ZKM | Karlsruhe | Femmes4Music | An interview with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich @zkmkarlsruhe | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
In contemporary music, women are still underrepresented and do not get the attention they deserve. With the digital feature »Femmes4Music« the ZKM | Karlsruhe is therefore presenting as part of »Female Perspectives. More Visibility for Female Art« an outstanding female composer of international renown on each of four Sundays.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (* 1939, Miami, United States) set a formative tone in several respects. In 1975, she became the first woman to receive a doctorate from the Juilliard School, and in 1983 she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. She moreover is the first female composer to be appointed for a residency at Carnegie Hall, in 1995, a position she held until 1999. Pierre Boulez, winner of the ZKM Giga-Hertz Main Award for Electronic Music in 2011, performed her work »Symposium« with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra in 1975, helping her gain international recognition. Taaffe Zwilich's repertoire includes pieces for chamber ensembles, vocal ensembles, choirs and orchestras, and her musical-aesthetic tools range from jagged, atonal harmonies to softer melodies with simpler textures. Gramophone Magazine listed her in an August 2022 article on the ten must-hear female composers.
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In contemporary music, women are still underrepresented and do not get the attention they deserve. With the digital feature »Femmes4Music« the ZKM | Karlsruhe is therefore presenting as part of »Female Perspectives. More Visibility for Female Art« an outstanding female composer of international renown on each of four Sundays.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (* 1939, Miami, United States) set a formative tone in several respects. In 1975, she became the first woman to receive a doctorate from the Juilliard School, and in 1983 she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. She moreover is the first female composer to be appointed for a residency at Carnegie Hall, in 1995, a position she held until 1999. Pierre Boulez, winner of the ZKM Giga-Hertz Main Award for Electronic Music in 2011, performed her work »Symposium« with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra in 1975, helping her gain international recognition. Taaffe Zwilich's repertoire includes pieces for chamber ensembles, vocal ensembles, choirs and orchestras, and her musical-aesthetic tools range from jagged, atonal harmonies to softer melodies with simpler textures. Gramophone Magazine listed her in an August 2022 article on the ten must-hear female composers.
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