Isabel Mundry
Isabel Mundry (born 1963 in Schlüchtern, Hesse) is a German composer who grew up in Berlin. She studied composition with Frank Michael Beyer and Gösta Neuwirth in Berlin and with Hans Zender in Frankfurt, and took the computer music and composition course at IRCAM in Paris. She writes mainly chamber and ensemble music, some of it with electronics, as well as music theatre. Mundry has taught composition in Frankfurt (from 1996), Zurich (from 2004) and Munich (from 2011).
Sounds, Archaeologies
Sounds, Archaeologies brings together works by Isabel Mundry that understand listening as an active, participatory process. Arising from the experience of a transformed acoustic environment, the composer opens her music to a dialogue with history, material, and cultural grounding. In the title piece for basset horn, violoncello, and piano, Mundry excavates the “sediments of our musical history” – sound becomes an archaeological find linking past and present. Balancing reflection and intuition, s…
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Edition Musikfabrik: Caspar Johannes Walter's Metrische Dissonanzen (2009) for percussion and large ensemble with Dirk Rothbrust, and Isabel Mundry's five-part cycle Schwankende Zeit (2006-09) after Louis Couperin, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Peter Rundel and Emilio Pomàrico.