Carola Bauckholt is a German composer. She was born in Krefeld

Krefeld

Krefeld , also known as Crefeld until 1929, is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, its centre lying just a few kilometres to the west of the River Rhine; the borough of Uerdingen is situated directly on the Rhine...

, Germany

Germany

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, She worked at the theater at the Marienplatz in Krefeld and studied music with Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...

 the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1978-84.

Bauckholt co-founded Thürmchen Verlag in 1985, a publishing house in Cologne

Cologne

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, and in 1991 co-founded the Thürmchen ensemble, also in Cologne. In 1990-91, she attended the Stuttgart Academy on scholarship, in 1992 the Schreyahn Artists' Colony in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

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 and in 1997 the Villa Massimo in Rome

Rome

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Honors and awards

• Female Artists' Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia (1998)
• Young Composers of North Rhine-Westphalia
• BA Zimmermann Today
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann Grant from the City of Cologne
• World Music Days (1987)
• Cologne-New York Exchange (1989)
• West German Radio Competition (1989)
• Carl Maria von Weber Competition (Dresden 1992/3)
• Orchestral Gedok International Competition (1994)
• Stuttgart Composers 'Competition (second prize)
• Boswil International Composers' Competition (second prize)
• Chosen for the World Music Days in Copenhagen (1996)
• Chosen for Seoul (1997)
• Chosen for Blue Bridge in Dresden (1996)

Works

Selected works include:

• Grave (1982)
• Der gefaltete Blick (1984)
• Das klagende Leid (1985)
• Polizeitrieb (1985)
• Trio (1988/89)
• erinnern vergessen (1989)
• 3 Sätze für Blechbläserquintett (1989)
• Schraubdichtung (1989/90)
• langsamer als ich dachte (1990)
• mehr oder weniger (1991)
• In gewohnter Umgebung I (1991)
• offen und beweglich (1992)
• Geräusche (1992)
• Luftwurzeln (1993)
• Klarinettentrio (1993)
• Streichtrio (1994)
• Pumpe (1994)
• vertraute Rätsel (1995/96)
• Doina (1996)
• Kurbel und Wolke (1997)
• Stachel der Empfindlichkeit (1997/98)
• nein allein (1999/2000)
• Nestwärme (2000)
• Atempause (2000/01)
• streicheln (2001)
• nachts – drei Frauenstimmen im Taxi (2004)
• Vollmond, unter null (2004)
• Gegenwind (2004)
• hellhörig (2004–2007), premiered at the Munich Biennale
  Munich Biennale
  The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...
  
  2008
• Instinkt (2007)
• Vormittagsspuk (2008)

Discography

• Treibstoff / Zopf / Streichtrio / Luftwurzeln / Klarinettentrio / Schraubdichtung / sottovoce / mehr oder weniger (Wergo, 1997)
• Gesang und Geräusch (Timescraper, 1998)
• hellhörig (Coviello, 2010)
• Instinkt, Kugel, Geräuschtöne, Nein allein, Cellotrio, Schraubdichtung (Coviello, 2010)