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Daan Manneke

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Daan Manneke (born 7 November 1939) is a Dutch composer and organist. Manneke was born in Kruiningen. He studied organ and composition from 1963 to 1967 at the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, under Huub Houët and Louis Toebosch (organ) and Jan van Dijk (composition). Manneke then studied organ with Belgian organist Kamiel d’Hooghe in Brussels, followed by composition with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam. References

Dado Moroni

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Edgardo “Dado” Moroni (born 20 October 1962) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer. Biography Dado was born in Genoa, Italy and started playing piano at age four. A self-taught musician, by his mid-teens he was playing professionally around Italy and by age 17 had recorded his first album. Throughout the 1980s Dado worked mostly in Europe playing at festivals and in clubs, including a long stint as part of former Duke Ellington bassist Jimmy Woode’s trio at Widder Bar in Zurich. Dado moved to the U.S. in 1991, becoming part of the New York jazz scene, and appearing regularly both as a leader and sideman, in some of the city’s most prestigious clubs, including Blue Note, Birdland, Village Vanguard as well as recording several CDs. During his 35-year career Dado has played with legends including Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Hank Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Alvin Queen. A highly respected musician, at age 25 he was granted the honor of serving as a juror at the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition in 1987. Based in Italy, Dado continues to perform worldwide. In

Dafina Zeqiri (composer)

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Dafina Zeqiri Nushi (born 1 April 1984) is a Kosovar composer of orchestral music, chamber music and choral music that has been performed in Europe and elsewhere. Biography Zeqiri studied at the Prenk Jakova Conservatory in Pristina from 1997 to 2002. She studied music composition with Mendi Mengjiqi at the University of Pristina, graduating in 2007. Her master’s-degree work was with Jana Andreevska at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje She completed the degree in 2011. In 2009 she founded the organization Kosovar Women in Music, NEO MUSICA, and became a member of the International Honour Committee of the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica. Her works are predominantly instrumental, beginning with Quasi Variazione for piano (2000), Dialog for violin and piano (2001) and Atmospheres for flute and piano (2002). Vocal compositions include works for mixed chorus such as My Mother, on a text of Pashko Vasa (2001), Odisea (2008) and Atmospheres for chorus with orchestra (2005). Solo settings include When You Come for mezzo-soprano and piano (2002), on a text by Bajram Qerimi, and O Dismal Bird for tenor and piano (2009). Later compositions from her time at university in Sk

Dafna Naphtali

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Dafna Naphtali is an American composer, guitarist, and singer. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she formed the duo Mechanique(s) and released the album What Is It Like To Be A Bat? (2003). Biography After spending a few years playing piano as a child, she began composing while she was a student at Stuyvesant High School. She studied at New York University, where she got a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz vocal performance and a Master of Music degree in music technology. While at NYU, she discovered Max, a MIDI software which she would later use for most of her compositions. She and Hans Tammen formed the duo Mechanique(s); Allan Kozinn of The New York Times said that they “had the most direct ties to classical electronic experimentalism” of all the work at the 2002 Electronic X-travaganza. She performed for the electroacoustic InterAction series in February 2002. In 2003, she and Kitty Brazelton released the album What Is It Like To Be A Bat?, with Naphtali as electric guitarist and vocalist. She was guest vocalist for Barbez’s 2013 concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge. In 2023, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition. She worked for NYU as an adjunct faculty member, before

Dafnis Prieto

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Dafnis Prieto (born July 31, 1974) is a Cuban-American drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator. Career In his home town of Santa Clara, Cuba, Prieto studied percussion and guitar. During his teens, he moved to Havana to study at the National School of Music. He concentrated on classical music and Afro-Cuban music before paying more attention to jazz. In 1999, when he was twenty-five, Prieto moved to New York City, where he worked with Eddie Palmieri, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Arturo O’Farrill, Dave Samuels, and Michel Camilo, among many others. Prieto has conducted master classes, clinics, and workshops. From 2005 to 2015, he was a member of the music faculty at New York University. Since 2015, he has taught at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Awards and honors * 2007 Grammy nomination, Best Latin Jazz Album, Dafnis Prieto Absolute Quintet (Zoho Music) * 2007 Latin Grammy nomination, Best New Artist * 2011 MacArthur Fellow * 2018 Latin Grammy nomination, Best Latin Jazz Album, Back to the Sunset * 2018 Grammy Award, Best Latin Jazz Album, Back to the Sunset * 2021 Grammy nomination, Best Latin Jazz Album, Transparency Discography As leader * Ab

Dafydd Llywelyn (composer)

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Dafydd Llywelyn (10 January 1939, in South Wales – 25 March 2013, in Munich) was a Welsh composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. Biography Llywelyn, born in South Wales, received his first piano lessons from his father and later from priests in a monastic boarding school in the Midlands. His other teachers include the British pianist Tom Bromley, Johann Trygvasson (father-in-law of Vladimir Ashkenazy) and Peter Feuchtwanger (nephew of the writer Lion Feuchtwanger). He received an important musical influence from the pianist and later close friend Shura Cherkassky, who showed him the tradition of the old masters’ polyphonic piano playing. He was later significantly inspired by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and . In Birmingham and then London he studied music, medicine, criminology and theology, after which he moved to Cologne. He moved to Munich in 1971, and in 1984 until his death lived with his life-partner Hedy Schmitt in the Haidhausen district. When he was three years old, his mother died from leukemia. Later he began to translate and write his thoughts into music. The deep religiosity of his work, which he was already composing in a meditative state since his youth, w

Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe

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Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe (10 December 1926 – 1 February 2013) was a Norwegian musicologist, composer, music critic and biographer. He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo for thirty years, from 1973 with the title of professor. His research mainly centered on the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Life and career Schjelderup-Ebbe was born in Oslo as the son of zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe and Torbjørg Brekke. He graduated in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950, and started teaching at the University of Oslo the same year. In 1953 he published the work A Study of Grieg’s Harmony, and in 1964 the work Edvard Grieg 1858–1867, which was also the basis for his doctorate thesis. In addition to his university assignment he also worked as a music critic for the newspaper Vårt Land from 1957 to 1963, and for Verdens Gang from 1963 to 1973. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1973 to 1980. He co-wrote the biography Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren in 1980, together with Finn Benestad. It has also been translated into German and Russian language. References

Dag Wirén

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Dag Ivar Wirén (15 October 1905 – 19 April 1986) was a Swedish composer. Best known for his Serenade for Strings (1937), his career was mainly spent in Stockholm, aside from a stint in Paris during his early studies. Life and career Wirén was born at Striberg near Nora on 15 October 1905. His father had a roller blind factory, and there were various musical activities in the family home; he took piano lessons, and was a student at the Karolinska school in Örebro, and played the bass drum and celesta in the town orchestra. Wirén studied at the Stockholm conservatory from 1926 to 1931, which gave him much exposure to music from all periods; hearing Arthur Honegger’s oratorio King David in 1927 was an important experience. In 1934, Wirén moved to Stockholm with his bride, the Irish cellist, Noel Franks, whom he had met in Paris; their daughter, Annika, was born in 1947. He was music critic at the “Svenska Morgonbladet” from 1938 to 1946, and in 1947 became vice-chairman of the Society of Swedish Composers. From 1948, he spent summers on the island of Björkö, in Stockholm’s archipelago. He served as a member of the board of directors of the Royal Swedish Opera from 1962 to 1971. His TV

Dagfinn Koch

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Dagfinn Koch (born 24 July 1964, in Kristiansund, Norway) is a musician. Education He studied at the State Academy of music (Norges musikkhøgskole) (Lasse Thoresen, composition; Olav Anton Thommessen, orchestration; Bjørn Kruse, arranging; Mads Claesson, Arild Erikstad og Tore Simonsen, music technology; Otto Berg, viola), and at Hochschule (now Universität) der Künste Berlin (Witold Szalonek, composition). Music career He has been freelancing since 1994, and has written music for orchestra, chamber and theatre music, opera, ballet and fine art installations. Besides that has he worked as an arranger for amongst others Finn Coren and Lucifer Was. He has been a member of the Oslo Philharmonic program committee and a member of the board in the Composers society and in the evaluation committee of TONO (the Norwegian BIEM/ASCAP). In addition to composition, he has worked in a youth club, as a teacher in a music school in Oslo, Bærum and Bergen, as a music copyist and engraver, and as a sound engineer (Henie-Onstad Art center). He has received several scholarships from TONO and was granted a two-year scholarship from the Norwegian Ministry for Cultural Affairs in 2006. He was accepted a

Dagmar Nordstrom

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Dagmar Nordstrom (December 12, 1903 – April 9, 1976) was an American composer, pianist and singer. She performed together with her sister Siggie as a cabaret singing duo known as The Nordstrom Sisters. Background Dagmar Nordstrom was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was the second daughter of Anna and Alexander Nordstrom. The family were of Swedish and Norwegian extraction. Dagmar was married briefly to a society playboy, but lived most of her life with her older sister after the death of Siggie’s husband, Samuel Ferebee Williams. Career Dagmar and Siggie had a flat in London for a year in 1939 when they were the resident performers at The Ritz. With the exception of their October trips to Bad Gastein for the baths, they regularly performed either in clubs in New York City or on board transatlantic ocean liners, most commonly on the Cunard Line and Norwegian America Line. The duo were on the maiden around the world voyage of the combined ocean liner/cruise ship MS Sagafjord. Dagmar wrote the music for “Remembering You”, a foxtrot which was published as sheet music and a full orchestration in 1940. During the 1940s she and her sister were often on the radio and through the 1960s when

Dai Fujikura

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Dai Fujikura ( Fujikura Dai; born 27 April 1977) is a Japanese-born composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Dai Fujikura was born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan. He moved to London when he was 15 to study at Dover College as a music scholar to complete his secondary education. His initial ambition was to compose music for cinema. Studying the music of Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti and Tōru Takemitsu at Trinity College of Music caused a gestalt shift: Dai became an aspiring contemporary composer whose extensive knowledge of cinematography gave his music a fresh, individual voice. Imagining sounds as images produced music with considerable dramatic structure and strength. By the end of his second year, he had already won the Serocki International Composers Competition. Before graduating, Dai’s music has been broadcast on many European radio stations, won several other prizes, and has been performed by a list of illustrious ensembles and soloists including the London Sinfonietta. Despite this fortuitous start, and the strength of early works such as Frozen Heat, Cari4nics and Eternal Escape, Dai wanted to develop his technique. A visit to Darmstadt, where he first heard Japanese t

Daiki Kasho

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, stylized as daiki kasho, is a Japanese video game composer best known for his contributions to the Gran Turismo series of racing games by Polyphony Digital. He has also previously worked on the F-Zero, Wangan Midnight, and King of Fighters series. Kasho first joined Sony Computer Entertainment after he got an invitation from a friend, but subsequently left the company prior to the release of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec. Despite leaving, he continued to collaborate with Polyphony Digital in the sound department. Works Credits in music Kasho is also credited as a producer in EXiNA’s 2022 album SHiENA. Credits in television References External links * Interview at RocketBaby * *

Daisuke Inoue (singer)

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Daisuke Inoue (; 13 September 1941 - 30 May 2000), the stage name of Tadao Inoue () was a Japanese singer, composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Life and career Born in Tokyo, Inoue started his musical career in 1960 as a member of the group Jackey Yoshikawa and His Blue Comets, serving as multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and often also as composer. Among other works, he penned the group’s major hit “Blue Chateau” (ブルー・シャトウ, “Burū shatō”), which won a Japan Record Award and sold over one million copies. After the group disbanded, Inoue started a career as a solo singer and as a composer for other artists, notably Finger 5 and Hiromi Go. In 1981, he adopted the stage name Daisuke Inoue to mark a fresh start to his career. Among his major hits is “Ai Senshi”, the theme song of the Mobile Suit Gundam film trilogy. References External links * * *

Daisuke Ishiwatari

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is a South African-born Japanese video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the 2D fighting game series Guilty Gear. He designed the characters and storyline, and wrote the music. He is a former voice actor for the characters Sol Badguy, Order-Sol, and Freed Velez in Battle Fantasia. Ishiwatari was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Japan. He worked on the first original game for the series Guilty Gear at Arc System Works. Ishiwatari and Yoshihiro Kusano wrote the music for another game series BlazBlue, and painted the character selection portraits for the sequel, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. Ishiwatari is also a metal and rock composer, with music on each games. His compositions feature intricate guitar work. The albums Guilty Gear XX in LA and Guilty Gear XX in NY include his vocals, as do three albums in Japanese by the band Lapis Lazuli. He also composed for Hard Corps: Uprising. Productions *Virtual Open Tennis (assistant designer) *EXECTOR (designer) *Guilty Gear series (illustration, creation and BGM) *Sangokushi Taisen DS (original Ba Tai design) *Dimension Zero (card illustration) *BlazBlue (sound dire

Dajos Béla

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Leon Golzmann or as he was more commonly known, Dajos Béla (19 December 1897 – 5 December 1978), was a Ukrainian jazz violinist and bandleader. Career Golzmann was born in Kyiv, now part of Ukraine, to a Russian father and Hungarian mother. He served as a soldier during World War I, after which he studied music in Moscow. He then continued his studies in Berlin, where he started playing in local venues. He was contacted by Carl Lindström AG to make recordings and started his own salon orchestra, at which period he changed his name to the more Hungarian-sounding Dajos Béla, Hungarian or Romanian music then being popular in Germany. Along with those of Paul Godwin and Marek Weber, his orchestra became one of the most popular in Germany and gained a high reputation abroad. He played a range of music, but for jazz music often recorded under different names, such as The Odeon Five, Mac’s Jazz Orchestra and the Clive Williams Jazzband. As soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 Béla, who was Jewish, started touring abroad. In 1935 he travelled to Buenos Aires, where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in La Falda, Argentina, in 1978. Among the many musicians who play

Dale Barlow

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Dale Barlow (born Sydney, Australia, 25 December 1959) is a jazz saxophonist, flute player and composer. He has a Masters of Music degree begun at City College New York under Ron Carter and completed at ANU Canberra. He has received ARIA Awards, Album of the Year/ Jazz performer of the year/ International Artist of the Year/ Bicentennial Artist of the Year, four Mo Awards and grants. Career Barlow briefly studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s Barlow moved to New York, where he was a member of two groups, the Cedar Walton Quartet and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He studied saxophone with George Coleman and Dave Liebman, piano with Barry Harris, and Hal Galper, and won a BMI scholarship to study at the “Jazz composers workshop” with Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Album. Barlow has also toured and recorded with many other jazz greats including Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Jackie McLean, Billy Cobham, Dizzy Gillespie, Curtis Fuller, Eddie Palmieri, Benny Golson, Lee Konitz, Helen Merrill, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond, Dave Kikoski, Richie Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Higgins, Freddie Hubbard and Wynton Marsalis, Cindy Blackm

Dale Warland

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Dale Warland (born April 14, 1932, Fort Dodge, Iowa ) is an American conductor, composer, founder of the Grammy-nominated Dale Warland Singers, scholar, teacher, choral consultant, and renowned champion of contemporary choral composers. Warland is one of only two choral conductors (along with Robert Shaw) inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. Professional biography (in brief) While enrolled at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, Warland began rehearsing and performing with choirs. After graduating, he spent two years in the U.S. Air Force where he started a choir of servicemen. The choir was invited to perform for then-Vice President Richard Nixon. Warland continues to function as a choral composer, editor of choral publications, consultant to publishing companies, scholar, teacher, and guest conductor. The Dale Warland Singers In 1972, while on the faculty at Macalester College, Warland was asked by the Walker Art Center (in Minneapolis) to form a choir for a special project. This group of 40 singers became the Dale Warland Singers. Under his direction, the Singers toured Europe and were awarded the ASCAP Margaret Hillis Achievement Award, ASCAP awards fo

Dallas Harms

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Dallas Harms (July 18, 1935 – October 12, 2019) was a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Twenty of Harms’ singles made the RPM Country Tracks charts, including the number one single “Honky Tonkin’ (All Night Long)”. Harms was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989. Harms was born in Jansen, Saskatchewan, but was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded the Hamilton Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016. He died in Hamilton on October 12, 2019. Discography Albums Singles References External links * * Entry at 45cat.com * 45cat.com as The Nashville Sounds Of Dallas Harms And The Spartons *

Dalmazio Santini

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Dalmazio Santini (September 11, 1923 – October 4, 2001) was an Italian-born American composer. Early life Santini was born in Capestrano in the Abruzzo province of Italy. He immigrated to the United States at age 14. He attended public schools in White Plains, New York. He was inducted into the US Armed Forces and served in World War II, eventually settling in Valhalla, New York. Following the war, the G.I. Bill allowed him the opportunity to study composition at Manhattanville College and the Mannes College of Music. Santini studied composition with Felix Salzer and Tadeusz Kassern, and conducting with Milton Forstat. Musical career Santini developed a system of composition using 21-tone rows. This system is similar to the more familiar 12-tone system of serial composition, but the rows Santini used as the basis of his 21-tone compositions also include all alternative enharmonic spellings for each note in the chromatic scale (except the notes D, G, and A, which have no enharmonic spellings). Thus, the available tones for a 21-tone row would include B-sharp, C, C-sharp, D-flat, D, D-sharp, E-flat, E, F-flat, E-sharp, F, F-sharp, G-flat, G, G-sharp, A-flat, A, A-sharp, B-flat, B, an

Dalto (composer)

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Dalto Roberto Medeiros, stage name Dalto (born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (state), 22 June 1949) is a Brazilian composer and singer. Biography In the beginning of the 1970s, Dalto has actuated as vocalist of the Niterói’s rock band Os Lobos, recording the compact Fanny by the label Top Tape. After this beginning of career, he quit the group to study to be a doctor, until graduating. In 1974, he started his solo career recording a compact for Odeon. The success however only would appear in the 1980s, precisely in 1981, with the song Bem-te-vi, in partnership with Cláudio Rabelo but sung by Renato Terra, which sold 250 thousand copies. In the next year, he already composing and singing, had his biggest hit, Muito Estranho, released in compact and LP record by EMI-Odeon. Another big hit of the composer is the song “Anjo”, recorded in 1983 by the group Roupa Nova, composed in partnership with Cláudio Rabello and Renato Correa. Recently Dalto composed to the sound track of the soap opera Viver a Vida with the song “Faça um Pedido”. Discography * 1974 — Leila Ly/Flash back, Odeon (Compact) * 1982 — Muito estranho, EMI-Odeon (LP) * 1983 — Pessoa, Dalto, EMI-Music Brasil(LP) * 1985 — Kama

Damian Montagu

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Damian Montagu is a British composer, music producer and songwriter. Based in West Sussex, his work is wide-ranging and he has twice topped the iTunes Classical Singles Chart. Career Following an Arts degree at University of East Anglia, Damian Montagu began working in television (LWT and Planet 24) and marketing for four years. In 1997, he co-founded the music production company Montagu Bourcier, where he composed and produced music for commercials, films, documentaries, and multimedia projects. The agency quickly became one of London’s leading composition and sound design companies. Here he composed and produced music on a multitude of brand campaigns, including Audi, BMW, Diesel, Dunhill, RBS and Sony. His film scores include The Cookie Thief (Palme d’Or nominated) and Subterrain, which was a collaboration with Michael Nyman. Additionally, he has created scores for award-winning work such as Football (starring Helena Bonham-Carter and directed by Gaby Dellal). Montagu has produced scores for The South Bank Show, and series as varied as Geo (a 20 part series for Arte television) and The Science of Beauty starring Sharon Stone. In 2007, he produced an album project and a new solo

Damian Stachowicz

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Damian Stachowicz (June 23, 1658 in Sokołów Małopolski – November 27, 1699 in Łowicz) was a Polish composer. His baptismal name was Jan (Joannes). At the age of 17 he entered the monastic order of the Piarists in Rzeszów and took on the name Damian of the Most Holy Trinity (Damianus à SS. Trinitate). On 9 June 1675 he received the religious habit, and as early as 6 August of the same year he arrived at Podolinec, where he stayed until 1677 teaching the classes in poetry and rhetoric, as well as performing musical tasks. Since 1678 he had resided in the monastery in Prievidza, and studied philosophy and theology. Most probably he was still occupied with music (which we can surmise on the basis of a large number of compositions mentioned in the music inventory of that place). In the years 1681–1690 he worked in Warsaw where on 21 December 1685 he was ordained to the priesthood. We may also find more detailed information about his musical responsibilities (“mgr chori et Musices”), which included education of the youth. Since 1691 Stachowicz had dwelled in Łowicz and his duties were to conduct the choir, to teach rhetoric and theology, to head the school (at least since 1696) and final

Damien Geter

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Damien Geter (born 1980) is an American composer, bass-baritone, and conductor. He is the Music Director of Portland Opera and the Composer-in-Residence for the Richmond Symphony. Geter is known for such large-scale classical works as An African American Requiem (2022) and the operas American Apollo (2024) and Loving v. Virginia (2025). Early life and education Geter was born in Petersburg, Virginia, and raised in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He grew up in a musical family; his mother and grandmother were active in church music, which influenced his early musical development. He subsequently earned a Master of Music in Conducting from Indiana State University in 2004. Career Composition Geter’s compositions have received acclaim for their fusion of classical forms with styles from the Black diaspora. His choral-orchestral work, An African American Requiem, premiered in May 2022. Commissioned by the Resonance Ensemble, the work is a setting of the traditional Latin Requiem mass integrated with spirituals and texts related to racial violence in the United States, including the last words of Eric Garner and a speech by Ida B. Wells. The Washington Post reviewed the East Coast premie

Damien Ricketson

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Damien Ricketson (born 9 May 1973) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. He is best known for his innovative compositional practice and in his capacity as the co-founder and co-artistic director of Ensemble Offspring. He is currently an academic at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney of which he is also an alumnus. He holds a PhD from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he also teaches. Ricketson is the co-founder and former co-artistic director of the Sydney-based Ensemble Offspring – an organisation dedicated to the performance of new music. Ricketson’s music is characterised by colourful sound-worlds, novel forms and is often multisensory in nature. An early interest in Spectral music can be seen in his frequent exploration of unusual timbres and microtonal pitch structures. Some Shade of Blue, for example, features a newly invented string instrument in a just intonation system. Recent stylistic tendencies have moved away from an earlier abstract style, exemplified in works such as Ptolemy’s Onion, towards what the composer terms a more “corporeal” approach embracing tangible references to existing music and a highly physical perfo

Damon Elliott

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Damon William Elliott (born March 21, 1973) is an American record producer, songwriter and composer. Throughout his career he has worked with various artists spanning across hip hop, R&B, pop, pop rock, gospel, reggae and country. He also produced the Academy Award-nominated song “Applause” from the 2022 film Tell It Like a Woman. Elliott is the son of Dionne Warwick and Bill Elliott. Career Elliott’s first production project credits include Bone Thugs-n-Harmony member Flesh-n-Bone (1996). Other credits include work with Mya, Destiny’s Child (including Beyonce’s, Kelly Rowland’s and Michelle Williams’s solo projects), P!nk, Jessica Simpson, Macy Gray, Athena Cage, Solange Knowles, Keyshia Cole, Kelis, Brooke Allison, Brooke Hogan, Yasmeen Sulieman, rappers Layzie Bone, Yukmouth, Sticky Fingaz, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and former boxing champion Mike Tyson. He has written and produced theme songs for the television shows Holly’s World, Kendra on Top and The Lylas. As a singer, Elliott contributed to N-Tyce, Tina Harris and Beat Funktion. He co-wrote “Blow Me” and “Catwalk” for American entrepreneur Jeffree Star. Since 2014, with the support of Billy Ray Cyrus, Elliott began releasing hick

Damon Fox (writer)

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Damon Fox (born May 17, 1966) is an American writer and producer. His works as a screenwriter include Traces of Death (1993) and Traces of Death II (1994). Career During the 1990s, Fox formed Foxx Entertainment Enterprises Inc. With this production company, he created, scripted and narrated the shockumentary films Traces of Death I and II. In the 1980s, he formed the power-metal band Stormtrooper and only produced one EP, Armies of the Night. Selected filmography Self * Traces of Death (1993) – narrator, host * Traces of Death II (1994) – narrator * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) – narrator Producer * Traces of Death (1993) – co-executive producer * Traces of Death II (1994) – co-executive producer * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) – producer Writer * Traces of Death (1993) * Traces of Death II (1994) * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) Composer * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) * The Kid & I (2005) Director * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) References External links *

Dan Folke

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Dan Folke (March 11, 1906 – September 16, 1954) was a Danish composer, lyricist, publisher, and theater director. Biography Folke was born in Frederiksberg. Together with Arvid and Børge Müller, Folke wrote the lyrics for “Glemmer du” References External links *Dan Folke at the Danish Film Database

Dan Forrest

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Daniel Ernest Forrest Jr. (born January 7, 1978) is an American composer, pianist, educator, and music editor. Biography Dan Forrest was born in Breesport, New York, and began piano lessons with his elementary school music teacher at age 8. In high school Forrest won numerous piano awards, accompanied honors choirs, and performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Elmira Symphony. He majored in piano at Bob Jones University, earning a B.Mus. and an M.Mus. in Piano Performance, studying advanced theory and composition with Joan Pinkston and Dwight Gustafson. After teaching piano in South Carolina for three years, he moved to Kansas, where he earned a D.M.A. in composition from the University of Kansas, studying with wind band composer James Barnes. Forrest also studied with Alice Parker, whom he counts as a foremost influence. Forrest’s compositions include choral, instrumental, orchestral, and wind band works. His music appears in the catalogs of numerous publishers, primarily Beckenhorst Press (church music) and Hinshaw Music (concert music), but also Choristers Guild. In 2018, he began self-publishing his own concert music The Music of Dan Forrest, which is distributed by Beckenho

Dan Lacksman

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Dan Lacksman (born 19 May 1950) is a Belgian composer and sound engineer, artist and member of Telex, director of numerous acoustic albums, pop or jazz. He released the album Electric Dreams on 17 May 2013. Biography Dan Lacksman was born in Werl. He started learning music and piano when he was 12 years old. A year later, he received a tape recorder and a guitar for Christmas; he formed a band with school friends. They were playing songs of the Shadows, and some early compositions. He then discovered the music of the Beatles with their huge hit “She Loves You”, and started composing more intensely, recording demo songs in his parents’ dining room, which gradually became his first home studio, with the purchase of a second tape recorder and more instruments like a drumkit and a second-hand Fender Jazz Bass. In those days he composed the music of a song which would become later “Laat me nu toch niet alleen”, made successful by Belgian artist Johan Verminnen, and more recently by the group Clouseau. In 1968, after high school, he decided to become a professional recording engineer. After a few months in a specialised school, frustrated by the slowness of the studies and the lack of pr

Dan Locklair

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Dan Locklair (born 1949) is an American composer. He holds the position of Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His output includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera and numerous solo, vocal and choral compositions. He is often noted for his sacred music, but has also composed many secular works. Early life Locklair was born on August 7, 1949 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Locklair was a professional organist by age 14. Career Locklair is a composer, organist, conductor, and Professor of Music. He has been based at Wake Forest University as Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music since 1982. Prior to Wake Forest, Locklair was Organist/Choirmaster at First Presbyterian Church in Binghamton, NY and Instructor of Music at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. His works are performed in the United States and throughout the world, including in England, Canada, Germany, France, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Korea, Japan, South Africa, Finland and Russia. “Locklair’s music has been premiered and/or performed by such ensembles as the Helsinki (Finland) and Buffalo Philharmonics, the Saint Louis, North

Dan Mertzlufft

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Daniel Mertzlufft is an American musical theatre composer and arranger best known as a creator of Ratatouille the Musical on TikTok. Early life and education Mertzlufft was born in Florida. Because he was a “military baby,” he moved around a lot. He spent a majority of his childhood in Germany, his family then moved to Las Vegas, before settling in Buffalo, New York. He also graduated summa cum laude in 2015 from the State University of New York at Potsdam with double majors in music education and composition. which was commissioned by Tiktok and simultaneously broadcast on TikTok and at a “secret” Broadway theater. Mertzlufft talked with NBC news about the difficulties in ‘preserving the evergreen aspects of making a musical while also being conscious of how quickly trends move’. Kelly McCarthy of Good Morning America called Mertzlufft a “creative genius”. NPR said he “breaks the internet with his TikTok Broadway sendups.” His debut single was called “In My Head.” Mertzlufft’s TikTok video Grocery Story has received over 4.6 million views, BuzzFeed wrote of the latter, “not to oversell this story, but it is epic.” Mertzlufft created a theatrical cover of Louisa Melcher’s New York

Dan Sundquist

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Thord Dan Rickard Sundqvist (born September 10, 1958) is a Swedish music producer, songwriter and composer. He is best known for Reeperbahn’s Venuspassagen, Jakob Hellman’s, “och stora havet”, Wilmer X’s #1 hit “Vem får nu se alla tårar”, Anne-Lie Rydé’s Stulna Kyssar, Uno Svenningsson’s “Under ytan”, Melody Club’s debut, and #1 hit “Electric”. His work as film composer includes the American film Whitney, and as a producer of musicals includes Livet Är En Schlager and I Love Musicals. Sundquist has produced over 70 albums with 15 #1 hits in Sweden, numerous top 10’s, and 18 Gold and 11 Platinum certifications. He has seven Swedish Grammy Awards, including Producer of The Year, and three nominations. Early life and education Dan Sundquist was born to Swedish parents in Stockholm, Sweden and grew up in Näsby Park, Rågsved, Vikarbyn, Hägersten and Vaxholm, Sweden as well as in Barcelona, Spain. Having other musicians in his family led to him developing an early interest in music and the arts. He started playing the guitar at age 7 and the piano at age 11. After a year in Nyckelviksskolan Art School in 1976, he decided to quit art studies and start his band, called “Reeperbahn” with co

Dan-Alexandru Voiculescu

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Dan Voiculescu (born 20 July 1940 in Saschiz, died 29 August 2009, in Bucharest) was a Romanian composer, doctor of musicology (1983), professor of counterpoint and composition at the Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca (since 1963) and the National Music University of Bucharest (since 2000), and a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists (since 1965). His musicological studies fill a niche in the Romanian bibliography; they are significant contributions towards understanding the polyphony of 20th-century classical music. His compositions are performed frequently, both in Romania and abroad. Published works Compositions * The Bald Prima Donna, comical chamber opera, after Eugène Ionesco, 1992–1993 * Cantata for baritone, choir and orchestra, 1977 * Simfonia ostinato, 1963 * Visions cosmiques, 1968 * Music for strings, 1971 * Pieces for orchestra, 1975 * Suite from Codex Caioni for strings, 1996 * Inflorescences for strings, 2001 * Works for piano solo ** Fables ** Dialogs ** Sonata ** Croquis ** Sonantes ** Spirals ** Toccata piano ** Toccata armonica ** Toccata robotica ** Toccata for a hand * Book without end — 3 volumes of piano pieces for children * Sonata brava for

Dana Al Fardan

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Dana Al Fardan (born 29 July 1985) is a Qatari composer and songwriter. She is known for being the first female Qatari contemporary composer, singer and songwriter, for being the first Qatari woman to sing in English, and for being the cultural ambassador for the Qatari Philharmonic Orchestra. Al Fardan’s style is a mixture of classical and contemporary music with strong Arabic influences. Her debut album, Paint, was released in 2013, with which Dana achieved nationwide recognition. Early life and education Al Fardan was born on July 29, 1985, in Doha, Qatar. She is the daughter of Ali Al Fardan and Shafiqa Habib. She is the eldest of 6 sisters: Noor, Jawaher, Hind, Najla, and Zuhoor. Al Fardan began to demonstrate musical talent at an early age. She spent hours playing the keyboard and performing musicals at home with her sisters. However, Al Fardan did not initially pursue music as a career. She studied international relations at the American University of Sharjah (UAE). After graduating, Al Fardan moved to London, England, where she obtained a second degree, this time in gemology from the Gemological Institute of America in London (GIA). Career In 2012 Al Fardan decided to chang

Dana Kletter

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Dana Kletter (born October 21, 1959) is an American musician and writer. Early life and education Kletter and her twin sister Karen were born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in New York. Dana began playing piano at age four. She attended American University in Washington, D.C. where she studied piano with Alan Mandel. She left music school and submerged herself in the DC Hardcore punk rock scene at its apex, in the early 1980s. There she met the friends who would become part of her professional musical life. Career blackgirls Dana moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1985 and formed blackgirls, described by the Chicago Reader as a “dark art-folk trio,” with Eugenia Lee Johnson and Hollis Brown. The band performed for several years and released a single as part of the Evil I Do Not To Nod I Live boxset with four other North Carolina bands (including the early bands of Superchunk guitarist and Merge Records mastermind Mac McCaughan), and a five song EP, Speechless. In his Spin magazine review of Speechless, Tony Fletcher noted, “…hints of absolute greatness within, most noticeably on “Queen Anne,” a ballad in which Dana Kletter’s vocals lean towards the sultry peaks of Nico and Mari

Dana Reason

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Dana Reason is a Canadian composer, recording artist, keyboardist, producer, arranger, and sound artist working at the intersections of contemporary musical genres and intermedia practices. She appears on more than 17 commercially released recordings, including as a member of The Space Between trio with American electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros. She has also performed with Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell, George E. Lewis, Tim Berne, Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre, DJ Spooky, and Joe McPhee. She has been featured on National Public Radio (USA), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Radio Canada. She currently lives in Oregon, United States, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Contemporary Music, School of Arts and Communication, at Oregon State University. Early life and career Born in Canada, Reason began lessons on the piano at the age of three. Reason continued to compose throughout her primary school years, earning by age 15 an associate degree in performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Reason started her secondary studies at Barrie Central Collegiate Institute, where she played the trombone. But, after hearing her play the piano, s

Dance Man

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(born October 12, 1963) is a Japanese musician, better known by the stage name . Dance☆Man calls himself an alien from “Mirror Ball Planet”. He is always seen wearing a huge afro wig and sideburns, matched with sunglasses. He is very secretive about his identity to the public, and does not release any personal information in his CDs or his official website. Fujisawa is currently signed to independent record label In Da Groove, distributed by Nippon Columbia. Career Fujisawa went to Dokkyou University, a private college in Saitama prefecture, majoring in economics but eventually dropped out before he could graduate. During his stay in the university, he joined a band called JADOES. The band became official in 1986, when Kadomatsu Toshiki became their record producer. The band’s drummer, Yukio Shimamura, did some roadshows with band Casiopea, inspiring Fujisawa to do some roadshows himself. He started his own career in 1998, calling himself as a space alien from “Planet Mirrorball”. He re-arranged famous American/British dance songs from the 70’s and 80’s, often replacing the lyrics with humorous lines. One of them was Carl Carlton’s song “She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s St

Dane Rudhyar

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Dane Rudhyar (March 23, 1895 – September 13, 1985), born Daniel Chennevière, was an American author, modernist composer, painter and humanistic astrologer. He was a pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology. Biography Dane Rudhyar was born in Paris on March 23, 1895. At the age of 12, a severe illness and surgery disabled him, and he turned to music and intellectual development to compensate for his lack of physical agility. He studied at the Sorbonne, University of Paris (graduating at the age of 16), and at the Paris Conservatoire. His early ventures into philosophy and his association with the artistic community in Paris led to his conviction that all existence is cyclical in character. Influenced by Nietzsche as a youth, Rudhyar envisioned himself as a “seed man” of new age cultural evolution. In November 1916, Rudhyar’s music brought him to New York City, by the New York Metropolitan Opera. This was one of the first polytonal pieces of music performed in the United States. He also met Sasaki Roshi, one of the early Japanese Zen teachers in America, who led him in the study of Oriental philosophy and occultism. He stayed in California (often commuting to New York) through the 1

Dang Ngoc Long

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Dang Ngoc Long is a Vietnamese concert guitarist, composer and actor. He studied classical guitar in Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin. Today he lives in Berlin and is the art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin and director of the music school Berlin Gesundbrunnen. Biography From 1985 to 1990 he completed his classical guitar studies with Inge Wilczok at the “Hanns Eisler” musical academy in Berlin. From 1990 to 1993 he received a scholarship for concert master studies. Dang Ngoc Long received a special award at the international guitar competition (1987-Esztergom-Hungary). He gave concerts in Hungary, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, France, Austria, among others. Dang Ngoc Long was awarded the title of an honorary professor of the University of Kirgysia. He is director of the music school Berlin Gesundbrunnen. He is also art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin. He composed many works for guitar solo, duo, trio, and quartet: “Tay Nguyen Gebirge”, Erinnerung, Prelude No. 1, Mienman, Beo dat may troi – Vietnam Folk Song, Fantasie in G-Dur, Kreislauf, Gian ma thuong, Prelude No. 4. Many pieces were chosen as test pi

Daniel Alomía Robles

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Daniel Alomía Robles (3 January 1871 – 17 July 1942) was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song “El Cóndor Pasa” in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts — of the same name. This song was based on Andean folk songs and is possibly the best known Peruvian song, partly due to the worldwide success that the melody obtained when it was used by Simon & Garfunkel as their music for “El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)”, although that song has different lyrics. Early life Daniel Alomía Robles was born in Huánuco, Peru, on January 3, 1871 to Micaela Robles and Marcial Alomía, a French immigrant. It was while living with an uncle in Lima at the age of 12 that Alomía Robles first heard musical theatre. In an interview in 1942 with Esteban Pavletich Trujillo, Alomía Robles credited his wife as the impetus for creating his first musical works. In 1910, Alomía Robles published his discovery that the musical structure of Andean music involved a Pentatonic scale. “El Cóndor Pasa” In 1913, Daniel Alomía Robles composed “El Cóndor Pasa”, and the composition was first performed publicly at the Teatro Mazzi in Lim

Daniel Asia

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Daniel Asia (born June 27, 1953) is an American composer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America. Biography He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale School of Music. His major teachers include Jacob Druckman, Stephen Albert, Gunther Schuller, and Isang Yun in composition, and Arthur Weisberg in conducting. Asia’s works ranges from solo pieces to large-scale multi-movement works for orchestra, including five symphonies. He served on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as Assistant Professor of Contemporary Music and Wind Ensemble from 1981 to 1986. In 1986–88, a UK Fulbright Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship enabled him to work in London as a visiting lecturer at City University. Since 1988, he has been Professor of Composition and head of the composition department at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He conducts the New York-based contemporary chamber ensemble The Musical Elements, which he co-founded in 1977. Asia founded and directs the American Culture and Ideas Initiative. As a blogger, Asia contributes articles on music and culture to The Huffington Post. In 2013, he gained notoriety after

Daniel Auber

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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (; 29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French Romantic composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur composer before he took up writing operas professionally when the family’s fortunes failed in 1820. He soon established a professional partnership with the librettist Eugène Scribe that lasted for 41 years and produced 39 operas, most of them commercial and critical successes. He is mostly associated with opéra-comique and composed 35 works in that genre. With Scribe he wrote the first French grand opera, La Muette de Portici (The Dumb Woman of Portici) in 1828, which paved the way for the large-scale works of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Auber held two important official musical posts. From 1842 to 1871 he was director of France’s premier music academy, the Paris Conservatoire, which he expanded and modernised. From 1852 until the fall of the Second Empire in 1870 he was director of the imperial chapel in the Louvre, for which he wrote a substantial number of liturgical works and other religious music. A devotee of Paris, Auber refused to leave the city when the Franco Prussian War led to the siege of

Daniel Ayala Pérez

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Daniel Ayala Pérez (21 July 1906 – 20 June 1975) was a Mexican violinist, conductor, and composer. Biography Ayala was born in Abalá, Yucatán, and studied violin with Revueltas and composition with Chávez, Manuel M. Ponce, Vicente T. Mendoza, Candelario Huízar and Julián Carrillo at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Mexico City from 1927 to 1932. For a time he earned his living playing in the night club Salón México, a locale later celebrated in a well-known composition by Aaron Copland. In 1934 he formed, together with fellow composers Salvador Contreras, Blas Galindo and José Pablo Moncayo, the “Group of Four” – “Grupo de los cuatro.” From 1931 he was a second violinist in the Orquesta Sinfónica de México under Chávez, and directed a choir in Morelia for two years, but in 1940 returned to his native Yucatán to accept an appointment as conductor of the Police Band in Mérida. In 1942 he founded the , which performs compositions by Yucatecan composers of the past and present. In 1944 he became conductor of the newly reorganized Mérida Symphony Orchestra and director of the Yucatán Conservatory. In 1955 he moved to Veracruz to take up the directorship of the school of music ther

Daniel B. Towner

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Daniel Brink Towner (March 5, 1850 – October 3, 1919) was an American church music director, college professor, and composer of over 2,000 hymns and gospel songs , many of which are still popular today, the most notable being “Trust and Obey”. He was also associated with other great evangelicals of the late 19th century, including evangelist Dwight L. Moody and songwriter Philip P. Bliss. Younger Years Born in Rome, Pennsylvania, Towner was the second child and oldest son of “Professor” J. G. Towner, a teacher and director of singing schools in the Rome area; two younger brothers came along later. When he was seven years old, he had his first introduction to Philip P. Bliss, when Bliss came to teach at the school he attended, Rome Academy. His musical talents were recognized by his father early in life; in fact, when J. G. realized how well his son could sing, he was moved to tears, calling him “The Prince of Singers”. When “Professor” Towner taught at various singing schools, he would often take Daniel along with him; by the age of 17, he became known as the “Wonderful Boy Bass”. He went on to study at the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute in Towanda, Pennsylvania, where Philip P.

Daniel Bacheler

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Daniel Bacheler, also variously spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, (baptized 16 March 1572 – buried 29 January 1619) was an English lutenist and composer. Of all the English lutenist-composers, he is now credited as probably being the most successful in his own lifetime. Bacheler was born in the Buckinghamshire village of Aston Clinton, a son of Richard Bachelor and his wife Elizabeth (née Cardell). He served an apprenticeship with his uncle, Thomas Cardell, who was a lutenist and dancing-master in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. He worked for Sir Francis Walsingham, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and finally as a groom of the privy chamber for Queen Anne of Denmark, consort of James I. Elizabeth Roche, reviewing a CD of his work for The Daily Telegraph commented on the current neglect of Bacheler’s music, suggesting that one reason is the “difficulty of his ornamental style, including arpeggios, trills, and even the dazzling tremolos that conclude his variations on Monsieurs Almaine”. The Heralds Visitation records show that Bacheler received a grant of arms in 1606. He was buried on 29 January 1618/1619 in St Margaret’s churchyard, Lee, Kent. Bibliography *Bacheler, Dan

Daniel Bernard Roumain

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Daniel Bernard Roumain (; known by his initials, DBR; born 1970 ) is a composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader, whose work combines classical music with jazz, hip-hop and rock. Composer In September 2010, Dancers, Dreamers, and Presidents — an orchestral tone poem inspired by Ellen DeGeneres and then-senator Barack Obama — premiered at the New World Symphony. DBR composed the opera, “We Shall Not Be Moved,” in collaboration with librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and director and choreographer Bill T. Jones. The opera premiered at Opera Philadelphia on September 16, 2017. Discography *Threads with David S. Ware (Thirsty Ear, 2003) *I, Composer (2004) *String Quartet (2004) *Pulsing (DBR Music, 2006) *Etudes4Violin&Electronix (Thirsty Ear, 2007) *The Need to Be with Ryuichi Sakamoto on the DJ Spooky album “Sound Unbound” (2008) *Woodbox Beats & Balladry (Thirsty Ear, 2010) References External links * *Guide to the Daniel Bernard Roumain Collection, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago *Collision: Bill T. Jones and Daniel Bernard Roumain *Interview on CBS News *Performing at Cusp Conference 2009 (video)

Daníel Bjarnason

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Daníel Bjarnason (born 26 February 1979) is an Icelandic composer and conductor. He has garnered widespread acclaim for his debut album, Processions (2010), with TimeOut NY writing he “create(s) a sound that comes eerily close to defining classical music’s undefinable brave new world”. Life and career Born on 26 February 1979, Daníel studied composition, piano and conducting in Reykjavik, before going on to further study orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He has had a number of works commissioned and debuted by Los Angeles Philharmonic. Daníel is currently composer-in-residence at the Muziekgebouw Frits Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands and was artist-in-residence with Iceland Symphony Orchestra from 2015 to 2018. He has also collaborated with artists from many different genres, including Ben Frost, Sigur Rós and Brian Eno. Various conductors have also performed Daníel’s work, including Gustavo Dudamel, John Adams, André de Ridder, James Conlon, Louis Langrée and Ilan Volkov. Daníel’s recent work has included collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rambert Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, So Percussion and the Calder Q

Daniel Croner

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Daniel Croner (1656–1740) was a Transylvanian composer and organist of Saxon descent. He is best known for his four manuscript collections of organ music, his ‘Tabulaturae’, that include some of the earliest surviving organ compositions from this region. Early life Daniel Croner was born in Kronstadt (now Brașov) to master tailor Daniel Croner and his wife Katharina at their home in Purzengasse. His musical talent was recognized early and encouraged. Education From 1671 to 1678 he attended Kronstadt’s Honterus-Gymnasium. In 1675 he began to make copies of music for his own use. He then moved to Weissenburg (now Alba Iulia) to perfect his knowledge of Hungarian and moved to Breslau (now Wrocław) in 1680 to study at the Maria Magdalena High School. * Wittenberg, May 1682 (Tabulatura Num: 12 Praeambulorum mit einem Capriccio von eben 12 Variationen; durch alle Claves und Tonos auff Clavichordien und Spinetten zu gebrauchen, gesetzt von Johann George Kittelen, Weitberiihmbten Churf. Hoff-Organisten in Dresden. * Kronstadt, 1685 In his collection Croner not only displays his grasp of traditional styles - not least by including alongside his own compositions the works of older contempora

Daniel Danielis

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Daniel Danielis (Visé near Liège 1635- Vannes 1696) was a Belgian composer. He studied at Maastricht and was organist at Saint Lambert’s Church. Between 1661 and 1681 he served as Kapellmeister at the court of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. In 1684 he became maître de musique at Vannes Cathedral. Works, editions and recordings Surviving works include 72 petits motets, several of them preserved by composer and collector Sébastien de Brossard, another 12 in a collection by Philidor. 54 of these motets are for 1 or 2 voices. A full catalogue of his works was published by Catherine Cessac, of the CMBV, in 2003. Recordings * Motets for one or two voices - including Caelo rores. Adjuro vos. Cognoscam. O Dulcissime. Jesu dulcissime. Quid reminiscimini Adoro te meo salus. Dic mihi o bone Jesu. Jesu mi. O alme vindex criminum. Mellon, Collot, Terakado, Malgoire, Uemura. dir. Christophe Rousset 1993 (Koch Schwann 3–1031) * Motets d’Uppsala - 11 motets, including Paratum cor meum. Inter flammas amoris. Françoise Masset, Stephanie Revidat, Jean-François Novelli, Jérôme Corréas. Rousset 1997 (Cypres Records) * Caeleste convivium - motets including Propter nimiam charitatem. Ornate aras. O bonitas, o amor

Daniel Diaz (musician)

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for living artists, for dead –> birth_place = death_date = death_place = resting_place = resting_place_coordinates = education = alma_mater = known_for = notable_works = style = Jazz, World, Experimental, Soundtrack movement = spouse = awards = elected = patrons = memorials = website = module = Daniel Díaz Fernández is an Argentinian bass player multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer known for his work for films and television, along with his fusion of different styles and genres of Argentinian music, jazz and experimental music. Career Since moving to France he has collaborated with Juan Carlos Cáceres, on the single Tango Negro, and on the album Toca Tango. Cáceres mentions Diaz in his song “Los Muchachos de París” with the lyrics: “Daniel Diaz y el barba, los muchachos de París.” After the 2020-2021 pandemic he focused on his composer and studio work, producing collaborative albums with Argentine percussion player Minino Garay (fr), and Chamamé (es) music icon Raúl Barboza (es). His last collaboration with Barboza was on the album Souvenirs Panamericanos, which was released in March 2023. Solo career In 1993 he recorded his first album The Years Alone released by North A

Daniel Dorff

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Daniel Dorff (born March 7, 1956) is an American classical musician and classical composer. Biography and career Dorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Flower Hill, New York, graduating from Roslyn High School. Dorff graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his master’s degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, studying composition with George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick. Dorff served from 1996 through 2015 as composer-in-residence for Symphony in C (formerly The Haddonfield Symphony) in Camden, New Jersey (USA). His works have been commissioned by such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, and performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, flutists and clarinetists of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, pianist Marc-André Hamelin, and flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jasmine Choi, Denis Bouriakov, and frequent collaborator Cindy Anne Broz. He has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb. Dorff has written many frequently-perfo

Daniel Doura

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Daniel Doura (; born 9 August 1957) is an Argentine composer of classical music. Considered one of the Argentine composers who currently have international exposure, Doura is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Columbia University, and among his teachers were John Cage, Mario Davidovsky, Chou Wen-chung, Alberto Ginastera, Luciano Berio, Tōru Takemitsu, Milton Babbitt and John Adams, among others. into a family of music-loving industrialists. His father is one of the founders of the seaside resort town of Costa del Este, Buenos Aires Province. He began his musical studies in 1966, at the age of 9, taking guitar lessons with Clelia Sagreras. in addition to studying electronic music with Arthur Kreiger and other professors in New York between 1983 and 1986. Given the impossibility of recording the work in the country, Sinfonía argentina was recorded in Prague, Czech Republic in November 2015, performed by the Prague Metropolitan Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Choir and conducted by the Uruguayan Roberto Montenegro. The resulting CD was released in 2016 by the Uruguayan label Sondor. and later at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Bue

Daniel Dutton

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Daniel Dutton (born 1959 near Somerset, Kentucky) Daniel Dutton lives in Somerset, Kentucky. ;Other sources *Tagami, Ty, “MUSICAL AMBASSADOR - MAKER OF RARE JAPANESE LUTE WILL PLAY IN SOMERSET”, Lexington Herald, 20 February 1999. p. A1: “Ohashi came to Somerset to visit friends and to perform with local artist Daniel Dutton, whom he met in Japan two years ago. Dutton traveled to Japan in 1997 with a Japanese couple living in Somerset, playing old Appalachian ballads on dulcimer and guitar for a Japanese audience. Dutton, who is the artistic director and musical composer for the opera, invited Ohashi to come to Kentucky and open the show.” *Unk, “‘SECRET’ GETTING EASIER TO FIGURE OUT”, Lexington Herald, 14 February 1999, p. J3: “Daniel Dutton hopes people will leave the world premiere of Love & Time - the third in his series of four opera-modern dance productions called The Secret Commonwealth saying: “I kind of understand what was happening there.” The Somerset-based director/composer knows he has tested audiences with the first two chapters: The Changeling and the Bear and The Road. External links * * Rivera-Dutton Sculpture Studio * Art Appreciation and the Poetics of Space (Ken

Daniel E. Gawthrop

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Daniel E. Gawthrop (born 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American composer, primarily of choral music. His output also includes a substantial body of works for the organ as well as orchestral and instrumental works. He has been the recipient of over one hundred commissions to write original music. His works have been published by Warner Brothers, Theodore Presser, Sacred Music Press, and others. Biography Gawthrop attended Michigan State University, and Brigham Young University. He served for three years as Composer-in-Residence to the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (of Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.) beginning in 1990, and has been the recipient of four grants from the Barlow Endowment for Musical Composition. He has been commissioned by various institutions including the American Choral Directors Association through their Brock Commission, and has had works première in the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Salt Lake City Mormon Tabernacle, and Washington National Cathedral. His choral pieces have been performed and recorded by such eminent ensembles as the United States Air Force Singing Sergeants, the Gregg Smith Singers, the

Daniel Fardon

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Daniel Fardon (born 1991) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Fardon studied Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where his composition teachers included Howard Skempton and Errollyn Wallen. He studied conducting under Edwin Roxburgh. Fardon went on to study for an MPhil in Composition at the University of Cambridge, where he was tutored by Professor Richard Causton. In 2018, he graduated with a PhD in Composition on the topic of tonality from the University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Professor Michael Zev Gordon. Fardon was the Rosie Johnson Apprentice Composer at the Wigmore Hall during 2018-19. In 2018 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, and in 2020 he received an Ivor Novello Award for his music. Fardon is the Artistic Director of Hackney Music Live, a charity which organises concerts in the London Borough of Hackney. He teaches at the Purcell School for Young Musicians. Music Fardon’s early commissions included Three Short Pieces for the Stratford-on-Avon music festival in 2012, and a piano work for Flatpack Film Festival in 2013. His piece Freundschaftsbeziehungen was commissioned by the King’s Lynn Festiv

Daniel Friderici

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Daniel Friderici (1584 – 23 September 1638) was a German cantor, conductor, and composer. Life Friderici was born in Eichstaedt (today Querfurt) to a poor family and had been a choirboy in his younger years. He was trained by Valentin Haussmann and Frederick Weissensee. In 1612 he enrolled at the University of Rostock. Two years later he was appointed as a cantor for Oldenburg by Count Anton Günther and later moved in 1618 to the same position at the St. Mary’s Church in Rostock. After he had finished his training, he was appointed conductor of all churches in Rostock. There he worked until he died there in 1638 from the plague. Works He wrote many high quality secular and sacred polyphonic vocal works, which became widely known in his lifetime and afterwards. He wrote Musica figuralis which taught techniques of singing. Sacred works *Sertum Musicale primum oder Erstes Musicalisches Kräntzlein. 1614 *Sertum musicale alterum oder Anderes Musicalisches Kräntzlein. 1619 *Psalmus Regii Prophetae Davidis. 1622 *Bicinia sacra. 1623 *Viridarium Musicum Sacrum. 1625 *Selige Grab- und Himmels Leiter von sieben Spalten. 1628 *Deliciae iuveniles. 1630 Secular works *Servia musicalis prima. 16

Daniel Glaus

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Daniel Glaus (born 16 July 1957 in Bern) is a Swiss organist and composer. He is currently professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, the University of the Arts Bern and organist of the Bern Cathedral. Life Glaus studied in Bern, Freiburg im Breisgau and Paris. He studied music theory (Theo Hirsbrunner), composition Klaus Huber, Brian Ferneyhough), organ (Heinrich Gurtner, Gaston Litaize, Daniel Roth, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Harald Vogel, Gerd Zacher) and direction (Erich Schmid). So far he has worked as a composer, church musician (City Church of Biel, Berner Münster) and is professor at the Zurich University of the Arts for composition and instrumentation, and at the University of the Arts Bern for organ and composition. Glaus also performs internationally as an organist and is involved in organ building. For example, as part of his research project Innov-Organ-um, he and his team developed a wind-dynamic organ in which the dynamics, timbre and pitch can be influenced by simply controlling the keys. Co-initiator of the IV International Congress for Church Music Ittingen 1997 as a continuation of the three church music congresses in Bern 1952, 1962 and 1972. Glaus was in

Daniel Goode

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Daniel Goode (born January 24, 1936) is an American composer and clarinetist. Daniel Goode was born in New York City. After graduating in 1957 from Oberlin College, he studied composition at Columbia University with Henry Cowell and Otto Luening, receiving an MA 1962. He pursued further studies at the University of San Diego with Pauline Oliveros and Kenneth Gaburo (Benary and Sandow 2001). Goode’s works show influence from several sources, including bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, drone, Indonesian gamelan music, and minimal music (specifically music as a gradual process). Often two or more of these elements are combined in a single composition. Goode created and served as Director of the Electronic Music Studio of Livingston College, Rutgers University from 1971 to 1998 and is co-director of the DownTown Ensemble which he co-founded in New York in 1983 (Benary and Sandow 2001). As a clarinetist he is proficient in the technique of circular breathing, which he uses frequently in performances with the group. Since 1976, Goode has been a member of Gamelan Son of Lion, a Javanese-style iron gamelan ensemble dedicated to new music, for which he has composed many works. He has develop

Daniel Gortler

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Daniel Gortler (Hebrew: דניאל גורטלר; born April 12, 1965) is an Israeli pianist. Education and early life Born and raised in Israel, Gortler began studying classical music and piano with Naomi Hachohen. He graduated from the Rubin Music Academy in Tel-Aviv and continued his musical studies at the Musikhochschule Hannover, studying with Arie Vardi. Gortler was faculty member of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University until 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was a guest artist in piano studies in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at New York University’s Steinhardt School. Career As a soloist, Gortler has performed with orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bochum Orchestra, the New World Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Huston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony as well as orchestras in Brazil and South Africa. He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev and Michael Tilson Thomas. Gortler has performed in festivals such as the Montpellier Festival, Lucer

Daniel Gottlob Türk

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Daniel Gottlob Türk (10 August 1750 – 26 August 1813) was a German composer, organist, and music professor of the Classical period. Biography Born in Claußnitz, Saxony, Türk studied organ under his father and later under Johann Adam Hiller. It was Hiller who recommended Türk for his first professional position at Halle University, in Halle, Germany. On 18 April 1779 Halle University granted Türk’s request to begin lecturing on music theory, making him the University’s “Director of Music.” This appointment made Türk the second university music director in Germany. While at Halle, Türk published his treatise On the Role of the Organist in Worship which is still occasionally reprinted. Several of Türk’s dances and minuets for the piano are still popular today. He wrote 18 sonatas. His most notable contribution to the classical music canon is the Klavierschule, a teaching method for the keyboard. He also wrote a cantata, Die Hirten bey der Krippe zu Bethlehem (The Shepherds at the Cradle in Bethlehem) (1782), and some organ pieces and other choral works still in manuscript. In 1783 he married Johanna Dorothea Rosine Schimmelpfennig, by whom he had two children. He was a member of the H

Daniel Gregory Mason

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Daniel Gregory Mason (November 20, 1873 – December 4, 1953) was an American composer and music critic. Biography Mason was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He came from a long line of notable American musicians, including his father Henry Mason, and his grandfather Lowell Mason. His cousin, John B. Mason, was a popular actor on the American and British stage. Daniel Mason studied under John Knowles Paine at Harvard University from 1891 to 1895, continuing his studies with George Chadwick and Percy Goetschius. He also studied with Arthur Whiting and later wrote a biographical journal article about him. In 1894 he published his Opus 1, a set of keyboard waltzes, but soon after began writing about music as his primary career. He became a lecturer at Columbia University in 1905, where he would remain until his retirement in 1942, successively being awarded the positions of assistant professor (1910), MacDowell professor (1929) and head of the music department (1929-1940). He was elected a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music, in 1914 by the Fraternity’s Alpha chapter at the New England Conservatory in Boston. After 1907, Mason began devo

Daniel Hart (musician)

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Daniel Frederick Hart is an American musician, composer and classically trained violinist. He has released music as a soloist and with his bands the Physics of Meaning and Dark Rooms. He has also toured and recorded with numerous bands, including St. Vincent, Other Lives, John Vanderslice, Swans, the Rosebuds, Annuals, Glasser, Broken Social Scene, Pattern Is Movement, Mount Moriah, the Polyphonic Spree and Sarah Jaffe. In 2012, he wrote and recorded the score for David Lowery’s film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2013. He wrote the scores for Pete’s Dragon (2016), A Ghost Story (2017) and The Green Knight (2021). He lives in Los Angeles. He began playing the violin at age three. Career Music Hart moved to North Carolina in 2002 and, along with David Karsten Daniels, John Ribo, Perry Wright and Alex Lazara, founded the Bu Hanan record label. He formed the band the Physics of Meaning, releasing two studio albums, Hart also performed and recorded with the group Project Mastana, playing violin on their record Backroads to Bollywood. Composing In 2009, director David Lowery asked Hart to write two compositions for his first feature film, St. Nick

Daniel Hensel

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Daniel Hensel (born 17 April 1978 in Büdingen) is a German composer, VJ, musicologist and music theorist. He is known as a composer of expressive works of all musical genres whose works can be dedicated to “a thread of a tradition leading from Schubert via Mahler to Hensel’s teacher Schedl in presence. … " His style contains all kinds of material, such as traditional tonal or harmonic as well as noise and electronic material. His works are published by Musikverlag Doblinger in Vienna. Life and work Hensel is a descendant of a family of musicians of light and rock music. His maternal family lives in the city of Buedingen since 1594. Hensel began his studies of composition in 1995 as a student of the Austrian composer Gerhard Schedl at Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium. From 1999 on he studied composition with Heinz Winbeck in Würzburg, and later with Manfred Trojahn in Düsseldorf Hensel obtained his doctorate with “magna cum laude” on 13 July 2011. Hensel’s music was played by artists such as Carin Levine and Markus Bellheim, the Ensemble Modern, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, and conductors such as Manfred Honeck. Several pieces were composed on behalf of festivals such as the A•DEvantga

Daniel Holdsworth (musician)

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Daniel Holdsworth is an Australian musician and composer. He is a co-creator of the music-theatre production, Tubular Bells for Two, releases music as a solo artist, and has performed in bands such as Darks Common Underground, The Maple Trail and The Saturns. He has also composed music for film, television, theatre and dance. Biography Daniel Holdsworth was born on 22 May 1981, in Penrith NSW, Australia, and has lived most of his life in the Blue Mountains. He began playing music at a young age and attended Blaxland High School where he was heavily involved in school productions and other music programs, performing several times at the Sydney Opera House. During this period he also began formal training as a classical guitarist. At the age of fifteen, Daniel began professional work within the music industry as a session musician, notably recording with Yothu Yindi for the closing ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta paralympics, and singing a duet for the same ceremony composed by Garry Hardman from Australian Screen Music. After high school, Holdsworth attended the University of Western Sydney where he studied with Bruce Crossman as a post-graduate in composition and music technology. Dur

Daniel Ingram (composer)

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Daniel Luke Ingram (born June 13, 1975) is a Canadian composer and lyricist, primarily for animated series soundtracks. He has written more than 200 songs for television, in genres ranging from pop and classic rock to large-scale Broadway-style musical theater. His music has been heard in 180 countries. He is mostly known for his work as the songwriter of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the films based on the series. He has written over 80 songs for My Little Pony during much of the franchise’s fourth generation. Ingram has received several awards for his music. Between 2012 and 2017, he has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Original Song in a Children’s or Animated Series. “Becoming Popular (The Pony Every Pony Should Know)” and “May The Best Pet Win” from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic were nominated in 2012, while “The Magic Inside” and “Legend of Everfree” were nominated in 2016 and 2017 and “If You’re A Guy” from Littlest Pet Shop was nominated in 2013. He received a 2010 Leo Award for Best Music in an Animated Series for Martha Speaks, the 2008 Leo Award for Best Music in a Variety Television Show for About a Girl, and the 2013 Leo Award

Daniel Izere

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Daniel Izere (born 1995) commonly known as Dany Beats, is a Rwandan record producer, sound engineer, songwriter, and entrepreneur in the music industry. He is best known for his work which includes Sabrina, Ni Wa Ne, Banana, Guma Mu Rugo, and Twifunze. INDUSTRY EP He is also the producer of the soundtracks for Urugwiro village events, a contract he signed in 2021. Artists Danny Beats has recorded with include Angel Mutoni, Weya Viatora, Kivumbi King, Rita Ange Kagaju, Amalon, Mike Kayihura, Sintex, Bushali, Rapper Racine Rwanda, Kevin Skaa and Gisa cy’Inganzo among others. Early life and career Dany Beats was born in Gasabo, and is part of a family of three children, including his twin brother Irimaso Samuel, also known as DJ TrapBoy, and his older brother Bwanakweli Pacifique (P.Lee). His parents are Bwanakweri Dominique and Mushongana Prudence. He attended several schools for his education, including Lycee De Kigali in 2009, London College of Saint Lawrence in Uganda in 2010, Lycee De La Colombiel in 2011, and SOS Technical High School in 2013. In 2014, he graduated from ADB Nyarutarama with a degree in Electricity Technology. Later, in 2016, Dany Beats joined the University of K

Daniel James Wolf

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Daniel James Wolf (born September 13, 1961) is an American composer. Studies He was born in Upland, California. Wolf studied composition with Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, and La Monte Young, as well as musical tunings with Erv Wilson and Douglas Leedy and ethnomusicology (M.A., Ph.D. 1990 Wesleyan University ). Important contacts with Lou Harrison, John Cage, Walter Zimmermann. Managing Editor of the journal Xenharmonikon, 1985-89. Based in Europe from 1989, he is known as a member of the “Material” group of composers, along with Hauke Harder and others. Compositions Wolf’s compositions apply an experimental approach to musical materials, with a special interest in intonation, yet often display a surface that playfully - if accidentally - recalls historical music. Works include The White Canoe, an opera seria for hand puppets to the libretto by Edward Gorey, six string quartets, Figure & Ground for string trio, Field Study for vn, tb, ban, gui, Decoherence for x orchestras of x players, Twoity fl,pf and A Beckett Gray Code for wind quintet. Much of his music is in just intonation, but his work with alternative tunings includes a collection of Etudes in all equal temperaments between

Daniel Jones (composer)

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Daniel Jenkyn Jones (7 December 1912 – 23 April 1993) was a Welsh composer of classical music, who worked in Britain. He used both serial and tonal techniques. He is best known for his quartets and thirteen symphonies (some composed in his own system of ‘Complex Metres’) and for his song settings for Dylan Thomas’s play Under Milk Wood. Biography Jones was born in Pembroke in south Wales. His father, Jenkyn Jones, was a composer and his mother a singer, and by the time he was nine years old the young Daniel had himself written several piano sonatas. He attended the Bishop Gore School in Swansea (1924–1931), where his enthusiasm for literature led to a close friendship with the poet Dylan Thomas, and to his going on to study English literature at Swansea University. At this period Jones and Thomas were part of the informal group of aspiring artists who would meet at the Kardomah cafe in Castle Street, Swansea. Other members of the group were the poet Vernon Watkins and the painter Alfred Janes. In 1935 Jones left Swansea to study music at the Royal Academy of Music in London (1935–1938), where his teachers included Sir Henry Wood and Harry Farjeon. In the years leading up to the Sec

Daniel Kellogg (composer)

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Daniel Kellogg (born 1976 in Wilton, Connecticut) is an American composer. Kellogg is Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching music composition, counterpoint and orchestration. Life Kellogg received his Bachelor of Music in 1999 from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and Master of Music in 2001, Master of Musical Arts in 2003, and Doctor of Musical Arts in 2007 from the Yale School of Music. He also studied at Indiana University School of Music (1994-1996), the Aspen Music Festival and School (1995-1996), and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as a 1997 fellow. His teachers have included Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, Don Freund, Jennifer Higdon, Ezra Laderman, Ned Rorem, and Joseph Schwantner. Kellogg’s notable students include Lawrence Wilde. Career Kellogg’s music has been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Green Bay Symphony, the South Dakota Symphony, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Yale Philharmonic, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the President’s Own United States Marine Band

Daniel Kidane

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Daniel Kidane (born 1986) is a British composer. His piece “Woke” opened the last night of the 2019 Proms. In 2016 his “Sirens” was one of a group of five short works commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and performed in the Bridgewater Hall. The Guardians reviewer described it as a “propulsive, eclectic piece” which “soaked up influences of jungle, dubstep and R&B sampled from a trawl through the city after dark. “His 2017 work “Zulu” was performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. His “Dream Song” was premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall by the Chineke! Orchestra on the re-opening of the hall in 2018 and the 50th anniversary of the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., and includes words from his “I Have a Dream” speech. The concert was broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The orchestra later recorded the work on their album Spark Catchers. In 2020 he was commissioned by Huddersfield Choral Society to write “We’ll Sing”, with words by Simon Armitage, who worked from a list of words sent by choir members to reflect their experience of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was released on a music video in autumn 2020. In

Daniel Lentz

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Daniel Lentz (March 10, 1942 – July 25, 2025) was an American classical composer, musician and artist whose works focused on minimalist and electronic music. Life and career Lentz was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on March 10, 1942. He achieved notability as a musician while a student at St. Vincent College and at Brandeis University, when he was awarded a fellowship in composition at Tanglewood in the summer of 1966. This was followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Electronic Music in 1967–68, which was completed in Stockholm, Sweden. He then became a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1968 to 1970. In 1970 he focused more on composing and performing. At this time he also formed a music ensemble, the California Time Machine, which toured North America and Europe. In 1972, Lentz was the first American to win the Gaudeamus International Composers Award. Later, he won a number of other awards and grants. and released several recordings in Europe. Returning to California, Lentz formed the Daniel Lentz Group in Los Angeles. This ensemble has toured much of the world and has released a number of recordings. His 1987 album The Crack in the Bell was the fi

Daniel Léo Simpson

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Daniel Léo Simpson (born 28 December 1959) is an American composer. Background Simpson first studied music theory with Wes Humphrey at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona and composed its Alma Mater which he conducted at the première performance there February 9, 2012. He studied as an undergraduate with Anna Mae Sharp and Henry Johnson at the University of Arizona, Tucson and continued his graduate work there with Robert McBride and Robert Muczynski to receive his master’s degree in composition. He won first place in the First Annual International Schillinger composition contest sponsored by The Schillinger School of Music for his composition The Art of Schillinger. He was also first-place winner of the 2010 Alabama Orchestra Association Festival competition contest for his composition Tuscaloosa Tango which received its world première at the University of Alabama, February 14, 2011, (A division of Alabama Music Educators Association). It has now also been performed by the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra conducted by maestro Mohammed Amin Ezzat as well as the Orquestra Sinfônica da Paraíba of Brazil conducted by maestro Luiz Carlos Durier. His “Ave Maria” for two sopranos

Daniel Lesur

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Daniel Jean-Yves Lesur (19 November 1908 – 2 July 2002) was a French organist and composer. He was the son of the composer Alice Lesur. Biography Born in Paris, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris at age 11, studying solfège with Emile Schwartz, harmony with Jean Gallon, and composition with Georges Caussade. He also took private lessons in piano with Armand Ferté and composition with Charles Tournemire. From 1935 to 1964, he was professor of counterpoint at the Schola Cantorum under director Nestor Lejeune, becoming director himself in 1957. In 1936, he co-founded the group La Jeune France along with composers Olivier Messiaen (with whom he would remain a lifelong friend), André Jolivet and Yves Baudrier, who were attempting to re-establish a more human and less abstract form of composition. La Jeune France developed from the avant-garde chamber music society La spirale, formed by Jolivet, Messiaen, and Daniel-Lesur the previous year. That same year he, together with Jean Langlais and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, gave the first performance of Olivier Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur. Between 1927 and 1937 he seconded Tournemire at the organ of Ste. Clotilde, Paris, and was organis

Daniel Moe

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Daniel Troen Moe (November 2, 1926 – May 24, 2012) was an American choral conductor, composer, and pedagogue. He was director of choral organizations for the University of Iowa, professor of choral conducting at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and founding music director of Key Chorale in Sarasota, Florida. He was a published composer and author. He was once hailed by The New Yorker music critic Andrew Porter as “that dean of choral conductors.” Early years and education Moe was born in 1926 in Minot, North Dakota the grandson of Norwegian immigrants and the son of a Lutheran pastor. Moe began his musical training at age five. He studied piano and clarinet, and sang in the children’s choir at Olivet Lutheran Church in Fargo, North Dakota, his father’s parish. In junior high and high school, he participated in school bands, orchestras, and choirs. As a senior in high school, Moe took up the tenor saxophone so he could play jazz, a form of music he had a growing interest in, and which would affect future compositions such as the three-movement Psalm Concertato. In 1944, after graduating high school, Moe entered the V-5 Aviation Cadet Training Program (USN) (NavCad) program. He

Daniel Ott

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Daniel Ott (born 6 September 1960) is a Swiss composer. Career Born in Grub AR, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Ott graduated in 1980. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the regions of Basel and Graubünden and worked in independent theatre groups. From 1983 to 1985, he studied theatre in Paris and London. From 1985 to 1990, he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang University of the Arts and with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Since 1990, Daniel Ott has been working as a freelance composer, pianist and performer with a focus on new music theatre and interdisciplinary and space and landscape-related works. In 1999/2000, Ott created the full-length music theatre cycle ojota I-IV. In 2000 he wrote klangkörperklang - music for the by Peter Zumthor. This was followed by landscape compositions for the harbour Sassnitz/Rügen (2002), the place of pilgrimage Heiligkreuz/Entlebuch (2003), the river Neisse between Görlitz and Zgorzelec (2005) and the Rhine port of Basel (2006). From 1995 to 2004, Ott held a teaching position for experimental music at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he founded the KlangKunstBühne summer academy in 2003. Since

Daniel Pemberton

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Daniel Pemberton (born 3 November 1977) is an English composer and songwriter. Primarily working in film, television, and video games, he is best known for composing the scores for the films Project Hail Mary and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as well as its sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the latter of which earned him a number of award nominations, including at the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards. He has received recognition for his work in films such as Steve Jobs, Motherless Brooklyn, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Being the Ricardos, The Rescue, Enola Holmes and its sequel Enola Holmes 2 (the latter of which also featured a cameo from Pemberton, portraying an orchestra conducter), as well as the first two entries in the LittleBigPlanet series of games and The Bad Guys film franchise (2022–present). For The Trial of the Chicago 7, Pemberton was nominated for the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score as well as an Academy Award for Best Original Song alongside Celeste for the song “Hear My Voice”. Early life Pemberton grew up in East Molesey and attended Hampton School. At the age of 12, he completed work experience for the video game magazine

Daniel Pinkham

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Daniel Rogers Pinkham Jr. (June 5, 1923 – December 18, 2006) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist. Early life and education Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, into a prominent family engaged in the manufacture of patent medicines (his great-grandmother was Lydia E. Pinkham), he studied organ performance and music theory at Phillips Academy with Carl F. Pfatteicher. “The single event that changed my life was a concert at Andover by the Trapp Family Singers in 1939, right after they had escaped from Germany,” Pinkham once recalled. “Here, suddenly, I was hearing clarity, simplicity. It shaped my whole outlook,” he said in a 1981 interview with The Boston Globe. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston; Aaron Copland, Archibald T. Davison, and Arthur Tillman Merritt were also among his teachers. There he completed a bachelor’s degree in 1942 and a master’s in 1944. He also studied harpsichord with Putnam Aldrich and Wanda Landowska, and organ with E. Power Biggs. At Tanglewood, he studied composition with Samuel Barber and Arthur Honegger, and subsequently with Nadia Boulanger. Career Pinkham taught at the Boston Conservatory beginning in 1946, and at the New E

Daniel Purcell

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Daniel Purcell (c. 1664 – buried 26 November 1717) was an English Baroque composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell. Biography Like Henry Purcell before him, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal at about the age of 14. In his mid-twenties he was appointed organist of Magdalen College, Oxford where he began to compose. In 1695 he moved to London to compose for the theatre providing incidental music for more than 40 plays. One of his first engagements was to complete the concluding Masque for Act V of the semi-opera The Indian Queen, the preceding music for which had been written by Henry Purcell during the early months of 1695. It is unclear whether Daniel Purcell had been engaged because of pressure to complete the score in time for the first performance or as a result of Henry Purcell’s failing health and subsequent death. The performance history of the piece is uncertain, and the first performance may have gone ahead without Daniel Purcell’s contribution. In 1696 he composed the score for the semi-opera Brutus of Alba to a libretto by George Powell. In 1701, he came third in a competition for the best musical setting of William Congreve’s masque, The

Daniel Read

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Daniel Read (November 16, 1757 – December 4, 1836) was an American composer of the First New England School, and one of the primary figures in early American classical music. Life and work Read, along with his contemporaries William Billings, Oliver Holden, Supply Belcher, and Justin Morgan, was one of the primary members of a group of American composers called the Yankee tunesmiths or the First New England School. While the classical music era was in its heyday in Europe, American composers of “serious” music were setting hymn tunes in three- and four-part a cappella style, with simple folklike melodies and little regard for functional harmony. Many of these works were fuguing tunes, which begin with all voices singing together (with a melody usually based on a Protestant hymn), come to a stop, and continue with each voice entering one at a time. Nearly all were hymn tunes, developed for the use of the newly-forming singing societies. Once a private in the Massachusetts militia, later a comb-maker and owner of a general store in New Haven, Connecticut, Read was only the third American composer to put out a collection of his own music (after William Billings and Simeon Jocyln). Thi

Daniel Rojas (Australian musician)

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Daniel Rojas (born 23 June 1974) is a Chilean-born Australian pianist and composer. Rojas’ work as a composer and improviser draws upon indigenous, folk, popular and classical Latin American traditions. Early life and education Rojas received a Bachelor of Music – Composition with Honours (First Class and Medal) and a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Sydney. He later graduated with a PhD from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Career Since 2012, Rojas worked as a solo pianist, performing music by Latin American composers, including Astor Piazzolla and Alberto Ginastera, his own works, arrangements of traditional folksongs and free improvisation. He performed his own Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra under George Ellis, has performed solo recitals in Sydney and Townsville and performs with Latin jazz, tango and world music groups such as Latin Kaos; Sonora Galaxia; Orquesta Los Mambizes; Tango Paradiso; Chai Ensemble, Jacana, Drumbeats and Tigramuna. In 2012 Rojas released a solo album, Latin Piano Expressions, featuring his own works, Piazzolla’s Resureccion de Angel and Histoire du Tango as well as four free improvisations. Th

Daniel Rojas (Costa Rican composer)

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Daniel Rojas (born 1988) Rojas studied Jazz Arranging & Composition at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, on scholarship. After graduating in 2010, he moved full-time into session player work, primarily as a guitarist. His film and television work has included working as an assistant composer, arranger, and music team member for composers such as Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt, and Alan Menken. Rojas also performed as a member of Demi Lovato’s band, and Downsizing (2017), directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matt Damon. Television composition work has included scores for The Demon Files featuring Sean Astin (2015, Destination America), and True Nightmares featuring Tim Robbins (2015–2018, Investigation Discovery). Currently, Rojas is the series composer for Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, a DreamWorks Animation television series. He composes both score music and songs for the series, which stars the voices of Karen Fukuhara, Deon Cole, Coy Stewart, Sydney Mikayla, and Dee Bradley Baker. The first season of Kipo debuted on Netflix on January 14, 2020, with the Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Season 1 Mixtape) soundtrack album debuting a few days earlier on January 10

Daniel Roseingrave

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Daniel Roseingrave (c.1655 – May 1727) was an English-born organist and composer mainly active in Dublin, Ireland. Roseingrave probably hailed from the area of Gloucester, where he was organist at Gloucester Cathedral (1679–1681) and where he later sent his sons for education. He subsequently became organist at Winchester Cathedral (1682–1692) and Salisbury Cathedral (1692–1698), and finally from 1698 at both Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin and St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, which “marked the beginning of a period of half a century when the Roseingrave family dominated the musical scene at the Dublin cathedrals.” He remained organist at Christ Church until his death in Dublin in 1727; at St Patrick’s his son Ralph joined him from 1719. He composed some church music including a verse anthem Lord, thou art become gracious. His works are often confused with that of his sons; a disentangling of the works of the various Roseingraves in Ireland was in preparation in 2014. His sons Thomas Roseingrave and Ralph Roseingrave were likewise composers and organists. Bibliography *Barra Boydell: Music at Christ Church before 1800: Documents and Selected Anthems (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999)

Daniel Roth (organist)

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François Daniel Roth (born 31 October 1942) is a French organist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He was titular organist of the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, from 1985 to 2023, and is currently the emeritus titular organist. Early life and education Roth was born in Mulhouse to René Roth and his wife Angèle (née Higelin). He began his musical training at the conservatoire in his hometown with Joseph Victor Meyer. In 1960, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he graduated with five first prizes—in organ and improvisation (1963, class of Rolande Falcinelli), harmony (1962, class of Maurice Duruflé), counterpoint and fugue (1963, class of Marcel Bitsch), and piano accompaniment (1970, class of Henriette Puig-Roget). He later continued his organ studies with Marie-Claire Alain after graduating from Falcinelli’s class. Career Organist In 1963 Roth became Falcinelli’s deputy at the great organ at Basilique du Sacré-Coeur in Paris. He succeeded her as titular organist in 1973, and held this position until 1985, when he was appointed titular organist at the Church of Saint-Sulpice. Roth retired from St. Sulpice in 2023 and was succeeded by Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Chopl

Daniel Ruyneman

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Daniël Ruyneman (8 August 1886 – 25 July 1963) was a Dutch composer and pianist, and inventor of the Electrophone. Career Ruyneman was born in Amsterdam and travelled to India in his early years. He took piano lessons as a child but, intended for a career in marine service, he did not take a serious interest in music until the age of 18. From 1913 to 1916 he studied composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Bernard Zweers. In 1918 Ruyneman helped found the Society of Modern Dutch Composers (Nederlansche Vereeniging voor Mod-erne Scheppende Toonkunst), which in 1922 became the Dutch branch of the International Society for Contemporary Music. He was also president of the Netherlands Society for Contemporary Music from 1930 until 1962. In the 1920s he worked in Groningen, where he became associated with the expressionistic De Ploeg group of artists. Ruyneman made a special study of Javanese instruments. Before the war he established and edited Maandblad voor Hedendaagsche Muziek (Contemporary Music Monthly Magazine), which was banned during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He published a book about the Dutch composer Jan Ingenhoven in 1938. Ruyneman became director of th

Daniel Schnyder

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Daniel Schnyder (born March 12, 1961) is a Swiss jazz reedist and composer of both jazz and classical music. Schnyder learned to play cello before saxophone. He attended Berklee College of Music and the Conservatory of Winterthur. He has recorded for Enja Records and composes pieces which meld jazz and classical music. His work has been published by Hal Leonard, Universal Edition, and Edition Kunzelmann; he has been commissioned by Vienna Art Orchestra, , Opera Philadelphia, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic. Sidemen on his albums include Michael Philip Mossman, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Kenny Drew Jr., Dave Taylor, Adam Taubitz, Michael Formanek, and Mark Feldman. He has also worked with Flavio Ambrosetti, Lee Konitz, and Abdullah Ibrahim. Discography * Secret Cosmos (Enja, 1988) * The City (Enja, 1989) * Decoding the Message (Enja, 1990) * Mythen (Koch, 1991) * Mythology (Enja 1991) * Granulat with Mossman (Red, 1991) * Nucleus (Enja, 1995) * Tarantula (Enja, 1996) * Words Within Music (Enja, 1999) * Jazz Meets Weill and Gershwin with Kurt Weill, David Taylor, Kenny Drew Jr. (Koch, 2000) * Songbook with Kenny Drew Jr., Kristjan Jaervi, Symphony Orchestra of Norrla

Daniel Slatkin

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Daniel Alexander Slatkin (born May 16, 1994) is an American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and music producer known for his concert works, film scores, and television scores. At the age of 23, Slatkin’s feature film debut was premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and five months later had his symphony orchestra debut with a concert work commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Daniel Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to conductor and 7-time Grammy winner, Leonard Slatkin and Linda Hohenfeld, on May 16, 1994. The Slatkins are part of a Jewish musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His grandfather, violinist and conductor Felix Slatkin, was the founder of the Hollywood String Quartet and concertmaster of the Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra. His grandmother, Eleanor Aller, was the cellist of the quartet and principal cellist of the Warner Brothers Orchestra, becoming the first female to hold a principal chair in a Hollywood studio orchestra. Slatkin was educated in the concert hall. He traveled throughout his youth while training classically in piano, watching his father perform on stages all over

Daniel Speer

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Georg Daniel Speer (2 July 1636 – 5 October 1707) was a German composer and writer of the Baroque. Speer was born in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland) and died in Göppingen, Germany. Writing As a writer he wrote a musical treatise, political tracts, and fiction. In 1687 he published a treatise on music that is considered useful in understanding Middle Baroque music. His writing on music would influence German Baroque trombone works for over a century. In non-musical writing his political tracts led to his being imprisoned for a year and a half. In literature he is known for three or four autobiographical novels that give a feel of the musical scene of his era and make use of humor. In them the narrator is referred to as Daniel Simplex. His novels had largely become obscure until rediscovery in the 1930s. Composing As a composer, Speer for example produced music for trombones. Keyboard miniatures have also survived. He might be best known for his Sonata No. 29 from Die Bänkelsängerlieder for brass quintet, which is often played at weddings and formal occasions. Works *1683 – Türkischer Vagant *1683 – Ungarischer oder Dacianischer Simplicissimus *1684 - Die Bänkelsängerlieder *1685 – R

Daniel Steibelt

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Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt (22 October 17652 October 1823) was a German pianist and composer. His main works were composed in Paris and in London, and he died in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He once challenged and lost to Ludwig van Beethoven in a piano duel. Biography Steibelt was born in Berlin, and studied music with Johann Kirnberger before being forced by his father to join the Prussian Army. After deserting, he began a nomadic career as a pianist before settling in 1790 in Paris, where he attained great popularity as a virtuoso as the result of a piano sonata called La Coquette, which he composed for Marie Antoinette. Also in Paris, his dramatic opera entitled Romeo et Juliette, which was later highly regarded by Hector Berlioz, was produced at the Théâtre Feydeau in 1793. This is held by many to be his most original and artistically successful composition. Steibelt began to share his time between Paris and London, where his piano playing attracted great attention. In 1797 he played in a concert of J. P. Salomon. In 1798 he produced his Concerto No. 3 in E containing a Storm Rondo characterized by extensive tremolos, which became very popular. In the following year Steibelt starte

Daniel Sternberg

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Daniel Arie Sternberg (29 March 1913 – 26 August 2000) was a Polish conductor, pianist, composer, and educator. He lived and worked in Central and Eastern Europe until 1939, when he emigrated to the United States to escape World War II. Biography Sternberg was born on 29 March 1913 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary. The son of music-loving parents, he began piano lessons at age five and added the cello. He graduated at the top of his class from the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied conducting. Upon graduation, he became assistant conductor (under Fritz Stiedry) of the Leningrad Opera and the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. It was in Leningrad, in 1935, that Sternberg first met cellist Lev Aronson, whom he recommended for the post of principal cellist. It was also in Leningrad, in 1936, that he conducted the first performance outside Germany of Paul Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler symphony. After serving as music director of the Tbilisi State Symphony Orchestra, he lived in Vienna, Riga, and Stockholm. After the German invasion of Poland ignited World War II in the fall of 1939, Sternberg and his wife, the Romanian-born Felicitas Gobineau Sternberg, emigrated to the United States. Ster

Daniel Sternefeld

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Daniel Sternefeld (Antwerp, 27 November 1905 – Brussels, 2 June 1986) was a Belgian composer and conductor. Life and career Sternefeld took private lessons with Renaat Veremans and Paul Gilson at the Royal Conservatory of Flanders in Antwerp, after which he studied conducting under Frank van der Stucken at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He completed his studies with Bernard Paumgartner, Clemens Krauss and Herbert von Karajan. In 1929, he joined the orchestra of the Royal Flemish Opera, and in 1944, he was appointed as its principal conductor. Between 1930 and 1940 Sternefeld was also working for the Koninklijke Nederlandse Schouwburg of Antwerp, for whom he wrote incidental music. He also conducted the Cercle musical juif and several choral societies in Antwerp. During the occupation Sternefeld, an ethnic Jew, was forced into hiding in Antwerp. In 1942, he risked his life by attending the funeral of his teacher Paul Gilson in Brussels. He was arrested in late 1943 and incarcerated in the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen. He stayed several months in this Sammellager but was released. It was during this period that he wrote his first symphony. In 1948, he left the Royal Flemish Opera for the

Daniel Steven Crafts

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Daniel Steven Crafts (born September 22, 1949) is an American composer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, but has spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to New Mexico. Composition style Daniel Steven Crafts has chosen to oppose what he considers unjustifiably dissonant formalism prevalent in late 20th-century classical music. Instead, he emphasizes tonality in a dialectic between form and content. Known for his strong sense of melody, the composer has written a variety of styles including operas, orchestral works, chamber music, concertos, and satirical pieces. Among Crafts’ most well-known works is The Song & the Slogan, a collaboration with legendary opera star Jerry Hadley. Written for voice and orchestra, the piece is based on the poetry of Carl Sandburg. The work was made into a TV program for the PBS network and was aired nationally in 2004 with host David Hartman. The Song & the Slogan was awarded an Emmy Award in 2003 for Best Music by the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Crafts also created the first comic-strip opera called Too Much Coffee Man in collaboration with Shannon Wheeler and Damian Willcox. He

Daniel Vetter

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Daniel Vetter (1657/58 – 7 February 1721) was an organist and composer of the German Baroque era. Life Born in Breslau, Vetter became a pupil of Werner Fabricius in Leipzig. When Fabricius died in 1679, Vetter succeeded him as organist of the St. Nicholas Church. Some time before 1695 he wrote a melody for , who at the time was cantor in Breslau, and to whom he was befriended. That hymn tune, Zahn No. 6634, was sung at the cantor’s funeral in Breslau, in 1695. Vetter published the first volume of his in 1709. From 1710 to 1716 he supervised the construction of the new organ built by in the church of the university of Leipzig, an organ that was tested in 1717 over a three-day period by Johann Sebastian Bach in Vetter’s presence. Meanwhile, the second volume of his Musicalische Kirch- und Hauß-Ergötzlichkeit was published in 1713. It contained a four-part setting of the Zahn 6634 melody, to the text of Caspar Neumann’s “Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben” hymn. Vetter remained organist of St. Nicholas in Leipzig until his death in 1721. * The second volume, containing 91 more settings of chorale melodies, was published in 1713. The collection contains settings of 117 hymn tunes: mo

Daniel W. McCarthy

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Daniel William McCarthy (born 1955, Onekama, Michigan) is an American composer, author, conductor, professor, and black belt martial artist. He has been professor and chair of music composition and theory studies at The University of Akron: School of Music and held the Theodor Dreiser Distinguished Research/Creativity Award at Indiana State University School of Music. He is co-author of “Theory for Today’s Musician” with Ralph Turek, published by Routledge Francis & Taylor, NYC ? His career as a conductor included serving on the conducting staff of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, four seasons as music director of the Interlochen Festival Orchestra, Interlochen, Michigan, as well as conducting the University of Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Terre Haute Symphony Youth Orchestra. McCarthy, a dedicated martial artist, was promoted to 3rd Degree Black Belt in Chun Ma Tae Kwon Do in May 2012. A student of Grand Master Jeon Gyeong Ho, Akron, Ohio https://web.archive.org/web/20141008223026/http://www.wcmkicks.com/new/, he pursued additional studies in Asian Weapons, American Kenpo, and Chin Na Kung Fu with Grand Master Sifu James Adkins in Traverse City, Michigan Career Daniel McCarthy’

Daniel Wohl

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Daniel Wohl (born September 6, 1980) is a Paris, France born composer based in Los Angeles, California, known for his use of both electronic and acoustic instruments. Education Wohl holds degrees in composition from Bard College, University of Michigan and the Yale School of Music. His teachers include composers David Lang, Martin Bresnick, Joan Tower, Bright Sheng, Ingram Marshall, William Bolcom and Aaron Jay Kernis. Career His music has been programmed by contemporary classical ensembles such as So Percussion, the London Contemporary Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra the Calder Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and the American Symphony Orchestra in a variety of settings including Carnegie Hall, The Broad, the Hollywood Bowl, MoMA PS1, Le Poisson Rouge, the Dia Beacon, and Mass MoCA. He has also collaborated with electronic artists including Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, and Son Lux. In 2013, Wohl released his first full-length album, Corps Exquis, on New Amsterdam Records to broad critical acclaim. The New York Times praised it as a “boldly surreal aural experience” while Pitchfork gave it high marks calling Wohl “an original voice.” His second album

Daniele Amfitheatrof

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Daniele Alexandrovich Amfitheatrof (, 29 October 1901 – 4 June 1983) was a Russian, American, and Italian composer and conductor. Biography Amfitheatrof was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 29 October 1901; his grandfather was Nikolay Sokolov. In his youth, Amfitheatrof studied first with Jāzeps Vītols at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, then Jaroslav Křička in Prague. Most of Amfitheatrof’s studies took place in Rome, where he completed his studies in composition at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia under Ottorino Respighi. Amfitheatrof also graduated in organ playing from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music. His career began as a répétiteur at the Teatro Augusteo, where he eventually became assistant conductor to Bernardino Molinari. After obtaining a number of positions in Italy, including house conductor and manager at the EIAR station in Turin, Amfitheatrof left to become associate conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under music director Dimitri Mitropoulos. In 1939, Amfitheatrof relocated to Hollywood, California, where he established himself as a film composer. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. Altogether, Amfitheatrof scored more than

Daniele Gottardo

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Daniele Gottardo is an Italian guitarist and composer. He received recognition in 2009 as a winner of Guitar Idol, an international guitar competition. Gottardo was mentioned by Steve Vai as one of the brightest talents in modern electric guitar. As a solo artist, he has released three albums, Frenzy of Ecstasy (2010, Digital Nations), Non Temperato (2014), and INkBlot (2022). He is also a music educator for Jamtrackcentral. In 2018 he was mentioned in the article “10 Contemporary Guitar Virtuosos You Need To Hear” by the British magazine Guitarist. He has performed in major international guitar festivals including Malibu Guitar Festival (USA, 2017), Guitare En Scene (France, 2016), Ziua Chitarelor (Romania, 2016), Jason Becker Not Dead Yet Festival (Holland, 2013), Eddie Lang Jazz Festival (Italy, 2010, 2013, 2015). Personal life Gottardo is married to guitar player and composer Gretchen Menn. Discography As a solo artist: * Frenzy Of Ecstasy (2010) * Non Temperato (2014) * INkBlot (2022) The Nuts: * Giant Nuts (2016) Other appearances: * Triumphant Hearts - Jason Becker (2019) * Abandon All Hope - Gretchen Menn (2016) Instructional DVDs and online courses: * Il Tapping (Playgame

Daniele Lombardi

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Daniele Lombardi (Florence, August 12, 1946 - Florence, March 11, 2018) was a composer, pianist and visual artist. Biography He is an exponent and main promoter of the group of Florentine artists, operating from the end of the Second World War to today including Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Giancarlo Cardini, Albert Mayr, Pietro Grossi, Marcello Aitiani e Sergio Maltagliati. These musicians have experimented the interaction among sound, sign and vision, a synaesthetics of art derived from historical avant-gardes, from Kandinskij to futurism, to Scrjabin and Schoenberg, all the way to Bauhaus. He worked extensively on the music of the twentieth-century avant-garde movements, including first modern performances of a large number of compositions of Futurism music. In his work he has incorporate sign, gesture, and sound into a unitary concept of multiple perception, through analogies, contrasts, stratifications, and associations. He has produced from 1969 on, since 1990, drawings, paintings, computer graphics and videos. In 1998 the performance of the Two Symphonies for 21 pianos at the Uffizi Courtyard. Exhibitions Among his exhibitions, in Italy and abroad, we recall here: * Co

Daniele Zanettovich

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Daniele Zanettovich (born 1950 in Trieste) is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Zanettovich started out his career as a pianist, winning the Fourth National Festival of Student Pianists in La Spezia. Since the late 1960s, however, he has focused more on composing. His career as a composer began when he was admitted to the final reading at the GB Viotti International Composition Competition for three straight years (1967, 1968, and 1969). Zanettovich wrote a two-volume textbook called Appunti per il corso di armonia principale which is widely used by composition schools in Italy. As a conductor, he has appeared with the Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, the orchestra of the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the orchestra of AIDEM in Florence, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the orchestra of Ente Lirico dell’Arena di Verona as well as various chamber ensembles. Successful as an academic as well as a professional composer, Zanettovich was a professor of composition at the conservatory Jacopo Tomadini in Udine until retiring in 2009. Compositions *1971 Celine, work that is performed at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo in October of the same year *1972 E & FFlauto-Conce

Danilo Avilés

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Danilo Avilés Suárez (born 1948) is a Cuban composer and clarinetist. Career Suárez worked as a clarinetist in the Orquesta de Teatro y Danza in Havana. He participated as a composer in numerous concerts organized by the Brigada Hermanos Saiz and other cultural institutions in his country. He also received awards from local Symphonic and Chamber Music competitions and participated as a guest in the Warsaw Autumn Festival as well as the Spring Festival in Berlin, Germany. In 1980,he moved to Madrid, Spain where he taught musical composition and chamber music. Later he settled in the US and continued teaching and composing. Music work Suárez has written numerous pieces for soprano and piano, clarinet, string quartet, and brass quintet, as well as music for children, choral works, and incidental music. His works have been performed by renowned artists as Cuban pianist Marianela Santurio and conducted by Cuban composer Flores Chaviano in important events such as I Foro de Música Contemporánea in Mexico. The compositions of Suárez have also been premiered in many other concerts in Russia, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Spain and the United States. Compositions A list of relevant works from D

Danny Baranowsky

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Danny Baranowsky (born April 5, 1984), also known as Danny B or by the company name dB Soundworks, is an American electronic music composer, composing music mainly for indie films and indie games. He founded dB Soundworks to sell and promote his music. He is most known for providing the music for games such as Canabalt, Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, and Crypt of the NecroDancer. Baranowsky has also contributed to the soundtrack of the 2016 Amplitude remake. Career Baranowsky first came into contact with video game music in 2001, when he became a member of online game remix community OverClocked ReMix. At this time, Baranowsky was hoping to become a film composer. When Adam Saltsman, who would later develop Canabalt, sent Baranowsky an incomplete version of Gravity Hook, which Saltsman intended to keep free of music, Baranowsky decided to write a track for it anyway. When Baranowsky sent “Track A” back to Saltsman, he was really impressed by the music. After finishing the soundtrack of Gravity Hook, Saltsman introduced Baranowsky to Edmund McMillen, for whom he later composed the soundtrack of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac. He co-composed Desktop Dungeons with Gran

Danny L Harle

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Daniel Jack Eisner Harle, better known under the stage name Danny L Harle (born 25 September 1989), is a British music producer and composer. He was formerly signed to the London-based PC Music label and is a member of Dux Content with A. G. Cook. He has produced, composed, and remixed music for a number of artists; most prominently, he executive produced Caroline Polachek’s albums Pang (2019) and Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (2023) and co-produced the albums Radical Optimism by Dua Lipa and Polari by Olly Alexander. Harle released his debut album Harlecore in 2021, followed by Cerulean in 2026, which featured collaborations with Polachek, Lipa, and PinkPantheress. Early life Harle is the son of saxophonist John Harle. He played the cello as a child but did not have a strong interest in music until age 12, when he learned bass guitar after discovering bands like Slipknot and Madness. Harle is privately educated, having attended the £30,000 per annum King Alfred School in Hampstead. He later joined the Royal Academy of Music’s junior jazz group. In 2006, John Harle recorded Daniel’s song “Caesar Hath Wept” with the Duke Quartet. Harle went to Goldsmiths, University of London to s

Dapo Torimiro

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Dapo Torimiro is a Nigerian songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Born in Lagos, he has worked in the music industry in the US for several years writing and producing music for artists’ album projects, touring with numerous artists, as well as scoring various television and film projects. Music career Dapo’s big break was placing the song “Quickly” (co-written with Frank Ocean and the award-winning production duo Midi Mafia (50 Cent, Fantasia)) on nine-time Grammy winner John Legend’s third studio album, Evolver, which was released in Fall of 2008. Featuring multi-platinum-selling artist Brandy, “Quickly” received early industry buzz as not only an inspired, sleek duet featuring R&B/pop music’s leading artists, but also as one of the album’s stand-out gems. Dapo, Frank Ocean and Midi Mafia co-wrote (and Dapo/Midi Mafia produced) approximately 20+ songs, some of which were released by Frank as part of his “Lonny Breaux Collection” which includes a demo version of Justin Bieber’s “Bigger” (My World) as well as “Bedtime Stories”, “Done”, “Lights”, “Quickly” (Frank’s demo version), “Read The Stars”, “Standing Still”, and “When I’m Done”. Later in the Fall of 20

Darcy Hepner

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Darcy Rolston Hepner (born December 22, 1954) is a Canadian saxophonist, composer, and arranger. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, he is the son of professional musicians (conductor Dr. Lee Hepner and pianist Patricia Rolston). His professional career began as a cellist at the age of 15 and transitioned to flute, clarinet, and saxophone during his studies at McMaster University (BMus 1978). While pursuing jazz studies at the University of Miami he performed with Henry Mancini, B. B. King, Aretha Franklin, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé and many others (MMUS 1980). Moving to New York City in 1983 he studied composition and saxophone at New York University with Lee Konitz and Bob Mintzer. During his second residency in New York from 1996 to 2005, Hepner toured with Blood, Sweat and Tears, played in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and in clubs with such artists as Buster Poindexter and Tom Wopat. Since 2008, he has recorded and performed with Tom Wilson and LeE HARVeY OsMOND as both a woodwind player and conductor/arranger for his symphony shows, which have included performances with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. He arra

Daria Kawashima

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, known before as Miki Kawashima, is a Japanese musical composer, singer-songwriter, lyricist under Being Inc. records. Biography In 1986, she debuted as Miki Kawashima with the single Silk no Kuchibiru under CBS Sony label. Three years, she debuted as Daria Kawashima with the single Shiny Day under the Zain Records label. Since joining the Being agency, Kawashima has composed and wrote several songs for artists like Zard and Deen. In 1992, she composed Moonlight Densetsu under the alias of Tetsuya Komuro, presumably inspired by the legendary songwriter of the same name. The song would later be used as an opening theme for the popular anime series Sailor Moon. Kawashima also became known as the vocalist and leader of the heavy metal band Feel So Bad. In 2003, she participated in the cover album The Hit Parade, covering Gedō’s Hyun Hyun. It was produced by Tak Matsumoto from B’z. In 2016, she made her return as a solo artist with the digital release of her album Life Now. Some of her music video clips are included in musicvideo DVD series 90s Being Rock Hits. Discography During her solo career as Daria Kawashima she released four singles, 2 studio, 1 digital and 1 compilation album.

Daria Semegen

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Daria Semegen (born June 27, 1946) is a contemporary American composer of classical music. While she has composed pieces for traditional instruments – her Jeux des quatres (1970), for example, is scored for clarinet, trombone, cello, and piano – she is best known as a “respected electronic composer.” She is a figure on the academic side of the electronic music genre, connected with the conservatory and the university (like her older contemporary Karlheinz Stockhausen), rather than the more popular expression of the genre that followed upon the widespread availability of synthesizers and personal computers in the 1970s and after. Her writing covers a range of topics related to musical composition and has been the subject of studies by other scholars. Biography Born in Bamberg, West Germany of Ukrainian heritage, Semegen pursued an academic career in music, earning her MA from Yale University in 1971; she has studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She taught at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (1971–75). She studied composition under Bülent Arel and Alexander Goehr, and in turn has taught other composers, including Joseph DiPon

Dario Baldan Bembo

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Dario Baldan Bembo (born 15 May 1948) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music arranger and musician, best known for the songs “Aria” and “Amico è”. Background Born in Milan, Baldan Bembo started his music career as a keyboardist for, among others, Lucio Battisti and Adriano Celentano. and became an international success. the song was later covered by Guys ’n’ Dolls as “Broken Dreams” and by Sarah Brightman under the title “Just Show Me How to Love You”. He came back in Sanremo in 1985, with the song “Da quando non ci sei”. ending theme song of the Mike Bongiorno’s quiz show SuperFlash, which later became a widely spread football chant. Discography Singles * 1975 - Aria * 1975 - Crescendo * 1977 - Non mi lasciare * 1978 - Piccolina * 1979 - Giuro * 1981 - Tu cosa fai stasera? * 1983 - Amico è (with Caterina Caselli) * 1983 - Voci di città * 1984 - Flashback (as “Space Philharmonic”) * 1985 - Da quando non ci sei (una volta ancora) Studio albums * 1975 - Aria * 1975 - Crescendo * 1977 - Migrazione * 1979 - Dario Baldan Bembo * 1981 - Voglia d’azzurro * 1982 - Etereo (as “Bembo’s Orchestra”) * 1982 - Spirito della Terra * 1985 - Spazi uniti * 1991 - Un po’ per vivere, un po'

Dario Buccino

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Dario Buccino (20 November 1968) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music theorist, and artist. He created the HN System and founded the ensemble Laboratorio Aperto Fatti Sonori. Biography In 1991, Buccino elaborated an original music system called “HN System”. The system integrates composition, notation and performance techniques based on the parameterization of physical actions. In 1993 the composer founded the “Laboratorio Aperto Fatti Sonori”, an ensemble devoted to the execution of his scores. In 1997 he extended his application of the HN System to include sheets of steel. His musical activity ranges over a wide variety of fields: beside his research as experimental composer and performer, Buccino also works for the cinema and the theatre as a composer, interpreter, musical consultant, as a rock, pop and jazz composer, arranger and guitarist, and as a singer-songwriter, busker and music journalist. Bibliography * Bob Baker Fish, Dario Buccino – Corpo Nostro (Extreme), in “Cyclic Defrost”, 2009. * Pietro Misuraca, Suono dei Soli e le lamiere di Dario Buccino, in CURVA MINORE. Contemporary sounds, musica nuova in Sicilia 1997–2007, a c. di Gaetano Pennino, Regione Sicili

Dario Castello

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Dario Castello (bapt. 19 October 1602, Venice – 2 July 1631, Venice) was an Italian composer and violinist from the early Baroque period who worked and published in Venice. As a composer, he was a late member of the Venetian School and had a role in the transformation of the instrumental canzona into the sonata. Biographical details Dario Domenico Castello was born in Venice, where he was baptised on 19 October 1602. The title page of the 1621 edition of the first volume of the Sonate Concertate in stil moderno records him as Capo di Compagnia de Musichi d’Instrumenti da fiato in Venetia, indicating that he led a Venetian company of piffari, a band that could include sackbuts, cornetts, shawms, but also violins and viols. On 19 November 1624, he was appointed «sonador di violin» (violin player) of the St. Mark’s music chapel, at the time headed by Claudio Monteverdi. The title page of the second volume (1629) of the “Sonate concertate in Stil moderno” lists him as Musico Della Serenissima Signoria di Venetia in S. Marco, & Capo di Compagnia de Instrumenti, indicating that he worked at the great Basilica of St. Mark’s where Claudio Monteverdi was maestro di capella. Castello’s use o

Dario Marianelli

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Dario Marianelli is an Italian composer. Early life Marianelli was born in Pisa, Italy. He studied in Florence with David Kimball (himself a pupil of Rosario Scalero), and in 1990 he moved to London. After a year as a postgraduate composer at the Guildhall School of Music studying with Francis Shaw he took up a three-year postgraduate program at the National Film and Television School in London, from which he graduated in 1997. While there, he also undertook diverse projects, composing for concerts, contemporary ballet and theatre productions. Career Marianelli had already written scores for several films and TV projects, including movies such as Ailsa and Pandaemonium, when director Joe Wright contacted him about scoring his 2005 film Pride & Prejudice. He subsequently composed for Wright’s films Atonement, The Soloist, Anna Karenina and Darkest Hour. Awards and recognitions In 2008 Marianelli won the Academy Award for Original Music Score and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Atonement. He has also been nominated for Academy Awards for Pride & Prejudice and Anna Karenina. In 2018 he composed the score for Bumblebee, the sixth installment in the Transformers film seri

Dario Martinelli

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Dario Martinelli (born Andria, Italy, March 1, 1974) is an Italian semiotician, musicologist and composer. Since 2012 he has been working at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, as Full Professor in history and theory of arts He was the director of the International Semiotics Institute, and he is also affiliated to the University of Helsinki and the University of Lapland (adjunct professor in both cases). His visiting professorships include the University of Torino (2015–2016), the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (2012–2014), the Finnish Network University of Semiotics (2004–2007) and the Fine Arts Academy of Bari (2005–2006). Martinelli graduated at Bologna University in 1999 and earned his PhD at Helsinki University in 2002. He performs research and publishes monographs and articles in the fields of musicology, popular music studies, film studies, semiotics, animal studies (he is possibly best known for his work in zoomusicology and zoosemiotics) and a research platform called “numanities”, devoted to the rethinking of the role and paradigm of the humanities in modern society. He founded the Springer book series Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, Martine

Dario Palermo

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Dario Palermo (born 14 June 1970) is an Italian composer. Biography Born in Milan, Dario Palermo began his musical studies in classic guitar at the age of nine, subsequently following studies in percussion with Italo Savoia (Teatro alla Scala of Milan, La Scala), and shortly after at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano with David Searcy and Jonathan Scully (Teatro alla Scala of Milan). In the early years of his career as performer, he played all over Europe in several ensembles, chamber groups and orchestras with, amongst others, Václav Neumann, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Allen, and Claudio Abbado. During the same years at the Civica Scuola di Musica, Palermo enrolled in composition studies initially with Massimiliano Carraro, and then with Giorgio Taccani and Giovanni Verrando. Palermo attended also seminars and classes with Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, Emmanuel Nunes, Aldo Clementi, and particularly with Gérard Grisey. In 2003, he was selected by the Reading Panel of IRCAM, Institut de Recherché et Coordination Acoustique/Musique of Paris, Composition and Music Computer Technologies. Since 2003 he lived between France and United Kingdom where he completed a PhD in composition an

Darius Milhaud

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Milhaud was born in Marseille, the son of Sophie (Allatini) and Gad Gabriel Milhaud. He grew up in Aix-en-Provence, which he regarded as his true ancestral city. His was a long-established Jewish family of the Comtat Venaissin—a secluded region of Provence—with roots traceable there at least to the 15th century. On his father’s side, Milhaud’s Jewish lineage was thus neither Ashkenazi nor Sephardi, but specifically Provençal—dating to Jewish settlement in that part of France as early as the first centuries of the Common Era. Milhaud began as a violinist, later turning to composition. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he met fellow Les Six members Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre. He studied composition with Charles-Marie Widor and harmony and counterpoint with André Gedalge. He also studied privately with Vincent d’Indy. From 1917 to 1919, he served as secretary to Paul Claudel, the poet and dramatist who was then the French ambassador to Brazil, and with whom Milhaud collaborated for many years, writing music for many of his poems and plays. In Brazil, they collaborated on the ballet L’Homme et son désir. On his return to France, Milhaud composed works influenced by Brazilian popular music, including songs by pianist and composer Ernesto Nazareth. Le Bœuf sur le toit includes melodies by Nazareth and other popular Brazilian composers, and evokes the sounds of Carnaval. Among the melodies is a Carnaval tune by the name of “The Bull on the Roof” (in Portuguese, which he translated to French ‘Le boeuf sur le toit’, known in English as ‘The Ox on the Roof’). He also produced Saudades do Brasil, a suite of 12 dances evoking 12 Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods. Shortly after the original piano version appeared, he orchestrated the suite. Contemporary European influences were also important. Milhaud dedicated his Fifth String Quartet (1920) to Arnold Schoenberg, and the next year conducted both the French and British premieres of Pierrot lunaire after multiple rehearsals. On a trip to the United States in 1922, Milhaud heard “authentic” jazz for the first time, on the streets of Harlem, which greatly influenced his music. The next year, he completed La création du monde (The Creation of the World), using ideas and idioms from jazz, cast as a ballet in six continuous dance scenes. Nazi Germany’s invasion of France forced the Milhauds to leave France in 1940. They emigrated to the U.S. (Milhaud’s Jewish background made it impossible for him to return to France before it was liberated). He secured a teaching post at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he composed the opera Bolivar (1943) and collaborated with Henri Temianka and the Paganini Quartet. In an extraordinary concert there in 1949, the Budapest Quartet performed his 14th String Quartet, followed by the Paganini Quartet’s performance of his 15th; and then both ensembles played the two pieces together as an octet. In 1950, these pieces were performed at the Aspen Music Festival by the Paganini and Juilliard String Quartets. On June 13,1945, his Suite Francaise, – Normandie, Bretagne, Ile de France, Alsace-Lorraine, Provence, had its World Premiere performance at the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in the summer series. Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck became one of Milhaud’s most famous students when Brubeck studied at Mills College in the late 1940s. In a February 2010 interview with JazzWax, Brubeck said he attended Mills, a women’s college (men were allowed in graduate programs), specifically to study with Milhaud, saying, “Milhaud was an enormously gifted classical composer and teacher who loved jazz and incorporated it into his work. My older brother Howard was his assistant and had taken all of his classes.” Brubeck named his first son Darius. In 1947 Milhaud was among the founders of the Music Academy of the West summer conservatory, where songwriter Burt Bacharach was among his students. Milhaud told Bacharach, “Don’t be afraid of writing something people can remember and whistle. Don’t ever feel discomfited by a melody.” From 1947 to 1971, he taught alternate years at Mills and the Paris Conservatoire, until poor health, which caused him to use a wheelchair during his later years (beginning in the 1930s), compelled him to retire. He also taught on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and School. As well as Brubeck, his students include William Bolcom, Vera Nicolaevna Preobrajenska, Steve Reich, Michiko Toyama, Katharine Mulky Warne, and Regina Hansen Willman. He died in Geneva at the age of 81, and he was buried in the Saint-Pierre Cemetery in Aix-en-Provence.

Darko Hajsek

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Darko Hajsek (born 22 September 1959) is a Croatian composer. He composed (and by itself orchestrated) a respectable opus of more than 650 musical works, concert and musical-stage forms, ranging from small, instrumental and chamber shape to big orchestral symphonic works and ten large music and music-theatrical works of contemporary forms and synthesis involving opera, musical theatre and ballet, stage music and other musical forms. His music has been performed in productions of companies such as Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, NT Varaždin, Croatian National Theatre in Split, Croatian National Theatre in Osijek, Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb Theatre Komedija, City Theater Žar Ptica, Satirical Theatre Kerempuh Zagreb, Cankarjev Dom-Ljubljana, Maribor Slovene National Theatre, then Croatian Radiotelevision, Orpheus, Suzy, Zagreb Film, Maxima-movie, Inter-movie, Positive film, with numerous performances in Croatia and in a number of European and non-European countries. Early life Since the beginning of his involvement with music of classical foundation Hajsek showed tendencies towards a broader spectrum of musical expressions and has developed the ability to

Daron Hagen

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Daron Aric Hagen ( ; born November 4, 1961) is an American composer, writer, and filmmaker. Biography Early life Daron Hagen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in New Berlin, a suburb west of Milwaukee. Hagen was the youngest of the three sons of Gwen Hagen, a visual artist, writer and advertising executive who studied creative writing with Mari Sandoz and enjoyed a successful advertising career as creative director of Exclusively Yours Magazine and Earl Hagen (an attorney). Hagen began composing prolifically in 1974, when his older brother Kevin gave him a recording and score of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd. Two years later, at the age of fifteen, he conducted the premiere of his first orchestral work, a recording and score of which came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who enthusiastically urged Hagen to attend Juilliard to study with David Diamond. He studied piano with Adam Klescewski, and studied composition, piano, and conducting at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music (where his teachers included Duane Dishaw and Judy Kramer) while attending Brookfield Central High School. While a student of Rorem’s at Curtis, he studied piano with Marion Zarzeczna and also

Darrell Calker

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Darrell Wallace Calker (February 18, 1905 – February 20, 1964) was an American composer and arranger who worked on films and animated cartoons. Early life and education Calker was born in Washington, D.C. to Morris H. and Lugenia E. (Lily) Wallace of Philadelphia. He grew up with his younger sister Rena in the District of Columbia, where he attended Episcopal Cathedral School and sang with a church choir in his teens. He studied with Edgar Priest and David Pell, graduating from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Career Calker’s early work in Hollywood included orchestration for Victor Young. He was also active as the composer of scores for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo and Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet. Among his compositions were the suites for orchestra, Golden Land and Penguin Island. After arriving in Los Angeles by the mid-1930s, Calker worked as a session musician, and composed songs including Strings Full of Swing and Dixieland Strut. He formed his own band, which appeared on radio in the early 1940s. It was at this time Walter Lantz hired Calker to be his musical director in December 1940, replacing former Warner Bros. composer Frank Marsales. Calker was an unc

Darren Fung

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Darren Fung is a Canadian film and television composer based in Los Angeles. He is best known for scoring The Great Human Odyssey, Equus: Story of the Horse, Bang Bang Baby, and Canada AM. Life and career Fung was born in Edmonton, Alberta and is a graduate of McGill University. He was responsible for rearranging and producing the Hockey Theme, often referred to as Canada’s second national anthem, for NHL on TSN. His work on Niobe Thompson’s The Great Human Odyssey and Equus: Story of the Horse received critical acclaim and has been presented live in-concert with orchestras across Canada with Darren conducting. As an arranger and orchestrator, Fung has written numerous orchestral arrangements for Canadian artists including iskwē and Shawnee Kish. He is a long-time board member of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada, and a mentor for the Canadian Film Centre’s Slaight Family Music Lab. Selected filmography Awards and nominations References External links *

Darryl Kubian

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Darryl Kubian (born February 19, 1966) is an American composer, thereminist, violinist, and audio/video engineer. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by North American orchestras, such as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Omaha Symphony, and he has written soundtrack scores for the Wildlife Conservation Society, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Pangolin Pictures, NHK, CBS, The Learning Channel, and others. Darryl performs and records as a thereminist, including chamber and solo works by Herb Deutsch, Martinu, and others, and has also been a featured soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia of New York, and the NJ Symphony on theremin. He was the featured theremin soloist for the Lincoln Center Festival production of Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton. Darryl Kubian is a member of the first violin section of the NJ Symphony, and was the principal second violinist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Indigo Fox Media, Kubian’s New Jersey–based audio/video production company, has recorded artists such as the Emerson String Quartet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, members of the NY Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, and the Metro

Darwin Vargas

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Darwin Vargas (March 8, 1925 – April 8, 1988) was a Chilean composer and choral conductor. His compositional style was influenced by Chilean folk music and he often used modal tonalities within his works. His own beliefs in Christian mysticism influenced his compositional style as well; particularly in his sacred choral works which exhibit a reflective lyrical sensibility. Vargas won several prizes for his music compositions at festivals in his native country. He wrote several journal articles which were published in Revista musical chilena and La libertad. Partial list of works Art songs *Cantos del hombre, baritone and orchestra (1960; uses poems by César Vallejo) *Canciones para Georgeanne, mezzo-soprano and piano (1972; uses poems by Hugo Montes) Choral *Cantata de cámara, soprano and alto soloists, SATB chorus, and orchestra (1954) *Ecce sacerdos magnus, TTBB chorus and organ (1961) *Stabat mater, soprano and alto soloists, treble chorus, and organ (1961) *3 coros sacros (Three Sacred Choruses), SATB chorus (1961) *En el país de los dos rios, tenor, baritone, and bass soloists; TTBB chorus; orchestra (1967) Orchestral *Obertura para tiempos de adviento (1958) *Meditation Symph

Dary John Mizelle

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Dary John Mizelle (born June 14, 1940) is an American composer of avant-garde classical and jazz music. Life and career Mizelle studied trombone (B.A. California State University, Sacramento) as well as composition (M.A. University of California, Davis, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego) and while at U.C. Davis participated in the New Music Ensemble (a pioneering free improvisation group that dispensed with scores). He was an original member of the group that founded Source: Music of the Avant Garde magazine. His mentors include: Larry Austin, Richard Swift, Jerome Rosen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, Roger Reynolds, Robert Erickson, Pauline Oliveros, and Kenneth Gaburo. His music involves mastery of instrumental, electronic and vocal resources as well as his own performance on several different instruments and voice. He works in many different genres and media. His SPANDA project consists of thirteen days of music with a coherent macrostructure, which includes music theater, opera, orchestra works, choral works, electronic music, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal music as well as combinations and integrations of all these. A prolific composer with works in a

Daryl McKenzie

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Daryl McKenzie (born 1962) is an Australian musical director, composer and trombonist. McKenzie has directed the Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra since 1992 playing with artists such as Bill Watrous, James Morrison (musician), He was musical director for the television show Hey Hey It’s Saturday (Nine Network) from 1992 to 1999 also returning for the 2010 reunion shows. He has directed the Australian Film Institute Awards for SBS television and episodes of Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series) and the Good Friday Appeal for the Seven Network and was musical director of Australia’s Got Talent Series 1. He has arranged for the television shows Australian Idol, Young Talent Time regularly adjudicates at the Melbourne School Bands Festival and has lectured in orchestration and arranging at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Defence Force School of Music (Australia). Discography Albums References External links *Daryl McKenzie at the Internet Movie Database *Daryl McKenzie at Jazz Australia *Daryl McKenzie at All About Jazz *Daryl McKenzie’s homepage *Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra on Myspace

Dave Black (composer)

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Dave Black (born 1959) is an American composer and co-author of numerous books, including Alfred’s Drum Method, Alfred’s Beginning Drumset Method, Alfred’s Kid’s Drum Course, Contemporary Brush Techniques, Drumset Independence and Syncopation, Living Praise, Cymals: A Crash Course, The Essential Dictionary of Orchestration, A Jazz Diary, and Sound Innovations for Concert Band. He has also written a number of articles, concert reviews, and book reviews for publications including The Instrumentalist, Down Beat, Modern Percussionist, Modern Drummer, Drums and Drumming, Drum Tracks, Jazz Educators Journal, Grammy Pulse, and Music Connection. More than 60 of his compositions and arrangements have been published by Alfred Music Publishing, CPP/Belwin, Highland/Etling, Barnhouse, TRN, and Warner Brothers, many of which have been recorded. He has written with, and for the bands of Louie Bellson, Sammy Nestico, Bill Watrous, Bobby Shew, Ed Shaughnessy, Gordon Brisker and the CSUN Jazz Ensemble. Black has received numerous awards and commissions, including 21 consecutive ASCAP Popular Composer Awards and two Grammy nomination certificate. Many of his compositions have been used as background

Dave Hewson (composer)

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David Graham Hewson (born 25 November 1953 in Wandsworth, London, England) is a British composer of scores for television and films. His work includes a collaboration to develop scores for ITV News. Hewson works from his composing studio in East Sussex. At Trinity College of Music, Hewson was a pupil of Richard Arnell. They worked together on films including Dilemma (1981), Doctor in the Sky (1984), Toulouse-Lautrec (1986), and The Light of the World (1989). Hewson has written several works with Brian Sibley. Background and education Hewson began composing at the age of 11, influenced by his primary school music education, which had been based entirely on the Schulwerk. This influence stayed with David and shaped a lot of his much later music. During his time in primary school, he also started to receive piano lessons from the renowned classical concert pianist and teacher Christine Gough. In his late teens he studied composition with Professor Richard Arnell, a former pupil of John Ireland at Trinity College of Music, London, and enrolled in a part-time courses on electronic music with Tristram Cary at the Royal College of Music. After gaining his BEd (Hon) he taught music for six

Dave Kerman

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David Kerman (born August 24, 1959) is an American experimental rock drummer and composer, best known as the founder and member of the Los Angeles avant-rock group 5uu’s. He is also a member of the Belgian progressive rock band Present and the Israeli avant-rock band Ahvak. Kerman has been a member of the United States bands U Totem and Thinking Plague, and the Dutch band Blast. He has collaborated with several musicians, including Bob Drake, Chris Cutler and Fred Frith. Kerman lived in Israel between 2000 and 2003 and holds dual American and Israeli citizenship. He established RēR USA in 2003, the North American distributor of the British independent record label, Recommended Records, and RēR USA’s own record label, AD Hoc Records in 2006. Biography Dave Kerman was born in Torrance, California, south of Los Angeles. At the age of six he started playing with the drum sticks, and at nine he auditioned for a percussionist in his school band. In spite of failing the audition, Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux, family friend and neighbor, recognised potential in Kerman and suggested to Kerman’s parents that they buy him a set of drums. Kerman’s first public performance was at th

Dave Newhouse

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David Newhouse (born 1953) is an American progressive rock and avant-garde jazz multi-instrumentalist and composer. He was one on the founding members of the Maryland-based progressive rock/avant-jazz band, the Muffins, and has recorded nine solo albums, five of them as Manna/Mirage, a solo project he created in 2015. Biography Newhouse was born in Hawaii in 1953, but moved with his family to Maryland the same year. He began playing clarinet at school when he was nine years old, then took up tenor saxophone in junior high school. His father had played alto saxophone in his own high school band. Newhouse taught himself keyboards on his parents’ upright piano. Newhouse played in two bands, Sledge and Tunc before forming the Muffins in Maryland with guitarist Michael Zentner and bassist Billy Swann in 1973. Saxophonist Thomas Scott and drummer Paul Sears joined the Muffins a few years later. The Muffins recorded their first album, Manna/Mirage in 1978, which attracted the attention of Fred Frith and Chris Cutler of the English experimental rock group, Henry Cow. When Henry Cow disbanded later in 1978, Frith moved to New York City and performed with the Muffins in Washington, D.C. He a

Dave Pierce

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Dave Pierce (born July 10, 1972) is a Canadian songwriter, composer, producer, and arranger. He was the music director for the opening, closing, and victory ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.Pierce received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for his work on these ceremonies. He has also worked on arrangements for Broadway and Las Vegas productions. Pierce has collaborated with a variety of performers, including Michael Bublé, Loreena McKennitt, Petula Clark, Carrie Underwood, Paul Brandt, Ian Tyson, Jann Arden, Jorane, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado and k.d. lang. In addition, he was commissioned to compose a symphonic work for Queen Elizabeth II. Career Pierce was born in Drayton Valley, Alberta. References External links * * * *

Dave Porter (composer)

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Dave Porter is an American composer, best known for his original score for the television series Breaking Bad (2008–2013), its prequel spin-off Better Call Saul (2015–2022) and the epilogue film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). At Sarah Lawrence College, Porter studied classical and electronic music composition. Breaking Bad For his work on Breaking Bad, Porter has won an ASCAP Award. Bryan Cranston, who portrays Walter White, stated “With his music, Dave Porter has created another character for Breaking Bad. Evocative and meaningful, Dave’s work is an essential part of the storytelling.” Porter stated that influences on the series’ music came from discussions with Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, about the show having aspects of a post-modern western. For the final episodes of the series, Porter incorporated four important themes that were in previous seasons. Other work Porter has also composed music for NBC’s crime thriller The Blacklist. Personal life Porter has a wife, Jeanine, a son, and a daughter. *Released: August 28, 2012 *Label: Madison Gate Records *Formats: CD, Vinyl, digital download - ! scope=“row” Breaking Bad: Original Score From The Television S

Dave Sardy

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David Stuart Sardy (born 1967), more commonly known as D. Sardy, is an American composer, musician, songwriter, and multiple Grammy winning record producer. He came to prominence as the leader of 1990s noise rock band Barkmarket before turning mostly to production work, often with alternative rock, hard rock, electronic related genres, and then to scoring feature films. Biography In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sardy was active as a singer, songwriter and guitarist (most notably with his group Barkmarket), but since the mid-1990s, he has been more active as a producer, writer, composer and mixer. He has worked with an eclectic mix of rock, punk, alternative, electronic and industrial rock performers, and critics have called him a “Hardcore super-producer.” In 2006, Sardy won six ARIA Awards for his work with Jet and again in 2008, three more ARIA awards for Wolfmother; he has also received five Grammy Awards (for Toots and the Maytals, Rodrigo y Gabriela, OK Go, Wolfmother and Marilyn Manson) and multiple Brit Awards for Oasis, Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother and The Ting Tings. He was Grammy-nominated again in 2007 for LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver and in 2010 for the Band of Ho

Dave Smith (composer)

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Dave Smith (born August 19, 1949) is an English composer, arranger and musical performer. Since 1971 he has been associated with the English school of experimental music. Life and career Smith was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. After attending Solihull School, he read music at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In the 1970s, Smith was a member of the Scratch Orchestra and a participant in several composer/performer ensembles. The first of these was a keyboard duo with John Lewis which played minimalist and systemic works by British and American composers (notably including early works by Philip Glass) as well as by themselves. Several concerts with Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton featured at this time, as did a short-lived five-piano group (with Lewis, Michael Nyman, Orlando Gough and Benedict Mason) and an involvement with the People’s Liberation Music group of Laurie Scott Baker, Cornelius Cardew and others. From 1977 he played in John White’s Garden Furniture Music Ensemble alongside Mason and Gavin Bryars: his close association with the music of White, Bryars and Cardew has continued ever since. In the 1980s he was a founder-member of the English Gamelan Orchestra and Li

Dave Willey

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Dave Willey (born 1963)

David A. Jaffe

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David Aaron Jaffe (born April 29, 1955) is an American electronic music composer. His compositions include over 90 pieces for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, and electronic ensembles. He composed the computer music piece Silicon Valley Breakdown and published research on physical modeling of plucked and bowed strings. He also worked with Julius O. Smith to develop the Music Kit for NeXT Computers. Biography Jaffe attended Ithaca College, where he studied violin performance and music composition, completing his composition studies with Karel Husa. He then attended Bennington College to study composition, orchestration, and counterpoint with Henry Brant and electronic music with Joel Chadabe. He received a B.A. in Music and Mathematics in 1979. Jaffe received a doctorate in Musical Arts from Stanford in 1984, where he was part of the computer music group at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and, later, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In addition to his musical work, he researched physical modelling and ensemble timing. Composing career Jaffe has taught composition at Stanford, the University of California, San Diego, Princeton University,

David Amram

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David Werner Amram III (born November 17, 1930) is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. He plays piano, French horn, Spanish guitar, and pennywhistle, and sings. Early life and education Amram was born in Philadelphia, the son of legal scholar Philip Werner Amram. He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1948–1949, and earned a bachelor’s degree in European history from George Washington University in 1952. Under Schuller he studied French horn. He has also worked with a wide range of folk, pop, and country figures, such as Bob Dylan, the Roche sisters, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Willie Nelson, Oscar Brand, Judy Collins, Peter Yarrow, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Josh White, Patti Smith, Arlo Guthrie, Jerry Jeff Walker and others. In 1956, producer Joseph Papp hired Amram to compose scores for the New York Shakespeare Festival. Over the years, Amram composed scores for 25 of Papp’s productions, including a number of Shakespeare in the Park presentations. In 1957, Amram, along with Jack Kerouac and poets Howard Hart and Philip Lamantia, staged one of the first poetry readings with jazz at the Brata Art Galle

David Arnold

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David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer whose credits include scoring five James Bond films (1997–2008), as well as Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), Shaft (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Four Brothers (2005), Hot Fuzz (2007), and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock. For Independence Day, he received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television, and for Sherlock, he and co-composer Michael Price won a Creative Arts Emmy for the score of “His Last Vow”, the final episode in the third series. Arnold scored the BBC / Amazon Prime series Good Omens (2019) adapted by Neil Gaiman from his book Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett. Arnold is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Career While attending a Sixth Form College in Luton, Arnold became friends with director Danny Cannon. Cannon initially created short films for which Arnold was asked to write the music. The two made their respective major film debuts with The Young Americans. “Play Dead”, a song from the film with singer Björk, charted No. 12 in the UK. The following year he scor

David Arnott

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David Arnott (born 1963) is an American actor, screenwriter, living in Southern California. Among his credits, Arnott co-wrote Last Action Hero, and starred in The Last Man with Jeri Ryan. David is a member of the legendary “Pad O’ Guys” screenwriting group, including Shane Black and Fred Dekker, and is the son of banjo player Peter R. Arnott. He also provided additional voices in Happy Feet Two and Finding Dory. Arnott also appeared as “Cal Evans” in the 1995 UPN sitcom Pig Sty. He also appeared in a 1992 television remake of the classic film, Christmas in Connecticut directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. This gives Arnott the probably unique distinction of both having written for, and having been directed by Schwarzenegger. David is also a board game enthusiast, and can be seen on GameNight!, a YouTube web series in which he and 2-4 other participants play different designer board games. Partial filmography * Amazing Stories (1986) (Umpire) (Magic Saturday) *You Again? (1986) (Dirk) (Sports Fantasy) *House II: The Second Story (1987) (Banana) * The Facts of Life (1987) (Nick Drexler) (Rumor Has It) *Three Fugitives (1989) (Bank teller) * Day by Day (1989) (Fantasy David Gannon) (The

David Avshalomov

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David Avshalomov (born 6 May 1946 ) is a third generation classical composer, singer, and conductor. David is the son of Jacob Avshalomov and grandson of Aaron Avshalomov who were both distinguished classical musicians. As a composer, he has been commissioned by several orchestras such as the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Mission Chamber Orchestra, Oddysea Chorus of Lisbon, and the Anglican Chorale of Southern California. He is also a vocalist - having served in the United States Air Force as a Singing Sergeant - and conductor. Life Son of composer Jacob Avshalomov and his wife Doris, David Avshalomov was born on May 6, 1946, in New York City, New York. He grew up in Oregon where his father, Jacob, served as the music director for the Portland Junior Symphony. Avshalomov enjoyed music from a young age, claiming that he “learned the joys of madrigal singing at home”. He studied music theory and composition throughout grade school, and eventually continued these studies at both Harvard University and the University of Washington. He later graduated from Harvard in 1967 with a baccalaureate in Music. Avshalomov was one of ninety-nine seniors to receive honors from the Phi Beta Kappa cha

David B. Doty

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David B. Doty (born 1950) is an American composer and authority on just intonation. He is the author of The Just Intonation Primer (1993, 1994, 2002). Inspired in part by the work of Harry Partch, Doty began composing in 1970 and in 1975 co-founded the San Francisco-based ensemble Other Music with Henry S. Rosenthal and Dale S. Soules. After Doty studied intonation with Lou Harrison, members of Other Music built an American gamelan based on a 14-tone-per-octave just tuning designed by Doty and Soules (see Systêma Ametabolon for comparison). Other Music performed extensively in Northern California using these instruments during the years 1977–1981. Three of Doty’s compositions from this period were featured on Other Music’s 1980 LP Prime Numbers. Other Music ceased performing publicly in 1981, but in 1983 recorded and released a studio album, Incidents Out of Context, featuring compositions combining gamelan with synthesizers and other acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments. After the dissolution of Other Music in 1983, Doty began composing for MIDI instruments and sequencers, which he has continued to do into the 21st century. Seven of these compositions in just intonation are i

David Baker (composer)

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David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (December 21, 1931 – March 26, 2016) was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as an educator and founder of the jazz studies program. From 1991 to 2012, he was conductor and musical and artistic director for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He has more than 65 recordings, 70 books, and 400 articles to his credit. He received the James Smithson Medal from the Smithsonian Institution, an American Jazz Masters Award, a National Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame Award, a Sagamore of the Wabash award, and a Governor’s Arts Award from the State of Indiana. Baker also held leadership positions in several arts and music associations. The Indiana Historical Society named Baker an Indiana Living Legend in 2001. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts named him a Living Jazz Legend in 2007. Early life and education David Nathaniel Baker Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 21, 1931, to Patress Lasley Baker and David N. Baker Sr., a postal carrier. His siblings included two sisters, S

David Bedford

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David Vickerman Bedford (4 August 1937 – 1 October 2011) was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandson of the composer, painter and author Herbert Bedford and the composer Liza Lehmann, and the son of Leslie Bedford, an inventor, and Lesley Duff, a soprano opera singer. From 1969 to 1981, Bedford was Composer in Residence at Queen’s College, London. From 1968 to 1980, he taught music in a number of London secondary schools. In 1996 he was appointed Composer in Association with the English Sinfonia. In 2001 he was appointed Chairman of the Performing Right Society, having previously been Deputy chairman. Early life and career Bedford was born in Hendon, London to Leslie Bedford, the director of engineering for the guided weapons division of the British Aircraft Corporation, and Lesley Duff, a soprano singer who worked with the English Opera Group. He was educated at Lancing College in West Sussex. During this time he worked as a porter at Guy’s Hospital, London. In the mid-60s, he was a music teacher at Whitefield school in Hendon, before joining Queen’s College in London

David Behrman

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David Behrman (born August 16, 1937) is an American composer and a pioneer of computer music. In 1966, Behrman co-founded Sonic Arts Union with fellow composers Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma. He was also the producer of Columbia Records’ late 1960s Music of Our Time series, which introduced recordings by Terry Riley, John Cage, Steve Reich, and Pauline Oliveros to a wider audience. Behrman wrote the music for Merce Cunningham’s dances Walkaround Time (1968), Rebus (1975), Pictures (1984) and Eyespace 40 (2007). In 1978, he released his debut album On the Other Ocean, a pioneering work combining computer music with live performance. Biography Early life and education Behrman’s father, S. N. Behrman, was a successful playwright and Hollywood screenplay writer. His mother Elza Heifetz Behrman was the sister of violinist Jascha Heifetz. Behrman attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where his classmates included Carl Andre, Hollis Frampton and Frank Stella. There he also developed a lifelong friendship with composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski. While attending summer camp at Indian Hill in 1953 he was taught modern music by Wallingford Riegger. He rece

David Bertok

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David Bertok (born 1981) is a German composer and pianist known for his work in film and television. In 2025, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special for his work on the Netflix series Chef’s Table (specifically the episode “José Andrés”). Early life and education Bertok was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). He studied classical piano and composition, later attending the University of Southern California (USC) where he graduated from the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television (SMPTV) program. Career Bertok’s career includes work as a composer for independent films and documentary series. His work on the Netflix series Chef’s Table earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in 2025. In addition to his film work, Bertok has contributed to the progressive rock and metal scenes. He was a member of the German band Subsignal, appearing on the albums Touchstones (2011), Paraíso (2013) and A Poetry of Rain (2023) which reached the German Media Control Charts. Discography With Subsignal: * Beautiful & Monstrous (2009) * Touchstones (2011) * Out There Must Be Something (2012, Live DVD) * Paraíso (2013) With Dreamscape: *

David Blake (composer)

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David Blake (born 2 September 1936) is an English composer and founder member of the Department of Music at the University of York. Early life and education Blake was born in London. Following national service, he learnt Mandarin Chinese and spent one year in Hong Kong. He went on to read music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where his teachers were Patrick Hadley, Peter Tranchell and Raymond Leppard. He was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship for Composition in 1960, and, uniquely for a British composer of his generation, he went to East Berlin to study with Arnold Schoenberg’s pupil, the Marxist composer Hanns Eisler, as a Meisterschüler of the GDR Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts, Berlin). During this time, he composed the first of his acknowledged compositions – the Variations for Piano and the String Quartet No. 1. Career In 1963, he was awarded the Granada Arts Fellowship at the newly opened University of York, and the following year, with Wilfrid Mellers and Peter Aston, he founded the Department of Music there. He was Lecturer in Music in the Department until 1976 and then succeeded Wilfrid Mellers as Professor. His first important commission came in 1966, fro

David Borden

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David Russell Borden (born December 25, 1938, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer and keyboard player of minimalist music. David Borden was educated at the Eastman School of Music and Harvard University. At Harvard he studied with Leon Kirchner and Randall Thompson, and at Eastman with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. He was also a Fulbright student in Berlin Germany, where he studied at the Hochschule für Musik. His first composition teachers were jazz musicians Jimmy Giuffre and Jaki Byard. He collaborates and performs with his son, Gabriel Borden and stepson, Sam Godin. Borden resides in Ithaca, NY with his wife, Rebecca Godin. He is the retired founder and Director of the Digital Music Program (now the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center) at Cornell University. In addition to his work with electronics and the Mother Mallard ensemble, Borden has written music for various chamber and vocal ensembles. He is also an accomplished jazz pianist. Borden’s compositions are similar to the repetitive minimalist style of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley. Borden is also very interested in counterpoint, best demonstrated in his large scale series of works The Contin

David Braham

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David Braham (c.1834 – April 11, 1905) was a London-born musical theatre composer, most famous for his work with his son-in-law Edward Harrigan (1844-1911), and Tony Hart (1855-1891). He has been called “the American Offenbach”. Early life (1834–1873) David Braham was born in London in 1834. As a young man, he aspired to become a professional musician and began studying the harp. However, because he was unable to get his bulky instrument on board a stagecoach, he later switched to the violin. He proved to be an adept violinist, performing in concerts at a young age. The Braham family immigrated to New York City when David was 15. Upon arriving in New York, Braham began working as a violinist in the orchestra accompanying the Pony Moore Minstrels. He played in the pit orchestras of various New York auditoriums, headed an 18-piece orchestra at the New Canterbury concert saloon at 585 Broadway, produced by William Horace Lingard at the Theatre Comique in 1869. Braham’s success as a composer continued through the early 1870s, during which time he wrote numbers for such performers as James McKee, then-child star Annie Yeamans, and P. T. Barnum performer General Tom Thumb. In 1985, a mus

David Briggs (English musician)

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David John Briggs (born 1 November 1962) is an English organist and composer. He started his career as a cathedral organist as Assistant Organist at Hereford Cathedral before becoming the organist of Truro and Gloucester Cathedrals. Heavily influenced by Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau, Briggs is regarded as one of the world’s finest improvisors, and now works as a concert organist. He is also a composer of choral and organ music and has transcribed many orchestral works for solo organ, as well as many of Cochereau’s recorded improvisations. His daughter is the composer Kerensa Briggs. Early life and training Briggs was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, to John Briggs (d. 1979), an engineer (and cellist), and his wife Jane (a violinist), who had met in 1957 while playing in the Birmingham Hospitals Orchestra. Briggs began improvising on the piano and took lessons at an early age; he was invited to play hymns during assembly at his primary school in Moseley and Christmas carols during services at St Mary’s Church, Moseley. At the relatively early age of 17 Briggs was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), having studied for the examination with Richard P

David Broekman

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David Broekman (c. 1900 – April 1, 1958) was a Dutch-born American composer, violinist and film scorer. Biography Broekman was born c. 1900, in Leiden, Kingdom of the Netherlands. While living in the Netherlands, he orchestrated the Royal Opera House while living there. In 1924, he immigrated to the United States and joined the New York Philharmonic. He produced film soundtracks for studios such as Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, and Universal Pictures, with him being musical director of the latter two in 1929 to 1931 and from 1932 to 1935, respectively. He later joined CBS. During World War II, Broekman served as musical director for the United States Department of the Treasury. As which, he appeared in and recorded music for war bond projects. Broekman was a television scorer, having produced the soundtracks to shows such as Wide Wide World. He was nominated in 8th Primetime Emmy Awards, in the category “Best Musical Contribution”. He also frequently appeared on the 1949 game show Think Fast, as a judge. Broekman wrote an autobiography titled The Shoestring Symphony in 1948, which received a positive review from a reviewer of The New York Times. He composed the operas Barbara Al

David Bruce (composer)

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David Bruce (born 1970) is a British composer and YouTuber. Early life Bruce was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1970, but grew up in England. He began his undergraduate music studies in 1988 at the University of Nottingham, where his composition tutors included Jim Fulkerson and Nicholas Sackman. He continued at the Royal College of Music from 1991 to 1993, where he obtained a master’s degree in composition, studying with Timothy Salter and George Benjamin. He received a PhD in composition at King’s College London between 1995 and 1999, under the supervision of Harrison Birtwistle. Career Bruce developed an international reputation as a composer. His work is performed by musicians from around the world, including soprano Dawn Upshaw, klezmer pioneer Giora Feidman and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Upshaw in particular played an important role in bringing Bruce’s music to wider attention. She instigated the commission for his opera A Bird in Your Ear and performed his Piosenki song-cycle at Carnegie Hall and elsewhere. Upshaw was the soloist in a new song-cycle with ensemble, The North Wind was a Woman, commissioned for the Gala opening of the 2009 season by the Chamber Music So

David C. Johnson

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David C. Johnson (January 30, 1940, in Batavia, New York – October 28, 2021, in Basel) was an American composer, flautist, and performer of live electronic music. Life and career Johnson studied, among other places, at Harvard University (M.A. in composition 1964), with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and at the Cologne Courses for New Music in 1964–1965, 1965–1966, and 1966–1967. In 1966–1967, he was an independent collaborator at the Electronic Studio of the WDR, where he assisted Karlheinz Stockhausen with the production of his electronic work Hymnen. He also operated the live-electronics in the first performances of the chamber-orchestra version of Stockhausen’s Mixtur (1967), and in the Darmstadt collaborative works directed by Stockhausen, Ensemble in 1967 and Musik für ein Haus in 1968. In 1968, Johnson was instructor of electronic music at the Cologne Courses for New Music. From its formation in Cologne in 1968, he collaborated with the experimental beat group, later known as Can, formed by bass guitarist Holger Schüring (later known as Holger Czukay), keyboardist Irmin Schmidt, guitarist Michael Karoli and drummer Jaki Liebezeit. He left in 1969, disappointed at their growing ro

David Campbell (composer)

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David Richard Campbell (born 7 February 1948) is a Canadian-American arranger, composer, musician, and conductor. He has composed and arranged music for many films, including North Country (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), August: Osage County (2013), Annie (2014), Foxcatcher (2014), Rock of Ages (2012), Dreamgirls (2006), and Joy (2015). He has also worked on over 450 gold and platinum albums by artists of a wide range of genres, including The Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond, Metallica, Radiohead, Evanescence, Rush, Beyoncé, Muse, Michael Jackson, Aaliyah, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Aerosmith, Juanes, Garth Brooks, Green Day, and various albums by his son Beck. Early life and education Campbell was born in Toronto, Ontario. His father, D. Warren Campbell, was from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was attending seminary in Toronto in order to become a Presbyterian minister. Campbell subsequently was assigned to a church in Pittsburgh, taking his family with him, before settling in Seattle. Campbell took up the violin at age 9. At age 12, he began venturing into orchestration, studying the works of Bartók, Schoenberg and Stravinsky. In the late 1960s, after studying at Manhattan School of Mu

David Chalmin

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David Chalmin is a French composer, producer, sound engineer and musician. He’s a member of the trio Triple Sun. His collaborations extend from classical music to experimental rock: Katia and Marielle Labèque, Thom Yorke, The National, Madonna, Rufus Wainwright, Matt Elliott, Kalakan, Shannon Wright, and others. His work as a composer have been performed in places such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Salle Pleyel, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Kings Place in London, and Koerner Hall at the Toronto Royal Conservatory. Chalmin runs two recording studios, Studio K Paris and Studio LFO in the Basque Region. Discography * 2006 : Red Velvet (KML Recordings) * 2007 : Dimension X (with Massimo Pupillo ZU, and Chris Corsano) (KML Recordings) * 2008 : B For Bang - Across The Universe of Languages (KML Recordings) * 2011 : B For Bang - Rewires The Beatles (KML Recordings) * 2013 : Minimalist Dream House (KML Recordings) * 2014 : UBUNOIR (Debout!) * 2016 : Triple Sun - The City Lies In Ruins (Consouling Sounds) * 2017 : Katia & Marielle Labèque - Love Stories (KML Recordings/Deutsche Grammophon) * 2018 : Moondog (KML Recordings/Deutsche Grammophon) * 2019 : David Chalmin - La

David Chesky

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David Chesky is an American pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and co-founder of the independent, audiophile label Chesky Records. He is also co-founder and CEO of HDtracks, an online music store that sells high-resolution digital music. Chesky is considered a technological and musical innovator with eclectic interests. He has won Independent Music Awards and received Grammy Award nominations. He has written jazz tunes, orchestral and chamber music, opera, ballet, and a rap symphony. Beginnings At his mother’s insistence, Chesky started piano lessons at the age of 5. In his teens he had less interest in rock and roll music, with its verse-chorus structure, than in classical and jazz. He liked Oscar Peterson, the Buddy Rich Big Band, George Gershwin, and the Latin music he heard while growing up in Miami. In 1974, at the age of 17, he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a musician. He studied privately with classical composer David Del Tredici and jazz pianist John Lewis. Writing, recording, and performing In 1978, he formed a jazz fusion group called the David Chesky Big Band, which included Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, and Bob James, and released the album Rush Hou

David Chesworth

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David Chesworth (born 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom) is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, composer and sound designer. Known for his conceptual, and at times, minimalist music, he has worked solo, in post-punk groups (Essendon Airport, Whadya Want?), electronic music, contemporary ensembles and experimental performance. He has also created installation and video artworks with collaborator Sonia Leber, such as Zaum Tractor included in the 56th Venice Biennale (2015) and This Is Before We Disappear From View commissioned by Sydney Biennale (2014). Works Chesworth’s creative output includes music, sound art, video, installation and performance, often in collaboration with other artists. His compositions and installations have been exhibited and performed at Ars Electronica, Festival d’automne à Paris, Edinburgh Festival, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Sydney Biennale and the Venice Biennale. In 2012 he was artist in residence at the MONA Festival of Art and Music in Hobart which featured performances by the David Chesworth Ensemble and artworks made with collaborator Sonia Leber. Chesworth’s artworks and music often explore their own framing and context

David Ciente

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David Ciente (born 9 July 1989) is a Romanian composer and producer. In 2012 and 2013, he attempted to represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest with his band Electric Fence, finishing in second place on both occasions. Having signed a record deal with native label Global Records, he is best known for collaborating with artists such as Andra, Inna, Selena Gomez, Alicia Keys and Adam Lambert. Early life Born on 9 July 1989 in Oradea, Ciente discovered his musical passion and talent at a young age, taking classical piano lessons at the age of nine. He went on to study music and graduated from the National University of Music Bucharest. As a teenager, Ciente was the keyboard player in a local rock band, named Chrome, and later joined fellow local project Danger with which he had concerts in Romania and abroad. Upon leaving the group, Ciente revived Raza—later known as Electric Fence—with Elena Vasile. They submitted the entries “Șun-ta” and “Emilia” for the 2012 and 2013 Selecția Națională, an event organized to select Romania’s Eurovision Song Contest entries for the respective years, finishing second on both occasions. In the subsequent years, Ciente signed a record deal with

David Conte

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David Conte (born December 20, 1955) is an American composer who has written over 150 works published by E.C. Schirmer (a division of ECS Publishing), including six operas, a musical, works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber music, organ, piano, guitar, and harp. Conte has received commissions from Chanticleer, the Oakland Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Stockton Symphony, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Harvard University Chorus, the Men’s Glee Clubs of Cornell University and the University of Notre Dame, GALA Choruses from the cities of San Francisco, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., the American Guild of Organists (2004, 2009, 2014, 2024, 2025), Sonoma City Opera, and the Gerbode Foundation (for his opera America Tropical). He was honored with the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Brock Commission in 2007 for his work The Nine Muses, and in 2016 he won the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Art Song Composition Award for his work American Death Ballads. In 2024, he was named “Composer of the Year” by the American Guild of Organists. Education and career Conte attended public schools i

David Cope

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David Howell Cope (May 17, 1941 – May 4, 2025) was an American author, composer, scientist and Dickerson Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involved artificial intelligence and music; he wrote programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. He taught the groundbreaking summer workshop in Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM) that was open to the public as well as a general education course entitled Artificial Intelligence and Music for enrolled UCSC students. Cope was also co-founder and CTO Emeritus of Recombinant Inc., a music technology company. He died of congestive heart failure on May 4, 2025, at the age of 83. Composition EMI His EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence, pronounced “Emmy” ) software has produced works in the style of various composers, some of which have been commercially recorded—ranging from short pieces to full-length operas. In 1981, he received a commission to compose an opera, but had a “composer’s block”, so he began writing EMI (on an Apple desktop computer) to understand and modify his own style, and 8 years after receiving the commis

David Cornwall

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David Randolph Cornwall (May 18, 1937 – November 7, 2006) was an American composer and systems engineer. He wrote music for piano, horns, woodwinds and orchestra, composing more than 40 works in a span of less than five years leading up to the time of his death in November 2006. Biography Cornwall was born in Denver, Colorado. Trained as a trombonist, Cornwall performed professionally with the New York City Opera and D’Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Central City Opera, where he performed in the world premiere of The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore. After studying math and physics at Harvard College for one and a half years, he dropped out in 1957. Returning to Denver, he worked a systems engineer for United Airlines while performing for the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra (then known as the Denver Businessmen’s Orchestra) and studying under its conductor, Antonia Brico. He was drafted by the US Army in 1961 and contributed to developing large systems for the Pentagon’s National Military Command and Control Center, where he was named Chief Programmer for global nuclear war-game exercises. After receiving an honorable discharge from the army, Cornwall returned to the airline indus

David Cox (composer)

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David Vassall Cox (Broadstairs, 4 February 1916 - Pratt’s Bottom, 31 January 1997) was a British composer and writer on music who for most of his professional life was music coordinator for the BBC World Service. Among his arrangements was Lillibullero, which introduced hourly World Service news broadcasts. Life and music Cox was born in Broadstairs, Kent, but his family soon moved to Australia. He returned to England in 1935, aged 19, to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers were Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells and Arthur Benjamin. He was also an organ scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, until 1940. During the war he joined the RAF, playing the clarinet in the RAF Band, mostly at Cranwell in Lincolnshire. Cox joined the BBC in 1946, initially as a music producer for the Latin-American Service, then on the Third Programme, and finally as Music Organiser for the BBC External Services in 1956, a post he held until retirement in 1976. A year before his death, a concert marking his 80th birthday was held at All Saints’ Church, Tudeley, reviving several of his works, including the Five Songs after John Milton and extracts from the cantata Of Beasts. David Cox

David Darling (musician)

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David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) Music career Darling was born on March 4, 1941, in Elkhart, Indiana. He was interested in music from an early age, beginning piano when he was four, cello at ten, and string bass in high school. He studied classical cello at Indiana State University and after graduating remained there another four years as a teacher. He worked as a studio musician in Nashville, Tennessee and was a member of the Paul Winter Consort until 1978. During the following year, he was part of the chamber jazz group Gallery with Ralph Towner and released his first solo album, Journal October. In 2007 he recorded The Darling Conversations, with Julie Weber discussing his music philosophy. It was issued by Manifest Spirit Records. In January 2009, Darling released the Grammy-winning Prayer for Compassion, a follow-up of his earlier 8-String Religion, both on the Curve Blue label. Other activities In 1986, Darling joined Young Audiences, an organization that seeks to educate children about music and the arts through school programs. In the same year, he founded Music for People, which seeks to encourage self-expression through musical improvisation. His teaching m

David DeBoor Canfield

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David DeBoor Canfield (born September 23, 1950) is an American composer of classical music. Early life and education David DeBoor Canfield (birth name, David Ellis Canfield) was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on September 23, 1950. Early musical studies were with his father, John Canfield, who taught his son piano, violin and music theory beginning when he was six years old. Canfield’s first juvenile compositions date from 1957 when he was seven, but throughout high school and the first two and a half years of college, he pursued studies in chemistry, only changing his major to music halfway through his junior year. Graduate studies in composition were undertaken at Indiana University, where Canfield studied primarily with John Eaton, as well as with Frederick Fox and Bernhard Heiden. He received his Master of Music in 1977 and Doctor of Music in 1983. Not wishing to pursue a career in academia, he instead began in 1978 a business, Ars Antiqua, selling classical LP records around the world, becoming the largest such dealer for several decades. All the while, however, he continued to compose, building up a catalog of around 200 mature works. It was in graduate school that he repl

David del Puerto

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David del Puerto is a Spanish composer. Biography Born in 1964 in Madrid, musically trained in the guitar, disciple of Francisco Guerrero and Luis de Pablo in his native city, David del Puerto emerged very early as one of the most talented composers of his generation. At just 20 his name was on the bill at the Almeida Festival in London and shortly afterwards he was commissioned by Pierre Boulez to write a new work for the Ensemble InterContemporain. Since then, his music has been present at the most important concert festivals and seasons in Europe, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, United States, Canada and Latin America, where it has been performed by ensembles such as the London Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nieuw Ensemble, Wisconsin University Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, ONE, Orquesta RTVE, JONDE, ORCAM, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, OSPA, Plural Ensemble, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Taller Sonoro, Cuarteto Casals… His works have been performed by soloists the likes of Ernest Rombout, Ananda Sukarlan, Miquel Bernat, Ángel Luis Castaño, Manuel Guillén, Evelyn Glennie and Sarah Leonard, and conducted by the likes of Ed Spanjaard, Sakari Or

David Del Tredici

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David Walter Del Tredici (March 16, 1937 – November 18, 2023) was an American composer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Music and was a Guggenheim and Woodrow Wilson fellow. Del Tredici is considered a pioneer of the neo-romantic movement. He was also described by the Los Angeles Times as “one of our most flamboyant outsider composers”. He came from a non-musical family and began his musical life as an aspiring concert pianist at the age of twelve, taking piano lessons with German concert pianist Bernhard Abramovitch. If he had not been a pianist, he said, he would have become a florist. Abramovitsch encouraged him to be “very creative” in his playing, which he later cited as prepared him for composing. “I was only interested in playing … great sprawling things like the Schumann Fantasy, that the performer had to mold and shape”, he reflected. Thus he learned how to “sustain a musical thread so that it was never broken”. He debuted with the San Francisco Symphony at age 16 and later performed Liszt and Tchaikovsky concertos under Arthur Fiedler. Then he attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he continued studying piano. He played primarily Romantic works. He also play

David Diamond (composer)

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David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music. He is considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation. Many of his works are tonal or modal. His early compositions are typically triadic, often with widely spaced harmonies, giving them a distinctly American tone, but some of his works are consciously French in style. His later style became more chromatic. Life and career He was born in Rochester, New York, and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He won a number of awards including three Guggenheim Fellowships. Diamond’s most popular piece is Rounds (1944) for string orchestra. Among his other works are eleven symphonies (the last in 1993), concertos including three for violin, eleven string quartets, music for wind ensemble, other chamber music, piano pieces and vocal music. He composed the musical theme heard on the CBS Radio Network broadcast Hear It Now (1950–51) and its TV successor, See It Now (1951–58). Diamond was named honorary composer-in-residence of the Se

David Downes (Irish composer)

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David Downes is a composer, pianist, producer, and music director who is known for both contemporary composition as well as work in the commercial field, particularly with Riverdance and as founder of Celtic Woman. Career David Downes was born in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin where he studied Music and Composition. He has performed at venues around the world, including Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall and Wembley Arena, appearing with soloists James Galway and Alan Stivell, the group Boyzone, and the Washington Symphony, Moravian Philharmonic, Hollywood Studio Symphony and National Symphony orchestras. He has made recordings with Moya Brennan, Clannad, Michael Crawford, Michael W. Smith and Bill Whelan. He has acted as orchestrator for Riverdance on Broadway and Secret Garden most notably. He joined Riverdance where he was Music Director on Broadway, as well as for the American and European touring companies. Later he and Sharon Browne formed ‘Celtic Woman’, which has toured across the world with platinum recordings in the US, Australia, Japan, South Africa, and major following in Asia, Europe and South America. He acted as musical director for Irish

David Dubery

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NOTOC David Dubery (Durban, 1948) is a South-African born British composer, pianist, vocal coach and academic. Dubery has been a music staff tutor at Long Millgate, Elizabeth Gaskell and Didsbury Colleges, Manchester Polytechnic, Metropolitan University, and Manchester School of Music for fourteen years (1972–1986), at the Manchester branch of The Actor’s Centre, Northern Actor’s Centre, and was vocal tutor/staff pianist & musical director for the Northern Ballet School for seventeen years (1986–2003). He also coached tenor Russell Watson. Recordings *David Dubery: Songs & Chamber Music - “Sonatina for Oboe and Piano”. Three Songs to Poems by Robert Graves. Four Songs. Suite from ‘Degrees of Evidence’. “Remember”. Two Stopfordian Impressions. Sonata for Cello and Piano Escapades. Walking Cimbrone. Harlequinade. “Mrs Harris in Paris”. Adrienne Murray (mezzo-soprano with David Dubery piano), John Turner, Paul Janes, Craig Ogden, Peter Dixon, Richard Simpson, Graham Salvage, Richard Williamson. Metier MSV28523 (2011) *David Dubery; Observations. Seventeen songs and a string quartet. Three songs to poems by Douglas Gibson. Full fathom five. Time will not wait. Night Songs. Observat

David Duffield Wood

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David Duffle Wood (March 2, 1838 — March 25, 1910), sometimes written as David Duffield Wood or David Duffel Wood, was an American composer, educator, and musician. He was blind from early childhood. Wood was the organist and choir master at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia for 46 years. Early life and education David Duffle Wood was born in 1838 near Pittsburgh, one of the six sons of Jonathan Humphreys Wood and Wilhelmina Jones Wood. Through illness and accident, he lost his vision as a young child. He was five years old in 1843 when he was enrolled in the Institute for the Instruction of the Blind in Philadelphia. By the time he was sixteen, he was listed in the school’s reports as an assistant music teacher. Beyond music, he also studied mathematics with James G. Blaine, while the future U. S. Secretary of State was a young teacher at the school for the blind. Career Wood was hired as organist at St. Stephen’s Church in 1864, and added the title choir master in 1870. He gave his first major recital in 1868, with a program of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Handel and Mendelssohn. In 1894, St. Stephen’s marked the 30th year of Wood’s position as organist with a celebratio

David Earl (composer)

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David Earl (born 1951) is a South African composer and pianist. He was educated at Rondebosch Boys’ High School. He made his professional debut at the age of sixteen when he broadcast Bach, Chopin and Chabrier on the SABC. In 1968, he performed Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1 with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. In 1971, he moved to London where he studied at Trinity College of Music. He studied under Jacob Kaletsky and Richard Arnell. After a live début broadcast recital on BBC Radio 3 in 1974, his first recital at Wigmore Hall was reported as “stylish and powerful” by The Times. In 1975, he was selected as one of the Young Musicians of the Year by the Greater London Arts Association. He also won first prize in the 1976 SABC Piano Competition. He was described by The Daily Telegraph as having “remarkable gifts of style, technical mastery and artistry”. He made his début as a composer in the 1977 when he premiered his own Piano Suite No 1 Mosaics at Wigmore Hall. His concerto repertoire includes the Viennese classics, many from the nineteenth century, and amongst those from the 20th, the piano concertos of Arthur Bliss and John Joubert, both of which he studied with the c

David Ellis (composer)

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David Ellis (10 March 1933 – 20 April 2023) was an English composer, arranger and music producer at the BBC. Career Ellis was born in Liverpool, attending the Liverpool Institute (where he first met fellow composer John McCabe), and then the Royal Manchester College of Music (1953–57) where his composition teacher was Thomas Pitfield. His contemporaries in Manchester were Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon. From 1964 Ellis worked as a producer at the BBC, becoming Head of Music for BBC North in 1977. In 1986 he took up the position of artistic director, Northern Chamber Orchestra where he was also composer-in-residence. From the mid-1990s Ellis took up composition full-time. Composition His works include symphonies, concertos (for violin, cello, piano), works for strings (such as the Vale Royal Suite), three string quartets (1980, 1996, 2002) and much other chamber music. Ellis also had a particular interest in composing and arranging works for brass band. His catalogue stretches to 91 opus numbers. In 2004 the Camerata also premiered the String Quartet No 3, op. 70. David Ellis had a wide circle of musical friends, including Ma

David Evan Jones (composer)

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David Evan Jones (born 1946) is an American pianist and composer of chamber music, opera, and computer music. Jones was a student of composers Roger Reynolds and Pauline Oliveros at University of California, San Diego. After serving as Composer-in-Residence at York University (England), he joined the faculty at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in the 1980s before becoming professor of music at University of California, Santa Cruz. Jones has composed in residence at IRCAM in Paris, Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm, and at Bregman Electronic Music Studio at Dartmouth College where he co-founded, with Jon Appleton, the Dartmouth graduate program in Electro-Acoustic Music. Works Jones has written articles and created compositions that explore structural relationships between music and phonetics. These include compositions such as Pashanti—The Nine Billion Names of God, Scritto, Still Life in Wood and Metal, Still Life Dancing, and the five pieces featured on Centaur Records CRC3500 entitled News from Afar. He has also written libretti and music for two chamber operas. Bardos, the most prominent of these, had its professional premier in 2004 in Hoam Hall, Seoul, Korea. Jones also

David Fanshawe

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David Arthur Fanshawe (19 April 1942 – 5 July 2010) was an English composer and self-styled explorer with a fervent interest in world music. His best-known composition is the 1972 choral work African Sanctus. Life Fanshawe was born in Paignton, Devon in 1942. His father was an officer in the Royal Artillery who played a central role in the planning of D-Day. His father’s stories of military service in India fired Fanshawe’s enthusiasm for travel and adventure. His first ambition was to be an explorer, but when he attended St George’s School, Windsor Castle and Stowe School he discovered a love of music. His severe dyslexia, however, prevented him from reading a musical score and becoming a chorister. including films such as Tarka the Otter (1979) and Dirty Weekend (1993), and TV productions such as the BBC’s Softly, Softly: Taskforce and When the Boat Comes In and also ITV’s The Feathered Serpent, Flambards and The Good Companions. His ethnic field recordings have featured in countless TV documentaries, including Musical Mariner and Tropical Beat, as well as various feature films including Mountains of the Moon, How to Make an American Quilt, Seven Years in Tibet and Gangs of New Y

David Fenech

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David Fenech (born 19 July 1969) is a French composer, guitarist and singer. His style has been described as ‘a kind of punk musique concrète’. He uses the studio as an instrument, using a large panel of recording techniques. He has played and recorded with musicians such as Nurse With Wound, Felix Kubin, Jad Fair, Tom Cora, Rhys Chatham, Pascal Comelade, Jac Berrocal, Ghédalia Tazartès, or with Jac Berrocal + Jason Willett (Christmas in March - Megaphone / Knock Em Dead) Selected discography Solo *2024 Mountains Of Night – LP, Jelodanti *2007 Polochon Battle – CD, Inpolysons *2000 Grand Huit – CD, Tout L’Univers / LP, Gagarin Records With Pierre Bastien * 2022, Suspicious Moon, CD, LP, Improved Sequence With Jac Berrocal and Ghédalia Tazartès * 2011, Superdisque, CD, LP, Sub Rosa With Jac Berrocal and Vincent Epplay * 2024, Broken Allures, LP, CD, Cold Spring - with Cosey Fanni Tutti and Jah Wobble * 2022, Zilveli Villa, Single, AcoustiArc * 2022, Transcodex, LP, Akuphone - CD, KlangGalerie * 2020, Exterior Lux, LP, Akuphone - CD, KlangGalerie * 2019, Ice Exposure, LP, Blackest Ever Black - CD, KlangGalerie * 2017, Why, Single, Blackest Ever Black * 2015, Antigravity, CD, LP, Blac

David Firman

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David Firman is a British orchestral conductor, musical director, composer and arranger. He is known for conducting premiere West End productions, and as arranger and musical director for several British television productions and series. Firman has conducted performances in the Royal Albert Hall and internationally. Early life and education Firman was born in London and educated at Trinity College of Music and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Organ Scholar. He graduated in English and Music. Whilst at Cambridge he was musical director of Footlights Dramatic Club. Career Firman conducted the original West End productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Chicago, Singing in the Rain, Dancin, The Pirates of Penzance, Children of Eden, Phantom of the Opera, Enter the Guardsman, Metropolis. As a keyboardist he played on the recording sessions for Return of the Jedi, Superman, Supergirl, Medicine Man, First Blood, Rambo ll, Basic Instinct, Tombstone, DARRYL, and Total Recall. He conducted the soundtracks of Savage Islands, The Tall Guy, Rambo 3 (final reel), A Long Day Closes, and The Tie That Binds. For television, Firman acted as musical director and arranger for Vict

David First

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David First (born David Hirsch, August 20, 1953) is an American composer and guitarist. His music most often deals with drones and interference beats, the latter aligning his music with that of Alvin Lucier. He has led the World Casio Quartet, Joy Buzzers, and The Notekillers which originally existed from 1977–81 and reformed in 2004. He is also a member of Matter Waves, which includes Kid Millions on drums and Bernard Gann on bass, and the music collective New Party Systems. Career David First played with Cecil Taylor at Carnegie Hall. He studied guitar & jazz theory with Dennis Sandole. He also audited analog & computer synthesis classes at Princeton University. He befriended a grad-student there who allowed him unlimited access to the largely abandoned electronic music studio. He composed his first works in the medium there in after-hours sessions. His albums include 1991’s Resolver, instrumental pieces influenced by minimalism and 2002’s relatively pop-oriented Universary, which consists of “songs and drones”. More recent releases include 2010’s We’re Here to Help (Prophase Records) by The Notekillers and Privacy Issues, a 3-CD set of droneworks on the XI label. In 1995 First,

David Fleming (composer)

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David Fleming is an American composer for films, television, and interactive media. He is known for collaborating with various Remote Control Productions composers including Hans Zimmer, Atli Örvarsson, Lorne Balfe, Steve Jablonsky and Tom Holkenborg. In 2024, he won the ASCAP Screen Music Award for Television Score of the Year for his work on HBO’s The Last of Us with Gustavo Santaolalla. He is also known for scoring films and series such as Blue Planet II, Hillbilly Elegy, Americana, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Damsel, The Alto Knights and Superman. Career Early career David Fleming studied musical composition at State University of New York at Purchase. From there, he started his career in New York advertising companies, creating music for ringtones and liquor commercials. He won the BMI Foundation’s Pete Carpenter Fellowship and moved to Los Angeles where he began writing music for major films. 2017–present In 2017, Fleming co-composed the BBC series Blue Planet II (2017) alongside Hans Zimmer, starting a collaborative relationship that saw Fleming contribute to films like The Lion King (2019), Dune (2021), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022), and co-compose films together such as Hillbilly Ele

David Flynn (composer)

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David Flynn (also known as Dave Flynn, born 6 January 1977) is an Irish composer, musician, and the founder and artistic director of the Irish Memory Orchestra. Many of his works music merge the influence of traditional Irish music with contemporary classical music and jazz. He is also a multi-instrumentalist who works across many genres including classical, jazz, rock and traditional Irish music, with guitar being his main instrument. Early experiences Flynn was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. His early musical experiences included brief periods studying piano and tin whistle, but it was not until his early teens that Flynn really took to music, teaching himself how to play rock guitar. He developed an interest in classical guitar in his mid-teens and taught himself how to read music notation, he also learnt classical guitar by ear from recordings. He composed his first piece for classical guitar aged 16. Upon leaving school in 1995 he studied rock music at Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin. Around this time Flynn started composing songs and performed on the Dublin singer-songwriter scene, including at Dave Murphy’s “famous Tuesday night gigs” that helped then u

David Garner (composer)

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David Ross Garner (born August 4, 1954) is an American composer of opera and vocal, instrumental, and chamber music. He is also an educator, on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Early life, education, and personal life David Garner was born in South Side, Chicago. He spent most of his childhood in Lincoln, Nebraska and Lake Oswego, Oregon upon his parents’ relocations for academic positions. He was given piano and cello lessons throughout his childhood and performed in recitals and with youth orchestras. Garner attended UCLA as a Classics major for two years before deciding that music was a better match. He left in 1974 and returned home to Oregon where he pursued music privately, playing blues, rock fusion, and classical piano while he prepared to audition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for the piano performance program. He was originally rejected from the program and spent six months as an adult extension student before auditioning again and being accepted in 1976. He remained in that position until 2000, when he elected to take a position in the Composition Department. He has remained in that position since and currently teaches composition to a sel

David Gillingham

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David R. Gillingham (born October 20, 1947) is an American contemporary composer, who is known for his works for concert band and percussion ensemble. Biography He attended the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh for his undergraduate degree in Music Education, after which he went to Vietnam where he served in the army, playing in various army bands. After returning to America, he became a band teacher for a few years, before going to Michigan State University for his PhD in Music Composition/Music Theory, after which he pursued a career as a composer while also serving as a university professor. In 1990, his concert band piece Heroes Lost and Fallen, a piece about the Vietnam War, won the International Barlow Composition Contest. He retired as professor of music theory and composition at Central Michigan University in 2016. Selected works Some of his recent works which have become very popular in the concert band and percussion repertoire include: *Paschal Dances (1988) *Heroes Lost and Fallen (1990) *Serenade for Winds and Percussion (1990) *Stained Glass (1992) *Sacrificial Rite (1993) *Apocalyptic Dreams (1995) *Prophecy of the Earth (1995) *Waking Angels (1996) *Concertino for Fou

David Gow (composer)

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NOTOC David Godfrey Gow (6 April 1924 – 23 February 1993) was an English composer (of Scottish descent) and teacher. Life Gow was born in London. His ancestors included the 18th Century Scottish fiddler Niel Gow and his son Nathaniel (a connection he acknowledged in his Six Diversions on an Ancestral Theme). Music Gow described the style of his music as “serialism tempered by tonality”, but he was always careful not to make unreasonable demands on performers. He composed nine string quartets (spanning the years 1946 to 1990) and from 1984 (starting at the String Quartet No 4) established a close association with the Maggini Quartet. His Quartet for flute, oboe, violoncello and harpsichord, Op. 28, won the Hans Oppenheimer Prize of the Saltire Society in 1967. He wrote many concertos, including the Piano Concerto for Philip Martin in 1980, the Cello Concerto for Timothy Hugh, and a Marimba Concerto for Evelyn Glennie, completed just before his death. His solo piano works include Twelve Preludes and a Postlude (1979) and two piano sonatas (1984 for Philip Martin and 1990 for Eric Parkin). and choral works such as Ave Maris Stella, which has been recorded. Gow worked closely with

David Granadino

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David Granadino (June 13, 1876 – August 22, 1933) was a Salvadoran composer and musician, one of the most celebrated of the country. Granadino was born on June 13, 1876, in Barrio de Santa Barbara in the Salvadoran city of Santa Ana, the son of Joaquin Chavez, a pianist, and Simona Granadino. He studied music with teachers Daniel Alas and Pío Paredes Gonzáles. In 1897 he learned to play violin with the Dutch master José Kessels, performing with the Sociedad Lírica Santaneca and the Banda Marcial de Santa Ana. Granadina became noted for his waltzes. The first he composed was “El Pirulí” as part of the examination he took to study at the music academy. In commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of Granadino’s death, a special concert was presented in Santa Ana on 22 August 2013 under the auspices of the city’s cultural department. The group Yulu Nahuat performed a new version of “Bajo el Almendro”, singing the specially written lyrics. References

David Gregor Corner

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David Gregor Corner (1585 – 9 January 1648) was a German Benedictine abbot, hymn writer and theologian best known for his influential 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch (“Great Catholic Hymnal”). Born in Hirschberg, Germany (now Jelenia Góra, Poland), he studied theology at Prague, Graz and Vienna, where he earned a doctorate. He died 9 January 1648 at Göttweig. His magnum opus, the Gross Catholische Gesängbuch was published in 1625, and a later publication from 1631 contained 546 hymns and 276 melodies (including 76 Latin hymns), one of the largest song books of the 16th and 17th century. The collection was derived from a large variety of sources - earlier Jesuit hymn collections, manuscripts, and even Protestant writers. A separate collection, Geistliche Nachtigal (“Holy Nightingale”) was published in 1649, perhaps posthumously. This contained 363 hymns and 181 melodies (including 42 Latin hymns), and was essentially a retitled and revised version of his original collection. After his death, editions of Geistliche Nachtigal were published in 1658, 1674 and 1676. References External links *Biography at the German Wikisource.

David Griffiths (composer)

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David Griffiths (born 1950, Auckland, New Zealand) is a composer, baritone and former Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Music at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Waikato. Griffiths has gained national and international recognition as a composer, opera singer and recital soloist. His choral compositions are popular in the United States of America and have been recorded by several choirs, while many works have been included on various record labels including Naxos Records, Kiwi Pacific and Atoll. Griffiths has performed as a soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, all major choral societies in New Zealand and regularly with NBR New Zealand Opera. He has also performed as a recital soloist, representing New Zealand in Taiwan, the US, the United Kingdom and Europe. Griffiths works as a freelance composer and is represented by SouNZ Aotearoa, the Centre for New Zealand Music. He has held positions of Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Voice at universities throughout New Zealand and as such has trained singers who have gone on to perform with the Cologne Opera and the Bayreuth Chorus. Biography David Griffiths was born 1950 in Aucklan

David Handler

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David Handler (born July 24, 1980) is an American composer, violinist/violist and entrepreneur. His acoustic and electronic compositions have been described by The New York Times as “eerie” and “superbly wrought”, “exploring polarities of light and dark, the sacred and the profane.” He is the owner and co-founder of the music venue Le Poisson Rouge, and the founder and co-artistic director of Ensemble LPR, for which he was described as “the Ian Schrager of the music scene” by The New Yorker. Early life and education David Handler was born in 1980, in Manhattan, New York, and raised in Fort Lee, New Jersey. His parents are Joan Cusack Handler, a poet and publisher, and Alan Handler, a psychologist. At the age of three, Handler began studying violin, and at seven, he expanded his musical interests to include drums, rock, jazz and folk music. His early attempts at composing followed soon after. His formative years included studies at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music. Handler attended the Professional Children’s School (PCS) in Manhattan and earned a bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, studying violin performance, viola performance, composition and conducting. Career

David Hegarty

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David Howard Hegarty (born March 1, 1945, in Mount Clemens, Michigan) is an American organist and composer. He has served as organist at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco since 1978. Career Hegarty’s interest in music was inspired at an early age by his father, who was a trombonist. He began playing the accordion at age 7, but was soon introduced to the organ at the church where his mother did cleaning. In an interview Hegarty recounted that when his mother went to the church to clean in the evenings, “I wouldn’t miss it. I’d go there with her so I could play the organ.” Hegarty taught himself how to play the organ, and by the time he reached high school he had a job as a church organist. He continued his study of music and the organ in college, receiving a B.A. in music from Loma Linda University in 1968, and going on to earn a master’s degree in organ performance from Andrews University in 1970 where he studied organ with C. Warren Becker. He also published articles on organ performance technique. In 1993 he founded Hegarty Music Press to develop and publish instructional material for organ performance, and to publish his original compositions. He also published works by the le

David Hogan (composer)

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H. David Hogan (July 1, 1949 – July 17, 1996 off East Moriches, New York) was an American composer and musical director of CIGAP (Le Choeur Int’l Gai de Paris), Hogan and CIGAP baritone Jean-Paul Galland were killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded off the coast of Long Island, killing all 230 passengers and crew on board. Career A native of Virginia, Hogan graduated from the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor’s degree in 1971, Prior to his work in France, Hogan helped develop the choir at San Francisco’s St. Francis Lutheran Church. When the previous musical director of CIGAP resigned three weeks before its auditions, Hogan was tapped to fill in the position. During his career, Hogan had also been tenor soloist with the Washington National Cathedral (Episcopal) in Washington, DC. Personal life Hogan was married to East Bay singer and choir conductor Terry Hogan Johnson. The couple had a daughter named Hilary, who also attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. Choral works *Magnificat and Nunc dimittis “Washington”, unison treble or SATB/organ (written for the Choir Washington National Cathedral and Douglas Major) *O Gracious Light, unison choi

David Holcenberg

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David Holcenberg is an American musical director, orchestrator, musical arranger, conductor, composer, and keyboardist. He is best known for his musical direction of Broadway works such as Seussical, Mamma Mia!, Ghost, Bye Bye Birdie, The Story of My Life, Good Vibrations, Titanic, Rocky, Show Boat, Matilda the Musical, Groundhog Day, and MJ the Musical. Holcenberg wrote music and lyrics for Bingo! The Winning Musical alongside Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid. Bingo first premiered in 2001 at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse. Following a production at the Ordway Center of the Performing Arts the same year and at the Adirondack Theatre Festival in 2003, Bingo premiered off-broadway at St. Luke’s Theater on November 7, 2005. Bingo! The Winning Musical is available for licensing by Concord Theatricals. Holcenberg was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award in 2022 for orchestrations for MJ the Musical. He was also nominated for a Grammy in 2023 for Best Musical Theater Album for MJ The Musical. Holcenberg was the music director for Bartram and Hill’s adaptation of Timothy Findley’s 1984 novel Not Wanted on the Voyage, staged at Northwestern University in 2010 as part of the A

David Holsinger

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David Rex Holsinger is an American composer and conductor writing primarily for concert band. Holsinger is a graduate of Hardin-Central High School in Hardin, Missouri, Central Methodist University, the University of Central Missouri, and the University of Kansas. Conducting positions In February 1992, Holsinger guest conducted the District VI Symphonic Band in Virginia. In 1999, following 15 years of service as music minister, worship leader, and composer in residence to Shady Grove Church in Grand Prairie, Texas, he joined the School of Music faculty at Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee, creating the Lee University Wind Ensemble, which he conducted until 2023. Holsinger’s duties included teaching advanced instrumental conducting and composition. In 1999, Holsinger conducted the Kentucky All-State Symphonic Band. Some of his works that were played and recorded included To Tame The Perilous Skies, Consider the Uncommon Man, and On An American Spiritual. In the spring of 2000, Holsinger conducted the Georgia Southern Symphonic Band and the Georgia Southern Symphonic Wind Ensemble in Statesboro, GA. Over the past several years, Holsinger has been named a National Patron of Delta O

David Horne (composer)

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David Horne (born 12 December 1970) is a Scottish composer, pianist, and teacher. A resident composer with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for four years, he has been awarded several commissions. His works have been performed by international calibre artists. As an award-winning pianist, he has performed with leading British orchestras. Biography He was born in Tillicoultry, near Stirling, in 1970. His father played piano (non-professionally) and he started learning the piano at the age of seven. Early in his life his family moved to Norway, his mother’s native country. Aged eleven, he went to St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh to study piano with Audrey Innes and composition with Geoffrey King. In 1989 he moved to Philadelphia to study at the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Ned Rorem. He moved on to Harvard University, where he obtained a PhD in 1999 and became a visiting lecturer, still in his 20s. He has since returned to the United Kingdom and lives in Manchester, where he is Professor of Music and Head of Graduate School at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 2004 he led the New Music/New Media course for the Britten-Pears School. In 2006/07, he was visiting prof

David Jennings (composer)

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David Andrew Jennings is an English composer (born Sheffield, Yorkshire, 30 May 1972). He read music at the University of Durham, studying composition with John Casken (a pupil of Witold Lutosławski) and again at Postgraduate level with Casken at the University of Manchester. Jennings has additionally benefited from regular consultations with Arthur Butterworth (a pupil of Ralph Vaughan Williams). Jennings’ compositions employ a style that combines romanticism with more recent musical developments. His music is known to have been inspired by the works of poets and visual artists, especially English watercolourists from the early 1800s. In 2012, The Divine Art label released a recording of Jennings’ Piano Music performed by James Willshire, which was nominated as one of Music Web International’s Recordings of the Year 2013. Jennings has also composed orchestral, vocal and chamber music. In 2025, Jennings published a Gothic novel, “The Pleasures of Melancholy”. Recorded and published works * Piano Sonata, Op. 1 * Three Sonatinas, Op. 2 * Prelude and Fugue, Op. 6 (Divine Art recording James Willshire) * Three Lyrical Pieces, Op. 17 * Miniature Suite, Op. 18 * A Weardale Rhapsody (2018

David Jisse

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David Jisse (12 April 1946 – 18 July 2020) was a French composer and radio producer. He also worked as an arranger, guitarist, singer, and pianist. Biography Jisse wrote the scores for numerous theatrical productions and films. He formed the duo David et Dominique alongside Dominique Marge. They performed the French version of the Idir album A Vava Inouva. In a conference with composer Luc Ferrari, Jisse discovered the world of experimental music. Jisse produced multiple programs for France Musique, such as Le Grand Bécarre, Libre-Cour, and Un poco agitato. He also produced the program Fins de mois difficiles for France Culture. From 1998 to 2013, he directed , founded by Luc Ferrari. David Jisse died in Paris on 18 July 2020 due to cancer at the age of 74. References

David Johnson (Scottish composer)

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Dr David Charles Johnson (27 October 1942 in Edinburgh – 30 March 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish composer and a scholar of 18th century Scottish music. Johnson was “an internationally recognised scholar”, whose work did much to rediscover and reinvent 18th century Scottish music, and set it in its historical context. Johnson’s work concentrated on the music and wider social life of 18th century lowland Scotland, its influences and tastes, and the key musical figures within it. Early life Johnson was born in Edinburgh in October 1942, the eldest of three sons. His father, Sir Ronald Johnson, was a senior civil servant at the Scottish Home and Health Department and organist of the episcopal church of St. Columba’s-By-the-Castle. His mother, Lady Elizabeth, was the Director of the Holst Singers (of Edinburgh) and was organist at Rosslyn Chapel in Midlothian. This remains a seminal work in its field and “brought to light the synergy between ‘folk’ and ‘art’ music which existed in Baroque and Classical music of Scotland”. The book also examined music’s position in 18th century Scottish society, and the work of Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, and other notable composers of the per

David Kristian

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David Kristian (born November 5, 1967) is a Canadian musician, film score composer, and sound designer. David Kristian has been involved in audio for media since the early 1980s, when he first started work as an animation and experimental filmmaker at a New Brunswick television station. Upon relocating to Montreal, Kristian decided to abandon film-making in order to focus on a music career, first as a solo artist, then as the keyboardist and synthesist for the group Psyche, with whom he recorded “The Influence” in Germany. David Kristian left Psyche in late 1989 and he returned to Montreal to concentrate on more Ambient and instrumental music, citing Tangerine Dream, Robert Fripp and the film scores of Director John Carpenter as longtime influences. Based on his past experience as a filmmaker, it was clear that David Kristian’s path would lead to more soundtrack work. During the 1990s and 2000s, he released several albums on labels as diverse as Crème Organization, Minimal Rome, Ninja Tune, Lo Recordings, Schematic Records, Alien8 Recordings, and Apegenine recordings. Kristian has produced music under aliases, including Gentle Bakemono, Francesco Clemente, and DKMD, a disco duo he

David Laganella

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David Laganella (born 1974) is an American composer based in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Formative years and family Raised in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Laganella graduated from Haddonfield Memorial High School in 1992, studied Guitar and Jazz at Berklee College of Music then pursued music composition degrees from New York University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his PhD in music composition at the age of 27. He has resided in Woodbury, New Jersey with his wife and their son. Career His music has received awards from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The American Composers Orchestra, The Meet the Composer Fund and The American Composers Forum. He currently holds the position of Professor of Music and Department Chair at Wesley College, Delaware. Laganella is the author of the book, The Composer’s Guide to the Electric Guitar (Mel Bay) which is a guide for composers who want to use the instrument in their music. References External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20100617083415/http://music.wesley.edu/faculty.php *https://web.archive.org/web/20110722133246

David Lang (composer)

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David Lang (born January 8, 1957) is an American composer living in New York City. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance by Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices. Lang was nominated for an Academy Award for “Simple Song #3” from the film Youth. Early life and education Lang was born in Los Angeles, California. Lang is of Jewish descent. In his youth he played trombone. After completing his undergraduate degree at Stanford University, he went to the University of Iowa; he says, “There was a teacher in composition at the University of Iowa named Martin Jenni, and he had come to Stanford as a leave replacement to teach for a semester. And I just thought he was amazing. He knew a lot of stuff that I’d never heard of before. So when I thought about grad school, I went to Iowa. I was happy I did. It was really a kind of golden age. I really loved it.” Lang went on to earn a Doctorate of Musical Arts at Yale University in 1989. In addition to Jenni, his teachers have included Henri Lazarof, Lou Harrison, Richard Hervig,

David Liptak

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David Liptak (born December 18, 1949) is an American composer and music educator who is a professor of composition and the current chair of the Composition Department at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. Formative years and family Liptak was born on December 18, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has been a resident of Rochester, New York for more than thirty years. Music career Since 1987, Liptak has been a member of the composition faculty of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, where he holds the positions of professor of composition and chair of the Composition Department. From 1976 to 1980, Liptak was a member of the composition and theory faculty of Michigan State University, where he initiated and taught courses in Schenker analysis and conducted the student New Music Ensemble. In 1980 he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois, where his duties included directing the Contemporary Chamber Players, a professional new music ensemble, with which he presented a number of premiere performances. Residencies have included the Seal Bay Music Festival in the summer of 1999 and the Brevard Music Festiv

David Loeb (composer)

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David Loeb (born May 11, 1939) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Born in New York City, he has written extensively for early music instruments such as the viol, as well as instruments from China and Japan. He teaches at the Mannes College The New School for Music, and has additionally served as a member of the composition faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. His notable students include Jennifer Higdon, Jeremy Beck, and Craig Walsh. Works * Ancient Legends * Andorran Fantasy * Balinese Fantasies (Published by ALRY Publications) * Between Sea and Sky * Cantata for Oboe and String Orchestra * Caprices for Solo Mandolin Vol. 1-2 * Chanson Malagache * A Distant Land Unfurled * Fantasia on a Theme of Yuize * Fantasia on Pyong-si-jo No. 1-2 * Fantasia sobre “Una Hiji Tiene del Rey” * Fantasias for the Japanese Consort * Ganya * Imagined Landscapes * Keisho for Theorbo Solo * The Meeting of Sea and Clouds * Nocturne for Mandolin and Guitar * Prelude for Two Consorts * Quartet for flute, guitar, violin, and cello * Riddles * Rivermist in Summer * Sonata No. 1-6 for Cello Solo * Sonata for Trombone and Piano No. 1 (1998) * Sonata for Trombone and Piano No. 2 (200

David Lord (producer)

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David Lord (born 1944 ) is an English composer and record producer, known for his work with Peter Gabriel, the Korgis and XTC. Career Lord was born in 1944 in Oxford, England under Richard Rodney Bennett. He worked as a producer for BBC Radio early in his career. for which it was commissioned; the other recorded in 1982 by children from St. Catherine’s British Embassy School, Athens, Greece. He also wrote a piece for Julian Bream and a test piece for a London Symphony Orchestra conductors’ competition. and “I’ll Stand by You” by the Pretenders. He played a Prophet 5 synthesiser on one track, “Just Good Friends”, on the 1983 Peter Hammill album Patience, for which he was also recording engineer. Since around 1970, Lord has lived in Bath, where he formerly operated Crescent Studios, initially in his top-floor flat in Camden Crescent, and subsequently in a building dating from around 1700, at 144 Walcot Street. He closed the studio when a new road was built next to it. Lord has appeared on The South Bank Show, discussing his work producing Peter Gabriel’s fourth, eponymously titled solo album. Conviction In 2015, Lord was convicted of keeping a brothel after admitting making bookings

David Lowe (video game composer)

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David Lowe, also known as “Uncle Art”, is a British composer known for his work on computer games from 1985 to 1998. Lowe gained attention by making music with professional synthesizers (CX5, DX7, RX11 drum machine) for an additional cassette tape distributed with the games Starglider 2 and Carrier Command. His Starglider soundtrack for 16-bit computers (Atari ST and Amiga) was notable for having a 15-second song (a single sound file) with vocals and synthesizers on both versions. The Amiga version’s title music used high-quality instrument sounds before tracker music. Lowe composed and recorded the music for Frontier: Elite II. Games *Buggy Blast (1985, ZX Spectrum) *Rasputin (1986, ZX Spectrum) *Rad-Zone (1986, Amstrad CPC) *Thrust (1986, ZX Spectrum) *Starglider (1987, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga) *Carrier Command (1988, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, audio tape music) *Exceleron (1988, Commodore 64) *Games, The: Summer Edition (Go For Gold) (1988, Amiga, Atari ST) *Galaxy Force (1988, Amiga, Atari ST) *Starglider 2 (1988, Amiga, audio tape music) *International Karate + (1988, Amiga, Atari ST) (Based on Rob Hubbard’s original for the Commodore 64) *After Burner II (198

David Lucas (composer)

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David Lucas (born David Helfman April 21, 1937) is an American rock and roll composer, singer, and music producer. He has written thousands of commercial jingles, such as AT&T’s “Reach Out and Touch Someone.” In 1981, he received a Clio Award for composing the music to Pepsi’s “Catch That Pepsi Spirit.” As a record producer, he worked with many new artists such as Blue Öyster Cult. On the 1976 Blue Öyster Cult song “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” which he co-produced, Lucas sang backup vocals and came up with the idea for using a cowbell, parodied by Christopher Walken in the “More cowbell” skit on Saturday Night Live. In June 2011, Lucas was inducted into Buffalo’s Music Hall of Fame. Biography Early years (1940s–1960s) Lucas was born David Helfman on April 21, 1937, in Buffalo, New York. By the age of four, he was singing with his parents in the Buffalo area, both at venues and on local radio. At the age of nineteen, Lucas started promoting records, choosing artists such as the young Paul Anka, Frankie Avalon, Sam Cooke, and The Everly Brothers, and encouraging local DJs to play their music. He was the top record promotion man in the northeastern United States until he was drafted into

David Lumsdaine

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David Newton Lumsdaine (31 October 1931 – 12 January 2024) was an Australian composer. Biography David Newton Lumsdaine was born on 31 October 1931. He studied at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music (as it was then known). He moved to England in 1953 and for a while shared a flat with fellow expatriate, the poet Peter Porter, with whom he collaborated on several projects including the cantata Annotations of Auschwitz (1964). In London he first studied composition with Mátyás Seiber and then at the Royal Academy of Music with Lennox Berkeley. In 1970 he took a lecturing position at Durham University. In 1981 he took a post as senior lecturer at King’s College London. He is published by The University of York Music Press and Universal Edition. In 1979 he married the composer Nicola LeFanu. David Lumsdaine died on 12 January 2024 at the age of 92. Works Lumsdaine disowned all works he composed before Annotations of Auschwitz (1964). His first acknowledged works were composed using a variety of pitch and rhythm techniques associated with serialism – techniques such as pitch rotation or permutation, and isorhythmic structures linking pitch and duration together. Central to all o

David MacIntyre (composer)

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David MacIntyre (born 1952) is a Canadian composer of opera, music theatre, choral, orchestral and chamber music, and site-specific works in dance and theatre, based in Vancouver. He is a professor of Music Composition at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His music has been performed in more than thirty countries. Early life and education MacIntyre was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan; as a child, he studied brass instruments, theatre arts, voice and piano. In 1969, he attended the Banff School for Fine Arts. He attended the University of Saskatchewan (1970–72), where he studied composition with Murray Adaskin, voice with Dorothy Howard, and University of Victoria (73-75 B.Mus and 77-79 M.Mus), where he studied composition with Rudolf Komorous, conducting with George Corwin, voice with Selena James. In 1977, he wrote his first opera Humulus the Mute on a libretto by Jean Anouilh, translation by Michael Benedickt. Humulus the Mute was premiered in 1979 in a production conducted by George Corwin, directed by the composer and featuring Erika Kurth and Richard Margison. 9 Career In 1979, MacIntyre was invited to join the faculty at Simon Fraser University where he co-founded the Conte

David Maslanka

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David Maslanka (August 30, 1943 – August 7, 2017) was an American composer of Polish descent who wrote for a variety of genres, including works for choir, wind ensemble, chamber music, and symphony orchestra. Best known for his wind ensemble compositions, Maslanka published over 150 pieces, including ten symphonies, eight of them for concert band, over 15 concerti, and a full Mass. His compositional style is rhythmically intense and complex, highly tonal and melodically oriented. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan. His Tenth Symphony was orchestrated by his son, Matthew Maslanka, as it was incomplete at the composer’s death. Life Maslanka received his Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory (1961–1965) and went on to earn a Master of Music and Doctor of Philosophy from Michigan State University (1965–71). During his undergraduate work, Maslanka also spent one year studying abroad at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria (1963–64). He served on the faculty of the State University of New York at Geneseo from 1970 to 1974; of Sarah Lawrence College from 1975 to 1980; of New York University from 1980 to 1981; and

David Matthews (composer)

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David Matthews (born 9 March 1943) is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works. Life Matthews was born in London into a family that was musical, though not formally trained; the desire to compose did not manifest itself until he was sixteen, and for a time he and his younger brother Colin Matthews, also a composer, were each other’s only teachers. The start of the ‘Mahler boom’ in the early 1960s, when the works of Gustav Mahler began to enter the regular British repertoire for the first time, provided a tremendous creative impetus for both of them; but although they have sometimes since collaborated as arrangers (in orchestrating seven early Mahler songs, for instance) and as editors (in the published version of Deryck Cooke’s ‘performing version’ of the draft of Mahler’s Tenth Symphony), as composers they have very much gone their separate ways. David Matthews read Classics at Nottingham University and afterwards, feeling himself still too much self-taught, studied composition with Anthony Milner; he was also much helped by the advice and encouragement of fellow British composer Nicholas Maw. Then, for three years, he was associated with Benjamin B

David Moule-Evans

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David Moule-Evans (21 November 1905 – 18 May 1988) was an English composer, conductor and academic. Life Moule-Evans was born in Ashford, Kent, and was educated at the Judd School in Tonbridge before studying at the Royal College of Music in London with Malcolm Sargent and Herbert Howells. While at the Royal College he became friendly with his contemporary Michael Tippett, beating him to gain the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1928 and continuing studies at Queen’s College, Oxford. Tippett asked him to conduct the first full concert of his own music at the Barn Theatre in Oxted on 5 April 1930. From 1945 to 1974 Moule-Evans returned to the RCM to teach harmony, counterpoint and composition. He married Monica Warden Evans in March 1935 and the couple lived at Claremont, 10 Rose Hill, Dorking in Surrey. Music As a composer Moule-Evans has been largely forgotten today, but during his lifetime he achieved a measure of success. His Concerto for String Orchestra won the Carnegie British Music award in 1928. The Dance Suite, scored for full orchestra with piano, five percussion players and timpani, was completed in December 1930 and received its first performance at a Royal College of Music P

David Newman (composer)

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David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature films, as well as the 1997 and 1998 versions of the 20th Century Fox fanfare. He received an Academy Award nomination for writing the score to the 1997 film Anastasia, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories. Life and career Newman was born on March 11, 1954, in Los Angeles, California, the son of Mississippi-born Martha Louis (née Montgomery) and Hollywood composer Alfred Newman. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants. He is the older brother of Thomas Newman, Maria Newman and the cousin of Randy Newman, all of whom are also composers. He is also the nephew of composers Lionel Newman and Emil Newman, and first cousin, once removed, of musician Joey Newman. An accomplished violinist, and successful concert conductor, Newman was educated at the University of Southern California. From the late 1970s until the early 1980s he played violin on most of John Will

David Nicholls (musicologist)

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David Nicholls (born in 1955) is a British musicologist and composer. Biography Born in Small Heath, Birmingham, Nicholls was a pupil at St. Benedict’s Primary School in Small Heath and subsequently at the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, in King’s Heath. He then read Music at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and graduated with a first. In 1986, he completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge, under the supervision of the distinguished British composer Hugh Wood, with a thesis on the compositional techniques of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, and other experimental composers. Between 1984 and 1987, Nicholls was Keasbey Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1998, he spent an extended semester at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, United States, as Visiting Professor of Music. From 1987 to 2000, he was Professor of Music and sometime Research Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Keele University. From 2000 to 2013, he was Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. Subsequently he took early retirement due to disenchantment with the tertiary educational system in the UK; he was initially awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of Music, though

David Noon

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David Noon (born 23 July 1946) is a contemporary classical composer and educator. He has written over 200 works from opera to chamber music. Noon’s composition teachers have included Karl Kohn, Darius Milhaud, Charles Jones, Yehudi Wyner, Mario Davidovsky, and Wlodzimierz Kotonski. He was a distinguished member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music for 30 years. Biography David Noon was born on 23 July 1946 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch, Welsh, and American Indian heritage. His formal musical education began at the age of 8 when he learned to play the clarinet. Subsequently, he took bassoon, flute, piccolo, and piano lessons. Throughout his childhood, he frequently performed in choirs, bands, orchestras, and chamber music ensembles. During his collegiate years at Pomona College, he continued to sing and play bassoon and piano. He also began the systematic study of composition. Following his undergraduate education, he attended New York University to study Medieval music with Gustave Reese. After receiving an MA in musicology at NYU, he attended Yale University, where he received an MMA and a DMA in composition. In 1972–73, he was a Fulbright Fell

David P. Sartor

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David Sartor (rhymes with “Carter”) is an American composer, conductor, and educator, and is the founder and music director of the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra. Composing and Conducting Sartor is the composer of Synergistic Parable for symphonic band, which won the American Bandmasters Association’s Ostwald Award for Symphonic Band Music, and of Polygon, for brass quintet, which received the National Fine Arts Award. Other notable works include Metamorphic Fanfare, commissioned by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra; Thy Light Is Come for chorus, organ, brass and timpani, commissioned by Christ Episcopal Church in Nashville and showcased at the Washington National Cathedral by the Cathedral Choral Society; Black Ball Counts Double for string orchestra, which received a commendation in England’s Oare International Composing Competition; Reveries, for string orchestra, winner of the Burlington (Vermont) Chamber Orchestra’s 2009 Composer Competition as well as a finalist in the Fauxharmonic Orchestra’s Adagio Composition Contest; and Concerto for Orchestra, a finalist in the Columbia Symphony Orchestra’s American Composer Competition. A fourteen-time honoree in the American Prizes, nation

David Padrós

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David Padrós (1942–2016) was a Catalan composer. Biography He was born in Igualada, Spain in 1942. He studied with Jordi Albareda (piano) and Jordi Torra (harmony and composition). Afterwards he travelled to Germany and Switzerland where he studied with Paul Baumgartner, Sava Savoff (piano), Hans Ulrich Lehman, Klaus Huber (Composition) and Jürg Wyttenbach (contemporary music performance). In 1969 he won the Hanz Lenz prize for the artistic merit (Germany) and the composition prize of the Landis & Gyr Foundation (1976). He lived in Basel until 1982, where he developed an intens task as a composer, pianist and pedagogue. He moved to Barcelona, where he continues with the same professional activities. In 1971 his work “Styx” was performed for the first time in the Barcelona Music Festival. From that date on, his works have been performed in many European International festivals: In Luzern (Switzerland), the “Gaudeamus Muziekweek” (the Netherlands), “Europalia-85” (Belgium) and Barcelona (1987) where his work “Confluències (Música per a Santa Maria del Mar)” was performed for the first time with a great success. Important to be mentioned are the performances of his works: “Metamorfosi

David Petersen (composer)

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David Petersen (born Lübeck ca. 1650 or 1651 – died Amsterdam, before 5 May 1737) was a violinist and composer of north German origin active in the Dutch Republic. His last name is also spelled Pietersen. In the 1670s he travelled to Lund, Sweden where he was an employee of the newly founded University. By 1680, however, he had moved to Amsterdam where he remained for the rest of his career. He is notable for a collection of twelve sonatas for violin and basso continuo published in 1683 entitled Speelstukken. It is the only Dutch publication of its type in this period. There are similar collections of pieces for violin and bass by German composers such as Westhoff and Biber; however the sonatas are closest in style to Johann Jakob Walther’s Scherzi da Violino solo con il basso continuo published in 1676. It is possible that Walther had connections to Amsterdam and may have taught Petersen. Petersen’s other compositions include a large number of song settings with continuo in Dutch. They were published in Amsterdam in collaboration with the Dutch poets Abraham Alewijn and Cornelis Sweerts. Petersen is also closely associated with a number of composers such as Servaes de Koninck and

David Pohle

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David Pohle (1624 – 20 December 1695) was a German composer of the Baroque era. His surname is also spelled Pohl, Pohlen, Pole, Pol or Bohle. Biography Pohle was born in Marienberg into a family of civic musicians. He was a pupil of Heinrich Schütz in Dresden. He and his brother Samuel joined the Kapelle of Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg as instrumentalists. From 1650 to 1652 his presence at Kassel is documented. From 1653 he was at the Holstein-Gottorp court in Schleswig. In a baptismal record of 1660 he is named as “Concertmeister to the prince of Magdeburg”, namely Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Pohle became the Kapellmeister for the Duke’s court at Halle that same year, succeeding Philipp Stolle. The poet and dramatist David Elias Heidenreich worked in the Saxon courts as an official, and provided the libretti for a number of the Singspiel operas that Pohle composed. From 1674 to 1677 Pohle also worked at the secundogeniture courts at Saxe-Weissenfels and Saxe-Zeitz. When the court at Halle moved to Weissenfels in 1680, Krieger, who had already become deputy Kapellmeister at the court, replaced Pohle as Kapellmeister. Violinist Christian Heinrich Aschenbrenner was als

David Popper

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David Popper (June 18, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a Bohemian cellist and composer. Life Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. His family was Jewish. He studied the cello under Julius Goltermann (1825–1876) and soon attracted attention. He made his first tour in 1863; in Germany he was praised by Hans von Bülow, son-in-law of Franz Liszt, who recommended him as Chamber Virtuoso in the court of Prince von Hohenzollern-Hechingen in Löwenberg. In 1864, he premiered Robert Volkmann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 33, with Hans von Bülow conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. He lost this job a couple of years later due to the prince’s death. In 1866, after a successful season in London, he was invited by the court of Württemberg to stay at Friedrichshafen for two weeks. The invitation included the pianist Anna Mehlig as well. The two of them were expected to perform regularly for the royal couple, which they seemed to have fulfilled satisfactorily, as Anna Mehlig was awarded the honorary title of court pianist shortly afterwards. Popper composed a “Romance” for piano and cello during his stay which he dedicated to Mehlig. He made his debut in Vienna in 1

David Porcelijn

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David Porcelijn (born 7 January 1947 in Achtkarspelen) is a Dutch composer and conductor. David Porcelijn studied flute, composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague. He also studied the baroque flute, specialising in authentic performance practice of the baroque and classical periods, which has informed his interpretations as a conductor in that repertoire ever since. He won a scholarship to study conducting and composition in Geneva. He has appeared with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden Baden und Freiburg, Orquesta Filharmónica de Gran Canaria, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, amongst many others. In 2002 he conducted the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-Stravinsky concert at the Prague Spring Festival. In 2004 he made his debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra in their series “Music of Today”, and also took the orchestra on tour. As well as conducting the core repertoire, he also has an interest in new music. With musical director Ton Hartsuiker, he founded Ensemble M (1974–1978) for the

David Reeves (composer)

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David Reeves (born 1943) is an Australian composer, conductor and organist. He began his professional career as a concert organist in the early 1960s, turning to conducting and composition some ten years later. He is the composer of original modern music that bridges commercial and classical styles. ‘An original Australian Musical Trailblazer’ - Tommy Tycho OBE AM - Channel 9 - Star-Sound Recording Studios 1992 (Interview - Rod Henshaw Radio 4BC). Education and career Reeves was born in Sydney and educated at Shore School, where his musical promise was recognised early by George Faunce Allman who, with his wife Dora, taught him piano and organ as well as placing him in the choir of St James’ Church, Sydney, as a chorister. Reeves’ first organ appointment was as organist for Sydney Hospital Chapel, followed by his first professional engagement as Director of Music at the Garrison Church, Miller’s Point, both while he was still at school. Reeves studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Alexander Sverjensky (piano), George Faunce Allman (organ) and Norman Johnston (organ). He was awarded both of the overseas music scholarships available in the early sixties: the Alice Bryan

David Riebe

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David Riebe (born 1 May 1988, in Hällestad, Skåne, Sweden) is a Swedish composer who has won second prize in Uppsala Composition Competition (Swedish: Uppsala tonsättartävling) in Sweden and third prize in the All-Russian Open Composers’ Competition in Honor of Andrey Petrov (Russian: Всероссийский открытый конкурс композиторов им. А.П. Петрова) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2015 he was elected a member of the Swedish Society of Composers (Föreningen svenska tonsättare). Riebe has a master’s degree in composition from the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden where he studied with Luca Francesconi, Rolf Martinsson, Staffan Storm and Kent Olofsson. He has also studied with Michele Tadini and Philippe Hurel at Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse (CNSMD) in Lyon, France. Awards and honours * 2012 – The Culture Grant of Lund Municipality * 2014 – Second prize in Uppsala Composition Competition (Swedish: Uppsala tonsättartävling) with the work Geopoliticus Child * 2016 – Third prize in “10th All-Russian composers’ open competition in honor of Andrey Petrov” with the work Magma Selected works * 2013 – Geopoliticus Child for sinfonietta * 2015 – Magma for symphonic orchestra *

David Robidoux

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David Robidoux is an American score composer. He writes film scores for various sporting films and networks, and primarily composes for NFL Films. Career Robidoux is originally from Reading, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Berklee College of Music with degrees in audio engineering and film scoring, he began working for NFL Films in 1991 as an audio engineer, and began composing alongside music director Tom Hedden, who had joined the company the year before. Their first score, 75 Seasons: The History of the NFL, earned them the Emmy Award for Best Musical Score. They would win four more Emmys for 75 Seasons, along with the productions Favre 4ever, Emmitt Smith: Run With History, NFL Century: In Their Own Words and Unitas. In 2000, Robidoux worked with vocal group Boyz II Men on the song So Amazing. The theme would also be used in EA Sports’ NASCAR video games starting with that year’s NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup (which uses a rock version of the theme). The following year, a modified version of the music was used in the film Herbie: Fully Loaded (which mixes the “Thunder” theme with the Herbie theme) Also in 2005, Robidoux created The Lombardi Trophy Theme, which became the o

David Roitman

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David Roitman (November 1, 1884 – April 4, 1943) was a Russian-American hazzan and composer. Early in his career he worked as cantor in villages and cities in Russia such as Vilna and Odessa. In 1921 he immigrated to the United States and eventually joined the Congregation Shaare Zedek. Renowned for his lyric tenor compositional recordings and cantorial recitatives, Roitman became known as “the poet of the pulpit”. Biography Roitman was born to Mordecai and Mariom Roitman on November 1, 1884 at the Jusefpol village in the Russian province of Podolia. At the age of 12, he became the choral assistant to a cantor at the nearby town Lidvinke. He was then apprenticed to a series of cantors starting with Yankel Sorover and including Zeidel Rovner. Roitman would remain with Rovner throughout his teenage years. He studied music at Yeshiva College and continued his studies as a post-graduate at the Leningrad Conservatory. Roitman worked as a cantor for five years at the Jewish Temple of Elisavetgrad, starting in 1904. From 1909 to 1912, he worked as cantor at Vilna. He became the chief cantor at the Ginsbourgh Synagogue in Leningrad starting in 1912, until the October Revolution of 1917 des

David Rosenboom

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David Rosenboom (born 1947 in Fairfield, Iowa) is a composer, performer, interdisciplinary artist, author, and educator known for his work in American experimental music. Rosenboom has explored various forms of music, languages for improvisation, new techniques in scoring for ensembles, multi-disciplinary composition and performance, cross-cultural collaborations, performance art and literature, interactive multi-media, new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems, art-science research and philosophy, and extended musical interface with the human nervous system. He is a pioneer in the use of neurofeedback and compositional algorithms. An active teacher, he was Faculty at The Herb Alpert School of Music at California Institute of the Arts from 1990 to 2023, and before that taught at other institutions such as Mills College, York University, and the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the State University of New York in Buffalo. His students include Jin Hi Kim and Gino Robair. As a young student, he studied (never finishing an undergraduate degree) composition, performance, and electronic music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Salvatore Mar

David Rothenberg

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David Rothenberg (born 1962) is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. He is also a composer and jazz musician whose books and recordings reflect a longtime interest in understanding other species such as singing insects by making music with them. Life and work Rothenberg graduated from Harvard and took his PhD from Boston University. As an undergraduate at Harvard, Rothenberg created his own major to combine music with communication. He traveled in Europe after graduation, playing jazz clarinet. Listening to the recorded song of a hermit thrush, he heard structure that reminded him of a Miles Davis solo. Because of Rothenberg’s study of animal song and his experimental interactions with animal music, he is often called an “interspecies musician.” Rothenberg is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. Publications Books Rothenberg’s book Why Birds Sing: A Journey into the Mystery of Bird Song (Basic Books, 2005) was inspired by an impromptu duet in March 2000 with a laughingthrush at the National Aviary i

David Sanford (composer)

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David William Sanford (born 1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American composer who is also a jazz bandleader. Biography Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963, into a musical family. His parents and one of his grandfathers were choir leaders, his other grandfather was a jazz trumpeter, and his great-grandmother Mozie Bass had composed songs, and music for church pageants; he also has a brother who is a music teacher and singer in Colorado, where the family moved. The young David Sanford acquired an enthusiasm for big band music early on, playing trombone from around the age of ten. He went on to major in music at the University of Northern Colorado, and earned master’s degrees in theory and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1991, supported partly by a Guggenheim Fellowship and partly by a job in the financial services industry, he undertook doctoral studies at Princeton, where he completed his dissertation on Miles Davis in 1998. That same year he joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College, where he teaches theory, composition, and various history courses, including one on music of the 1970s. In 2002, the Rome Prize took Sanford to Italy fo

David Sawer

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David Sawer (born 14 September 1961) is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music. Biography Sawer was born in Stockport, England. After attending Ipswich School, he studied music at the University of York where he began composing contemporary music-theatre pieces. He directed the UK premiere of Mauricio Kagel’s Kantrimiusik at the ICA, conducted the UK premieres of Mare Nostrum and Szenario, and appeared as solo performer in Phonophonie at the South Bank Centre, London, and in the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s Gawain at the Royal Opera House. In 1984 he won a DAAD scholarship to study with Mauricio Kagel in Cologne. Even from this point his career, Sawer’s music tends to define each piece within theatrical terms. Indeed, Sawer has described himself as a “theatre person”. His works often reference the visual arts, and in particular surrealist imagery. For example, his piano piece, The Melancholy of Departure was inspired by the shadowy and irrational perspectives of a De Chirico painting. In 1992 Sawer was awarded the Fulbright-Chester-Schirmer-Scholarship; he won a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 1993, an Arts Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and

David Schweitzer (composer)

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David Schweitzer is a British composer. Career Schweitzer studied at New College, Oxford. He studied screen music at the National Film and Television School. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the World Soundtrack Awards. Selected works Television Film Animation Video Games Awards and nominations References External links * * Official website

David Snow (composer)

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David Jason Snow (born 1954 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American composer. Snow studied composition with Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, and Joseph Schwantner at the Eastman School of Music, Jacob Druckman at the Yale School of Music, and Arthur Berger and Martin Boykan at Brandeis University. At the Eastman School, Snow was awarded the Sernoffsky, McCurdy, and Howard Hanson prizes in composition; Yale awarded him a Bradley-Keeler Memorial Scholarship and the Frances E. Osborne Kellogg Prize in composition. Snow has been the recipient of awards, fellowships, residencies and commissions from BMI, the National Association of Composers/USA, the National Federation of Music Clubs, the Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation, the ASCAP Foundation, the College Band Directors Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, Res Musica Baltimore, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Renée B. Fisher Foundation, Trio Indiana, SoundMoves, Pastiche, the Arts Council of Montgomery County (Maryland), Yaddo, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Music Snow’s music has been performed in concert by the Ensemble InterContemporain, the American Brass Quintet, the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Eastman Pe

David Squires (composer)

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David Squires (born 1957) is a Canadian composer and the dean of the School of the Arts, Media and Culture at Trinity Western University. Early life and education Squires received a bachelor’s degree in music (Performance) from University of Western Ontario in 1979, a masters in music (Composition) University of Toronto in 1981, and a doctorate in (Composition) State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993. Career From 1984 to 1987 Squires was the conductor of the Fraser Valley Symphony. Squires has been on the faculty at TWU music for 15 years and was a worship pastor there for 11 years. His scholarly interest is in Christian spirituality and new music, and he has also taught composition, music history, 20th-century composers and Christian spirituality, and Worship design and leadership. Squires’ composition “Ride” was performed in 1997 by the Lethbridge Community Band. “Where Angels Danced” was premiered in November 2007 by the Trinity Western Orchestra with violinist Brielle Goheen. Squires is the initiator of TWU’s Worship Studies Minor and has been instrumental in developing the program. Beginning in 2003, the program studies contemporary worship music, issues regarding wors

David Stoll (composer)

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David Michael Stoll (born December 1948) is an English composer and educator. Life and career David Stoll was born in London, and studied composition at Worcester College, Oxford University, and at the Royal Academy of Music. After completing his education, he has worked as a freelance composer for concert, theatrical, and TV/film music. Stoll is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He served as chairman of the Association of Professional Composers. In 1999 he was elected co-chair of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and has also served on the boards of several other music organizations. Stoll has run several school and corporate training programs in creative thinking based on music, and founded the In Tune In Europe seminar and Building Music program for primary schools. Works Stoll is best known for concert and theater work, but composes production music for film, television, and radio, as well. Selected works include: *Cello Concerto, 2000 *The Bowl of Nous, cantata, 1998 *Who, If Not I?, cantata, 1998 *String Quartet, 1998 *Motet in Memoriam for choir *Midwinter Spring for orchestra *False Relations, opera, 1997 *Teller of Tales, musical, 1994 *If I W

David Strother

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David Strother is an American musician and composer. Strother is based in Los Angeles and plays alternative violin. He has been featured in recordings, on stage and in film since the 1980s. Strother has played for numerous local Los Angeles bands, including Lawrence Lebo, Long John Oliva, and The Radio Ranch Straight Shooters. He ranges in style from jazz, blues and swing to avant garde/alternative, but proclaims his passion lies in alternative, both in performance and composition. Life and career Strother attended both Cal State Los Angeles, where he earned a B.A. in classical composition, and Los Angeles City College. Strother has been featured on movie and television soundtracks including for David Lynch in “The Straight Story,” “Philadelphia Experiment II,” “Doug”, and “The Rookie." Strother still occasionally appears with The Radio Ranch Straight Shooters, who were important members of the LA Roots/Rockabilly/Punk scene. RRSS played on the same stage with The Blasters, X, and Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys. Strother played alongside DJ Bonebrake, Bill Bateman (drummer, The Blasters), Chas Smith, Smokey Hormel, Hank Van Sickle, Denny Croy (former Moon Martin bassist) and Nick Ka

David Thomas Roberts

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David Thomas Roberts (born January 16, 1955) is an American composer and musician, known primarily as a modern ragtime composer. Roberts is also a painter in a primitivist style. Born in Moss Point, Mississippi, United States, his first recording, “Music For a Pretty Baby”, appeared in 1978. Pieces such as “The Early Life of Larry Hoffer”, “Roberto Clemente”, “Pinelands Memoir”, “Through the Bottomlands”, and the suite, “New Orleans Streets” have caused Roberts to be considered one of the leading contemporary ragtime-based composers. The New Orleans historian Al Rose called him “the most important composer of this half of the century in America.” Roberts coined the term “Terra Verde” (meaning “green earth”) as a label for compositions which can not be considered as conventional ragtime, mostly by contemporary ragtime writers such as himself, Frank French, Scott Kirby, Hal Isbitz and others. Roberts also works as a writer and visual artist. His mixed-media art appears in the magazine of visionary art, Raw Vision, and his poetry has been anthologized in Another South, a collection of experimental writing published in 2003 by the University of Alabama Press. Selected discography From

David Thulin

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David Morgan Thulin (born 17 June 1983) is a Swedish music producer and film composer. He is known for his Reconstruction album series, multiple chart-topping hits on US Christian and indie radio, and various film/TV credits. Early and personal life Thulin was born, David Morgan Thulin, on June 17, 1983, in Naverstad, Sweden, while the family would immigrate to Vero Beach, Florida, in 1991. He began to seriously hone his piano acumen, when he turned 12. Thulin is married to Racheal, where they reside in Nashville, Tennessee. The first album, Reconstruction, was released on 23 April 2013, from Dream Records. His subsequent album, Reconstruction, Vol. 2.1, was released on 7 January 2014, with Dream Records. He released, Reconstruction, Vol. 2.2, on 30 September 2014, from Dream Records. Discography Notable albums * Reconstruction (23 April 2013, Dream) * Reconstruction, Vol. 2.1 (7 January 2014, Dream) * Reconstruction, Vol. 2.2 (30 September 2014, Dream) Other notable works * Light in Me (Feat. Nicole Croteau) – The Remixes (6 May 2014, Dream) * Architecture (Jonathan Thulin) - The White Room (2013, Dream) Reached No. 1 on US Christian AC/CHR chart * Dead Come to Life (Jonathan Thul

David Torn

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David M. Torn (born May 26, 1953) is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is known for combining electronic and acoustic instruments and for his use of looping. Background Torn has contributed to recordings by artists as diverse as David Bowie, k.d. lang, John Legend, Madonna, Tori Amos, Bill Bruford, Tony Levin, Mick Karn, David Sylvian, Chocolate Genius, Michael Shrieve, Steve Roach, Patrick O’Hearn, Andy Rinehart, Matt Chamberlain, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tim Berne, and Don Cherry. In addition to his composition work, Torn’s music has been featured in a wide variety of films, including Friday Night Lights, Velvet Goldmine, Adaptation, The Big Lebowski, The Departed, Fur, The Hoax, Kalifornia, Traffic, Reversal of Fortune, Tibet, and Three Kings. He studied with Leonard Bernstein (within the “Music for Young Composers” series), as well as with guitarists John Abercrombie, Pat Martino, Paul Weiss, and Arthur Basile. Torn works out of his personal studios, known as Cell Labs; occasionally, he uses the pseudonym “splattercell.” The New York Times described Torn’s 2015 solo release, Only Sky, as " an abstract landscape that is both immersive and deftly disorienting." Biogra

David Tudor

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David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music. After playing the U.S. premiere of the Piano Sonata No. 2 by Pierre Boulez in 1950, he premiered works by New York School composers including Morton Feldman and especially John Cage written for him; Karlheinz Stockhausen dedicated a work to him, reflecting his similar degree of integration with the Darmstadt School. He turned to composing, including many projects for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. After Cage’s death in 1992, he succeeded him as music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Life and career Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 20, 1926. Tudor began his career as an organist, The two worked closely together on many of Cage’s works for piano and electroacoustic works, including for the Smithsonian Folkways album Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music (1959). Tudor also performs on several recordings of Cage’s music, including the Mainstream record of Cartridge Music, the recording on Columbia Records of Variations II, and the two Everest records of Variations IV. Tudor taught at the Darmstäd

David Tukhmanov

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David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov PAR (, was born July 20, 1940) is a Soviet and Russian composer. People’s Artist of Russia (2000), State Prize of Russian Federation (2003, 2019). Biography Tukhmanov is a son of an Armenian engineer Fyodor Davidovich Tukhmanov and a Russian music teacher Vera Anatolyevna Karasyova. The Tukhmanovs are the descendants of the Armenian princely house of Tumanyans, the offspring of the princes Mamikonians, Lords of Dsegh. David began to learn music under the direction of his mother at an early age and wrote his first piece of music (Lezginka), when he was four years old. Then he finished Gnesins musical school (1958) and composer’s branch of Gnesins Musical College (1963). His degree’s work was the oratorio for soloists, chorus and an orchestra Distance After Distance, which is based on fragments of the epic poem of the same name by Alexander Tvardovsky. In 1973 Tukhmanov wrote songs and music for a TV film This Merry Planet. In the following year he released soundtrack album, which also included several additional songs. In 1972 Tukhmanov released his first personally authored album How Beautiful the World is (Russian: Как прекрасен мир, lit. ‘Kak prekrasen

David Van Vactor

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David Van Vactor (May 8, 1906 – March 24, 1994) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Plymouth, Indiana, and received Bachelor of Music (1928) and Master of Music (1935) degrees from Northwestern University. He studied with Arne Oldberg, Mark Wessel, Ernst Nolte (composer), Leo Sowerby, Paul Dukas, Franz Schmidt, and Arnold Schoenberg. He was the assistant conductor of the Chicago Civic Orchestra (1933–34) and was both the flute section leader and assistant conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra from 1943 to 1947. He served as the conductor of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra from 1947 until 1972. He also appeared as guest conductor with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and the orchestras of Rio de Janeiro and Santiago, Chile. In 1938 his Symphony in D won the Second Annual Competition of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society for a major symphonic work by a U. S. composer (his former teacher Mark Wessel received the sole Honorable Mention in the same competition). The Symphony was premiered on Jan

David Vaughan Thomas

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David Vaughan Thomas or David Vaughan-Thomas (15 March 1873 – 15 September 1934), born David Thomas, and known also by his bardic name Pencerdd Vaughan, was a composer, organist, pianist and music administrator. His compositions are deeply influenced by the musical and literary traditions of his native Wales. Though his music is now little performed he has been described as “the leading native Welsh musician of his time” and as “one of the most important composers in the transitional period of Welsh music from the Victorian era to our own times”. The broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was his son. Life Born in 1873 to Jenkin Thomas and Anne Thomas in Ystalyfera, he moved with the family successively to Llantrisant, Maesteg, Llangennech, Dowlais and Pontarddulais. He received his musical education from the composer Joseph Parry, and also went to Llandovery College and Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated in mathematics. Returning later to Oxford, he gained degrees as Bachelor of Music and Doctor of Music. For some years he worked as a mathematics teacher at United Services College, Westward Ho!, and Monkton Combe School, Bath, before becoming a music teacher and organist at Ha

David Vostell

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David Vostell (born 10 October 1960) is a German-Spanish composer and film director. Biography David Vostell was born in Cologne, the first child of Wolf Vostell and his Spanish wife Mercedes Guardado. His father and his father’s art have formed his view of the world from his earliest childhood onwards. The artistics movements of the 1960s and the early 1970s as well as his father’s circle with people as Nam June Paik and Allan Kaprow, with whom he often sat together as a teenager, marked him deeply. From 1977 until 1980 he made apprenticeships at the TV and radio station Sender Freies Berlin, as well as at the publicity agency TBWA in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as an assistant film editor, as a film projectionist, in a photolab, in a photostudio and as photographer. In 1979, together with some of his former school mates, he made 36574 Bilder (36574 Images), an experimental film in Super 8. In 1980 he shot the documentary Endogen Depression about the making of an Installation by Wolf Vostell. In 1982 he shot the short film Ginger Hel starring Mark Eins, founder of the band Din A Testbild, and with the actress Panterra Hamm. The film tells a bizarre love story set in the Berlin un

David W. Music

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David Wayne Music (born January 28, 1949) is an American composer, writer and former professor of church music. He served on the faculties of both his alma maters, California Baptist College and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, before spending 18 years at Baylor University. His publications have included edited collections of primary sources, monographs on the history of American hymnody, and works on the hymnwriter Isaac Watts. He has also composed works for choirs, recorder, organ and piano. In 2010, he was named a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Early life and education David Wayne Music was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on January 28, 1949. His father, Joseph Hopwood Musick, was a pastor with degrees from Baylor University and the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS). His mother, Menita Corine Cullins Music, was a school teacher, who had also studied at SWBTS, where she and Joseph met. David Music grew up sharing his parents’ Christian faith, and he sang in the youth choir of the church his father pastored in Huntington Park, California. His interest in pursuing a vocation in church music was stimulated during a conference he

David Wallis Reeves

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David Wallis Reeves (February 14, 1838 – March 8, 1900), also known as D. W. Reeves or Wally Reeves, was an American composer, cornetist, and bandleader. He developed the American march style, later made famous by the likes of John Philip Sousa, and his innovations include adding a countermelody to the American march form in 1876. Sousa called Reeves “The Father of Band Music in America”, and stated he wished he himself had written Reeves’ “Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard March”. Charles Ives also borrowed from the “Second Connecticut” on four occasions. Biography Reeves was born on February 14, 1838, in Oswego, New York. In the early 1850s, he joined the Oswego band as an alto horn player, but soon moved to cornet, the instrument for which he would become famous. He occasionally performed with Jules Levy, another famous cornetist of the period. In 1871, he married Sarah Blanding. Blanding had a daughter from a previous marriage, and they were later to have a son, David W. Reeves Jr. In the 1870s, he created the first local orchestra in Providence, the Providence Symphony Orchestra. Reeves accepted the directorship of Patrick Gilmore’s Twenty-Second New York Regiment ban

David Ward-Steinman

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David Ward-Steinman (November 6, 1936 – April 14, 2015) was an American composer and professor. He was the author of Toward a Comparative Structural Theory of the Arts, and co-authored Comparative Anthology of Musical Forms. Ward-Steinman spent his remaining days dividing his time between San Diego State University and Indiana University in Bloomington. He was formerly Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at San Diego State, and then became Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus there, and also an adjunct professor of Music at Indiana, where he taught in the spring. Biography Ward-Steinman studied at Florida State University and the University of Illinois, where he received the Kinley Memorial Fellowship for foreign study. After receiving his doctorate, he was a fellow at Princeton University from 1970. His teachers included John Boda, Burrill Phillips, Darius Milhaud (at Aspen, Colorado), Milton Babbitt (at Tanglewood) and Nadia Boulanger. He studied piano under Edward Kilenyi, and in 1995 attended a course at IRCAM. From 1970 to 1972, Ward-Steinman was the Ford Foundation composer-in-residence for the Tampa Bay area of Florida and he spent 1989–90 in Australia under a

David Willcocks

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Sir David Valentine Willcocks, (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015) was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator. He was particularly well known for his association with the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, which he directed from 1957 to 1974, making frequent broadcasts and recordings. Several of the descants and carol arrangements he wrote for the annual service of Nine Lessons and Carols were published in the series of books Carols for Choirs which he edited along with Reginald Jacques and John Rutter. He was also director of the Royal College of Music in London. During the Second World War (1939–1945) he served as an officer in the British Army, and was decorated with the Military Cross for his actions on Hill 112 during the Battle of Normandy in July 1944. His elder son, Jonathan Willcocks, is also a composer. Biography Born in Newquay in Cornwall, Willcocks began his musical training as a chorister at Westminster Abbey from 1929 to 1934, following a recommendation by the then Master of the King’s Music, Sir Henry Walford Davies, to Ernest Bullock. From 1934 to 1938, he was a music scholar at Clifton College, Bristol, where his teacher was Dou

David Woodard

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David James Woodard (; born 1964) is an American conductor and writer known for his controversial performances. Through the 1990s and 2000s, Woodard constructed and sold replica Dreamachines, or stroboscopic light devices. He also coined the term prequiem, meaning preemptive requiem, to describe musical compositions that he made “for the soon-to-be-deceased”. He created prequiems for people such as baseball player Joe DiMaggio and terrorist Timothy McVeigh. He also wrote music for neo-Nazi activist William Luther Pierce and attempted to memorialize the 9/11 hijackers. Woodard is interested in Nueva Germania, a district in Paraguay founded by German settlers. He stated that he was drawn to the settlement as what he called “an Aryan vacuum in the middle of the jungle”, although he has denied being a white supremacist. Early life Woodard was born in Santa Barbara, California, Woodard claimed in 2001 that his interest in death stemmed from the fact that, when he was a teenager, his girlfriend was mysteriously found dead; in another instance he said that she had killed herself and her parents had blamed him. Woodard studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, before he moved to

David Wynne (composer)

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David Wynne (2 June 1900 – 23 March 1983) was a prolific Welsh composer, who taught for many years at Cardiff University and wrote much of his best-known music in retirement. The following year, the family moved to Llanfabon, near Cilfynydd, where he attended the local school until the age of 12. For the next two years he worked at a local grocer’s shop, He continued to work there until the age of 25, even after beginning lessons with a local music teacher and organist, Tom Llewellyn Jenkins, himself a minor composer. In 1925 he was awarded a Glamorgan Scholarship to University College, Cardiff, becoming a pupil of Professor David Evans and John Morgan Lloyd; he obtained a B.Mus. degree in 1928. In 1933, he married Eirwen Evans and they settled in Maesycwmmer. In 1938 the University of Wales awarded him a D.Mus. In 1944 he was awarded the Clements Memorial Prize for his First String Quartet, and this effectively launched his career as a leading composer; thereafter he received regular commissions. At the same time, he began using the name David Wynne for professional purposes. He retired from school teaching in 1960. From 1961 to 1971 he taught composition at Cardiff College of Mus

David Yazbek

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David Norman Yazbek (born 1961) is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2004), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), The Band’s Visit (2017), Tootsie (2019), and Dead Outlaw (2025). He won a Tony Award and a Grammy Award for The Band’s Visit. He also consulted on the musical Buena Vista Social Club, for which he won another Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Early life David Yazbek was born in New York City. His father is of Lebanese descent, and his mother was of half-Italian and half-Jewish ancestry. He began cello lessons in elementary school and took up the piano as a teenager. He attended Riverdale Country School. While attending Brown University as an undergraduate, he wrote an original musical with the production group Brownbrokers before graduating in 1982. He also directed a production of Hair with the student theatre group Production Workshop, for which he composed an original song to complement the classic score. Career After college Yazbek got a job writing for David Letterman’s late-night television show Late Night with David Le

Davide Perez

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Davide Perez (1711 – 30 October 1778) was an Italian opera composer born in Naples of Italian parents, and later resident court composer at Lisbon from 1752. He staged three operas on librettos of Metastasio at Lisbon with huge success in 1753, 1754, and 1755. Following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, Perez turned from opera mostly to church music. Early years Perez was born in Naples, the son of Giovanni Perez and Rosalina Serrari, both Neapolitans. At the age of 11 he became a student at the Conservatorio di S Maria di Loreto in Naples, where he remained until 1733, studying counterpoint with Francesco Mancini, singing and keyboard playing with Giovanni Veneziano, and violin with Francesco Barbella. On completion of his studies, Perez immediately entered the service of the Sicilian Prince d’Aragona, Naselli. From 1734 date his first known pieces, the Latin cantatas Ilium Palladio astu Subducto Expugnatum and Palladium performed in Palermo’s Collegio della Società di Gesù, for the laurelling festivities. In the following years, he was active both in Palermo and Naples, as his patron became Chamberlain of the newly crowned king, Carlo I. His first opera, La nemica amante, was composed

Davide Petrella

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Davide Petrella (born 6 August 1985), also known as Tropico, is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist. Life and career Born in Naples, Petrella started his career as founder and frontman of the band Le Strisce, with whom he recorded three albums. In 2014, he collaborated with Cesare Cremonini on the album Logico, and since then he became one of the most requested songwriters in Italy. Artists with whom he collaborated include Gianna Nannini, Elisa, Marracash, Jovanotti, Elodie, Mahmood, Sophie and the Giants, Giusy Ferreri, Emma Marrone, Alessandra Amoroso, Fabri Fibra, Achille Lauro, The Kolors, Fedez, J-Ax, Fred De Palma and Anitta. At the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival two songs co-written by Petrella, Marco Mengoni’s “Due vite” and Lazza’s “Cenere”, took the lead in the final ranking, respectively in first and second place; together with Mogol, Alberto Testa, Franco Migliacci, Cristiano Minellono and Zucchero Fornaciari, he is one of the few songwriters to hold this record. Beyond his career as a songwriter for other artists, Petrella is also active as a singer-songwriter under the stage name Tropico. - ! rowspan=“1” Targa Tenco Best Song - !rowspan="

Davide Remigio

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Davide Remigio (born 1963) is an Australian-Italian contemporary composer known for founding the compositional technique known as Quaternary Music. He has worked as a composer, lecturer, and theorist, with a catalogue of works spanning orchestral, choral, chamber, opera, and electronic genres, and has been active internationally since the 1980s. Biography Remigio was born in Melbourne to Italian parents and returned to Italy in 1969, where he began his musical studies at an early age. He studied violin and music theory as a child and composed his first work, Giga for solo violin, at age 11. He later continued formal studies in composition, conducting, ensemble instrumentation, and electronic music at the Conservatorio di Musica “Luisa D’Annunzio” in Pescara and the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome , where he completed a Master of Music in composition in 1992 under the direction of Franco Donatoni. In 1991, he also studied music for film at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Ennio Morricone. Career Remigio has held teaching positions in music composition at several Italian conservatories, including those in Potenza, Bari, and L’Aquila, and currently teaches compo

Davis Daniel

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Robert Andrykowski (born March 1, 1961) is an American country music artist who records under the name Davis Daniel. Between 1991 and 1996, he recorded three studio albums on various divisions of Polygram Records: 1991’s Fighting Fire with Fire, 1994’s Davis Daniel, and 1995’s I Know a Place. In that same time span, seven of his singles entered the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including the Top 40 hits “Picture Me”, “For Crying Out Loud” and “Fighting Fire with Fire.” Biography Robert Andrykowski was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, on March 1, 1961. Over time, his family moved to Nebraska, and subsequently to Denver, Colorado. As a teenager, he found work singing at various nightclubs throughout Denver, Colorado. By the late 1980s, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, eventually adopting the stage name Davis Daniel and landing a record deal with Mercury/Polygram Records in 1991 with the help of his music producer Ron Haffkine. Fighting Fire with Fire was issued that year. It produced four singles on the country charts: “Picture Me” at number 28, followed by “For Crying Out Loud” at number 13, the title track at number 27 and “Still Got a

Davorin Jenko

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Davorin Jenko (born Martin Jenko; 9 November 1835 – 25 November 1914) was a Slovene and Serbian composer. He is sometimes considered the father of Slovenian national Romantic music. Among other songs, he composed the melody for the Serbian national anthem “Bože pravde” (“God of Justice”), the former Slovenian national anthem “Naprej, zastava Slave” (“Forward, Flag of Glory!”), and the popular Serbian and Montenegrin song “Serbian Marseillaise”. Biography Jenko was born in the Upper Carniolan village of Dvorje, in what was then the Austrian Empire, and baptized Martinus Jenko. After graduating from high school in Trieste, he went to Vienna, where he studied law. During his Viennese stay, he founded the Slovene Choir Society in Vienna. In 1862, he moved to the town of Pančevo in southern Vojvodina, now in Serbia, but then in the Hungarian part of the Danube monarchy, where he worked as the choirmaster of the local Serbian Orthodox Church. He later moved on the other side of the border to Belgrade, where he worked as a composer in the Serbian National Theatre. and composed the music for the Serbian national anthem, based on the lyrics of Jovan Đorđević. Most of his Slovene pieces were

Dawn Vincent

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Dawn Vincent is an Indian music composer and sound designer. He is a graduate from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He is also an accomplished pianist certified from Trinity College London. He works predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Early life and education Dawn was born in Kochi, Kerala, to Vincent John and Sheena Nancy. He has a younger brother, Navin Vincent, who is a structural engineer and also an 8th grade solo guitarist certified from Trinity College London, London. He is married to Priscilla Vaddadi who is working as an animation director in Canada. Dawn studied in Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Girinagar, Kochi. He was active as a keyboard player and bass guitarist during his school life. He was part of a rock band and their genre of music included versions of singles from various bands such as Metallica, Dream Theater, Slipknot, Green Day, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. They also performed their own compositions and bagged prizes in many interschool competitions from 2004 to 2008. He graduated from Karunya University, Coimbatore in 2012 with an undergraduate Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Media Technology. He then joined Film and Television Institute o