BIOGRAPHY
 
Katharina Rosenberger, born in Zurich, holds a Master of Music from the Royal Academy of Music in London and graduated in 2009 with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from Columbia University. Principal teachers include Tristan Murail and Michael Finnissy. Since Fall 2008, Katharina holds the position of Assistant Professor in Composition at the Department of Music, University of California, San Diego.

Much of her work manifests in an interdisciplinary context and is bound to confront traditional performance practice in terms of how sound is produced, heard and seen. She often works in a collaborative setting and links her music (for acoustic and electronic mediums) and installations with the theatre, video art and modern dance.Recently, her work has been featured at the Shanghai New Music Week 2009, the Shanghai International Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, and the October Contemporary in Hong Kong, the Weimarer Frühlingstage, Germany, and the Festival Archipel, Switzerland. Previous festival participation include the Festival für Neue Musik, Bamberg, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Festival La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Schweizer Tonkünstlerfest Switzerland, Festival Les Musiques, Marseille, Zoo Bizzarre Bordeaux, Centre Acanthes at the Avignon Festival, France, Bath Festival, UK, New Media Art Festival, Yerevan, Armenia, International Festival of Modern Arts, Odessa, Ukraine and the Festival “atélier trideni plus”, Prague, Czech Republic. Rosenberger maintains an active musical live on the East and West Cost of America and throughout Europe.

Awards include the Reid Hall and Camargo Foundation Fellowships, the 2007 Pro Helvetia composition commission, 2005 “Mediaprojects Award”/ Projekt Sitemapping of the Swiss Federal Agency (OFC), and the Landis&Gyr London Studio Prize. In 2005 Katharina Rosenberger was composer in residence with the Orchestre de Nîmes, Nîmes, France.

 

 
 
AWARDS / PRIZES / RESIDENCIES
 
1996 Youth Concerts at Symphony Hall Award, Boston, USA
1997 Composition Achievement Award, Boston, USA
1999-2000 Scholarship Award of Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
1999 Achievement Award, Casinelli Vogel Stiftung, Zurich, Switzerland
1999 Scholarships of Erna und Curt Burgauer Stiftung, Zurich, Switzerland
1999 Manson Award, London, UK
2000 Mosco Carner Composition Prize & Arthur Hinton Memorial Prize, London, UK
2000 “Förderungspreis in Komposition”, Marianne & Curt Dienemann Stiftung, Lucerne, Switzerland
2000/02/03 Summer-Residency Centre Acanthes, Villeneuve lez Avignons, France
2001 “Londoner Werkjahr 2001” Artist Residency, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Zug, Switzerland
2001-2008 Faculty Fellowship Columbia University, Graduate School of Art & Sciences, NYC, USA
2003 Eda Rappaport Composition Prize, New York, USA
2006 Residency, GMEM, Centre National de Création Musicale, Marseille, France
2006 Award "Mediaprojects 2005", Federal Agency of Culture, Bern, Switzerland
2006/2007 Reidhall Fellowship, New York, USA
2007 Camargo Foundation Recidency, Cassis, France
2007 "Musiktheater-Kredit" of the City of Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Pro Helvetia Composition Commission Award, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 UCSD Senate Grant, San Diego, USA
2010/2011 Hellman Fellowship, San Francisco, USA
 
... and most thankful I am to the "Laufbahnzentrum" of the City of Zurich for having generously supported my studies abroad
   
   
DISCOGRAPHY (in collaboration)
   
2000 CIELETTERA, Lüscher-Rieben-Wildbolz, Altrisuono, Manno, Switzerland
2004 WAX, Meierhans/Rosenberger, ASM "Experimentelle-Reihe", Lausanne Switzerland, also available at www.cdbaby.com
2007 COLLABORATIONS, Contrabass-Electronics, Cristin Wildbolz, DVD, Unit Records, Lausanne, Switzerland, www.unitrecords.com
2008 DOC(K)S 4th edition, DVD, Akenaton, Campbell, France >more
2011 ensemble für neue musik zürich - release Spring 2011, Hisada, Lim, Gentile, Cárneci, Rosenberger, HatHutRecords, Basel, Switzerland
2011 PORTRAIT Katharina Rosenberger, Wet Ink Ensemble, New York - in the planning