Elisabeth Fußeder

Elisabeth Fußeder was born in Munich in 2000 and made her first contacts with composer Rodolphe Haimann in her hometown of Freising. She graduated with honours from the musication vocational school for music in Nuremberg in 2018.

The composer has already been commissioned to write works for the via-nova-chor Munich, the Ensemble rechérche, the Bundesjugendchor, the festival code modern, the Bayerischer Landesjugendchor, the Basel ensemble False relationships and the extended ending and the Mädchenkantorei at Freiburg Minster, among others. In 2024, projects with the vocal ensemble Lauschwerk, the Stuttgart Philharmonic and once again the German National Youth Choir will follow. Elisabeth Fußeder's composition may-be-peace for five voices received the special prize of the Valentin Becker Competition in 2022. In 2023, in tenebris for mixed choir was honoured with a prize at the randspiele Zepernick composition competition. Her works have also won several prizes at the Jugend komponiert Bayern competition under the artistic direction of composer Minas Borboudakis.

Driven by her passion for choirs, Elisabeth Fußeder is a member of several ensembles, including founding member of the vocal sextet "Chiave", which has won several special prizes at national level. Since October 2020, she has been studying composition with Prof. Brice Pauset and aural training with Prof. Konrad Georgi at the Freiburg University of Music.

We asked the composer 6 questions, read them here in our blog: https://blog.carus-verlag.com/en/personalities/6-questions-for-elisabeth-fusseder/