”…Manuela Meier’s [music] bristled with movement and impulse, throughout, the antiphonal exchanges between the two percussionists a delight to the senses. […] The composer treated us to a plethora of timbres and colours and what seemed to our ‘insectified’ ears like a stunning range of dynamics, from the whisperings of wood against a smooth metal edge to the harsh complaints of friction-making textured metal surfaces […]. It all had the feeling of some kind of inner reality, akin to the flowing of blood, impulsings of a nervous system or an intelligence network processing sensory responses.”
Peter Mechen, Middle C – Classical Music Reviews, Wellington, New Zealand, 02 June 2012
STROMA Ensemble – Soundbytes III: Lenny Sakofsky / Jeremy Fitzsimmons / Bruce McKinnon (percussion)
Works by Beat Furrer, Manuela Meier, Andrew Ford and Toru Takemitsu
Adam Auditorium, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
“Manuela Meier’s hyper-detailed aesthetic comes largely from her extensive experience as an accordionist. Her duet for two trombones, What you see, is it, creates a virtual orchestra with its interplay of percussive sounds, attacks, overtones, singing, and virtuosic brass techniques.”
”Concert: Emerging Austrians Mahler, along with his young compatriot Arnold Schoenberg, was certainly one of the dominant compositional voices in fin-de-siècle Vienna. But who are the emerging Austrian composers of today? This concert at the ACFNY [Austrian Cultural Forum New York] features a program of world, US, and NY premieres by Austrian composers Manuela Meier, Elisabeth Harnik, and Bernd Klug […].”
In: Moving Sounds Festival 2018, Online Program 2018
“Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) ended this year on Sunday, November 29, [2015] after celebrating nine days of oustanding concert performances and once again confirming its reputation as Britain’s leading festival in contemporary music. […]The concert of the ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin also opened new aural worlds with stunning playing techniques […]. In “epar” Manuela Meier interpreted sounds as transitional organisms that are continuously subjected to manipulation and alteration, […]”
Philip Röggla, Austrian Music Export Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015 Review, 12/15/2015
ITERATE NO TRACE (2015) aka [TRY TO] ITERATE THAT WHICH LEAVES NO TRACE – for bass clarinet, Austrian premiere
performer: Anna Koch (bass clarinet)
06.-09.09.2022 Audio Mostly Conference 2022 – ”A Conference on Interaction with Sound” Conference topic: ”What you hear is what you see? – Perspectives on Modalities in Sound and Music Interaction” Conference includes 3rd Intl. Workshop on the Internet of Sounds (IWIS) and 7th AllAroundAudio Symposium (AAA) St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences Austria
NEW WORK – for voice, flute and accordion, world premiere
between feathers Ensemble Elina Viluma-Helling (voice), Audrey G. Perreault (fl), Maria Mogas Gensana (acc)
commissioned by between feathers Ensemble, 2022
Commission postponed by composer
initally scheduled: Vienna, Austria October 2022
NEW WORK for percussion solo, world premiere
performer announced soon (Austria)
concert season 2027 performance details TBA
I THOUGHT I HEARD – for violoncello, world premiere
Kevin McFarland, violoncello
concert season TBA performance details TBA
JACK Quartet recording Manuela Meier’s ‘if only it were not bound to’, February 2016. // photograph by Manuela Meier
Recent events
ITERATE NO TRACE (2015) aka [TRY TO] ITERATE THAT WHICH LEAVES NO TRACE – for bass clarinet, Utah premiere
Katie Porter, bass clarinet
31.01.2022, 7.30pm – – CANCELLED (2nd TIME) DUE TO PANDEMIC Dumke Recital Hall Abravanel Distinguished Visiting Composers Series (Visiting Composer, spring 2022: Fred Lerdahl) School of Music, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT (US)
ITERATE NO TRACE (2015) aka [TRY TO] ITERATE THAT WHICH LEAVES NO TRACE – for bass clarinet, Utah premiere
Katie Porter, bass clarinet
16.03.2020, 7.30pm – – CANCELLED (1st TIME) DUE TO PANDEMIC Dumke Recital Hall Abravanel Distinguished Visiting Composers Series (Visiting Composer, spring 2020: Fred Lerdahl) School of Music, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT (US)
LECTURE: “On the Peripheral: Sonic Ecologies at the Borderlines of the Possible – An Environmental-Systemic Approach to Music Composition” (Dissertation)
LECTURE and PRESENTATION of research and works 2012-2019
May 06, 2019 Department of Music Harvard University Cambridge, MA (US)
LECTURE: “Sonic Ecologies at the Borderlines of the Possible”
LECTURE and PRESENTATION of research and works 2015-2019
March 27, 2019, 3pm School of Music University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT (US)
LECTURE & PRESENTATION OF WORKS
Lecture and presentation of research and works 2015-2019
February 2019 – POSTPONED Department of Music Columbia University New York City, NY (US)
WHAT YOU SEE, IS IT (2016) – for 2 trombones, Austrian premiere
Matt Barbier and Weston Olencki, trombones
Nov 18, 2018 Bludenzer Tage für zeitgemäße Musik (BTzM) Festival 30 Years of Bludenzer Tage für zeitgemäße Musik Festival Artistic Director: Clara Iannotta Austria
PANEL DISCUSSION – Moving Sounds Festival 2018
The Mahler Discussions – Gustav Mahler and his influence on contemporary music and culture
speakers: Marilyn McCoy (Columbia University), Thomas Schäfer (Director of International Music Institute Darmstadt (IMD)) panelists: Elisabeth Harnik, Manuela Meier, Patricia Alessandrini, Oliver Schneller, Taylor Brook, Meaghan Burke, Bernd Klug
POST-CONCERT DISCUSSION – Moving Sounds Festival 2018
panelists: Manuela Meier, and trombonists William Lang and Jen Baker
Oct 02, 2018, 9.30pm Moving Sounds Festival 2018 Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACNF) New York City, USA
WHAT YOU SEE, IS IT (2016) – for 2 trombones, New York premiere at Moving Sounds Festival 2018
William Lang and Jen Baker, trombones
Oct 02, 2018, 8pm Moving Sounds Festival 2018 – Concert: Emerging Austrians Argento New Music Ensemble, Artistic Director: Michel Galante Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACNF) New York City, USA link to ACFNY website announcement
”Concert: Emerging Austrians Mahler, along with his young compatriot Arnold Schoenberg, was certainly one of the dominant compositional voices in fin-de-siècle Vienna. But who are the emerging Austrian composers of today? This concert at the ACFNY features a program of world, US, and NY premieres by Austrian composers Manuela Meier, Elisabeth Harnik, and Bernd Klug, who will be performing with his American creative partner Meaghan Burke.” (in: Moving Sounds Festival 2018, Online Program 2018, http://movingsoundsfestival.org/festival2018/events/2018-10-02/ ) link to website/source
concert includes pieces by Austrian composers Manuela Meier, Elisabeth Harnik, Bernd Klug
OTHERWISE III (2018) for string octet, world premiere
JACK Quartet & Mivos Quartet
May 19, 2018, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
OTHERWISE II (2018) for ensemble, world premiere
for b.fl, b.clar, perc, vln, vlc
NAMES Ensemble
commissioned by Aspekte Salzburg Festival 2018 generously supported by SKE Austria
Apr 29, 2018 Aspekte Salzburg Festival 2018 at Republic, Salzburg, Austria
LECTURE & PRESENTATION OF WORKS
Lecture and presentation of works 2015-2017
May 02, 2017 Bienen School of Music Northwestern University Evanston, IL (US)
OTHERWISE (2017) for 2 pianists and 2 percussionists, world premiere
Ensemble Yarn/Wire
18.03.2017, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
WHAT YOU SEE, IS IT (2016) – for 2 trombones, world premiere
Matt Barbier and Weston Olencki, trombones
22.10.2016, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
RECEPTIVE FIELD (2016) – for 5 percussionists, world premiere
12.08.2016, 4pm Edith Stein Schule 48. Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt 48th Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, Germany
ONE MORE COULD BE BEYOND (2016) – for string trio and ensemble, world premiere
Ensemble Recherche
for b.fl, b.clar, perc, pno, vln, vla, vlc
21.05.2016, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
IF ONLY IT WERE NOT BOUND TO (2016) – for string quartet, world premiere
JACK Quartet – Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld, John Pickford Richards, Kevin McFarland
06.02.2016, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
EPAR (2014) – for ensemble, UK premiere
Ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin
21.11.2015, 7.30pm Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival – hcmf\\ St.Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, UK
Austrian Music at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with works by the Austrian composers Beat Furrer, Peter Ablinger, Klaus Lang, Peter Jakober, Thomas Larcher and Manuela Meier MICA/Music Export Austria
CD PRESENTATION event
mica – music austria presents CD Austrian Heartbeats no.02
21.11.2015, 2pm Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival – hcmf\\ Atrium of the Creative Arts Building Univ. of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK
mica – music austria presents CD Austrian Heartbeats no.02 (selected by Georg Friedrich Haas) with music by Manuela Meier, Marco Döttlinger, Peter Jakober, Hannes Kerschbaumer
LECTURE – “On continuities and strange attractors”
PRESENTATION of recent compositions
09.11.2015, 12pm-2pm Davison Room Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
REFRACT.ED (2009) – electroacoustic composition
original 4-channel version
03.11.2015, 5pm-7pm CCRMA Listening Room Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Stanford University, Dept. of Music, at Stanford, California (US)
LECTURE – “On continuities and strange attractors”, works 2009-2015
PRESENTATION of works 2009-2015
03.11.2015, 5pm-7pm CCRMA Listening Room Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Stanford University, Dept. of Music, at Stanford, California (US)
ITERATE NO TRACE (2015) aka [TRY TO] ITERATE THAT WHICH LEAVES NO TRACE – for bass clarinet, world premiere
Richard Haynes, bass clarinet
24.10.2015, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
EMERGENT PROPERTIES #1 (2015) – for ensemble, world premiere
Ensemble Dal Niente
for ob, fl, b.clar, bar.sax, perc, vln, vla, vlc, cb
16.05.2015, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
CD PRESENTATION
mica – music austria presents CD Austrian Heartbeats #02 selected by Georg Friedrich Haas: Marco Döttlinger, Peter Jakober, Hannes Kerschbaumer, Manuela Meier
Festival “Contemporary Sound” – Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka 09 May 2015, 6pm MM Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
ELICITATION OF PERIPHERIES (2015) for 2 violas, world premiere
Beth Weisser and John Pickford Richards, violas
04.04.2015, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
LECTURE
and work presentation
10.11.2014, 12pm-2pm Davison Room Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
LA PROFONDEUR by Georg Friedrich Haas – US PREMIERE
Ensemble Sound Icon, Manuela Meier (acc)
04.10.2014, 8pm CFA Concert Hall, Boston University Boston, MA (US)
GENUS:CYATHEA (2014) for ensemble, world premiere
ELISION Ensemble
for ob, b.clar, cb.clar, tpt, tromb, perc
17.05.2014, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
BIOTOPE00 (2014) for percussion solo, world premiere
Jonathan Hepfer, perc
08.03.2014, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music, Cambridge, MA (US)
IMPROVISATION
Experimental Music Ensemble at Harvard University Peter McMurray (sax), Manuela Meier (acc), Sarah Politz (tromb), Sivan Cohen-Elias (E-guit, objects)
05.10.2013, 12.00-4pm Peabody Museum at Harvard University Cambridge, MA (US)
EPAR (2013) for ensemble, world premiere
Callithumpian Consort Ensemble
for fl, clar, pno, vln, vlc
06.04.2013, 10.30am Harvard University Dept. of Music Cambridge, MA (US)
STRING QUARTET no.1 parapente, achillea (2009), US premiere
JACK Quartet – Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld, John Pickford Richards, Kevin McFarland
02.03.2013, 8pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music Cambridge, MA (US)
LACUNAE (2012), world premiere
electroacoustic composition
05.12. 2012, 8pm HYDRA concert – US and International Electronic Music John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Harvard University Dept. of Music Cambridge, MA (US)
REFRACT.ED (2009), Slovenian premiere
4-channel electroacoustic composition
11.09. 2012, 2.30pm-7pm International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2012 IRZU – Institute for Sonic Arts Research Ljubljana, Slovenia
29.07. 2012 DRAP Open Day Djerassi Artist Residency Program SMIP Ranch, Woodside, California (US)
INTERVIEW with Manuela Meier/News feature: https://www.mercurynews.com/2012/07/26/woodside-at-bucolic-djerassi-ranch-muse-calls-on-artists-not-other-way-around/ CLICK for online access to newspaper article
PRESENTATION
work presentation
03.07.2012, 7.30pm Djerassi Artist Residency Program SMIP Ranch, Woodside, California (US)
CADA (2012) for 2 percussionists
STROMA New Music Ensemble: Lenny Sakofsky, Jeremy Fitzsimons, perc
02.06.2012, 8pm City Gallery Wellington Wellington, New Zealand
CADA (2012) for 2 percussionists, world premiere
STROMA New Music Ensemble: Lenny Sakofsky, Jeremy Fitzsimons, perc
02.06.2012, 6.30pm City Gallery Wellington Wellington, New Zealand
ATTICA by F. Rzewski, CLIP (vers. for clar, acc, vln, vlc) by Juliet Kiri Palmer
SMP Ensemble, feat. Manuela Meier (acc) Tristan Carter (vln), Charley Davenport (vlc), Karlo Margetic (clar), Juliet Kiri Palmer (vce), Justin Firefly Clarke (guit) i.a.
31.05.2012, 8pm Adam Concert Room Te Koki New Zealand School of Music Victoria University Wellington Wellington, New Zealand
SILLAGE by Samuel Holloway
STROMA New Music Ensemble, Manuela Meier (acc), Michael Norris (electr.) i.a.
02.05.2012, 7.30pm Illot Theatre, Wellington Town Hall Wellington, New Zealand
IMPROVISATION – vln and acc
Tristan Carter (vln) and Manuela Meier (acc)
10.03.2012, 8.30pm Fred’s final week concerts Fred’s Wellington, New Zealand
PRESENTATION
work presentation
18.02.2012, 4.30pm School of Music, University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
CIPHER by Pedro Rebelo
Pedro Rebelo (pno) and Manuela Meier (acc)
12.11.2011, 8pm Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne, Australia
REFRACT.ED (2009) – Australian premiere
4-channel electroacoustic composition
12.11.2011, 8pm Melbourne Recital Centre Melbourne, Australia
LECTURE
and work presentation
14.09.2011, 3.10pm-4.30pm Adam Concert Room Te Koki New Zealand School of Music Victoria University Wellington Wellington, New Zealand
EVENING RODE TENDERLY (2009) for fl and acc, by Juliet Kiri Palmer – New Zealand premiere
Karen Batten (fl) and Manuela Meier (acc)
06.08.2011, 5pm New Zealand and Australasia-Pacific premiere Adam Concert Room Te Koki New Zealand School of Music Victoria University of Wellington Wellington, New Zealand
15.07.2011, 8.30pm Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS) Morelia, Mexico
FIVE (2009) for ensemble, world premiere
Ensemble Phace, cond: Simeon Pironkoff
for b.clar, trpt, acc, 2 perc, vln, vlc
20.05.2011, 8pm e_may Festival for New and Electronic Music, Vienna, Austria
REFRACT.ED (2009) – Irish premiere
4-channel electroacoustic composition
06.05.2011, 7.30pm Linux Audio Conference (LAC) 2011 Aula Maxima National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth Maynooth, Ireland
ICC – Irish Composers Collective Concert
Nick Roth (sax) and Manuela Meier (acc)
world premieres of Irish composers’ works for saxophone and accordion works by Piaras Hoban, Emma O’Halloran and Donal Mac Erlaine
30.03.2011, 7.30pm National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland
DISGUISES (2011) by Felipe Hickmann, world premiere
Franziska Schroeder (sax), Manuela Meier, Matthew Welch (bagp) and Manuela Meier (acc)
network performance
24.03.2011, 1pm Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK) and Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL), Steinhardt School New York University (NYU), New York City, US
RHYOLITE REVISITED (2011) for accordion and soprano saxophone, world premiere
Franziska Schroeder (sax) and Manuela Meier (acc)
24.03.2011, 1 pm Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
LECTURE
and work presentation
02.02.2011, 7pm Music Department of New York University (NYU) New York City, US
STRING QUARTET no.1 – parapente, achillea – workshop performance and recording by BBC
Arditti String Quartet
8.-10.03.2010 Kingston University London (UK) announcement: e-flyer
RHYOLITE (2010) for soprano saxophone and accordion
Franziska Schroeder (sax) and Manuela Meier (acc)
25.02.2010, 1.10pm Sonic Lab Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
TRANSLATIONS (THEATRE PLAY)
Translations by Brian Friel music by Joel Cathcart director: David Grant Manuela Meier (acc)
03.- 06.02.2010, 7.30pm Brian Friel Theatre Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
ResoNations – An International Telematic Music Concert for Peace
world premieres for new works for telematic music medium for musicians in five different geographical locations, with local audiences and online streaming of the concert
20.11.2009 7:00PM EST United Nations Headquarters, New York City, US 4:00PM PST University of California San Diego, US 5:00PM MST The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada 12:00AM BST Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 6:00AM KST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daedeok, Daejeon, South Korea
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom location: Queens University Belfast, Sonic Arts Research Centre Pedro Rebelo, composer and piano, Franziska Schroeder, saxophone, Manuela Meier, accordion, Steve Davis, drums/percussion, Justin Yang, saxophone/electronics
PORTRAIT CONCERT ISABEL MUNDRY: Spiegelbilder
Franziska Schroeder (sax) and Manuela Meier (acc)
authorized version for sopr.sax and acc, in attendance of the composer
15.10.2009 Sonic Lab Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Sonorities Closing Concert of Sonorities – Festival of Contemporary Music
feat. partners from the European CO-ME-DI-A project (Cooperation and Medation in Digital Arts), composer/accordionist Pauline Oliveros (US) and Manuela Meier (accordion)
16.05.2009, 8pm Sonic Lab Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Improvisation for two crowds (on being on and off-line)
feat. Pauline Oliveros (acc) and Manuela Meier (acc) Chris Johnston (actor,director)
CETL (NI): The Centre for Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts in collaboration with the School of Music and Sonic Arts and Drama at Queen’s University Belfast Brian Friel Theatre, Drama Department (QUB)
15.05.2009, 8pm Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK) The concert will also be shown in SecondLife.
REFRACT.ED (2009)
4-channel electroacoustic composition
14.05.2009, 9pm Sonorities – Festival of Contemporary Music Sonic Lab Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Music for the MiSS – sound sculpture by Paul Stapleton
i.e. Manuela Meier (acc)
08.05.2009, 5.30pm Sonorities – Festival of Contemporary Music Sonic Lab Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
REFRACT.ED (2009), world premiere
4-channel electroacoustic composition
02.05.2009, 7pm Sonic Lab Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
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