{"id":7327,"date":"2020-05-31T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archiv-frau-musik.de\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2024-04-18T15:32:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:32:43","slug":"dr-vivienne-olive-zum-70-geburtstag-31-mai-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archiv-frau-musik.de\/en\/archives\/dr-vivienne-olive-zum-70-geburtstag-31-mai-2020","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Vivienne Olive celebrates her 70th birthday on May 31st, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dr.
Dr. Vivienne Olive \u00a9 Volker Blumenthaler<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

The Archive of Women in Music celebrates the composer Vivienne Olive<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Vivienne Olive<\/a>\u00a0is one of the most exciting composers of our time. Her oeuvre is comprised of more than 60 works ranging from solo recorder pieces to large-scale orchestral works and operas. Besides her compositional work, Vivienne Olive taught music theory and composition in Nuremberg until her retirement in 2015. In 2014, she was appointed honorary professor at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik in Nuremberg. Vivienne Olive celebrates her 70th birthday on May 31st<\/sup>, 2020.<\/p>\n

At seven years old, London-born Vivienne Olive began piano lessons and wrote her first compositions. By the time she was eighteen, she knew she wanted to be a composer. She dedicated herself to this pursuit, completing her associate diploma in piano, harpsichord, organ and music theory at Trinity College London, and earning a doctorate in composition from the University of York.<\/p>\n

As part of her compositional training, she spent a year in York studying with Bernard Rands. In the beginning of the 1970s, she studied with Franco Donatoni in Milan. She then studied for a time in Austria with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and subsequently came to Freiburg\/Breisgau for three years as a scholar of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). After her studies, she worked at a music school near Freiburg before assuming a position as a music theory lecturer in Nuremberg. There, she campaigned for composition to be an official subject of study. While in Freiburg, she became aware of the founding of a new organization \u2013 the International Working Group of Women and Music. She was present at its inaugural meeting in 1978 and has held a position on its board of directors in multiple capacities since 1995.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.
Dr. Vivienne Olive as a child \u00a9 private<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition to her work as a composer, Vivienne Olive founded\u00a0the Music Festival in the English village of Brixworth\/Northamptonshire\u00a0in 2014. As part of this festival, she initiated a women composers\u2019 competition. Vivienne Olive\u2019s current projects include a children\u2019s opera about plastic pollution and a new work for women\u2019s choir. She is also planning a meeting of women composers for autumn 2020.<\/p>\n

In its anniversary year 2019, the Archiv Frau und Musik (Archive of Women in Music) published an interview between Mary Ellen Kitchens and Vivienne Olive as part of a project with the\u00a0Digital German Women\u2019s Archive (DDF)<\/a>.\u00a0In this interview, Vivienne Olive discusses her life<\/a>, her relation to the women\u2019s (music) movement and her work as a lecturer and composer.<\/p>\n

As part of her commitment to the International Working Group of Women and Music, Vivienne Olive wrote numerous articles for\u00a0the in-house magazine\u00a0VivaVoce<\/em><\/a>. In addition to extensive discourse on women and music, she has made significant contributions to the analysis of works by women composers and performances thereof with a focus on instrumentation.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0VivaVoce<\/em>\u00a0100 contains a second interview by Mary Ellen Kitchens of Vivienne Olive on the occasion of her 65th birthday. In the\u00a0Compositions to go<\/em>\u00a0section of this edition,\u00a0Ghost Gums<\/em>, an excerpt from her work\u00a0Five Australian Landscapes<\/em>, was also published.<\/p>\n

She has had numerous compositions published, many of them by the\u00a0Kassel-based Furore-Verlag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The board of directors of the International Woman and Music Association and the entire team of the Archive of Women in Music congratulate Vivienne Olive on her 70th birthday and wish her all the best for the future!<\/em><\/p>\n

Selected publications of Vivienne Olive:<\/p>\n