"Composers work like architects in three-dimensional space:

Pitch - Duration - Sound"

Karsten Dehning- Busse

The cello - my instrument - has decisively inspired me to compose:

The seemingly unlimited range and richness of tone colours have always fascinated me.

always fascinated me. Initially I wrote solo pieces for cello, clarinet and piano

piano, then chamber music and orchestral works. Throughout my compositions

the following idea runs like a red thread through my compositions: composers work like architects

in three-dimensional space: pitch - duration - sound.

In my compositions, string instruments and wind instruments play on the one hand

in an extreme tonal range on the one hand and in the range of micro-intervals on the other.

The highest registers symbolise higher spheres and visions. The lowest registers

describe human abysses; micro-intervals act as a heightening of

chromaticism. With regard to periods of time, sound clusters of figures occur,

that move at top speed and, on the other hand, "standing" chords,

that stop time, so to speak, or long pauses that even cancel out time.

The solo works contain a broad spectrum of sound colours, the pieces for cello and piano

are characterised by the special sound mixtures of the two instruments.

In the orchestral works, the sound is directly linked to the melodic lines,

the chordal developments and the rhythmic elements. Some of my

compositions contain short quotations from great classical or romantic works towards the end.

or romanticism. These quotations have a surprising effect, although the compositions are

are designed from the outset and take a look at the past from the present.

the past.

Karsten Dehning- Busse

Born on 19 December 1956 in Bremen

1976-1985 Studied cello at the Hanover University of Music with Prof. Klaus Storck

1981 International masterclass with Pierre Fournier in Berlin

1984 International masterclass with Pierre Fournier in Geneva

1985 Concert exam

since 1985 Teaching position for cello at the Hanover University of Music

Since 1985 Beginning of compositional activity - solo works, chamber music,

orchestral works

Since 1990 regular performances as a composer at home and abroad

1993- 2013 Cellist in "Das Neue Ensemble- Hannover"

1995- 2020 Cellist in "Ensemble L`ART Pour L`ART"

since 1995 concerts with the pianist Juliane Busse

since 1997 conductor of the "Kammerorchester Horn- Lehe" - Bremen

since 2008 conductor of the "Sinfonietta Aller Weser"

since 2019 Conductor of the "Alt- Hastedter Kammerorchester" - Bremen

Suite for cello solo (1986)

"Metapherngestöber" - setting of 8 poems by Paul Celan for oboe, clarinet,

piano and voice (1988)

"Entfernungen" for clarinet solo (1990)

5 piano pieces (1991)

"Verwandlungen" for cello and piano (1992)

"4 Moments Musicaux" for cello and piano (1993)

"Zeiträume" for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1995)

Concerto for piano and orchestra (1996)

"Dimensions" for cello and piano (1996/ 1997)

5 Intermezzi for string quartet (1997)

5 pieces for chamber orchestra (1998)

Adagio for chamber ensemble (2000)

"Konfrontationen" for cello and timpani/vibraphone (2000)

2nd string quartet (2001)

"Reflexion" for 4 horns and chamber orchestra (2002)

Trio for clarinet, cello and piano (2006)

"Promena" for string orchestra (2013)

"Im Nebel" for string orchestra (2015)