SENKER, Meike

Meike Senker is a composer based in Leipzig.

Her compositions cover a wide spectrum, including chamber music, choral pieces, vocal music, music theater, large ensemble, film music, electronic music, solo pieces, compositions with improvisation, performances and compositions for amateurs.

Meike Senker’s pursued her composition studies in Cologne and Freiburg with Professor Johannes Schöllhorn. Her pieces have been performed in Germany, South Korea, Bulgaria, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France as well as festivals like Acht Brücken (Cologne), Festival Aux Chandelles (France), Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea (Chile), March Music Days (Ruse), Opening Festival (Trier), Kasseler Musiktage. She has received composition commissions from ensemble recherche, Ensemble Garage, Collegium Iuvenum Stuttgart, Latenzensemble, Ensemble S201, Ensemble Rot, Ensemble CRUSH, GEDOK, the Landesjugendensemble Neue Musik Baden-Württemberg, Neues Zeug/Carl Bechstein Competition, Duo Markowitsch – Vlad, Arrangements für Damascus String Quintet (Members of Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra) or Orchestra of Folkwang Music school as well as commissions by soloists such as Klaus Steffes-Holländer, Carlos Cordeiro, Annette Rießner, Nicola Yasmin Stock, Christian Tölle, Julian Schlitzer.