Franziska Roth / Ink Still Wet 2024
«May we introduce you …?»Meet Franziska Roth, one of the five participants from this year's Ink Still Wet workshop, which will be lead by Composer in Residence Enno Poppe.
«The concept of the workshop makes me very curious: on the one hand, I am hoping for inspiring discussions about which types of composition and, furthermore, notation are particularly practicable for an orchestral piece. (...) But what particularly intrigues me about Ink Wet is the fact that the workshop takes place over a longer period of time, which makes so many things possible that often have to be neglected in other master classes and competitions under time pressure: trying things out, experimenting, reflecting and discussing one's own ideas with others.»
Biography
Franziska Roth started her musical education at the age of 16 with private violin and piano lessons from Peter Czerner and Sándor Galgoczi. As a young adult, she developed an increasing interest in composing out of an existing enthusiasm for creative design in words and drawings.
In 2015, she enrolled at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, first for the preparatory course in composition, before taking up the regular composition course with Prof. Herbert Lauermann a year later and then with Prof. Detlev Müller-Siemens, graduating in 2023. Her works are beeing performed by ensembles such as the Platypus Ensemble, the Pro Arte Orchester Wien and the Vogl String Trio in the context of Wien Modern and the Alte Schmiede Wien, among others.
In 2017, Franziska Roth started her artistic violin studies at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt with Prof. Cornelia Gradwohl and Prof. Florian Wilscher, which she completed in 2022 with her first diploma. Her particular focus in her repertoire selection is on the development of contemporary works. She was able to gain professional orchestral experience through her participation in the Pro Arte Orchestra Vienna, the Imperial Classic Orchestra and the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich.
Franziska Roth's Selection
«The pieces and composers on my playlist don't necessarily have anything to do with my own style of composition. I really appreciate them because they have so much depth that you can grow into them. In a few years, I will listen to them in an different way than I do now or did some time ago, and that is a quality that I also strive for in my own music.
For me, both as a composer and as a violinist, it is the moment of performance, the interaction of a piece of music with musicians and the audience in all its unpredictability, that fascinates and motivates me the most. I find it enriching when pieces of music develop their own biography and can sound very different in the hands of different people. That's why some of the diverse musical personalities who have shaped my attitude and values in terms of interpretative questions are also represented on the playlist.»
Franziska Roth about her playlist