GEMA Prize for Isabel Mundry
This year's German Music Authors' Awards go to Udo Jürgens (honored by GEMA for his life's work), Efrat Alony (jazz), Martin Todsharow (film) and Robot Koch (electro), among others. ZHdK professor Isabel Mundry will be honored for a solo concert, Charlotte Seither for contemporary choral music.
Born in Schlüchtern in 1963, Isabel Mundry studied composition, music and art history as well as philosophy in Berlin and Frankfurt (Main). After teaching at the Berlin Church Music School and the Berlin University of the Arts, she was appointed Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the Frankfurt University of Music in 1996. She has been a professor of composition at the Zurich University of Music and Theater since 2003.
Isabel Mundry has already been awarded numerous prizes, including the Boris Blacher Composition Prize, the Busoni Composition Prize, the Kranichstein Music Prize and the Siemens Sponsorship Prize. Her music theater One breath - the odyssey received the Critics' Award for World Premiere of the Year in 2006.
Isabel Mundry was also Composer in Residence at the Lucerne Festival in 2003. Her works are published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
