Erika Radermacher

Erika Radermacher (born 16 April 1936) is a Swiss pianist, soprano and composer. She won prizes in Germany and Austria for her piano performances, including the Mozart Prize, the Austrian State Prize and the Beethoven Competition prize, and played throughout Europe. She taught at the Conservatory of Music in Bern, and at the Bern University of Arts, and sang with the Ensemble Neue Horizonte. Some of her works have been recorded by Swiss radio. Radermacher has also taught in Bulgaria. Biography Erika Radermacher was born in Eschweiler, near Aachen, in Germany on 16 April 1936. She studied music with Else Schmitz-Gohr in Cologne, Bruno Seidlhofer in Vienna and voice with Sylvia Gähwiller in Zurich. After completing her studies, she won major prizes in Germany and Austria for her piano performance, and went on to perform as a soloist and chamber musician in Europe. After 1970 she became more interested in composition. Some of her works have been recorded by Swiss radio. In 1983 Radermacher and Schneider won the Bernese music prize. Honors and awards *Two prizes, BAT competition for new chamber music, 1982 *Music Prize of the Canton of Bern, 1983 (with Schneider) *Prize of the German C