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Rosenberger Katharina

(23. 05. 1971)

Rosenberger Katharina
Rosenberger Katharina
Dufourstrasse 122
CH-8008 Zürich (ZH)
Schweiz

www.krosenberger.ch

 

Genre: Classical Music
Professional activity: Composers, Authors
Biography
* 23. 05. 1971.

Swiss composer Katharina Rosenberger holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from Columbia University, under the mentorship of Tristan Murail. Since Fall 2008, Katharina holds the position of Assistant Professor in Composition at the Department of Music, University of California, San Diego, USA.
Much of her work manifests in an interdisciplinary context and is bound to confront traditional performance practice in terms of how sound is produced, heard and seen. Her compositions, installations and interdisciplinary operas have been featured at festivals such as the Weimarer Frühlingstage, Germany, Festival Archipel, Festival La Bâtie, Geneva, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Switzerland, Festival Les Musiques, Marseille, Zoo Bizzarre, Bordeaux, New Media Art, Yerevan, "atélier trideni plus", Prague, EMF at the Chelsea Museum, New York, Shanghai New Music Days and Shanghai International Electro-Acoustic Music Week, China, and the October Contemporary in Hong Kong.
Katharina Rosenberger has been the recipient of the "Mediaprojects Award/Sitemapping" (2011/2005) of the Federal Office of Culture, Berne, Switzerland, the Hellman Fellowship, San Francisco (2010), the 2010 Sony Scholar Grant, the Reid Hall Fellowship, New York (2007) and the Camargo Foundation Fellowships, France (2007) as well as the "Londoner Werkjahr" of the Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Switzerland (2001). In 2011 her Portrait CD "TEXTUREN", released on HatHut Records, got awarded with the Copland Recording Grant.


Work list

Iphigenia in Aulis (1997)

Instrumentation: for soprano, tenor, bass, speeker, choir and orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.2.1/4perc/hp/12.10.8.6.2)

Texts: Euripides

Text editing by Stephen Dooner and Katharina Rosenberger.

Duration: 55' 00"
Manuscript
le 11 passioni dell'anima (2000)

Instrumentation: for brass quintet, a pantomime artist and 11 sculptures

Duration: 28' 00"
Manuscript
E.E.Cummings Miniatures (1999-2001)

Instrumentation: for voice and piano or voice and percussion

Texts: E.E. Cummings

there are so many tictoc (1999) voice, piano 1'30
dying is fine(but Death (1999) voice, piano 1'45
l(a (2001) mezzo-soprano, percussion 1'00
n (2001) mezzo-soprano, percussion 1'10

Duration: 4' 00"-7' 00"

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CHF: 19.80
white with rectangular objections (2001)

Instrumentation: for large ensemble (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc/hp.pf/1.1.1.1.1)

Duration: 7' 30"

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Anunit (2001)

Instrumentation: for improvising e-guitar and large ensemble (fl, cl, sx, bn, 1,1,1,0, 2 perc, pf, 1.1.1.1)

Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript
Xylodessia (2001)

Instrumentation: for percussion quartet

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
WAX - Soundscape for theatre (2002)
Electronic music

For a theatre piece about Emily Kempin Spyri.

Duration: 55' 00"
Manuscript
aPhasis (2002)

Instrumentation: for soprano, alto flute, bass clarinet

Texts: Rob Holloway

The title stems from the Greek words "Aphasia" and "Apheresis". The original meaning of Aphasia is "speechlessness", this is often translated into English as "loss of language". The leaving out of a vowel or syllable at the beginning of a word, either for causes pertaining to language history or because of metric or articulation reasons, is referred to as "Apheresis".
The dealing of language in aPhasis reflects these processes with the explosive, blurting out of word clusters, which are deconstructed as the piece progresses. This process is musically embedded by the voice in a sharply contrasting sound image comprising wordless, archaic sounding 'vocalese' passages, which are hummed or interpreted with a half-open mouth. The accompanying instruments - written here in a new version for bass clarinet and violoncello - negotiate the tonal space between these two dynamics.
The libretto comes from the pen of British poet Rob Holloway.

Duration: 6' 30"

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ahom (2003)

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 4' 30"

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kaspar - or n(one) (2003)
Electronic music and live video for a dance performance

Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript
elevatoor (2003)
Site-specific sound installation

Duration: 24h 00" (loop)
Manuscript
Room II (2004)
Interactive sound installation

Duration: 10' 00"-15' 00"
Manuscript
zsOom (2004)

Instrumentation: for solo double bass

Duration: 7' 30"

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Echo (2004)

Instrumentation: for spinet, electronics and light

Duration: 5' 15"
Manuscript
mokume gane (2005)

Instrumentation: for orchestra (2fl, ob, cl, asx, bn, 1.2.1.1, perc, pf, hp, 5.4.0.4.1)

Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript
Icarus (2005)
Electronic music for a dance performance

Duration: 60' 00"
Manuscript
Late Nite (2005)
Electronic music

For the theatre piece bearing the same name by Matthias Lehman.

Duration: 65' 00"-75' 00"
Manuscript
Room V (2006-2007)
Interactive sound installation

Duration: 14' 00"-60' 00"
Manuscript
X – suite filante (2007)
Video opera

Instrumentation: for soprano, 2 mezzo-sopranos, fl, asx, vn, va, bass and electronics (4-channel)

After texts by Sophie Calle and Jean Baudrillard, edited by Iva Sanjek.

Duration: 75' 00"
Manuscript
le miroir (2007)

Instrumentation: for flute and soprano saxophone

Duration: 3' 00"

SME/EMS
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le miroir (2007/2012)

Instrumentation: for flute and alto saxophone

Duration: 3' 00"

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torsion (2008)

Instrumentation: for piano

Duration: 9' 30"

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und die Gravitation verschwindet darin (2009)

Instrumentation: for tenor, piano and electronics

Texts: Peter Stamm

Duration: 6' 30"

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Tinguely-Machine, 1a + 1b (2009)

Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano and tuba

Texts: Katharina Rosenberger

Duration: 5' 30"

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phragmocone (2004-2010)

Instrumentation: for alto saxophone

Duration: 12' 00"

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la chasse (2007-2010)

Instrumentation: for two voices or for two alto saxophones

Texts: Katharina Rosenberger

Duration: 4' 40"

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CHF: 14.40
parcours III (2007-2010)

Instrumentation: for large ensemble (fl(bfl), ob, cl(bcl), asx, bn(cbn), 1.1.1.0, 1.1.1.1.1) and electronics

Also for (fl(bfl), cl(bcl), asx, tbn, 1.1.1.0.1) and electronics.

Duration: 12' 30"
Manuscript
scatter 2.0 (2009-2010)

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, violoncello

Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Tinguely Machine 2.0 (2010/2012)

Instrumentation: for contrabass flute, contrabass sax and tuba

Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript
TEXTUREN (2010)

Instrumentation: for soprano, fl (bfl), tsx, perc, pf, vn and electronics

Texts: Michael Sundue

Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript
nodes (2011)

Instrumentation: for the SABre (sensor augmented bass clarinet) and live electronics

Duration: 11' 30"
Manuscript
PERIPHER (2011)

Instrumentation: for solo percussion and orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.1.0/perc/hp/8.6.4.4.2)

After the text fragment "Départ dans l'affection et les bruits neufs" by Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations.

Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Interlude I-IV (2011)

Instrumentation: for speaking voice and electronics

Texts: Rozalie Hirs

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Interlude I - in cloud forests (2011)

Instrumentation: for speaking voice and electronics

Texts: Rozalie Hirs

Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript
Interlude II - a plant press (2011)

Instrumentation: for speaking voice and electronics

Texts: Rozalie Hirs

Duration: 1' 00"
Manuscript
Interlude III - megalastrum - ferns (2011)

Instrumentation: for speaking voice and electronics

Texts: Rozalie Hirs

Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript
Interlude IV - these... (2011)

Instrumentation: for speaking voice and electronics

Texts: Rozalie Hirs

Duration: 1' 00"
Manuscript
Viva Voce (2011-2012)
Interactive sound and video installation

Instrumentation: for three vocal performers

Texts: Katharina Rosenberger, Shelley Hirsch, Juliana Snapper, Pamela Z

Duration: 5' 00"-60' 00"
Manuscript
éventer I + II ("auffächern") (2012)

Instrumentation: for bass flute, bassoon, harp and violoncello

Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Erzählung (2013)

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and violoncello

Duration: 11' 00"

SME/EMS
Postfach 7851
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CHF: 23.40
Discography
Katharina Rosenberger: Texturen (Hat Hut Records Nr. HatArt 186, 2012)
Works:
Rosenberger, Katharina: parcours III (2007-2010)
Rosenberger, Katharina: le miroir (2007/2012)
Rosenberger, Katharina: torsion (2008)
Rosenberger, Katharina: scatter 2.0 (2009-2010)
Rosenberger, Katharina: TEXTUREN (2010)
Rosenberger, Katharina: Interlude I-IV (2011)
Women Composers I (HAT HUT Records Nr. hat(now)ART 182, 2011)
Interpreters:
ensemble für neue musik zürich
Works:
Rosenberger, Katharina: scatter 2.0 (2009-2010)
With more works of: Ada Gentile, Carmen Maria Cârneci, Liza Lim, Noriko Hisada
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
Meierhans &Rosenberger (stv/asm Nr. 25, 2004)
Interpreters:
Meierhans, Mela
Works:
Rosenberger, Katharina: WAX - Soundscape for theatre (2002)
Info: www.fonoteca.ch
Bibliography
Rosenberger, Katharina: Perceptual spaces in PERIPHER. A new work for percussion and chamber orchestra, in: sonograma 14 (2012) [Internet]
Möller, Torsten: Windungen. Die Komponistin Katharina Rosenberger im Portrait, in: Dissonanz 121 (2013), S. 41-45 [Internet]
Möller, Torsten: Katharina Rosenberger: Texturen, in: Dissonanz 120 (2012), S. 85 [Internet]
Rosenberg, Jason: Spatial Relationships and Directionality in Katharina Rosenberger's PERIPHER, in: Sonograma Magazine 14 (2012) [Internet]
Montera, Jean-Marc: Katharina Rosenberger "untitled" (2007), in: Leçon d'amour/Le son d'amour, Akenaton, Campbell 2008


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