Background
Patricia Jünger was born during an airplane trip from Dublin to Vienna, at a stop in Frankfurt am Main and has Swiss and Austrian citizenship.
Patricia Jünger was born during an airplane trip from Dublin to Vienna, at a stop in Frankfurt am Main and has Swiss and Austrian citizenship.
Jünger studied piano, organ, composition and directing in Frankfurt am Main, Vienna and Paris. She completed her studies in 1977 and then became a full-time composer.
Recently she has leaned toward more electroacoustic works.
Theodor Körner Prize for Composition, 1979 Vienna Cultural Foundation Prize, 1979 Scholarship from the Viennese Alban Berg Foundation, 1980 Scholarship from Basel"s Paul Sacher Foundation, 1980 Bursary for composition by the Austrian state, 1981 and 1983 Sabbatical year for composition, canton of Aargau, 1983 Karl Sczuka Prize from SWF Baden-Baden, 1986, for the radio play "Sehr geehrter Herr - ein Requiem".