Tilman Sillescu: Symphony No. 1 Nachtlichter Staatskapelle Weimar & Christian Frank

• Tilman Sillescu (b. 1969): Symphony No. 1 "Nachtlichter":
• 1 Sillescu: Symphony No. 1 "Nachtlichter": I. Andante moderato 12:27
• 2 Sillescu: Symphony No. 1 "Nachtlichter": II. Presto 06:07
• 3 Sillescu: Symphony No. 1 "Nachtlichter": III. Adagio non troppo 10:49
• 4 Sillescu: Symphony No. 1 "Nachtlichter": IV. Allegro con moto 12:35
• Total Runtime 41:58

Info for Tilman Sillescu: Symphony No. 1 Nachtlichter

Tilman Sillescu is one of the most successful composers of our time for video games and film music. He has won many awards for his game scores, including compositions for the great ANNO series and Age of Empires 4. Now Sillescu has composed his first symphony and is releasing it on GENUIN: the Staatskapelle Weimar has recorded the large-scale work under the direction of Christian K. Frank with full musical sensuality. The symphony NACHTLICHTER (Nocturnal Lights) is composed in four thematically interwoven movements: it is not a crossover between film music and symphonic music, but a veritable, unique tonal painting in terms of its musical language and structure!

Staatskapelle Weimar
Christian K. Frank, conductor

Tilman Sillescu
is an award-winning composer for video games, movies, television and movie trailers.

At a very early age Tilman showed an intense interest in orchestral music. After studying classical music in 1995 at Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, he moved to Frankfurt to achieve his certificate in jazz and popular music at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. In 1999 he had the privilegue to teach Bachelor of Musical Arts at the Mainz University.

In 2001 he became a co-founder of the company Dynamedion (together with Pierre Langer) which has since become the leader in soundtrack composition in the continental European computer game market. Together with the Dynamedion team, he started writing epic orchestral soundtracks for videogames like Spellforce1+2, Paraworld, Anno1701 or The Settlers.

In 2007, Tilman won the prestigious G.A.N.G. Audio Award in San Francisco for his cinematic orchestral piece Titan from the videogame Paraworld, beating top-seeded tracks such as Star Trek: Legacy, Hitman: Blood Money or Dreamfall. In the same year, his maintheme for the videogame Spellforce2 (featuring singer Conny Kollet) achieved a nomination for the best vocal piece. Since 2005, Tilman’s music has been performed in many orchestral concerts, including GC Symphonic Game Music Concerts in the Gewandhaus Leipzig (Spellforce2, Anno1701, Stranglehold) and the PLAY! A Video Game Symphony concert 2007 in Stockholm.

Currently Tilman is working as Lead Composer and Creative Director at Dynamedion GbR, scoring many exciting Video game projects as well as writing and producing music for movietrailers, television and libraries.

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