Diegelmann, Udo

Born in 1959 in Fulda
• studied art and music at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen and at the same drums and jazz at the Music Workshop and Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt.
• 1986-1991 classical percussion studies with Michael Dietz (Academy of Musical Arts Darmstadt)
• 1990, 1992 and 1994, 2000 scholarships from the International Summer School of the IMD (Class Steven Schick, percussion and James Wood, percussion and composition, Isabel Mundry, Hans Zender, composition, Isao Nakamura and Mircea Ardelaenu)
• programs for solo percussion instruments, the commitment of the Staatstheater Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, as well as new music ensembles and orchestras
• concerts at home and abroad, especially on New Music Events
• interpretations and compositions are recorded and broadcast by radio.
• Lecturer and Director of Percussion Ensemble, based in Frankfurt am Main since 1993. He could it since then to combine the work as a cultural manager, composer, freelance musician and soloist and as artistic director of each other.


details:
• 1998-2002 at Chateauphonie and
Of chairs and seats from Ruth Fühner and Anne Marie Roelofs
2001/02 trio with Karl Berger and Anne Marie Rohloff
Since 1999, founding member and first president of the con tempo cultural association for contemporary music, 2002/04/06/08/10/12/13 initiation and curation of the concert series: 1.- 6. Frankfurt Autumn Days for New Composition
since 2003: Artistic Director of the con tempo contemporary music ensemble
Programs: sound scenes, Lyrical Soundscapes, Painful Strokes And Horrible Screams (music theater with Ralph Mangelsdorff, countertenor, Peter Knodt, trumpet, Birgitta Linde, director) / settings of Robert Gernhardt - and Paul Böhmer, texts (Pere Llompart, tenor, Johannes Knirsch, double bass. )
• Promotion of activities as a composer and musician by the German Music Council, the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art as well as through the Culture-Office of Frankfurt am Main
• 1996-2014 continuous presentation of his projects in Theater-house, in the House of Literature, the Romanfabrik, in Gallus-Theater, as well as in Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt
2006-2010 Artistic Director of the con tempo music theater projects: Bombay quartet after the Indian author Dilip Chitre / Shadows of Istanbul to the Turkish author Murathan Mungan / The Real Buenos Aires to the Argentine author Raúl Argemí
2008 Duo con tempo with the flutist Christoph Dorner
2010 Project with the Ensamble contemporáneo from Santiago de Chile (radio production of his composition: Chilean fauna by the HR and the radio Germany)
• 2012 Jetztmusyk: Polish, inter alia, in the work of Telemann transposed into today, et al with Vitold Rek, double bass and Alois Bröder, composition
2013 curating StreichART- Rhein Main New music for young violinists / projects on Brazil in cooperation with Ney Rosauro: Brasilario (workshops), Tent of Miracles (duo concert with reading), Behind Samba (with a performance of the 2nd Marimbakonzertes with percussion ensemble)
2006-2014, joint projects and cooperation with the Bärmann trio including: New Zealand nature and fascination with Finland Rejo Koskinen (principal clarinetist of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki)
Jury member at competitions and execution of prize winners' concerts
2003-2014 regular 1. Placement of students in competitions, while many in the national competition "Young Musicians" (including Mallets solo). Different students take now to study music or are already successful professional musician.