Patricia Jünger
Patricia Jünger (born 6 August 1951)[1] is a Swiss-Austrian multi-media artist, conductor, sound director and composer.
Biography
[edit]Jünger was born during an airplane trip from Dublin to Vienna, at a stop in Frankfurt am Main and has Swiss and Austrian citizenship. Jünger studied piano, organ, composition and directing in Frankfurt am Main, Vienna and Paris. She completed her studies in 1977 and then became a full-time composer. Recently she has leaned toward more electroacoustic works.[2]
Honours and awards
[edit]- Theodor Körner Prize for Composition, 1979
- Vienna Cultural Foundation Prize, 1979
- Scholarship from the Viennese Alban Berg Foundation, 1980
- Scholarship from Basel's Paul Sacher Foundation, 1980
- Bursary for composition by the Austrian state, 1981 and 1983
- Sabbatical year for composition, canton of Aargau, 1983
- Karl Sczuka Prize from SWF Baden-Baden, 1986, for the radio play 'Sehr geehrter Herr - ein Requiem'
Works
[edit]Selected works include:
- Sehr geehrter Herr - ein Requiem, radio play (1986)
- Transmitter
- Valse éternelle – ein Brief, radio play
- Muttertagsfeier, oder Die Zerstückelung des weiblichen Körpers (1984)
- Erziehung eines Vampirs, radio play (1986)
- Die Klavierspielerin, opera (1988)[3]
Selected recordings
[edit]Jünger's works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- Patricia Jünger: Eva Csapo, Collegium Musicum Zürich, Musiques Suisses (CD, 2006), ASIN: B000J10K4Q
- Die Klavierspielerin (Der Audio Verlag, September 2005), ISBN 3-89813-479-2
- Bright Light, for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, drums and orchestra (MGB, DDD, 1989)
References
[edit]- ^ TLS
- ^ "Jünger Patricia (1951)". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- ^ Brand, Bettina (1987). Komponistinnen in Berlin. Berlin (Germany : West), Senator für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten. ISBN 9783927327238. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
External links
[edit]- Verena Naegele, Nina Debrunner (2005). "Patricia Jünger". In Andreas Kotte (ed.). Theaterlexikon der Schweiz / Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse / Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero / Lexicon da teater svizzer [Theater Dictionary of Switzerland]. Vol. 2. Zürich: Chronos. pp. 945–946. ISBN 978-3-0340-0715-3. LCCN 2007423414. OCLC 62309181.
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