Sibylle Pomorin (*1956) studied Music and Composition in Münster and Hamburg.
From 1982 to 1994 she was (as a flutist and saxophonist) 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, she has been living 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. Publication of scores and CDs at Moers Music and Furore Verlag.
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 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. Since 2009 she performs again improvised
music.
Performances of her compositions and projects (selected): International Avantgarde-
Festival Moers, international jazz festivals in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Den Haag,
Grenoble, Nickelsdorf, Paris, Berlin, Tage der Neuen Musik in Donaueschingen,
festivals of contemporary music in Frankfurt, Würzburg, Budapest, Lissabon,
London, Brussels, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Soundscape Festival in Amsterdam, International
Computer Music Congress in Berlin, Australasian Computer Music Conference in
Melbourne/Australia, Hörkunstfestival Erlangen, Foro International de Musica Nueva
in Mexico City, Festival Assemblage in Regina/Canada, Electroacoustic Symposium in
Cardiff/Wales.
