INTERNATIONAL POST-DIGITAL COMPOSITION MASTERCLASS
Tue 30 Sept – Fri 3 October 2025
- Teacher: Brigitta Muntendorf (Germany)
- Musicians: Soprano Meeri Pulakka & Pianist Helga Karen
- Music Technology Specialist: Tapio Lappalainen
During the 21st Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu – October of New Music in Oulu, Finland, six Active Students will be selected to attend a International Post-Digital Composition Masterclass by Ms. Brigitta Muntendorf. Teaching language is English/German.
The emphasis is on Post-Digital Compositional Environment, working with a Music Technology Specialist, using synthesizors, samplers, Max Patches, video image or other such means or Performance Art as a part of the composition.
APPLY
via E-mail , by Mon 30 June 2025. Submit
- a short CV
- short letter of motivation (max 1000 characters)
- one score in pdf format
- one recording or video: as a link, not file
TUITION FEE 450 € INCLUDES
- preliminary session via video conference with Ms. Muntendorf and with Mr. Tapio Lappalainen
- Round-Table Sessions with Ms. Muntendor with the Students presenting their pieces
- two individual lessons (45 min) with Ms. Muntendorf
- Workshop with the musicians
- Concert Performance of the pieces, recorded on video, published on UML YouTube Channel
- accommodation as homestay (no extra charge) or in a hotel (extra charge of 105 € per night)
- free admittance to all festival events
ACTIVE STUDENTS
Selected students will compose a new piece, 3-5 minutes in duration. Deadline is Fri 5 Sept 2025.
THE ENSEMBLE FOR THE PIECE
The ensemble for the piece is Soprano, Piano/Keyboard Player and a Music Technology Specialist, who will assist the performance in ways defined separately with each composer. A video screen is also available.
Composer Brigitta Muntendorf (b. 1982, Hamburg, Germany) has internalized referentiality as a compositional principle in her music and creates a multi-layered web of analog-digital modes of expression in her works. Her settings range from instrumental, choral, and orchestral music to transdigital music/dance theater and 3D sound/AR installations. She established the concept of social composing, appeals to media sensuality and collaborative forms of production in the form of a community of practice.
Her works have been performed in Europe and Asia by numerous ensembles as well as theatre and dance companies such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Mocrep Chicago, Musikfabrik or Les Siècles at festivals worldwide, such as Festival d’Automne Paris, Ruhrtriennale, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Warsaw Autumn, Munich Biennale, Musica Strasbourg, ULTIMA Oslo, Art Share L.A., ONASSIS Athens, Metro Club Kyoto, TPAM-Festival and Kyoto Experiment. The recording of her Trilogy for Two Pianos by the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo was awarded with the German Record Critics’ Award 2023.
Brigitta Muntendorf has been awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s Young Composer’s Prize, the German Young Music Authors Award of GEMA and she has been nominated for Def Faust Theatre Prize.
Muntendorf has worked as the Artistic Director of Ensemble Garage and the queer-feminist F*MN Festival and is designated director of the Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen in Hanover. Since 2018 she is professor for composition at the HfMT Cologne, in 2024, she became a full member of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts.
