Cross-Genre Composition: Opening the Classical Music Tradition
More than one hundred years after Schönbergs Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen and its accompanying (since falsified) hypothesis that broad audiences in the 2010s and 2020s would whistle serial tone rows in the street with the same effortless joy as they do tonal melodies, we stand before a tightening Genrefication of classical music that restricts it to a few dozen dead, white and male composers from colonial times. Cross-Genre music seeks to provide an artistic-academic system with which break out of such closed spaces and look over traditional borders into the diverse plethora of music-making in modern times.
Prof. Dr. Samuel Penderbayne is an Australian composer and artistic researcher, living and working between Hamburg and Vienna. His primary interest is in combining modern, non-classical music genres with contemporary classical composition, as such aiming for both an aesthetic and cultural “opening" of traditional practice. In addition to a classical music education, he has played in indie and prog-rock bands, produced progressive electronic dance music and composed film music.
After studies in Sydney and Munich, he was awarded the “Opernstipendium” of the Hamburg State Opera, University of Music and Theatre, Hamburg and the Claussen-Simon Foundation to write a dissertation and compose a full-length chamber opera based, resulting in the work “I.th.Ak.A.” (2018) and a textual analysis of the work under a newly developed framework of Cross-Genre Composition, which was awarded summa cum laude (1,0). Subsequently, he composed operas for the Zurich Opera House, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Lucerne Opera, Music-Theatre Aalto, Neuköllner Oper Berlin and Deutsche Oper am Rhein and taught artistic research at the Hamburg University. Recently, he was named Professor of Composition at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.
In addition to artistic practice, research and teaching, he curates - together with pianist Henriette Zahn - the biennial NORDLIED-Festival for progressive song art in Hamburg, which explores new formats of “lied" recital and places them in a discursive-active context.
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