NYU COMPOSERS FORUM

35 West 4th Street, Suite 777D, New York, NY 10003

Dr. Dinu Ghezzo, Director

presents

Beate Gabriela Schmitt - Flutes (Germany)

April 30th - May 7th, 2001

Beate Gabriella Schmitt (b. Berlin, 1949) studied music (flute) and music sociology in Berlin and Hamburg, graduating in 1972 and taking a peerformer's degree in 1974. She maintains an international concert career with a solo and chambere music repertoire encompassing the Baroque and Romantic periods and, especially, contemporary music. She has developed new methods of attack and has worked experimentally with composers and actors in the creation of works and projects, playing a very large number of world premieres and making diverse gramophone and CD recordings. She has held workshops and flute classes in Germany, Seoul, Manila, Jacarta, Hong Kong and Taipei, among other places, and headed the flute department at the Berlin Hochschulle der Kunste from 1991 to 1996. In November 1994 she toured Asia with her own ensemble of fifteen flutists from the Berlin Hochschulle, giving premieres in Seoul and Hong Kong of works dedicated to the group. Since 1982 she has worked with the Electronic Music Studio of Berlin Technical University. In 1996 she began an intensive study of the combination of flute and computer technology; the educational aspects of her findings has been presented in her first course on "Flute and Computer in Instruction". She lives in Berlin.