Susanne Zargar Swiridoff, born Susanne Erding, studied composition, English and American Literature and Linguistics in Stuttgart, Munich and
abroad in England, Kanada, USA and Argentina. She started to teach at Stuttgart University of Music in 1979 and specialized in Contemporary and Non-European Music. As a guest lecturer she travelled to Madrid, Vienna, Vilnius and Shaoxing.
For her more than 90 works for opera, orchestra, concertos, chamber music, vocal music, she received numerous national and international
prizes and received many commissions. In 1987/88 she went to Rome being awarded the prestigious scholarship of the German Academy in Italy, Villa Massimo. Since 2002 Susanna Zargar Swiridoff is also active as a gallerist organizing exhibitions and opening vernissages. She speaks and writes English, Spanish, French, Italian, also Chinese and Korean. In 2009 the James-Joyce-Unique-Book- Collection in Zurich presented the calligraphie of her composition for Violoncello solo Tsubaki. With reference to Susanna Zargar Swiridoff ’s compositions many television programs sent portrait features such as ZDF, SAT 3, NDR, SWF, RAI. In
2012/13 she composed the opera Habba Khatoon.
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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
