Susan Frykberg

Susan Frykberg (born 10 October 1954) is a New Zealand music educator and electroacoustic composer.

Life

Susan Frykberg was born in Hastings, New Zealand, and studied at the University of Canterbury. She continued her studies at the University of Otago and Simon Fraser University with John Rimmer, Barry Vercoe, Barry Connyngham, Iannis Xenakis and Barry Truax.

She moved to Canada in 1979 where she taught for seven years in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and served as a guest lecturer at The Ontario College of Art, Toronto, and Emily Carr College, Vancouver. She taught electroacoustic music at Auckland University in 1989. She has one son.[1][2]

Works

Frykberg composes electroacoustic works. Selected compositions include:

Her works have been recorded and issued on media including:

References

  1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA178&dq=Susan+Frykberg+(born+1954)&hl=en&ei=KBADTeTIOsO88gbl8fTsAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 4 October 2010. 
  2. ^ Cummings, David M. (2000). International who's who in music and musicians' directory. 
  3. ^ Rubin, Anna. "Susan Frykberg: Astonishing Sense of being taken over by something far greater than me". Computer Music Journal. http://vorlon.case.edu/~dak6/comp_musc/p74_s.pdf. Retrieved 11December 2010.