Angelika Sheridan

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Angelika Sheridan (at the memorial concert for Peter Kowald, September 2012 in the Stadtgarten Cologne )

Angelika Sheridan (* 1965 as Angelika Flacke ) is a German improvisation musician ( flute , bass flute) and music teacher.

Live and act

Sheridan completed a classical flute course at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen ; as a graduate she received the Folkwang Prize in 1990 . Initially active as a concert flutist, since 1990 she has increasingly worked in the field of free improvisation and in interdisciplinary projects with visual arts and dance, etc. a. with Peter Kowald , Michel Doneda , Carl Ludwig Hübsch , Hans Schneider , Gunda Gottschalk , Sebastian Gramss , Matthias Schubert , Dirk Marwedel , Wolfgang Schliemann , Alexander Frangenheim , Thomas Lehn , Lê Quan Ninh , Géraldine Keller , John Butcher and Paul Lytton . With Peter Kowald and Eckard Koltermann she wrote the film music for Mein Herz - Nobody! by Helma Sanders-Brahms . She was also involved in Butch Morris ' 1995 performance of Wuppertal Testament . She currently plays in a duo with Frank Niehusmann (Strom), since 2004 in a duo with Ute Völker , since 2006 in Ensemble Hiatus, also with Ensemble X, Blind Date Quartet (with Ulrike Stortz, Scott Roller and John Hollenbeck ) and Multiple Joyce Orchestra and the Insub Meta Orchestra.

Sheridan teaches flute, improvisation and didactics at the Cologne University of Music and Dance ; she also teaches at the music school in Monheim am Rhein .

Angelika Sheridan (at the Cage concert of the Multiple Joy (ce) Orchestra on October 23, 2012 in the Loft (Cologne) )

Discographic notes

  • Peter Kowald / Venue Ensemble Wuppertal Cuts (FMP, 1995)
  • Ute Völker / Angelika Sheridan - Leuchtfische (Valve Records, 2008)
  • Scott Fields & Multiple Joyce Orchestra - Moersbow / Ozzo ( Clean Feed Records , 2009)
  • Ensemble X - Ensemble X (Red Toucan Records, 2012)
  • Blind Date Quartet - John Hollenbeck / Scott Roller / Ulrike Stortz / Angelika Sheridan (gpe Records, 2009)
  • Electricity - Frank Niehusmann / Angelika Sheridan (NurNichtNur, 2016)
  • 9 Compositions for the Multiple Joyce Orchestra - Matthias Schubert (Red Tucan Records 2013)
  • Escape - degem14 / Electricity - Switching plan (Edition Degem 2016)

Web links

Commons : Angelika Sheridan  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angelika Flacke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ↑ See Liner Notes Testament: A Conduction Collection ( Memento of December 8, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 821 kB)
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Blind Date Quartet ( Memento of March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Peter Kowald Society /
  6. ↑ Music School City of Monheim am Rhein
personal data
SURNAME Sheridan, Angelica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flacke, Angelika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German improvisation musician (flute, bass flute) and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1965