Barbara Monk

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.

Stage

Pyramus and Thisbe (2010) Io and Prometheus (2019)

Orchestra

Design for String Orchestra (1980) The Northern Shore for Percussion, Piano and Chamber Orchestra (2018)

Chamber

Movement for Solo Viola (1979) Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1984) Variations for Six String Instruments (1986) Two Flutes and Vibraphone (1987) Duo for Piano and Percussion (1988) The Immutable Silence (1990) Pure Difference (1990) Shadow (1991) Three Clarinets and Percussion (1994) Verses for Metal, Wood and Drums (1994) Verses for Five (1996) The Northern Shore (1997) Verses for Vibraphone (1997) Pour un nuage violet (1998) Proche et lointaine...la femme (2001) Glockenspiel (2004) The Loons of Black Sturgeon Lake (2004) String Quartet, 'Desert-Scape''' (2004) The Chaco Wilderness (2005) The Pale Blue Northern Sky (2007) Landscape Near La Pocatière, Québec (2007) A Veil for Time (2020)

Choral

Variations for String Quartet and Chorus (1987) Infinite Other (1992) Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, I, II (2014)

Vocal

The Gentlest Chord (1991) Three Poems by Wallace Stevens (1997) The Love Shards of Sappho'' (2001)

Selected discography

Strings, Keyboard, Percussion, Voices, Horn (2008) Barbara Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore; Aki Takahashi, Sabat/Clarke, Dirk Rothbrust (2012) Barbara Monk Feldman: Soft Horizons; Aki Takahashi, FLUX Quartet, The DownTown Ensemble (2015) 'Verses'; GBSR Duo (Siwan Rhys & George Barton) with Mira Benjamin (2021)