Heidi Baader-Nobs

Heidi Baader-Nobs (born 5 December 1940) is a Swiss composer. She was born in Delémont, and studied violin and piano at school before training as a teacher at the Ecole Normale in Delémont. She later studied composition and music theory with Robert Suter and Jacques Wildberger at the Basle Musik-Akademie.^[1][2] In 2018 Baader-Nobs was commissioned to compose a piece for the Festival frauenkomponiert (Women Composed) 2018.

Life

Heidi Baader-Nobs was born Heidi Nobs on 5 December 1940 in Delémont, Switzerland.^[1] She studied violin and piano at school, and then trained as a teacher at the Ecole Normale in Delémont.^[3] Baader-Nobs first trained in violin at the Basel Music Academy under Rodolfo Felicani, but after recurrent problems with inflammation of her right arm, she gave up playing violin.^[4] She studied composition and music theory with Robert Suter and Jacques Wildberger, also at the Basel Music Academy.^[1][2] Baader-Nobs compositions use dodecaphonic (twelve-tone) and serial techniques.^[1] Later works show her interest in graphic scores.^[1] Her compositions are considered to be influenced by the work of Pierre Boulez and Iannis Xenakis.^[3] Baader-Nobs has composed for orchestra, chamber orchestra, piano, electronic keyboard, and has also written vocal music.^[3]

Baader-Nobs was commissioned to compose a piece for the Festival frauenkomponiert (Women Composed) 2018. Baader-Nobs composed the piece Evasion, scored for solo viola and orchestra.^[4] The piece premiered on 11 March 2018, at the French Church (Französische Kirche), Berne.^[4][5]

Baader-Nobs settled in Allschwil, and is married to Claudius Baader and has three children.^[4] She interrupted her career in the 1970s to meet her family responsibilities, but later returned to composing in 1980.^[6]

Works

Selected works by Baader-Nobs include:

• Duo (1986)
• Bifurcation for tuba and piano^[3]