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Eva Dell'Acqua

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Eva Dell’Acqua (also Dall’Acqua, 28 January 1856, Schaerbeek12 February 1930, Ixelles) was a Belgian singer and composer of Italian ancestry. She wrote fifteen operas and operettas, as well as orchestral works, pieces for chamber orchestra, and other works for piano and solo voice. Dell’Acqua’s song “Villanelle” for coloratura soprano has been widely performed and recorded, and has appeared on film soundtracks including Get Hep to Love (1942) and I Married an Angel (1942). Biography Eva Dell’Acqua was born in 1856 in Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium, the daughter of the Italian painter Cesare Dell’Acqua and his wife Carolina van der Elst. Dell’Acqua had a younger sister, Aline, born July 18th, 1857. Dell’Acqua’s name does not appear in documents from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, suggesting that her formal music education took place at home through private instruction. Given her father’s connections within Brussels’ artistic circles, she may have had access to influential musicians in the city, though no specific teacher has been definitively identified. Dell’Acqua composed in the Romantic style and produced orchestral works, pieces for chamber orchestra, and other works for pia

Eva Jessye

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Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor and composer who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance. She created her own choral group which featured widely in performance. Her professional influence extended for decades through her teaching as well. Her accomplishments in this field were historic for any woman. She collaborated in productions of groundbreaking works, directing her choir and working with Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein on Four Saints in Three Acts (1933), and serving as musical director with George Gershwin on his innovative opera Porgy and Bess (1935). Early life and education Eva Jessye was born January 20, 1895, in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was educated at Western University, a historically black university in Kansas, and Langston University in Oklahoma. She later studied privately with Will Marion Cook in New York City. In 1919, Jessye began work as the choir director at Morgan State College in Baltimore. She returned west for a time to teach at an African Methodist Episcopal Church school in Oklahoma. In

Eva Noer Kondrup

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Eva Noer Kondrup (born 23 April 1964) is a Danish composer of classical music who has written piano pieces, chamber music, orchestral works and operas. As resident composer with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in the early 2000s, she wrote Ulvemælk (for viola and symphony orchestra) and Salt strøm salt (for soprano and orchestra). She is however associated above all with her operas, Neja (1999) and Den Rejsende or The Traveller (2018). Biography Born in 1964, Eva Noer Kondrup enjoyed listening to music and playing folk music as a child but it was first when she was 18 that she became seriously interested in classical music. Despite following an introductory course to music at Holsterbro Musikskole, it was not until her late twenties that she started to study composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, graduating in 1997. In addition, she attended master classes with Iannis Xenakis, George Crumb and Louis Andriessen and studied composition under Hans Gefors at the Malmö Academy of Music. Compositions Noer Kondrup’s compositions include: *3 Studies for Piano, 1993 *Wave piece, chamber music, 1993 *3 sange fra Det, mezzo-soprano solos with instrumental accompaniment, 1995 *Epilog

Eva Schorr

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Eva Schorr (28 September 1927 – 20 January 2016) was a German painter and composer. Biography Eva Weiler was born in Crailsheim, Württemberg. Her father was a music and art teacher and gave her lessons in both. At the age of eight she began composing, and at the age of 15 won prizes for composition and organ. She studied music in Stuttgart with Johann Nepomuk David and Anton Nowakowski. She also studied with Olivier Messiaen in Darmstadt. She married Dieter Schorr, music editor of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and had two sons and a daughter. She died at the age of 88 in 2016. Honors and awards *1961 GEDOK Prize *Prize Composition Competition in Mannheim *Prizes for 4 International Competitions in Buenos Aires Works Schorr has composed chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and music for the stage and film. *Septuarchie violin concerto *Ritornell (Meditation) for violin and organ *Pas de Trois *In der Welt ihr Angst Habte, cantata with violin and organ *Fantasie, Choral und Fuge for organ and oboe *Wir sind ein Teil der Erde choral *Kyrie choral *Psalm 98 for organ Her work has been recorded and issued on CD including: *Initialen F-G-H-SKammerensemble Niggemann, Hans-Ulrich Ni

Eva-Maria Houben

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Eva-Maria Houben (born 15 January 1955) is a German composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and university lecturer. Life Born in Rheinberg, Houben grew up in Kamp-Lintfort. Her mother worked as a special education teacher, her father was a machine steiger and presbyter in the Protestant village church of . There, Houben provided the organ service during her secondary school time. After her Abitur she studied school music at the Folkwang University of the Arts (1974–78) Her teachers at the Folkwang Hochschule also included Mauricio Rosenmann Taub (music theory) and Ludger Maxsein (piano). From 1978 to 1982 Houben was organist at the Evangelische Stadtkirche Dinslaken and applied to German Studies and musicology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Quote Publications * Violeta Dinescu. * Musikalische Praxis als Lebensform : Sinnfindung und Wirklichkeitserfahrung beim Musizieren. * Die Aufhebung der Zeit : zur Utopie unbegrenzter Gegenwart in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. * Gelb : neues Hören; Vinko Globokar, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky. * Jürg Frey : Werkbetrachtungen, Reflexionen, Gespräche. References Further reading * Burkhard Sauerwald: Eva-Maria Houben. In Komponis

Evalyn Parry

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Evalyn Parry is a Canadian performance-maker, theatrical innovator and singer-songwriter. She grew up in Toronto, Ontario in the Kensington Market neighbourhood. Her music combines elements of spoken word and folk. Biography Evalyn Parry is the daughter of David Parry, an English-born Canadian singer and theatrical director who died in 1995, and performer and author Caroline Balderston Parry. Her brother Richard Parry performs with the bands Bell Orchestre and Arcade Fire. She is married to Canadian writer Suzanne Robertson, and currently resides on farmland outside of Kingston, Ontario. Theatre Parry is a theatre creator, actor, director, collaborator and educator. Her plays and performances have been produced and toured nationally and internationally. From 2015 to 2020, Parry served as the artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Parry’s most recent collaborative work, Kiinalik These Sharp Tools, premiered at Buddies in 2017 and was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival (2019) and Cervantino Festival, Mexico (2019), Toronto’s Luminato Festival, Vancouver’s PuSh Festival (2019) and the GCTC (in collaboration with the National Arts Centre) (2020). Parry and co

Evan Call

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Evan Call (born June 29, 1988) is an American composer and arranger working in Japan. He has composed music for multiple anime series, such as Violet Evergarden, Muv-Luv Alternative and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. Call is affiliated with the Japanese agency Miracle Bus and was previously a member of the musical group Elements Garden. Biography Call was born in California, U.S., on June 29, 1988, and grew up in the city of Lincoln. As a teenager, Call was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and had to take a break from going to school. During that time, he learned to play bluegrass guitar from a local teacher. Call later made a friend in his hometown who taught him about Japanese anime and video games, which prompted him to start composing orchestral music. He joined the choir club when he entered high school. After graduating, Call enrolled at the Berklee College of Music, where he majored in film scoring. After graduating from college, he debated if he should pursue a career in film music in Hollywood. In the end, he decided to move to Japan on a tourist visa to work in the anime and game industry. Call would continue to compose soundtracks for other anime series and films such

Evan Hause

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Evan Hause (born 1967) is an American composer, percussionist and conductor. Hause has composed over one hundred works ranging from rock music to opera. Biography and career After growing up in Greenville, North Carolina, he earned the Doctor of Music Arts and Master of Music degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, and the Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory in composition and percussion, where he was awarded the Herbert Elwell Award. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts as a percussionist. He studied composition with Sherwood Shaffer, Randolph Coleman, Richard Hoffmann (at the Schoenberg Haus in Moedling, Austria, in an Oberlin abroad program), William Albright, William Bolcom and Leslie Bassett, among others. He has been commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Riverside Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Tales & Scales, Alarm Will Sound, University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance, and the Carolina Chamber Music Festival. He has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Aspen Music Festival, June in Buffalo and the Edward Albee “Barn” at Montauk, NY. Hau

Evan Marshall (musician)

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Evan Marshall is a virtuoso mandolinist, prominent as an arranger of classical music pieces for the mandolin and proponent of the duo style of playing. His name comes up in mandolin-oriented music circles as one of the best of modern mandolin players, one who has taken the techniques of early mandolin soloists to new levels. He is also a recording artist with Rounder Records and teaches mandolin. He has given classes for the Classical Mandolin Society of America, the Mandolin Symposium and the American Mandolin and Guitar Summer School, and has been associated with the Conservatory of Music at Biola University. As a performer, he has worked as a featured guest with several symphony orchestras, including the Houston Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a former member of Billy Hill and the Hillbillies. Early beginnings Marshall played the violin from the time he was 7-years old, playing classical. Duo style is a technique in which the mandolin player plays both the melody line of music, as well as harmonic parts, sounding like more than one instrument. produced by Mark O’Connor * Mandolin Magic (1990) Rounder Records, produced and Engineered by David

Evan Ziporyn

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Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz. Ziporyn has composed for a wide range of ensembles, including symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, many types of chamber groups, and solo instruments, sometimes involving electronics. He has composed numerous works for Balinese gamelan. He is known for his solo performances on clarinet and bass clarinet; additionally, Ziporyn plays gender wayang and other Balinese instruments, saxophones, piano and keyboards, EWI, and Shona mbira. Ziporyn is the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as director of MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). At MIT he directs Gamelan Galak Tika, an ensemble he founded in 1993, a group of 30 MIT students, staff and community members, devoted to the study and performance of new works for Balinese Gamelan. He is currently a member of the Eviyan Trio, with Czech violinist and vocalist Iva Bittová and American guitarist Gyan Riley. He has released albums on Can

Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco

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Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco (12 July 1675, Verona, Republic of Venice — 12 July 1742, Munich, Bavaria) was an Italian composer, violinist, and cellist. Life Dall’Abaco was born in Verona to renowned guitarist Damiano dall’Abaco. He is thought to have been a pupil of Torelli’s, from whom he would have learned violin and cello. He became a violinist with Tommaso Antonio Vitali in Modena, and in 1704 joined the court of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in Munich as Kammermusiker. After only a few months, he fled with the court to Brussels following Maximilian’s defeat at the Battle of Blenheim. When he went into exile with the court, he spent time in France and absorbed some of the influences there. On Maximilian’s restoration and return to Munich in 1715, Dall’Abaco was appointed Concert-meister. He continued to compose chamber music at the French and Dutch courts until 1740, when he retired. Dall’Abaco’s music is especially indebted to Vivaldi and Corelli. Dall’Abaco died on his 67th birthday. While in Brussels, Dall’Abaco fathered Joseph Abaco (1710–1805). Published works * Opus 1: 12 Sonate da Camera, for violin and violoncello with accompaniment * Opus 2: 12 Concerti a qu

Eve Beglarian

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Eve Beglarian (born Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., July 22, 1958) is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent. Her music is often characterized as postminimalist. Her chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by The Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The California EAR Unit, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Relâche, The Paul Dresher Ensemble, Sequitur, and The American Composers Orchestra, among many others. Discography Albums *Overstepping (1998) *Tell the Birds (2006) Collaborations *Dream Cum Go Down - Eve Beglarian and Juliana Luecking (1995) *Dancing in Place - Elizabeth Panzer (1999) *Play Nice - Twisted Tutu (1999) *Almost Human (Beiser) - Maya Beiser (2007) Compilations *Lesbian American Composers (1998) *Emergency Music (1998) *Messiah Remix (2004) *To Have and to Hold (2007) *60x60 (2004-2005) (2007) *Ceci n’est pas une guitare (Stradivarius, 2007) *Electric Creatures (Sussidiaria, 2018) References External links *Composer Finds a Muse in the Mississippi (The New York Times) *EVBVD Music: Eve Beglarian *Recommended composers: Eve Begl

Eve de Castro-Robinson

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Eve de Castro-Robinson (born 9 November 1956 in London, England ) is a New Zealand composer, professor and graphic designer. Her compositions include orchestral, vocal, chamber and electroacoustic works. She studied at the University of Auckland, where in 1991 she became the first person to receive a DMus from the University. She is Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Auckland. A “de Castro-Robinson Portrait” concert was held at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 2004 and a 50th birthday concert was held at the University of Auckland in 2006. Besides teaching and composing, she also reviews music, speaks and broadcasts on music. She has published a number of professional articles in Canzona and Music in New Zealand. She has been Secretary of the Composers Association of New Zealand, Convenor of the Nelson Composers’ Workshop, and currently directs the Karlheinz Company, the University of Auckland’s resident contemporary music ensemble. Honours and awards *Philip Neill Memorial Prize 1987 *Auckland Philharmonia Composer in Residence 1991 *Philip Neill Memorial Prize 1993 *a pink-lit phase for flute, viola and harp *Chaos of Deligh

Evelina Petrova

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Evelina Petrova (; born 27 May 1974, in Kingisepp, Russia) is a Russian composer and accordion player. Life and career At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, I found myself listening open-mouthed to a Russian woman playing the piano accordion while making wordless vocal sounds into a microphone. Her name was Evelina Petrova and the sounds varied from whoops and bird-like twitterings to a kind of demented lamentation. God knows what it was all about, but it had me transfixed. Dave Gelly, THE GUARDIAN Evelina Petrova graduated from the Saint Petersburg Musical College and after that studied at Theater Academy in a class by titled “The Theater of Musical Improvisation”. She actively participated in all academic activities provided by Gayvoronsky. She began with ensemble performances and eventually joined Gayvoronsky in a duo. In 2002, Evelina graduated from Saint Petersburg State Conservatory with a classical accordionist degree. Since 1997, Evelina has been performing in duo with Gayvoronsky (trumpet). In October 1998 at the Firth International Astor Piazzolla Competition in Castelfidardo, Italy, the duo was awarded the special prize for original music style. In 1999, by vote of Russian music

Evelyn Faltis

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Evelyn Faltis (20 February 1887 – 13 May 1937 ) was a Czech composer. Life Evelyn Faltis was born in Trutnov, Bohemia, in 1887, the second of three daughters of Carl Johann and Maria Anna Cecilia Magdalena Faltis (born Wiesenburg) who were Viennese bourgeoisie. She began her music studies at the Assomption convent in Paris and later studied at the Vienna Music Academy with Robert Fuchs and Eusebius Mandyczewski. She also studied at the Dresden Conservatory with Felix Draeseke and Eduard Reus, and in Munich with Sophie Menter. After completing her studies she moved to Berlin, but settled in Vienna in 1933. She became the first female coach at Bayreuth and worked as an accompanist at the Nuremberg Stadttheater am Ring and the Darmstadt Hoftheater, and after 1924 at the Städtische Oper in Berlin. She died in Vienna of pneumonia. Works Faltis composed for orchestra, chamber ensemble, instruments and chorus. *Sonata in B minor for piano (no Op., about 1909) *Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 1 *Fantastic symphony for orchestra, Op. 2a *Hamlet symphonic poem, Op. 2b *Piano Concerto, Op. 3 *Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 4 *Andante and Slavic Dance, Op 5. (Op. 5 was counted twice) *Adagio for Violin

Evelyn LaRue Pittman

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Evelyn LaRue Pittman (January 6, 1910 – December 1992) was an American composer, choral director and music educator. Life and career Early life Evelyn LaRue Pittman was born on January 6, 1910 in McAlester, Oklahoma. Her interest in music began at a young age, and she began composing songs in the first grade. Her musical interest continued into high school, where she participated in school musicals and sang in their “well-known choir”, of which she was the first Black member. Later life Pittman attended public school in Oklahoma City, and later attended Spelman College and Oklahoma University, where she received her master’s degree. While in school, Pittman studied violin, trombone, and harmony. She also received a life certificate from Langston University to teach music and social studies in the state of Oklahoma. In New York, Pittman received a permanent certificate from Columbia University to teach public school music on any level in the New York Education Department, and ended up teaching in the Greenburgh School District. Pittman then studied composition at the Juilliard School of Music and was likely the first black Oklahoman to study at the school. She then collaborated with

Evgeny Golubev

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Yevgeny Kirillovich Golubev ( ) (16 February 1910 25 December 1988) was a Soviet and Russian composer. Golubev was born and died in Moscow. He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and his students included Iosif Andriasov from 1958 till 1963, Alfred Schnittke, who studied with him from 1953 until 1958, Asya Sultanova, and Michael L. Geller. His own compositions included at least twenty-four string quartets, seven symphonies, three piano concertos - the last dedicated to and recorded by Tatiana Nikolayeva -, concertos for violin, cello and viola, ten piano sonatas (the sixth dedicated to Myaskovsky), sonatas for violin, cello and for trumpet (1956) (the latter dedicated to Sergei Nikolaevich Yeryomin), and quintets for strings with piano and with harp, among other works. This harp quintet is one of Golubev’s few works that are still occasionally performed. The Soviet state record label Melodiya released several LPs of his music, including the three piano concertos, two of the symphonies, and some chamber works and songs which are no longer easily available. During the last years, some of these old recordings were released on CD. Melodiya has in 2005 reissued Nikolayeva’s recordings of

Evgueni Galperine

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Evgueni Galperine (born 1974) is a Russian-French composer. He moved to Paris, France, in 1990. Evgueni followed in the footsteps of his father Youli Galperine, a Russian composer, and is principally known for his film music, which he often creates in collaboration with his brother Sacha Galperine. More recently, he has started to focus more on his music outside of films, culminating in the album Theory of Becoming, released on ECM Records. Biography Evgueni Galperine was born in Chelyabinsk, in the Urals, where he spent his early childhood before moving to Kyiv with his parents and his brother Sacha, who was barely one year old at the time. Four years later, the family moved to Moscow where Evgueni continued his studies, first at a conservatory and then at the Gnessin State Musical College. At the age of 16, the whole family moved to France where Evgueni studied composition at the Boulogne Conservatory. He was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 2000, where he studied music theory and composition. He then went on to compose for concerts, theatre and advertising. Since 2003, he has devoted much of his work to film music, first as a solo artist, then as a duo (since 2009) with