Barbara Monk Feldman

Barbara Monk Feldman B. 1953 Québec Is A Canadian Composer. Writing Mostly For Piano And Chamber Groups Her Works Have Been Performed In Asia Europe And North America. Ms. Monk Feldman Studied Composition With Bengt Hambraeus At McGill University In Montréal From 1980–83 Where She Earned Her MMus. She Then Studied With Morton Feldman To Whom She Was Later Married At The University At Buffalo The State University Of New York From 1984–87 And There Earned Her PhD On The Edgard Varèse Fellowship. Her Music Has Been Performed At The Ferienkurse In Darmstadt The Festival Inventionen In Berlin The Festival Nieuwe Muziek In Middelburg The Festival Other Minds In San Francisco And Elsewhere. She Is Also Active In Other Positions. Her Research Into Music And Visual Art Has Led To Collaborations With Numerous Artists Including Stan Brakhage Whose Hand-Painted Film Three Homerics Was Created For Use With Her Work Infinite Other. She Founded The Time Shards Music Series At The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum In Santa Fe New Mexico In 2001 And Served As Its Artistic Director. Her Article Music And The Picture Plane Appeared In The Journals RES Anthropology And Aesthetics 1997 And Contemporary Music Review 1998 . She Taught At The Ferienkurse In Darmstadt In 1988 1990 And 1994 Has Given Guest Lectures At The Universität Der Künste Berlin And Has Lectured And Taught At Universities In Canada And The USA. read less