Musinfo: Composers

Mayer-Spohn Ulrike

(1980)

Mayer-Spohn Ulrike
Furkastrasse 647
CH-3985 Münster Goms (BS)
Schweiz

Tel: +41 (0)61 681 12 43

www.ulrikems.info/

Genre: Classical Music

Professional activity: Composers, Interpreters

Biography

* 1980.

While still attending school Ulrike Mayer-Spohn completed her studies for playing organ and choral conducting in Stuttgart and, as a junior student, she studied the recorder at the Karlsruhe Music Academy under Ulrike Mauerhofer. She then continued her education at the Schola Contorum Basiliensis in Switzerland under Conrad Steinmann and Corina Marti and Dorothea Winter at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag. Masterclasses with Marion Verbruggen, Peter van Heyghen, Sebastien Marq and Gerd Lünenbürger complete her education. Baroque violin and viola she studied with Martina Graulich and David Plantier, fiddle with Randal Cook in Basel, composition and audiodesigne with Erik Oña at the "Studio für Elektronische Musik" and the Hochschule für Musik in Basel. Ulrike Mayer-Spohn works together with composers as Beat Gysin, Boris Yoffe, Gabriel Pareyon, Andreas Zurbriggen, Paul Newland. Numerous premieres of works dedicated to her she premieded and recorded for Swiss Radio. Together with the Swiss composer and singer Javier Hagen, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn formed in 2007 the duo Ums `N Jip, which is dedicated to new musical settings for recorder, voice and electronics. She works regularly as recorderplayer, violinist or fiddleplayer in specialized ensembles for early music as Amsterdam Barok Compagnie, Freitagsakademie, Collegium Musicum Stuttgart, La Chapelle Ancienne, Musica Poetica, Muscadin and La Morra.

Work list

Die Quadratur der Kreise (2007)

Instrumentation: for voice and recorders (2-4 players)

Duration: 6' 00"-15' 00"
Manuscript

Messe in A (2007)

Instrumentation: for countertenor and recorder

Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript

Arrangements Walliser Volkslieder (2008)

Instrumentation: for 3 part choir a cappella (S A Men)

-Geissbüäb
-Walliserbüäb
-Spinnerliedlij
-Hirtenknab

Manuscript

ONE (2008)

Chamber opera

Texts: Kafka; Breitenmoser; Brecht; UMS 'n JIP

Musical theatre with new music for voice, recorder and electronics.
One man, two obsessions: women and cars. A red circle on an empty black stage. 100 toy cars. She inside the circle, he outside. A suggestive and entertaining evening about existential loneliness and the craving for unity of the two sexes. German original language with English and French subtitles.

Duration: abendfüllend
Manuscript

S.O.S. (shadows of sound) (2008)

Instrumentation: for countertenor and recorder

Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript

Duo (2008)

Instrumentation: for recorder and organ

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

Gebet (2008)

Instrumentation: for choir a cappella (SATB)

Texts: Rainer Maria Rilke

Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript

Matterhorn (2008)

Instrumentation: for choir a cappella (SATB)

Texts: Pierre Imhasly

Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript

Entre Mar Rose (2008)

Instrumentation: for 6-part choir (S1 S2 A T B1 B2)

Texts: Pierre Imhasly

Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript

Shakti (2009)

Instrumentation: for voice, recorder and electronics

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

Pfeifen (2009)

Instrumentation: for voice (B) and organ

Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript

WOH (2009)

Instrumentation: for tenor-recorder solo

Duration: 6' 30"
Manuscript

Mondnacht (2009)

Instrumentation: for 4-part choir

Texts: Joseph von Eichendorf

Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

Der Panther (2009)

Instrumentation: for 5-part choir

Texts: Rainer Maria Rilke

Duration: 4' 00"
Manuscript

TWO (2009)

Chamber opera

Texts: UMS 'N JIP

TWO - electropop chamber orchestra/musical theatre featuring works for voice, recorder and electronics by UMS 'n JIP.
Inspired by texts taken from "20 Minuten", UMS and JIP created a chamber opera in collaboration with director Wolfgang Beuschel and artist Gisela-Ethaner Schelble. Together they amalgamised elaborate music, everyday situations and texts about the latest Vatikan scandal, simulated cyber attacks on American chemical companies and quotes from the small ads to form extremely dense and absurd jokes. With a wink and a nudge, the artists take the audience on a journey into an unpredictable cosmos where strange is the norm and the wackiness of being comforting: Normality is unique.

Duration: abendfüllend
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SJ-LaC-Etf (2010)

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violon, viola and violoncello

Duration: 9' 00"
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JPH-S13-BS 1 (2010)

Instrumentation: for recorder, marimba and violoncello

Texts: Johann Peter Hebel

Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript

JvE-MN-RV (2010)

Instrumentation: for recorder and countertenor

Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript

JvE-MN-RVT (2010)

Instrumentation: for recorder, countertenor and tape

Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript

Vs/Cs (2010)

Instrumentation: for virginal solo

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

THREE (2010)

Electropop chamber opera

Instrumentation: for male singer, recorder, live electronics & playback CD

Texts: UMS 'n JIP

Duration: 64' 00"
Manuscript

OLO (2011)

Instrumentation: for solo voice

Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript

JvE-InD (2011)

Instrumentation: for tenor recorder and countertenor

Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript

RMR-dP (2011)

Instrumentation: for subbass recorder and electronics

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

fEdA (2011)

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

Duration: 9' 00"
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fEP (2011)

Instrumentation: for large mixed ensemble

Duration: 9' 00"
Manuscript

Art.20-FW (2011)

Instrumentation: for 2 singers, recorder, violoncello, piano and percussion

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

fK-SZ (2011)

Instrumentation: for clarinet, horn, bassoon, marimba, violin, viola, violoncello and contrabass

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

JvE-N (2011)

Instrumentation: for tenor, baritone, bass, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano

Duration: 8' 00"
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fCt (2011)

Instrumentation: for clarinet, horn, bassoon, erhu, violin, viola, violoncello and contrabass

Duration: 8' 00"
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fL'a&NVs (2011)

Instrumentation: for tenor, baritone, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

IvS-E-12,7,22 (2011)

Instrumentation: for flute, marimba and piano

Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript

FOUR (2011)

Chamber opera

Instrumentation: for male singer, recorder, violin, live electronics

Texts: Gisela-Ethaner Schelble, Eduard Mörike

Duration: 70' 00"
Manuscript

O-M-F (2012)

Instrumentation: for countertenor, recorders and live-tape

Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

Discography

Festival L’art pour l’Aar 2010/11 (Müller & Schade Nr. M&S 5079/2, 2011)