Helge Burggrabe

Later he had lessons with Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen, among others, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Evi Pfefferle-Darmstadt and Peter Michael Hamel.

[1] Since the mid-1990s, several projects have dealt with the symbol and cultural history of the labyrinth as well as with the Chartres Cathedral, where Burggrabe's Marian oratorio Stella Maris was premiered in 2006.

Burggrabe's concert programmes are usually thematically oriented and often combine music with various other arts, for example poetry], with architecture, with photography and live painting, with dance performances.

Examples of this are the concertante composition Rose - Hommage an einen Mythos (2003) and the children's music theatre project Kinderplanet/Planet Bunterkunt (1999 and 2006 respectively) as well as a joint tour with the crossover cellist Jost H. Hecker from the Modern String Quartet (2008).

For the project Resonatus, mainly performed in Romanesque churches, Burggrabe combined elements of Gregorian chant and his own compositions for flute, voice and monochord.

Burggrabe wrote the libretto with the Benedictine monk Anselm Grün, with whom he later also published the joint book and CD project Zeiten der Stille.

[4] Participants in the premiere, which was conceived as a "concertante Gesamtkunstwerk for music, space, language, water and light", included others Graciela de Gyldenfeldt (soprano), Hiam Abbass (narration), Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Patrick Delabre (organ), the Harvestehuder Kammerchor and a choir from Chartres as well as Michael Batz (light installations) and Alexander Lauterwasser (WaterSoundProjections).

At the same time, Burggrabe manages the balancing act to modernity and provides goosebumps with meditative choral pieces and promising, sometimes jubilant, sometimes lamenting solo arias."