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Upcoming events:

February 21, 2014, 8:30 pm
Neunkirchen, Stummsche Reithalle
Art of Schwanengesang sings and plays songs by Daniel N. Seel, John Dowland, Bob Dylan, Robert Fripp, John Zorn, the Beastie Boys, and self-made compositions
11,- € / 14,- €


April 6, 2014 11:00 am
Saarbrücken, Saarland Museum, Moderne Galerie
Concert in honour of the 100th birthday of K. O. Götz
Thomas Schmidt (git.) und Stefan Scheib (bass) perform 2 versions of the composition KIVA/Batelan (2009) by Daniel N. Seel
The jubilee will probably attend the concert.



Mai 9, 2014
Saarbrücken, Saarland Museum, Moderne Galerie
Vernissage of the exhibition of Frank Badur
Daniel N. Seel plays piano music by Morton Feldman
Mai 11, 2014, 5:00 pm
Saarbrücken, Saarland Museum, Moderne Galerie
Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus (1985) (Duration: about 80 minutes)
Daniel N. Seel, Klavier
Concert in cooperation with the German-American Institute Saarland

June 8, 2014
Saarbrücken, Schlosskirche
Night of the Churches, Pentecost 2014
Daniel N. Seel: Skordaturen II (1992-94)
Matias de Oliveira Pinto, Violoncello
With an Introduction of Daniel N. Seel and a subsequent discussion
Concert of the Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz

Juli 2014
Catania, Italia, Chiostro di Palazzo Minoriti
Festival Internazionale ‘Magie Barocche’
First Performance of the composition canon (2014) for String Orchestra by Daniel N. Seel










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Concerts:

Mai 29 2013 18 Uhr, Hochschule für Musik Saar, Saarbrücken
...civitatem sed futuram inquirimus (premiere) for orchestra
Ensemble Grenzpunkt
Ltg.: Jonathan Kaell



Awards/ Scholarships:

Daniel N. Seel received a scholarship for residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris from early November 2012 by the end of April 2013.


New editions  Verlag Neue Musik Berlin:




 




  • New scores available at Verlag Neue Musik:
    anti, Auf den Tag, Bläserquintett, EVE, HANNAH, frammenti mitici, I MU GI, Palimpseste und Parodien, 1. Streichquartett
  • August 14 2011, 8 p.m., Saarbrücken, Johanneskirche
    First performance of "rug" (2011) for 3 instrumentalists
    With Mechthild Blaumer (violin, viola), N.N. (Viola da Gamba, Violoncello) and Lutz Gillmann (Keyboards)

  • September 8 2011, 20 Uhr, Saarbrücken, Rathaus Festsaal
    Premiere of "kleingeschriebenes" (2011) lieder on poems by Stefan George
    With Élodie Brochier (dolls and performance), Claudia Kemmerer (singer), Ralf Peter (singer), Lutz Gillmann (keyboards) and N.N. (viola)

  • New stuff in the www:
    videoclip by Interzone Perceptible:  "Requiem" (2002):
    http://www.i-p-music.com/index.php?id=71
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA1fo6SAvLc

    A text by Moritz Eggert about Daniel N. Seel and a text by Daniel N. Seel about Korea at  "Bad Block of Musick", NMZ:
    http://blogs.nmz.de/badblog/
  • September 4 2011, Weingut Gaul, Grünstadt.
    Manuel Fischer-Dieskau plays "Skordaturen II" (1992-94) for
    violoncello solo, Duration: ca. 1 hour.
    Live-broadcasting to KunstKabinett am Turm and CD-production

  • September 30 2011, Saarbrücken.
    Premiere of "Idyll" (2011) for orchestra.
    Ensemble Ricercare, Dir.:Götz Hartmann

  • September 8 2010, 8:30 P.M., Saarbrücken, Rathaus, Festsaal
    Premiere of Daniel N. Seel's composition "Palimpseste und Parodien. Lieder nach Liedern von Hugo Wolf" (2010)
    Daniel N. Seel will also perform his "Klavier-stücke I-V", a Goyesca by E. Granados and songs from the "Spanish Songbook" by H. Wolf.
    With C. Kemmerer, R. Peter (Voices) und M. Klein (Video-installation)
  • New scores available from "Verlag Neue Musik": 2nd string quartet (2007), Budai (2002), Casanova (2008), Hotei (1999), KIVA/Batelan (2009)
  • February 24 2010, Kulturradio rbb, 9:04p.m. to 10:00 p.m.: 

    Komponieren am Rande des Abgrunds. Portrait of the composer Daniel N. Seel by Matthias R. Entreß

  • Daniel N. Seel's complete works will be published at  "Verlag Neue Musik" Berlin. The following compositions will be published first:

    Nacht-stücke for piano, Skordaturen II for cello, Budai for piano and Fetische IIIfor violin and piano

  • October 1st 2009, 5 p.m.
    Saarbrücken, Rathaus, Festsaal
    Retrospektive Julius Shulman, Vernissage
    Daniel N. Seel plays and comments works by 
    Carl Ruggles, Andreas Raseghi, Charles Wuorinen,
    Daniel N. Seel and Barbara Monk-Feldman
  •  October 11th 2009, 8:30 p.m.
    Saarbrücken, Rathaus, Festsaal
    "horizont verschwiegen"
    Daniel N. Seel (a.o.) play works by
    Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire Op. 21 (1912),
    Anton von Webern, Josef Matthias Hauer and many others
  • Walter Zimmermann's 60th Birthday:

    "Sounding presents" by composer friends for Walter Zimmermann, April 14, 8 p.m. Heather O'Donnell (piano) also plays "Voces Abandonadas", "Wüstenwanderung" and "The missing nail at the river"(UdK Berlin, Fasanenstr. 1 B, Kammersaal).

  • Mai 10 2009, 11 a.m.
    Grünstadt, Weingut Gaul
    Daniel N. Seel:  "Batelan" (2009) Duo for guitar and cello on a painting by Karl Otto Götz (first performance)
    within the scope of the opening of the exhibition of works by Karl Otto Götz.
    Thomas Schmidt, guitar and Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, cello
  • January 31 2009, 8 p.m.
    Berlin, Friedenauer Kammerkonzerte
    Kammersaal Friedenau, Isoldestrasse 9
    Daniel N. Seel plays works by Robert Schumann (Noveletten Op. 21) and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

  • February 7 2009, 10 p.m.
    Radio Deutschlandfunk DLF
    "Beharrlichkeit und Aufruhr - Über den Komponisten Daniel N. Seel"
    A portrait by Matthias R. Entress

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  • September 18th 2008, 8 p.m.
    Saarbrücken, Foyer of the "Saarländisches Staatstheater"
    Saarbrücker Sommermusik
    Lutz Gillmann plays Daniel N. Seel's "Nacht-stücke" (1988-1991) for piano solo

  • September 23rd 2008, 8 p.m.
    Gent (Belgium), Logos Foundation
    Martin Tchiba plays Daniel N. Seel's "Budai" (2002) for piano solo

  • March 7th 2008, 7 p.m. Munich, Mohr-Villa e.V., Kulturzentrum Freimann
    Situlistraße 75, 80939 München
    Vernissage Natalie Gutgesell – Visual and Unseen
    First performance of the music for the installation „terminal vein“ by Natalie Gutgesell on poems by Monica Burger

  • March 8th 2008, 8 p.m.
    Berlin, Friedenauer Kammerkonzerte, Isoldestraße 9
    Piano recital Daniel N. Seel
    Works by Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin

  • December 1 2007, 8 p.m., Berlin, Akademie der Künste
    Premiere of the "nd String Quartet (2007)
    with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin

  • November 3 2007, 8 p.m., Berlin, Akademie der Künste
    Concert/ Talk with Daniel N. Seel and Walter Zimmermann, Performances of works by Daniel N. Seel: Strohhalme (1998/99) for Flute, Fetische III (2006) for violin and piano, frammenti mitici (2007) for piano (German first performance)
    with Oliver Kern (piano), Klaus Schöpp (flute) and Kaoru Yamamoto (violin)

  • October 13 2007, 6 p.m., Berlin, Pyramidale 6 "Erotik des Kontrasts"
    First Performance of "Dunkle Freiheit" - "Erotik des Kontrasts" (with Lichtzwang) (2007) for voice and four instruments (with Lichtzwang)

  • August 14 2007, 8 p.m., Asiago (Italy)
    Oliver Kern plays "Nacht-stücke" (1988-91)

  • April 22 2007, 8 p.m., Köln, Kulturbunker Mühleheim
    Joker Nies (electronics, film), Roland Schappert (computer) and Daniel N. Seel (keyboards, text):
    Premiere of the project "Bunker Todt"

  • April 19 2007, 8 p.m., Ascoli (Italy)
    Oliver Kern plays frammenti mitici (2007)

  • April 3 2007, 5 p.m., Ravenna (Italy)
    Premiere of frammenti mitici (2007)
    with Oliver Kern (piano)

  • January 2007
    Hopferau, Schloss
    Piano recital Daniel N. Seel
    "Musik on Paintings"
    Works by E. Granados, M. Feldman, C. Debussy and M. Mussorgsky

  • November 21 2006 8 p.m.
    Berlin BKA "Unerhoerte Musik"
    Piano recital Daniel N. Seel
    Compositions by D. N. Seel (F.P.), S. Hermann (German F.P.), N. Guenther (F.P.), J. Tenney, R. Hayward, S. Bartling (F.P.)

  • October 14 2006 10 p.m.
    Koeln, Musiknacht 2006 Bechstein Forum (Bechstein Centrum)
    "Inventio"
    Roland Schappert and Daniel N. Seel present their new synthesis of computer- and pianomusic

  • October 7 2006 8 p.m.
    Berlin, tesla
    Daniel N. Seel plays "Beginner's Mind" (1975) by Walter Zimmermann
    First Performance regarding all instructions for movements and gestures

  • September 10 2006 7 p.m.
    Bad Arolsen, Schloss
    Oliver Kern plays "Nacht-Stuecke"(1988-91) by Daniel N. Seel

  • 22. April 2006:
    Concert within the scope of "Frühjahrstagung des Instituts für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung", Darmstadt

  • 12. March 2006:
    Premiere Fetische III for violin and piano (2005/6)
    Ulm, Buergerhaus, 8 p.m.
    Tanja Becker-Bender, Oliver Kern, Ulm

  • 3.-5. March 2006:
    Three-day Workshop and two concerts at "Schloss Hopferau"
    Topic: Frédéric Chopin
    1st concert 6. February: Daniel N. Seel plays Chopin (Etudes Op. 10, Preludes Op. 28)
    2nd Concert 8. February: Oliver Kern plays Chopin (Ballade Op.23, Fantaisie Op.49, Fantaisie-Impromptu Op.66, Polonaise Op.26,1 a.o.)
    Workshop assistant: Ming-jung Kim
    More information: www.schloss.hopferau.com

  • 1. February 2006:
    Premiere (of the complete version) Doppelkonzert (2005)
    Ensemble "InZeit", Saarbrücken

  • 2.-5. December 2005:
    Three-day Workshop and two Concerts at "Schloss zu Hopferau"
    Topic: "Die Moderne"

    1st Concert:
    2. December, 7.30 p.m.
    Daniel Seel plays works by:
    Schönberg, Ruggles, Webern, Cage, Skrjabin, Hindemith und Messiaen

    2nd Concert:
    5. December, 7.30 p.m.
    Daniel Seel and Oliver Kern play works by:
    Berg, Debussy, Ravel, Respighi und Satie