Rebecca Saunders

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Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967, London) is a Berlin-based British composer and sound artist. Saunders has become a leading international representative of her generation, after having studied composition with Nigel Osborne in Edinburgh and Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe. Saunders pursues an intense interest in the sculptural and spatial properties of organised sound. chroma I - XX (2003-2017), Stasis and Stasis Kollektiv (2011/16) are expanding spatial collages of up to twenty-five chamber groups and sound sources set in radically different architectural spaces. Insideout, a 90-minute collage for a choreographed installation, created in collaboration with Sasha Waltz, was her first work for the stage and received over 100 international performances. Most recently in 2017, Yes, an expansive 80-minute spatial installation composition, was written for Ensemble Musikfabrik, Donatienne Michel-Dansac and Enno Poppe for the extraordinary architectural spaces of the Berlin Philharmonie and the St. Eustache Cathedral in Paris. Since 2013, Saunders has written a series of solos and duos for performers with whom she has collaborated closely over many years, including Bite (2016) for bass flute, Aether (2016) for bass clarinet duo, dust (2017/18) for percussion, O (2017) for soprano, hauch (2018) for violin, and Flesh (2017/18) for accordion. She has simultaneously pursued her keen interest in works in the concertante form, writing a double percussion concerto Void (2014), a trumpet concerto Al

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miniata

Rebecca Saunders: Quartet, Into the Blue, Molly's Song 3 & Dichroic Seventeen

Saunders: Fury for Double Bass Solo

Rebecca Saunders: Skin

Rebecca Saunders: Solo

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Kairos Extracts

Pandora's Box

stirrings still

Rebecca Saunders: Ensemble Works

Saunders: To and Fro

Musica viva, Vol. 35 (Live)

Saunders: Choler, Crimson & Miniata

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