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Hi Kyung Kim

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Hi Kyung Kim (; born 1954) is a South Korean composer. Life Hi Kyung Kim was born in South Korea. She graduated from Seoul National University with a BA and the University of California, Berkeley, with an MA and PhD, where she studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, Olly Wilson, Gérard Grisey, and Sung-Jae Lee. As a benefit of the U.C. Berkeley’s George C. Ladd Prix de Paris, she worked at Institut de Rechéreche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) and École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 1988 to 1990. After completing her studies, Kim took a position as assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She returned to Korea in 1985 and 1998 for research and study of Korean music, and also researched the music of Elliott Carter at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland. Honors and awards *Eisner prize in Creative Arts and *Two Di Lorenzo Composition Prizes *U.C. Berkeley’s George C. Ladd Prix de Paris *Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Works Selected works include: *Thousand Gates (2010/2011) Korean and Western choreography, Korean ensemble (percussion, haegeum), Western ensemble (violin, cello, clar

Hiba Kawas

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Hiba Al Kawas (; born 17 July 1972) is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer and academic. BIography Hiba Al Kawas was born on 17 July 1972 in Sidon, Lebanon, to a Sunni Muslim family. Career Composer Hiba Al Kawas has recorded 21 works of her own composition with the Dnipropetrovsk Symphony Orchestra-Ukraine under the direction of Vyacheslav Blinov, and 10 works with the Kraków Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wojciech Czepiel. She has recorded 13 works with The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the National Choir of Kyiv conducted by Vladimir Sirenko. In 2000, participated as a composer in the Kraków Contemporary Composition Festival, where the Kraków chamber Orchestra played her Aspiration No.1 conducted by Wojceich Czepiel. At her second appearance at the festival, her composition Moments in Krakow was given its world premiere by the Kraków Academy of Music conducted Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Wojceich Czepiel. Her orchestral work, Pleusis 1, which was premiered in 2000 by the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harout Fazlian and by Wojciech Czepiel, has been played by the City of London Sinfonia, Cairo Symphony Orchestra

Hidemaro Konoye

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Viscount was a Japanese conductor and composer of classical music. He was the younger brother of pre-war Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe. Biography Konoye was born in Kōjimachi, Tokyo. He was the younger son of Duke Konoe Atsumaro, scion of one of the Five Regent Houses of the Fujiwara clan. The Konoe clan traditionally provided gagaku musicians to the Imperial Household. Despite this, Konoye pursued music over the objections of his family, who wished for him a career in politics. His decision was supported by his older brother, Fumimaro. Konoye attended the Gakushuin Peers School, where he became close friends with Takashi Inukai. Around this time, Konoye frequently visited the Tokyo Music School and was privately educated by Kosaku Yamada. After graduating from Gakushuin, he matriculated at Tokyo Imperial University to study literature, but lost interest and eventually withdrew. At the age of 25, he decided to go to Europe to study music. He studied in Paris under Vincent d’Indy and Berlin under Franz Schreker. He also studied conducting under Erich Kleiber, and Karl Muck. In 1924, he conducted at the Berlin Philharmonic. After spending a year a half, he returned to Japan

Hideyuki Fukasawa

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is a Japanese composer, best known for his work on the video game Street Fighter IV. Career Born in Tokyo, Fukasawa began learning piano when he was in elementary school. At the age of 10, he listened to the soundtrack of the anime film Swan Lake, which led him to be influenced by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. When in high school, Fukasawa began playing synthesizer, guitar, bass and drums. In 1991, he started his career as a synthesizer programmer. Since then, he has been involved in many works, mainly composing and arranging music for video game and anime. Fukasawa worked on the 2003 game Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny under lead composer Taro Iwashiro, sampling various traditional Japanese instruments for the soundtrack. His involvement in Onimusha 2 led to him being chosen as composer for Chaos Legion, which released the same year. Fukasawa would later serve as the in-game composer for Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams, which released in 2006, with Jamie Christopherson composing for the cutscenes. Fukasawa was influenced by Taro Iwashiro’s compositions for Onimusha 2, and sought to create strong and rich melodies. The arranging of old character themes put Fukasawa under p

Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl

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Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl (May 11, 1694 – March 27, 1739) was a German composer and organist. Life and career Quehl was born in Zella, Holy Roman Empire, the son of a parish clerk. He was a gifted musician who by the age of ten was performing in Northern European cities, including Hamburg, Amsterdam, Leyden and The Hague. His primary organ teacher at the time was Kapellmeister Christian Friedrich Witt of Gotha. In 1714 Quehl assumed the position of organist at St. Marien Cathedral in Suhl. Four years later, he married into the family of St. Marien’s head pastor. His marriage produced eight children, six of whom did not survive infancy. Johann Sebastian Bach, then the Kapellmeister at the Court in Köthen, was godfather to Quehl’s third son. In 1730, Quehl was appointed organist and cantor at St. Nicolai in Marktbreit am Main. From 1732 to 1733, he taught organ and composition to Johann Peter Kellner, who later wrote: " Quehl’s skill and other musical abilities inspired me to give it a try. The man promised to teach me and it was here my foundations of composition were made." Quehl was an organist in Nurnberg in 1734. In 1735, he joined the church school service as a cantor, organ

Hieronymus Payer

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Hieronymus Prayer (13 February 1787 in Vienna-Meidling – 17 August 1845 in Vienna-Meidling) was an Austrian composer and st. Life and career Hieronymus (Jérome) Payer was the son of a teacher. As a 10-year-old he earned his living as a backup musician and was then hired as an assistant teacher of his father’s. In 1806 he became a conductor in the so-called Meidlinger Summer Theatre, for which he even wrote some small Singspiels. Later he moved to the Innere Stadt of Vienna and performed in the Redoutensaal and Theater an der Wien successfully. He was active as a teacher, including of Leopoldine Blahetka. Payer introduced in 1821 in Vienna for the first time the Physharmonica in a public concert. Three years later he became a conductor in Amsterdam (at the Hoogduitse Schouwburg) and in 1825, in Paris. In 1832 he returned to Vienna as conductor for a short time in the Theater in der Josefstadt. As a pianist he had been compared by his contemporaries with Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles and Ferdinand Ries. Works (selection) 6 masses and other sacred works, 10 operas and operettas, including; * Der wilde Jäger, Meidling 1806 or 26. July 1807 * L’arbre creux, Meidling 1808 * Der

Hieronymus Praetorius

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Hieronymus Praetorius the Elder (10 August 1560 – 27 January 1629) was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vividly expressive. Some of his organ music survives in the Visby Orgel-Tabulatur, which dates from 1611. (He was not related to the prolific Michael Praetorius, known as a theorist and for Terpsichore, but the large Praetorius family tree produced many distinguished musicians during the 16th and 17th centuries.) Life He was born in Hamburg and spent most of his life there. He studied organ with his father (Jacob Praetorius the Elder (1520-1586), also a composer), before moving to Cologne for further study. In 1580 he became organist in Erfurt but remained there only two years. After returning to Hamburg in 1582 he worked with his father as assistant organist at Sankt Jacobi, becoming principal organist in 1586 when his father died, a post he retained until his own death 43 years later. His son, Jacob, was born that same year, and was also destined to become a composer. His younger son Johann was also a composer and organist. His other son Hieronymus became a theologian. I

Hifumi Shimoyama

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Hifumi Shimoyama ( Shimoyama Hifumi; born 21 June 1930 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture) is a Japanese composer of contemporary concert music. Since the 1960s, Shimoyama’s music has been regularly featured on World Music Days festivals across Europe and Asia, and sponsored by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). Shimoyama is the founder of GROUP 20.5, the internationally recognized group of Japanese avant garde composers. Selected compositions Shimoyama’s works are published by Academia Music, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Japan Federation of Composers, Mieroprint, Ongaku no Tomo-sha. ;Orchestral * Reflection (リフレクション) for 3 string orchestras (1968) * Zone (ゾーン) for 16 string players (1970) * Fūmon II (風紋II) for orchestra and tape (1974) * Yūgenism (ユーゲニズム) for orchestra (1988–1989) * Doubridge (だぶりっじ) for string orchestra (1995) ;Concertante * Wave (ウェーヴ) for cello, string ensemble, harp, piano and percussion (1972, revised 1998) * Concerto for cello and orchestra (1984) * Yūgenism No. 2 (ユーゲニズム第2番) for clarinet, string orchestra and percussion (1998) * Concerto for violin and orchestra (2003) * Knob (ノブ) for bass clarinet and 14 players ;Chamber music * String Quarte

Hijiri Kuwano

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is a Japanese violinist, composer and arranger. Hijiri began taking violin lessons at age 6 and studied under Yonosuke Ishii, Shizuko Ishii and Chikashi Tanaka. While attending Tokyo University of the Arts, he performed as a guest concert master at Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra and Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra. Before graduating from the university, he became interested in playing non-classical music and started performing with Toshihito Nakanishi, who inspired him in many ways. Hijiri also started his career as a composer when he produced an album published together with a photobook by Kenji Ishikawa, Moonlight Blue. Hijiri handled string arrangements for albums and movies for Kome Kome Club and started his career as an arranger as well. Hijiri worked on recordings, concerts with various artists, movies and video games as a soloist and with “Hijiri Kuwano strings group”. He is credited in Whisper of the Heart, Shall We Dance, Nobody Knows, Kind of Love, Melody of Oblivion, Good Luck Girl!, Final Fantasy XIII and numerous other productions as a performer, composer and arranger. He is also known as an original violin player for the battle theme “Blinded by Light” in Square Enix

Hikari Ōe

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is a Japanese composer. He is the son of Japanese author and Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe and Yukari Ikeuchi, and the nephew of director Juzo Itami. Biography Hikari Ōe was born autistic and developmentally disabled. Doctors tried to convince his parents to let their son die, but they refused to do so. Even after an operation, Ōe remained visually impaired, developmentally delayed, epileptic and with limited physical coordination. He does not speak much. Ōe’s parents report that his first response to a particular sound was when he was watching TV with his parents, and there was the sound of a bird singing, which he responded to. His parents were fascinated. They bought him a record with tracks of bird calls, in which a woman would say the name of each bird before the song of the bird would play. He listened to this record. Walking with his parents near their vacation home one day, they heard a bird singing, and he then imitated the voice of the woman who presented the bird songs in his child’s records. This was how they got the idea to recruit a music teacher for Ōe. His parents arranged a piano teacher, Kumiko Tamura, for him. Instead of speaking, Ōe began to express his feel

Hikaru Hayashi

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was a Japanese composer, pianist and conductor. Hayashi is considered to be one of the most renowned and accomplished Japanese composers of the postwar period. In particular, Hayashi was noted for his choral suite Scenes from Hiroshima (1958–2001). In exploring the possibilities of Japanese language opera, Hayashi composed more than 30 operas. He was artistic director and resident composer of the Opera Theatre Konnyakuza. His oeuvre also includes symphonic works, works for band, chamber music, choral works, songs and more than 100 film scores. Hayashi was also the author of more than 20 books including Nihon opera no yume (日本オペラの夢 The Dream of Japanese Opera). In 1998 Hayashi won the 30th Suntory Music Award. Early life Hikaru Hayashi was born in Tokyo on October 22, 1931. He was the cousin of renowned flautist Ririko Hayashi. Hayashi’s father was a physician who had graduated from Keiō University Medical School, and had studied in Berlin before returning to Japan to take up a position as a professor at Nihon University. A musical prodigy, Hayashi began studying music under his father’s friend, the famed composer Hisatada Otaka, at the age of 10, composing numerous full-length cham

Hilda Dederich

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Hilda Dederich (1901–1969) was an English pianist, composer and piano teacher. She was a child prodigy and was the youngest of the pupils of Tobias Matthay. She was taught by Hedwig McEwen at the Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School on Wimpole Street in Marylebone. Dederich stayed at Matthay’s country house during the Second World War and subsequently taught and became a director of the school. In the 1920s Dederich appeared as ‘Aunt Hilda’ on the BBC radio programme Children’s Hour to talk to children about the basics of piano music. In her obituary in The Times, Ivor Newton wrote that Dederich “never knew her once show any concern for her own aggrandisement” and that “among artists such qualities of modesty and altruism are sadly rare”. Her composition “Moonlight Through the Cedar Tree” was recorded by David Reeves and released on his 2000 album Piano Music of the Unknown Impressionists on Fleur de Son. References External links *

Hilda Dianda

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Hilda Fanny Dianda (born 13 April 1925) is an Argentinian composer, musicologist, music educator and conductor. Early life Hilda Dianda was born in Córdoba, Argentina on 13 April 1925. She began her musical studies in Buenos Aires from 1942-1950 under Honorio Siccardi. She was awarded a fellowship, and began studying conducting under Hermann Scherchen in Venice from 1949-1950. She later moved to France where she was influenced by the “Musical Research Group” (GRMC) of French radio, directed by Pierre Schaeffer. She was invited into a phonology research position with Radio Audizioni Italiane (RAI) along with John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Dieter Schönbach, and André Boucourechliev, where she also began to study electronic music in the Studio di Fonologia, Milan. These studies earned her a fellowship and a Medal of Cultural Merit from the Kranichstein Music Institute. From 1960 to 1962 she participated in the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt, Germany. Career In 1966 she worked in the Electronic Music Lab at the California State University, Northridge in the United States. after which she moved to Germany until 1976. She toured Latin America and Europe as a conductor. As a

Hilda Emery Davis

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Hilda Emery Davis (; November 1, 1895 – September 20, 1995) was an American composer and pianist, mainly active in Philadelphia. She was also married to famous orchestra leader Meyer Davis and was the mother of World Citizen Garry Davis. Life Hilda Hodgkins was born on November 1, 1895 in Salisbury Cove, an unincorporated village in Bar Harbor, Maine to Eugene Hodgkins and Bethia (known as Bertha) Emery. Hodgkins began learning the piano when she was five years old while living in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She also sang in her church choir, and often performed piano accompaniment for her older sister Doris (who later became concert contralto and wife of Pierre Monteux). Hilda and Meyer had four other children, Meyer Davis Jr. in 1919, Sol Gareth “Garry” in 1921, Emery in 1923, and Marjorie Rose “Margie” in 1931. The Davises maintained a close relationship with many leading orchestral conductors of the day, including Leopold Stokowski, who their children called “Stokey.” There the composer taught music lessons and accompanied visiting performers such as tenor Andrew McKinley on the piano and the organ. Music Although she is not as well known today, Davis was known as a “famous Phi

Hilda Pires dos Reis

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Hilda Pires dos Reis (10 October 1919 - 2001 ) was a Brazilian composer, conductor, educator and pianist. Pires dos Reis was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Narciza Aires dos Reis Pires and Antonio Joaquim Pires. Guilherme Fontainha, Arnaud Gouveia, Francisco Mignone, and Paulo Silva. She earned a doctorate in conducting and piano from the School of Music of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EMUFRJ) and later became a professor and head of the composition department there. She also taught piano at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music in Rio de Janeiro. Her students included the Brazilian composer and violinist Guilherme Carneiro da Cunha Bauer. *Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano *String Quartet No. 1 *Valsa Seresta for bassoon and piano Orchestral works *Bailado dos Gigantes da Botas *“Eu Te Quis Tanto” *“Jongo” *“Legenda” *“Tristezas de Amor” *“Via-láctea” References

Hilda Sehested

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Hilda Sehested (27 April 1858 – 15 April 1936) was a Danish composer. Biography Hilda Sehested was born in Funen, Denmark, of parents Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested (1813–82), an archaeologist, and Charlotte Christine Linde (1819–94). She studied music with C. F. E. Horneman in Copenhagen and later with Louise Aglaé Massart (1827-1887) in Paris. She studied organ with Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod and composition with Orla Rosenhoff, and began composing at the age of 30. Sehested’s mother died in 1894, and she moved to Copenhagen to live with her sister Thyra. She became engaged to archaeologist and museum director Henry Petersen there, but he died before the wedding. Shocked by his death, Sehested took a job as a nurse for a while and then as a church organist, and eventually returned to composing. She died in Copenhagen. Works Sehested wrote a number of songs, compositions for instruments and orchestra and one opera. Selected works include: *Fantasy Pieces, 1891 *Sonata for Pianoforte, 1896 *Intermezzi for Piano Trio, sonata, 1904 *Suite für Cornet in B und Klavier, 1905 *Songs with Piano, 1907 *Agnete and the Merman opera, 1914 *Miniatures for Orchestra, 1915 *Rhapsody, 1915 *Quartet

Hilda Tablet

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Hilda Tablet is a fictitious “twelve-tone composeress” created by Henry Reed in a series of radio comedy plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Third Programme. Hilda is the inventor of musique concrète renforcée (literally, “reinforced concrete music”), and the composer of the all-female opera Emily Butter set in a department store. She first appeared in the play A Very Great Man Indeed where the central character and narrator is the scholar, Herbert Reeve, played by Hugh Burden. Reeve plans to write a biography of the novelist Richard Shewin, and interviews various friends and relatives of the deceased author. Reed became intrigued by the character of Hilda and subsequently wrote a sequel The Private Life of Hilda Tablet in which Reeve is bullied into undertaking the biography in “not more than twelve volumes” of Hilda. Five further episodes followed. Hilda Tablet was played by Mary O’Farrell. The principal models for Hilda were Dame Ethel Smyth (from whom Hilda took her lesbianism and rural heartiness together with the endlessness of her proposed memoirs), and Elisabeth Lutyens, with whom Reed was acquainted, from whom Hilda took her interest in the macabre and obsessi

Hilda Wilson

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Hilda Wilson (7 April 1860 – 10 December 1918) was a British contralto and composer who also used the name Matilda Ellen Wilson and composed under the name Douglas Hope. Life Wilson was born into a musical family in Monmouth. Her father James Wilson was the bandmaster of the Monmouth Volunteer Corps. Her sister Agnes became a professional contralto, their brother James taught at the West London Conservatoire of Music, another brother, Henry Lane Wilson, (1871–1915), was a pianist, composer and baritone, and a third, W. Stroud Wilson, became a well-known violinist. Hilda’s early years were largely spent in Gloucester, where her family moved when she was four. The following year, a reviewer in The Western Mail wrote: Her vocal range in her early years was unusually wide. She was heard in concert in mezzo soprano and soprano solos, and was invited to sing the soprano part in Haydn’s The Creation before being guided towards a career as a contralto. During the 1880s and 1890s Wilson was a frequent soloist at the Three Choirs Festivals. In addition to singing in the mainstays of the festivals’ repertoire such as Messiah and Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St Paul, she took part in less often he

Hildegard of Bingen

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Hildegard of Bingen (, ; ; c. 109817 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the Catholic Church. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. A number of scholars have considered her to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. Hildegard’s convent at Disibodenberg elected her as (mother superior) in 1136. She founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. Hildegard wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal works, as well as letters, hymns, and antiphons for the liturgy. There are more surviving chants by Hildegard than by any other composer from the entire Middle Ages, and she is one of the few known composers to have written both the music and the words. One of her works, the , is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She is noted for the invention of a constructed language known as . Although the history of her formal canonization is compli

Hildegard Quiel

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Hildegard Quiel (23 April 1888 - 14 July 1971) was a German composer and pianist who wrote music for instruments, voice, and the theatre. She composed 25 lieder based on texts by Hermann Hesse. Life and works Quiel was born in Berlin, where her father Reinhold Quiel was a professor at the Berlin Main Cadet Academy. She studied at the Berlin Academy of Music (today the Berlin University of the Arts) from 1909 to 1913. Her teachers included Elisabeth Kuyper She died in Weiler im Allgäu. Her music was published by Paragon Verlag, *Sonata (violin and piano) Theatre *Rosenrot (Rose Red) *Schneeweisschen (Snow White) Vocal *25 lieder (texts by Herman Hesse) References

Hildegard Westerkamp

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Hildegard Westerkamp (born April 8, 1946, in Osnabrück, Germany) is a Canadian composer, radio artist, teacher, and sound ecologist. She is known for her contributions to and development of acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and soundwalks, particularly through her work on the World Soundscape Project in the 1970s and 1980s. She has written extensively on these topics for journals and conferences, including Organised Sound. Westerkamp studied flute and piano at the Conservatory of Music in Freiburg, West Germany from 1966 to 1968, then moved to Canada to study for a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, which she earned in 1972. During this time as a student she encountered both Barry Truax and R. Murray Schafer, and began working for Schafer as part of the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in 1973. She later enrolled as a student in the communications department and completed her thesis, entitled “Listening and Soundmaking: A Study of Music-As-Environment,” for a Master of Arts degree in 1988; she taught acoustic communication at Simon Fraser until 1990. Westerkamp became a naturalized citizen of Canada in 1975. In 1972, s

Hilding Hallnäs

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Hilding Hallnäs (24 May 1903 – 11 September 1984) was a Swedish composer. Hallnäs was married to the actress Gun Holmquist. Life and career Hallnäs was born in Halmstad, Sweden, in 1903. His father had been a tenor and sang in choirs. After matriculation in his home town, he entered the Royal College of Music, Stockholm in 1924, He was active in the Levande Musik (Living Music) concert association and the Gothenburg Composers’ Association. In 1974, he settled in Stockholm. Selected compositions Music for the stage * Ballet: Kärlekens ringdans (1955) * Ballet: Ifigenia (1961–63) Orchestral music * Divertimento for orchestra (1937) * Seven symphonies (including Sinfonietta pastorale (1944), Sinfonia notturna (1946), Small symphony for strings (1947), Metamorfose sinfonice (1952)) * Violin concerto (1945) * Piano concerto (1956) * Flute concertos (1957, 1962) * En grekisk saga (1967 – a protest against the junta’s seizure of power) * Viola concerto (1978) * Cello concerto (1981–82) Organ music * Fantasi (1936) * Fantasi and preludium with chorale (1957) * Pietà (1962) * Organ sonatas – No 1: De profundis (1965), No 2 (1977) * Passionsmusik - Musica dolorosa (1968) Chamber music * Viol

Hilding Rosenberg

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Hilding Constantin Rosenberg (June 21, 1892 – May 18, 1985) was a Swedish composer and conductor. He is commonly regarded as the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century classical music in Sweden. Life and career Born in Bosjökloster, he was an organist (completing his examinations in 1909), He died in Bromma, Stockholm. Selected compositions Orchestral music Symphonies * Symphony (no. 0) (1915–1916, withdrawn) * Symphony no. 1, op. 5 (1919, revised 1932, 1971) * Symphony no. 2, op. 62 Sinfonia grave (1934) * Symphony no. 3, The Four Ages of Man (1939, rev. 1943; 1949 with new third movement) * Symphony no. 4, The Revelation of John, for baritone, choir and orchestra (1940; Bible, Hjalmar Gullberg) * Symphony no. 5, Örtagårdsmästaren, for alto, mixed choir and orchestra (1944; Bible) * Symphony no. 6, Sinfonia semplice (1951) * Symphony no. 7, (1968, rev. 1968) * Symphony no. 8, In candidum, for mixed choir and orchestra (1974; Vilhelm Ekelund; rev. 1980 as Sinfonia serena) Concertante * Suite in D major, op. 13 (1922, version for violin and orchestra) * Violin concerto no. 1, op. 22 (1924) * Trumpet concerto, op. 47 (1928) * Variati

Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir

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Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (born 1993) is an Icelandic artist, musician and composer whose practice spans performance, installation, and sound, and explores storytelling and immersive spatial experiences. Based between Amsterdam and Reykjavík, her work frequently engages relational aesthetics and institutional critique. Prizes Hildur Elísa received the 2026 Icelandic Arts Prize Motivational Award for her “exceptionally mature and complex work”. The Icelandic Arts Prize is overseen by the Visual Arts Council and hosted by the Icelandic Art Center. Early life and education Hildur Elísa completed a diploma in classical clarinet from the Reykjavík College of Music in 2015, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2019. In 2018, she also attended the Kunst und Vermittlung department at Hochschule Luzern through an exchange programme. In 2024, she completed the temporary programme Re:master Opera (MA-level) at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Career Hildur Elísa’s work has been described as reframing everyday gestures, within operatic performance or contemporary music, to reflect on presence, absence, surreality, grief, and listening dynamics. Later that sa

Hildur Guðnadóttir

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Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm, and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and has toured with Animal Collective and Sunn O))). She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Grammy Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Hildur has gained international recognition for her film and television scores, including Journey’s End (2017), Mary Magdalene (2018), Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), Todd Field’s Tár and Sarah Polley’s Women Talking (both 2022). Her score for Todd Phillips’ Joker (2019), won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, making Hildur the first solo female composer to win in all three. She is also known for her work on the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA TV Award and a Grammy Award. Early life Hildur was born in 1982 in Reykjavík, Iceland, and was raised in Hafnarfjörður. She comes from a family of musicians — her father, Guðni Franzson, is a composer, c

Hinako Takagi

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Hinako Takagi (born 1989) is a Japanese composer and pianist. She is a lecturer in composition at the Osaka College of Music. In 2019, she became the second Japanese to win first prize in the composition category of the Geneva International Music Competition. Her award-winning work “L’instant” was selected as a task piece in the oboe section of the same competition held in 2021. Biography Takagi was born and raised in Hyogo, Japan. In junior high, she was asked to compose a song for her class for a school event. The experience inspired her to be interested in music composition. She majored in piano in high school, and enrolled in composition major in university. In her freshman year, she received an assignment from her teacher, Yoko Kubo, to compose “100 variations of the same piece in one year.” She later said that she learned the basics of composition from this assignment. She studied composition with Yoko Kubo and Allain Gaussin. In 2012 she was appointed as a lecturer at Osaka College of Music in Osaka, Japan. She has organized many small concerts with new musical arrangements to engage people’s interest in contemporary music. In 2019, she composed a pantonality song called “My

Hiro Fujikake

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Hiroyuki Fujikake (born 1949), also known by his pen name Hiro Fujikake, is a Japanese composer, conductor and synthesizer player. Life Hiro Fujikake was born in 1949 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. In 1964 he began his musical studies at the High School. Later he attended the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in Aichi where he studied composition for four years to complete his bachelor’s degree. He studied a further three years to get the Master of Music at the same university. Fujikake has won numerous awards for his compositions. Such as the Ongaku-no-tomo Composition Prize for “Two Poems for Chorus” in 1970. The second prize of the NHK Mainichi Music Competition for “Threnody” in 1974. The All Japan Band Association’s Test Piece Composition Prize for “Concertino Overture” in 1975. The Japan Mandolin Union Composition Prize for “Pastoral Fantasy” in 1975. The first prize at the Sasagawa competition for “Nostalgic Rhapsody” in 1975 and “Chaconne” in 1976. Japan Symphony Foundation’s Composition Prize for “The Song of Spring” in 1990. The Grand Prix at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium for the symphonic work “The Rope Crest” in 1977. His compositional a

Hiroaki Tsutsumi

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is a Japanese musician and composer best known for his work on various anime television series. He started his musical career at the age of 14 when he first started playing the guitar. After winning a guitar contest three years later, he decided to become a professional musician and later graduated from Kunitachi College of Music. In 2013, he was given the role of lead composer for the first time with Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation. Since Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation, he has composed many series, including Dr. Stone, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Teasing Master Takagi-san. Biography Hiroaki Tsutsumi was born in Tokyo on June 5, 1985, and began his musical career when he first started playing the guitar at the age of 14 after many of his peers started playing the instrument themselves. After practicing under guidance from and graduating from high school, he attended and later graduated from Kunitachi College of Music. In 2021, Jujutsu Kaisen won Anime of the Year at the 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, which Tsutsumi also co-composed. Works TV series * Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation (2013) (composer with Kenji Kaneko and Masaru Yokoyama) * Lance N’ Masques (2015) (compo

Hiroaki Zakōji

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was a Japanese composer and pianist. Biography He was born in Tokyo on January 20, 1958. He was brought up in Asahikawa, Hokkaido from the age of 4 and lived there until he was 20 years old. He started learning to play the piano when he was 4 years old. From the age of 16, he studied composition under Masanobu Kimura. In 1978, he entered the Music Department of Nihon University in Tokyo. There he learned composition under Kiyohiko Kijima and piano under Midori Matsuya (1943-1994). At the same time, he also studied composition under Roh Ogura (1916-1990) in Kamakura. He graduated from university and entered the Music Institute of Nihon University in 1982. In the same year, he organised the Tokyo Shin-Wagaku Consort which regularly played his own and other contemporary composers’ music. In 1984, he performed Japanese contemporary works in Basel, Switzerland. In 1985, he was invited by the IGNM - Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik - and performed his “Piano Piece I” (Op.28) in Basel. In April 1986, he returned to Switzerland where he composed and performed his “Piano Piece III” (Op.36) in Arlesheim near Basel. Also he travelled to Spain and Denmark and wrote an essay for a mus

Hiroki Kikuta

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is a Japanese composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Soukaigi, and Koudelka, for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other games, and worked as a concept designer in addition to composer for the unreleased MMORPG Chou Bukyo Taisen. He became interested in music at an early age, but earned a degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology from Kansai University. He spent the next few years working first as a manga illustrator, then as a composer for anime series, before coming to work for Square in 1991. After composing the soundtracks for his first three best-known works, he formed his own video game production company, Sacnoth, for which he was the president and CEO. After producing and composing Koudelka in 1999, he left to become a freelance composer. Since his departure he has formed his own record label, Norstrilia, through which he produces albums of his own compositions and collaborations with other artists, as well as his previous scores. His music has been performed in concerts such as the Symphonic Fantasies concerts in Cologne, Germany in September 2009, and sele

Hiromori Hayashi

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was a Japanese composer credited with composing the Japanese national anthem “Kimigayo”. Life and career He held several positions in the royal court starting in his youth. He moved to Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration and in 1875 helped carry out 1875 orders to fuse Western musical theory with Japanese theory. The final version of the anthem was first played for Emperor Meiji for his birthday, on 3 November 1880. Sources conflict over who composed the music. Historian Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney writes, “The composer is nominally identified as Hayashi Hiromori, a musician at the Imperial Court, but Oku Yoshiisa, who worked under Hayashi, is believed to have composed the music, with some rearrangement by Franz Eckert (1852–1916).” The melody that Hayashi was credited for replaced an arrangement by John William Fenton, a visiting Irish military band leader, that was rejected in 1870. The Court then adopted a new melody composed by Yoshiisa Oku and Akimori Hayashi. The composer is often listed as Hiromori Hayashi, who was their supervisor and Akimori’s father. Akimori was also one of Fenton’s pupils. The German musician Franz Eckert applied the melody with Western style harmony. References

Hiroshi Asai

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(born 26 April 1978) is a Japanese arranger, musician and composer for the Giza Studio label. He is a former member of band The★tambourines. Since 2012 he is a member of the instrumental band Sensation. He arranged music for artists such as Miho Komatsu, U-ka Saegusa in dB, Mai Kuraki, Shiori Takei and many others from the Giza Studio label. He did back vocals for Rina Aiuchi. He participated in live concerts for artist such as Zard’s since 1999, Koshi Inaba’s solo live tours, Marie Ueda and Garnet Crow Symphonic Concert 2010 ~~All Lovers~~. He is active as an arranger and player as of 2020. List of provided works as a composer Akane Sugazaki *Promises List of provided works as a lyricist Aya Kamiki *Sakura E Hayami Kishimoto *Yes or No? *from you from me List of provided works as an arranger Miho Komatsu *Camouflage *Kamisama wa Jitto Miteru U-ka Saegusa in dB *Smile & Tears *Ryuusei no Nostalgia Ai Takaoka *Nemurenai Yoru Marie Ueda *Hanamonage *Shihaisha *Tomoshibi *Journey *Romantika Shiori Takei *Yasashii Hizashi *Ano Umi ga Mietara *Futari no Sunny Day *Ryuusei *At Eighteen *Shiosai Letter Saasa *Saite Hiraite *Uso, *eyes to eyes *Over The Rainbow *Naturally Mai Kuraki *Love, N

Hiroshi Itsuki

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is a Japanese singer and composer. As of 1987, he had sold 20 million singles and 4 million LP albums. Itsuki is usually regarded as an enka singer, but he has also released a cover version of Southern All Stars’ J-pop song “Tsunami”. Career In 1965, Itsuki debuted under the stage name “Masaru Matsuyama,” but did not initially achieve commercial success. Although he changed his stage name to “Eiichi Ichijō” in 1967, and then to “Ken Mitani” in 1969, there was no improvement in his music’s commercial sales. In 1971, he changed his name to “Hiroshi Itsuki” and was given the song by Masaaki Hirao. Written by lyricist Yoko Yamaguchi, “Yokohama Tasogare” reached the top of the Oricon weekly single chart. His 2006 single “Takasebune” debuted at number 9 on the Oricon charts, becoming his first Top 10 single in 22 years, since his 1984 single “Nagaragawa Enka”. In 2008, he was featured in Morning Musume’s Cover You album. He sang “Izakaya” with Ai Takahashi. Also in 2008, he collaborated with the girl group Cute, letting them record the song “Edo no Temari Uta”, which he himself was planning to include in his end-of-year album. Cute’s producer Tsunku liked the song and thought that if per

Hiroshi Kawaguchi (composer)

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is a Japanese video game music composer and keyboardist who works for Sega. He is among the oldest of the Sega sound team members, and one of the few from the 1980s still active today. He joined Sega in 1984 as a programmer before transferring to the sound department the following year. He is also known as Hiro and Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内博史) (his pre-mukoyōshi name), and has been a part of both the S.S.T. Band and the sound unit H. , the latter of which he leads. He has also been a member of Chain Band, a hybrid between the groups H. and Sonic Adventure Music Experience. He worked closely with game designer Yu Suzuki and served as composer for some of the company’s most recognized series, such as Space Harrier, Out Run, and After Burner, and has contributed music to many others. He has often acted as a tutor to new Sega composers, such as Yasuhiro Takagi and Keitaro Hanada. Works References

Hiroyuki Yamamoto (composer)

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is a contemporary Japanese composer. Biography Hiroyuki Yamamoto was born in Yamagata Prefecture and grew up in Zushi, Kanagawa. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and graduated in 1990. He studied composition with Akira Kitamura, Jo Kondo, and Isao Matsushita. After graduating, he took a position at Iwate University in Morioka, Iwate. Yamamoto was invited to participate in the Forum 91 in 1991 at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His work was also performed at the International Gaudeamus Music Week in 1994. After he won the third prize of the Competition BMW Musica Viva in 1998, his selected work Canticum Tremulum I was premiered with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra of Munich in 2000. Yamamoto directed the Ensemble d’Ame in Tokyo from 1997–2000. Along with Haruyuki Suzuki, Yoshifumi Tanaka, Hiroshi Yokoshima and other Japanese composers, Yamamoto was a founding member of the composer’s group “Tempus Novum” in 1990. Awards *Third prize, The 58th Japan Music Competition in 1989 with the work Closed Figure *League of Practica Musica award in 1991 *Prize, 13th competition of the Japanese Group for Contemporary Music in 1996 for the piano work Fo

Hisatada Otaka

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Hisatada Otaka (Japanese: 尾高尚忠; 26 September 1911 – 16 February 1951) was a Japanese composer and conductor. He was the conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra from 1942 to 1951. Otaka was born in Japan and studied in musical arts early, however he dropped out of high school and moved to Vienna for six years for conducting and composing, during his studies in Vienna he became friends with Andrzej Panufnik and started composing works. In 1940, Otaka moved back to Japan where he took the role as conductor for the NHK Symphony Orchestra, become a music teacher and compose most of his significant works such as his Symphony and Cello Concerto, however his life came to an abrupt end at the age of 39, leaving an unfinished Flute Concerto rewrite which one of his students, Hikaru Hayashi, would take on and complete. When Otaka died he left behind three children, all of whom play his work regularly particularly the youngest son Tadaaki Otaka. In 1953, the NHK Symphony Orchestra created the Otaka Prize, which is named after Hisatada Otaka for his role in helping the orchestra. Otaka had written one of the first Japanese cello concertos and the first Japanese flute concerto, the latter being

Hisato Ohzawa

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(August 1, 1907—October 28, 1953) was a Japanese composer and conductor. Renewed interest in his work reflects the view that he was one of the preeminent Japanese composers of his day. Biography One of the foremost Japanese composers of the first half of the twentieth century, he grew up in Kobe, studying piano, organ and choral singing. He moved to the United States in 1930 to study composition with Frederick Converse and Carl McKinley at Boston University and the New England Conservatory of Music, also taking some lessons with Arnold Schoenberg. It was in America that his early works were composed: The Little Symphony (1932), his First Piano Concerto, his First Symphony, and a Double Bass Concerto (dedicated to Koussevitzky). He was the first Japanese musician who conducted Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1934 he moved to Paris and continued his studies, composing his Second Symphony and his Second Piano Concerto. He returned to Japan in 1936, where his works were met with mixed reactions, being technically too difficult for Japanese orchestras of the time, and being in a fairly modern style. Due to the increasing international tension of the time, he was less and less able to trav

Hisham Kharma

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Hisham Kharma () is an Egyptian music producer and creative director. He is known for his live concerts in the Cairo Opera House, his 2012 album AlyaQeen, the soundtrack for The End, and his soundtrack for Egypt: Land of Civilization documentary, which premiered during the Pharaohs’ Golden Parade and starred Khaled El Nabawy. Early life and education Kharma was born and raised in Cairo. He started playing piano at the age of 9. He obtained his BS in computer science from the American University in Cairo and his postgraduate studies in art direction at Miami Ad School. Biography After graduation, Kharma started working in advertising as a creative director. His first work was an ad for Ahl Masr Hospital for Burns. He was granted the title of Humanity Burn FreeAambassador, for the initiative of the Ahl Masr for burns and for composing the music of Shoof B’albak. In 2010, Kharma released his first official album, The First Voyage, produced by Virgin Megastores. His second album was released by Sony Music Entertainment. He was chosen to represent Egypt on a CD of Sony’s series Arabesque with Yanni and Can Atilla. In November 2016, he released his third album, AlyaQeen, consisting of 13

Hitomi Kaneko

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Hitomi Kaneko (金子仁美) is a female Japanese classical music composer. Background Born in Japan in 1965, Ms. Kaneko graduated from the composition class at Toho Gakuen School of Music in 1988, and completed postgraduate studies in 1994. She went to study in France with a French Government scholarship in 1990. She then began to study at the Paris Conservatoire. She also attended the Summer Music Festivals in Avignon and Darmstadt with scholarships in 1992. In September 1997, she went to Paris to study at IRCAM. She is at present a full-time professor of Toho Gakuen School of Music. Awards and prizes * First Prize in the 6th Competition of French-Japanese Contemporary Composition (1988) * First Prize for Composition in the 59th Japan Music Competition (1990) * E. Nakamichi Prize (1990) * Awarded the 9th Muramatsu Prize (January 1997) Compositions Orchestral works * 悲しみの自乗 Tristesse (for orchestra)(1989)(First Prize and the E. Nakamichi Prize at the 59th Japan Music Competition, 1990): 8’ * ラ・ピエス La Piece (for 15 Players)(1993/94): 10’ * フルート協奏曲 Concerto (for Flute and Orchestra)(1995): 14’ * ル・プロセシュス Le Processus (for 15 Players)(1996): 15’ * 気配尺八とオーケストラのための Kehai (for Shakuhachi and