Regina Irman is a Swiss musician, music educator and composer

Composer

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Early life

Regina Irman was born in Winterthur

Winterthur

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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. In 1976 she studied music at the Winterthur Conservatory, and in 1982 received her teacher's diploma with guitar

Guitar

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 as principal instrument. She also began to study percussion, and in 1995 received a concert diploma with distinction for percussion.

Her first compositions were made while she was studying the guitar, and after 1983 she composed for a number of commissions, including the city of Zurich, the cultural foundation Pro Helvetia, the Women's Congress of Bern, the Swiss Youth Music Competition, and various ensembles. She spent a sabbatical year in Zurich, and has performed in Switzerland

Switzerland

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, Germany

Germany

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, Italy

Italy

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, France

France

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 and Ukraine

Ukraine

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. She also works as a drummer and instrumental teacher. She is a lecturer at the Pädagogischen Hochschule Thurgau.

Works

Irman has composed solo pieces, chamber music, choral works, and for music theater.

Selected works include:

• Hill at Ceret (1983) for 2 violas and double bass
• Speculum (1984) for 4 clarinets in Eb, percussion (2), Sisyphus machine, mirrors and colored lights backdrop
• From reflective ice (1984) for four clarinets
• Floor (los) (1985) for three violins
• Melody 1 (1985) for quarter-tone guitar or other instruments with a clear intonation possibility
• Melody 2 (1985) for Untertonflöte or other instruments
• A dada = foreign songs sheet (1985–1986) Based on texts by Adolf Wolfli (mezzo soprano) and piano
• Piano songs, which deal with misunderstanding of the Swiss.
• Wind Chimes (1986) for piano
• Numbers (1986) for piano
• A Funeral March (1987) trio for percussion and spoken voice
• Black Happiness (1988–1989) for partially prepared piano
• Passacaglia (1989–1990) for Clarinet in A
• Chopin in the vertical (1991) for speaker, piano, timpani and tapes
• Requiem to the Death "(1991-1993) for 25 women's voices, text: Akhmatova
• Masquerade (1993)Eight pieces for mixed choir
• Mirror Dance (1993) for 2 recorders and drums
• Words (1995) Saxophone Ensemble and percussion
• Association Office (1995) for solo percussion (chimes, cymbals and metal objects)
• "... Like a grasshopper on the seas ..." (1995–1996) for large mixed chorus and tape strips
• Table with bird feet (1996) for tape alone
• Five speech-sound-objects (1996) for solo percussion (vibraphone, percussion Klein, speaking) Based on texts by Sonja Sekula.
• Subjects (1996) for piano four hands
• Three Dances (1996–1997) for soprano, speaking voice/ piano, clarinet and accordion Text: Anna Akhmatova
• Sculptures (for Bruce Naumann) (1997) for quarter-tone-viol quartet
• Otto mane (1999) for speaker, soprano, piano and bass drum text: ETA Hoffmann
• Orfeo (1999–2000) for 5 players (also version for tape)
• Surdina (1999–2000) for alto solo Texts: Cecilia Meireles
• Black happiness 2 (1990–2001) for percussion quartet
• Landscapes (2003) Five Pieces for percussion sextet 1. Snow landscape, 2. Frost flowers, 3. Mechanical landscape, cut up, 4. Eisgitter, amorphous, 5. Mechanical landscape, rotating
• Ten short pieces based on themes by Bach and Biber (2004) for (baroque) violin solo
• According to Fields (2006–2007) for 8 women's voices with percussion and light sources
• Lines (2006–2007) for 2 soprano trombones and 2 alto trombones