is a Canadian composer based in Germany and Austria. Her  works span from instrumental music to electronics and video  performances, from orchestra and chamber music to theatre,  solo performances and installations. She has appeared as a performer, improviser and sound-director in Canada, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. Her cooperations with renowned artists  range from film, dance and theatre productions to multimedia  art installations/performances. While exploring an extraordinary  breadth of innovative settings, themes and concepts, she persists in embodying these in an intricate, expressive and distinct  musical language.

Black has received many honours for her work including  the Busoni Award from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (2008),  Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart (2009), and Ernst von  Siemens Foundation Composer Prize (2019). She is a member of  the Academy of the Arts, Berlin and the Canadian Music Centre (2018). Her works have been commissioned and performed  by both younger and internationally established ensembles and  orchestras for festivals such as the Donaueschinger Musiktage,  Warsaw Autumn, Witten Days for New Chamber Music, ECLAT,  Ultraschall Berlin, Ostrava Days, and Ultima.

Black studied composition with Brian Cherney, York Höller, and  Mathias Spahlinger, at McGill University, High School of Music  and Dance in Cologne, and High School of Music in Freiburg.  She has held positions as an assistant professor in composition at  the High School of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am  Main, a guest professor at the High School of Music and Dance  in Cologne, and professor for electroacoustic composition at  the High School of Music in Würzburg. She currently teaches  at the University of Arts in Graz, where she was appointed professor for composition in October 2023.

Selected works: FIGHT for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon  and horn (2002–3), Folds Dependent for string quartet (2003),  Miniature for saxophone quartet (2005), LAUF for flute, oboe,  clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass  (2005), maiko for viola (2006), aorko for viola and live digital signal processing / live electronics (2006–9), Rock Paper Scissors for  bass clarinet, trombone and double bass (2006), 4238 De Bullion  for piano and live digital sound and video processing (2007–8),  Smooche de la Rooche II – Variations on a theme by Hazel Meyer  for three athletically inclined percussionists and electronics  (2007), Humans in Motion for trumpet, trombone, guitar/banjo,  piano, two percussionists and cello (2007–8), Anstalt. Musik zum  Film “Kino Eye” Dziga Vertov, Kptl. 6 for oboe, clarinet, horn,  piano, percussion, violin, cello, double bass and film (2007), scissors for trombone (2008), tender pink descender for two contrabass  clarinets (2009), Moment- performatives Spazieren. Musik zum  Film von Yukihiro Taguchi for violin, percussion and piano (2009),  industrial drive for trombone quartet (2009–10), don’t spray snow  on the other person’s grave, sound installation for 16 loudspeakers  (2009–10), dreimal Fulda mit ohne radiophonic composition with  Robin Hoffmann (2009), snow job for flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello and light sequencer  (2010), Moment – Curitiba – Vorspiel for flugelhorn, euphonium,  piano, two percussionists, guitar and cello (2010; rev. for two  contrabass clarinets, 2011), PULL THE PLUG sound and video  installation involving five loudspeakers in an aquarium, projected  images, bathtub, aquarium and water circulation (2009–12),  SCHLAEGERMUSIK for badminton team and live digital signal  processing (2010), misinterpreting the 2008 south sudanese budget  reform for the orchestra for large orchestra (2011–12), Earl Brown’s  Forgotten Piece in Moholy-Nagy’s Light-Space-Modulator for piano  and live electronics with live-controlled video playback (2012),  Jenny’s last rock for ensemble and five cassette players (2012; rev.  for nine musicians, 2012–13), a piece that is a size that is recognised as not a size but a piece for piano and optional text/image  or calendar projection (2013), GURU-GURU- Doppelrequiem  für Steve Jobs und Karlheinz Stockhausen for trumpet, trombone, two percussionists, piano / synthesizer / sampler, electric  guitar and cello (2013), flowers of carnage for 15–25 teenagers, instruments, voice, Kung-Fu fighters, solo Wii-stick manipulator  and live electronics (2013; youth-performance version: Flowers of  Carnage – eine Kung-Fu Performance, 2013–14), stiff upper lip for  bass clarinet (2014, rev. 2018), HAMMER HAMMER for piano,  percussion and live electronics with samples from piano-building  factories (2014–17; abridged version, 2020), ROOMS for tenor  saxophone, piano/toy piano, guitar, viola and live electronics  (2014–15), SOLOPOLY, music theatre for five percussionists and  live electronics (2014–15), tolerance stacks – excerpts for clarinet,  soprano, percussion, piano, No-Input-Mixer, live electronics, analogue electronic instruments and live video/light/image installation (2015–19), Shadow Music for clarinet, saxophone, piano,  percussion, electric guitar and three shadow-makers (2015–16),  tolerance stacks for soprano, two saxophones, percussion, piano/ synthesizer, live electronics, playback and media installation  (2015–16), immolate yourself on the wires for No-Input-Mixer  (2016), tolerance stacks – concert version for saxophone with  turntables, saxophone with No-Input-Mixer, percussion with  turntables and Moog Sub 38 with piano (2016–19), listening to  Vuntut Gwitchin, music theatre for two speakers/actors, flute,  English horn, percussion, violin, viola, cello, electronics and film/ video (2016–17), Still listening II for flute, English horn, percussion, turntablist, banjo/singer, violin, viola and cello (2017–21),  not thinking about the elephants for saxophone quartet and live  electronics (2017–18), hyperMOODbox, sound and video installation-box for railway stations (2017–18), Songs of Syphilis for  singing toy pianist and public space with listeners/non-listeners  (2018–19), innermost tidings of the tube for flute, endoscopic  camera and live projection (2018), SCRAP for saxophone, trombone, accordion, piano, cello and live electronics (2018–19),  Score Symposium for flute, saxophone, trumpet, keyboards/synthesizer, cello, three climbers and de-functionalised bouldering  hall (2018), orrery songs for clarinet, piano, cello, orrery singer/ percussion-conductor and guitar (2019–21), peripheral exploder  for flute, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, double bass and dancer (2019–20), Well, you  back up and push – Songs from the Fifth Floor – music theatre /  performative online installation for bluegrass quartet, hotel bar  and Zoom conference (2019–21), talking cure, electronic film  music for Maren Krüger’s film (2017–18), HAMMER for pianist  and live electronics with samples from piano-building factories  (2020; shortened version), orrery singing for variable ensemble,  compulsory percussion and orrery singer (2020–22), Abgespecktes nicht Abgefackeltes – Miniatur for flute, bass clarinet, trumpet,  violin, viola and cello (2020), TOO BIG TO FAIL, online video  score (2020–21), abgefackelte Wackelkontakte for Lupophone,  No-Input-Mixer and large orchestra (2020–21) immolate yourself on the wires IIfor No-Input-Mixer (2021), tolerance stacks II  for soprano with TC Helicon pedal, No-Input-Mixer, turntables,  drumset with Line 6 pedals, Mini-Moog and ensemble (2021–22), Hurry up the machine. I HAVE STRUCK A BIG BONANZA for  Minimoog / Behringer D synthesizer (2022), screaming sisters for  flute, clarinet, oboe, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello and live  electronics (2022), DIGITAL BLOOD concert installation with  art objects, rock band, instrumental/electronic performers, light  and video installation (2022), fresh used goods for two electric  guitars and live electronics (2023), A sound, a narrow, a channel,  an inlet, the straits, the barrens, the straits, the barrens, the stretch  of a neckfor large spatialised orchestra (2023), breeding episodes  of golden toads 1964-1987 for saxophone, piano and percussion  (2025), Die Abstandsmesserinnen for bass flute, contrabass clarinet, trombone, percussion, vocal octet and live electronics (2026).