Peer Baierlein (born 16 May 1972 in Stuttgart, West Germany) is a German musician and composer.
Biography
Peer Baierlein started playing the accordion at the age of 7 and then switched to the trumpet when he was 9. After several years in the local brass band he started his professional studies at the early age of 16 at the Musikhochschule Köln in Germany. He first became a classical trumpet teacher before beginning his studies with Prof. Malte Burba as an orchestra musician at the Musikhochschule Köln and with Arno Lange at the 'Deutsche Oper' in Berlin.
In 1996, he moved to Leuven in Belgium to study with his favourite jazz-trumpet player Bert Joris at the Lemmensinstituut. Upon completion of his studies, he moved for a year to New York City in 2000, to take lessons form John McNeil and to play his instrument abroad. He then came back to Belgium, where he finished his studies for jazz trumpet and -after that- specialised as ‘lead-trumpet’, also at the Lemmensinstituut. Between 2005 and 2007, Peer Baierlein has been studying classical composition with Piet Swerts. He continued his studies from 2008 - 2011 and followed a special education for composing film music and classical orchestration with a.o. Denis Pousseur, Victor Kissine and Jean-Luc Fafchamps.
From 2011 - 2013 he was a student for 'new media' at the 'Hochschule für Musik und Theater' in Hamburg.
Since 2007 he has been working as a composer, musical director and musician for numerous theaters in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Productions for which he composed all of the music have won all theatre, director and actor awards in German-speaking countries.
Since 2016, Peer Baierlein has been composing for classical orchestra, vocal and instrumental ensembles.
The first commissioned works for the 'Hessische Staatsballett' under the direction of Tim Plegge and the 'Mecklenburgisches Staatsballett' ("Ballet X Schwerin") under the direction of Xenia Wiest will follow in 2022.
Discography
2004: Issues
2006: Open Questions
2009: Cycles
2015: One
2015: me² + 1
Works for Orchestra
2016: 'Concerto No.1' (double concerto for trumpet, trombone and orchestra)
2016: '255' (double concerto for marimba, vibraphone and orchestra)
2017: Seelen-Trilogie ('Black Soul','Yellow Soul','Purple Soul' - for orchestra, voice and rockband)
2018: Hymnus (for orchestra, organ, 3 choirs, rockband and church bells)
2020: In Der Tiefe (Concerto for DoubleChoir a Capella)
2021: Ode an die Pop-Musik (contemporary compositions based on pop-music motives for nonett and double bass)
2021: Pentagon of Poetry (5 works for vocal-ensemble with lyrics by Goethe, Nietzsche and Lenau.
2022: 'Hymnus an die Musiek' - for Double-Quartet-VocalEnsemble
