Peter Michael Hamel
*1947
Performance duration: 8–10 minutes
The score for organ and percussion, dedicated to the memory of Bertold Hummel, is an ‘extract’ from my church music theatre piece De Visione Dei, based on texts by Cusanus, for Brixen Cathedral. The Conclusion of my Litany of the Names of God for the Würzburg Cathedral School is also included in the silence of contemplation.
Peter Michael Hamel
Since I was 12 years old, Bertold Hummel has shaped my compositional (and Catholic) identity. As a pupil at the archbishop’s seminary in Rastatt, I was the soloist on an LP production by Christophorus Verlag, which he directed artistically. Right up until our final meetings in Hamburg and Munich, I felt supported by his caring kindness, his artistic vision and his open and tolerant humanity.
Peter Michael Hamel (2002)
Peter Michael Hamel, born in Munich in 1947, founded the improvisation group Between in the 1970s. He engaged with political cabaret, experimental avant-garde and electronic music, collaborating with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Luc Ferrari, Carl Orff, Josef Anton Riedl, Terry Riley and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
He has performed worldwide as a self-performing artist (keyboard instruments and voice). He has composed works for musical theatre, orchestra and chamber music (Bärenreiter / E.R.P. / Schott). From 1997 to 2012, he was a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. In 1998, he founded the Intercultural Music Institute in Aschau im Chiemgau.
