Sigrid Ernst was born on 3.3.1929 in Ludwigshafen/Rhine, grew up in a musically very interested family. Her piano lessons begun at the age of 7 and were completed by lessons in violin and music theory later on. After her final school exams music studies in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Vienna with piano as main instrument as well as composition studies with Gerhard Formell for six years followed. Congresses and courses for contemporary msuic in Darmstadt, Donaueschingen, Vienna and Paris with Stockhausen, Ligeti and Xenakis and others gave her additional inspirations.
As a pianist her main interest focusses on contemporary music in solo and chamber music formations in numerous concerts and radio productions. Her work as a composer however increasingly became the centre of her activities. Besides that there was always a great variety of pedagogic activities in Heidelberg, Mannheim and Bremen in the field of piano and composition, formal analysis of contemporary muisc and improvisation.
Extensive comitee work in the German Music Council (Deutscher Musikrat) and composers’ associations, especially her commitment to the encouragement of the work of women composers as a member of the board of the FRAU UND MUSIK Internationalen Arbeitskreis e.V. (Women in Music Organization in Germany) and as one of the foundation members of the International Congress on Women in Music, took a lot of time and energy, but also brought her gratifying success. 1981 she received the Stipendium der Bundesrepublik Deutschland for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. 1989 she was awarded the title of a professor h.c. at the Interamerican University of Humanistic Studies, Florida.
Her compositions comprise chamber music for strings and wind instruments, song cycles, cantatas, orchestral works, play music for children, a children’s opera, improvisation and performance concepts. There have been performances of her works in Germany and abroad, in Europe, the USA, Mexiko and Japan.
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fue 4660
25 plus piano solo. 27 works by contemporary women composers
Andrea Csollány Barbara Heller Bernadetta Matuszczak Carmen Maria Cârneci Caroline Ansink Diana Čemerytė Gloria Coates Joanna Stepalska-Spix Liana Alexandra Ludmila Yurina Margarete Sorg-Rose Maria de Alvear Matilde Capuis Ruth McGuire Ruth Schonthal Sibylle Pomorin Siegrid Ernst Susanne Zargar Swiridoff Tsippi Fleischer Ursula Görsch Ursula Mamlok Violeta Dinescu Vivienne Olive
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fue 10413
Diabelli Recomposed: 50 variations for piano solo
Agnes Ponizil Anamaria Meza Anna Rubin Anna Segal Anne Terzibaschitsch Armenuhi Karapetyan Asia Dojnikowska Barbara Mayer Carlotta Ferrari Carmen Maria Cârneci Catherine Kontz Catherine Schuppenhauer Conchi Muna Daria Cheikh-Sarraf Dorothea Hofmann Dorothee Schabert Elena Samarina Emanuela Ballio Florence Sabeva Géraldine Kwik Hedda Seischab Jane O'Leary Janet Oates Jessi Harvey Judith Shatin Julia Schwartz Justina Jaruševičiūtė Karola Obermüller Khadija Zeynalova Lanquin Yu Laura Manolache Leorah P. Lydia Kakabadse Marie Awadis Marina Baranova Michaela Dietl Oxana Sivova Sharon Lynn Makarenko Sheena Phillips Siegrid Ernst Sophia Jani Susanne Hardt Tatsiana Zelianko Ulrike Merk Ursula Keusen-Nickel Victoria Bond Violeta Dinescu Yang Song Ying Wang Zela Margossian
