Sylke Zimpel (born 10 September 1959) is a German composer, choral conductor and lecturer.
Life
Born in
Dresden
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, Zimpel studied at the Cottbus conservatory from 1971 to 1978. She then studied composition at the
Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
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with
Karl-Rudi Griesbach and
Wilfried Krätzschmar until 1983. She studied further at the
Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar
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The Hochschule
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, with Jürgen Puschbeck from 1990 to 1993, followed by a year of studies in choral conducting at the
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in
Lyon
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with Nicole Corti-Lyant and
Bernard Tétu.
She founded in 1986 the chorbühne TRITONUS (Choral stage
tritone
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), and has conducted its choir. The ensemble achieved awards for performances of staged musical programs. In 1995, she founded the women's choir called femmes vocales, which she has also conducted.
As a composer, she focused on choral works for mixed choirs and women's choirs, including arrangements of folksongs from Eastern Europe including several Yiddish songs.
Awards
* Fellowship of
Saxony
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at
Schloss Wiepersdorf in both 1998 and 2002
* First prize at the composition competition of the Chorverband Niedersachsen/Bremen in the category women's choir (2001)
* Fellowship at
Villa Massimo
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The fellowship of the German Academy in Rome, often referred to as the German Rome P ...
(2007)
References
External links
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chorbühne TRITONUSfemmes vocales
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zimpel, Sylke
German choral conductors
20th-century German classical composers
1959 births
Living people
Musicians from Dresden
Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar alumni
20th-century German composers
21st-century German composers
21st-century German classical composers
German women conductors (music)
20th-century German conductors (music)
21st-century German conductors (music)
20th-century German women composers
21st-century women composers