NEW PUBLICATIONS/ UPCOMING WORK PREMIERES

December 8, 2023 at 6.30pm (Pac. time): Hamilton Recital Hall, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver (USA)

USA Premiere: The Lamont Trio performs my composition for clarinet, viola and piano in the global composition project Towards a shining Light

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, 2023 at 8.15 pm/December 3, 2023 at 4.30 pm: Kunstkerk Dordrecht (the Netherlands):

Premiere in the Netherlands: The Pelgrim Trio performs my composition for clarinet, viola and piano as part of the global composition project Towards a shining Light

November 27, 2023 at 7pm: Excited to announce my CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT, New York!

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 the Carnegie Hall

November 19, 2023 at 4pm: 4MBS Performance Studio in Coorparoo, Brisbane (Australia)

Premiere of my composition for clarinet, viola and piano in the global composition project Towards a shining Light 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 5, 2023 (6 pm), Staatstheater Braunschweig: PREMIERE of my composition Rockin` Diabelli as part of the international female composers` project DIABELLI RECOMPOSED

Organization: Claudia Bigos

Patron: Director Dagmar Schlingmann

in cooperation with Prof. Ewa Kupiec (University of Music and Performing Arts, Hannover)

Details and tickets > Staatstheater Braunschweig

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

(composition supported by 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”

(edited by Claudia Bigos; published by Furore publishing house, Kassel) > available here

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

Now available here!

30.März 2023, im TIM Augsburg: LANGE NACHT DER JETZT:MUSIK (in Kooperation mit der AGNM für Neue Musik und dem Ensemble Mosaik)

Barbara Mayer spielt u.a. die Uraufführung von ihrer Klavierkomposition “Am Meer”-Sketch für Klavier (2022), publiziert bei der Universaledition Wien

Weitere INFOS (s. unten) und TICKETS: https://jetztmusik-augsburg.de/veranstaltungen

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.

Nähere Infos: auf dem Klassikportal Concerti

Nov/Dec 2022: Commissioned composition 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!

Happy to announce that my composition for guitar and piano “ For seconds in star dreams” is featured in the Works about the festive Season/Christmas Catalogue of Universal Edition publishing house!

Click here to have a look at the catalogue and make sure to get the composition before Christmas!

Click here to know more about my composition “For seconds in star dreams”

2. Oktober 2022, 17.00, Brechthaus Augsburg: Concert Poesie der Moderne:

Stefan Barcsay performs Barbara Mayer`s guitar compositions Himmelskronen and Die bange Vorahnung der Drossel from the cycle “Wirf Deine Angst in die Luft” nach einem Gedicht von Rose Ausländer (2021/22)

I am looking forward to the performance of my string quartet “Inspiracoes” by the renowned Ligeti Quartet (London) in the online concert series “Workout sessions” fearturing international composers!

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.

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.

Listen here to the première of my commissioned composition, the cycle “Throw your fear into the air. Seven fantasias on a poem by Rose Ausländer” for guitar and piano: