Siegrid Ernst

Siegrid Ernst ( born 1929 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German contemporary composer, pianist and music teacher.

Life

Siegrid Ernst grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Vienna. As a pianist was a special interest in contemporary music, solo and chamber music ensembles, including in a piano duo with Konrad Meister. Later, the compositional work was increasingly the focus of her work. At the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim and Heidelberg and at the University of the Arts Bremen in Bremen, she taught the subjects of piano and composition, composition, morphology, analysis of contemporary music and improvisation. As an educator Ernst was also active in music education.

As a juror, they appeared at the Young Musicians competitions and youth composes with and was invited to Japan in this function. Since 1998 she has been head of the jury of the Bremen composers competition.

She was a member of various committees of the German Music Council, the country's Broadcasting Council, Board Member of the Working Group Bremer and composers of the German Composers' Union. Siegrid Ernst is a member of GEDOK and co-founder of the International Working Group WOMAN AND MUSIC, whose chairman, she was 15 years old. In 1980, she accompanied the emergence of the International Congress on Woman in Music in New York and taught this festival with concerts and lectures from 1988 in Bremen. In 1981 she received a scholarship from the Federal Republic of Germany for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. 1989 she was awarded the title of professor H.C. Inter American University of Humanistic Studies, Florida, awarded.

Siegrid Ernst has created compositions in chamber music for strings, winds, piano and mixed ensembles. Her work includes song cycles, cantatas, orchestral music, play music for children, a children's opera, improvisation and performance concepts. There were performances in Europe, the USA, Mexico and Japan.

In March 2009 Siegrid Ernst celebrated the 80th birthday with a concert. In this case, an ad hoc ensemble of performers brought a cross section through the work of the composer and a world premiere Memento, after the poem Navio Negreiro of the Brazilian poet Castro Alves.

There are 6 CDs of chamber music and orchestral works of the composer and the Oratory of the trails are open yet published.