Biography

Kathinka Pasveer was born in Zaandam

Zaandam

Zaandam is a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the main city of the municipality of Zaanstad, and received city rights in 1811...

, North Holland

North Holland

North Holland |West Frisian]]: Noard-Holland) is a province situated on the North Sea in the northwest part of the Netherlands. The provincial capital is Haarlem and its largest city is Amsterdam.-Geography:...

, the daughter of a conductor who also taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory

Conservatorium van Amsterdam

The Conservatorium van Amsterdam is a Dutch academy of music located in Amsterdam. This school is the music division of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, the city's vocational university of arts...

 (Jacobsen 1992, 12). She studied with Frans Vester at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague

Royal Conservatory of The Hague

The Royal Conservatory of The Hague is a conservatorium of music, providing higher education in music and dance, it is located in The Hague, Netherlands.-The Conservatory:...

, where she received her performer's diploma, with the distinction of the Nicolai Prize in 1983. During her final year of studies she was the principal flutist of the Gewestelijk Orchestra in Holland (Daoust 2009a, 6).

In December 1982 Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

 was invited to the Royal Conservatory for a series of concerts, master classes, and lectures, at which time Pasveer worked with the composer and with Suzanne Stephens

Suzanne Stephens

Suzanne Stephens is an American clarinetist, resident in Germany, described as "an outstanding performer and tireless promoter of the clarinet and basset horn" .-Biography:...

 on his compositions Zeitmaße, Amour

Amour (Stockhausen)

Amour is a cycle of five pieces for clarinet by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1974–76. The composer thought of each piece as a gift for a close friend...

, and In Freundschaft. Stockhausen invited her to work with him on a new work for flute and six percussionists, which was composed in February and March 1983 and premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage

Donaueschingen Festival

The Donaueschingen Festival is a festival for new music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen...

 in October 1983. It took six months of rehearsals to prepare this work for performance. This was Kathinkas Gesang, the second scene of the opera Samstag aus Licht

Samstag aus Licht

Samstag aus Licht is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting and four scenes, and was the second of seven to be composed for the opera cycle Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche...

, which she also performed at the staged premiere of Samstag at La Scala

La Scala

La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...

 in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 in May 1984 (Beaucage 2005, 20; Yáñez 2008). The next year, Stockhausen made a new version of the piece, for flute and six-channel electronic music, and Pasveer likewise gave its premiere at Ircam

IRCAM

IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

 in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 in May 1985 (Daoust 2009b, 14). As a result of this initial contact Stockhausen began featuring the flute in the Licht cycle (Breault 2005, 60). She worked with Stockhausen for twenty-five years, up until his death in December 2007. He composed many works especially for her, all of which she premiered, and many of which are dedicated to her. These included parts in the operas Montag aus Licht

Montag aus Licht

Montag aus Licht is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, three acts, and a farewell, and was the third of seven to be composed for the opera cycle Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche...

 (La Scala 1988), Dienstag aus Licht

Dienstag aus Licht

Dienstag aus Licht is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting and two acts, with a farewell, and was the fourth of seven to be completed for the opera cycle Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche...

 (Leipzig Opera 1993), and Freitag aus Licht

Freitag aus Licht

Freitag aus Licht is the fifth of seven operas that comprise Licht , by Karlheinz Stockhausen. It was the last of the operas to receive a staged production with the composer's involvement.-History:...

 (Leipzig Opera 1996), as well as the concert premieres of Orchester-Finalisten (Carré, Amsterdam, 1996), Michaelion from Mittwoch aus Licht

Mittwoch aus Licht

Mittwoch aus Licht is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, four scenes, and a farewell. It was the sixth of seven to be composed for the opera cycle Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche . It was written between 1995 and 1997.-History:Mittwoch has not yet been given its staged premiere...

 (Prinzregententheater

Prinzregententheater

The Prinzregententheater, or Prince Regent's Theatre, is a theatre and opera house located at 12 Prinzregentenplatz in the Bavarian city of Munich, Germany.- Building and History :...

, Munich, 1998), and Kathinka performed as one of the 4 soloists in the world première of Licht-Bilder (third scene of Sonntag aus Licht (Donaueschingen, 16 October 2004). After Licht, Stockhausen composed for her the flute version of Harmonien (2006, premiered 13 July 2007 at the Sülztalhalle in Kürten) and Paradies (2007, premiered on 24 August 2009 at the Laeiszhalle

Laeiszhalle

The Laeiszhalle is a concert hall in Hamburg, Germany and home to the Hamburger Symphoniker.The hall is named after the German shipowning company F. Laeisz, founder of the concert venue and was planned by the architect Martin Haller.-External links:...

 in Hamburg), components of the chamber-music cycle Klang

Klang (Stockhausen)

Klang —Die 24 Stunden des Tages is a cycle of compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, on which he worked from 2004 until his death in 2007. It was intended to consist of 24 chamber-music compositions, each representing one hour of the day, with a different colour systematically assigned to every hour...

.

In addition to her activities as a flautist, in 1989 she learned the solo dancer-mime part for Stockhausen's Inori

Inori

Inori: Adorations for One or Two Soloists with Orchestra is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1973–74 ....

, which she performed for the first time on 27 May 1989 in the Kölner Philharmonie, with the Gürzenich Orchestra

Gürzenich Orchestra

The Gürzenich-Orchester Köln is a symphony orchestra based in Cologne, Germany. On some recordings, the orchestra goes under the name "Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker"...

 conducted by the composer. When pressed to name a favourite from all of Stockhausen's compositions, Pasveer named Inori as a "very special" piece that she privately "performs" almost every day, "as it is my form of meditation" (Yáñez 2008). She also performs from memory the 83-minute-long Vortrag über HU (a sung and mimed lecture introducing Inori), in both German and English, and has made video recordings of both versions. She also performs the dancer-mime part in Vision (act 3 scene 2 of Donnerstag aus Licht). Pasveer also has recorded as a soprano singer in a number of Stockhausen's works, including the electronic music for both Dienstag aus Licht (Oktophonie) and Freitag aus Licht, as well as Die sieben Lieder der Tage (extracted from "Montag"), Zwei Paare (made as soundtrack music for the 2000 short film In Absentia by the Quay Brothers), and Urantia (the Nineteenth Hour from Klang).

From 1998 up to the present time, Pasveer has taught the interpretation of Stockhausen's works at the Stockhausen Courses for New Music held each summer in Kürten

Kürten

Kürten is a village and a municipality in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Neighbouring places:Nearby cities include Bergisch Gladbach, Overath, Wermelskirchen, and Wipperfürth...

 (Breault 2005, 60). Beginning in 1983, she assisted Stockhausen in the production of recordings and learned from him the techniques of sound projection used in most of his works. Since the composer’s death, she has acted as sound projectionist in many live performances, and has produced and mixed down all the recordings in the Stockhausen Complete Edition. Stockhausen also entrusted her, together with Antonio Pérez-Abellán, with the production of the sound loops in the 24 individual layers of his electronic work Cosmic Pulses in 2006.

Together with Suzanne Stephens, she is in charge of Stockhausen's legacy as a director of the Stockhausen Foundation for Music (Yáñez 2008).

Flautist

• 1985. Karlheinz Stockhausen dirigiet Haydn & Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G Major, KV 313 (cadenzas by Karlheinz Stockhausen). Kathinka Pasveer, flute; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; Karlheinz Stockhausen, cond. (Also with: Joseph Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat Major.) Acanta 43813. Hamburg: Fono Team GmbH. Also issued with the addition of Stockhausen, Oberlippentanz, Acanta 40.23 543 DT (LP). 1986. Reissued as part of Stockhausen Conducts Haydn and Mozart. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 39 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1993.
• 1985. Stockhausen, Karlheinz. Tierkreis: Trio Version. Markus Stockhausen, trumpet and piano; Kathinka Pasveer, flute and piccolo; Suzanne Stephens, clarinet. Acanta 23531 (LP); also issued on Acanta 43201 (CD). Hamburg: Fono Team GmbH.
• 1988. Karlheinz Stockhausen, Samstag aus Licht, opera. (Kathinka Pasveer, flute and piccolo in scenes 2 & 3). Deutsche Grammophon 423 596-2 (4 CDs). Hamburg: Polydor International GmbH, 1988. Reissued on Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 34-ABCD (4 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1992.
• 1992. Michaels Reise um die Erde (Solisten-Version). ECM 1406 (CD).
• 1992. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 28 Music für Flöte: Kathinka Pasveer spielt 9 Kompositionen. (2 CDs). Includes Stockhausen, In Freundschaft, for flute; Piccolo for piccolo flute, Amour for flute; Susanis Echo, for alto flute; Xi, for flute; Zungenspitzentanz for piccolo flute; Flautina, for flute with piccolo flute and alto flute; Ypsilon, for flute; Kathinkas Gesang, for flute and electronic music.
• 1992. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 35 Stockhausen, Oberlippentanz for piccolo trumpet, 4 Horns and 2 percussionists Ave for basset-horn and alto flute. Tierkreis, trio version, for clarinet, flute and piccolo flute, trumpet and piano [recorded 1991, different recording from Acanta 23531]
• 1992. Stockhausen, Monday from Light, opera. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 36-ABCDE (5 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 1994. Stockhausen, Musik für Klarinette, Baßklarinette, Bassetthorn: Suzee Stephens spielt 15 Kompositionen. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 32 A–C (3 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. Includes Bijou for alto flute, bass clarinet and tape, and Sukat for basset-horn and alto flute, both with Kathinka Pasveer.
• 1996. Stockhausen, Dienstag aus Licht, opera. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 40 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2003. Stockhausen, Freitag aus Licht, opera. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 50 A–D (4 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 1997. Stockhausen, Orchester-Finalisten of Mittwoch aus Licht (with the Asko Ensemble
  Asko Ensemble
  Asko Ensemble is a Dutch chamber orchestra that specializes in contemporary classical music. Formed in 1965 and based in Amsterdam, the group performs traditional concerts along with film music programmes, dance and multimedia projects and modern opera....
  
  ). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 52. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2000. Kathinka: Flute and Synthesizer. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 57 Stockhausen, Zungenspitzentanz, for piccolo flute, euphonium, synthesizer player, and percussionist; Freia version for flute; Entführung for Piccolo Flute. Flöte for flute and electronic music (from Orchester-Finalisten); Thinki for flute (from Michaelion”, of Mittwoch aus Licht). (Also with Klavierstück XVI and Komet als Klavierstück XVII, with Kathinka Pasveer, soprano, on tape). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2002. Stockhausen, Die sieben Lieder der Tage (versions for flute and for soprano, extracted from Montag aus Licht), Der Kinderfänger, for alto flute with piccolo, two synthesizer players, percussionist, tape, and sound projectionist. (Also with Luzifers Zorn). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 63. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2002. Stockhausen, Europa-Gruss for winds and synthesizers (Kathinka Pasveer, flute); Two Couples, for electronic and concrete music, and Electronic and Concrete Music for Komet (Kathinka Pasveer, soprano). (Also with Stop and Start for 6 instrumental groups, and Licht-Ruf.) Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 64. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2003. Stockhausen, Ten Scenes from Freitag aus Licht. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 65. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2005. Stockhausen, Licht-Bilder (3rd Scene of Sonntag aus Licht), for tenor, ring-modulated flute, basset horn, and ring-modulated trumpet. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 68. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2007. Stockhausen, Quitt for alto flute, clarinet and piccolo trumpet. (Also with Michaels-Ruf, Bassetsu, Synthi-Fou (Klavierstück XV), Komet version for percussionist, and Trumpetent). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 82. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2009. Paradies for flute and electronic music: Twenty-First Hour from Klang, the 24 hours of the day. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 99 Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2010. Harmonien and Schönheit. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 87. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

Soprano

• 1996. Electronic Music with Sound Scenes of Friday From Light. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 49 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2000. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 48. Stockhausen, Paare vom Freitag, for soprano, bass, and electronic instruments. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2002. Die sieben Lieder der Tage (versions for flute and for soprano), Der Kinderfänger, for alto flute with piccolo, two synthesizer players, percussionist, tape, and sound projectionist. (Also with Luzifers Zorn). Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 63. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2009. Urantia for soprano and electronic music. Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 97. Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

Filmography

• 1985. Kathinkas Gesang de Karlheinz Stockhausen. Colour film, 33'21". French. Paris: I.R.C.A.M.
• 1998. Stockhausen, Vortrag über HU (German version). Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 83 minutes. Live recording of the first integral performance in German with Kathinka Pasveer on 5 April 1998, at the Audimax of the Technical College in Darmstadt. (Archive No. 107 / 1). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag
• 1998. INORI für 2 Solisten und Tonband. Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 73 minutes. Live recording of a performance of INORI on 5 April 1998 at the Audimax of the Technical College in Darmstadt, with Kathinka Pasveer and Alain Louafi (dancer-mimes). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 1998. Stockhausen, Michaelion, scene 4 from Mittwoch aus Licht. Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 59 minutes. (Archive No. 109 / 1). Live recording of the world première on July 26, 1998 in Munich at the Prinzregenten Theatre with the choir of the South German Radio (conductor: Rupert Huber), Michael Vetter
  Michael Vetter
  Michael Vetter is a German composer, novelist, poet, performer, calligrapher, artist, and teacher.-Biography:Vetter was born in Oberstdorf in the Allgäu region of Germany, and received a conventional school education...
  
   (short-wave singer), Kathinka Pasveer (flute), Suzanne Stephens (basset-horn), Marco Blaauw
  Marco Blaauw
  Marco Blaauw is a Dutch trumpeter.- Biography :Marco Blaauw studied trumpet at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. He continued studying with Pierre Thibaud and with Markus Stockhausen. He has an international career as a trumpet soloist and is a permanent member of the ensemble musikFabrik...
  
  (trumpet), and Andrew Digby (trombone). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.
• 2003. Stockhausen, Lecture on HU. Colour film by Suzanne Stephens. 83 minutes. Live recording of the integral performance in English with Kathinka Pasveer on August 17, 2003 at the Sülztalhalle in Kürten during the Stockhausen Courses Kürten 2003. (Archive No. 149 / 2). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag.

Further reading

• Abbé, Chloe l'. 2009. "Ave, pour cor de basset et flûte". Traversières Magazine, no. 95 (Troisième trimestre): 15–18.
• Bledsoe, Helen. 2011. "In Media [sic] Res (Into the Middle of Things): Kathinka Pasveer, Stockhausen’s Muse". Flute 30 no. 1 (March): 21–25.
• BPI (VK). 2009. "Stockhausen, Karlheinz". Lexikon der Flöte: Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte—Spielpraxis—Komponisten und ihre Werke—Interpreten, edited by András Adorján and Lenz Meierott, 753–55. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89007-545-7.
• Déraspe, Geneviève. 2009. "Der Kinderfänger". Traversières Magazine, no. 95 (Troisième trimestre): 11–13.
• Duval, François. 2009. "Ave, pour cor de basset et flûte tiré de Montag". Traversières Magazine, no. 95 (Troisième trimestre): 19–20.
• Rondeau, Marie-Hélène. 2009. "Freia". Traversières Magazine, no. 95 (Troisième trimestre): 8–10.

Reviews

• Anon. 1993. "Recent Recordings: Stockhausen 35". Flute Talk 13 (November): 20.
• Frisius, Rudolf. 1986. "Schallplatten: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flötenkonzert G-Dur, KV 313 (Kadenzen: Karlheinz Stockhausen); Joseph Haydn: Trompetenkonzert Es-Dur (Kadenzen: Karlheinz Stockhausen); Karlheinz Stockhausen, Oberlippentanz für Trompete solo. Kathinka Pasveer, Flöte, Markus Stockhausen, Trompete, Radio-Symphobie-Orchester Berlin, Dirigent: Katlheinz Stockhausen. Acanta 40.23 543 DT". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 147, no. 11 (November): 66–67.
• Hodges, Nicolas. 1993. "Reviews: CDs—Flute Music: In Freundschaft, Piccolo, Amour, Susanis Echo, Xi, Zungenspitzentanz, Flautina, Ypsilon, Kathinkas Gesang." The Musical Times 134 (March): 155.
• Nordin, Ingvar Loco. "Stockhausen Edition no. 28 (9 works for flute, piccolo & alto flute)". Sonoloco Record Reviews.
• Watkins, Glenn. 2003. "Music of the European Avant-Garde: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Samstag aus Licht: A Contemporary Report". In The Wind Band and Its Repertoire: Two Decades of Research as Published in the College Band Directors National Association Journal, edited by Michael Votta, 171–73. The Donald Hunsberger Wind Library. Miami: Warner Brothers/Alfred Music Publishing. ISBN 0757918336.

External links

• Kathinka Pasveer biography on www.stockhausen.org.