Hildegard Kleeb (born 1957 in , Willisau District) is a

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Life and works

After her first

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and

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lessons in music school in

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, she studied piano under Cécile Hux and oboe under Hans-Martin Ulbrich at Zurich

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from 1978 to 1982. She also studied later under Eric Gaudibert in

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, under

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and under Jürg Wyttenbach at the

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. In 1990, she was a visiting scholar at the academy of plastic arts in Helsinki and from 1992 to 1995 at the

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in the United States, where she also worked in Anthony Braxton

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and in

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nesian

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orchester. She began to work there with

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and Christian Wolff. She is married with the

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Performer / pianist

Kleeb is an international performer of

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and improvisator. She has performed in the following institutions and events: Archipel Festival Genève, Musikfestwochen Luzern,

Donaueschingen Festival The Donaueschingen Festival (german: Donaueschinger Musiktage, links=no) is a festival for new music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen in south-western Germany. Founded in 1921, it is considered the oldest festiva ...

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, Knitting Factory NYC, Gesellschaft für akustische Lebenshilfe Kiel, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Bludenzer Tage für Neue Musik, Musiktage Rümlingen, Merkin Concert Hall NYC, Theater Casino Zug, Pori Art Museum, Concert Hall Göteborg, Crowell Concert Hall Wesleyan University Connecticut, The Kitchen NYC, Kunsthaus Zug, Kunstmuseum Cacéres E, Kunstmuseum Badajos E, Madrid Concert Hall, Ballhaus Berlin, Swiss Institut NYC, Kunstmuseum Boros, Yale University Gallery,

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Wien, Künstlerbegegnungen St.Lambrecht A, Museu Serralves Porto. Kleeb has participated in the first performances of

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, Daniel Wolf and Christian Wolff. Interdisciplinary collaboration with the visual artists like Stephane Brunner, Philippe Deléglise, Inge Dick, Daniela Keiser and Roman Singer.

Works and projects

* Since 1987 duo with Roland Dahinden * Since 1992 trio Dahinden-Kleeb-Polisoidis * Since 2003 duo with Pelayo Fernandez Arrizabalaga

References

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