Karlsruhe: ZKM presents the most famous female composers of contemporary music in a digital format

Karlsruhe. Women in contemporary music are still underrepresented and far from receiving the attention they deserve. With a digital feature called “Femmes4Music”, ZKM | Karlsruhe (from November 20, 2022) with interviews and concerts in biographies of American composer Meredith Monk, American composers Jennifer Higden and Ellen Daff Zvilich and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, initiated by Peter Weibel and curated by Dominik Katz and Dominik Thies. » The series takes place as part of Female Vision. An Additional View of Women’s Art”.

ZKM | With “Femmes4Music” in online format, Karlsruhe presents four little-known composers and musicians in the German-speaking world who were born between the 1940s and 1960s and enjoy high international recognition. Part of the format is well-written biographies, interviews and a musical performance.

ZKM’s artistic and scientific director Peter Weibel says: “The concert business, especially after the pandemic, has been narrowing down to the music of male maestros since the 18th and 19th centuries. However, in reality, contemporary music is characterized by an extraordinary polyphonic spectrum, in which women’s musical voices also find their due respect – However, this goes unnoticed by a large section of the public.

In ZKM | The Hertz-Lab, a department for artistic production and research, is of particular importance in music, sound art and sound art. Through publications, DVDs, concerts and residencies, the fringes of musical journeys are encouraged and hundreds of composers are given the opportunity to realize their works.

The digital feature “Femmes4Music” will be available from November 20, 2022 Here Available.

11/20: Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk (* 1942, New York, United States) is one of the world’s most influential and important contemporary artists. His repertoire includes solo pieces for voice with and without accompaniment, instrumental works, ensemble works, stage works, film works and performances.

11/27: Kaija Sariaho
Kaija Saariaho (* 1952, Helsinki, Finland) studied at IRCAM at the Pompidou Center in Paris, where he worked with algorithmic composition and electronic sound synthesis as well as acoustics and psychoacoustics, as well as tape and live. Electronics.

04.12.: Ellen Tafe Zvilich
Ellen Tafe Zwilich (* 1939, Miami, United States) sets creative accents in many aspects. In 1975 she became the first woman to receive a doctorate from the Juilliard School and in 1983 the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

12/11: Jennifer Hayden
Jennifer Higdon (* 1962, Brooklyn / New York, United States) has a reputation as a technical master. His work covers a wide variety of genres, from orchestral and chamber music pieces to wind ensembles to vocal, choral pieces and operas.

(Source: ZKM Karlsruhe)