Sibylle Pomorin (*1956) studied from 1975 until 1980 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Münster, specialising in flute and saxophone. At the same time she played in chamber-ensembles and Jazz-groups for which she also composed.
In 1984/85, she studied composition under Ernst Bechert in Hamburg. She attended further courses and classes under Dieter Schnebel, John Tchicai, Alice Shields and Eliane Radigue.
From 1982 to 1994 she was on tour with improvising musicians, among them Peter Brötzmann, Joèlle Léandre, William Parker, Yosuke Yamashita, Chris Cutler and Conny Bauer, and also made concert tours with ensembles and compositions of her own all over Europe and in Israel.
Since 1986, Sibylle Pomorin has lived as a freelance musician and composer in Berlin.
She has received composition commissions for ensembles, festivals, broadcasts and theatre. She has also been awarded numerous prizes (e.g., first prize at the international composition contest “Soundscapes voor 2000’ in the Netherlands) and has been supported by working and study stays in New York, Istanbul and Mexico.
Since 1994 she has worked in the studios of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York, the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe/Germany, the Technische Universität in Berlin and the Nederlandse Programma Stichting in Hilversum/Netherlands.
Apart from creating strictly chamber music and electro-acoustic (multi channel) works, she also embraces elements of other arts in her work (lyrics, video, space as well as light installations) and continuously collaborates with musicians of the international improvisation and avant-garde scene.
