KLAUS, Isabel

Isabel Klaus is a Spanish-born composer and oboist based in Basel, Switzerland. Isabel studied the oboe under Omar Zoboli at Basel University of Music from 1996 until 2001. Between 2001 and 2006 she attended composition and theory courses under Roland Moser, Detlev Müller-Siemens and Balz Trümpy.

She has been commissioned to create compositions for the twentieth anniversary of the Musikschule Basel's Kolpinghaus, and for the first composition workshop of Gare du Nord Basel. In 2007, she completed a work for the Mondrian Ensemble, to be performed at the ‘Lange Nacht’ in Bern. Isabel has also written for innov'ensemble, Hark!, Red poles, Viviane Chassot, Ensemble Phoenix, Kammerorchester Basel, and Sinfonietta Basel. In 2011 her theatre project Grandeur Nature, performed at the Gare du Norde Basel, was chosen for a year of Experience Scheme offered by the Christoph Delz Foundation.