CAROLINE SCHLEICHER KRÄHMER - GERMANY
BORN 16 DECEMBER
Caroline Schleicher-Krähmer was a German composer, violinist and clarinettist.
She was encouraged to study both clarinet and violin by her father (a bassoonist). She married the oboist Ernst Krähmer and they toured in Europe and Russia until his death in 1837. Her works include a Sonatina for clarinet and piano.
Thanks to the "International encyclopedia of women composers", Caroline Schleicher was known to have composed and published several works. In the meantime, several of these compositions have been rediscovered. These are works for piano and for voice with piano accompaniment as well as two smaller compositions for piano. The publication of all the works found so far and their chronological classification is already in progress.
One of the compositions, the "Sonatine for Clarinet and Piano", was published in the 1970s in an anthology for clarinet.
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Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano by Caroline Schleicher Krahmer
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano by Caroline Schleicher Krahmer
YIRAN ZHAO - CHINA
BORN 17 DECEMBER
Composer, performer, sound and visual artist Yiran Zhao (China), lives and works in Europe.
She studied composition in China and Europe with Guoping JIA, Caspar Johannes Walter, Erik Oña, and Carola Bauckholt, as well as organ with Jörg-Hannes Hahn. She taught individual courses and presented workshops in summer 2017 at the Festival Internacional Bergerault in Spain as resident composer. Within the frame of the KUNSTWELTEN from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, she is leading workshops for primary-school students in Bitterfeld-Wolfen 2018 & 2019. She has worked with numerous artists, groups, and festivals in Europe, Asia, and North America; including Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Recherche, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble Garage, Ensemble Phace, ensemble this ensemble that, the Philharmonia Chorus Stuttgart, Iktus Percussion, Festival Internacional Zaragoza Contemporánea, ZEIT RÄUME Basel Biennale für neue Musik und Architektur, WIEN MODERN, Progressive Art HA-SS Fest Armenia, and many others.
Her works focus on various modes of expression incorporating both musical and performative elements, lighting, visual arts, and other media. With great interest in the physicality of performance, since she came to Europe she started to work with the human body and objects as compositional material.
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Touch II by Yiran Zhao
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