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Ayal Adler

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Ayal Adler (), is an Israeli composer. Active internationally, his works are continuously performed worldwide. Serves as associate professor in composition and theory at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Recipient of numerous awards, including: Two Prime- Minister Awards for Composers; Two Acum Prizes (equivalent to ASCAP), and International prizes. Serves as the Director of the Israel Composers’ League. Biography Ayal Adlerr’s compositions were performed in recent years in the United States; Canada; Germany; Austria; England; Lithuania; Spain; Finland; Czech Republic; Russia; Hungary; Croatia; South Korea, and more. Adler’s oeuvre includes music in various genres including solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral. His work, In Motion - Concerto for Continuo and Large Orchestra was commissioned by the Bregenz Festival in 2023. Resonating Sounds for Large Orchestra was commissioned and premiered by Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern DIVAN Orchestra, at the following venues: BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall; Lucerne Festival; Salzburg Festival; Colon Theatre, Buenos Aires. His song cycle, Alone, I return from the Night, was commissioned and premiered by the Munich Philharmonic, co

Aydın Esen

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Aydın Esen (born 1962) is a Turkish jazz musician who plays keyboards and electronics. Career The son of a trumpeter, Esen began music lessons at the age of five in Turkey and attended a music conservatory, continuing for 13 years. His background was in classical music although he also enjoyed playing drums. At the age of ten, he began sneaking out of school to play with other musicians and as a teenager he led several groups in a variety of styles. Esen first came to the United States when he was awarded a four-year scholarship to Berklee College of Music where he reportedly completed all of his classes within one year. After studying at the New England Conservatory of Music and Juilliard, he had opportunities to play with Gary Burton, Eddie Gomez, Pat Metheny and Emily Remler. in 1989, he won the 1st prize at the Martial Solal Piano Competition in Paris. He has worked with Dave Liebman and Wolfgang Muthspiel. His composition “scape-X” (commissioned by Big Basel Festival) was premiered by the Ensemble Phoenix Basel with him as a soloist at the Big Basel Festival in January 2020. Discography As leader * Pictures (Bellaphon, 1989) * So Many Lifetimes (JMS, 1989) * Aydin Esen (JMS, 1

Ayla (musician)

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Ingo Kunzi (born 7 November 1966) is a German trance producer and DJ, best known for his work under his recording names Ayla and Tandu. The Ayla name was inspired by the name of a girl in the recording studio during his first Ayla recording. Kunzi is also related to other projects including Karuma, Elastique Culture, Tarot and Intrance. Career Ingo Kunzi was born in 1966 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Influenced by the likes of Supertramp and Pat Metheny, he started out in the rock scene, building his own studio in 1985 and engineering demos for rock bands before discovering electronic music via the likes of Cosmic Baby and Talla 2XLC’s Moskwa TV project. After “Ayla’s” success, Kunzi produced “Atlantis”, “Ayla Part II” and “Liebe”, which is a cover of the Cosmic Baby classic. Ayla’s fifth single, “Angelfalls”, was released in 1999, reaching the top 3 of the German dance chart. In the same year, Ayla released his first album, Nirwana, which peaked at number 4 in the Norwegian Charts. His remix of Lange’s “I Believe”, which was released under the name DJ Tandu, was included in the first installment of Tiësto’s popular series In Search of Sunrise as well as in Gatecrasher Wet, the th

Aymé Kunc

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Aymé Kunc (20 January 1877 – 13 February 1958) was a French composer and administrator. Career Born in Toulouse, Kunc won second prize alongside Maurice Ravel in the Prix de Rome competition of 1902. Until 1907 he conducted the orchestra of the Théâtre Apollo in Paris. In 1914 he became the director of the Toulouse Conservatory, in which capacity he served for thirty years until 1944. He died in Toulouse aged 81. Beginning in 1996, the Association Aymé Kunc has promoted the composer’s music, and has recorded a number of his works, including the Messe de Sainte-Cécile. Selected works Music for the stage * Les Esclaves, opera (1911) * Les Armes de Vulcain, ballet * Les Dieux morts, ballet * Pastorale antique, ballet Orchestral works * Ouverture de fête (1904-1907) * Suite dramatique (1904-1907) * Feuillets d’album * Quatre Esquisses méditerranéennes (1949) * Cloches d’Automne * Prelude and final * Fantaisie, for piano and orchestra (1904–07) * Pensée musicale, for harp and orchestra (1916) * Quatre Pièces, for flute and orchestra * Pastorales, for violin and orchestra (1919) * Légende, for viola and orchestra (1931) * Poème, for cello and orchestra (1943) * Nocturne, for horn and orc

Ayo Bankole

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Ayo Bankole (17 May 1935 – 6 November 1976) was a composer and organist from the Yoruba ethnic group in southwest Nigeria. Early life and education Ayo Bankole was born in Jos, Nigeria, into a musical family: his father, Theophilus Abiodun Bankole was an organist and Choirmaster at St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Jos. His mother was a music instructor for several years at Queen’s School, Ede, Osun State, a Federal government high school. Bankole studied in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There he met drama student and poet Brian Edward Hurst and set one of Hurst’s poems, “Children of the Sun”, to music; this was performed at the Guildhall School in 1960. He also studied at Clare College, Cambridge and received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to study ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Musical career Bankole returned to Nigeria in 1966 and was appointed Senior Producer in Music at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, Lagos, where he worked until 1969, after which he was appointed lecturer in music at the School of African and Asian Studies, University of Lagos. He worked as a music educator, composer, choral conductor, performer and

Ayumi Tanaka

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Ayumi Tanaka (born 1986) is a Japanese pianist and composer, known for numerous albums with Norwegian and international jazz musicians. Education Tanaka moved to Norway in 2011, and got her education at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where she finished her master’s degree as a performing jazz musician, after studies with Misha Alperin, Ivar Antonsen, Helge Lien and others. Career Tanaka is acclaimed for her own trio with the bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen and the drummer Per Oddvar Johansen. The group released their debut album Memento in January 2016. With the trio Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrød, with Johan Lindvall and Christian Wallumrød, she released the album 3 Pianos i 2016. She has also recorded with Nakama, Mongrel, and with Thomas Strønen’s acclaimed Time is A blind Guide on ECM. Discography As band leader Ayumi Tanaka Trio with Christian Meaas Svendsen and Per Oddvar Johansen *2016: Memento (AMP Music & Records) Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrød with Johan Lindvall and Christian Wallumrød *2016: 3 pianos (Nakama Records) Collaborations With Thomas Strønen’s Time is A blind Guide *2018: Lucus (ECM) With Nakama *2015: Before The Storm (Nakama Records) *2016:Grand line (Na

Ayuo Takahashi

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Ayuo Takahashi (born October 19, 1960) is a Japanese-born American composer, poet, lyricist, singer, and performer of plucked string instruments including guitar, bouzouki, Irish harp, Chinese zheng, Japanese koto, and medieval European psaltery. He is adept at adapting the ancient music of Japan, China, Persia, Greece, and medieval Europe to create a new and original music without abandoning their strict forms while simultaneously making them relevant to contemporary music styles. He has composed for classical ensembles including string quartets, piano, various chamber ensembles, and orchestra, as well as composed, produced and performed with rock, jazz and musicians of various traditional music from around the world. He has also composed many music theater pieces, some of which has been released on CD in the United States and Japan. Biography Much of the biography here is a summary from Ayuo’s autobiography first published in Japanese on his homepage (ayuo.net) and later expanded in his autobiographical book, “Outside Society” published by Getsuyosha in Japan. This book will be published in English in 2025. Most profiles of Ayuo as seen on websites such as All Music and Tzadik ar