Michael Jarrell, born in Geneva in 1958, studied composition at the Geneva Conservatory and completed his training with Klaus Huber at the Freiburg Staatliche Hochschule für Musik im Brisgau.
Compositional Technique
Jarrell often reuses the same musical material in different pieces, exploring infinite possibilities of metamorphosis, as seen in the relationship between Aus Bebung and ...es bleibt eine zitternde Bebung...
Composer's Artistic Vision
Michael Jarrell's musical style, evident from his early work Assonance for solo clarinet (1983), emphasizes the rhetorical dimension of musical language, influenced by composers like Boulez, Zimmermann, Berio, and Klaus Huber.
Composer Biography
Michael Jarrell has received numerous awards for his work, including the prix Acanthes (1983), Beethovenpreis (1986), Marescotti prize (1986), Gaudeamus (1988), Henriette Renié (1988), and Siemens-Förderungspreis (1990).
Composer's Artistic Vision
Jarrell's music avoids the illusion of continuous progression, instead using temporal breaks and surface discontinuities to make the listener aware of a form taking shape.
Performer Biography
Ernesto Molinari, the Swiss clarinetist, is an accomplished soloist on all instruments of the clarinet family, and his fearless approach has inspired many new compositions and a new generation of players.
Compositional Technique
In Jarrell's music, the note is not merely a sound phenomenon but a central element that builds meaning through its expansion and ramifications in space and time, reintroducing polarities and repetitions with a formal function.
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