Karola Obermüller
Karola Obermüller
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Genres: contemporary classical, instrumental, german, experimental, composer
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About Karola Obermüller
Karola Obermueller’s composing, described by the New York Times as "hyperkinetic music”, is constantly in search of the unknown, often with layers and layers of obscured material buried deep underneath a surface which is at times sumptuous and at times crackling with rhythmic energy. Obermueller has received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fromm Music Foundation, New Music USA,the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Saarländischer Rundfunk, the IPPNW Congress Nürnberg, and from numerous ensembles including Ensemble Modern, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Elisenquartet, and Ensemble Phorminx. She has written operas for Staatstheater Nürnberg, Theater Bielefeld, the Musik der Jahrhunderte festival in Stuttgart and a collaborative opera for Theater Bonn funded by an Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Grant. A portrait CD of hers with the WERGO Contemporary Music Edition with recordings by Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik, ICE, and Neue Vocalsolisten, among others, is set to be released in 2018, another one will follow shortly thereafter with New Focus Recordings. She has been a visiting artist at ZKM (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe) and at the Deutsche Akademie Rom Casa Baldi (Rome, Italy) and a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), IRCAM (Paris), and Centro Tedesco di studi Veneziani (Venice, Italy). Among Obermüller’s numerous recognitions was the inclusion as one of three artists featured in the book: "…denn Kunst meint ja immer ein Sich-Preisgeben" by Charlotte Martin. She also has awards from ASCAP, the New York Musicians Club Prize, the Darmstädter Musikpreis, and the Bavarian Youth Prize for Composition (awarded by Zubin Mehta). She holds a PhD from Harvard University as well as degrees from the Hochschule für Musik Saar, the University Mozarteum Salzburg, and the Meistersinger-Konservatorium Nürnberg. After teaching at Wellesley College, Obermueller joined the composition faculty at the University of New Mexico in 2010 where she helps direct the composition area and is a co-director of the John Donald Robb Composers' Symposium.
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