Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer.
Life and work edit
Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern, Hesse in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt with Hans Zender and later researched at the IRCAM in Paris. In addition to her teaching activities in Berlin, she held teaching appointments in Zürich and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.[1]
Mundry was the first resident composer of the Staatskapelle in Dresden. She previously held a similar position at the Tong Yong Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Mannheim National Theater.[2]
Mundry's compositions are characterized by a highly individualized musical language, full of variants and nuances: "She hardly ever repeats herself; each time, sounds and sequences of sounds are articulated differently."[3] Isabel Mundry's work is currently published by Breitkopf & Härtel.[4]
She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik between 1946 and 2014.[5]
Awards edit
- Boris Blacher Composition Award from Berlin University of the Arts and Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"
- 1994 Busoni Award of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- 1996: Kranichstein Music Award of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse
- 1996: Schneider-Schott Music Prize with Moritz Eggert
- 2001: Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize
- 2012: Zender Award [6] with Martin Zenck[7]
References edit
- ^ "Isabel Munry". Breitkopf & Härtel. Archived from the original on 24 August 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- ^ "Isabel Mundry Bio". kairos-music.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- ^ Andreas Dorschel, 'Mundrys Nuancen', in Salzburg Biennale 2015, ed. Heike Hoffmann (Salzburg: Salzburg Biennale, 2015), pp. 62–64, p. 64
- ^ "Isabel Mundry". Breitkopf & Härtel. Archived from the original on 24 August 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
- ^ "Aulari – ESMUC: Inicia sessió en aquest lloc". aulari.esmuc.cat. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ "Zender Prize for Isabel Mundry and Martin Zenck". de:BR Klassik. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
- ^ "Kurzbiographie Martin Zenck". University of Würzburg ( de:Universität Würzburg ). Archived from the original on 14 September 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
External links edit
- List of works by Isabel Mundry from Musinfo – The Database of Swiss Music
- "Isabel Mundry (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM.
- Works of Isabel Mundry published by Breitkopf & Härtel
- Andreas Dorschel: Mundrys Nuancen (2015)
- Sound recordings of works of the composer from the archives of SRG SSR on Neo.Mx3