Ruth Gramann(1969)

Ruth Gramann ( née Organ) was born in 1969 in Brighton, GB. She studied Music and French at Goldsmiths' College in London, where she specialized in composition and ethnomusicology. She received her Bachelor's degree in 1993. After teaching music, English and French in England, France, Japan and Germany for many years, she continued her composition studies with Professor Dr. Wolfgang Thiel (Hochschule für Musik «Hanns Eisler» Berlin) in 2007. In 2015, she received her masters in Composition from the University of Birmingham, UK under the tutelage of Michael Zev Gordon. She has written compositions for various ensembles, including choral and orchestral works.
Her style is influenced by contemporary music as well as jazz and folk music. Ruth currently lives in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
Ruth Gramann ( née Organ) was born in 1969 in Brighton, GB. She studied Music and French at Goldsmiths' College in London, where she specialized in composition and ethnomusicology. She received her Bachelor's degree in 1993. After teaching music, English and French in England, France, Japan and Germany for many years, she continued her composition studies with Professor Dr. Wolfgang Thiel (Hochschule für Musik «Hanns Eisler» Berlin) in 2007. In 2015, she received her masters in Composition from the University of Birmingham, UK under the tutelage of Michael Zev Gordon. She has written compositions for various ensembles, including choral and orchestral works. Her style is influenced by contemporary music as well as jazz and folk music. Ruth currently lives in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Contemporary art music is often brittle, mysterious and also extremely demanding in terms of playing technique, so that for amateurs it remains both unattractive and unattainable in terms of interpretation.
In her «5 Pieces» for viola and piano, Ruth Gramann shows that one can also compose tonal in 2010 and be influenced by jazz and folk without merely using the clichés of popular music. She succeeds in striking a happy balance between musical freshness and, above all, a rhythmically differentiated composition. The characters and situations mentioned in the titles of the respective pieces are effectively implemented with dancing rhythms, concise motifs or wide sweeping melodies and offer the good amateur grateful creative tasks. Due to their «youthful» tone, I consider these pieces a valuable addition to the repertoire of advanced music students, also with a view to the competitions «Jugend musiziert».