Marianne Schroeder

Marianne Schroeder ( * 1949 in Reiden ) is a Swiss pianist and composer. It is one of the leading interpreters of contemporary music. The pianist is considered Scelsi specialist. She is a member of the group of composers Groupe Lacroix and has over 30 recordings published.

Life

Marianne Schroeder grew up with her two brothers on the family farm in the municipality Reiden on. She received her first piano lessons at age seven. Schroeder broke off their studies to study piano with Klaus Linder at the Basel Academy of Music and later with Eliza Hansen at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg. She also took composition lessons with Hans Wüthrich. In addition, she attended master classes in composition with Mauricio Kagel and Klaus Huber and at Earl Brown, and Vinko Dieter Schnebel Globokar. After her diploma in piano in addition began studying at Giacinto Scelsi in Rome. With John Cage they had worked for years, including during various Cage Festival in Europe.

As a soloist and chamber musician, she has appeared among others in pro musica nova in Bremen, at the Lucerne Festival, the World Music Days of the ISCM in Athens, at the Donaueschingen Music Festival, at the Berliner Festspiele, Wien Modern, Musiksommer Zagreb and at the Witten days for New Chamber Music. She played under conductors such as Paul Sacher, Francis Travis, Erich Schmid and Luciano Berio. Premieres and first performances of Pauline Oliveros, Walter Zimmermann, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, William Duckworth, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Erhard Grosskopf and Maurizio Pisati they led by Europe (among the Théâtre des Champs- Élysées in Paris), in the Soviet Union and the United States (among Carnegie Hall and Roulette in New York and Arnold Schoenberg Institute in Los Angeles ). Furthermore, she worked among others with the musicians Chris Newman, Anthony Braxton, Frances -Marie Uitti, Rohan de Saram, Robyn Schulkowsky, Abbie Conant and Paul Zukofsky together. More than 30 recordings, including with premiere recordings of Stockhausen, Braxton, Feldman and Scelsi, emerged. The piano sonatas by Galina Ustvolskaya were all in total plays from her at HatHut Records.

In the years 1986 and 1988 she was a lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. She also taught piano in 1987 and 1989 at the Spring for New Music and Music Education in Darmstadt and in 1988 was Artist in Residence at Brunel University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. In Basel she taught at the Academy of Music. Since 1994 she is member of the group of composers Groupe Lacroix. Her works have been performed inter alia, in Russia, Europe and Cuba. She is currently working in improvisation and is the founder and director of the rehearsal stage for hearing and seeing in Basel. Schroeder since 2001 with the writer Jürg Laederach, with whom she lives in Basel and Soglio GR, married.

Music style

Marianne Schroeder initially received classical piano training. About the repertoire of Anton Webern she found access to contemporary music. In 1983, she was a Beethoven concert the last time. Her musical drawing fathers were John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi and Morton Feldman. She started on her grand piano to improvise freely and adapted the technique introduced by Cage prepared piano. Musicologist Peter Niklas Wilson put it: " There is no mistaking her soft spot for the American avant-garde [ ... ] unmistakably their empathy for a new music that is not brilliance and hypercomplexity fetishized, but the sounds are time. "

Awards

• Masefield Student Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation ( for young musicians at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Hamburg)
• Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD)

Discography

Writings (selection )

• Back to top. In: Music Texts 26 (1988 ), pp. 27-28.
• A German Cage? In: Werner Grünzweig (ed.): Schnebelhorn 60th Cloud, Hofheim, 1990, ISBN 3-923997-36-1, pp. 65-67.
• Astrologers. In: Music Texts 46/47 ( 1992), pp. 117
• The Austral Etudes by John Cage. In: positions 17 /1993 13-15.