Brigitta Muntendorf

The German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf writes music that exists at the intersection of various art forms. She creates a space for experimentation, both in her compositional work and as Artistic Director of Ensemble Garage and treats music not as pure sound art, but as a social and aesthetic phenomenon in a society characterized by new digital media.

Brigitta Muntendorf completed her composition studies with Younghi Pagh-Paan at the University of the Arts in Bremen, as well as with Krzysztof Meyer, Rebecca Saunders and Johannes Schöllhorn at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She has received grants from the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2010), Ensemble Modern Akademie (2012), Villa Concordia Bamberg (2014-15) and Villa Kamogawa Kyoto (2017). In 2014 Brigitta Muntendorf received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize and most recently, she was awarded the 2017 German Music Authors’ Prize by GEMA in the Young Talent category.