"Interlocked" in the sense of an interlocked structure is an extremely important metaphor for describing Dietrich Mast's music. Its essence, its intellectual content, is closely interwoven with musical structure.
Polyphony and interlocking are the intellectual correlates of that philosophical principle of nature according to which every creative being is not static, but rather processual, and thus art is also in constant flux. That Dietrich Mast chose the piano as the focus of his work is not accidental, but rather logical, since his structural composition can best be exercised on this instrument.
Ernst Helmuth Flammer
This CD presents a wide range of solo piano works by Dietrich Mast, composed between 1959 and 2016, recorded by pianist and composer Irina Emeliantseva. She is the dedicatee of the four most recent piano pieces op. 38 and op. 39.
Dietrich Mast studied music education at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart from 1963-68, followed by history and musicology in Berlin and Tubingen until 1973. He studied composition (with instrumentation and analysis) with Erhard Karkoschka from 1976-79 and earned his PhD in 1980 from Georg von Dadelsen in Tubingen on the topic of Structure and Form of A.N. Scriabin.He wrote musicological essays and reviews and gave music theoretical lectures. He held a teaching assignment in music theory at the State University of Music Trossingen since 1977 and was a lecturer at the same university from December 1995 until his retirement in October 2006.Dietrich Mast composed works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra.
Pianist and composer Irina Emeliantseva began playing by ear at the age of five and composed her first pieces at the age of six.While studying at the music college in Bryansk, she decided to focus on composition. She continued her studies in composition and piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she later became an assistant. She also studied at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin and at the Carl Maria von Weber Music College in Dresden. As a pianist, Emeliantseva is in high demand internationally, particularly in the field of contemporary music. She has played numerous world premieres and Russian premieres at festivals and concerts in Europe and Russia. For several years, she has been directing the New Music Days Tubingen festival and the Aktuelle Musik concert series in Strausberg. She is the chairwoman of the German Composers Association in the state of Brandenburg.
