Biography
Barblina Meierhans creates works in the disciplines of contemporary music, music theatre and sound art.
She studied composition at the Dresden University of Music, viola, experimental music theatre and transdisciplinarity at the Bern University of the Arts and violin at the Zurich University of the Arts. She has been inspired in her composition method by the composition method of Prof. Mark Andre, Prof. Manos Tsangaris and Georges Aperghis. Her works have mainly been played in German-speaking Europe, sometimes also in Argentina, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, India, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain, South Korea, the UK, and were part of, among others, the Lucerne Festival, Spor Festival, Kammer Klang London, Münchener Biennale, Ultraschall Berlin, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Festival Archipel, Festival Internacional de Musica Tacec, New Talents Biennale Cologne, and Tonlagen Festival Dresden. She has received several fellowships and awards including the Villa Serpentara Fellowship of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the Werkjahr “Komposition” of Zurich - City of Culture, the promotion prize for young composers and musicologists dkv Leipzig, residencies in Bangalore and New Delhi by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, art residency at the Cité international des arts in Paris, studio residency in Rome by Canton of St. Gallen, art residency at the NAIRS Contemporary Art Center, and the Trächsel scholarship BEST. For some time past, Barblina Meierhans became involved on different levels in the fields of teaching and artistic research, and she has given workshops.