Maria de Alvear (born 1960 in Madrid) is a Spanish-German composer with a Spanish father and a German mother. She studied with Mauricio Kagel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and completed a course in new music theatre there in 1986. She lives in Germany. Her piece Asking (2003), written for the pianist Eve Egoyan and released on Mode, is a single movement of 53 minutes with an open structure that leaves many decisions to the performer.
Maria de Alvear (born 1960 in Madrid) is a Spanish-German composer with a Spanish father and a German mother. She studied with Mauricio Kagel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and completed a course in new music theatre there in 1986. She lives in Germany. Her piece Asking (2003), written for the pianist Eve Egoyan and released on Mode, is a single movement of 53 minutes with an open structure that leaves many decisions to the performer.