Patricia Jünger is a Swiss-Austrian

Austrians

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 multi-media artist, conductor, sound director and composer

Composer

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Biography

Patricia Jünger was born in during an airplane trip from Dublin to Vienna

Vienna

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, at a stop in Frankfurt am Main and has Swiss and Austrian

Austrians

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 citizenship. Jünger studied piano, organ, composition and directing in Frankfurt am Main, Vienna and Paris

Paris

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. She completed her studies in 1977 and then became a full-time composer. Recently she has leaned toward more electroacoustic works.

Honors and awards

• Theodor Körner Prize for Composition, 1979
• Vienna Cultural Foundation Prize, 1979
• Scholarship from the Viennese Alban Berg Foundation, 1980
• Scholarship from Basel's Paul Sacher Foundation, 1980
• Bursary for composition by the Austrian state, 1981 and 1983
• Sabbatical year for composition, canton of Aargau, 1983
• Karl Sczuka Prize from SWF Baden-Baden, 1986, for the radio play 'Sehr geehrter Herr - ein Requiem'

Works

Selected works include:

• Sehr geehrter Herr - ein Requiem radio play, (1986)
• Transmitter
• Valse éternelle – ein Brief radio play
• Muttertagsfeier oder Die Zerstückelung des weiblichen Körpers, (1984)
• Erziehung eines Vampirs radio play, (1986)
• Die Klavierspielerin opera, (1988)

Jünger's works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• Patricia Jünger Eva Csapo, Collegium Musicum Zürich, Audio CD (October 31, 2006), Musiques Suisses, ASIN: B000J10K4Q
• Die Klavierspielerin Der Audio Verlag, Dav; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (September 2005) ISBN 3898134792
• Bright light for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, drums & orchestra Audio CD, Release date: 4.8.2006, Label: MGB, DDD, 1989