Laure M. Hiendl (*1986, pronouns: they/he) is a composer and curator based in Berlin. Their work is concerned with music as a spatial art, and is situated between concert music, performance, music theater, installation and other interdisciplinary realms, exploring the performativity of the space-time-body relationship in music as a live act — as a shared space in time between bodies for an event that is inherently political. Hiendl earned their Doctorate at Columbia University New York and is currently Assistant Professor at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. They co-founded the festival Music Installations Nuremberg.
2022 Ernst von Siemens-Musikstiftung Composition Commission
2022 Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome
2021 Styria-Artist-in-Residence
2020 Ernst von Siemens-Musikstiftung Composition Commission
2020 Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (1st prize)
2016 Johann-Joseph-Fux Opera Composition Prize Graz (1st prize)
2023.03 Premiere of Songs for Captured Voices at MaerzMusik 2023 by Elaine Mitchener and Ensemble KNM
2023.03 White Radiance™ performed at MaerzMusik 2023 by Elaine Mitchener and MAM
2023.03 tonus performed at Nowy Teatr, PL
2023.03 String Quartet No. 2 performed by Ensemble Garage at the German Academy Rome
2022.12 Premiere of «Seht meine Wunden… by Collegium Novum Zürich at the SONIC MATTER Festival
2022.10 String Quartet No. 2 performed by Ensemble Garage at the Frau Musica Nova Festival Cologne
2022.10 Premiere of Ray Ray of Light by Cantando Admont at Leechkirche Graz
2022.04 In Abeyance and String Quartet No. 2 at Radialsystem, Berlin
2022.03 Songs for Captured Voices performed at Künstlerhaus Wien, AU
2021.12 String Quartet No. 2 performed by NeoQuartet in Gdańsk, PL
2021.10 Premiere of In Abeyance by Ensemble KNM at Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
2021.09 Excerpt of BERGEN performed at Warsaw Autumn Festival
2021.05 String Quartet No. 2 premiered at Festiwal Musica Electronica Nova Wrocław by NeoQuartet
2021.02 Online-Premiere of Songs for Captured Voices at Radialsystem Berlin
2021.02 Ten Bullets Through One Hole performed at ECLAT Festival Stuttgart
2020.12 String Quartet No. 1 (Tubular–Mondo) performed by Sonar Quartett in Radialsystem Berlin
2020.11 Video-Interpretation of Stockhausen's "Musik für ein Haus" by Ensemble KNM for Weiwuying, Taiwan
2020.10 White Radiance™ premiered at Donaueschinger Musiktage by Elaine Mitchener and MAM
2020.08 The Body of Work for Ensemble Mosaik, premiered at AckerStadtPalast, Berlin
2019.11 tonus performed by Ensemble KNM at Gyeongsang National University, Jinju
2019.10 BERGEN performed at 3hd Festival at HAU2 Berlin
2019.09 Ten Bullets Through One Hole performed by Cantando Admont at Bruseum Graz
2019.09 We called it utopia performed by Kwadrofonik at Sacrum Profanum Festival Kraków
2019.09 BERGEN performed at Bergen Assembly / Parliament of Bodies
2019.08 OFFSHORE performed at Uferstudios Berlin
2019.08 BERGEN premiered at Ausufern Festival at Uferstudios Berlin
2019.05 We called it utopia premiered by Yarn/Wire at DiMenna Center, New York City
2019.03 Alles beginnt immer jetzt and tonus performed by Ensemble KNM at Uferstudios Berlin
2019.02 Contretemps/Soliloquy performed by Staatskapelle Weimar
2019.01 Contretemps/Soliloquy premiered by Zafraan at Ultraschall Festival Berlin
2018.12 Music for Hotelbars performed by Zafraan Ensemble at Waldorf Astoria Berlin
2018.09 OFFSHORE Suite performed by Callum G'Froerer at PROGR Bern
2018.09 still|arriving and microphase performed at Y-E-S Fest at Agora, Berlin
2018.08 Ten Bullets Through One Hole premiered by M. Schwier and R. Enticknap at Darmstädter Ferienkurse
2018.05 excyte premiered by Ensemble KNM Berlin at Poesiefestival, Akademie der Künste Berlin
2018.05 little moments of invisible deaths performed at Spectrum in Brooklyn, New York
2018.04 tonus performed by Ensemble KNM at Radialsystem Berlin
2018.04 HighWay performed at Live Arts Week, Bologna
2018.03 String Quartet No. 1 (Tubular–Mondo) premiered by JACK Quartet at Symphony Space, New York City
2018.02 OFFSHORE Suite performed by Callum G'Froerer at Unerhörte Musik at BKA Theater Berlin
2017.12 Alles beginnt immer jetzt premiered by Lester St. Louis at Issue Project Room, New York City
2017.11 OFFSHORE Suite performed by Callum G'Froerer at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
2017.11 tonus performed by Ensemble KNM at Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires
2017.10 OFFSHORE Suite performed by Callum G'Froerer at Tura New Music Festival, Perth
2017.10 OFFSHORE Suite performed by Callum G'Froerer at Flutgraben e.V. Berlin
2017.08 HighWay performed at Diver Festival Tel Aviv
2017.05 HighWay performed at FLAM Festival Amsterdam
2017.05 tonus performed by Ensemble KNM at Festiwal Musica Electronica Nova Wrocław
2016.12 HighWay premiered at Montag Modus, CHB Berlin
2016.10 PARADISE premiered at musikprotokoll / steirischer herbst 2016 in Graz
2016.10 UniSolo performed by Dustin Donahue at the Percussive Arts Society Convention, Indianapolis
2016.08 i found a space… performed at Darmstädter Ferienkurse
2016.06 still|arriving performed at Pacific Bodies at Flutgraben e.V. Berlin
2016.05 Zeichnung (ensemble version) performed by Zafraan Ensemble at Forum Wallis, Leuk
2016.04 little moments of invisible deaths performed at The Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, New York
2016.04 Zeichnung (ensemble version) performed by Ensemble Inverspace in Kuala Lumpur
2016.03 little moments of invisible deaths performed at The Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, New York
2016.03 Testomania premiered by Ekmeles at DiMenna Center, New York City
2015.12 Zeichnung performed at the Columbia Composers Electroacoustic Concert, New York
2015.10 Schichtung performed at Installakcje Festival, Warsaw
2015.09 Zeichnung (ensemble version) performed by Zafraan Ensemble at Kontraklang, Heimathafen Berlin
2015.07 Zeichnung at panIKEArth, Berlin
2015.05 tonus (solo version) premiered by Emmanuelle Bernard at Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater Berlin
2015.03 Zeichnung produced with and premiered by Miguel Pérez Iñesta at Cultural Center, Gijon
2014.11 tonus premiered by Schallfeld Ensemble at Minoritensäle, Graz
2014.05 Schichtung premiered by Zafraan Ensemble at reinhören Festival Münsterplatz, Basel
2014.04 UniSolo performed by Alexandre Babel from Ensemble KNM at rbb Galerienwanderung, Berlin
2013.12 OFFSHORE premiered by the International Contemporary Ensemble at Roulette, New York City
2013.10 UniSolo premiered by Dustin Donahue at UC San Diego
2013.03 Portrait concert by the International Contemporary Ensemble at The Kitchen, New York
2022.07 Musik Installationen Nuremberg, supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Kulturfonds Bayern and others
2022.09 Y-E-S Fest 2022 at Uferstudios, Berlin
2018.09 Y-E-S Fest 2018 at Agora, Berlin. Supported by Musikfonds
2017.10 Y-E-S collective/score publishing platform, co-founded with Stellan Veloce, Neo Hülcker, Andreas Dzialocha and Kaj Duncan David
2016.06 Pacific Bodies mini-festival at Flutgraben, Berlin. Supported by inm berlin
2014.08 The Darmstadt Forum III. The Debt of the Lucky: How to Deal With Funding? Debate at Darmstädter Ferienkurse co-curated with Patricia Martinez
2019.08 Die Textur des Lebens. Jennifer Walshe's "Everything is important" published in MusikTexte 162
2018.11 Jedes Wort ist Musik, published in MusikTexte 159
2017.08 Sein, wie wir sein wollen. Lose Gedanken zum Gesamtkunstwerk published in MusikTexte 154
2015/16 editorial work for John Cage/Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings published by MusikTexte Verlag
2015.10 Welche Objektivität? published in Frankfurt im Takt WS 2015/16
2015.05 Medienrevolution und Neuer Konzeptualismus published in MusikTexte 145
2014.08 Ein andauerndes Jetzt. Roger Reynolds im Gespräch, published in MusikTexte 142
2021.05 Portrait show at SRF2, Musik unserer Zeit. Listen here
2021.02 rbb Kultur Beitrag zu Songs for Captured Voices. Listen here
2021.02 SWR2 Mittagsjournal about the award for Ten Bullets Through One Hole. Listen here
2020.10 SWR2 Radiokonzert Donaueschinger Musiktage
2020.10 Interview in SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik. Listen here
2019.10 Portrait show at rbb Kultur, Musik der Gegenwart. Listen here
2020 Dissertation on Queer Composition. Subversive Strategies in Western Classical Music
2017 Listening Act as Responsible Listening: Looking at Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations through Speech Act Theory
2012 Fausto Romitelli: An Index of Metals. A Compositional Analysis
2011 Traces Through Time. Developments in Edgard Varèse’s Hyperprism, Intégrales and Déserts
2010 Liberating the signs: John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orcestra
2021 Columbia University Charles S. Miller Award
(distinction of the highest standard in Music Composition)
2019-20 Dissertation Fellowship Columbia University New York
2015 Dean’s Fellow Columbia University New York
2009 Dr. Bernhard Scheuble-Stipendium
2007 Oscar und Vera Ritter Stiftung
2021 Assistant Professor for Composition at University Mozarteum Salzburg
2020.S Music Humanities at Columbia University, New York
2019.F Undergraduate Composition at Columbia University, New York
2016.03 Masterclass at Bilkent University, Ankara
2009-11 Research Assistant at Warren Recording Studios at UC San Diego
2020 Columbia University New York. Doctorate in Music Composition, with George E. Lewis
2011 University of California San Diego. Master in Music Composition, with Roger Reynolds
2009/12 Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Diplom in Music Composition, with Beat Furrer
2007/09 Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Vordiplom in Piano and Conducting