Herman Vogt

Herman Vogt

Herman Vogt (b. 1976) studied violin and composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Since 2004 he has worked as a composer, violin player and violin educationalist. Vogt is concerned with the contrasts between the vague, veiled and ambiguous, and the obvious and clear. He constantly utilizes historic material, for instance Danksagung an den Bach in which the base form is a lied from Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, and the ”…wenn alle Länder wüst lägen…”, in which the Petter Dass psalm ”Herre Gud ditt dyre Navn og Ære” are central elements. In the core of this works lies the treating of the existing material as something frail and transitory, combined with a strongly expanded tonality derived from the line of overtones.

Vogt is working on processes in which linear movements are superimposed and condensed. When does the process of condensation become so complex that the singular components stop acting as separated, divisible units? These ideas are prominent in works such as the Three Etudes for solo piano and Pillars of Creation (a ghost image).