Iris ter Schiphorst [SEP] occupation
Iris ter Schiphorst
Iris ter Schiphorst (born 22 May 1956) is a German composer and musician.
Early life.
Iris ter Schiphorst was born in Hamburg into a middle-class family, her father a Dutch technician and her mother a German pianist. She describes music as her "second mother tongue" ("zweite Muttersprache"). She began taking piano lessons, initially from her mother, after her early hopes of becoming a dancer were thwarted by injury.
She continued her piano studies at the
, February 2000.
- "Zerstören", Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, May 2006.
- "Vergeben: Bruchstücke zu Edgar Varèse", Festivals Musik der Zeit, November 2007.
Texts Interviews.
- "Gespräch mit Iris ter Schiphorst", in Karl-Heinz Blomann and Frank Sielecki (eds), "Hören: eine vernachlässigte Kunst" (Hofheim am Taunus: Wolke Verlag, 1997).
- "Gesamtkunstwerk aus Musik und Bildern: Iris ter Schiphorst und Helmut Oehring feilen an einer Filmmusik