Vita
Karola Obermueller’s compositions, described by the New York Times as "hyperkinetic music”, are a constant search for the unknown. After obtaining composition degrees in Nuremberg, Saarbrücken, and the Mozarteum University Salzburg, her sense of rhythm and form was forever changed by studying Carnatic and Hindustani classical music in Chennai and Delhi, India.
Winner of the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis, she has received commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fromm Music Foundation, Ensemble Modern, International Contemporary Ensemble, Theater Bielefeld, Theater Bonn, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Saarländischer Rundfunk, and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. She has been a visiting artist at ZKM, Deutsche Akademie Rom, Centro Tedesco di studi Veneziani, Akademie Schloss Solitude, and IRCAM.
Since receiving a doctorate from Harvard University, Obermüller has co-directed the composition area of the music department at the University of New Mexico.
