Barbara Monk Feldman


Barbara Monk Feldman is a Canadian composer. She was born in 1953, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Education

She studied composition with Bengt Hambraeus at McGill University from 1980 to 1983 where she achieved her MMus and then at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. Following this, she earned her PhD at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York from 1984 to 1987 supported by the Edgard Varèse Fellowship. In Buffalo, she studied with the composer Morton Feldman, whom she married in 1987 just prior to his death from pancreatic cancer.

Works

Monk Feldman is fascinated by the relationship between sound and silence. She has written that she sees this relationship as

Stage

Pyramus and Thisbe
  • ''Io and Prometheus''

Orchestra

Design for String Orchestra
  • ''The Northern Shore for Percussion, Piano and Chamber Orchestra''

Chamber

Movement for Solo Viola Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano Variations for Six String Instruments Two Flutes and Vibraphone Duo for Piano and Percussion The Immutable Silence Pure Difference Shadow Three Clarinets and Percussion Verses for Metal, Wood and Drums Verses for Five The Northern Shore Verses for Vibraphone Pour un nuage violet Proche et lointaine...la femme Glockenspiel The Loons of Black Sturgeon Lake String Quartet, 'Desert-Scape' The Chaco Wilderness The Pale Blue Northern Sky Landscape Near La Pocatière, Québec
  • ''A Veil for Time''

Choral

Variations for String Quartet and Chorus Infinite Other

Vocal

The Gentlest Chord Three Poems by Wallace Stevens
  • ''The Love Shards of Sappho''

Selected discography