Günter Marx

* 1943 in Graz; Günter Marx is a violinist and composer. From 1964 to 1969 he studied with Max Rostal at the Musikhochschule Köln. He was third concertmaster of the orchestra of the Staatstheater Kassel from 1969 to 1972, first concertmaster of the Städtisches Orchester Hagen from 1972 to 1975 and first concertmaster of the Dortmunder Philharmoniker from 1975 to 2008; since 2008 he has worked freelance in Munich. In chamber music he worked with the Mendelssohn-Trio Hamburg, the Brahms-Quartett Hamburg and the Leonardo-Quartett Köln; his edition of Fanny Hensel’s String Quartet was published by Breitkopf & Härtel. He came to electronic music in 1963/64 through a seminar with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the WDR Studio for Electronic Music; in 1971 he studied the EMS Synthi A with Mesias Maiguashca and Peter Eötvös, and in 1977 he attended a summer course with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Aix-en-Provence. In 1989 he acquired a ZETA violin, and from 1990 he built up a studio of his own; since 1999 he has played live electronics with Rainer and Martin Bürck in the trio TRIONYS. As a violinist he gave the first performances of works including Rainer Bürck’s “STRINGendo” (Berlin, 1995) and Ivar Frounberg’s “Las armonias de la noche profunda” (Dortmund, 1997). His works include “Elpoem” (1996), “Violinsectiv I, II, III” (2004), “Viodelays” (2018) and “Begegnung” (2019). On the Cybele album Feedback Studio Köln Vol. 2 – Ton-Antiton (2001) he plays the violin in Mesias Maiguashca’s “Exercises” (1972-73) for violin and synthesizer, with Ramon Schneider on the synthesizer. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 8 – 90 Seconds of Reality (2005), a volume of the series in which the label documents the work of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik, he is represented with “Kurzer Traum – Version 1” (2003), one of the 47 miniatures of about ninety seconds each that Stefan Fricke describes in the booklet as shards of reality.