Research Catalogue

Birgitta Flick is a Berlin-based improviser and composer who is particularly interested in the interplay between notation and improvisation and in exploring methods for collaborative creating. Musically educated at Jazz-Institut Berlin at UdK/HfM “Hanns Eisler”, the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and through private studies with Connie Crothers in New York City, she works internationally with her own groups in Berlin, Stockholm, Vienna and New York City and through composition collaborations with such ensembles as the Stockholm-based vocal ensemble VoNo, LUX:NM from Berlin, or the youth choir of Berlin’s Staatsoper. Her work is documented through an extensive discography, a choir edition by Gehrmans Musikförlag in the series #swedishchoralmusic and has amongst others received support by the Berlin senate, or the JazzBaltica Förderpreis. In 2025, she was awarded the German Jazz Prize in the category “Composition/Arrangement of the Year. She holds a doctoral degree in artistic research from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, obtained by a thesis researching a musical composition's transformative potential.