Thomas Beimel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas Beimel

German composer, violist, musicologist

Date of Birth: 30-May-1967

Place of Birth: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 29-Jun-2016

Profession: musicologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Thomas Beimel (30 May 1967 – 29 June 2016) was a German composer, violist and musicologist. Born in Essen, Beimel studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in his hometown, composition with Konrad Grahe and viola with Karin Wolff.
He continued his studies from 1988 to 1992, instrumental pedagogy (Instrumentalpädagogik) at the Hochschule für Musik im Rheinland.
He cofounded in 1989 with Ortrud Kegel, Gunda Gottschalk, Karola Pasquay and Ute Völker the ensemble Partita Radicale, which also plays free improvisation.
His research was devoted from 1991 to new music in Romania and Eastern Europe, and from 2003 also to Latin America. In 1997, began composition studies with Myriam Marbe in Bucharest.
His opera Idyllen after Jean Paul was premiered at the Opernhaus Wuppertal.
He received a scholarship for work and production by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, together with Gunda Gottschalk, which they used for the audio play Das Paradies.
In 2001, Beimel's music for a stage production of Kafka's In der Strafkolonie was first performed, again in Wuppertal.
From 2005 to 2006 he had a scholarship of the Villa Concordia in Bamberg.
He was also composer in residence of the Bavarian chamber orchestra Bayerisches Kammerorchester.
He died in Wuppertal.