Background
Erika Radermacher was born in Eschweiler, near Aachen.
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Erika Radermacher
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She studied music with Else Schmitz-Gohr in Cologne, Bruno Seidlhofer in Vienna and voice with Sylvia Gähwiller in Zurich.
Career
After completing her studies, she performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe. Radermaker married Urs Peter Schneider and settled in Bern and Biel, where she taught at the Conservatory of Music in Bern and sang as a soprano with the. After 1970 she became more interested in composition.
She works as a lecturer in piano at the Bern University of Arts and also teaches piano, theory and improvisation in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Achievements
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Two prizes, British American Tobacco competition for new chamber music, 1982 Music Prize of the Canton of Bern, 1983 (with Schneider) Prize of the German Culture Industry Group First Prize in the Summer Academy in Salzburg Beethoven Competition prize in Vienna Mozart Prize in Dortmund 1963 Austrian State Prize, 1963.
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Germany