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Børns

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Garrett Clark Borns (born January 7, 1992), better known by his stage name Børns (stylized in all caps), is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Grand Haven, Michigan, Børns began performing in his youth. In 2012, he released his debut album, A Dream Between, through REZidual Records. His first major label release was the Candy EP (2014), through Geffen and Interscope. The EP peaked at number two on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The Dopamine tour followed, preceding his debut studio album Dopamine in 2015. The album was a commercial success, peaking at number 24 in the US and generating numerous singles include the platinum-certified, “Electric Love”. Børns then embarked on tours with artists including Charli XCX, Bleachers, and Halsey, as a supporting act, along with a set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2016. His second album, Blue Madonna, was released on January 12, 2018. The record spawned several singles, including “God Save Our Young Blood” with Lana Del Rey, which charted on the US rock chart. To further promote the LP, he headlined the MoneyMan Tour (2017–18) and supported Del Rey on her LA to the Moon Tour. Bø

Br Lakshmanan

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Br Lakshmanan was an Indian music director in Malayalam movies during 1950s and 1960s. Lakshmanan started his career with Aathmasakhi in 1952. He provided music for around 250 Malayalam movie songs. Lakshmanan’s songs were also used in the films Ponkathir, Baalyasakhi and Harishchandra. Most of his songs were written by Thirunainar Kurichi Madhavan Nair and sung by Kamukara Purushothaman. The trio made numerous popular songs in 1950s and early 60s, mostly in the films produced by Merryland Studios. Filmography References External links *

Bracket (duo)

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Bracket are a Nigerian afropop and R&B music duo composed of Obumneme Ali a.k.a. “Smash” and Nwachukwu Ozioko a.k.a. “Vast”. Bracket started as a three-man music group before a member called Bistop dropped out. The duo is currently signed to Bracket Records. It is best known for releasing hit singles like “Happy Day”, “Me & U”, “Yori Yori”, “Ada Owerri”, “Mama Africa”, and “Panya”, which received several positive reviews and airplay. Their albums include Least Expected, Cupid Stories, Alive, and Love Letters. Background Vast and Smash grew up in Nsukka town, Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria, where they used to attend campus shows while growing up. Discography Studio albums * Happy Day (2006) * Least Expected (2009) * Cupid Stories (2011) * Alive (2015) * Love Letters (2022) Awards and nominations In 2012, Bracket received an honorary award from the city of Philadelphia at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Some of their awards include: References

Bradley Joseph

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Bradley Joseph (born September 2, 1965) is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestras, chamber ensembles, and solo piano pieces. He has also played various instruments in rock bands throughout the Midwestern United States. Early life and education Bradley Joseph was born in 1965 in Bird Island, Minnesota and raised in Willmar, Minnesota. While attending, he played saxophone and guitar in local bands but left to focus on piano. Between tours, Joseph worked as a studio musician. Joseph then signed a record deal with Narada Productions, Artistry Musical style Hear the Masses and Rapture are two of Joseph’s best-known full orchestrations, combining smooth jazz with contemporary instrumental themes. A review of Rapture in New Age Voice stated that Joseph “paints romantic pictures in sound with voices and instruments that escalate from quiet, intimate passages to big, energetic movements”. In contrast, albums such as Solo Journey and The Journey Continues are described as “stripped back and basic”. For the 2002 album One Deep Breath, he combines “structured melodic pieces and free-form ambient composition

Bram Eldering

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Abraham “Bram” Eldering (8 July 1865 – 17 June 1943) was a Dutch violinist and music pedagogue. Life Born in Groningen, Bram (abbreviation of Abraham) Eldering studied violin with Jenő Hubay at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. After his appointment to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, he followed his teacher in 1886. With Victor von Herzfeld and David Popper he played in Hubay’s String quartet. In 1888 he moved to Berlin to continue his studies with Joseph Joachim. In 1893 he was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic under Hans von Bülow. In 1894, after von Bülow’s death, he became concertmaster of the Meiningen Court Orchestra, of which he was a member until 1899. At the invitation of the industrialist family Weyermann, he took part with other members of the orchestra in an intimate chamber music festival at near Bad Honnef at Whitsun 1896 and took part in the performance of Robert Schumann’s String Quartet in A major and Johannes Brahms’s Piano quintet F-minor - with Brahms at the piano. In 1899 he was appointed as a docent at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. From 1903 he taught as professor at the . One of his students was Theo Giesen, who later became first c

Bram Inscore

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Bram Katz Inscore (January 11, 1982 – December 19, 2023) was an American musician, songwriter, and producer. Born and raised in California, he wrote and produced many pop songs, including for Troye Sivan, as well as K-pop songs popular in South Korea. Early life Bram Katz Inscore Career Inscore began his career as a touring musician with Jem, Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Thurston Moore, and Twin Shadow. As a session musician, he played the electric bass on Beck’s 2014 album Morning Phase, on Gainsbourg’s IRM, and on a number of other projects. Inscore co-wrote and co-produced several songs on Troye Sivan’s 2015 Blue Neighborhood album, including “Talk Me Down” and “Youth”, and on his 2018 album Bloom, including “The Good Side” and “Animal”. According to The New Indian Express, “his work with Troye Sivan continues to stand out.” Besides Sivan, Inscore co-wrote songs for Allie X, Ben Platt, Chloe & Halle, Claud, Duncan Laurence, Hayley Kiyoko, Mayer Hawthorne, Niki, Rina Sawayama, as well as other songs for NCT 127, SuperM, Baekhyun, and Taemin. Inscore co-wrote the music score of the 2018 film Sierra Burgess Is a Loser. A year later, he was a co-writer of Andy Grammer’s “Don’t Give U

Bramwell Tovey

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Bramwell Tovey (11 July 1953 – 12 July 2022) was a British conductor and composer. Life and career Tovey was educated at Ilford County High School, the Royal Academy of Music and the University of London. His formal music education was as a pianist and composer. Whilst at the Royal Academy, he also became a tuba player, studying with John Fletcher. During his student years he conducted several broadcasts on the BBC, and also played in the London Symphony Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival. Tovey was appointed a staff conductor of London Festival Ballet at the age of 22, working with Léonide Massine on a production of Parade, Ronald Hynd on Nutcracker and Sanguine Fan and with Rudolf Nureyev on Romeo and Juliet. In 1978 he became Music Director of Scottish Ballet, conducting Peter Darrell’s major ballets including Cheri and Five Rückert Songs (with Janet Baker). During this period he also conducted several British orchestras and appeared as pianist in Elite Syncopations. Between 1989 and 2001, he was the music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, and was instrumental in establishing the city’s annual New Music Festival, which began in 1992. Tovey became music director of the

Brandon Moore (composer)

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Brandon Moore (born November 25, 1976) is an American composer known for Universal’s Aliens Ate My Homework (2018) and the sequel Aliens Stole My Body (2020) featuring the voice talents of William Shatner and George Takei. He’s also known for the comedy-horror series Killer Sisters’ Midnight Hour (2012) for Hulu, and the IFS Festival’s Best Drama winner The Year I Did Nothing (2019). Brandon has been a musician since an early age and a life-long film music fan. Upon completing his undergrad in music theory and composition in Fort Worth, TX, he moved to Los Angeles to attend USC’s Film Scoring program. Brandon has composed a wide range of scores for a variety of film projects and genres. His music has played in film festivals all over the world for as long as he’s been an active composer in Hollywood. Biography Early life Brandon Moore grew up listening to film scores and performing music in his native Arlington, Texas. His father John Moore (1942-2011) was an architect and his mother Cheryl Ford-Mente, a communications director for non-profit organizations, was heavily involved in Dallas-Fort Worth community theater as an actress and fundraiser and host of a local cable talk show "

Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha

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Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha (1 August 1846 – 11 August 1913) was a Brazilian composer, lawyer and diplomat. Itiberê was the sibling of poet and critic (literary and musical) and uncle of composer . Biography Brasílio Itiberê was born in the coastal city of Paranaguá, the son of João Manuel (Itiberê?) da Cunha and Maria Munhoz Lourenço da Cunha. He attended primary school in his homeland and his musical initiation was at the piano, learning at his parents’ home. Already renowned as a pianist in his youth he moved to São Paulo to attend the Faculty of Law at the Largo of São Francisco, performing several concerts in this city. After obtaining a BA in Law he joined the diplomatic service in the diplomatic corps serving in Italy, Peru, Belgium, Paraguay and Germany. Without leaving music aside, Brasílio maintained friendly relations with some of the greatest pianists of his time such as Anton Rubinstein, Sgambati and Liszt. Considered to be one of the forerunners of Brazilian nationalistic music Itiberê drew early inspiration from popular motifs and his work and style are distinctly Brazilian. He composed chamber and choral music and works for piano solo. His rhapsody A Sertaneja was pop

Brave Brothers

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Kang Dong-chul (, born June 7, 1979), also known by his stage name Brave Brothers, is a South Korean rapper, record producer and songwriter for Brave Entertainment. He was a producer and composer for YG Entertainment from 2004 to 2008. In 2008, he started his own record label called Brave Entertainment. He has produced hit songs for After School, Sistar, 4Minute, T-ara, Son Dam Bi, Big Bang, Brown Eyed Girls, AOA, Hello Venus, RANIA and U-KISS. In 2009, he made his music debut with Attitude and later released Passionate on December 8. His label manages acts such as Electroboyz, BIGSTAR, and DKB. Kang was a judge panelist on JTBC’s Made In U program in 2011. Music career On October 21, representatives of RaNia revealed that Brave Brothers would be producing their album Time To Rock Da Show. He was awarded the Hallyu Composer Award at the 19th Korean Culture Entertainment Daesang Awards on December 15, 2011. He stated, “Thank you so much for honoring me with such a great award. I will return the favor with more great new songs. I would like to return this honor to the artists that express my songs and to the Brave Sound family. Personal life On KBS’s Win Win, he revealed he had a tro

Brenda Gifford

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Brenda Gifford (born 1968) is an Australian Yuin classical composer, saxophonist and pianist. She was a member of the Australian rock band Mixed Relations. She is based in Canberra and was an archivist in the Indigenous Collection Branch of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). Career Gifford was born in 1968 and grew up in Sydney and Wreck Bay, near Jervis Bay, New South Wales. Beginning in the late 1980s Gifford played saxophone and piano as a member of the band Mixed Relations with Bart Willoughby. During the 1990s she contributed to Kev Carmody’s 1991 album Eulogy (For A Black Person), and taught music at Eora College in Redfern, New South Wales. She left her teaching job to focus on the band as it became more popular. Mixed Relations toured internationally and gained local success when their single Aboriginal Woman reached #89 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 in 1993. The group disbanded by the end of the 1990s, and after a break of several years, Gifford began a new career as a composer. In 2016, Gifford participated in the AMPlify Indigenous Composer Initiative pilot program, which aimed to support the creation of new work by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Brendan Graham

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Brendan Graham (born 12 February 1945) is an Irish songwriter and novelist. Among songs he has written are “Rock ’n’ Roll Kids” (1994) and “The Voice” (1996), both of which won the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland in their respective years, and “You Raise Me Up” (2002), which was an international hit recorded by various artists, including Josh Groban. Early life Graham was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. Songwriting Brendan Graham is one of Ireland’s most famous lyricists and songwriters. In an article about the song tradition of Ireland, Con Houlihan wrote, “Some of the best poetry being produced in this country today is in the form of song – Christy Moore and Brendan Graham and Jimmy McCarthy are touched by genius.” In a feature article, the Irish Times described Graham as a ‘Musical Midas in the Mayo Silence.’ Graham wrote the lyrics for the 2002 song, “You Raise Me Up”. Rolf Løvland, who composed the music, was inspired by The Whitest Flower, Graham’s first novel. Rolf asked the songwriter/novelist to write lyrics to his melody called Silent Story at the time. “You Raise Me Up” was a huge international hit for Irish boyband Westlife. It has been covered by differe

Brent Lee

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Brent Lee (born 1964, Wynyard, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian composer and professor of Music Composition at the University of Windsor. Growing up, he studied guitar and saxophone. He received a Bachelor’s (1986) and Master’s (1990) degree in Music Composition from McGill University in Montreal. Brent showed interest in both computer and electroacoustic music. While still a student, he was awarded several composition prizes through CAPAC and SOCAN, and was one of six young composers to receive a Residency Prize at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Festival in 1988. Following his studies in Montreal, Lee had residencies in the Netherlands, Bourges and at the Banff Centre, before settlingin Calgary in 1990. There, he taught at the Mount Royal College Conservatory, as well as working with New Works Calgary, Strictly Plutonic and Modus Vivendi ensembles. He was named an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre in 1991. He completed a doctoral degree in composition at the University of British Columbia, studying composition with Keith Hamel and Steven Chatman. He also studied orchestration with Nikolai Korndorf in Vancouver. Lee accepted a position at the University of

Brett Dean

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Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is an Australian composer, violist and conductor. Early life Brett Dean was born, raised, and educated in Brisbane. He attended Brisbane State High School. He started learning violin at age 8, and later studied viola with Elizabeth Morgan and John Curro at the Queensland Conservatorium, where he graduated in 1982 with the Conservatorium Medal for the highest-achieving student of the year. In 1981 he was a prizewinner in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards. Career From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he decided to pursue a freelance career and returned to Australia, where his many appointments have included curating classical music programs with the Sydney Festival (2005) and the Melbourne Festival (2009). As a composer and musician, he is a regularly invited guest to concert stages around the world. He was the Creative Chair for the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich’s 2017/2018 season. Dean was artistic director of the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne until June 2010, when his brother, Paul, took up the post. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra celebrated Dean’s 50th birthday, and

Brian Balmages

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Brian Philip Balmages (born January 24, 1975) He is best known for composing educational music for wind instruments. Early life and education Brian Balmages obtained a Bachelor’s of Music degree in music industry from James Madison University, with a focus on trumpet performance, and a Master’s of Music in media scoring and production from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. Career Brian Balmages was the director of bands and orchestras at Towson University. He has been the guest conductor of orchestras around the US, in Canada, Italy, and Australia. Balmages was the Director of Instrumental Publications for the FJH Music Company for over 20 years. Currently, he is the Director of MakeMusic Publications and since 2022 the Director of Digital Education for Alfred and MakeMusic. Works For wind instruments * Pele for Solo horn and Wind Ensemble (2004) * Moscow 1941 for Concert Band (2006) * Apollo for Soprano Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (2008) * Summer Resounding! for Concert Band (2008) * Three Celtic Dances for Concert Band (2008) * Arabian Dances for Symphonic Band (2009) * Elements for Concert Band (2010) * Escape from the Deep (2010) * Incantation and Ritual for

Brian Boydell

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Brian Patrick Boydell (17 March 1917 – 8 November 2000) was an Irish composer whose works include orchestral pieces, chamber music, and songs. He was Professor of Music at Trinity College Dublin for 20 years, founder of the Dowland Consort, conductor of the Dublin Orchestral Players, and a broadcaster and writer on musical matters. He was also a musicologist specialising in 18th-century Irish musical history. Early life and education Boydell was born in Howth, County Dublin, into an Anglo-Irish family. His father James ran the family maltings business while his mother, Eileen Collins, was one of the first women graduates of Trinity College. Following their son’s birth, the Boydells moved from Howth and lived in a succession of rented houses before settling in Shankill, County Dublin. The young Boydell began his formal education at Monkstown Park in Dublin and was subsequently sent to the Dragon School at Oxford. From there he went to Rugby, where he came under the influence of Kenneth Stubbs, the music master. Although Boydell later spoke of his resentment at the anti-Irish attitude he experienced at Rugby, he said “the education there was very good, in science and music.” Followin

Brian Cherney

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Brian Cherney (born September 4, 1942) is a Canadian composer, teacher and writer. Cherney was born in Peterborough, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto where he was a pupil of John Weinzweig, Samuel Dolin, and John Beckwith. In 1972 he joined the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, where he has taught analysis and composition for over fifty years. His pieces, often characterized by carefully calculated formal trajectories and a rich harmonic language, give the impression of a quiet intensity, usually featuring “stillness” in some manner. Cherney was awarded the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 1985 for River of Fire. His works have been played throughout North America, Europe, and elsewhere. His book, Harry Somers, remains one of the most important and detailed studies of this composer. The Cherney portrait in the Canadian Composers Portraits series was released in 2005. Illuminations: Essays in Honour of Brian Cherney, a special edition of the journal, Musical Intersections, was published in 2017. Cherney was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2021. He is the brother of oboist Lawrence Cherney. Works Orchestra * Variations for Orchestra (196

Brian Clifton (composer)

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Dirk Pilaet (born March 20, 1962, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium), known professionally as Brian Clifton, is a Belgian musician, composer and orchestrator. He composed the music for over 30 films and television series, including De Kollega’s Maken de Brug! (1988), the VRT series Alfa Papa Tango (1990-1991), the American movies Bird of Prey (1995) featuring Richard Chamberlain and Philippe Mora’s Back in Business (1997), Ellektra (2004) starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Axelle Red, and Spike and Suzy: The Dark Diamond (2004). Brian Clifton has been associated with film directors such as Vincent Rouffaer, Robbe De Hert and Nnegest Likké. Clifton is also known for composing the hymn for the Belgian First Division A, the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium, TV commercials for ICI Paris XL and Christian Dior, and the End Titles for the 2005 Thai historical drama film The King Maker. In recent years, he became a steady guest-lecturer at the Brussels film school RITCS-School of Arts. Selected works Music for movies and series * De Dwaling (1987) (mini) TV Series * Het Ultieme kerstverhaal (1987) by Vincent Rouffaer * A Three-Day Weekend (1988) * Hoogtevrees (1988)

Brian Dennis

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Brian Dennis was an English experimental music composer, and author born in Marple, Cheshire in May 1941 and died in June 1998. Brian studied with Stockhausen, Berio, Earle Brown and Cathy Berberian at The Cologne Course for New Music and was a lecturer in Composition and Contemporary Music at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Brian wrote two books in the 1970s: Experimental Music in Schools () and Projects in Sound (), which propose a new graphical form of Musical notation, showing instruments as images representing their sound, rather than traditional notation on a stave. For example, the notation of a scraping wood Güiro would be shown as zig-zag lines. Both books have been used extensively in classrooms and became part of the National Curriculum of England, Wales and Northern Ireland He also featured in BBC documentary Music in Schools and has inspired Dan Mayfield’s School of Noise. His compositions include approximately 150 songs many of which are settings of Chinese poems with lyrics in English prepared by the composer, as well as a number of piano pieces. He completed a trilogy of one-act operas based on Japanese Noh plays as well as an unfinished three-act oper

Brian Easdale

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Brian Easdale (10 August 1909 – 30 October 1995) was a British composer of operatic, orchestral, choral and film music, best known for his ballet film score The Red Shoes of 1948. Life Easdale was born in Manchester, and was educated at Westminster Abbey School and the Royal College of Music, where he was a pupil of Armstrong Gibbs (composition) and Gordon Jacob (orchestration). By the 1930s Easdale was living in London, in a Hampstead bed-sit. His downstairs neighbour, the poet Louis MacNeice, suggested to him that he should work for John Grierson’s GPO Film Unit, where MacNeice’s fellow poet W. H. Auden was already working alongside the young composer Benjamin Britten. Easdale also worked with Britten at the Group Theatre just before the war. Called up early in the war, he was assigned to the Crown Film Unit and sent on special assignment to Information Films of India. While there he became interested in Indian music (in particular the music of Nepal) and its instruments, and also formed a friendship with Rumer Godden, author of Black Narcissus. On his return to the UK this connection helped win him the task of composing the score for the film of the novel in 1947. Percussion ins

Brian Elias

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Brian Elias (born 30 August 1948) is a British composer. Biography Brian Elias was born in Bombay, India, and has lived in the U.K. since he was thirteen years old. After studying at the Royal College of Music under Humphrey Searle and Bernard Stevens he undertook private studies with Elisabeth Lutyens. His first major orchestral work L’Eylah was premiered at the BBC Proms in 1984. He has since had his works performed and recorded extensively by leading orchestras and soloists including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Britten Sinfonia, Jane Manning, Roderick Williams, Natalie Clein, and the Jerusalem Quartet. Elias collaborated with Kenneth MacMillan on his final ballet The Judas Tree, premiered in 1992 at the Royal Opera House. He has won two British Composer Awards - the first for his 2010 work Doubles, and the second for his 2013 work Electra Mourns. Elias was featured in a Wigmore Hall retrospective in April 2021. He has taught composition at the Royal Academy of Music and the Purcell School, and his students have included Joby Talbot and Darren Bloom. His works are published by Chester Music. Compositions Orchestral * L’Eylah: commissioned by the BBC for the 1984 Proms. The BB

Brian Ferneyhough

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Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California, San Diego; he teaches at Stanford University and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He has resided in California since 1987. Life Ferneyhough was born in Coventry and received formal musical training at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music from 1966 to 1967, where he studied with Lennox Berkeley. Ferneyhough was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1968 and moved to mainland Europe to study with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam, and later with Klaus Huber in Basel. Between 1973 and 1986 he taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany, where his students included Toshio Hosokawa, Joël-François Durand, Roger Redgate, Alessandro Melchiorre, Giulio Castagnoli, Kaija Saariaho, Joël Bons (winner of the 2021 Grawemeyer Award), Hans-Ola Ericsson, and Rodney Sharman. The Royan Festival of 1974 saw the premiere of Cassandra’s Dream Song, the first of

Brian Head (composer)

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Brian Head (born October 14, 1964) is an American composer, guitarist, and music theory and composition professor. He performs frequently as a soloist and collaboratively with numerous groups, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera, New World Symphony, inauthentica, Jacaranda and Xtet. His compositions have been widely performed throughout the U.S. and abroad. Brian Head holds an unusual dual appointment at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he is a member of both the Classical Guitar and the Composition faculties, positions he has held since 2001. He maintains an active guitar studio there, lectures on a wide range of subjects, and directs the music theory program. As of 2010, he is the acting chair of the Classical Guitar department and Assistant Dean for curriculum. Heads is Artistic Director of the Guitar Foundation of America. From 2004 to 2010, he was its president. Training Raised in Adelphi, Maryland, Brian Head is the son of the noted trumpeter Emerson Head and his first wife Linda Head, a piano teacher and professional accompanist. He received undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland in both Mus

Brian Jackson (conductor)

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Brian Jackson (born 26 December 1943) is a British-Canadian conductor, organist and pianist. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1974. Until 2012 he was Principal Pops Conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London, and the Victoria Symphony. Early life and education Anthony Brian Jackson was born in Penzance, Cornwall, England. He began performing as a concert pianist at age 6 and as an organist at the age of 12. He attended Clifton College in Bristol, and also started conducting choirs and orchestras as a teenager. He also served as the organist-choirmaster at St John’s Anglican Church in Peterborough, Ontario from 1968 to 1971 and taught on the music faculty at Trent University. He studied conduction from 1971 to 1973 with Karel Ančerl and Victor Feldbrill in Toronto, Richard Lert in Los Angeles, and Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. He was awarded the Heinz Unger Award in 1972. In 1974, he received a grant from the Canada Council, which allowed him to study conducting further in Detmold, West Germany. From 1973 to 1974 and 1976 to 1977, Jackson served as director of music at the Erskine and American Church in Montreal. He also taught during that time at Concordi

Brian John Shucker

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Brian John Shucker (May 29, 1958 – April 12, 1991) with his partner William “Bill” Sawyer (March 28, 1953 – August 12, 1991) were the authors of the musical Babes, a 1940s-style musical that opened in Los Angeles just before their deaths due to AIDS complications. Biography Shucker grew up in Huntington Beach, California. Sawyer was from Camas, Washington. Shucker worked as a vocalist and then became the musical director of the Curtain Call Theater. Later he toured the country with vocalists for whom he did musical arrangements. In March 1991, Shucker, visibly weakened, attended the audition session to select the cast for the second run of Babes. From the hospital, he rewrote one of the songs, Give It a Whirl. At the same time, the second run for Babes in Los Angeles, at the Maxim Theater, was opening. On Friday, April 12, 1991, Shucker died in Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, California. Sawyer who was completing their second full musical together and at Shucker’s death said “I have several more years left”, Shucker and Sawyer are listed side by side on the AIDS quilt project. His friend Michael Michetti, art director of Babes, References

Brian Keane

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Brian Keane (born January 18, 1953) is an American composer, music producer, and guitarist. Keane has been described as “a musician’s musician, a composer’s composer, and one of the most talented producers of a generation” by Billboard magazine. Keane grew up in Westport, Connecticut, and started his career as a guitarist, eventually touring and recording in a duo with Larry Coryell. Best known as a composer, Keane’s first music score for a documentary came in 1980 with Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey, which was nominated for an Academy Award. As the cable television business bloomed in the 1980s, Keane quickly became one of the foremost pioneers in documentary music scoring. By the 1990s The Hollywood Reporter respectfully called him “the John Williams of the documentary”. Keane has worked with every major network, and many multi award-winning filmmakers including Barry Levinson, Ric Burns, Susan Lacy, Henry Hampton, Stephen King, and Thomas Lennon, scoring some of the most memorable documentaries in television history such as the epic Burns history of New York in New York: A Documentary Film, the inspiring story of the 1980 Olympic hockey team in Do You Believe in Miracles

Brian Newbould

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Brian Newbould (born 26 February 1936) is an English composer, conductor and author who has conjecturally completed Franz Schubert’s Symphonies D 708A in D major, No. 7 in E major, No. 8 in B minor (“Unfinished”), No. 10 (“Last”) in D major, Piano Sonata in C major, D 840, Quartettsatz, D. 703 and String Trio, D. 471. He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School, and earned a BMus degree with top honors from the University of Bristol. Schubert’s Eighth Symphony The first two movements of Schubert’s Eighth or “Unfinished” Symphony, an Allegro moderato in B minor and an Andante con moto in E major, completed in the Autumn of 1822, were sequestered by Anselm Hüttenbrenner in Graz after Schubert had sent them to him in full score in fulfillment of a commission by the Graz musical society. They were not discovered and conducted until 1865, when Johann Herbeck visited the aging Hüttenbrenner and persuaded him to show him, and lend him, the MS of the legendary rumored missing Schubert B minor Symphony in return for promising to conduct a still unperformed overture of Hüttenbrenner’s. The last pages of the Schubert MS contained a sketch of the projected third movement (a scherzo in B major

Brice Catherin

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Brice Catherin (born 16 October 1981) is a French composer and cellist. Studies and first professional steps Born in Brussels, Belgium, Brice Catherin studied the cello at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (Switzerland) with professor Marc Jaermann (cellist of the sine nomine quartet) where he successfully completed his diploma in 2004. At the same time, he was studying composition at the Haute École de Musique of Geneva (Switzerland) with professors Michael Jarrell, Luis Naón and Éric Daubresse. He received his diploma in 2005. The following year he studied at the Basel Musikhochschule with professor Roland Moser. Career During 2005-2017, Brice Catherin gave several hundreds of concerts and performances as a cellist, composer, improviser, and performance artist in Europe, Japan, Russia, Iceland and Canada. He also composed about 80 works for soloists for large ensembles, ranging from ten minutes to ten hours duration. He premiered works he commissioned for solo cello or chamber ensembles from composers such as Dror Feiler, Christian Rosset, Evis Sammoutis, Patricia Bosshard, Baudoin de Jaer, Abby Swidler, Jacques Demierre, Arash Yazdani and Ludovic Thirvaudey. He worked with

Bridget Kearney

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Bridget Kearney (kə́ːnɪj, car’-nee) is an American musician and songwriter. She is a founding member of the band Lake Street Dive and winner of the 2005 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Jazz category. Kearney’s solo recording work began with her debut solo album, Won’t Let You Down, which recordings took place over three years, largely encouraged and supported by drummer/engineer/producer Robin MacMillan in his Brooklyn Studio, and released by Signature Sounds Recordings in 2017. A number of singles followed, some of which found their way onto Kearney’s second solo album, Snakes of Paradise self-released in 2023. Similarly, singles from her third album,Comeback Kid were also released in advance of the April 12, 2024 release by Keeled Scales for that album on an expanding number of streaming platforms and social media sites such as Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube and Instagram as well as physical media outlet channels such as Bandcamp. Early life, influences and education Kearney was born and grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. Her mother played flute. Her father played bass with “Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic Improvisational Jazz Exposition”. Her grandmothers, Ellen and Vickey, wer

Bright Sheng

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Bright Sheng (; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese and American composer, pianist and conductor. Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001; he also was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His music has been commissioned and performed by virtually every major American symphony orchestra, in addition to the Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra among numerous others. His music has been performed by such musicians as the conductors Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, Gerard Schwarz, David Robertson, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Robert Spano, Hugh Wolff; the cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell, and Alisa Weilerstein; the pianists Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, and Peter Serkin; the violinists Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang

Britta Johnson

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Britta Johnson (born 7 May 1991) is a Canadian-American composer, lyricist, and playwright. She is best known for her musical, Life After. Early life and education Johnson was born and raised in Stratford, Ontario. Both of her parents were musicians in the pit orchestra for the Stratford Festival. She has two older sisters, Anika, whom she frequently writes musicals with, and Eliza, who is an opera singer. She first started learning to play the piano when she was three years old, and often spent evenings backstage at Stratford musicals with her parents. Growing up, Johnson was inspired to get involved in music and comedy after her father showed her videos of Victor Borge. The musical, Big Box Story, was a comedy loosely inspired by Stratford’s youth opposing corporate big-box stores taking over the small town. It caught the attention of Stratford Festival, where it was presented as a gala presentation on August 31, 2009. In 2016, Johnson first presented Life After at the Toronto Fringe Festival, where it won the Paul O’Sullivan Prize for best musical theatre script, as well as the Patron’s Pick for musical theatre. The musical was further developed and expanded with the Musical Sta

Brittney Boykin

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Brittney Elizabeth Boykin (born 1989) Early life and education Boykin is from Alexandria, Virginia. She is African American. She grew up in a musical family, and began learning piano at age seven. She graduated in May 2013 with a Master of Music in Sacred Music, concentrating in choral studies. Boykin is Assistant Professor of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Awards & Recognition During high school, Boykin won first place three consecutive years in the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics. Style & Influence Boykin mainly writes choral music but in 2023 she had her first opera debut. References

Brodinski

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Louis Rogé (), known professionally as Brodinski, is a French composer, producer and DJ from Reims. Brodinski performs internationally and is regularly invited to major music festivals. He has appeared at events such as Parklife in Melbourne, Lovebox in London, and Sónar in Barcelona, where he has been a recurring performer. Biography 2007–2011 Rogé became passionate about DJing while in high school. His early inspirations were Damian Lazarus, Ivan Smagghe, 2 Many DJ’s, and Andrew Weatherall. In Reims, his hometown, Brodinski became connected with DJs in the local electronic scene, including Yuksek. With Yuksek, he produced his first single, “Bad Runner”, released on the renowned Swiss label Mental Groove. Being signed to the imprint allowed Brodinski to raise his profile and attract attention. He made his first appearances as a DJ and got the opportunity to publish a series of remixes by popular artists, from Klaxons or Bonde do Rolê. Rogé’s entry into electronic music was heavily influenced by internet culture; he described himself as a “nerd” during his teenage years, spending thousands of hours discovering music online. While beginning his music career at age 18, he chose to pr

Brody Brown

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Christopher Steven “Brody” Brown is an American songwriter and record producer. He met Bruno Mars in 2008, and in 2015 formed the production team Shampoo Press & Curl He is also a member of the production group 1500 or Nothin’, alongside James Fauntleroy, Lamar Edwards and Larrance Dopson. Brown has written or produced for artists including Nipsey Hussle, CeeLo Green, Kesha, Adele, Lukas Graham, Ed Sheeran, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, and Mark Ronson. Early life Brown was born in Compton, California. Growing up, although he listened to some jazz, he mainly listened to the gospel that he was surrounded by at home. As a child, he taught himself to read music and play the drums, bass, guitar and piano. In junior high school, in addition to playing with the school band, he played with rock, salsa, and jazz bands. He also performed regularly at local churches. Brown was a member of The Crips. He was shot at and jailed as a teenager. In a 2016 interview he said that music “kept him from becoming another statistic in a hard neighborhood.” Career Brown joined 1500 or Nothin’ in 2003, and prior to dropping out of high school in 2005, began writing and playing with Bobby Valentino, whom he met

Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski

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Bronisław Kazimierz Przybylski (born 11 December 1941 in Łódź, died 4 April 2011 in Łódź) was a Polish composer and educator. Biography He studied at the Academy of Music in Łódź where he received a diploma in music theory from Franciszek Wesołowski in 1964 and a diploma in composition under Tomasz Kiesewetter in 1969. He also studied under Bolesław Szabelski in Katowice and with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. From 1965, he was an academic teacher at the Academy of Music in Łódź, and starting in 1987 taught composition there – first as an associate professor, and later as a full professor (from 1992 until his death). In the years 1978–1981 he was the Vice-Rector for Didactic Affairs at his alma mater, from 1987 to 1990 the Dean of the Faculty of Composition, Theory of Music and Eurhythmics, and in the years 1991–2011 the head of the Department of Composition. In 1982 he initiated “Musica Moderna”, a program that presents contemporary works of Polish and foreign composers twice each academic year. Selected works * In honorem Nicolai Copernici for orchestra (1972) * Memento for orchestra (1973) * Guernica – Pablo Picasso in memoriam for orchestra (1974)

Bronius Kutavičius

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Bronius Kutavičius (13 September 1932 – 29 September 2021) was a Lithuanian composer and academic composition teacher. He wrote numerous oratorios and operas, often inspired by ancient Lithuanian polytheistic beliefs and music. He also composed film scores, orchestral works and chamber music. Kutavičius is regarded as a symbol of Lithuanian cultural identity, both in music and in politics. He studied Western techniques such as random operations, timbre experiments and spatial sound concepts (Zufallsoperationen, Klangfarbenexperimente und Raumklangkonzepte). He worked from 1991 to 1995 on one of his major works, The Gates of Jerusalem, which earned him the Lithuanian State Prize in 1996. He composed his first opera in 2000, Lokys to a libretto by Aušra Marija Sluckaitė-Jurašienė based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée. His music is performed at international festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Mare Balticum, Wratislavia Cantans, Vale of Glamorgan Festival, Spitalfields Festival, MaerzMusik, ISCM World Music Days in Vilnius. Kutavičius died in Vilnius at age 89. Works Although an element of drama appears in compositions by Kutavičius,

Bror Beckman

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Bror Beckman (2 February 1866 – 22 July 1929) was a Swedish composer, treasurer to the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and principal of the Royal College of Music. Stylistically he was strongly influenced by Carl Nielsen and other contemporary Nordic composers. Among his compositions, his symphony in F major has been singled out, together with several pieces for piano, as particularly lasting. Biography Bror Beckman was born in Kristinehamn. His grandfather was the pastor and hymn writer . After finishing upper secondary school, his first job was in a music shop in Kristiania (present-day Oslo) in 1884. Later the same year he moved to Stockholm, to work in a music shop there. In 1888 he started working as a clerk in an insurance company, a job he would keep until 1909. In parallel he pursued studies in musical composition for 1885–1890. During this time, he made lifelong friends with several other young Swedish composers: Harald Fryklöf, and . After finishing his studies he immediately took up teaching counterpoint at a musical institute in Stockholm run by . In 1893 the first musical composition by Beckman was printed. He received a state-sponsored scholarship in 1894 and made a st

Brother Su

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Kim Hyung-soo (; born December 22, 1990), better known as Brother Su (), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer. Su debuted in 2010 and has been signed under Starship Entertainment’s subsidiary label Starship X since 2015. Career 2010–2015: Early work and RealCollabo Prior to his debut, Brother Su participated in “Christmas Card from Real Collabo” with his remix of “Winter Wonderland”. The next year he officially debuted as RealCollabo’s first singer with single “It was You”. In the same year, he released another single “You Got Me”. The following years, Brother Su started featuring and writing for his label mates as well as other artists. Started with featuring in Mad Clown’s “Basil”, he was also featured in Andup’s “Like This Right Now”, Giriboy’s “Player”, Cheeze’s “Papapa”, d.ear’s “We Need to Talk”, Kebee’s “Travel Bag”, and Swings’s “Two Thumbs”. He produced label mate Siaena’s “Sound of Rain” and Lovey’s “Return”, as well as Crucial Star’s “Flat Shoes”. In his early years as a lyricist, Brother Su teamed up with Ra.D for Jooyoung’s “All of You” and “Hang Up the Phone”, and Ra.D’s “Thank You, Thank You”. On July 4, 2013 he released his first full album Paper,

Bruce Adolphe

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Bruce Adolphe (born May 31, 1955) is a composer, music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist. He is currently Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where he has been a key figure since 1992. From 2002 to 2025, Adolphe performed his weekly “Piano Puzzler” segment on the nationally broadcast Performance Today classical music radio program hosted by Fred Child. The program is also available as a podcast and from iTunes. Mr. Adolphe was also founding artistic director of Off the Hook Arts Festival, an interdisciplinary festival combining music, science, and visual arts, based in Fort Collins, Colorado, from 2010 to 2022. Adolphe’s recent books include Visions and Decisions: Imagination and Technique in Music Composition published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press in the Elements series on Imagination and Creativity, edited by Anna Abraham. In 2021, Oxford University Press published an expanded third edition of Adolphe’s book The Mind’s Ear:Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Composers, Performers, and Listeners. Adolphe contributed a chapter to The Routledge Companion to Music and Human

Bruce Babcock

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Bruce H. Babcock (born 1951) is an American composer. He is known for his works in television, film, and the concert hall. He has composed for various television series, including Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, and Father Dowling Mysteries. He has also composed for many films, including Lethal Weapon, the Die Hard franchise, and King Kong. Babcock credits his study with other composers such as Hugo Friedhofer, Earle Hagen and Paul Glass as an important contributor to his music. Babcock spent more than 25 years in media music before returning to his classical roots, leading to performances of his concert works across the United States. Early life and education Bruce Babcock grew up in Santa Barbara, California. He is the son of astronomer Horace W. Babcock and grandson of astronomer Harold D. Babcock. Bruce went on to earn both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in music composition from California State University at Northridge in the mid-1970s. Career Babcock began studying with Swiss-American classical composer Paul Glass in 1971 and won the Young Musicians Foundation composition prize in 1976 for his “Music for String Orchestra,” performed at UCLA’s Royce Hall under the baton of Calvi

Bruce Broughton

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Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945 ) is an American composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He composed the 1994 version of the 20th Century Fox fanfare. He has won ten Emmy Awards and has been nominated once for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Broughton is currently a lecturer in composition at University of California, Los Angeles. Career Broughton has composed the score for many notable films including Disney films such as The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) and its sequel, Lost in San Francisco (1996), as well as popular westerns such as Silverado (1985) and Tombstone (1993). Other films scored by Broughton include Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Baby’s Day Out (1994), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and The Boy Who Could Fly (1986). Additionally, he composed music for the video game Heart of Darkness and the animated TV series Tiny Toon Adventures. Broughton composed music for Disney theme park attractions including Soarin’, Spaceship Earth, and Ellen’s Energy Adventure. Silverado earned him an Academy Award nomination, losing to Out of Africa. He has won n

Bruce Carey

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Bruce Anderson Carey (16 November 1876 – 8 May 1960) was a Canadian choir conductor, baritone, and music educator. He began his career in Hamilton, Ontario, where he notably founded the Bach-Elgar Choir in 1905. After directing that ensemble for seventeen years, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States where he was conductor of two famous choruses: the Mendelssohn Club and The Bach Choir of Bethlehem. Life and career Born in Millgrove, Ontario (now Hamilton, Ontario), Carey was from a prominent family of Canadian musicians. He began his musical education in his native country with J.E.P. Aldous (piano) and Elliott Haslam (voice). In 1900-1901 he studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London with William Hayman Cummings and Albert Visetti. Upon returning to Canada in 1901, Carey held the post of choirmaster at various churches in Hamilton, Ontario through 1922. In 1905 he founded the Bach-Elgar Choir, serving as its first conductor until 1922. From 1926 to 1934 he was conductor of the Mendelssohn Club in Philadelphia, notably collaborating frequently for concerts with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. From 1933 to 1938 he was conductor of the

Bruce Carlson (composer)

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Bruce Carlson (born 1944) is a Canadian composer from Manitoba. Early life and education Carlson was born in Toronto. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo in 1967 and a teaching certificate from the University of Toronto. He also studied music at the University of Manitoba under Robert Turner. Career Carlson, through the Manitoba Arts Council and other funding bodies, has received numerous commissions to write for groups such as the Festival Quartet of Canada, the Purcell String Quartet, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Winnipeg Singers, the Winnipeg Brass and numerous high school and university concert bands and choirs. His symphony, Toledo (1992), premiered by the John Henderson Junior High Wind Ensemble under the direction of Jeff Kula, was the first work to be commissioned by a Manitoba high school band through the Manitoba Arts Council. It was chosen in 2002 to be the first Canadian work to be included in the publication Teaching music through performance in band. Toledo has been performed internationally including performances in the United States, Hong Kong, Germany and Singapore. In 2007, in the MBM Times magazine, Toledo was selected to be

Bruce Holder

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Bruce Edward Holder Sr. (January 8, 1905 – August 27, 1987) was a Canadian composer, conductor, and violinist. He helped to conduct, teach, and found many music groups, including Symphony New Brunswick, the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, and the Third Field Artillery Band, which earned him his nickname, Mr. Music of Saint John. Early life and education Holder was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. Career Holder worked at the Ocean Steel and Construction Company. In 1948 Holder was a volunteer with the Saint John Salvage Corps. 1945 he opened a record store in Saint John. In 1957 he began teaching music at Saint John Vocational School, and in 1967 he was assistant conductor of the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra. References External links * Bruce Holder at The Canadian Encyclopedia

Bruce MacCombie

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Bruce MacCombie (1943 in Providence, Rhode Island – May 2, 2012, in Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American composer. He studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Freiburg Conservatory, and holds a Ph.D. in music from the University of Iowa. He was appointed to the music faculty of Yale University in 1975, and one year later joined the composition faculty of the Yale School of Music. MacCombie was Director of Publications for G. Schirmer and Associated Music Publishers from 1980 to 1986, Dean of the Juilliard School from 1986 to 1992 and Dean of the School for the Arts at Boston University from 1992 to 2001. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst at Amherst. He was succeeded by Derek Gordon in 2004. References External links * Profile at University of Massachusetts Amherst * Five Colleges New Music Festival profile * Juilliard School press release * Boston University’s B.U. Bridge News on MacCombie * Schott Music profile * Schott Music promoting Color and Time * Schott Music promoting Elegy

Bruce Mather

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Bruce Mather (born May 9, 1939) is a Canadian composer, pianist, teacher, and writer who is particularly known for his contributions to contemporary classical music. Career One of the most notable composers of microtonal music, he was awarded the Jules Léger Prize twice, first in 1979 for his Musique pour Champigny and again in 1993 for Yquem. Some of his other awards include the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada’s Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux prize in 1987 for Barbaresco and the Serge Garant Prize from the Émile Nelligan Foundation in 2000. Mather is an associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers. As a writer he has contributed works to numerous musical journals and publications, including authoring the articles on Serge Garant, François Morel, and Gilles Tremblay in the Dictionary of Contemporary Music. He has taught on the music faculties of the University of Toronto (1964–1966), the University of Montreal (1970–1973), the Paris Conservatoire (1978–1979) and McGill University (1966–2001). His notable pupils include Marc Patch, Peter Allen, John Burke, Paul Crawford, Jacques Desjardins, José Evangelista, Anthon

Bruce Wolosoff

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Bruce Wolosoff (born March 27, 1955) is an American classical composer, pianist, and educator. He lives in Shelter Island, New York with his wife, the artist Margaret Garrett. He has two daughters, the singer-songwriter Juliet Garrett and the sculptor and mixed media artist Katya Wolosoff. Biography Wolosoff was born Bruce Germont, the son of Jeanette (née Rothenberg) and Marc Germont. After his father’s death when Wolosoff was five years old, his mother remarried to Alvin Bibbs Wolosoff. As a teenager, Wolosoff played in a variety of rock bands while pursuing studies in classical piano performance. He received a B.A. at Bard College, where he studied with Joan Tower and ran an improvisational group with multi-instrumentalist and composer Elliott Sharp, and an M.M. in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. It was at the New England Conservatory that he met jazz composer-pianist Jaki Byard, an artist who exerted enormous influence on Wolosoff’s musical development. Wolosoff studied composition and orchestration with Lawrence Widdoes, and pursued post-graduate studies at the Dalcroze School of Music with Dr. Hilda Schuster. Wolosoff’s principal piano

Bruhs Mero and Gean Harwood

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The lives of Bruhs Mero (February 15, 1911 – August 10, 1995) and L. Eugene “Gean” Harwood (1909–2006) are recounted in the book by Harwood, The Oldest Gay Couple in America: A Seventy-Year Journey Through Same-Sex America. Gean Harwood L. Eugene “Gean” Harwood was born in 1909 in Auburn, New York, where he first studied music. On June 30, 1985, during the New York Pride celebration, Gean Harwood and Bruhs Mero were named “Grand Marshals”. In 1991 Mero moved to a nursing home, but Harwood continued to visit him constantly, even if Mero, affected by Alzheimer’s disease, no longer recognized him. After Mero’s death in 1995, Harwood remained active: he played the piano into his 90s and was active in the Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE). Bruhs Mero died from Alzheimer’s disease on August 10, 1995. Harwood died in 2006. Legacy Bruhs Mero and Gean Harwood are profiled in Silent Pioneers, a 1984 documentary by Lucy Winter, Harvey Marks, Paula de Koenigsberg, and Patricia G. Snyder, and For Better or for Worse, the musical chronicling their love affair, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1993. Bruhs Mero and Gean Harwood are profiled in Family: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Am

Brunhilda de Portilla

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Brunilda de Portilla (2 June 1929 – 9 July 2025) was a Costa Rican educator and composer. Life and career De Portilla was born as Brunilda Rodríguez Martínez, to Nicaraguan parents in La Cruz on 2 June 1929. After graduating in 1947, she enrolled at the University of Costa Rica, where she was part of the University Theater, performing various productions of works by Miguel de Cervantes, Alejandro Casona and Henrik Ibsen. In 1953, de Portilla married Roberto Portilla Ibarra, with whom she had three children. De Portilla was a primary school teacher in different institutions in Guanacaste. She began teaching science, Spanish, history, mathematics, plastic arts, and physical education in the public schools of Guadalupe, Sabanilla and Desamparados. She also took the opportunity to form choirs with his students and teach them various compositions. De Portilla recorded some of the songs she had composed in later years; most of them with a love theme and a Christmas carol. They were interested in Christmas songs, so that same afternoon, de Portilla composed the eleven carols that were missing to complete the album. In the recording, he was accompanied by a group of children. Four years la

Brunhilde Sonntag

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Brunhilde Sonntag (27 September 1936 – 18 December 2002) was a German composer, musicologist and music teacher. Biography Brunhilde Sonntag was born in Kassel, Germany. She studied organ at the School of Church Music in Schlüchtern and education at the Pedagogical Institute Jugenheim. From 1959 to 1963 she worked as a teacher at the Friedrich Ebert School in Frankfurt and took private composition lessons from Kurt Hessenberg. From 1963 to 1969 she studied composition at the Hochschule for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with and Gottfried von Einem, and took a teaching position in the Department of Music of the Justus Liebig University, Giessen. From 1973 to 1977 Sonntag studied musicology at the Philipps-University in Marburg, and graduated with a PhD. She took a position as assistant professor at the College of Education Westfalen-Lippe, Münster Department. From 1981 to 1992 she worked as a professor at the University-GH-Duisburg, and in 1992 took a position as professor at the University of Wuppertal. Sonntag published a number of books and professional articles on music. She served as co-editor of the Journal of Music Education, co-editor of the cultural magazine Sound Trac

Bruno Barilli

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Bruno Barilli (14 December 188015 April 1952) was an Italian actor and music composer, and best remembered for his writings on music and music composition. Biography He was born in Fano in the region of Marche, Italy, as the son of a Parmesan painter Cecrope Barilli and his wife, Anna Adanti. As a member of a noted family that, for centuries gave a lot of artists, he studied musical composition at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory at Parma. From there, he gained the position of conducting the orchestra at the Dirigentschule in Munich. There he married Danica Pavlović, descendant of the Karađorđević dynasty and second cousin of the King Petar I of Serbia. Together they had one daughter, Milena Pavlović-Barili, who became a prominent Serbian painter. Returning to Italy in 1910, Barilli composed the opera Medusa with libretto by Ottone Schanzer. In 1914, the opera was awarded at the MacCormick competition. Barilli wrote the music and libretto for the opera Emiral (1915), awarded a prize in a Roman competition judged by Giacomo Puccini. As an actor, he is known for his performance in La Rosa (1921). But Barilli is known mainly for his prolific writing and editing as a music critic for nume

Bruno Bartolozzi

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Bruno Bartolozzi (8 June 1911 – 12 December 1980) Further reading *

Bruno Bettinelli

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Bruno Bettinelli (4 June 1913 – 8 November 2004) was an Italian composer and teacher. Biography Bruno Bettinelli was born in Milan, where he studied at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Milan, under the tutelage of Giulio Cesare Paribeni and Renzo Bossi. He held the title of professor of composition at that same institute and he trained many notable contemporary Italian musicians, including Claudio Abbado, Emiliano Bucci, Elisabetta Brusa, Gilberto Serembe, Danilo Lorenzini, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Bruno Canino, Aldo Ceccato, Riccardo Chailly, Azio Corghi, Armando Gentilucci, Riccardo Muti, Maurizio Pollini, Uto Ughi, Angelo Paccagnini, Bruno Zanolini, Silvia Bianchera, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Francesco Degrada, Massimo Di Gesu, Carlo Alessandro Landini, Massimo Anfossi, Caterina Calderoni, Barbara Rettagliati, Massimo Berzolla and many others. He also taught the Italian singer-songwriter Gianna Nannini. He received many international awards for composition, including a prize from Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in the 1940s. He has also worked in musicology and music criticism. His compositions are currently performed all over the world. Bettinelli’s music is publ

Bruno Bjelinski

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Bruno Bjelinski (born Bruno Weiss; 1 November 1909 – 3 September 1992) was one of the most influential Croatian composers in the 20th century. He was extremely prolific as a composer. His unique musical style was built upon the music of Poulenc, Hindemith, Ravel and Milhaud. He developed his own and recognizable musical language with the elements of neoclassicism. Bjelinski composed six operas, three ballets, 15 symphonies, 2 cello concertos, a cantata, piano music, songs, chamber music, and concertos for piano, violin, viola, bassoon, flute, and piano duo. He also composed music for the Croatian football movie Plavi 9. Biography Bjelinski was born in Trieste into a Jewish family. His mother died very early in his life so his father brought him to Zagreb where he was nurtured by his grandmother. In his youth, he played violin and piano. Later he changed his surname from Weiss to Bjelinski (derivation of the word bijeli, meaning ‘white’ in Croatian). He doctored in law at the University of Zagreb and later studied music at the Zagreb Academy of Music under Blagoje Bersa and Franjo Dugan. Bjelinski started composing in the 1930s. By the beginning of World War II, he had finished his

Bruno Canfora

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Bruno Canfora (; 6 November 1924 – 4 August 2017) was an Italian composer, conductor, and music arranger. Life and career Born in Milan, Canfora studied piano at an early age, then studied oboe at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. During the Second World War, he played several concerts with his group in Trieste. Canfora was the conductor for the Sanremo Music Festival in 1961, 1988 and 1993. Selected filmography * The Man Who Wagged His Tail (1957) * It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958) * Wolves of the Deep (1959) * The Huns (1960) * Fall of the Mohicans (1965) * Rita the Mosquito (1966) * Il vostro super agente Flit (1966) * James Tont operazione D.U.E. (1966) * Don’t Sting the Mosquito (1967) * The Funny Face of the Godfather (1973) * Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976) * Destruction Force (1977) References External links * * *

Bruno Canino

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Bruno Canino (born 30 December 1935) is an Italian classical pianist, harpsichordist and composer. Early life Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in Milan, studying both piano and composition. His teachers included Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli. In 1956 and again in 1958, he won prizes at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and in 1960 at the Darmstadt competition. Career Canino has an international reputation as a soloist, chamber musician, and accompanist. Among those with whom he has appeared are the violinists Itzhak Perlman, Salvatore Accardo, Franco Mezzena, Viktoria Mullova, Pierre Amoyal, Oleksandr Semchuk, Uto Ughi, Ksenia Milas, Alessio Bidoli the flutists Severino Gazzelloni, Luisa Sello, Roberto Pasquini, the cellist Lynn Harrell and vocalist Cathy Berberian. He is also the pianist of the celebrated Trio di Milano, together with the violinist Mariana Sîrbu and cellist Rocco Filippini. He is an enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music. Among the composers who have dedicated works to him are Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, Wolfgang Rihm and Iannis Xenakis. He

Bruno Ducol

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Bruno Ducol (22 March 1949 – 11 January 2024) was a French pianist, composer and teacher of contemporary music. Life and career Born on 22 March 1949 in Annonay, Ducol trained as a pianist External links * ** Discography * * * * Fitch, Fabrice: (L’)Écrit du cri (CD review) Gramophone 2009

Bruno Granichstaedten

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Bruno Bernhard Granichstaedten (September 1, 1879, Vienna – May 30, 1944, New York City) was an Austrian composer and librettist. He composed sixteen operettas and music for various films. He contributed the song “Zuschau’n kann i net” to the musical play The White Horse Inn. He emigrated from Austria, ending up in the United States of America in 1940, where he was only able to earn his living by playing the piano at night clubs. Works *Bub oder Mädel? ( and Adolf Altmann), operetta, prologue and 2 acts (13 November 1908 Vienna, Johann Strauss Theater) *Wein, Weib and Gesang (Adolf Altmann), operetta 1 act (1909 Vienna) *Lolotte (Bruno Granichstaedten and Alfred Schick-Markenau), operetta 3 acts (1910 Vienna) *Majestät Mimi (Felix Dörmann and Roda Roda), operetta (1911 Vienna) *Casimirs Himmelfahrt (Arthur Maria Willner and Robert Bodanzky), burlesque operetta (1911 Vienna) *Die verbotene Stadt (Bruno Granichstaedten and Karl Lindau, operetta (1913 Berlin) *Der Kriegsberichterstatter (Rudolf Österreicher and ), bunte Bilder vom Tage (1914 Vienna) (Music: Eysler, Granichstaedten, Nedbal, Weinberger and Ziehrer) *Auf Befehl der Herzogin (der Kaiserin) ( and Robert Bodanzky), operetta

Bruno Liberda

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Bruno Liberda (born 17 February 1953, in Mödling, Vienna) is an Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. Life Liberda started his academic and musical education when he was 16. He studied composition under Alfred Uhl at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien. Later, he studied under Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, who became his most influential teacher and mentor. He received several awards and scholarships in Europe & US. Today Liberda lectures electronic music at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien. His ballet Valse triste (1978) was the first composition of electronic music ever to be performed in the Staatsoper Wien. By combining traditional and electronic instruments, he explores the fascination of music as so aptly described by Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński: Music is the corporealisation of the intelligence that is in sound. His scores are often the result of process-oriented, non-linear composing. Traditional notation, optical stimulation and integration of graphical & verbal description are key elements of his attempt to describe sound in a very direct way. Compositions Stage * Yerma, ballet (1977) • Valse triste, ballet (1978) • Das Ende d

Bruno Maderna

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Bruno Maderna (born Bruno Grossato, 21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian composer, conductor and academic teacher. Life Maderna was born Bruno Grossato in Venice but later decided to take the name of his mother, Caterina Carolina Maderna. At the age of four, he began studying the violin with his grandfather. “My grandfather thought that if you could play the violin you could then do anything, even become the biggest gangster. If you play the violin you are always sure of a place in heaven.” As a child, he played several instruments (violin, drums and accordion) in his father’s small variety band. A child prodigy, in the early thirties, he was not only performing violin concertos, he was already conducting orchestral concerts: first with the orchestra of La Scala in Milan, then in Trieste, Venice, Padua and Verona. He was originally Jewish. Orphaned at the age of four, Maderna was adopted by a wealthy woman from Verona, Irma Manfredi, who saw to it that he received a solid musical education. He took private lessons in harmony and musical composition from Arrigo Pedrollo from 1935 until 1937 and studied composition with Alessandro Bustini at the Rome Conservatory from 193

Bruno Mantovani

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Bruno Mantovani (born 8 October 1974) is a French composer. He has been awarded first prizes from the Conservatoire de Paris which he joined in 1993. His work has been commissioned by the French government as well as other organisations. In September 2010, he was appointed to the post of director of the Paris Conservatory. Biography At 37, Bruno Mantovani became the director of the Conservatoire de Paris. In October 2018, his new composition Threnos was premiered at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Marin Alsop. In March 2019, he was named music director of the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, a position that began in January 2020. Awards * 2010 Claudio-Abbado-Kompositionspreis of the Orchester-Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic Works list Orchestra * Art d’écho, for orchestra, 2000 * Con Leggerezza, for orchestra, 2004 * Concerto pour deux altos et orchestre, for two violas and orchestra, 2009 * Concerto pour deux pianos, for two pianos and orchestra 2012 * Concerto pour violoncelle, for cello and orchestra, 2005 * Fantaisie, for piano and orchestra, 2010 * Finale, for orchestra, 2007 * Jeux d’eau, for violin and orchestra, 2011 * Le Cycle des gris, for orchestra,

Bruno Martino

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Bruno Martino (11 November 1925 – 12 June 2000) was an Italian composer, singer, and pianist. He is best remembered for his songs Dracula Cha Cha Cha (1959) and Estate (1960). Career Martino learned to play the piano at the age of fourteen. A jazz fan, he spent the early years of his career performing with European radio and nightclub orchestras. In the mid-1950s, he was a member of the RAI orchestra. He later started composing music for popular Italian singers, eventually touring the world with his own orchestra. This resulted in a late-blossoming career as a singer. Internationally he is best known for his 1960 song Estate, a standard that has been performed by many jazz musicians and singers since the early 1960s, including João Gilberto, Joe Diorio, Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Shirley Horn, Eliane Elias, Michel Petrucciani, Monty Alexander, Mike Stern, John Pizzarelli and Robert Jospé. Another one of Martino’s hit-songs, the humorous novelty song Dracula Cha Cha (later also called Dracula Cha Cha Cha) was originally composed for Steno’s horror-comedy film Tempi duri per i vampiri (1959) and released as a single the same year. It was later included in the album Italian Graffit

Bruno Moretti

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Bruno Moretti (born 1957) is an Italian composer, pianist, and conductor. He has composed ballet music (as well as theatre, cinema and television music) working in collaboration with the choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti. He is also an accompanist for singers. Biography Moretti was born in Rome, and initially studied with Armando Renzi. Then he became Nino Rota’s assistant for creating the opera Napoli milionaria at the Spoleto festival in 1977. Later, he studied conducting at Siena’s Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He made his conducting debut in 1979 at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. He has conducted throughout Italy and in England, Israel, the Far East and North America. Works Opera * Lady E (1999), opera in two acts to a libretto by Pasquale Plastino and Silvia Ranfagni Ballet * Caravaggio (2008), a two-act ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti. Moretti wrote the score based on several works by Claudio Monteverdi. Moretti’s interpretation was reviewed as “light … then darker and always varied in texture … romanticised Monteverdi, but it fits the stage action perfectly.” * Don Giovanni, emozioni di un mito (1996), for Il Balletto di Toscana * Comoedia

Bruno Nicolai

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Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director, conductor, pianist and musical editor, most active in the 1960s through the 1980s. While studying piano and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he befriended Ennio Morricone and formed a long working relationship, with Nicolai eventually conducting for and co-scoring films with Morricone. Morricone noted in an interview discussing the Dollars Trilogy, “I chose a great musician and friend to be my conductor: Bruno Nicolai, who conducted almost every score of mine from that point on until 1974.” Nicolai also scored a number of giallo exploitation films and wrote many scores for director Jesús Franco. Collaboration with Ennio Morricone Nicolai frequently collaborated with Morricone, conducting many of his scores, including those for Sergio Leone’s “For a Few Dollars More” (1965) and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966). Morricone praised Nicolai as a great musician and friend who conducted nearly all his scores until 1974. Their partnership eventually ended due to disagreements over credit attribution. His work was featured in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill

Bruno Rossignol

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Bruno Rossignol (born 1958 in Nanterre) is a French composer, choral conductor and conductor, pianist and music educator. Biography He studied music at the École normale de musique de Paris and the Sorbonne. He then directed choirs: first trainee conductor at the Paris Opera and at the choir of the Orchestre de Paris (by Jean Laforge and Arthur Oldham), he was then founding conductor of the Île-de-France Chamber Choir. (first prize of the International competitions of Malta in 1989 and Verona in 1993). With this ensemble, he received the Grand Prix des Hauts-de-Seine in 1996. From 1985 to 1995, he was the choir conductor of the musical shows of Jean-Michel Jarre, whom he accompanied in London, Paris-La Défense (1990), Berlin, Budapest, Seville, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, Mont-Saint-Michel. He was director of the Conservatories of Jouy-en-Josas from 1989 to 1992, Suresnes from 1992 to 1997, Orsay from 1997 to 2000, Bourges from 2000 to 2005 and Hector Berlioz in Paris 10th from 2005 to 2010. In 2011, he was appointed director of the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental (CRD) de la Dordogne and artistic director of the Dordogne instrumental ensemble. (E.I.D.) with which

Bruno Spoerri

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Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 August 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician. Born in Zurich, he studied applied psychology in Basel and Zurich. He played the saxophone as a student and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor. He experimented with an electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978. Discography * Jazz-Rock Experience (Deram, 1970) * Glückskugel (Finders Keepers Records, 1971–1980) * Container (1976) * Voice of Taurus (Gold Records/Inzec, 1978) * Toy Planet with Irmin Schmidt (Spoon Records, 1981) * AX+BY+CZ+D=0 (1983) * Zürich Tenors (FFO 1983, with Ernst Gerber, Fernando Fantini, Richard Lipiec, Umberto Foletti, Rolf Cizmek, Hans Brunner) * Albert Mangelsdorff - Bruno Spoerri - Christy Doran - Reto Weber: Shake, Shuttle and Blow (Enja, 1999) Awards * Jazz Festival Zürich 1954: First Prize for Saxophone and Band * Jazz Festival Düsseldorf (Deutschland) 1956: Second Prize for Alto Saxophone with Modern Jazz Group Freiburg * Jazz Festival Zürich 1958: First Prize for Bigband * International Advertising Film Festival Cannes 1965: First Pr

Bryan E. Miller

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Bryan E. Miller (born September 23, 1965) is an American film composer, pianist, and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. Miller has scored several documentaries including America: Imagine The World Without Her. TOC Career After leaving his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico to pursue a career in film composition, Miller began studying at the Grove School of Music and the UCLA Extension film-scoring program. Early in his career Miller assisted composer Mark Waters on numerous Disney TV episodes, and worked as an orchestrator and conductor for Academy Award-winning composer Mychael Danna. Miller’s compositions can be heard on numerous film, TV, documentary, and commercial projects. He works regularly for clients such as NBCUniversal, Lionsgate, Disney, CBS, ABC, and A&E. He has also provided music for Super Bowl commercials and brands such as Microsoft, Taco Bell, Campbell’s, Dodge, Wells Fargo, Yamaha, Nike, and the Comcast logo. This documentary became the sixth highest grossing political documentary of all time. Milan Records released the feature film’s soundtrack in 2014. In 2015, Miller was chosen to compose the original score for Te Ata. The film, based on a t

Bryce Jacobs

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Bryce Jacobs (born Bryson Kenneth Jacobs) is an Australian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, most famous in the composing world for his style that uses classical orchestral techniques and electronica elements, but highly infused with guitar and vocal textures. Early life and career After completing a Bachelor of Music in Performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Jacobs returned 18 months later to complete a master’s degree in composition. As he started learning the stylistic standards of both classic orchestral, jazz, and rock, he went on to design, and build, a new style of guitar. The instrument he created used twelve individual strings (not courses) and electronic pitch shifters, thereby allowing it to reach seven octaves. Shortly afterwards, Jacobs started performing as a session and touring musician for Australian artists including Josh Pyke and Genevieve Maynard, and international artists such as Sophie B. Hawkins. In 2006, Jacobs started his film scoring work, copying parts on Happy Feet. This was then followed by work as an orchestrator on Jumper, Gabriel, Australia, and P.S. I Love You. In 2008, Bryce moved to the United States, where he started workin

Bryn Harrison

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Bryn Harrison (born 1969 in Bolton, England) is a British experimental composer. His works have been widely performed by international ensembles and he was a recipient of the 2013 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers. He is currently Reader in Composition at the University of Huddersfield. His music deals with ideas of repetition and memory by using “recursive musical structures” and sometimes extended durations, such as the 45-minute ensemble work Repetitions in Extended Time (2008) and the 76-minute piano piece Vessels (2013). Education Harrison initially studied at the Leeds College of Music (1988–91), before completing a master’s degree under composer Gavin Bryars at De Montfort University, Leicester. In 1999 he was selected to compete for the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in the Netherlands. He also studied briefly with Christian Wolff and Alvin Lucier in 2001 at the Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic. Ensembles and soloists who have performed his music include Ensemble recherche, Klangforum Wien, the London Sinfonietta, the London Symphony Orchestra, Apartment House, Plus-Minus, Asamisimasa, ELISION, EXAUDI, the pianists Philip Thomas and Mark Knoop, and the v