1989 foundation of Partita Radicale ensemble for improvised and contemporary music

- projects with improvisations, filmmusic, premieres, programs for children

- cooperation with composers from Romania, Israel and Brazil.

- october 1996 studies of classical Chinese music at Tianjin conservatory, China.
Er-Hu studies with Prof. Song Guo-Sheng

- musictheatreproject „krimi“ with „german stage service“, Marburg

 - “Aquaculi-Musik geht baden” - musictheater in a swimming-pool. Direction: Cornelie Müller

- “Mr Wang’s New Face” - an intercultural meeting of contemporary music and Peking opera. With Wen Lei, singer

- “Tropeco - stumbling across the Atlantic” - Chico Mello (composition)

“Wellen - im Glanz der Abwesenheit” - a visual concert
with Wasiliki Noulesa (video)

www.partitaradicale.de

1989-1997 Duo for improvised and contemporary music ison with Karola Pasquay, flute.
Programs with texts of Nelly Sachs, Virginia Woolf, Pablo Picasso


With both ensembles concerts in Germany and abroad (Belgium, switzerland, Romania, France, Norway, China, Albania, Spain).
Premieres, radioproductions, masterclasses, CDs
 

2000 soloprogram Gesang der Engel - contemporary music from Romania
Concerts in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain
 

2003 Knittel: Ein Paartanz
Concept and stage direction: Cornelie Müller / musical direction: Thomas Beimel.
Invitations to internationale festivals: “Spielarten”, Munich 2003 and “Impulse”, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bochum, Mühlheim, 2004
www.angelegenheiten.de
 

2003 grenzgänge
Together with Gunda Gottschalk musical direction of projects with New music and dance with classes from primaries and teenies.
award: Initiativen-Preis 2003
www.dieboerse-wtal.de/grenzgaenge/
2006 träume
award: “Kinder zum Olymp”
2009 hä!? - Der Turm von Babel oder der Spaß am Missverständnis

2010 expeditie in lumea sunetelor
children project / in the course of the festival “International Week of New Music” SIMN, Bucharest

2003 Ibn Sahl - eine Stimme aus Andalusien
The program presents - together with the Algerian musician Mohamed Mahdi - the early intercultural poet Ibn Sahl, born 1212 in Sevilla.
Presentations at the intercultural festival, Wuppertal; during the international meeting of story-tellers “ “Zwischen-Zeiten”, Aix-La-Chapel and the Jewish Museum,  Frankfurt
 

2005 Rosarium
Cornelie Müller / Thomas Beimel
Intercultual musicproject: sound installation in the rosegarden of Munich
“orts-termine / Kunst im öffentlichen Raum”.
www.angelegenheiten.de

Further presentations:
Botanical Garden, Wuppertal, may - october 2009
Bauernhofmuseum Jexhof, Schöngeising (Bavaria), june - september 2010
 

2009 Klangreden in weiss-grün
Cornelie Müller (concept and artistic direction), Thomas Beimel (composition + conductor)

KLANGREDEN IN WEISS-GRÜN (Discourses in white and green) is an installation with visual and acoustic elements in which both music and the spoken word have their place. It takes as its subject the life and work of writer Grete Weil, born in Rottach-Egern in 1906. After 1933, the daughter of assimilated middle-class Jews experienced what it meant to be Jewish in Nazi Germany. In her texts, Grete Weil varies the treatment of her main theme: the persecution of the Jews, linking it to her formative experience of survival and then coming to terms with life after 1945. She connects this subject to all her other topics including the ancient Greek myth of Antigone, the story of King David, what it means to be Jewish and the subject of aging, a frequent theme of her later works.
Candour, movement, closeness and distance are fundamental elements of this composition. Music, speech, presentations and other acoustic elements interact to form layers of mobile structures in a setting especially designed for the work.

2009 Seidvilla + TamS, Munich
2010 Begegnungsstätte Alte Synagoge, Wuppertal
2012 Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg

2012 wunderflunkerstadtrundfahrt

Idee, Konzept & Umsetzung : Thomas Beimel + Olaf Reitz
Schauspiel : Caroline Keufen

Die Stadt Wuppertal wird zum Hauptdarsteller. Nicht mit Pauken und Trompeten, sondern mit verborgenen Schätzen. Denn: wer arm ist, muss sich immer wieder neu erfinden – durch die Begegnung mit der Geschichte und der Kraft der Fantasie.
wunderflunkerstadtrundfahrt ist ein Stück Theater mit Musik in der Form einer Stadtrundfahrt. Die Zuschauer steigen in einen historischen Bus und werden zu ausgewählten Orten geführt, an denen sie dem Wunderbaren der Stadt begegnen. Dabei wurden die einzelnen Stationen in enger Kooperation mit zahlreichen Menschen und Institutionen dieser Stadt gestaltet.

Eine Produktion der Bergischen Entwicklungsagentur in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kulturbüro der Stadt Wuppertal.

www.wunderflunker.de
 

Thomas Beimel