Ellen Fellmann

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Ellen Fellmann (* 1968 in Mosbach ) is a German composer and director . The artist works in the intermediate field of musical and visual space-related composition. Her focus is on an expanded method of composition between music, (moving) images and space. Her work includes instrumental and electroacoustic compositions, multi-channel sound choreographies and audio-visual compositions as well as concert, opera and music documentaries.

biography

After classical piano and vocal training in Munich, Ellen Fellmann completed a degree in musicology and philosophy in Munich and Berlin (with Helga de la Motte-Haber , Wolfgang Auhagen , Herbert Schnädelbach and Sybille Krämer , among others ), and was also a visiting student at the Deutsche Film- and TV Academy Berlin (DFFB) and graduated with honors in 2002 with a Masters Degree.

Since 1999 she has been developing an independent audiovisual form of composition, which she has realized spatially from 2003 (guest composer in the electronic studio of the TU Berlin with Folkmar Hein ). She received important impulses from Christina Kubisch, from Chaya Czernowin (Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2004) and from Mark Andre and Manos Tsangaris during their postgraduate studies in composition at the Dresden University of Music in 2009.

Since 2002 she has also worked as a director in the concert and music documentary sector. Numerous music films in an international context are made for clients from Germany and abroad. Her directorial debut of Kent Nagano conducts classical Masterpieces , a six-part series with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in the Philharmonie Berlin 2005/06 (premiere at the Delphi cinema in Berlin) and the opera film Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin , premiered at the opening of the Opera Festival of the Munich State Opera 2007 in a production by Achim Freyer (presentation at Kino International in Berlin), as well as Musik ohne Heimat (2010), a 60-minute music documentary film about the German Symphony by Hanns Eisler for WDR. For the Tonhalle Düsseldorf , she directed the youth concert format 3-2-1 Ignition three times a year from 2009 to 2013 .

Since autumn 2010 she has been a lecturer at the University of the Arts in Bern (Switzerland) in the Music and Media Art course and in the Master of Contemporary Arts Practice.

In March 2015, she realized the exhibition and concert project Extended Compositions at Kunstquartier Bethanien and Radialsystem V Berlin as a curator .

Awards

  • Scholarship from the Edith-Russ-Haus Oldenburg, the Lower Saxony and Klangpol Foundation , commissioned by Schwarz (2007)
  • Concours Internationaux de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques Bourges / France (IMEB) - Award category Multimedia (2007)
  • Nomination for the Prix ​​Rose d'Or Luzern (2007)
  • International Film Festival World Fest Houston , Platinum Remi Award (2007)
  • World Media Festival Hamburg , Intermediaglobe Silver (2007)
  • International Film Festival Tenerife , Teide Award (2007)
  • New York Film Festivals , Certificate of Excellence (2006)
  • Hot Bird Award Venice , Jury Special Award (2006)
  • Résidence Internationale aux Récollets Paris , Artist-in-Residence grant from the French Foreign Ministry and the City of Paris (2006)

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Fellmann, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Mosbach