4 MARCH 2019

BLANCHE DE CASTILLE - SPAIN  
BORN 4 MARCH 

Blanche of Castile was Queen of France by marriage to Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX: during his minority from 1226 until 1234, and during his absence from 1248 until 1252. She was born in Palencia, Spain, 1188, the third daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, and Eleanor of England.

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Amours, ou trop tard by Blanche de Castille 

URSULA GÖRSCH - GERMANY 

BORN 4 MARCH

From the age of 6, Ursula Görsch received piano lessons, which later became the subject of the transverse flute. She completed her studies in the field of music at the College of Education of her hometown Bremen. Her compositional career began while she worked at Radio Bremen as a freelancer. Ursula Görsch founded Turkey's first youth chamber orchestra in her 5-year internship abroad (Istanbul). She gave several concerts in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and was also organist of the German Evangelical Church Istanbul. 

In 1969 she began another study (transverse flute) at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. She later taught at a grammar school in Bremen, but pursued and intensified her compositional work, resulting in numerous performances. From 1974 to 1986 Ursula Görsch was chairman of "Jugend musiziert" for Bremen-Stadt. She received a lectureship at the University of Bremen from 1985 to 1995 and from 1997 to 2005 Görsch was a lecturer at the Valley View University in Accra (Ghana). In 2017 she received the Johann Wenzel Stamitz Prize from the Esslingen Art Guild.

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Transformationen: I. La couleur pointillee by Ursula Görsch

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