Ellen Hünigen-Schmidt

  • From 1984 to 1989, composition and piano studies with Gerhard Tittel and Dieter Brauer at Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, from 1989 to 1991, master scholar in composition with Friedrich Goldmann at Berlin Academy of Arts
  • Participation in Esztergom Summer University, Gera Vacation Course for Contemporary Music (prize for composition), International Bartok Seminar and Festival Szombathely in Hungary
  • Courses in performance practice in music of the middle ages (Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Switzerland) with Burkard Wehner, Kathleen Dineen, Eric Mentzel, Maria Jonas and Rebecca Stewart, participation in harpsichord and clavichord courses with A. Thalheim, P. Simmonds, M. Meyerson, C. Verhelst, H. Hoeren and J. Tuma as well as musicology studies at Humboldt University of Berlin
  • From 2008 to 2011, member of “Schriftbildlichkeit” graduate college at Freie Universität of Berlin, currently writing dissertation in music handwritings of the 12th century
  • Since 1990, freelance composer with performances in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and USA
  • Member of vocal ensemble VOX NOSTRA (middle ages, renaissance) and Musikalischer Religionsdialog
  • CD releases of “Assumpta est Maria” with VOX NOSTRA and “Percussion für 6 Spieler” with the Leipzig Percussion Ensemble
  • Awarded the Berlin-Rheinsberg Composition Prize as well as several scholarships from Akademie Solitude, the Berlin Senate and Stiftung Kulturfonds der neuen Bundesländer
  • Teacher at “Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach” Music College Berlin and various institutions in piano and music theory
  • Since 1990, Teacher for Compositional Technique and Ear Training at Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin
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