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-2024-

Samstag, 16. März 2024: 19.30: Augsburg, Zeughaus:

Kunstförderpreisträger im Konzert

Stefan Barcsay (Gitarre), Gerald Fiebig (Elektronik) und Barbara Mayer (Klavier) spielen Werke von Kunstförderpreisträgern der Stadt Augsburg (Sparte Komposition)

Barbara Mayer, Gerald Fiebig, Richard Heller

gefördert vom Kulturamt der Stadt Augsburg
nähere Infos hier

Sun, March 3, 2024.7 pm:

LECTURE RECITAL/VIDEO PREMIERE

Unendlich wie flüchtig. Die Poesie des Sandes

in the concert series

“Meet the artist”

organized by the AGNM (Augsburger Gesellschaft für Neue Musik)

-2023-

December 8, 2023 at 6.30pm (Pacific time): Performance of my musical self-portrait for clarinet, viola and piano in the global composition project Towards a shining Light in the Hamilton Recital Hall at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts in Denver (USA) by the Lamont Trio

50 composers from around the world were invited to write a self-portrait of 1 minute in duration, scored for trio of clarinet, viola, and piano. The represented countries are Argentina, Australia, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, and Venezuela.

All 50 self-portraits will be presented as one continuous collage in live performances by trios in Australia, The Netherlands and the USA. During the performance, each self-portrait will be accompanied by a projected image (visual self-portrait) provided by the composer.

December 2, 20.15/Dec 3, 16.30: Performance of my musical self-portrait for clarinet, viola and piano in the global composition project Towards a shining Light in the Kunstkerk, Dordrecht (the Netherlands) by the Pelgrim Trio!

New York: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT

Nov 27, 2023, 19.00/7pm

I am very glad to perform a piano recital in NEW YORK in the prizewinner`s concert of the North American Virtuoso International Music Competition! Many thanks to the American Society of Musical Excellence!

Further information on the website of Carnegie Hall

19. November 2023, 16.00: Premiere of my musical self-portrait for clarinet, viola and piano in the global composition project Towards a shining Light in the 4MBS Performance Studio in Coorparoo, Brisbane (Queensland), Australia performed by Ensemble Flex

50 composers from around the world were invited to write a self-portrait of 1 minute in duration, scored for trio of clarinet, viola, and piano. The represented countries are Argentina, Australia, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, The Netherlands, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, and Venezuela.

All 50 self-portraits will be presented as one continuous collage in live performances by trios in Australia, The Netherlands and the USA. During the performance, each self-portrait will be accompanied by a projected image (visual self-portrait) provided by the composer.

November 12, 2023/17.00: AUGSBURG, BRECHTHAUS:

Concert Krieg und Frieden. Poesie der Moderne.

Performance of my composition cycle “Wirf Deine Angst in die Luft” on a poem by Rose Ausländer for guitar, performed by Stefan Barcsay

Performers: Stefan Barcsay, guitar/Monika Staszak, voice

Featured composers: C. M. von Weber, Dorothea Hofmann, Barbara Mayer, Johannes Schachtner, Martin Staszak, Hoyoung Joo

PREMIERE OF MY VARIATION WORK IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS PROJECT DIABELLI RECOMPOSED

For the composition project DIABELLI RECOMPOSED, the pianist and musicologist Claudia Bigos invited 50 female composers from 22 countries to write a variation on a Waltz by A. Diabelli.

05. November 2023, 18.00, STAATSTHEATER BRAUNSCHWEIG

Patron: Director Dagmar Schlingmann, in cooperation with Prof. Ewa Kupiec (University of Music Hannover)

Details and tickets > Staatstheater Braunschweig

Further information on the project and its premiere on the website of the “Deutsche Komponistenverband”

Review of the premiere: Neue Musikzeitung (NMZ)

It is a great pleasure for me to inform on the publication of my variation work

ROCKIN` DIABELLI - FANTASY VARIATION IN ROCK STYLE ON A WALTZ IN C MAJOR BY A. DIABELLI

(Thanks to the scholarship program “Junge Kunst und neue Wege” awarded by the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst!)

as part of the international female composers project “DIABELLI RECOMPOSED”

(organized/edited by Claudia Bigos; published by Furore Verlag, Kassel) > available here

HAPPY ABOUT MY RECORD CONTRACT WITH THE CD LABEL TILT MUSIC PRODUCTION/TILT CORPORATE (Rome/London)

more information here

Thrilled to be selected as a composer in the international composition project

„50 for 50: Towards a Shining Light” - a collage of musical 1 minute-self portraits for piano trio written by 50 international composers

Artistic direction: Paul Kopetz, Australia

in collaboration with the following excellent trios:

Ensemble Flex (Australia),

Pelgrim Trio (the Netherlands),

Lamont Trio (USA)

(Premières planned in November/December 2023)

More information on the project here

Very happy and grateful to be awarded the ABSOLUTE FIRST PRIZE in PIANO of the FANNY MENDELSSOHN INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION, Bruxelles!

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for 2023 to all my website visitors with a special musical greeting!

Make sure to have a look at my recently published compositions (publisher: Universal Edition, Vienna)!

Now available here!

Very happy to announce that the inscriptions to my Composition and Piano Improvisation Masterclasses at the Appassionato Music Masterclasses in Florence, Italy, are open now!

Make sure to enroll and increase your musical knowledge in the beautiful atmosphere of Villa Pitiana near the cultural metropolis of Florence on

2 - 9 April 2023!

More information: Download Flyer here / information online

Artistic director: Raffaele Mani

March 30, 2023, TIM Augsburg: LANGE NACHT DER JETZT:MUSIK (in collaboration with AGNM for contemporary music and Ensemble Mosaik)

Barbara Mayer performs own piano works.

March, 25 2023, Concert Hall Zeughaus Augsburg, 7.30 p.m.: Concert Poème

Don`t miss the premiere of my commissioned work for guitar solo Discurso poético in the Concert Poème and listen to wonderful guitar music from young composers from all over the world!

In collaboration with the guitarist Stefan Barcsay and the composer Daniel Toledo Guillén. Sponsored by the Culture Department of the City of Augsburg.

Further information: here

-2022-

Nov/Dec 2022: Commissioned composition Discurso poético for guitar solo! In collaboration with guitarist Stefan Barcsay and Furore publishing house, Kassel.

I am so much looking forward to the publication of my work in a Special Edition including guitar music written by international, contemporary female composers!

Now available in the Christmas Catalogue “Works about the festive season” of the Universal Edition, Vienna: My composition For seconds in star dreams - a musical game for guitar and piano! Get your score here!

I am happy to start teaching at Mozarteum Salzburg now!

Listen here to my recent interview with the Fanny Mendelssohn International Music Association FMIC!

I am very happy to talk about my musical biography and career!

Happy to announce that my composition “Der hellgrüne Mond” (The light green moon – Impression-Etude for piano) is now a new artistic contribution of the

SOUND AND COLOUR - EUPAPROJECT 2022: a multidisciplinary artwork installment with artists from Germany, Kenya and Uganda!

The goal of this project is to derive laws of colour and sound harmony. Ways to describe physiological colours and sound and subjective visual and auditory phenomena. The metaphors, symbols or emotions these two elements add to our social constructions. The images that we see and interact with and the sounds that wake us up are part of our every day.

Barbara Mayer`s virtuoso and colourful “Impression-Etude for piano” musically reflects various timbres and subtle nuances of green landscape colours. It is inspired by impressionist ideas, f. ex. the musical language of composers such as Debussy, which should be embedded in a contemporary soundscape.

Learn more about the German-African EUPA art project and my work here!

Sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kampala/Uganda, the Goethe Institut, the Ugandan-German Cultural Society.

It is a great honour for me to be featured as a composer in the new Catalogue “New composers & works - Autumn Season” of the Universal Edition Vienna!

Make sure to have a look into this wonderful catalogue and know more about 12 selected young composers here

or …

get your print catalogue at the UE office in Vienna Musikverein!

I am happy to be incorporated as a composer in the “Deutsches Komponistenlexikon” (Encyclopedia of German Composers) now!

See my profile here

I am looking forward to the performance of my string quartet “Inspiracoes” by the renowned Ligeti Quartet (London)! I am very glad that my composition is among the selected works of the Call for Scores on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the quartet.

Thank you to the “Neue Musikzeitung” (NMZ, ed. 07/2022, p. 46) for the wonderful review of my concert in the Rokokosaal of the Swabian Government”! See the full article also here

I am glad to be a composer of the renowned music publisher Universal Edition (Vienna) now!

Click here to visit my UE composer`s profile and to take a look at my commercially available compositions!

Many thanks for the great reviews of my recently premiered composition “Wirf Deine Angst in die Luft - 7 Phantasie-Impulse für Gitarre und Klavier” (on a poem of Rose Ausländer) to the Mittelschwäbische Nachrichten and Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung!

Upcoming piano recital: 18.6.2022, 11.00:

Convento di San Francesco, Pordenone (Italy) -

Piano Festival “Piano City Pordenone”

Piano recital “Internationale Metamorphosen” at Rokokosaal Augsburg, 27. 5. 2022 at 19:00/7pm!

in the concert series “Neue Mitglieder stellen sich vor” of TVKA Tonkünstlerverband Augsburg

Download the programme here

Tickets on sale at the evening box office: 28 E/12 E

Advance booking: via Eventbrite or via email: arteoptimal@gmx.de

Please visit my new profile on the web page of Price Attractions Artist Management:

Barbara Mayer Pianist/Composer

(Foto: Shirley Suarez)

I am glad to present my new Youtube Channel! Feel free to subscribe to: Barbara Mayer (Pianist, Composer, Musicologist)

New photos and videos of my concerts in Zeughaus Augsburg and Lorelysaal Vienna are now available!

Please feel invited to have a look at my Gallery and Media pages! Thank you!