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Jennifer Walshe 'The sounds I am interested in include those that we hear all the time but are normally considered flawed or redundant: twigs snapping in a burning fire, paper tearing, breathing, instrumental sounds that aren’t considered ‘beautiful’ in standard terms. I think these sounds have their own beauty in the way that pebbles on a beach or graffiti can have.' |
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New York-based composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin and studied composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Northwestern University, Chicago, graduating with a doctoral degree in composition in 2002. A winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, in 2000, she was a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart between 2003 and 2004, and from 2004-05 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Her music has been performed and broadcast in Ireland and abroad and she has received commissions from festivals including Performa (New York), Båstad Kammarmusik (Sweden), Ultraschall (Berlin), Ars Musica (Brussels), Steirischer Herbst , Wien Modern (Austria), Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Hamburger Klangwerktage, Donaueschinger Musiktagen (Germany), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (England), Gaida (Lithuania), and SoundField (Chicago). Recent awards include a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, in 2007 and the Praetorius Music Prize for Composition by the Niedersächsisches inisterium für Wissenschaft und Kultur in 2008. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
| Composer web site: www.milker.org |
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