Annesley Black

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Annesley Catherine Black (* 1979 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian composer .

biography

Black completed a degree in composition with Brian Cherney at McGill University in Montreal , which she graduated in 2004. She then continued her studies in Germany, initially (until 2006) with York Höller and Hans Ulrich Humpert at the Cologne University of Music and Dance , then (2006 to 2008) with Mathias Spahlinger (composition), Orm Finnendahl (electronic music) and Cornelius Schwehr (applied music) at the Freiburg University of Music .

Since 2008 she has made regular appearances and recordings with the experimental studio of the SWR as assistant for sound direction and works as sound director for ensembles and soloists such as ensemble recherche , canto battuto and Rei Nakamura . She teaches ear training at Kronberg Academy and electronic media / electronic composition at Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main.

Black's compositions have been performed at festivals such as the ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, the Ultrasound Festival Berlin, the Darmstadt Summer Courses , the Witten Days for New Chamber Music and the Donaueschinger Musiktage . The interpreters of her works include the Ensemble Modern , Ensemble ascolta, Nouvel Ensemble Modern, ensemble SurPlus , ensemble mosaik, Quintet Boreal, Composers Slide Quartet and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony . In May 2018, Black was elected as a new member of the music section of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Annesley Black lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Awards

Compositions

Solo works

  • maiko for viola (2006)
  • aorko for viola, live electronics (2006/9)
  • 4238 De Bullion for piano, live electronic sound and video processing (2007/8)
  • scissors for trombone (2008)
  • a piece that is a size that is recognized as not a size but a piece for piano (2013)
  • stiff upper lip for bass clarinet (2014)

Chamber music

  • FIGHT for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn (2002/3)
  • Folds Dependent for string quartet (2003)
  • Miniature for saxophone quartet (2005)
  • LAUF for flute, oboe, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass (2005)
  • Rock Paper Scissors for bass clarinet, trombone, double bass (2006)
  • Smooche de la Rooche II for 3 athletically gifted percussionists, electronics (2007)
  • Institution. Music for the film "Kino Eye" Dziga Vertov (Chapter 6) for chamber ensemble (oboe, clarinet, horn, piano, drums, violin, cello, double bass) (2007)
  • Humans in Motion for trumpet, trombone, guitar / banjo, piano, 2 percussionists, violoncello (2007/8)
  • Moment - performative walking. Music for the film by Yukihiro Taguchi for violin, percussion, piano (2009)
  • tender pink descender for 2 double bass clarinets (2009)
  • Industrial Drive for trombone quartet (2010)
  • Moment - Curitiba - Prelude for flugelhorn, euphonium, piano, 2 percussionists, guitar, cello (2010)
  • Earl Brown ’s Forgotten Piece in Moholy-Nagy ’s Light-Space-Modulator for piano and live electronics with live-controlled video playback (2012)
  • Jenny's last Rock for flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, playbacks (2012/13)
  • GURU GURU - Doppelrequiem for Karlheinz Stockhausen and Steve Jobs for trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, piano / sampler, electric guitar, violoncello, live electronics (joint composition with Robin Hoffmann) (2013)

Ensemble and orchestral music

  • Snow Job for ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello), light sequencer (2010)
  • misinterpreting the 2008 south sudanese budget reform for the orchestra for large orchestra (4 Fl., 3 Ob., 3 Klar., 3 Fg., 4 Hr., 3 Tp., 3 Pos., Pk., 3 Perk., 2 Hfe., Strings: 14-12-10-8-6) (2012)

Musical theater

  • Flowers of Carnage - a Kung-Fu performance for musicians (professionals or amateurs), performers, electronics / live electronics (2013/14)

Electronic music

  • Don't spray snow on the other person's grave sound installation for 16 speakers (2009/10)
  • pull the plug - Las Vegas and Venice, a comparative study sound and video installation with Sophie Narr (2009/10)

CDs

  • Portrait CD “Annesley Black: NO USE IN A CENTER: Humans in Motion / aorko / tender pink descender / Smooche de la Rooche II / misinterpreting the 2008 south sudanese budget reform for the orchestra” + SPIELE DVD “THIS FEELS GREAT” WERGO 2013 (WER 6590 2)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academy of Künste14 welcomed new members. , Deutschlandfunk from July 10, 2018, accessed on July 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ Profile page Annesley Black on the scholarship pages of the Akademie Schloss Solitude . Retrieved February 3, 2015
  3. ↑ Information on “Young Academy - International Scholarship Programs” on the website of the Akademie die Künste (Berlin). Retrieved February 2, 2015
  4. ↑ Winner of the Stuttgart Composition Prize 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on the website of the city of Stuttgart. Retrieved February 2, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stuttgart.de
  5. ↑ Portrait page Annesley Black on the website of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Black, Annesley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Black, Annesley Catherine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Ottawa