Johanna Doderer
*18 September 1969
Works by Johanna Doderer
Biography
Johanna Doderer
The Vienna-based composer Johanna Doderer was born in Bregenz in 1969 and studied with Beat Furrer in Graz and then composition and music theory with Erich Urbanner and film and media composition with Klaus Peter Sattler in Vienna.
The focus of her work lies on opera. Besides many works for chamber music, she has also written several works for orchestra. Her compositions are performed throughout the world.
After grappling with tehniques of contemporary music for many years, she has found her own compositional language, which does not exclude tonality.
Johanna Doderer´s music has become established in the great musical centres of the world next to the classical and contemporary repertoires and has long has long been loved and enthusiastically interpreted by internationally successful artists throughout the world. Hence, her co-operation and friendship with eminent interpreters, starting with Patricia Kopatchniskaja, to whom she dedicated her own violin concerto (ORF CD), Konstantin Manaev, Marlis Petersen (CD), Angelika Kirchschlager, Yury Revich up to Harriet Krijgh, form the core of her work.
In 2014, Johanna Doderer was awarded the Ernst Krenek Prize oft he City of Vienna, the highest honour the City of Vienna can bestow in this category.
Honours and scholarships:
2001: Vienna Symphony Orchestra Scholarship
2002: Austrian State Scholarship for Composers
2002: Cultural Prize oft he City of Feldkirch
2002: Cultural Prize oft he City of Vienna
2004: SKE Publicity Prize
2004- 2005 Composers in Residence at the Wiener Concert-Verein
2012: Artist in Residence Teheran/Iran
2014: Ernst Krenek Prize
2020: Composition Prize of the federal state of Vorarlberg
2020: Culture Prize (music section) of the federal state of Niederösterreich
“I focus all my strength and concentration on writing down the music I have heard. Because this forms the foundation of my experienced life. Yes, I perceive the world through music and express the same world through written notes.
It is important for me to capture my audience with music, to touch people. I want people to be reminded of their own dreams and longings through music. Because, the world becomes larger and more beautiful through music.
Thus, numerous works have emerged in recent years: 2 symphonies, several orchestral works, song cycles and numerous pieces of chamber music. My work, however, is primarily focused on opera: Currently I am writing my 8th Opera, a commissioned work for the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich/D, Peter Turrini is writing the libretto for it. I'm currently writing a composition for the Musikverein Wien for the Beethoven year 2020.
The more I compose, the more I realize that ultimately it is all about expressing beauty in music. I have freed myself from the precepts of contemporary music as to what music should be. Ever since I made this decision, the musicians and the listeners love my music”
Johanna Doderer, 2020
About the music
“I focus all my strength and concentration on writing down the music I have heard. Because this forms the foundation of my experienced life. Yes, I perceive the world through music and express the same world through written notes.
It is important for me to capture my audience with music, to touch people. I want people to be reminded of their own dreams and longings through music. Because, the world becomes larger and more beautiful through music.
Thus, numerous works have emerged in recent years: 2 symphonies, several orchestral works, song cycles and numerous pieces of chamber music. My work, however, is primarily focused on opera: Currently I am writing my 8th Opera, a commissioned work for the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich/D, Peter Turrini is writing the libretto for it.
I'm currently writing a composition for the Musikverein Wien for the Beethoven year 2020.
The more I compose, the more I realize that ultimately it is all about expressing beauty in music. I have freed myself from the precepts of contemporary music as to what music should be. Ever since I made this decision, the musicians and the listeners love my music”