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Canadian composer
Barbara Monk Feldman
Born (1953-01-18 ) January 18, 1953 (age 71) Occupation(s) Composer
Musical artist
Barbara Monk Feldman is a Canadian
composer . She was born in 1953,
[1] in
Montreal ,
Quebec , Canada.
[2]
Education
She studied composition with
Bengt Hambraeus at
McGill University from 1980 to 1983 where she achieved her
MMus
[3] and then at the
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ,
Germany .
[2] Following this, she earned her PhD at the
University at Buffalo , The State University of New York from 1984 to 1987 supported by the
Edgard Varèse Fellowship.
[3] In
Buffalo , she studied with the composer
Morton Feldman , whom she married in 1987 just prior to his death from pancreatic cancer.
Works
Monk Feldman is fascinated by the relationship between sound and silence. She has written that she sees this relationship as
'about an inside and an outside for art itself, and how ephemeral that is. For example, an unexpected moment in the sculpture of
Giacometti , where it's as though you suddenly have a brief glimpse into infinity. Or where in
Cézanne you have an equally unpredictable experience in a fleeting recognition of something transient in the landscape. These moments are like a kind of recognition – and ironically, they include something that seems to come to us from the inside'.
[3]
[4]
Stage
Pyramus and Thisbe (2010)
Io and Prometheus (2019)
Orchestra
Design for String Orchestra (1980)
The Northern Shore for Percussion, Piano and Chamber Orchestra (2018)
Chamber
Movement for Solo Viola (1979)
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1984)
Variations for Six String Instruments (1986)
Two Flutes and Vibraphone (1987)
Duo for Piano and Percussion (1988)
The Immutable Silence (1990)
Pure Difference (1990)
Shadow (1991)
Three Clarinets and Percussion (1994)
Verses for Metal, Wood and Drums (1994)
Verses for Five (1996)
The Northern Shore (1997)
Verses for Vibraphone (1997)
Pour un nuage violet (1998)
Proche et lointaine...la femme (2001)
Glockenspiel (2004)
The Loons of Black Sturgeon Lake (2004)
String Quartet, 'Desert-Scape' (2004)
The Chaco Wilderness (2005)
The Pale Blue Northern Sky (2007)
Landscape Near La Pocatière, Québec (2007)
A Veil for Time (2020)
Choral
Variations for String Quartet and Chorus (1987)
Infinite Other (1992)
Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I, II (2014)
Vocal
The Gentlest Chord (1991)
Three Poems by Wallace Stevens (1997)
The Love Shards of Sappho (2001)
Selected discography
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