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Bio:
Katharina Rosenberger – Composition / Sound Art
Zurich / New York
Katharina Rosenberger, born in Zurich, holds a Master of Music from the Royal Academy of Music
in London and thanks to a Faculty Fellowship she moved to New York in 2001 to study and teach
at Columbia University. Principal teachers include Tristan Murail and Michael Finnissy. She will
complete her doctoral studies in fall 2008. Katharina has been offered a position as Assistant
Professor in Composition at the University of San Diego, USA, Music Department, starting in
September 2008.
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. She often works in a
collaborative setting and links her music (for acoustic and electronic mediums) and installations
with the theatre, video art and modern dance. Her work has been shown at the Chelsea Art
Museum, Gallery Engine 27, The Tank in New York, Deep Listening Space, Kingston, Théâtre de
Nîmes, Gallery District, Marseille, Theater Ballhaus, Berlin, Teatro Sala Uno, Rome, Museum für
Gestaltung, Zürich, among others and has been featured at various festivals such as the Zürcher
Theaterspektakel, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Schweiz. Tonkünstlerfest, Festival für Neue
Musik, Bamberg, Festival Les Musiques, Marseille, Centre Acanthes at the Avignon Festival, Zoo
Bizzarre, Bordeaux, Media Art Festival, Yerevan, Festival “atélier trideni plus”, Prague, Bath
Festival, NYC Fringe Festival and the Spark Festival in Minnesota, USA and the International
Spring Festival Shanghai, China.
Katharina is recipient of the Reid Hall and Camargo Foundation Fellowships for 2006/07, the 2007
Pro Helvetia composition commission and in 2006 the “Mediaprojects Award” / Projekt
Sitemapping of the Swiss Federal Agency (OFC). She has won various composition prizes in
London, New York and Switzerland. In 2005 Katharina Rosenberger was composer in residence
with the Orchestre de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
website: www.krosenberger.ch
Nomeclature / Durée:
Octuor Nº3 (2006/07)
fl, cl, alto sax, tbn, vln, vla, vcl, cb and handpercussion 12’
premiered May 5, 2007 by Ensemble Polychronie, Festival Les Musiques, Galerie District,
Marseille, France under the direction of Laurent Melin
Further Performances:
- May 19, 2007, Festival Les Musiques, Fondation Camargo, Cassis, France
- May 6, 2008, “Global Interplay Composer Meeting” concert at the Oriental Arts Center,
Pudong, Shanghai, China.
Program-Note:
Octuor Nº 3 (2006/07)
Katharina Rosenberger
Octuor Nº 3 is part of an interactive sound installation project entitled Room V. In this work visitors
enter with wireless headphones an enclosed space, where they find the ensemble set-up for eight
instruments: chairs, music stands with scores and little lamps – only the musicians are missing.
However, as soon someone enters, he or she hears the music of Octuor Nº 3 through the
headphones. Depending on one’s movement and physical gestures in the installation space, the
visitor can manipulate the sound and re-compose this composition.
The musical elements of Octuor Nº 3 are chosen to enable a variety of sound processes, triggered
by the visitors in the installation: infiltration of the orchestration, re-spatialisation of the ensemble,
granular- and frequency modulation-synthesis.
The composition Octuor Nº 3 is thus an amalgamation of mobile musical objects that in the
installation are arranged and put together by the visitor, here in this concert, presented as a fixed
version, linearly unfolding in time.
Remerciement:
The development and realization of Room V was made possible by an artist residency at the
GMEM „Centre National de Création Musicale“, Marseille, France. I gratefully acknowledge the
generous support by the Reidhall Fellowship, New York, USA, Office federal de la culture OFC,
Berne, Switzerland and the Camargo Foundation, Cassis,
France.