Musica Reservata Friederike Wild

John Palmer - composer
Palmer started playing the piano at the age of 6 and composing at the age of 15. He graduated in Piano Studies from the Conservatory of Music in Lucerne, Switzerland, having undertaken courses in composition and experimental improvisation with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar. Back to London, he undertook postgraduate studies in Composition at Trinity College of Music and completed a PhD in Composition at City University. Further studies include composition with Jonathan Harvey and conducting with Alan Hazeldine at the Guildhall School of Music. He was also a friend of John Cage, whose sense of acoustic adventure is much alive in his music. As a result of living in several countries, John Palmer has achieved an international cultural identity. He has equally been active in different musical genres: from 1976 to 1985 he composed and performed as a pianist, and directed several groups ranging from experimental music to free-jazz. Since the mid-eighties he has focused on instrumental, orchestral, vocal and chamber music, and in the early nineties he extended his compositional interests with electroacoustic resources.

Friederike Wild
studied with André Marchand and Florian Wiek at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Stuttgart. Following the Bachelor in Piano Studies in 2010, she is currently undertaking further studies for a Master Degree with Friedemann Rieger. In addition to her solo career she is working as a piano teacher and accompanist and as a music theory and ear training teacher. Since early age Friederike Wild has been active both as a solo pianist and in chamber music where she was awarded the „Jugend musiziert“ Competition National Prize in 2000 at 15. Particularly her Piano Duo with Judith Eisenbacher has been awarded several prizes such as the "Audience and Promotion Prize" at the Bad Herrenalb International Piano Duo Festival in 2003 and 2007. In 2004 the Duo won simultaneously the First Prize and the Mozart-Prize at the "Tonkünstler" Competition in Stuttgart, in 2005 they won the First Prize at the „Matthaes" Piano Competition in Stuttgart and in 2006 the First National Prize at the „Jugend musiziert“ Piano Duo Competition. The Piano Duo also performed with the State Orchestra of Brandenburg conducted by Heribert Beissel and the Southwest German Chamber Philharmonics conducted by Sebastian Tewinkel. As a soloist Friederike Wild has been awarded the Audience and Promotion Prize at the 2005 5th International Piano Duo Festival in Bad Herrenalb and was admitted to the Yehudi Menuhin "Live Music Now" Foundation. Since 2000 she has also been playing regularly for charity concerts.

In more recent years she has played the Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments with the University of Music and Performing Arts of Stuttgart Orchestra, following Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire with the Ensemble V.act. From 2008 to 2010 Friederike Wild has been awarded with a Scholarship from the "Gesellschaft der Freunde der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart e.V.", supported by the Carin-Riesen Foundation. In 2010 she was awarded the First Prize at the Stuttgart Piano Teaching Prize.

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