DOROTHÉE HAHNE - GERMANY
BORN 26 MAY
Dorothée Hahne is a German composer. She studied the trumpet at the Music Academies in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1988 she founded the Renitent-Quartet, with whom she performed her own compositions at art exhibitions and festivals. Together with the artists MAF Räderscheidt Martin Kätelhön (light projections) she composed pieces for wind instruments (including trumpet, alphorn, didgeridoo) and live electronics. Alongside numerous performances and concerts in museums, galleries and art associations, she has also composed several instrumental and electronic pieces, film music, and settings of poems, has worked on audiobook projects and composed commissioned pieces.
One feature of her compositions in the use of electronic means is the renunciation of any form of sound synthesis. The electronics serve exclusively to create repetition of, and variations on naturally produced sounds. The composer also devotes herself passionately to providing sound for church interiors with concert projects specially designed to take account of the particular acoustics.
As for content, her later compositions centrally reflect a confrontation with German history (for example Die Hoffnungsfalle [The Hope Trap] – a Performance on German Re-unification, Ode to Anne for 7 Trumpets), European history (for example Theophanu – a concert project on the life of the eponymous empress) and the theme of women and spirituality (for example commentari – a suite for recorders, didgeridoo & live electronics, based on the legend of the virgin St Ursula).
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ANITA HEWITT-JONES - UK
DIED 26 MAY
Anita Hewitt-Jones was a British composer and musician.
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