AI on Music Theory Print

Ailbhe McDonagh

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ailbhe McDonagh (born 29 November 1982) is an Irish concert cellist and composer. She performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist with several studio albums to her name. McDonagh has composed works for orchestra, chamber music ensembles and pedagocial purposes. Collections of her compositions have been published by Boosey & Hawkes and are featured regularly in the ABRSM, Royal Irish Academy of Music and other exam syllabi. McDonagh is a professor of cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland. Career Born in Dublin, Ailbhe McDonagh is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, USA, where she studied under Steven Doane, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM), Dublin, Ireland. She currently teaches cello performance at the RIAM. As a chamber musician, McDonagh performs with pianist John O’Conor and also in a duo, The McDonagh Sisters, with her sister and pianist Orla McDonagh. She is a member of the chamber music group Ficino Ensemble and the crossover group Trio Elatha where she plays traditional Irish music on the cello. McDonagh joined the cello faculty of the RIAM in 2010 and has been invited to give mast

Ailsa Dixon

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ailsa Mary Pauline Dixon (born Ailsa Harrison, 15 August 1932 – 8 August, 2017) was an English composer, teacher, singer and lutenist. Career Born in Bristol, Dixon grew up in Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, where her mother Pat Harrison (who had studied music with Edward Bairstow) founded the music festival in 1960. A distant ancestor was the Polish-Lithuanian violinist and composer Felix Yaniewicz, who co-founded the first Edinburgh Festival. Ailsa studied music at Durham University in the 1950s under Arthur Hutchings, and later studied privately with Paul Patterson, Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music. She also studied lute with Diana Poulton. A student composition for string quartet was awarded the Eve Myra Kisch Prize at Durham. After graduating Dixon taught singing and music appreciation, while also singing and playing lute in recitals with her guitarist husband Brian Dixon. In 1976 she directed a production of Handel’s opera Theodora, and this inspired her to compose an opera of her own. Letter to Philemon was staged at Aston Rowant Church in 1984. She was most active as a composer in the 1980s and 1990s. Notable performances included the premiere of th

Aim for the Roses

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aim for the Roses is a 2016 Canadian documentary and musical docudrama about Canadian stuntdriver and daredevil Ken Carter’s attempt to jump the St. Lawrence River in a rocket-powered car, and the concept album it inspired. The film was written, directed and produced by John Bolton, and features the music of composer Mark Haney. It premiered at the 2016 Hot Docs International Documentary Festival and was the opening night film at the 2016 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Summary In 1976, professional stuntdriver Ken Carter announced his plan to undertake his most ambitious stunt yet: an attempt to jump a mile over the St. Lawrence Seaway in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental. In 2008, Canadian musician and composer, Mark Haney paid tribute to Ken Carter by making a concept album about the stunt. In 2014, it was announced that filmmaker John Bolton was making a movie about these two seemingly disparate moments of Canadian cultural history. On October 8, 2014, it was announced that filming had wrapped. Using archival footage from the actual stunt combined with elaborately choreographed musical numbers , Aim for the Roses links these two very different men by drawing parallels betwee

Aimé Leborne

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne (or Aimé Le Borne) (29 December 1797 – 2 April 1866) was a French composer and music educator, who made his career in Paris. Life Born in Brussels, Leborne was the son of an actor and spent his youth in Versailles where he learned the violin. Leborne then studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where he was a pupil of Victor Dourlen for harmony and Luigi Cherubini for composition. In 1818, he obtained the second Prix de Rome for the cantata Jeanne d’Arc and in 1820, the First Grand Prix de Rome for the scene Sophonisbe. That same year, he was appointed professor of solfège. In 1836, he succeeded Antoine Reicha as teacher of the counterpoint and fugue class. In 1840, he became professor of composition. Leborne wrote a Traité d’harmonie which was not published. He reissued Charles-Simon Catel’s Traité complet d’harmonie. Among his pupils were Louis-Aimé Maillart, César Franck, Adolphe Deslandres and Victorin de Joncières. In 1829, he was appointed librarian at the Paris Opera, then in 1834 King’s Music Librarian, and in 1853 Imperial Chapel Librarian. Selected works * Les Deux Figaros (1827) * Le Camp du Drap d’or (1828) * Cinq ans d’entracte, opéra comique

Aimé Maillart

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Louis-Aimé Maillart (24 March 1817 – 26 May 1871) was a French composer, best known for his operas, particularly Les Dragons de Villars. Biography Maillart was born in Montpellier. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1833, learning composition from Aimé-Ambroise-Simon Leborne and Fromental Halévy, and violin from Guérin. There followed five more operas between then and 1864, all first performed in Paris. it was also given in Germany under the title Das Glöckchen des Eremiten. Lara was based on a poem of the same name by Lord Byron. Maiilart died in Moulins, Allier in the Auvergne region of France at the age of 54, and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre. Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians says of him, “Maillart’s music is characterized by graceful melodies, a colourful, theatrical style and skilful instrumentation”. Operas *Lionel Foscara (cantata for the Prix de Rome) (1841) *Gastibelza ou le Fou de Tolède (l’homme à la carbine) opera in three acts (1847) *Le moulin des tilleuls one-act opera (1849) *Les dragons de Villars opéra comique (1856) *Les pêcheurs de Catane poème lyrique (1860) *Lara (1864) References and sources References Sources * External links

Aimée Van de Wiele

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aimée Van de Wiele (8 March 1907 – 2 November 1991) She began her music studies at the Brussels Conservatory, where she studied with E. Bosquet and won the Laure van Cutsem prize for piano, as well as prizes for harmony, counterpoint, composition, and music theory. Wiele then moved to France to study harpsichord at the Paris Conservatory with Wanda Landowska and musicology with Andre Pirro. After Landowska’s death in 1959, Wiele began teaching at the Paris Conservatory, where she had several notable students, including Elisabeth Chojnacka and Marketta Valve. Wiele’s compositions include “Poem,” a piece for orchestra, as well as inventions for harpsichord, piano pieces, and transcriptions of various cantatas and sonatas for keyboard. However, she is best remembered today as a performer. Wiele gave solo recitals on harpsichord and performed with orchestras in Belgium, England, France, Italy, and the United States on harpsichord, piano, and organ. She was well known for her interpretations of Bach (particularly the Goldberg Variations) and Couperin, and especially praised for her performance of Poulenc’s Concerto Champetre. Poulenc had originally composed the piece for Landowska, who

Airat Ichmouratov

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov (, Tatar Cyrillic: Айрат Рафаил улы Ишмурат, born 28 June 1973) is a Russian-born Canadian composer, conductor and klezmer clarinetist of Volga Tatar descent. He is a founding member and clarinetist of award-winning Montreal-based klezmer group Kleztory and invited professor at Laval University in Quebec, Canada. Early life Ichmouratov was born and raised in Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. He is the second child of Razima Ichmouratova (Gatina) and Rafail Ichmouratov. Airat Ichmouratov is a representative of a well-known Tatar theatrical dynasty. His grandfather, Riza Fakhrutdinovich Ishmurat (Ishmuratov), was a playwright, publicist, and director. He was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). His grandmother, Rashida Abdulazyanovna Ziganshina, was an actress at the Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre, as well as a playwright and public figure, and was a People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Russian Federation. At the age of seven, Ichmouratov began his musical education at Kazan Children’s Music School No. 3, named after Röstäm Yaxin. There, he initially

Aivars Kalējs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aivars Kalējs (April 22, 1951, Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian composer, organist and pianist. Career Aivars Kalējs has written more than 100 opuses of symphonic, organ, piano, chamber and choir music. His works have won several composition awards, e.g. symphonic work “Musica Dolente” - dedicated to the victims of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. His works are included in many CD’s of the great musicians and collectives such as Iveta Apkalna, Andris Nelsons, Maxim Novikov and Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. In 2017, Vita Kalnciema released retrospective CD Flashes of Aivars Kalējs organ music recorded in Riga Cathedral. Aivars Kalējs is a concert organist at the Dome Cathedral in Riga and chief organist for the New St. Gertrudes Lutheran Church. He has performed solo recitals, included participating in dozens of important international organ festivals, and toured with various ensembles throughout North America, Colombia, almost all European countries, and Asia, including prestigious venues as Notre Dame de Paris (only Latvian who had three recitals there), Musikverein, West Point Military Academy Cadet Chapel with largest pipe organ in the world. Kalējs is known as an