MADER, Dorothea

Since 2003, she has been composing for radio plays, video games, film, and television. After completing her studies in sound engineering at SAE Berlin, she founded the music publishing company “Maders kleine Musikbibliothek” with her father in 2007. She was a prize winner at the international “Crossover Composition Award 2009, Mannheim” (4th place), the “Siegburg Composition Competition 2010” organized by the Engelbert Humperdinck Society (1st place), and the international composition competition “Soli fan tutti 2011” at the Staatstheater Darmstadt (1st place). Numerous sheet music publications have followed.
She takes composition lessons at the UDK, among other places, as well as with Paul Mertens, and conducting lessons with Georgios Sfyridis at the Musikschule Mitte. In 2013, she founded “IYouWeBe,” a musical project promoting international understanding, with which she produced and released a CD in 2014 and received a grant from the Berlin Senate in 2016 to compose a concert jazz opera and perform it in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. “Take my Otherness”