Ursula Mamlok aims for her music to convey emotions with clarity and conviction, using a minimum of material and transforming it to create an impression of ever-new ideas.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ursula Mamlok primarily composes chamber music for specific performances, tailoring the forces to the ensemble and knowing who will premiere her works.
Compositional Technique
Many of Ursula Mamlok's works since 1960 are based on a twelve-tone row but are composed in a way that still creates tonal centers.
Performer Biography
The Armida Quartet, founded in 2006, won first prize and the Audience Award at the 61st ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2012.
Recording & Production
This recording captures a live concert given by Spectrum Concerts Berlin in the Berlin Philharmonie on February 1, 2013, celebrating composer Ursula Mamlok's ninetieth birthday.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ursula Mamlok's compositions are likened to poems in literature, characterized by their density, through-composed nature, and a principle of eschewing anything 'unnecessary'.
Composer Biography
Ursula Mamlok, born in Berlin in 1923, was expelled from school in 1938 due to her Jewish heritage and later emigrated to Ecuador, eventually settling in New York.
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