Rebecca Saunders

Name    Rebecca Saunders Role    Composer
Albums    Die 10 Symphonien / Orchesterlieder (feat. conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli) Music group    Staatskapelle Dresden (2009 – 2010) Similar People    musikFabrik, Marco Blaauw, Carolin Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Mark Andre
Education    University of Edinburgh

Rebecca Saunders (born 19 December 1967) is an English composer. She lives and works as a freelance composer in Berlin.

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• Rebecca saunders mirror mirror on the wall
• Biography
• Works
• Songs
• References

Biography

Born in London, Saunders studied violin and composition at the University of Edinburgh, earning a PhD in Composition in 1997. As a DAAD scholar, she studied with Wolfgang Rihm from 1991 to 1994 at the Hochschule fur Musik Karlsruhe; Nigel Osborne supervised her doctoral thesis.

Her awards include the Busoni Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for composition, the Paul Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, and the composition prize of the ARD. In 2010 and 2012, she taught at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses and was composer-in-residence at the Konzerthaus Dortmund from 2005-2006, Staatskapelle Dresden from 2009-2010, and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2010.

Fabio Luisi and the Staatskapelle Dresden gave the UK premiere of Saunders' revision of traces at the 2009 Proms.

Works

Behind the Velvet Curtain (1991–92), for trumpet, harp, piano and cello

Molly's Song 3—shades of crimson (1995), for alto flute, viola, steel-stringed guitar, four radios and music box

Duo (1996), for violin and piano

Into the Blue (1996), for clarinet, bassoon, cello, double bass, piano and percussion

dichroic seventeen (1996), for piano, two percussionists, two double basses, accordion and electric guitar

QUARTET (1998), for piano, violin, double bass and accordion

cinnabar (1999), for violin, trumpet and ensemble

albescere (2001), for twelve instruments and five voices

vermilion (2003), for clarinet, electric guitar and cello

insideout (2003), music for the choreographic installation by Sasha Waltz

blaauw (2004), for double-bell trumpet

Choler (2004), for piano duo

Miniata (2004), for accordion, piano, choir and orchestra

rubricare (2005), for strings and organ

Blue and Gray (2005), for two double basses

Stirrings Still (2007), for alto flute, oboe, clarinet, piano and bowed crotales

chroma IX (2003–08), for chamber groups in several spaces

traces (2006–09), for orchestra

Ire (2012), Concerto for Violoncello, Strings and Percussion

Fletch (2012), for string quartet

Shadow (2013), for piano

Void (2013–14), for two percussionists and chamber orchestra

Songs

Symphony No 6 in C Major - D 589: I Adagio - Allegro
Le Nozze di Figaro K 492: Act IV Scene 8: Recitative and Aria: Alles ist richtig
Clarinet Concerto in A Major - K 622: I Allegro
Katja Kabanowa: Zweiter Akt - Trube Lieder
Bassoon Concerto in B flat major - K 191: II Andante ma adagio
Piano Concerto No 1 in C major - Op 11 - J 98: I Allegro
Ernste Gesange for Bariton and Strings: No 2: Traurigkeit
Adagio and Fugue in C Minor - K 546: I Adagio
Der Rosenkavalier - Act III: Pt 1
Nouveau divertissements: V Tres gai et rapide
Das war sehr gut - Mandryka
Serenade for Strings No 13 in G Major - K 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik": III Menuetto - Allegretto
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - K 384: Act II: Recitative and Aria: Welcher Wechsel herrscht in meiner Seele
Divertimento in D Major - K 136/125a "Salzburg Symphony No 1": I Allegro
Non curo l'affetto - K 74b
Le Nozze di Figaro K 492: Act IV Scenes 11-14: Finale: Still nur - still - ich will mich nahern
No5 Scene And The Grandfather Dance
Mass in B minor - BWV 232: Et in unum Dominum
Don Giovanni - K 527: Act I - "Dalla sua pace"
Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F Minor Op 73: 1 Allegro
Ich danke - Fraulein
Aber der Richtige
Katja Kabanowa: Dritter Akt - Aber was bist du denn hier am Bangen?
Nouveau divertissements: IV Tambourin
Rosamunde Op 26 - D 797: Overture
Und du wirst mein Gebieter sein
Tiefland: Prelude: Two Vaterunser bet ich vor dem Schfengehn
Concerto for 2 Keyboards in C major - BWV 1061: III Fuga
No1 The Christmas Tree
Aria
Le Nozze di Figaro K 492: Act IV: Jetzt scheint ja alles still zu sein
The Marriage Of Rigaro: March

References