Biography
Annesley Black is a Canadian composer based in Frankfurt am Main. Her works span from purely instrumental music, electronics, video performance from orchestra and chamber music to theatre, solo performances and installations. She has appeared as an improviser and sound-director in Canada, Austria, Switzerland and in Germany. Her collaborations with renowned artists range from film, dance and theatre productions to multi-media art installations/ performances. While exploring an unusual breadth of innovative settings, themes and concepts, she persists in embodying these in an intricate, expressive and distinct musical language.
She has received many distinctions for her work, including the Busoni Award from the Academy of the Arts, Berlin (2008), the Kompositionspreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (2009) and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Composer Prize (2019). In 2018 she was nominated as a member of the music section of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin and the Canadian Music Centre.
Her works have been commissioned and performed by international ensembles and orchestras such as the Hessian Radio Orchestra, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Musikfabrik, ensemble mosaik, ensemble recherche, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne de Montréal and ensemble asamisima for festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warshaw Autumn Festival, Wittener Days of New Chamber Music, Éclat Festival and Festival Ultima, Oslo.
Annesley Black studied electronic music and jazz guitar at Concordia University, composition with Brian Cherney, York Höller and Mathias Spahlinger, electroacoustic composition with Hans-Ulrich Humpert and Orm Finnendahl at Mcgill University, the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She teaches composition and interdisciplinary projects at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and electroacoustic composition at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory Frankfurt.
(ACIMC) in Paris.