Claudia Ulla Binder

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Claudia Ulla Binder (born March 14, 1959 ) is a German improvisation musician ( piano ) and composer .

Live and act

Binder grew up in southern Germany and studied musicology and psychology in Berlin ; In 1983 she graduated with a degree in psychology. In 1980 she attended a summer course with George Lewis at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock . Back in Berlin, she took part in performances of the songbooks by John Cage under the direction of Dieter Schnebel . From 1983 to 1986 she studied with Walter Norris and then obtained a piano diploma at the Zurich University of the Arts .

Binder worked in a duo with John Butcher and Sara Maurer. In the group Quatre têtes she improvised with Susann Wehrli, Priska Walss and Gabriela Friedli . Her trio with Christian Weber and Dieter Ulrich was occasionally expanded to a quartet box by Joachim Zoepf . She also worked with artists such as Phil Durrant , Lol Coxhill , Stevie Wishart , Co Streiff , Hans Koch , Dorothea Schürch , Martin Schütz , John Russell , George Lewis, Jean-Marc Montera , Paul Hubweber and Carl Ludwig Hübsch .

List of works (excerpt)

  • Rohschliff (1999–2003; commissioned by Werner Bärtschi ; premiere in 2000)
  • Schlingen (2005; world premiere in 2006 by Mirjam Tschopp and Riccardo Bovino)
  • Little Lilts and Loops (2005, world premiere in 2006 by the composer)
  • Search engine 1-10 (2007, first performance by the composer)

Discographic notes

  • Claudia Ulla Binder, Alfred Zimmerlin : Seitenflügel ( Unit Records 1986)
  • Claudia Ulla Binder, Dieter Ulrich , Alfred Zimmerlin: The Great Musaurian Songbook (Musikszene Schweiz, Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund 1998)
  • Solo Piano (Unit Records 2000)
  • Christian Weber, Dieter Ulrich: Ten Variations an an Unknown Theme (Origin Records 2005)
  • John Butcher / Claudia Ulla Binder: Under the Roof (Nuscope Recordings 2010)
  • Piano Solo II (Creative Sources 2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry (musinfo.ch)
personal data
SURNAME Binder, Claudia Ulla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German improvisation musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1959