Jennifer Walshe

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Jennifer Walshe (born June 1, 1974 in Dublin , Ireland) is a composer , performer and university professor.

biography

Childhood and youth

Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin in 1974 into an artistic family home. Her mother works as a writer, her father is an artist and art historian. Walshe began playing the piano at an early age, took trumpet lessons at the age of ten and later played in the Irish Youth Orchestra. However, it quickly became clear to her that she wanted to devote herself to composing.

"" When I was a kid I wanted to imitate noises. So that was the very immediate way being connected with the sound. ""

- Möller, Torsten : Wrong tracks and Barbie dolls - portrait of the Irish composer and voice performer Jennifer Walshe, broadcast: DeutschlandRadio on February 8, 2005

This is how Walshe's first compositions for various wind instruments came about, which were premiered by the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, among others.

Education

After finishing school, Walshe began studying composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow with Rita McAllister and John Maxwell Geddes . She also received regular lessons from Kevin Volans and James MacMillan , who introduced the young composer to contemporary American music. During the Ennis Composition Summer School, Walshe met Michael Alcorn , who encouraged her to continue her studies in the United States. Since she no longer wanted to study in the UK, Walshe followed his advice and moved to the USA. She did not consider studying in mainland Europe for language reasons.

"'By the time I finished in Scotland, I knew that I didn't want to come back to Ireland, and that I wanted to get the hell out of the UK."

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At the age of 24, Walshe continued her studies at Northwestern University in Chicago, first with Michael Pisaro, later with Amnon Wolman , where she completed her degree in Composition & Music Technology with a Ph.D. in June 2002.

Wolman in particular had a strong influence on Walshe's compositional style. He encouraged her to integrate her spontaneity and openness into her pieces and strengthened her training in improvisation.

Together with the violinist Jonathan Chen, she founded the duo "nolimetangere", with whom she regularly improvised in weekly sessions. Encouraged by Wolman, Walshe included her voice in her performances.

Awards and grants

Jennifer Walshe had her first major success at the international summer courses for new music in Darmstadt, where she won the Kranichsteiner Music Prize , other awards such as the Praetorius Music Prize for Composition (2008) and the BASCA (British Composer Award for Innovation) in the "recognition" category of her lifelong dedication to questioning and challenging the status quo through music and performance "(2016) followed.

In the first few years after her studies, she also won numerous grants (including Akademie Schloss Solitude (2003/04), DAAD Berlin Artists Program (2004/05), grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York (2007), Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice (2009)

Teaching

In 2002 and 2018 she gave workshops in the international summer courses for new music in Darmstadt. In 2016 Jennifer Walshe was appointed professor for performance at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart (HMDK). Together with Judith Siegmund , Walshe is in charge of the present campus at the HMDK.

reception

Jennifer Walshe has worked with numerous ensembles and orchestras worldwide, including a. a. Klangforum Wien , Arditti Quartet , Ensemble recherche , National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , Ensemble Resonanz , Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Schlagquartett Cologne .

Both as a composer and as a performer, she has appeared at almost all international festivals for new music since 2000, including Donaueschinger Musiktage , Maerzmuzik (Berlin), Ultraschall (Berlin), Witten days for new chamber music , Wien Modern , Ars musica (Brussels) , November Music (Holland), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland) and Splice Festival (USA).

Walshe publishes her scores at the Contemporary Music Center (CMC) Ireland. Her works have been released on various labels including Merge Records , Interval Recordings, Farpoint Recordings and Migro.

Jennifer Walshe received great praise from many critics:

"The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years"

- The Irish Times :

"Jennifer Walshe's body of work is vast and impressive"

- Sommerset House Studios :

"Strange, wonderful music projects"

- Boston Globe ) :

music

In Walshe's compositions, experimental American-influenced music mixes with contemporary European and electro-acoustic music; many of her compositions also contain visual and improvisational elements.

Her passion for noisy sounds is in the tradition of Helmut Lachenmann's Musique concrète instrumentale, which she extends to the voice in particular. Another composer who shaped her is (besides her teachers) Morton Feldman , who sparked her great interest in minimal music.

In addition, a great influence of popular music can also be seen in Walshe's compositions.

"My music is, like it or lump it, a reflection of my personality, which is a reflection of the culture my personality functions in. And so, there are a lot of pop-culture references in there. You have a lot of composers and you read interviews with them and they say that they totally adore Mozart and at the end they tag in, "And I like the Beastie Boys."

Her vocal music, which she often performs herself and which is sometimes characterized by extreme vocal techniques, can be a focus of her compositions. As a vocalist and performer, she often appears together with ensembles and orchestras (including RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland) or as part of an opera production (e.g. "XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS !!!")

Many of her compositions stand on their own and have no direct social reference, but in some of her compositions she takes up important social discourses, for example in the puppet opera "XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS !!!", in which a doll is raped on stage .

Other topics that Walshe addresses in her compositions and projects are questions of identity and creative research methods.

In 2016, Walshe proclaimed a new discipline in the contemporary music scene - "The New Discipline" in an article in the magazine MusikTexte. In the not uncontroversial text, she describes her idea of ​​music, as authentic musical theater that "should actively involve the ear, eyes and brain [of the listener]".

Art projects

Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde www.aisteach.org (2015)

"Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-Garde" is a fictional narrative of an Irish art avant-garde. Jennifer Walshe invents artist personalities with their own biographies, compositions, paintings, sculptures, installations and much more. The project can be found on the website www.aisteach.org. As part of the project, Walshe has published a book of the same name. Various music can be found on iTunes.

Grupát

Grúpat is a fictional artist collective that consists of its multitude of “alter egos”. For this project, Jennifer Walshe invented various artist biographies with her own compositions, installations, films, photographs, sculptures and much more

The collective has been featured in numerous exhibitions in several museums and festivals worldwide, including Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Dublin Electronic Arts Festival; Galway Arts Center, Ireland; Donaueschinger Musiktage; SPOR Festival, Denmark. It also released two CDs.

Catalog raisonné

voice

  • Sixteen Haiku for mezzo-soprano and piano, 1992
  • exercise for voice, violin, viola, percussion and piano, 1999, UA Chicago 1999
  • as mo cheann for voice and violin, 2000, WP Darmstadt 2000
  • warm / cold for two speakers and various everyday objects (CD player, mixer, wooden box, etc.), 2001
  • NOW WASH YOUR HANDS for voice, cello and two DJs, 2001, WP Chicago 2002
  • Ná déan NÍL CEAD for voice and strings, 2001, WP Witten 2002
  • moving in / love song / city front garden with old men for tenor and piano, 2001, WP Amsterdam 2002
  • here we are now for voice, cello, trombone and percussion, 2002, WP Donaueschingen 2002
  • Happiness is a warm gun for voice, 2002
  • dirty white fields for voice and violin, 2002, WP Dublin 2002
  • been in a room and a room and a room and a room for vocal quartet (SATB), 2002, WP Dublin 2002
  • he wants his cowboys to sound like how he thinks cowboys should sound for mezzo-soprano, counter-tenor, tenor, baritone and bass, 2003
  • GLORI- for solo voice, 4 '(2005), WP : Art of Sound, Ireland
  • (your name here) for voice, violin and video, 20 '(2005), WP: BELEF, Belgrade
  • Motel Abandon for voice, actor, cello, DVD and CDs, 30 '(2005)
  • The Procedure for Smoothing Air for voice, trombone, piano, cello and CD, 15 '(2005), WP: Crash Ensemble
  • dub / ber / vie for voice, 4-channel sound and live electronics, in collaboration with Bernhard Gál, 35 '(2006), WP: Voice +, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2006
  • 22'30 "for a singer for voice and laptop, 22'30" (2006), WP: Semper Oper, Dresden
  • Physics for the Girl in the Street for voice and percussion quartet, 35 '(2007), premier: Schlagquartett Köln, Maerzmusik, Berlin, 2007
  • Ukeoirn O'Connor's Three Songs for voice and ukulele, 12 '(2007)
  • My Extensive Relationship with Mr. Stephen Patrick M. for oboe, clarinet, accordion, percussion, voice, cello and CD, 20 '(2007), world premiere: Wien Modern Festival
  • i: same person / ii: not the same person 2 versions: a) Solo voice, instruments and laptop, 23 'b) Solo voice and electronics, 32' (2007), WP: Ultrasound Festival, Tel Aviv, 2007
  • Detleva Verens 'Scintillia for solo voice and film, 6' (2008)
  • Turf Boon's Community Choir Drawing 8291: lámh for voice, chamber ensemble and laptop, 22 '(2008)
  • The Dowager Marchylove's The Wasistas of Thereswhere for voice, tin whistle, kazoo and live electronics, 15 '(2008)
  • PADDY REILLY RUNS WITH THE DEVIL for 5 voices with mp3 player, 4 '(2008), WP: Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart
  • Freya Birren's Libris Solar for voice and orchestra, 8 '(2009), world premiere: J. Walshe and the Orchestra del Teatro, Venice, 2009
  • Performat # 2 for voice and electronics, 6 '(2009), WP: Lucie Fontaine, 2008
  • Stuttgart 2089 for voice, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, guitar, cello and DVD, 52 '(2010), WP: ensemble ascolta
  • Freya Birren's The Faerie Queene for voice, guitar and DVD, 8 '(2010), WP: Chelsea Art Museum
  • The Church of Frequency & Protein for voice, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, guitar, cello and DVD, 52 '(2010), WP: ensemble ascolta
  • lashings of the old ultra-v. for 4 male voices and electronics, 25 '(2010), WP: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Theaterhaus P1, Stuttgart, 2010
  • Julian & Kanye for 3 voices, 5 '(2011), WP: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2011
  • WATCHED OVER LOVINGLY BY SILENT MACHINES for 5 voices and DVD, 29 '(2011), WP: Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2011
  • The Soft Menagerie for 3 voices, 10 '(2011), WP: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2011
  • ALL THE MANY PEOPLS for solo voice, DVD and electronics, 28 '/ 54' (2 versions) (2011), WP: J. Walshe, New York, 2015
  • A Folk Song Collection for 3 voices, 10 '(2011), premier: Stuttgarter Vocalsolisten, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
  • Flor Hartigan's To Damhnait Brixius for voice and ensemble, 10 '(2011), WP: ensemble ascolta, Splice Festival, Michigan (USA)
  • METTA for flute, clarinet, trombone, tuba, piano, percussion, violin and voice, 11 '(2011), WP: November Music,' s-Hertogenbosch (Holland), 2011
  • Atlanta 2089 for voice, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussion, piano, guitar, cello and DVD, 41 '(2011), WP: Ensemble Ascolta, Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta (USA), 2013
  • Look, Stranger on this Island for voice and electronic, 3 '(2012)
  • The White Noisery for 16 voices and CD, 30 '(2012), WP: National Chamber Choir of Ireland, National Concert Hall, Dublin, 2012
  • Historical Documents of the Irish Avant-garde Vol. 1: Dada for voice and electronic, 10 '(2012)
  • LANGUAGE RUINS EVERYTHING for countertenor, piano, voluntary voices and DVD, 10 '(2013), premiere: D. Gloger and S. Berweck, Achtbrücken Festival, Cologne, 2013
  • DURATION & ITS SIMPLE MODES for solo voice and 16-part choir, 12 '(2013), premiere: international literature festival Berlin, Sing-Akademie zu Berlin
  • THE TOTAL MOUNTAIN for voice and film (with sound), 41 '(2014), WP: J. Walshe, Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2014
  • Together i for 10 performers, part of "The Chimes Hours", 10 '(2014)
  • Together ii for 7 performers, 10 '(2015)
  • 13 Vices for string trio, 3 improvisers and voice, in collaboration with Brian Irvine, 80 '(2015), WP: April Jazz, Dublin, 2015
  • VOLUNTEER CHORUS for 5 or more performers, any length (2015), UA SPOR Festival, Aarhus (Denmark), 2015
  • EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT for voice, string quartet and film (with sound), 41 '(2016), UA J. Walshe and Arditti Quartet, November Music,' s-Hertogenbosch (Holland), 2016
  • A Girl's Book of Song for girls' choir, 11 '(2016), UA girls' choir of Sing-Akademie Berlin
  • A History of the Voice: Part I for four voices, 60 '(2017), UA HYOID, Transit Festival 20/21, Leuven, 2017
  • IS IT COOL TO TRY HARD NOW? for voice, film and electronic, 33 '(2017), UA J. Walshe, Café Oto, London, 2018
  • ULTRACHUNK for voice and neural network, in collaboration with Memo Akten, 25 '(2018), UA J. Walshe and Memo Akten, Assembly Winter, Helsinki, 2018
  • TRÍ AMHRÁN for voice and piano, 14 '(2019), WP Robin Tritschler and John Hess, National Concert Hall, Dublin, 2019
  • ULTRA NATURAE for voice and wind ensemble, 20 '(2019), UA J. Walshe and Stadtmusikkapelle Hötting, Innsbruck, 2019

Chamber music

  • Twelfth Night for two alto saxophones, tenor and baritone saxophone, 1992
  • cease to resist for flute and harp, 1996
  • Universal Neorth for two trumpets, horn and two trombones, 1997
  • i slowly suspect my dog ​​is turning into a retrograde amine for violin, flute, clarinet, percussion and piano, 1997
  • retina for soprano recorder, 1997
  • Composizione 110140 for violin, clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, horn, percussion, 1997
  • : blurt for two violins, viola and cello, 1997
  • Split for trumpet and tape, 1997
  • glow for prepared piano, 1998
  • isH for violin and flute, 1998
  • (rows of houses for two guitars and double bass, 1998
  • (rows of houses) for two guitars and trombone, 1998, UA Chicago 1998
  • (five short pieces) for saxophone quartet and voices, 1998, UA Chicago 1998
  • running and running and running and running and for flute, trumpet, viola, cello and piano, 1999, WP Dublin 2000
  • need nothing to deep for bassoon, two violas and cello, 1999, WP Glasgow 1999
  • piece / by / “ for tape, 1999, WP Chicago 1999
  • like glass in a mirror on a window pane for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, 2000, WP Dublin 2000
  • unbreakable line. hinged waist for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion and piano, 2002, WP Darmstadt 2002
  • theme from for violin and piano (with walkie-talkies and electric bow), 2002, UA Huddersfield 2002
  • they could laugh smile for trombone and tape, 1999, premiere Dublin 2002
  • minard / nithsdale for string quartet, 2003, WP Miami 2003
  • THIS IS WHY PEOPLE OD ON PILLS / AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE for any instrument, 2004, WP Vienna 2004
  • THIS IS WHY PEOPLE OD ON PILLS / AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE for one to ten instruments or voices, 2004. WP ensemble version: Freiburg 2004
  • a sensitive number for the laydeez for alto saxophone, viola, percussion, piano and video, 2004, WP Chicago 2004
  • Elephant for harp and pistol, 4 '(2006), WP: Rhodri Davies, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, 2006
  • “The Blue Room” from FASTER, FASTER, PUSSYCAT - KILL KILL KILL! for solo piano, 3 '(2007), premier. Mary Dullea
  • Flor Hartigan's Conturador for solo or ensemble, any duration (2008)
  • Mug for Solo Piano, 5 '(2008), WP: AXA Dublin International Piano Competition
  • Violetta Mahon's Dream Diaries, 1988–2008 for trumpet, trombone, cello, 2 percussion, piano and CD, 30 '(2008), WP: INCONTEXT3 Public Art
  • Thelma Mansfield for flute, percussion, piano and DVD, 25 '(2008), WP: Trio Nexus
  • MARLOWE S. for string quartet, tape recorder and CD, 22 '(2009), world premiere: Bozzini Quartet, Montréal, 2009
  • WASH ME WHITER THAN SNOW for violin, cello and DVD, 16 '(2013), WP: Reims, France, 2013
  • DORDÁN for clarinet, trombone, guitar, cello, double bass and DVD, 35 '(2013)
  • THEY LEFT HIM IN THE OCEAN for string quartet and DVD, 5 '(2014), WP: Arditti Quartet
  • The Chimes Hours for ensemble, 4 soloists, installations and film, in collaboration with Lee Patterson and Peter Meanwell, 60 '(2014), world premiere 2014
  • 1984 IT'S OK for violin, cello and percussion, 12 '(2015), UA Nadar Ensemble, Transit Festival, Breest (Belgium), 2015
  • My Dog & I for cello, dancer, dog, film and electronics, 60 '(2017), UA Martine Altenburger et Clara Corni, Ircam, Paris, 2017
  • RESIDUE for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, horn, percussion, piano, voice, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass, 20 '(2019), WP J. Walshe and members of the international Ensemble Modern Academy, Kunststation St. Peter, Cologne , September 28, 2019
  • SELF-CARE for accordion, film and electronics, 30 '(2017), WP Andreas Borregaard, Borealis Festival, Bergen (Norway), 2017
  • Wilhelm vs. Bruce (Fists of Fury!) For 16-channel sound, 5 '(2010)

orchestra

  • Overtone for concert band, 1997
  • small small big for wind orchestra, four percussion sets and double bass, 2001
  • movement 5 for string orchestra, 2002, WP Killaloe 2002
  • Passenger for string orchestra, 30 '(2006), WP: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, ISCM World New Music Days Festival, Stuttgart, 2006
  • Hotel Chelsea for organ and symphony orchestra, 15 '(2010), WP: National Siphony Orchestera of Ireland, National Concert Hall, Dublin, 2010
  • THE SITE OF AN INVESTIGATION for voice and orchestra, 32 '(2018), UA J. Walshe and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, New Music Dublin festival, 2018

Opera, musical theater and performance

  • XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS !!! for two vocalists, clarinet, trombone, accordion, cello, two puppeteers and tape, 2003, premier Vienna 2003
  • Kommander Kobayashi # 17 Chamber opera for 5 voices, trombone, viola, cello, clarinet and 2 percussion (2004), WP: State Opera, Hamburg, 2005
  • meanwhile, back at the ranch… for 7 performers and image controllers, any duration (2005), WP: ensemble ascolta
  • he was she was für 4 Performer and CD, 5 '(2008), UA: Arts Council of England, London, 2008
  • The Geometry Opera for 4 actors, voice, clarinet, guitar and live electronics, 60 '(2009), WP: New York, 2010
  • HYGIENE for 10 performers and DVD, 11 '(2011), WP: stock11, 2011
  • SILENTLY & VERY FAST for any number of performers (2012), UA: third ear
  • Die Taktik Oper for 4 voices, choir, 3 dancers, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and electronic, 61 '(2012), premier: Junge Oper Stuttgart
  • EVERYTHING YOU OWN HAS BEEN TAKEN TO A DEPOT SOMEWHERE for 3 performers, 10 '(2013), WP : Ensemble Offspring
  • TRAINING IS THE OPPOSITE Chamber opera for soprano, string quartet, electronic and film (2014)
  • THE SIGNING Shadow Opera for voice, violin, shadow characters and film, in collaboration with Tony Conrad, 41 '(2014), WP: Nuit Blanche, Toronto (Canada), 2014
  • AN GLÉACHT for 1+ Performer, 30 '(2015), UA J.Walshe and C. Breathnach, Maerzmusik, Berlin, 2015
  • TIME TIME TIME for nine performers, text in collaboration with Timothy Morton, 80-90 '(2019), UA Serpentine Gallery, London, 2019

Installations

  • THE WORLDING for eight performers (2018), UA tonnta, The Model, Sligo (Ireland), 2018

Fonts

Discography

DVD

  • Jennifer Walshe - XXX_Live_Nude_Girls !!!, Hypnagogic Tapes (2009), EAN 7090019070029

CD

  • Donaueschinger Musiktage 2014, NEOS (2015), EAN 4260063115226
  • Grúpat And Jennifer Walshe - The Wasistas Of Thereswhere, Tetbind Records (2009)
  • Grúpat And Jennifer Walshe - Song Tags (2009)
  • Jennifer Walshe - Nature Data, Interval Recordings (2010)
  • Jennifer Walshe & Tomomi Adachi - Live @ WKCR, Kukuruku Recordings (2010)
  • Ghikas * & Walshe * - Good Teeth, Migro Records (2013)
  • Stock11_003, Astray (2013)
  • Ludo Mich With Jennifer Walshe And W. Ravenveer, Hypnagogic Tapes (2018)
  • Jennifer Walshe - ALL THE MANY PEOPLS, Migro Records (2019)

literature

  • Franziska Kloos: Jennifer Walshe. Playing with identities. Cloud V.-G., 2017, ISBN 3-95593-076-9
  • Axel Klein: Art. Walshe, Jennifer. In: Laurenz Lütteken (Ed.): MGG Online. Kassel, Stuttgart, New York 2007
  • Torsten Möller: Art. Jennifer Walshe. In: Hanns-Werner Heister, Walter-Wolfgang Sparrer (Ed.): Composers of the Present (KdG) . edition text + kritik, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86916-789-3

Related Links

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  1. ↑ a b David Weininger: Jennifer Walshe on her strange, wonderful music projects: 'I'm trying to say, this is what it's like being alive'. Boston Globe, February 19, 2020, accessed June 21, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Jonathan Grimes: An Interview with Jennifer Walshe. In: the contemporary music center ireland. Contemporary Music Center Ltd, October 4, 2004, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Torsten Möller: Jennifer Walshe. In: Contemporary Composers (KDG). Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Jennifer Walshe and Simon Bainbridge win two new British Composer awards - The Wire. Accessed June 30, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ a b Jennifer Walshe: Biography. Retrieved June 21, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ HMDK Stuttgart - Directory. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Jennifer Walshe | ZKM. Retrieved June 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Jennifer Walshe. In: Summerset House Studios. October 7, 2016, accessed June 21, 2020 .
  9. ^ Franziska Kloos: Jennifer Walshe. Playing with identities, 2017
  10. ↑ Jennifer Walshe: A body is not a piano. Editorial for the discussion about the “New Discipline” . In: MusikTexte . tape 149 . MusikTexte, May 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Walshe, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish composer, performer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland