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Biografie
The impressive creative career of Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka) started when his piano teacher told him at the age of 14 that there was nothing more he could teach his student – after only five years of lessons. It is difficult to describe what Bertelmann can get out of his ‘prepared piano’ – one has to hear it to understand it.
Exploring the possibilities of the piano eventually brought Bertelmann to alter the sounds of his piano by attaching various materials such as pieces of paper, marbles, drumsticks and others to its strings in order to create non-piano-like sounds. He released a number of solo and collaboration albums, the latest being Abandoned City (2014). It received outstanding reviews, but Bertelmann was ready for new challenges and accepted a position as Composer in Residence for the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk orchestra in Leipzig.
The composer also has a prolific side line writing scores for films, having contributed to the soundtracks of Craig Macneill’s The Boy (2015), Karim Ainouz’ Praia du Futuro (2014) and Yael Reuveny’s Farewell, Herr Scharz (2015). Showing no signs of slowing down, the father of three continues to compose, score and tour, spreading his musical visions.
In 2017, Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran created the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated score for the internationally acclaimed feature film Lion. His current projects include further feature films 1000 Arten, Hotel Mumbai and The Current War, a new collaboration with O’Halloran. He is also working on the scores for the TV series' Gunpowder, a BBC production starring Kit Harrington and Liv Tyler, and the Benedict Cumberbatch programme Melrose, which will be broadcast on Sky.
Always unpredictable, Bertelmann continues to offer only one certainty: that the next step he takes will be as unexpected as the direction from which he has come.
Placements
All Quiet On The Western Front
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- All Quiet On The Western Front (Soundtrack from the Netflix film) - Volker Bertelmann
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- Volker Bertelmann
Home
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- Volker Bertelmann
Upstream
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- Volker Bertelmann
Cunningham
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- Volker Bertelmann
Greenpeace
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- Volker Bertelmann
Ammonite
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- Volker Bertelmann
Apple at Work - The Underdogs
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- Volker Bertelmann
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- Volker Bertelmann
Glück
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- Volker Bertelmann
IBM
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- Volker Bertelmann
Die ZEIT
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- Volker Bertelmann
Goodyear
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- Volker Bertelmann
voestalpine
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- Volker Bertelmann
News
Wise Music Creative goes Reeperbahn Festival 2023
12th September 2023
Nominierte für den Opus Klassik 2023
15th Juni 2023
Volker Bertelmann gewinnt Oscar für beste Filmmusik
14th März 2023
Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka) gewinnt BAFTA-Award
28th Februar 2023