Isabel Mundry was born in
Schlüchtern, Hesse in 1963 and studied composition at the
Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the
Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the
Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt with
Hans Zender and later researched at the
IRCAM in Paris. In addition to her teaching activities in Berlin, she held teaching appointments in Zürich and at the
Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Mundry was the first
resident composer of the
Staatskapelle in Dresden. She previously held a similar position at the Tong Yong Festival, the
Lucerne Festival and the Mannheim National Theater. Mundry's compositions are characterized by a highly individualized musical language, full of variants and nuances: "She hardly ever repeats herself; each time, sounds and sequences of sounds are articulated differently." Isabel Mundry's work is currently published by
Breitkopf & Härtel. She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the
Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik between 1946 and 2014
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