Nationality Swiss Website www.hildegard-kleeb.ch | Genre Classical | |
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Born 1957 Richenthal, Switzerland Albums Recall Pollock, Navigations for Strings; Small Waves Record labels Lovely Music, Leo Records, MODE, Everest Records, hat ART CD, hatOLOGY, hat ART Similar |
John cage dream 1948
Life and works
After her first piano and oboe lessons in music school in Zug, she studied piano under Cécile Hux and oboe under Hans-Martin Ulbrich at Zurich Music school from 1978 to 1982. She also studied later under Eric Gaudibert in Geneva, under Claude Helffer in Paris and under Jürg Wyttenbach at the City of Basel Music Academy. In 1990, she was a visiting scholar at the academy of plastic arts in Helsinki and from 1992 to 1995 at the Wesleyan University in Connecticut in the United States, where she also worked in Anthony Braxton ensemble in New York City and in Javanesian Gamelan orchester. He began to work there with Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier and Christian Wolff. She is married with the trombonist Roland Dahinden.
Interpreter / Pianist
Kleeb is an international interpreter of 20th-century classical music and improvisator. She has performed in the following institutions and events: Archipel Festival Genève, Musikfestwochen Luzern, Donaueschingen Festival, Kunsthalle Basel, Knitting Factory NYC, Gesellschaft für akustische Lebenshilfe Kiel, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Bludenzer Tage für Neue Musik, Musiktage Rümlingen, Merkin Concert Hall NYC, Theater Casino Zug, Pori Art Museum, Concert Hall Göteborg, Crowell Concert Hall Wesleyan University Connecticut, The Kitchen NYC, Kunsthaus Zug, Kunstmuseum Cacéres E, Kunstmuseum Badajos E, Madrid Concert Hall, Ballhaus Berlin, Swiss Institut NYC, Kunstmuseum Boros, Yale University Gallery, Porgy & Bess Wien, Künstlerbegegnungen St.Lambrecht A, Museu Serralves Porto.
Kleeb has participated in the first performances of Peter Ablinger, Maria de Alvear, Anthony Braxton, John Cage, Roland Dahinden, Hauke Harder, Bernhard Lang, Alvin Lucier, James Tenney, Daniel Wolf and Christian Wolff.
Interdisciplinary collaboration with the visual artists like Stephane Brunner, Philippe Deléglise, Inge Dick, Daniela Keiser and Roman Singer.
Works and projects
Songs
Objet trouvéWorld News · 2009
Fifth Trajectory “Upon One Note” for CrotalesWorld News · 2009
World News 111World News · 2009