Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer.
Life and work Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern, Hesse in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt with Hans Zender and later researched at the IRCAM in Paris. In addition to her teaching activities in Berlin, she held teaching appointments in Zürich and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
Mundry was the first resident composer of the Staatskapelle in Dresden. She previously held a similar position at the Tong Yong Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Mannheim National Theater.
Mundry's compositions are characterized by a highly individualized musical language, full of variants and nuances: "She hardly ever repeats herself; each time, sounds and sequences of sounds are articulated differently."Andreas Dorschel, 'Mundrys Nuancen', in Salzburg Biennale 2015, ed. Heike Hoffmann (Salzburg: Salzburg Biennale, 2015), pp. 62–64, p. 64 Isabel Mundry's work is currently published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik between 1946 and 2014.
Awards Boris Blacher Composition Award from Berlin University of the Arts and Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" 1994: of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 1996: Kranichstein Music Award of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse 1996: Schneider-Schott Music Prize with Moritz Eggert 2001: Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize 2012: Zender Award with Martin Zenck
References
External links List of works by Isabel Mundry from Musinfo – The Database of Swiss Music
Works of Isabel Mundry published by Breitkopf & Härtel Andreas Dorschel: Mundrys Nuancen (2015) Sound recordings of works of the composer from the archives of SRG SSR on Neo.Mx3