression of partly almost lost texts from the Munich Bohème (1890 - 1914). On a website there are score excerpts as well as audio samples.
The man outside
"A play that no theatre wants to perform and no audience wants to see." (W. Borchert) On the occasion of the 100th birthday of the German writer Wolfgang Borchert in 2021 Ulrich's ballet music ('Draussen vor der Tür') from 1995 was revised. Excerpts from the score and several audios are available on a website.
... new scores
