Elisabeth Harnik

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Elisabeth Harnik at Club W71 , 2019

Elisabeth Harnik (* 1970 in Graz ) is an Austrian pianist, singer, composer and music organizer who is active in the field of new improvisation music and contemporary music. She regards composing and improvising as "an interplay between the calculated and the unforeseen: reflecting on the sound vocabulary that has arisen - be it through preconceived or spontaneous interventions - and tracing an unconscious inner structure."

Live and act

Harnik had his first music lessons at the age of five; at the age of ten she began to play the piano. She studied classical piano at what was then the Graz University of Music. During this time, she initially occupied herself with jazz singing , studied with Ines Reiger , Sheila Jordan and Jay Clayton , and also worked with Ward Swingle . As a pianist, she initially worked as an interpreter of new music.

Inspired by a workshop with Pauline Oliveros, she studied composition with Beat Furrer at today's Graz University of Art until 2006 . “A central point in her compositional work is the examination of self-imposed rules, their changes and their breaking.” Her compositions are performed by ensembles such as Ensemble Zeitfluss Graz, Ensemble 09 Linz, RSO Vienna, Ensemble PHACE Vienna, Klangforum Wien , Ensemble Reconsil Vienna, Trio Amos Wien, Trio Eis Wien, Thürmchen Ensemble Köln, Fidelio Trio London, Cantus Ensemble Zagreb and Ensemble mise-en NY . Together with the writer Olga Flor , she wrote the music theater piece Kugelstein (2005/2007).

In addition, Harnick became interested in improvised music under the impression of an encounter with Joëlle Léandre and had lessons with this, Peter Kowald , Lauren Newton and David Moss . Separated from her compositional activity, she has been working as an improvisation musician since 1996. As a soloist and in ensembles, she is represented at various international festivals such as V: NM Festival, Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon , Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen , Artacts Festival St. Johann, Piano Festival Soundgrube Vienna, Musicacoustica Beijing, Beethovenfest Bonn , Alpenglow Festival London, Umbrella Music Festival Chicago, Comprovise Festival Cologne.

In the course of her improvisational career, Harnik worked with the Barcode Quartet (with Alison Blunt , Annette Giesriegl , Josef Klammer ), the London Improvisers Orchestra , the Plasmic formation (with Agnes Heginger , Fredi Pröll , Uli Winter ) and the Wild Chamber Trio (Clementine Gasser, Gianni Mimmo), and she also appeared with Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara , Gigi Gratt , Gianni Mimmo , Didi Kern , the Styrian Improvisers Orchestra , Mikołaj Trzaska / Martin Brandlmayr and Ken Vandermark .

In 2010, Harnik founded the Kunsthaltestelle Streckhammerhaus association with the visual artist Heidi M. Richter ; the resulting works "oscillate between performances with live painting, film screenings with music and concerts in the classical sense." a. Musicians like Christian Weber , John Tchicai , Michael Zerang , Fred Lonberg-Holm , Dave Rempis and Ken Vandermark . Harnik lives in Gams near Frohnleiten ( Styria ).

Prizes and awards

  • 2005 Music Prize of the City of Graz
  • 2007 Prize of the Art University Graz
  • 2007 Austrian State Scholarship for Composition
  • 2007 Andrzej Dobrowolski Composition Scholarship from the State of Styria
  • 2008 Composers Forum in Mittersill: Artist in Residence 13.
  • 2010 OMI International Arts Center New York: Artist in Residence
  • 2012 12th eu-art-network International Art Symposium in Oslip: Artist in Residence
  • 2012 International Center for Contemporary Music : Composer in Residence

Works (selection)

  • Superstructure (2006/07). Percussion, clarinet, quarter-tone accordion, piano, violoncello, double bass and electronics. On behalf of ORF and Jeunesse
  • schatten.risse (2008) for piano trio. Commissioned by Haydn Year 09
  • Superschwärmen (2010) for large orchestra. On behalf of the RSO Vienna
  • reframe another (2011). for ensemble. On behalf of Klangforum Wien
  • the ten-tongued lily (2014). for ensemble (10 years Ensemble Zeitfluss)

Discography

  • Wibschma Vol. 1 (Extraplatte, 1997), with Annelies Schneider, Jagoda Markovic, Annette Giesriegl
  • Elisabeth Harnik • Katharina Klement • Josef Novotny • Fredi Pröll • Uli Winter: Soundog ( Extraplatte , 2005)
  • Elisabeth Harnik: Irrt, Irrt das Ohr (Extraplatte, 2005)
  • Barcode Quartet: Your're It (Slam Productions, 2012)
  • Wild Chamber Trio: 10000 Leaves ( Not Two Records , 2012)
  • Elisabeth Harnik, Udo Schindler: Empty Pigeonhole ( Creative Sources , 2013)
  • Plasmic: Live at Chilli Jazz Festival 2013 ( Leo Records , 2014)
  • DEK Trio: Burning Below Zero (Audiographic, 2017), with Ken Vandermark , Didi Kern
  • DEK Trio: Construct 1 - The Stone (Audiographic, 2017)
  • DEK Trio: Construct 2 - Artfacts (Audiographic, 2017)
  • DEK Trio: Construct 3 - Divadlo 29 (Audiographic, 2017)

literature

Web links

Commons : Elisabeth Harnik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b portrait at Music Austria
  2. ↑ a b E. Harnick, HH Rutz, G. Nierhaus Elisabeth Harnick / Improvisationsl Re-assemblies In: Gerhard Nierhaus (Ed.) Patterns of Intuition: Musical Creativity in the Light of Algorithmic Composition. Dordrecht, Springer, 2015, p. 9
  3. ↑ E. Harnick, HH Rutz, G. Nierhaus Elisabeth Harnick / Improvisationsl Re-assemblies In: G. Nierhaus (ed.) Patterns of Intuition: Musical Creativity in the Light of Algorithmic Composition. P. 10
  4. ↑ Brief portrait (DLF)
  5. ↑ a b A piano is not enough
  6. ↑ Streckhammerhaus art stop
personal data
SURNAME Harnik, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist, singer, composer and music organizer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz