Rosenberger teaches in Lübeck
Zurich-born composer Katharina Rosenberger has been appointed Professor of Composition at the Musikhochschule Lübeck (MHL).
Rosenberger will take over the international composition class at the MHL in the summer semester. The Swiss composer succeeds Dieter Mack, who is retiring after 18 years at the MHL.
Born in Zurich in 1971, the sound artist studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Columbia University in New York with Tristan Murail, where she obtained her Doctor of Musical Art. She taught composition and sound art at the University of California in San Diego for twelve years and was appointed professor there in 2018.
Her works are interdisciplinary and incorporate visual art, video and theater. In her predominantly chamber music works, she uses unusual combinations of instruments, often with a leading role for the human voice and with the involvement of dance, light and electronics.
According to the Lübeck University of Music, she prefers to develop her works in collaboration with other artists. She likes to lure her audience to unusual places and overturn traditional expectations of performance practice.
