Sibylle Pomorin

Sibylle Pomorin was born on february 16, 1956 in Altoberndorf in the southern part of Germany. She studied flute and saxophone from 1975 to 1980 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Münster/ Westfalen. At the same time she played in several chamber music ensembles and jazz-groups. For these groups she also composed. From 1983 she toured with numerous musicians: Peter Brötzmann, Joëlle Léandre, William Parker, Yosuke Yamashita, Chris Cutler, Conny Bauer and others. In 1984-1985 she studied composition with Ernst Bechert in Hamburg and attended several workshops held by Dieter Schnebel, John Tchicai, Alice Shields and Eliane Radigue. She founded ensembles and bands, her works were performed by herself and highstanding instrumentalists in Europe and Israel, the United States and Argentinia.

Since 1986 she lives and works as a freelance musician and composer in Berlin. Sibylle Pomorin earned many prices and awards and many of her works were commissioned for festivals, radio stations and theatres. She was invited as composer in residence to the US, Turkey and Mexiko. The focus of her compositional output is chamber music, electroacustic works and radio plays. She published seven records and discs and was represented in a film portrait (“Neue Töne aus Berlin” of Carla Kilian, Bayerischer Rundfunk, March 1992). During a longer stay in Istanbul she worked intensely on traditional oriental music and the instruments Ûd, Kanun and Tanbur. For the piece Prayer for the Sun Before Travelling she received the first price at the international composers competition “Soundscapes voor 2000” in Holland.

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