Charlotte Seither

Charlotte Seither is a German composer, born in Landau in der Pfalz in 1965. She studied composition, piano, German studies and musicology in Hanover and Berlin, with teachers including Frank Michael Beyer, Friedrich Goldmann and Aribert Reimann, and took a doctorate in 1998. In 1995 she became the first German to win first prize at the Prague Spring international composition competition. Her music centres on small, finely detailed sound events.