Peer Baierlein


Peer Baierlein is a German musician and composer.

Biography

Peer Baierlein started playing the accordion at the age of 7 and then switched to the trumpet when he was 9. After several years in the local brass band he started his professional studies at the early age of 16 at the Musikhochschule Köln in Germany. He first became a classical trumpet teacher before beginning his studies with Prof. Malte Burba as an orchestra musician at the Musikhochschule Köln and with Arno Lange at the 'Deutsche Oper' in Berlin.
In 1996, he moved to Leuven in Belgium to study with his favourite jazz-trumpet player Bert Joris at the Lemmensinstituut. Upon completion of his studies, he moved for a year to New York City in 2000, to take lessons fromm John McNeil and to play his instrument abroad. He then came back to Belgium, where he finished his studies for jazz trumpet and then specialised as ‘lead-trumpet’, also at the Lemmensinstituut. Between 2005 and 2007, Peer Baierlein has been studying classical composition with Piet Swerts. He continued his studies from 2008 to 2011 and followed a special education for composing film music and classical orchestration with a.o. Denis Pousseur, Victor Kissine and Jean-Luc Fafchamps.
From 2011 to 2013, he was a student for 'new media' at the 'Hochschule für Musik und Theater' in Hamburg.
Since 2007 he has been working as a composer, musical director and musician for numerous theaters in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Productions for which he composed all of the music have won all theatre, director and actor awards in German-speaking countries.
Since 2016, Peer Baierlein has been composing for classical orchestra, vocal and instrumental ensembles.
The first commissioned works for the 'Hessische Staatsballett' under the direction of Tim Plegge and the 'Mecklenburgisches Staatsballett' under the direction of Xenia Wiest will follow in 2022.

Discography

  • 2004: Issues
  • 2006: Open Questions
  • 2009: Cycles
  • 2015: One
  • 2015: me² + 1

    Works / Classical Compositions

  • 2016: 'Concerto No.1'
  • 2016: '255'
  • 2017: Seelen-Trilogie
  • 2018: Hymnus
  • 2020: In Der Tiefe
  • 2021: Ode an die Pop-Musik
  • 2021: Pentagon of Poetry
  • 2024: 'Davids Bündler' for orchestra
  • 2024: L'appel du vide¹
  • 2025: A Glimpse of Schwitters
  • 2025: Times and Ages
  • 2025: ''Somnambul''

    Opera

  • 2012: Remixes for Manon from Jules Massenet
  • 2017: additional compositions for Der Freischütz / Carl Maria von Weber / Eutiner Festspiele / Musical Director: Leo Siberski

    Publications

  • 2017/18: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 'Kinderalbum' op.39 / adaptation for string ensemble'

    Orchestrations

  • 2018: orchestrations of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Georges Bizet, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn and Bedřich Smetana for clarinet, bassoon, violin, bass, trumpet, trombone and percussion
  • 2021: Different orchestrations for the 'WDR Funkhausorchester'
  • 2023: 2 Saxon Christmas songs for 'AuditivVokal' for 8-part SATB vocal ensemble
  • 2024/25: Hommage para Luiz for classical orchestra

    Scholarships

  • 2024/25: Scholarship of the "Roger Willemsen Foundation" in the mare-artist-house

    Dance

  • 2021: Memento / 'Hessisches Staatsballett'
  • 2022: Remember The Ladies / 'Mecklenburgisches Staatsballett'
  • The Little Prince / 'Mecklenburgisches Staatsballett' / 'Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle'
  • 2026: tba / Dance Theatre Heidelberg

    Radio Play

  • 2014: Quotenkiller / / Deutschlandradio