BARBARA MONK-FELDMAN - CANADA
BORN 18 JANUARY
Ms. Monk Feldman studied composition with Bengt Hambræus at McGill University in Montréal from 1980-83, where she earned her MMus. She then studied with Morton Feldman, to whom she was later married, at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1984-87 and there earned her PhD, on the Edgard Varèse Fellowship.
Her music has been premièred at Darmstadt and the festivals Inventionen in Berlin, Nieuwe Muziek in Middelburg, Other Minds in San Francisco, and Toronto New Music and in the Rotonda in Tokyo. BBC, BRT, CBC, HR, and WDR have recorded her works. She served on the faculty at Darmstadt in 1988, 1990 and 1994 and has guest-lectured at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and has lectured and taught at universities in Canada and the USA.
Her research in music and the visual arts has led to collaborations with numerous artists, including Stan Brakhage, whose hand-painted film Three Homerics was created specifically for use with her piece Infinite Other.
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ELSE MARIE PADE - DENMARK
DIED 18 JANUARY
Born in 1924, Else Marie Pade was the first person in Denmark, and among the first people in the world, to compose concrete and electronic music. During her childhood she was often ill and had to entertain herself by reading fairytales and by listening to radio plays. It was during these long-term illnesses that her imagination was sparked and she became finely attuned to an expansive spectrum of sound. Her own private, separate universe of sound.
A woman who created her own alternate paths, fearlessly crafting her own game by necessity. Not only did Else Marie Pade foray into the, at the time, particularly masculine field of contemporary composition, she ventured into the uncharted territory of experimental electronic music, where through a persistent solitary quest, her sonic universe came to expression.
Pade was active in the resistance during the Second World War, and was interned at the Frøslev prison camp from 1944 until the end of the war.
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