Link to the Show / Show Notes"I think music theatre is the most subtle and complex way to describe human beings"
Born in Germany in 1963, Christian Jost studied composition, analysis and conducting in Cologne and San Francisco. His workcomprises of a growing number of impressive concertos and operas. Some of his most significant pieces to date include TiefenRausch for violin and orchestra, Cosmodromion for percussion and orchestra and in 2009, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin premiered his CodeNine.
Jost’s operas include Vipern, Death Knocks, The Arabian Night and the musical drama Hamlet based on William Shakespeare which premiered in 2009.
In this week’s Inspired Minds, the second of two programmes with Christian Jost, the composer talks to Breandáin O’Shea about the important place music theatre plays in his creative output, and the difficulties he sometimes faces when audiences initially reject his new compositions only to praise them a few years later.
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