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Eibhlis Farrell

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Eibhlis Farrell (born 27 July 1953) is a Northern Irish composer. Life Eibhlis Farrell was born in Rostrevor in County Down, Northern Ireland. She began writing music at an early age and studied at Queen’s University, Belfast, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music, and with Raymond Warren at Bristol University, graduating with a Masters in composition. She also studied with Charles Wuorinen and Robert Moevs, and graduated from Rutgers University, New Jersey, with a doctorate. After completing her studies, Farrell worked as a composer and became Head of Music Creative Media at the Dundalk Institute of Technology. Her works have been performed and broadcast internationally. She received the Arts Council of Northern Ireland artist’s residency in the Banff Centre, Canada, in 2007. She is a member of Aosdána, and has served as a member of the Toscaireacht. Selected works ;Orchestral *A Day at the Races (1976) *Popcorn Overture (1977) *Threnody (1979) *Kilbroney Set for traditional Irish instruments and orchestra (1995) ;Band *Fanfare for President Robinson for brass band and timpani (1991) *Soundshock (1992) *Fanfare for brass band and timpani (1993) ;Concertante *Romanza for flu

Eiluned Davies

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Eiluned Davies (1913 – 1999) was a British concert pianist and composer. Early life Born in Walthamstow, London, the daughter of Welsh bard Owen Davies of Llanarth, and her first radio broadcast followed in April 1937. During the war Davies performed at the National Gallery concerts organized by Myra Hess, at which she gave the first performance in England of Shostakovich’s Piano Sonata, Op. 12 (on 31 May 1943). She also taught at the City Literary Institute (from 1945), the Mary Ward Centre (from 1956) and the Stanhope Institute, before retiring from teaching in 1979. Three European Folk Dances for piano, a Requiem (1972, performed in Winchester, revised 1991) and the song cycle Glimpses (1993) for female vocal quartet. All her pre-war compositions were withdrawn and destroyed. Davies’ repertoire included Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Busoni and Bernard Stevens. Davies recorded the complete solo piano works of Bernard van Dieren for the British Music Society in the 1980s. She also championed Welsh composers, naming ‘Y Pump Cymreig’ (The Welsh Five) as Denis ApIvor, Daniel Jones, Mervyn Roberts, Grace Williams and David Wynne. She premiered ApIvor’s Piano Concerto, op. 13 in 1948 and W

Eímear Noone

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Eímear Noone (born in Kilconnell, County Galway) is an Irish conductor and composer, best known for her work on video game music. She has conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Bretagne, the Sydney Symphony, and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Noone was the first woman to conduct at the Oscars on 9 February 2020, leading the orchestra in excerpts from the five nominated film scores. Noone was also the first woman to conduct at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland. Early life Originally from Kilconnell, Noone is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin who has taught conducting for UCLA Extension, Columbia College Chicago, the Society of Composers and Lyricists, and the LA Conducting Salon at the LA Ballet School. Noone co-founded the Dublin City Concert Orchestra X3 Work Noone’s composing and conducting work includes 26 film and video game titles, including Blizzard Entertainment titles Overwatch (2016), Hearthstone (2014), Diablo III (2012), Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010), and World of Warcraft (2004) and its expansions., as well as The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Special Orchestra CD included with The Legend of

Einar Englund

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Sven Einar Englund (17 June 1916 – 27 June 1999) was a Finnish composer. Life Sven Einar Englund was born at Ljugarn in Gotland, Sweden, on 17 June 1916; he died on 27 June 1999 in Visby, Sweden. He married twice: in 1941 to Meri Mirjam Gyllenbögel, who died 1956 (they had one son and two daughters including the ballerina and choreographer Sorella Englund); and in 1958 he married Maynie Sirén, a singer, with whom he had one son. One of the most important Finnish symphonists since Jean Sibelius, Englund was a native Swedish speaker who often felt that his career was sidelined from the mainstream of Finnish music. He went to Svenska normallyceum i Helsingfors and was 17 when he began studies at the Helsinki Conservatory (now the Sibelius Academy) in 1933. Already a considerable pianist, he continued his studies with Martti Paavola and Ernst Linko while studying composition with Bengt Carlson and Selim Palmgren. Following his graduation in 1941, Englund was conscripted into military service. During his time in the Finnish Continuation War he was wounded in his hand, which almost brought to an end his hopes of pursuing a career as a concert pianist. He would often recall the bizarre, t

Einar Selvik

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Einar Selvik (born 18 November 1979), also known by his stage name Kvitrafn (“white raven”), is a Norwegian musician known for being the drummer of black metal band Gorgoroth from 2000 to 2004, and for fronting the Nordic folk project Wardruna, founded in 2002. Selvik and Wardruna earned international prominence for contributing to the soundtrack and score of the television show Vikings. Selvik is a founder of By Norse, a platform to support Norse and Norse-related art, music, literature, film and culture. Musical career On 1 March 2016, A Piece for Mind & Mirror by Skuggsjá, a collaboration between Selvik and Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson, was announced and streamed. Commissioned by the Norwegian government for the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution, the album tells the history of Norway, and was released by Season of Mist on 11 March. Selvik has also recorded with other projects including Det Hedenske Folk, Bak de Syv Fjell, Jotunspor, Sahg, Dead to this World and Faun. He worked on the soundtrack for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and collaborated with Riot Games for the theme song of Volibear, a League of Legends character. Personal life Einar Selvik was born and grew up on

Eino Tamberg

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Eino Tamberg (27 May 1930 – 24 December 2010) was an Estonian composer whose works are performed internationally. He composed operas such as Cyrano de Bergerac, four symphonies, and several concertos. He taught composition for decades at the Estonian Academy of Music. Life Tamberg was born in Tallinn. He studied composition with Eugen Kapp at the Tallinn Conservatory, from which he graduated in 1953.

Einojuhani Rautavaara

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Einojuhani Rautavaara (; 9 October 1928 – 27 July 2016) was a Finnish composer of classical music. Among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Rautavaara attended the University of Helsinki to study piano and musicology, and eventually studied composition at the Sibelius Academy under Aarre Merikanto from 1948 to 1952. He first came to international attention when he won the Thor Johnson Contest for his composition A Requiem in Our Time in 1954, despite having, according to Rautavaara, “…absolutely no experience of writing for brass band and a composition technique that was immature at the time…” The work caught the attention of then-famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, prompting him to recommend Rautavaara for a scholarship to study at the Juilliard School in New York City. There he was taught by Vincent Persichetti, and he also took lessons from Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland at Tanglewood. Reflecting on his time enrolled in Juilliard, Rautavaara later said that living in Manhattan was, “Maybe the most important experience, and taught much more about life to me than all those teachers about music.” He then returned to Helsinki and graduated f

Eirik Glambek Bøe

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Eirik Glambek Bøe (born 25 October 1975) is a Norwegian musician, writer and vocalist, best known for being part of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience with Erlend Øye. He has a degree in psychology from the University of Bergen. Although his native language is Norwegian, many of his writings are in English. He formed the band Skog together with Øye in the 1990s. They formed Kings of Convenience in 1998 and released their first album Quiet Is The New Loud in 2001 (the same year Øye featured in Röyksopp’s critically acclaimed debut album Melody A.M.). The duo then went on to release the single Toxic Girl followed by their second album Riot on an Empty Street in 2004. In 2006 he featured in Øye’s band The Whitest Boy Alive, and at a lesser degree Kommode, largely made up of the members of Skog. In a rare guest appearance on NPR, Bøe sings on the track “How My Heart Behaves” on Feist’s 2007 The Reminder. In October 2009 Kings of Convenience released their third studio album Declaration of Dependence on Astralwerks. In 2017, Bøe led Kommode alongside Øystein Gjærder Bruvik and released Analog Dance Music, an album that “lets the band play on if the groove is good and the harmonies

Eisuke Mochizuki

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, birth name Mamoru Mochizuki, is a Japanese pianist, composer, npo director, producer and former member of the pop group B.B.Queens. Biography At the age of 4, he started learn to play on piano. During his high school days, he formed and was a member of a school band. In the beginning of the 1990, during the same time when he started going to college, he made solo major debut with the instrumental album Waitin’for You under BMG Victor label and became the member of the group B.B. Queens, whom they won 32nd Japan Record Award and appeared in the national new-year program Kōhaku Uta Gassen. In 1993, he graduated from the Keio University. From 1994, he started his activities as a composer for Zard, Yuiko Tsubokura, Hiromi Go, and many other artist. He remained active and released solo works in the Being Inc. until 1997, when he decided to leave music industry and focus to work for Dentsu company. In 2008, he has announced through his blog site complete resume of his music activities. In 2010, he established the nonprofit organization “Donation Music” in which they are doing social contribution activities through music. He is credited as director under his born name Mamoru. As of 2023

Eitan Avitsur

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Eitan Avitsur (; 5 September 1941 Jerusalem – 24 February 2018 ) was an Israeli composer and conductor. Avitsur’s formal education commenced with study for a teaching certificate in music theory (1967) and a degree in music composition and conducting (1972) at the Rubin Academy of Music. His studies were concluded in 1976 at the Rubin Academy, directed by Igor Markevitch and Salzburg’s Mozarteum where he specialized in conducting. Commencing a professional involvement with Bar-Ilan University in 1972, he was appointed in 1987 as conductor of the Jerusalem Youth Orchestra. In 2003, he created the foundations of the electro-acoustic music program which was developed under his tutelage, also establishing there a computer-music laboratory. In 2016 Avitsur won the Jerusalem Award for his life work in music educating thousands of students. In 1972 Avitsur was a founding member of the Music Department at Bar-Ilan University. He has created or composed more than three hundred works, including oratorios, cantatas, symphonies, chamber music and background music for more than two hundred movies and television programs. References External links * Bar-Ilan University webpage list of conducting

Eivind Buene

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Eivind Buene (born 7 September 1973 in Oslo) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Biography 1992 to 1998 saw Buene studying pedagogics and composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. In 1999 and 2000 he was contemporary music ensemble Oslo Sinfonietta’s composer in residence. From 2000 onwards, Buene has been active as a freelance composer, based in Oslo, writing for a number of ensembles and orchestras at home and abroad. His roster of received commissions includes works written for Ensemble Intercontemporain, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Fondation Royaumont and a variety of Scandinavian orchestras and ensembles. The main bulk of Buene’s list of works consists of compositions for soloists, ensembles and orchestras, but the composer has also focused on work with improvising musicians, developing music in the cross-section between classical notation and improv. Buene’s works have seen performances at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philharmonie and Centre Pompidou. His debut as a stage composer came in August 2006 with the one act chamber opera September, based on Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. 2012 saw Buene being bestowed with a Spellemannsprisen Award, the Norweg

Eivind Groven

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Eivind Groven (8 October 1901 – 8 February 1977) was a Norwegian composer and music-theorist. He was from the traditional region of Vest-Telemark and had a background in the folk music of the area. Biography Groven was born in the village of Lårdal in Telemark, Norway. Groven’s rural background was filled with traditional music. He came from a family of talented musicians and artists, prominent in his home area. His father, Olav Åsmundsson Gjøitil (1865–1947) was the youngest of eight siblings. Two of his father’s brothers played the hardanger fiddle. His mother, Aslaug Rikardsdotter Berge (1863–1946), was the youngest daughter of Rikard Aslaksson Berge, known for preserving a great amount of old tunes, religious songs and dance-tunes and a friend of Myllarguten’s. Two of Groven’s maternal uncles also played the hardanger fiddle, and his mother’s sisters, as well as Aslaug herself, were talented folk singers. Groven was the youngest of five brothers. Two of his brothers began to play the fiddle, and soon Eivind joined them. His father Olav was also an apt player, and in their childhood, the brothers learned notes, and sometimes played together, when they got their hands on classica