Claudia Molitor

Claudia Molitor studied music and media at Sussex University, went on to do an MA at City University, London, and completed her PhD in composition with Michael Finnissy in 2004. In 2007 Oh Du Kleines Kabinett, commissioned by Queens’ College, Cambridge, was short-listed for a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award. In 2004–2005 she was short-listed by the Society for the Promotion of New Music.

Her work has been performed recently at Wien Modern, Austria, by Apartment House; at ecat in Edinburgh and at the VI Festival de Musica Contemporania de Girona in Spain by EXAUDI; at the West Deutscher Rundfunk (WDR 3), Cologne, in a studio concert; at The Printing House in Dublin by the pianist Rolf Hind; and at the ICA, London, by notes inégales. She has recently created two audiovisual installations with the artists Brian McCabe and Gavin Peacock: Wrestle, shown at the Bethesda Chapel, Hanley, as part of the Place, Space & Identity series run by Arts Council England; and Clouded [over + under], shown at the Permanent Gallery in Brighton as part of Hear Here!, run by the RPS. She has completed I am the cook…, a commission for the Grabenfest in Vienna, and Paper Cut, a BBC commission for this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. lorem ipsum will also be performed at Huddersfield. Her work has also been performed at fuseleeds, Spitalfields Festival, York Late Festival and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice in Boston, USA.

She is co-founder of Soundwaves Festival, which takes place in July in Brighton.

Claudia was commissioned to write untitled 40 [desk-life] for the London Sinfonietta's 40th birthday concert in 2008 - the premiere recording will be released on the final disc in the London Sinfonietta label's Jerwood series in autumn 2009.