Anne La Berge
"My work has been a life-long endeavor to expand the role of the flute and the flutist ... My current passion is composing music that uses performers as readers and improvisors."
Anne La Berge is a pioneer flutist/composer, working her entire career with interactive computer systems, microtonality, improvisation and as a leading interpreter of contemporary chamber music. Merike Vaitmaa (Muusika, Estonia) describes La Berge's technique: "different lip-positions, attacks, ways of breathing, distance from the microphone; everything has been foreseen and elaborated. Her textures are often two-voiced. It is all so complicated that it defies description and yet it sounds very natural, like a bird's song."
La Berge has been a regular guest performer and lecturer for music festivals, television, and radio in Europe and the United States, and she has been commissioned by the National Flute Association, Amsterdam Funds for the Arts, Rotterdams Improvisation Pool, and Utrechtse School. In addition to creating her own work, she regulary commissions artists to compose solo works for her with interactive/improvised music and video. She has received funding from the Dutch Gaudeamus Foundation, the Funds for Composers, and the Funds for the Amateur and Podium Arts. Her collaborators include composer / guitarist David Dramm, percussionist Yuko Suzuki, and the improvisation group 'aardvark'. She has performed with the Ensemble Modern, Frances Marie Uitti, and Gene Car, and her music has been recorded by BVHaast, Frog Peak, X-0r, and other labels.
Anne La Berge lives in Amsterdam and tours extensively.
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