Daniela Petry was born in 1982 and grew up in Berlin.

2000 onwards: From her late teenage years she has been a part of the Berlin Jazz scene plus explored more genres as salsa, tango, played with DJs and people from the Balkan. Above all, she has always been a player of improvised music, often found chances to bring ideas from that genre into pop and world music bands she was playing in local festivals and toured europe.

2015 onwards:

Education: She holds a Diploma in classical music performance for orchestra from the Hochschule für Musik Rostock and a specialized master degree for contemporary music performance from Musikakademie Basel, Swizerland. Daniela did orchestra playing in the Darmstadt Theatre and Berliner Staatsoper among others, participated in contemporary master courses such as Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Ensemble-Modern-Akademie-Schwaz and did research in the programm „postgraduate studies“ on what she calls „party improvised random-principles“ comparing the work of Brian Ferneyhough, John Zorn and others.

Artistic work: She more and more developed a special interest as ensemble player and composer of concept based improvisation within developing sound and performance. She creates concept based improvised structures which have concrete dedications to social or scientific topics from fields in art and nature, digitalisation, socio-political issues historic and current. These are put into music, dance or video within performances by many influences from her work in music theatre and opera stage pieces.

Performance / Ensemblework: See projects below on the VITA&WORKS page!

In other projects, she played these following collaborations among many:

Contemporary composed:

Graz „Steyrischer Herbst Festival“, Ensemble Musikfabrik „Ruhrtiennale“, Klangspuren Schwaz, Neuköllner Oper“ Berlin „Golem“, „8BrückenFestival Köln“, Berlin Opera Lab, Berliner Staatsoper „Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo“ (S. Sciarrino), taktlos festival Zürich

Other music:

„Orchestre Europa, ElectricCircus Sideshow“ Berlin/London, „Balkanova Ensemble“ Berlin, „Moers-Festival“, jazz@large Stuttgarter Theaterhaus, Wuppertaler Improvisations Orchester

Contemporary and modern solo pieces Daniela loves to play are:

Nachklang (J. Cox), Valentine (J. Druckman), Fury (R. Saunders), Zwölf (E. Poppe), Ein Hauch von Unzeit (K. Huber), Ryoanji (J. Cage), Music for.. (J. Cage), Trittico per G. S. (B. Ferneyhough) and various by S. Scodanibbio and G: Scelsi.