Isabel Mundry

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Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer.

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Life and work

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

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References

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  2. "Isabel Mundry Bio". kairos-music.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  3. Andreas Dorschel, 'Mundrys Nuancen', in Salzburg Biennale 2015, ed. Heike Hoffmann (Salzburg: Salzburg Biennale, 2015), pp. 62–64, p. 64
  4. "Isabel Mundry". Breitkopf & Härtel. Archived from the original on 24 August 2009. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  5. "Aulari – ESMUC: Inicia sessió en aquest lloc". aulari.esmuc.cat. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
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