Isabel Mundry

Isabel Mundry (born April 20, 1963 in Schlüchtern ) is a German composer .

life and work

Isabel Mundry studied composition with Frank Michael Beyer and Gösta Neuwirth at the Berlin University of the Arts and with Hans Zender at the Frankfurt University of Music . In 1994 she took a course in music informatics at IRCAM in Paris.

From 1986 to 1993, Mundry taught music theory and analysis at the Berlin Church Music School and at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1996 she took over a professorship for composition and music theory at the Frankfurt University of Music . Since 2004 she has been professor for composition at the Zurich University of the Arts . In addition, for the 2011/12 academic year, she took on a half professorship in composition at the University of Music and Theater in Munich . Mundry is a member of the Valuation Research Studies Advisory Board .

Mundry's works are characterized by an individualized and differentiated, inherently varied and nuanced musical language: “Almost nothing is repeated in Mundry's compositions; the same thing always turns out differently. ”Internationally renowned orchestras and ensembles have performed Mundry's works. Her music theater One Breath - Odyssey premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in September 2005. The jury of critics of the specialist magazine Opernwelt chose this production as the “premiere of the year 2006”. In the 2007/2008 season, Mundry Capell was composer at the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden .

Prices

• Boris Blacher Composition Prize from the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music
• 1994 Busoni Composition Prize from the Berlin Academy of the Arts
• Kranichsteiner Music Prize of the Darmstadt Summer Courses
• 1996: Schneider Schott Music Prize Mainz together with Moritz Eggert
• 2001: Advancement Award of the Siemens Music Award
• 2011: Heidelberg Artist Prize
• 2012: Zender Prize together with Martin Zenck
• 2014: German music author award of GEMA in category solo concert
• 2016: Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature , Mainz

Web links

• Works by Isabel Mundry in the catalog of the German National Library
• Isabel Mundry on the Breitkopf & Härtel website
• Andreas Dorschel: Mundry's Nuances (2015)
• Sound recordings with works by the composer from the SRG SSR archive on Neo.Mx3

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Music and Theater Munich - lecturers: Isabel Mundry
2. ↑ Andreas Dorschel , 'Mundrys Nuancen', in the Salzburg Biennale 2015 , ed. v. Heike Hoffmann (Salzburg: Salzburg Biennale, 2015), pp. 62–64, p. 64
3. ↑ Heidelberg Artist Prize 2011
4. ↑ Sibylle Kayser: Zender Prize to Isabel Mundry and Martin Zenck. BR Klassik , February 23, 2013, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; Retrieved May 28, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Short biography of Martin Zenck. (No longer available online.) University of Würzburg , June 16, 2012, archived from the original on September 14, 2014 ; Retrieved May 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ GEMA Music Author Award 2014
7. ↑ Member entry of Isabel Mundry at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 27, 2017