1. biografia

[amministratore_1]

Barbara HELLER
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Darmstadt, Germany
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http://www.barbaraheller.de/
luogo e data di nascita: Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Germany), 1936

Barbara Heller studied music in Mannheim and Munich and graduated in 1957. Her first attempts at composition were in 1949, though self-taught. She studied composition with Hans Vogt and Harald Genzmer and film music for a short time in Siena. She received several scholarships to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse where she studied under Hermann Heiss and David Tudor, among others. From 1958 to 1962 she was a lecturer and piano teacher at the School of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim.
In 1970 she established the "Hermann Heiss Archive, Darmstadt" from the estate of the composer, and continued to collect documents for the archive. In 1978 she participated in the construction of "Working Women and Music" and served on the Executive Board until 1981. In 1980 she helped organize the first big festival on women and music in Bonn/Cologne. In 1986 she became a Board Member of the Institute for New Music and Music Education Darmstadt.
Until 1990 Heller continued to actively perform as a pianist. In 1991 she participated in the foundation of the group "Bluna Bluna" with Nicholas Heyduck and Michael Harenberg, which produces tape compositions, sound installations, audio-visual exhibition projects and improvisations.