Rebecca Saunders
Rebecca Saunders (born December 19, 1967 in London ) is a British composer.
Life
Rebecca Saunders studied violin and composition at the University of Edinburgh . From 1991 to 1994 she studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm with a scholarship from the DAAD . In 1997 Nigel Osborne did his doctorate in composition .
Saunders has received the Busoni Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , the Ernst von Siemens Prize for Composition, the ARD Composition Prize and the Hindemith Prize (2003). In 2000 she taught at the Darmstadt Summer Courses . From 2005 to 2006 she was composer in residence at the Konzerthaus Dortmund .
In the 2009/2010 season she was Capell Compositeur of the Staatskapelle Dresden .
Rebecca Saunders lives as a freelance composer in Berlin and has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2009 . In 2015 she received the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize from the Kunststiftung NRW . In 2019 she received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize .
Works
- Behind the velvet curtain for trumpet, piano, harp and violoncello, 1991–1992
- Into the Blue for cello, piano, percussion, bassoon, clarinet and double bass, 1996
- Quartet for piano, violin, double bass and accordion, 1998
- Dichroic Seventeen for piano, two drums, two double basses, accordion and electric guitar, 1996
- Molly's Song 3 - Shades of Crimson for viola, guitar and alto flute, 1995
- albescere for twelve instruments and five voices, 2001
- vermilion for clarinet, electric guitar and cello, 2003
- insideout , music for the choreographic installation by Sasha Waltz , 2003
- blaauw for double trumpet, 2004
- Choler for piano duo, 2004
- miniata for accordion, piano, choir and orchestra, 2004
- Rubricare for strings and organ, 2005
- Crimson for piano, 2005
- Stirrings Still for alto flute, oboe, A clarinet, piano and crotales, 2006
- chroma IX for chamber groups in several spaces (2003-08), WP: Witten Days for New Chamber Music , 2008
- still for violin solo and symphony orchestra (2011), premier: Beethovenfest Bonn, 2011
- Stasis. Room collage for 16 soloists (2011) WP: Donaueschinger Musiktage , 2011
- Alba, for solo trumpet and symphony orchestra, 2014
Web links
- Works by Rebecca Saunders in the catalog of the German National Library
- Deutschlandfunk cultural issues. Debates and documents of June 2, 2019: “Not everyone has to want to hear my music”. Rebecca Saunders in conversation with Maja Ellmenreich
Individual evidence
- ↑ edition-peters.de: Rebecca Saunders ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation , accessed on January 17, 2019
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Saunders, Rebecca |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |