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Ilan Eshkeri

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Ilan Eshkeri (born 7 April, 1977) is a British composer known for his concert music, film scores and artist collaborations. Early life Eshkeri was born in London. During his childhood, he learned to play the violin and guitar. Eshkeri attended Leeds University, where he studied music and English literature. During this time he also apprenticed with film composers Edward Shearmur, Michael Kamen and music producer Steve McLaughlin. Career His extensive catalogue of film and TV scores include Still Alice, Stardust, The Young Victoria, Layer Cake (film), Shaun The Sheep and David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive. Eshkeri has collaborated with artists David Gilmour, Annie Lennox, Take That, KT Tunstall, Tim Wheeler, Amon Tobin and Nick Hodgson (Kaiser Chiefs) among others. He recently worked with the European Space Agency on music for astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission. In addition, he has conducted his own works at The Louvre in Paris, the Rudolfinum in Prague and conducted a specially commissioned work called Reliquary for the Burberry 2016 Autumn fashion show in London. In 2012, Eshkeri was commissioned to write a composition for a photo exhibition at The Louvre in Pa

Ildebrando Pizzetti

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Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, as well as a musicologist and a music critic. Biography Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the “Generation of 1880” along with Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Alfredo Casella. They were among the first Italian composers in some time whose primary contributions were not in opera. The instrumental and a cappella traditions had never died in Italian music and had produced, for instance, the string quartets of Antonio Scontrino (1850–1922) and the works of Respighi’s teacher Giuseppe Martucci; but with the “Generation of 1880” these traditions became stronger. Ildebrando Pizzetti was the son of Odoardo Pizzetti, a pianist and piano teacher who was his son’s first teacher. At first Pizzetti seemed headed for a career as a playwright—he had written several plays, two of which had been produced—before he decided in 1895 on a career in music and entered the Parma Conservatory. There he was taught from 1897 by Giovanni Tebaldini and gained the beginnings of his lifelong interest in the early music of Italy, reflected in his own music and his writings. He ta

Ileana Perez Velazquez

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Ileana Perez Velazquez is a Cuban-American composer who has been professor of composition at Williams College since 2000. She was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and studied undergraduate piano and composition at the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana, Cuba before moving to the United States for graduate work in composition at Dartmouth College and Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, where she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Her work draws from a range of influences, which a New York Times review described as an “otherworldly quality mirrored in the accompaniment and sounding like a musical expression of the Latin American literary form magical realism.” She has been commissioned to compose works, including the 2015 Commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University and by performers and ensembles, including Continuum (New York City), Momenta String quartet (New York City), Miranda Cuckson and Nunc, Cassatt Quartet (New York City), Ensemble Dal Niente from Chicago, Talujon Percussion Ensemble, by the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, and by Mari Kimura, among others. Festival performances of her work includes venues such as the Sonidos de las Americ

İlhan Baran

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İlhan Baran (1934, Artvin – 27 November 2016) was a Turkish composer. Baran studied double bass and was a composition student of Ahmed Adnan Saygun at Ankara State Conservatory, graduating in 1960. He continued his studies in France at École Normale de Musique de Paris with Henri Dutilleux and Maurice Ohana. After returning to Turkey, he taught composition at the Ankara State Conservatory from 1964 to 2000. Selected works ;Orchestra * Töresel Çeşitlemeler (Modal Variations) (1980) ;Chamber music * Bir Bölümlü Sonatina (Sonatina in One Movement) for violin (or viola, or cello) and piano (1965) * Yaylı Çalgılar Dördülü (String Quartet) * Demet (Miracles) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1966–1967) * Dönüşümler (Transformations) for violin, cello and piano (1975) * Uygulamalar (Applications), Volumes I & II for double bass and piano * Dört Zeybek (4 Zeybek Dances) for double bass and piano * Dört Parça (4 Pieces) for 2 flutes ;Keyboard * Çocuk Parçaları (Children’s Pieces) for piano or harpsichord (1984) * Küçük Süit (Junior Suite) for piano * Üç Soyut Dans (3 Abstract Dances) for piano * Üç Bagatel (3 Bagatelles) for piano (1974) * İki Sesli Sonatına (2 Audio Sonatinas) f

Ilija Pejovski

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Ilija Pejovski (Macedonian: Илија Пејовски) (born 1947) is a Macedonian composer, arranger and pianist. One of the Macedonian composers who began to treat jazz professionally and evolve the genre of Macedonian Jazz, he has a broad portfolio of original music. A large part of his works were reserved for the big band ensembles, but he has also written symphonic and solo piano music as well as film music. He initially studied music in Ljubljana and at the Faculty of Music in Skopje. In 1977, he graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston. His background includes performances and collaborations with jazz musicians Thad Jones, Herb Pomeroy, Stan Getz, and Milcho Leviev. He has organized lectures and workshops in harmony, arranging and orchestration for students in Greece, Switzerland, Italy and the Republic of Macedonia and is the author of The Basics of Jazz Harmony (ProArts, 2004). Pejovski was given the 2009 Trajko Prokopiev Award for lifetime achievement by the Macedonian Composers’ Association (SOKOM). References

Ilja Hurník

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Ilja Hurník (25 November 1922 – 7 September 2013) was a Czech composer and essayist. Biography Hurnik was born in Poruba, now part of Ostrava. He entered the Prague Conservatory, then went on to the Prague Academy of Arts, where he studied with Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, daughter of Vilém Kurz. His 1952 Sonata da camera, for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord, has been recorded on Cedille Records. A 2008 Supraphon CD (SU 3944–2) contains two of Hurník’s instrumental compositions: the colorful ballet music Ondráš, written in 1951, and his Four Seasons Chamber Suite, written in 1952. Both are performed by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra led by Karel Ančerl. He is father of Lukáš Hurník, brother-in-law of Petr Eben and uncle of Marek Eben. Ilja Hurník died in Prague on 7 September 2013 at the age of 90. Selected works ;Stage * Ondráš, Ballet, Silesian Folk Ballad (1949) * Dáma a lupiči (The Lady and the Robbers; Die Dame und die Räuber), Comic Opera in 4 acts (1966); libretto by the composer loosely based on the film The Ladykillers * Mudrci a bloudi (Wisemen and Fools), Opera in 3 Scenes on Themes of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times (1986); libretto by the composer * Diogen

Ilmari Hannikainen

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Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen (19 October 1892 – 25 July 1955) was a Finnish composer and virtuoso pianist. Life Hannikainen was born in Jyväskylä, the son of Pekka Juhani Hannikainen and the brother of Väinö Hannikainen, both of whom were composers and of Tauno Hannikainen who was a cellist and conductor. After studying at the University of Helsinki (1911–14), he became a pupil of Franz Schreker at the Musikakademie in Vienna, and continued his studies with Alexander Siloti in Saint Petersburg (1915–17) and with Alfred Cortot in Paris (1919). Returning to Finland, he taught piano at the Helsinki Conservatory and later gained a Professorship at the Sibelius Academy. Hannikainen steered Finnish classical music from late Romanticism towards Impressionism. In addition to his piano miniatures, which best illustrated this development, he composed one opera, one piano concerto, one piano quartet, lieder, and film scores (notably, the 1934 Swedish film Sången om den eldröda blomman). Hannikainen drowned during a sailing trip in Kuhmoinen in 1955. Some musical colleagues, like Aarre Merikanto, considered his death a suicide. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki. In the 1970s, the

Ilona Breģe

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Ilona Breģe (born 20 May 1959 in Riga, Soviet Union) is a composer, pianist and musicologist. Life Breģe was born in Riga. She graduated from the Latvian Music Academy (former State Conservatory) as a pianist in 1983 and as a composer in1986. She became a Doctor of Art in 1993. Breģe was the solo pianist in the Latvian Philharmonic (1983–92) until she became a researcher in the Latvian Science Academy in the Literature, Folklore and Art department in 1998. She was the General Manager of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 2006. In 2006, she became the Managing Director of the Riga Professional Symphonic Band. Her music has been played by Kremerata Baltica. Selected compositions *2008 Concert for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, dedicated to Baiba Skride. First performance 17 January 2009, Great Guild Concert Hall in Riga. Soloist Baiba Skride, chamber orchestra “Sinfonietta Riga”, conductor Normunds Sne. 20 minutes *2007 Otrais Rīgas koncerts (Riga Concerto No. 2) for violin, viola and chamber orchestra. First performance 17 February 2008, Latvian Music Academy Concert Hall. Soloists Darja Smirnova, Arigo Strals, orchestra “Sinfonia Concertante”, conductor Andris Vecu

Ilse Fromm-Michaels

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Ilse Fromm-Michaels (Hamburg, 30 December 1888 – 22 January 1986) was a German pianist and composer. Life Ilse Fromm-Michaels was born in Hamburg and showed musical talent at an early age. She studied music in Berlin, first at the Hochschule fur Musik with Heinrich van Eyken for composition and with Marie Bender for piano. In 1905 she began study at the Sternsche Conservatory of Hans Pfitzner and James Kwast and completed her studies in 1913 with conductor and composer Fritz Steinbach and pianist Carl Friedberg in Cologne. In 1908 Fromm-Michaels began a career as a concert pianist, often playing her own works. She married Hamburg judge Dr. Walter Michaels, and after the Nuremberg Race Laws were instituted by the Nazis was banned from performing or publishing her compositions. She continued teaching music, and after World War II established the Hamburg First School of Music and Drama. In 1964 she was awarded the City of Hamburg’s Johannes Brahms Medal. In 1973 she moved to Detmold to be near her son, and died there in 1986. Works Selected works include: *Variationen über ein eigenes Thema, op. 8 (1918/19) *Vier Puppen, op. 4 (1908) *Der Hampelmann *Das Puppenmädchen *Der Harlekin *A

Ilya Lyzohub

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Illia Ivanovych Lyzohub , , (23 October 17871867), was a Ukrainian patron of the arts, composer-cellist, and pianist who founded an influential artistic circle in Sedniv. A friend and patron of the poet Taras Shevchenko. In his youth, he served as an aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of Little Russia, Nikolai Repnin-Volkonsky. Biography Early years Part of the Lyzohub family, he was born on 23 October 1787 in the village of Kulykivka, Chernihiv Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). Military career From 25 November 1807, Lyzohub served as a corporal in the Life Guards Jager Regiment. He took part in the Austro-Polish War of 1809. For the courage and bravery shown in the Battle of Borodino (7 September 1812), in which his regiment repeatedly attacked the French cavalry, he was awarded a golden sword. During the War of the Sixth Coalition (March 1813 – May 1814), he received the Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th class, after the Battle of Bautzen, and the Order of Saint Anna, 4th class, after the Battle of Leipzig. After the Battle of Leipzig, he was briefly an orderly officer for General Dmitry Golitsyn and then for Crown Prince Eugene of Württemberg. He became an adjutant of the , N

Ilya Salmanzadeh

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Ilya Salmanzadeh (; ; born 19 September 1986), known mononymously as Ilya, is an Iranian-born Swedish songwriter, producer, and singer. He rose to prominence outside of Sweden after co-writing and producing Ariana Grande’s hit single “Problem” for her second studio album, My Everything (2014). He is a six-time Grammy Awards nominee, including three nominations for Album of the Year: Grande’s Thank U, Next (2020), Justin Bieber’s Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe) (2022), and Lizzo’s Special (2023). Career Ilya Salmanzadeh was born in Iran, raised in Denmark, and moved to Sweden at age 11. In 2005 at the age of 19, he sang with Warner/Chappell Music in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2009, he graduated from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. “Miss Me”, Mohombi & Nelly’s song in 2010, was Ilya’s first internationally acclaimed production. In 2011, he produced “Mama” and “Reba” from The Lonely Island’s Grammy-nominated album, Turtleneck & Chain. In 2013, he produced Cher Lloyd’s song, “I Wish”, and Fifth Harmony’s award-winning song, “Me & My Girls”. Alongside Max Martin, he co-wrote and produced Ariana Grande’s “Problem” and Jennifer Lopez’s “First Love” in 2014. “Problem” went on t

Ilya Shatrov

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Ilya Alekseevich Shatrov (Russian: Илья Алексеевич Шатров; April 1, 1879 (or 1885) – May 2, 1952) was a Russian military musician, conductor and composer. He is known for composing the waltz On the Hills of Manchuria in 1906. The waltz recounts his experiences at the Battle of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War, and he dedicated it to one of his comrades who was killed in the battle. Biography Shatrov was born in Zemlyansk, Semilukskiy, Voronezh Oblast, Russia, on 1 April 1879 to Aleksei Mikhailovich Shatrov, a retired non-commissioned officer of the Lithuanian Life Guards Regiment of the Russian Imperial Guard. In 1905, Shatrov became the bandmaster of the Mokshansky Regimental Orchestra and served in the Russo-Japanese War. In February 1905, the 214th Reserve Mokshan Infantry Regiment took part in the Battle of Mukden and Liaoyang. In one of the battles the regiment was surrounded by the Japanese and was constantly attacked by the enemy. At a critical moment, when the ammunition was already spent, the regiment commander Colonel Pavel Pobyvanets gave the order: “The banner and the orchestra will go ahead!” Kapellmeister Shatrov led the orchestra to the parapet of the trenches, g

Ilza Niemack

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Ilza Louise Niemack (April 8, 1903 – July 12, 1993), born Ilse Niemack, was an American violinist, composer, and music educator. She taught at Iowa State University from 1935 to 1973, and the concert mistress of the Iowa State Symphony. Early life and education Niemack was born in Charles City, Iowa, the daughter of Julius Niemack and Stella Blumenstiel Niemack. Her father was a medical doctor born in Germany. Both of her parents were musical. She attended the Chicago Musical College, and studied with Leon Sametini and Leopold Auer. She also studied composition and theory with Felix Borowski and Rubin Goldmark. Career Niemack played an Amati violin built in 1655, a gift from her father when she made her New York debut at age 18. She toured in Germany, England, and the United States as a young woman. She played sonatas that she composed at New York City recitals in 1927 and 1934. She also played her Sonata in G Minor at the 1929 convention of the Society of Music Teachers of Iowa, accompanied by her mother on piano. “Perhaps no greater Iowa violinist, at least no other with greater promise, is living today than Miss Ilza Niemack,” noted a report in the journal of the Iowa State Teac

Ilza Nogueira

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Ilza Nogueira (born December 25, 1948) is a Brazilian composer, music educator and musicologist with specialty in the area of music analysis. Biography Ilza Nogueira was born in Salvador, Bahia. She studied composition under Ernst Widmer at the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Federal University of Bahia. After graduation in 1972, she won a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and continued her studies in composition at the Academy of Music in Cologne (1974–1977) with Mauricio Kagel. She also obtained Master of Arts (1983) and Doctor of Philosophy (1985) degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA), where she studied under Lejaren Hiller and Morton Feldman. After completing her undergraduate studies, she took a position teaching music at the Federal University of Paraíba where she retired from the faculty in 1998. The majority of her compositions are in chamber music with a predilection for mixed groupings with voice. Her works have been included in all recognized venues of contemporary music in Brazil, such as the Biennial of Contemporary Brazilian Music, Encounters of Latin American Composers and Performers, International Encoun