Nélida Béjar

Nélida Béjar ( born June 28, 1979 in Munich) is a Spanish composer.

Life

Nélida Béjar studied music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, and composition with Wilfried Hiller at the Richard Strauss Conservatory. As part of a Ph.D. in composition, which she graduated in 2012, she studied with Donnacha Dennehy at Trinity College ( Dublin). In 2009 she founded together with theater director Björn Potulski the undercover fiction ensemble for new music and new music theater.

Works (selection)

• Kilter for large orchestra (2007)

• Nightshade sounds for Two Pianos and Percussion (2002)
• Cortaziana for baritone and 14 players (2005)
• In the sun, wear black for wind octet and double bass (2008)

• Creation, for piano and electronics (2007)
• Exodus, for violin and live electronics processing (2008)

• Perpetual Peace - A farewell, for ensemble and live electronics (2010)
• Heavier than air, choreographic opera for mixed ensemble and a choir of aircraft ground (2012 )

Awards and Scholarships

• 2004 Fellow at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris
• 2005 Richard Strauss Fellowship from the City of Munich
• 2007-2008 Fellow in International Artists Villa Concordia in Bamberg
• 2011 scholarship for music of the City of Munich

Discography

• " Section 11" new and newer music (works by Edlund, Béjar, Xenakis, Hosokawa, Rihm, Ishii, Gourzi Trüstedt / Schäffer ), University of Music and Performing Arts Munich / Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2003
• Singphonic Christmas, The Singphoniker (2005)
• 9 fanfare, Brass Ensemble of the RSK, published in illustrated anniversary of the German Museum in Munich (2004)