Blees, Ulrich 03/14/1979

Ulrich Blees was born in 1974 in Bonn, Beethoven's birthplace, and lived until 1986 in Bonn-Endenich close to the Schumann house. The Schumann house still maintains a valuable music library which helped him acquire the compositional techniques of the Viennese classical composers. He attended the private Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn-Bad Godesberg and received his first piano instruction from Stefanie Nyilasi at the age of 11. In February 1989, shortly after his fifteenth birthday, a short composition of his was performed by the school orchestra during a Stella concert. Ulrich Blees took organ lessons 1990-1991 from Andreas Zillikens and moved in 1995 into the southern Pfalz region of Germany, and from there to neighboring Alsace. The Dorfchemnitz Kantorei commissioned in 1999 a small Christmas cantata for choir, children's choir, soloists, and symphony orchestra, which since that time has been performed four times a year during the course of a beautiful nativity play.