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L.A.X (musician)

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Damilola Afolabi (born April 10, 1993), known professionally as L.A.X is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and rapper. L.A.X started out as a rapper and was part of a three-man group called Flyboiz while he was still in high school. On August 20, 2013, L.A.X signed a major-label deal with Starboy Entertainment Life and career Damilola Afolabi was born in Lagos State, Nigeria. He had his secondary school education at Nigerian Turkish International College, Lagos where he formed a music group called Flyboiz, releasing a single titled “Busy Body”. With the view of furthering his education, L.A.X left the group to study in the United Kingdom where he started recording songs and shot few videos. In 2012, L.A.X released his first major single “Jaye” which featured vocal appearance from Ice Prince. Upon his return to Nigeria, he met Wizkid through his stylist and went on to sign his first professional recording contract with Starboy Entertainment in 2013. “Caro” gained massive airplay and was critically accepted among music critics. The song was nominated in the “Hottest Single of The Year” category at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Following the success of “Caro”, L.A.X featured Wizki

La Monte Young

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La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in post-war avant-garde music. He is best known for his exploration of sustained tones, beginning with his 1958 composition Trio for Strings. His compositions have called into question the nature and definition of music, most prominently in the text scores of his Compositions 1960. Young played jazz saxophone and studied composition in California during the 1950s, and subsequently moved to New York in 1960, where he was a central figure in the downtown music and Fluxus art scenes. He then became known for his pioneering work in drone music (originally called dream music) with his Theatre of Eternal Music collective, alongside collaborators such as Tony Conrad, John Cale, and his wife, the multimedia artist Marian Zazeela. In 1964, he began work on his unfinished improvisatory composition The Well-Tuned Piano, iterations of which he has performed throughout subsequent decades. Young worked extensively with Zazeela between 1962 and her death in 2024; together, the two recorded, performed live, and d

Laci Boldemann

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Laci Boldemann (24 April 1921 – 18 August 1969) was a Swedish composer of German and Finnish descent. Life and career Boldemann was born in Helsinki. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1937 to 1939, both conducting (with Henry Wood) and piano, where he continued his studies in Stockholm at the outbreak of war in 1939 with Gunnar de Frumerie. In 1941 his citizenship forced Boldemann to join the German army and fight in the Soviet Union, Poland and Italy; he was later imprisoned in the US and returned to Sweden via France and Germany. References

Ladislav Burlas

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Ladislav Burlas (3 April 1927 – 11 February 2024) was a Slovak composer and musicologist. He worked at the institute of musicology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava from 1951 to 1990, as director of the institution from 1964 to 1974. The focus of his studies was the music history of Slovakia, especially of the 20th century. He was dean of the faculty of performing arts at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica from 2001 to 2005. He composed music in many genres with a focus on choral music and educational pieces. Life and career Born in Trnava on 3 April 1927, he completed school there in 1946 and studied from 1946 to 1951, composition with Alexander Moyzes and conducting at the and musicology at the Comenius University. He gained a PhD with a dissertation, “Cantus Catholici – prispevok k analýze hudby feudálnej spoločnosti na Slovensku” (Cantus Catholici – a contribution to the analysis of music in the feudal society of Slovakia). From 1951 he studied composition further with Moyzes, then at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Burlas composed in many genres, for orchestra, chamber music, piano music and other works for solo instruments, with a focus on chor

Ladislav Kubík

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Ladislav Kubík (26 August 1946 – 27 October 2017) was a Czech-American composer. His style is associated with other post-war Eastern European composers, such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Witold Lutosławski. He graduated from the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, receiving his Master’s Degree in 1970 and the title “Aspirante”, a degree considered equivalent to the Doctor of Musical Arts. He previously taught at the Prague Conservatory, Charles University in Prague, and the University of South Florida. He served as Professor of Composition at the Florida State University College of Music in Tallahassee beginning in the 1990–91 academic year. Teachers: Emil Hlobil, Karel Janacek, Jiri Pauer. Prizes and honors *Resident at the American Academy in Rome. *UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers Prize in Paris for Lament of a Warrior’s Wife (1974) *UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers Prize in Paris for Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra (1978) *Intervision Prize *1st Prize in the International Franz Kafka Composition Competition for Der Weg (1993) *1st Prize in the U.S. NACWPI Composition Contest for Two Episodes for Bass Clarinet, Piano, and P

Ladislav Kupkovič

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Ladislav Kupkovič (17 March 1936 – 15 June 2016) was a Slovak composer and conductor. Life Kupkovič was born in Bratislava, and studied violin and conducting there, first at the conservatory, then at the Academy of Performing Arts. He played violin in the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra from 1960 to 1965, and then began to write music for television and film to make a living. At the same time, he was writing more experimental music for concerts. In 1969 he won a music scholarship to West Berlin, and emigrated there the following year. In 1971, he conducted the premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mixtur in Cologne, a piece dedicated to Kupkovič himself. In the same year, he began to teach music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, and lived in Haste near Hannover until his death. During the 1970s he was associated with the Cologne School . Wandelkonzerte Kupkovič has probably become best known for his experiments with the concert form in the 1970s. In Musik für das Ruhrfestspielhaus (1970), he arranged forty performers to play a number of pieces in a concert hall in Recklinghausen over the course of three hours. The pieces were played in various parts of the buildi

Lady Arthur Hill

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Annie Jessie Fortescue Harrison (30 December 1848 – 12 February 1944), also known as Annie, Lady Hill and Lady Arthur Hill, was an English composer of songs and piano pieces. She composed two operettas that were staged in London, but is best known as the composer of the 1877 popular ballad In the Gloaming. The song was adopted as the regimental march of the 2nd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers. Life Harrison was born in Calcutta, British India, the daughter of James Fortescue Harrison, MP of Kilmarnock (other sources record her birth as taking place in Crawleywood, Sussex in 1851). She was composing solo piano pieces, such as The Elfin Waltzes, by the age of 13. In 1865, the family moved to Crawley Down, Sussex, where her father built a mansion called Down Park. Her most popular song was “In the Gloaming” (1877), with lyrics by Meta Orred was written a year earlier, when she was considering a marriage proposal from widowed Lord Arthur Hill. Musicologist Derek B. Scott reports that as soon as Arthur Hill heard the song, he was desperate to marry Annie Harrison. His first wife had died shortly after the birth of their son, a year into their marriage. Harrison married Lord Arthur in 187

Lady Mary Dering

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Lady Mary Dering (née Mary Harvey; baptised 3 September 1629 – 7 February 1704) was an English composer of the Baroque period. Three of her songs were included in the Select Ayres and Dialogues (1655), a collection published by Dering’s teacher Henry Lawes. Life The daughter of Daniel Harvey and Elizabeth Kynnersley, Mary Harvey was baptised in Croydon on 3 September 1629, and therefore probably born within a day or two of that. Daniel Harvey was a wealthy London merchant and member of the Levant Company, his eldest brother being the anatomist William Harvey. Mary Harvey was sent to Mrs. Salmon’s school in Hackney, London, where her friends included Mary Aubrey (later her sister-in-law, and niece of John Aubrey) and poet Katherine Philips (the Matchless Orinda). In 1645, she married her cousin and father’s former apprentice, William Hauke; this was without her father’s consent, and it was quickly annulled. The man her father arranged for her to marry, and whom she did on 5 April 1648, was Sir Edward Dering. The marriage turned out well; the couple produced seventeen children (seven of whom died young), as well as poems and music. Despite bearing so many children, Dering outlived he

Lajos Bárdos

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Lajos Bárdos (1 October 1899 – 18 November 1986) was a composer, conductor, music theorist, and professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, in Budapest, Hungary, where he had previously studied under Albert Siklós and Zoltán Kodály. His younger brother, György Deák-Bárdos, was also a composer. Together with Kodály, Bárdos laid the foundations of 20th-century Hungarian choral music. From 1928 to 1967 he was a professor at the Academy, where he reformed the syllabus––emphasizing the training of choral conductors, the teaching of church music history, and instruction in music theory and prosody. In 1931, along with György Kerényi and Gyula Kertész, he founded the publishing company Magyar Kórus (Hungarian Chorus), publishing 2,000 works of old masters and modern composers over the next 20 years, before being shut down by the communist regime in 1950. As the most active disseminator of sacred music in Hungary, Bárdos was targeted at the time with threatening criticism. (For example, one writer in the new journal Éneklö Nép (Singing People) proclaimed, “We must take care to eradicate men such as Lajos Bárdos as soon as possible!”) The irony is that the rich supply of music p

Lajos Dudas

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Lajos Dudas (; born February 18, 1941, in Budapest, Hungary) is a German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist and composer. Biography Dudas studied at the and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He then appeared on concert tours throughout in Europe, not only as a jazz and rock musician but also as a soloist in works such as Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Quintet, Igor Stravinsky’s Solo Pieces for Clarinet and Alexander Glazunov’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone. He won international recognition, above all, with his successful composition ‘Urban Blues’ at the 11. International Jazz Competition in Monaco in 1982. In the 1980s he was ranked high year after year in the ‘Top People Poll’ the famous International Jazz Forum. After his period as a freelance musician (1963–73) Dudas has been a lecturer (School of Music in Neuss/GER) and also taught from 1975 to 1985 at the Rheinland College of Education. In addition, since 1976, after a spell concentrating on classical music, he was worked with well-known musicians on recordings, radio productions and tours: they include Karl Berger, Gerd Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Tom van der Geld, Charles Tolliver, Howard Johnson, Attila Zoller, Philipp v

Lallo Gori

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Lallo Gori (7 March 1927 – 1 December 1982) was an Italian composer and musician. Life and career Born in Cervia, Ravenna as Coriolano Gori, Gori graduated in piano, harmony and composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin. He entered RAI as a member of its orchestra, then he became the musical director of its office in Rome. He also composed several pop songs, and three of them entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival. *Il lungo, il corto, il gatto (1967) *Poker with Pistols (1967) *Death Rides Along (1967) *Pecos Cleans Up (1967) *The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid (1967) *The Two Crusaders (1968) *Execution (1968) *Black Jack (1968) *Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968) *Buckaroo: The Winchester Does Not Forgive (1968) *The Avenger, Zorro (1969) *Dead Men Don’t Make Shadows (1970) *Django and Sartana Are Coming… It’s the End (1970) *Scusi, Ma Lei Le Paga Le Tasse? (1971) *A Barrel Full of Dollars (1971) *Savage Guns (1971) *A Fistful of Death (1971) *Il clan dei due Borsalini (1971) *A.A.A. Massaggiatrice Bella Presenza Offresi… (1972) *Death Falls Lightly (1972) * Tequila! (1973) *The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974) *King Dick (1975) *Cal

Lam Bun-Ching

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Lam Bun-Ching (; b. Macau, 1954) is a Chinese American composer, pianist, and conductor. Early life and training Lam holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1976). She obtained a scholarship from the University of California at San Diego, where she studied composition with Bernard Rands, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, and Pauline Oliveros, earning a Ph.D. Career In 1981, she was invited to join the music faculty of the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she taught until 1986. She has also served as the Jean MacDuff Vaux Composer-in-Residence at Mills College in Oakland, California, and in 1997 she served as a visiting professor of composition at Yale University and at Bennington College in Vermont. Her music has been recorded on the CRI, Tzadik, Nimbus, Koch International Classics, Sound Aspect, and Tellus labels. References External links *Bun-Ching Lam official site

Lam Manyee

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Lam Manyee () is a Chinese composer and music producer from Hong Kong. Early life On 10 September 1950, Lam was born in Hong Kong. In 2009, she also gained qualification as a naturopathic practitioner. Career Lam is a composer in Hong Kong and the United States. Lam has composed for orchestra, ballet and solo instrument. Lam has also composed over 50 film scores, music for TV and over 150 pop songs. Works This is a partial list of Lam’s works. *Interludes for prepared piano, 1977 *Journey for chamber ensemble, 1977–78 *Monologo II for cello, piano and tapes, 1980 *Die Meng (Butterfly Dream), Chinese orchestra, 1978 *Ceng Die, 1981 *Double Triangle, ballet, 1976 *Bamboo Suite, ballet, 1983 *Mixed Visions, ballet, 1983 *Chinese Historical Myths, ballet, 1985 *ID Shuffle, ballet, 1985 *Kwaidan/Emaki, ballet, 1986 *Diary, ballet, 1988 *Hell Screen, ballet, 1990 *Stories of Aung San Suu Kyi, ballet, 1992 *Open Party, ballet, 1994 *Is there Life on Mars?, ballet, 1997 *Dream City, ballet, 1998 *Beauty and the Beast, ballet, 1999 Filmography * A Kid from Tibet (1992) - Music * All’s Well, Ends Well (1982) - Music * All’s Well, Ends Well ’97 (1997) - Music * The Dragon from Russia (1990) -

Lamartine Babo

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Lamartine Babo (10 January 1904 — 16 June 1963) was one of the most important popular composers of Brazil. He also appeared in four films. Career Babo composed several satirical sambas, marchinhas and other songs. Babo is especially remembered for composing anthems for all the main professional football clubs of Rio de Janeiro (América, Bangu, Bonsucesso, Botafogo, Canto do Rio, Flamengo, Fluminense, Madureira, Olaria, São Cristóvão, and Vasco da Gama). References External links * *

Lambert Chaumont

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Lambert Chaumont (c. 1630 – April 1712) was a Flemish Baroque composer and organist. Chaumont was from the Liège area, possibly born in that city. The earliest mention of his name dates from January 1649, when he is listed as a lay brother at the Carmelite monastery at Liège. He was still there in October 1651, and then a monastery accounts entry dated 8 May 1659 lists Chaumont among the nine brothers who completed their novitiates at the monastery at Reims. Nothing is known about the next 15 years of Chamount’s life. On 10 February 1674 he was made rector of the parish of St. Martin’s Church at Huy. The post was insignificant, and the church and the parish were very small, but eventually Chaumont’s career progressed further. On 7 September 1688 he became priest of the parish of the nearby St. Germain’s Church, and pater of the Carmelites at Huy. He occupied these positions until his death in 1712. Chaumont’s extant oeuvre comprises a collection of organ music, Pièces d’orgue (Huy, 1695), and a work of piety published in 1709. At least one more collection of music is lost. Although he evidently spent most of his life in Liège and Huy, Chamount’s style in his organ pieces is entirel

Landon Ronald

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Sir Landon Ronald (born Landon Ronald Russell) (7 June 1873 – 14 August 1938) was an English conductor, composer, pianist, teacher and administrator. In his early career he gained work as an accompanist and répétiteur, but struggled to make his way as a conductor. In the absence of operatic or symphonic work he made his living as a conductor and composer in West End shows in the late 19th and early 20th century. With the foundation of the London Symphony Orchestra in 1904 his career began to flourish, and by 1908 he was well-enough established to be chosen to succeed Thomas Beecham as conductor of the New Symphony Orchestra in London. Ronald was an early enthusiast for recording, and was associated with the Gramophone Company (later part of EMI) from 1900 for the rest of his life. From 1910 until shortly before his death, Ronald was principal of the Guildhall School of Music in London. He modernised the curriculum and raised its standards to compete with the leading musical training establishments the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. Life and career Early years Ronald was born in Kensington, London, the illegitimate son of Henry Russell, singer, songwriter and

Lane Tietgen

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Lane Tietgen (born Topeka, Kansas ) was an American poet, composer and musician who sang and played guitar and bass. Tietgen lived in the Bay Area in California. He died on 14 July 2020, as reported in the Sonoma News A number of Tietgen’s songs have been covered by famous musicians, including “Captain Bobby Stout” and “Martha’s Madman” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, “Early Bird Cafe” by John Mellencamp, “It Can’t Make Any Difference to Me” by Dave Mason, and “Red and Black Blues” by Ringo Starr. In 2006 Ice Cube used a melody by Tietgen for his song, “Click, Clack – Get Back!,” on the album Laugh Now, Cry Later. Tietgen began his musical career as the guitarist and primary songwriter for The Serfs, who achieved some fame in and around the band’s home state of Kansas. In 1970, the blues-jazz-rock band, The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, recorded seven Tietgen compositions, including “Captain Bobby Stout”, “Early Bird Cafe”, and “Martha’s Madman”. The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood featured Hahn, Mike Finnigan, Clyde Graves and George Marsh. In 2009 The Serfs were inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. That same year, Tietgen released a solo album, Wheels of Fortune, featuring all original so

Lansing McLoskey

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Lansing McLoskey (born 1964) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His Zealot Canticles: An Oratorio for Tolerance was a winner of the 61st Annual Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance by the ensemble The Crossing. McLoskey serves as a Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music in Miami, Florida. He has been commissioned by Guerilla Opera, Copland House, The Fromm Foundation, The Barlow Endowment, N.E.A., The Crossing, ensemberlino vocale, New Spectrum Foundation, Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion, Passepartout Duo, the Boston Choral Ensemble, and Kammerkoret NOVA. Early life McLoskey was born to Robert and JoAnn McLoskey in 1964. His grandfather, Heinrich “Henry” L. Hansen was born in Denmark. Growing up in Cupertino, California, Lansing came from a musical family. His mother minored in piano performance at Cal State Fresno, his father played saxophone, and his grandfather, Illinois congressman Robert T. McLoskey, played violin in a regional orchestra. As a teenager, McLoskey learned to play piano, guitar, and saxophone. He started writing rock songs at 14 after buying an electric guitar at a flea market. After high school, McLoskey studied abroad as a stu

Larry Austin

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Larry Don Austin (September 12, 1930 – December 30, 2018) was an American composer noted for his electronic and computer music works. He was a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant Garde. Austin gained additional international recognition when he realized a completion of Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony. Austin served as the president of the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) from 1990 to 1994 and served on the board of directors of the ICMA from 1984 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1998. Early life Austin was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. He received a bachelor’s (Music Education, 1951) and master’s degree (Music, 1952) from University of North Texas College of Music. In 1955 he studied at Mills College, and from 1955 to 1958 he engaged in graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley, leaving to accept a faculty position at the University of California, Davis. Austin studied with Canadian composer Violet Archer at the University of North Texas, French composer Darius Milhaud at Mills College, and with American composer Andrew Imbrie at the University of California, Berkeley. Teaching career Austin taught at the Universit

Larry Crosley

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Lawrence Crosley (May 19, 1932 - January 24, 1998) was an American-Canadian composer. He was most noted as a two-time Canadian Film Award winner for his film scores, winning at the 23rd Canadian Film Awards in 1971 for Seasons in the Mind and at the 24th Canadian Film Awards in 1972 for Journey to Power. A native of Oaklandon, Indiana, he was educated at the Eastman School of Music before moving to Ottawa, Ontario, as a staff composer for Crawley Films; He also later worked for the National Film Board of Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other companies, composing music for over 200 films and television shows over the course of his career. played jazz clarinet, and taught music as a sessional instructor at Northern Arizona University and the University of Ottawa. and received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Original Music Score for a Program or Mini-Series at the 5th Gemini Awards in 1990 for The Teddy Bears’ Picnic. Filmography *St. Lawrence North - 1970 *Amanita Pestilens - 1963 *The Johari Window - 1970 *The Man Who Skied Down Everest - 1970 *The Tenth Decade - 1971 *Cry of the Wild - 1972 *Whistling Smith - 1975 *I’ll Find a Way - 1977 *The Way It Is - 1985 *

Larry Goves

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Larry Goves (born 1980 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British composer. A PhD student at the University of Southampton, his tutor is Michael Finnissy. In addition to Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, he has studied privately with Richard Barrett and Simon Holt. He has received commissions from the Nash Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Philharmonic and many others. He is a founder and performer with the ensemble the House of Bedlam. His music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The chamber piece walking underground (2000) was recorded by the London Sinfonietta on the NMC label, as has his solo oboe piece the tentacles of memory (2003), released on Dutton Epoch. Goves has been serving as Head of School of Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music since 2023. In 2011, Goves’ work Virtual Airport was nominated for the Chamber-Scale Composition Prize at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. In 2023 Goves received an Ivor Novello Award nomination at The Ivors Classical Awards 2023. Crow Rotations for soprano, flute/alto flute, alto saxophone, cello and electronics was nominated for Best Small Chamber Composition. References Ex

Larry Grossman (composer)

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Larry Grossman (born September 3, 1938) is an American composer of stage and screen. Early life A Chicago native, Grossman graduated from Northwestern University School Communication in 1960. Career He started working in New York City as a vocal coach and accompanist. One of his songs was used in the revue No Shoestrings (1962). Grossman began working with lyricist Hal Hackady in 1968, and their first piece together was the title song for the play Play It Again, Sam. The pair collaborated on the Broadway musicals Minnie’s Boys (1970) and Goodtime Charley (1975). Grossman composed Snoopy: The Musical with Hackady in 1975, which has since been performed in six languages worldwide with the first London production receiving an Olivier award nomination. Grossman collaborated with theatre legend Harold Prince on Broadway productions of A Doll’s Life (1982) and Grind (1985), for which he received Tony nominations. He adapted the 1973 film Paper Moon, itself based on a 1971 novel, into a musical of the same name, which premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 1993. A revised version was staged at the Goodspeed Opera House, the Walnut Street Theatre, and then Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D

Larry Harlow (musician)

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Larry Harlow (born Lawrence Ira Kahn; March 20, 1939 – August 20, 2021) was an American salsa music pianist, performer, composer, band leader and producer. He was born into a musical American family of Jewish descent. Background Summary Harlow was born Lawrence Ira Kahn on March 20, 1939, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the son of Rose ( Sherman; 1910–1975) and Buddy Kahn ( Nathan Kahn; 1909–1981), and brother of Andy Harlow ( Andre H. Kahn; born 1945). His mother was an opera singer with the stage name Rose Sherman in New York. His father was the bandleader at the Latin Quarter in New York under the name Buddy Harlowe. Harlow was affectionately nicknamed “El Judío Maravilloso” (The Marvelous Jew). Contributions Among Harlow’s further contributions to music was his insistence on creation of a Latin Grammy Award (before the category merged in 2010 with less-specific jazz ones. A year after the trustees who oversee the Grammy Awards cut 31 categories in May 2011, they drew fierce protests from Latin jazz musician Bobby Sanabria, Carlos Santana, Paul Simon and Herbie Hancock among others, and the Grammys Trustees Board voted to reinstate the award for Best Latin Jazz Album in June 2012). La

Larry Lake (musician)

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Larry Ellsworth Lake (2 July 1943 – 17 September 2013 ) was an American-born Canadian composer, trumpeter, freelance writer on music, radio broadcaster, and record producer. As a composer, he was primarily known for his electronic music. His musical compositions are characterized by their integration of acoustic instruments with electronic ones in live performance. From 1985 until his death he served as artistic director of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, a group of which he was a founding member. For nearly 30 years he hosted and served as music consultant for the CBC Radio program Two New Hours. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre (CMC), he was the chair of the CMC’s Ontario Region Council and was an executive member of the CMC’s national board. He was a member of both the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and the Canadian League of Composers. His compositions received multiple awards from the CMC (1982, 1984, 1987) and from the Major Armstrong Foundation. He received three Juno Award nominations for his work as a record producer. Life and career Larry Lake was born on 2 July 1943 to Mennonite parents in Greenville, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Florida and Georgia. In 196

Larry Mullins (musician)

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Lawrence Edward Mullins, also known as Toby Dammit, (born 13 December 1966 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American musician, record producer, and composer. A multi-instrumentalist (primarily drums, percussion, and keyboards), Mullins is best known as a member of the bands Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Swans, as well as a former member of The Stooges and other incarnations of Iggy Pop’s bands. He has also worked extensively in music for films and television, and had a performance role in the German cable series Babylon Berlin. Music career Mullins played drums in Iggy Pop’s band from 1990 to 1999, recording three albums and additional works created specifically for films. In 2011, he joined Iggy and The Stooges in England, and remained their live drummer until their final performance in 2013. Mullins joined Swans in 1995 and continued working with Swans frontman Michael Gira in Angels of Light into 2003. He rejoined Swans in 2019 for the recording of their album Leaving Meaning, and remains a member as of 2026. Mullins’s percussion work appeared throughout the score for Johnny Depp’s 1997 film The Brave, where he is credited as “Lawrence Mullins.” His original composition for the

Larry Nickel

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Larry Nickel (born March 12, 1952) is a Canadian composer, conductor, music publisher and singer who devotes much of his focus to choral music. He is an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre. He has composed for a wide spectrum of genres; electronic and computer music, string quartet, woodwind and brass quintet, symphony orchestra, symphonic wind ensemble and choral ensembles, including both secular and ecclesiastical music. Primarily, he has written and arranged hundreds of compositions for choirs. Nickel also works as a choral clinician, occasional university professor, music minister, guest conductor and music festival adjudicator. Nickel sang professionally with the Vancouver Chamber Choir for six years, directed the award winning Jubilate Vocal Ensemble for five years, and also sang 2nd bass with the acclaimed Vancouver Cantata Singers for many years. In 2010 Nickel became the owner of Cypress Choral Music Publishing. Nickel’s music has been published by 12 companies including Oxford University Press, G. Schirmer, Shawnee Press, Pavane Publishing, Morton Music, Cypress Choral Music, Classica and Canadian International Music. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CB

Larry Polansky

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Larry Polansky (October 16, 1954 – May 9, 2024) was an American composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and academic. Biography Polansky was born on October 16, 1954, in New York City to first-generation Jewish-American parents. He grew up in Valley Stream, Nassau County, Long Island. He became fascinated with the guitar from an early age, which remained central to his work throughout his life. He failed his senior-year English class but was allowed to graduate from high school in 1972 due to high SAT scores. The brother of the writer Steven Polansky, Polansky read mathematics and music at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), graduating in 1977. Music historian and musician Amy C. Beal was his long time partner and frequent musical collaborator. Polansky died on May 9, 2024, at the age of 69. Discography Source: * freeHorn (2017, Cold Blue Music) * Three Pieces for Two Pianos (2016, New World Records) * The World’s Longest Melody (2010, New World Records, featuring Zwerm guitar quartet) * The Theory of Impossible Melody (1990, Artifact Recordings; 2008 Reissue on New World Records) * Trios (2004, Pogus CDs, with Douglas Repetto, Tom Erbe, Chris Mann, Christian Wolff) * Four V

Lars Edlund

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Lars Edlund (6 November 1922 – 21 December 2013 ) was a Swedish composer, organist and music teacher. Edlund was born in Karlstad, Värmland County. He studied music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, with Ina Lohr. He was inspired by Gregorian music, and converted to Catholicism later in life. Edlund started working as a church musician in the early 1940s, and was also a teacher at the Swedish Royal College of Music in Stockholm. From 1971 onwards he worked solely as a composer. The majority of his compositions were vocal music, many of them with texts on religious or existentialist themes, Several of his compositions can be found in the 1986 hymnal for the Church of Sweden. He also set poems by Gunnar Ekelöf and Tomas Tranströmer to music. References External links * Lars Edlund (biography and list of works) at Svensk Musik

Lars Jansson (composer)

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Lars Jansson (born 1951) is a Swedish jazz pianist and composer. Life Jansson grew up in Örebro, Sweden, where he was bored by his lessons at the community music school. In his early teens, a relative lent him records of Miles Davis, Ben Webster, and Mose Allison. During the 1960s, he followed the fashion and developed an interest in the organ. He listened to Kjell Öhman play with the Telstars, to Jimmy Smith and Jack McDuff, and to Hammond organ music. Drummer Sjunne Ferger became an important figure in his life, and together they formed a duo: “Takt & Ton” (Beat & Pitch). In 1970, after graduation from upper secondary school, he took a semester off, planning to go on and study medicine. He ended up at dental school, but after a year and a half he decided to switch to music. He was accepted at the Göteborg College of Music, where all the professional musicians had their jam sessions at night. That gave him the opportunity to play with Ove Johansson, Jan Forslund, Conny Sjökvist, Gilbert Holmström, Gunnar Lindgren, and others, and he discovered Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Paul Bley, Bill Evans, Lennie Tristano, Keith Jarrett, and Chick Corea. Lars became a member of Björn Alke’s q

Lars Petter Hagen

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Lars Petter Hagen (born 2 August 1975) is a Norwegian contemporary composer, former director of the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival and currently an adviser for the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Biography Hagen studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and has written instrumental works, electro-acoustic pieces as well as music for film and theatre. 2003 saw Hagen bestowed with the Arne Nordheim’s Composer Prize and in 2004 he received the Edvard Prize in the contemporary music category. He received a 2013 Spellemannprisen Award in the Composer category for a release with the Oslo Philharmonic, Rolf Gupta and Gjermund Larsen featuring his works. Hagen has also served as artistic director for Ny Musikk (the Norwegian section of the ISCM) and festivals Happy Days, Nordic Music Days and the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. Hagen was appointed as permanent artistic director for the Ultima Festival in 2012, after having held the position on a temporary basis in 2009 and 2010. 2010 saw Hagen being nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his music composed for NYC-based theatre production company Wakka Wakka Productions’ show Baby Universe. 2012 saw Hagen releasing the album

Lars Taylor

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Lars Rainer Rüetschi (born March 24, 1977), professional known as Lars Taylor, is a Swiss fusion guitarist, composer, and producer. He has collaborated with many notable musicians and Grammy Award winners, including Donny McCaslin, Mark Soskin, Paul Brown, and Bob Glaub. Early life Lars Taylor was born in Switzerland, but spent a portion of his childhood in Brazil, where music such as Bossa Nova influenced him. He played the piano for seven years before discovering the guitar at the age of 14. At the age of 15, Lars bought a 4-track recorder, recording, arranging and producing his own compositions, having already his first professional studio job as a session player for a single recording when he was 17. Career From 1998 to 2002, Lars Taylor studied jazz guitar in the Basel Music Academy’s After being discovered in 2008 by the Angolan rapper Diamondog, he became part of his band playing in legendary places and festivals like Kunsthaus Tacheles, Fête de la Musique and old DDR place Kaffee Burger. In 2009 Taylor was also a session guitar player for the New German Wave band 1. Futurologischer Congress, contributed tracks for the album Küssmichdoch from German pop singer Christin Henke

Lars-Erik Larsson

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Lars-Erik Vilner Larsson (15 May 190827 December 1986) was a Swedish composer, conductor, radio producer, and educator. He wrote three of the most popular works (each a suite) in Swedish art music: A Winter’s Tale (; 1937–1938), the Pastoral Suite (; 1938), and God in Disguise (; 1940). Other notable works by Larsson include three symphonies, a sinfonietta, and numerous concertante works. Biography Larsson was born in Åkarp in 1908, the son of a factory worker and a nurse. He studied with Ernst Ellberg at the Stockholm Conservatory (1925–1929) and with Alban Berg and Fritz Reuter in Vienna and Leipzig (1929–1930), then worked for Swedish Radio and taught at the Stockholm Conservatory (1947–1959) and Uppsala University, where he held the position as Director musices (1961–1966). One of his pupils was composer Hans Eklund. His style as a composer is eclectic, ranging from the late Romantic to techniques derived from Arnold Schoenberg’s twelve-note system, but original in method. He was the first Swede to write serial music (1932). Yet other works of that period are post-Sibelian or neo-classical, and his output generally is characterized by variety of style. He wrote for the theatre,

Lars-Gunnar Bodin

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Lars-Gunnar Bodin (15 July 1935 – 10 May 2021) was a Swedish pioneer in the field of electronic music during the 1960s, especially in the Scandinavian scene. Education and early career Bodin was born in Stockholm, and studied classical music and traditional compositions under Lennart Wenström. Bodin joined the art group Fylkingen in 1962. With growing notoriety, Bodin made a point to increase the interest in Swedish artistic electronic music. Works Two of Bodin’s most famous works are “Clouds” LP and “En Face”. In Bodin’s work he has devoted himself to many different fields of contemporary music: instrumental theatre, text-sound composition, multi-media works and interaction between instrumentalists and tape recordings. The encounter between language and music has inspired him with several works, and his compositions frequently include phonetic elements. Concern for detail is one aspect of his working methods which is frequently mentioned by his colleagues. This concentration on the micro level does not impede him from building up large-scale, block-like, multi-layer processes. Notes External links * Ode To Gravity:A Visit with Lars Gunnar Bodin, 1971 * Interviewed by Charles Amirk

Lárus Halldór Grímsson

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Lárus Halldór Grímsson (born December 13, 1954) is an Icelandic composer and musician. He is known mostly for his electronic compositions with traditional instruments but he has been writing more non-electronic works since 1990. He has composed much of his music for theatre and television. Lárus began studying the flute in the Skólahljómsveit Vesturbæjar children’s wind band and music school in Western Reykjavík (now Skólahljómsveit Vesturbæjar og Miðbæjar) when he was ten. He attended the Reykjavík College of Music from 1972 to 1977. There he concentrated mostly on the flute, but also learned to play keyboards. He played on both instruments with several bands in the 1970s, the most famous being Eik, one of the first Icelandic bands to write all their own songs. In 1979 he began studies at the Institute of Sonology (Instituut voor Sonologie) in Utrecht, in the Netherlands. After finishing his studies there in 1984, he worked at the institute for some time. Lárus’ compositions include many works for theatre and television, including the play Næturgalann, which has been performed at most primary schools in Iceland, He has been director and conductor of the Skólahljómsveit Vesturbæjar

Larysa Kuzmenko

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Larysa Kuzmenko (born 1956) is a Juno Awards-nominated Canadian composer and pianist based in Toronto, Ontario. She currently teaches on the music faculties of The Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto. Early life Kuzmenko was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, to Ukrainian parents. She studied music at the University of Toronto, earning a master’s degree in composition. Career Kuzmenko has been commissioned to write pieces by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, the International Women’s Brass Conference, the Laidlaw Foundation, the Oberlin Choristers, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Royal Canadian College of Organists. In 2003 her work “Impromptu and Toccata” was premiered in Toronto. Kuzmenko’s oratorio “Golden Harvest” was first performed by the Winnipeg Symphony in 2016. For Canada’s 150th Anniversary, she collaborated with Newfoundland playwright Robert Chafe to create a choral adaptation of Brahms Intermezzo. The work was performed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Shallaway Youth Choir of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Many of Kuzmenko’s works have been published by Boosey and Hawkes. Her composition “My

Lasse Dahlquist

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Lars Erik (“Lasse”) Dahlquist (14 September 1910 – 14 October 1979) was a Swedish composer, singer and actor. Many of his songs are among the most popular sing-along songs in Sweden, such as Oh boy oh boy oh boy and Gå upp och pröva dina vingar. He was married to Inez Margareta Dahlquist, née Lindquist (1911–2004) from 1936 and they had a son; the saxophonist Robert “Bob” Dahlquist (2 September 1938 – 6 September 2005). On Saltholmen, at the terminal of the boats of Styrsöbolaget, there is a place called Lasse Dahlquists Plats. He was born in Örgryte, and grew up in Lidingö. As a child, he spent his summers at his grandfather’s farm, Langegården, on Brännö, in the Gothenburg archipelago, where he built his own home. He worked at Sven-Olof Sandberg’s music publishment Svenska Noter and in 1931 he began recording gramophone records. In 1977 he received the Evert Taube award. He died on Brännö of laryngeal cancer Selected filmography *Pojkarna på Storholmen (1932) * Jolly Musicians (1932) *Skärgårdsflirt (1935) * Just a Bugler (1938) *Styrman Karlssons flammor (1938) *Sjöcharmörer (1939) * The Crazy Family (1940) * Goransson’s Boy (1941) * It Is My Music (1942) * Eaglets (1944) *Sista

László Lajtha

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László Lajtha (; 30 June 1892 – 16 February 1963) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor. Career Lajtha was born to Ida Wiesel, a Transylvanian-Hungarian and Pál Lajtha, an owner of a leather factory. His father had ambitions to become a conductor, played the violin well and also composed. Lajtha studied with Viktor Herzfeld in the Academy of Music in Budapest and then in Leipzig, Geneva and finally Paris where he was a pupil of Vincent d’Indy. Before the First World War, in collaboration with Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, he undertook the study and transcription of Hungarian folk song, heading up a project to produce a series of folk music recordings. Throughout the war he served at the front as an artillery officer, an experience recalled in his sombre Second Symphony (1938) – a work that remained unperformed until 1988. In 1919 he married Róza Hollós, and began teaching at the Budapest National Conservatory. Among his pupils was the conductor János Ferencsik, who was later one of the principal champions of his music. From 1928 he was a member of the International Commission of Popular Arts and Traditions of the League of Nations. He was also a member of the I

László Sáry

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László Sáry (born Győrasszonyfa, Hungary, 1 January 1940) is a Hungarian composer and music educator, founding member of Új Zenei Stúdió, brother of composer József Sári. He studied with Endre Szervánszky at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest (1961–6). His early works show the strong influence of Bartók. In ensuing years, acquaintance with the music of Boulez and Stockhausen stimulated a change in his style. The experimental ideas he developed with Új Zenei Stúdió (Budapest New Music Studio), which he co-founded in 1970 with Zoltán Jeney and László Vidovszky, among others), led to group improvisation and collective compositions, of which Pentagram (1982) is an adaptation. His encounter with Christian Wolff at Darmstadt in 1972 led him to diverge further from traditional Western European styles. Much of his music of the 1970s and 80s employs repetitive patterns, such as chordal sequences (A Continuity of Rotative Chords), groups of scales (Ludus cromaticus) or small sets of pitches (Fives Repeated, made up of 120 permutations of five pitches). His interest in electronics and musique concrète led to Studies for Steam Engines (tape, 1996), which won third prize in the seventh Intern

László Tihanyi

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László Tihanyi (born 21 March 1956) is a Hungarian composer and conductor. Biography László Tihanyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 21 March 1956, and pursued musical studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, where he studied composition with Rezső Sugár and conducting with András Kórodi. Since 1979, Tihanyi serves as a devoted professor at the Academy of Music, where he acted also as vice-rector between 2000 and 2005. He regularly conducts at home and abroad, typically 20th century classical and contemporary programmes. He appeared with all major Hungarian orchestras and significant European contemporary music ensembles, as Ensemble Modern, Contrechamps and MusikFabrik. In 1991, he participated in the production of Maderna’s Hyperion at the Festival D’Automne à Paris and the subsequent European tour. In 2002, Péter Eötvös asked him to be second conductor of his opera Three Sisters for the 2002 production for the Wiener Festwochen (besides Eötvös being first conductor himself). In 1985, founded his own instrumental ensemble, the Intermodulation, dedicated to 20th and 21st Century music, and has been the artistic director since then. Tihanyi is the winner of prestigio

László Vidovszky

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László Vidovszky (born Békéscsaba, Hungary, 25 February 1944) is a Hungarian composer and pianist. During the 1970s he began composing works in a minimal style. His music has been influential on the music of György Kurtág and other modern composers. Vidovszky studied composition with Géza Szatmári at the Szeged Conservatory in 1959, and with Ferenc Farkas at the Budapest Academy of Music from 1962 to 1967. In 1970–71, he studied in Paris, attending courses organized by the Groupe des Recherches Musicales as well as composition classes of Olivier Messiaen. In 1970, Vidovszky co-founded (together with Zoltán Jeney, László Sáry, Péter Eötvös, and Albert Simon) the Budapest New Music Studio and has been an active member ever since, both as composer and as performer. Vidovszky taught music theory at the Teachers’ Training College of the Budapest Academy of Music from 1972 to 1984. In 1984 he was appointed director of the music department at the University of Pécs in southern Hungary, a position which he held until 1988. In 1996 he was appointed as the first Dean of the recently founded Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at the same university. Vidovszky was awarded the Erkel Prize (198

László Weiner

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László Weiner (9 April 1916 in Szombathely, Hungary – 25 July 1944 in Lukov) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor who was murdered in the Holocaust. Weiner studied piano and conducting at the Budapest Music Academy and was a composition student of Zoltán Kodály from 1934 to 1940. Weiner was married in 1942 to singer Vera Rózsa. By February 1943, Weiner had been deported by the Nazis to the Lukov forced labor camp in Slovakia where he was later murdered. Kodály attempted to save Weiner and colleague Jenő Deutsch to no avail. Due to the efforts of violist Pál Lukács, several of Weiner’s compositions were published by Editio Musica Budapest in the 1950s and 1960s. Selected works ;Orchestral * Concerto for flute, viola, piano, and string orchestra (1941?) * Overture (published 1995) ;Chamber music * 1938: String trio “Vonosharmas Szerenad” for violin, viola, and cello * Duo for violin and viola (1939) * Sonata for viola and piano (1939?) * Two Movements for clarinet and piano ;Vocal * Three Songs (published 1994) Discography * Weiner: Chamber Music with Viola, Hungaroton HCD 32607 * In Memoriam: Hungarian Composers, Victims of the Holocaust, Hungaroton HCD32597 References Ex

Lauma Reinholde

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Lauma Reinholde (1906 - 1986) was a Latvian composer, pianist and teacher who toured internationally and composed over 300 works. Although sometimes known as Lauma Vikmane after her marriage, she is best known as Lauma Reinholde. Reinholde was born in Riga to a musical family. Her mother Alvine Rozenberga was a pianist. Her father Janis Reinholde was a composer, conductor, and violinist. Reinholde began studying piano at age three and attended the Riga Conservatory (today the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music) and the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Her teachers included A. Daugulis, E. Daugovet, and Jāzeps Vītols. After graduating in 1926, Reinholde studied abroad. Describing this time in an autobiographical article (On the Path of My Life. Zeltene, No. 3, 01.02.1934), she noted, “Although I wanted to go abroad to improve my skills immediately after graduating from the conservatory, I only managed to do so after two years, as I could not find the funds sooner. With a grant from the cultural fund and a part of my own savings, I set out into the world. I had to endure many indescribably difficult days during these times of studying abroad (in Germany and Poland). I often ran out o

Launy Grøndahl

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Launy Grøndahl (30 June 1886 – 21 January 1960) was a Danish conductor and composer. Grøndahl studied the violin from the age of eight. His first work as a professional musician was as a violinist with the Orchestra of the Casino Theatre in Copenhagen, aged thirteen. Launy Valdemar Grondahl is known to posterity for two things: his distinguished 31–year conducting career with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orquestra, and his Trombone Concerto dating from 1924. Launy Grøndahl was born in Denmark on 30 June 1886. He began his studies with Anton Bloch, Ludolf Nielsen and Axel Gade, and what marks his life as a violinist and composer was a scholarship from the Kobenhavns Orkestreforenings Jubioeumslegat (granting of the Jubilee of the Copenhagen Orchestral Association) in the summer of 1924. This thanks to the manager of the Vacuum Oil Company, Carls A. Muchaelsen, had donated kr. 2500 to honor a talented member in connection with the association’s 25th anniversary jubilee on 25 April 1924. With the Grøndahl scholarship, the recipient can tour Europe in search of musical knowledge and maturation in Paris, Vienna and Milan, among other cities. Notable works Some of his first works i

Laura Andel

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Laura Andel (born 1968) is an Argentinian musician, conductor and composer. Biography Laura Andel was born in Argentina and has Moldovan descent. She began music lessons in Buenos Aires at the age of five. She played woodwind as a child and began to compose at an early age. She graduated from Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda in Buenos Aires with a degree in Tango performance, and in January 1993, she began the study of jazz composition and music for film at Berklee College of Music in Boston. After completing her studies, Andel moved to New York City in 2000 where she has worked as a composer and conductor. She is the leader of the Laura Andel Orchestra and has conducted her music in cities including New York, Boston, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Berlin. She is an associate professor at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York in the Bronx. Awards and honors *BMI Foundation-Jerry Harrington Jazz Composers Award *Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the Bellagio Study Center in Italy *Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program Grant from the American Music Center *Music Composition Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council *Artist-in-residence at the M

Laura Canoura

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Laura Canoura Sande (born 2 January 1957) is a singer and composer of popular Uruguayan music. She is considered one of the most renowned female solo artists in Uruguay. Biography Early career Canoura was born in Montevideo to José Coco Canoura, the son of a Galician immigrant, and his wife Carmen Pocha Sande. In 1978 she finished her studies in theater at the school of actors Roberto Fontana and Nelly Goitiño. Shortly afterward, her participation in the Conservatorio del Núcleo de Estudios Musicales gave her the opportunity to meet several musicians with whom she would form the group Rumbo. Rumbo Beginnings In early 1979, her connection began with musicians Mauricio Ubal, Gonzalo Moreira, Gustavo Ripa, Miguel López, and Carlos Vicente, which led to the founding of the musical group Rumbo. They offered their first performance in the Teatro Astral in June 1979. Their first full-length recording, entitled “Para abrir la noche,” was edited by the label Ayuí / Tacuabé in 1980. In the following years, they edited the two other albums that would make up their discography: “Sosteniendo la pared” in 1982 and “Otro tiempo” in 1985 and offered concerts around Uruguay, performing on several o

Laura Clayton

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Laura Clayton (born December 8, 1943) is an American pianist and composer. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and at Columbia University, New York, with Mario Davidovsky. She began studying composition with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Music School and graduated with a Master of Music in Composition from the New England Conservatory in Boston. She lived for a while in Brazil and then continued her studies at the University of Michigan, graduating with a Doctorate of Musical Arts. After completing her education, she worked as a composer. In 1980, her work was chosen to represent the United States at the International Rostrum of Composers. Her compositional style has been describes as rhythmically complex with a “highly refined sense of mystery”, inspired by images of nature. Cree Songs for the Newborn, based on creole poems, was chosen to represent the USA at the 1980 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Honors and awards *Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1980 *Walter B. Hinrichsen Award *NEA awards *Jerome Foundation grant *University of Michigan grant *Alice M. Ditso

Laura Coyne

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Laura Coyne is a Welsh composer and musician. As a composer, she is best known for her writing within the theatre industry. Career Daniel Curtis and Laura Coyne specialize in performing American show tunes from the first half of the 20th century (also known as Standards, or the “Great American Songbook”). Media appearances They have made numerous television appearances including S4C’s Wedi 3, the BBC One Show, Songs of Praise and X Ray. Their radio broadcasts include BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Merseyside, and BBC Radio Wales. They have performed at venues that include London’s Trafalgar Square (as part of West End Live 2011), the 2010 Welsh Proms at St David’s Hall, Philanthropy They have launched two projects to help preserve the Great American Songbook: one to teach schoolchildren about the music, composers, and artists in the hope of inspiring them to keep the music alive; and one to record elderly people’s recollections of what the music has meant to them. References

Laura Kaminsky

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Laura Kaminsky (born September 28, 1956) is an American composer, producer of musical and multi-disciplinary cultural events, and educator. She was born in New York City, graduated from the High School of Music and Art, and studied with Joseph Wood at Oberlin College and Mario Davidovsky at City College of New York. She graduated from City College/CUNY with a Master of Arts degree in composition in 1980. Career Kaminsky has maintained an active composing studio and has had her music performed internationally. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. In addition, her music has been extensively recorded. She has received national recognition for her innovative cultural programming and has held posts at a number of important institutions including New York City’s 92nd Street Y, Town Hall, and Symphony Space, where she is currently artistic director. In 1984 she co-founded and remains the artistic director of the new music collective, Musicians Accord, which is in residence at City College of New York, where the ensemble members work with Professor David Del Tredici and his graduate composition students. From 1992-93 Kaminsky lived and worked in Ghana, where

Laura Lemon

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Laura Gertrude Lemon (15 October 1866 – 18 August 1924) was a Canadian composer and songwriter who lived and worked in England. She also used the pseudonyms Austin Fleming and Ian Macdonald. Lemon was mostly known for composing pieces for violin and piano such as “Three Moravian Dances”, which was dedicated to the Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow. However she also noted for her songs. was at one time one of the best-known songs by a Canadian composer. Early life Lemon was born in Guelph, Ontario. Her father was Andrew Lemon, Queen’s Counsel, with a job as a partner in the law firm Lemon and Peterson. Her mother was Laura Armstrong, after whom she was named. In 1881, when she was five years old, the family moved from their Arthur Street home to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lemon grew up there with an appreciation and skill for music. In her early 20s Lemon moved to England, enrolling in the Royal Academy of Music in London. Musical career Lemon was a skilled pianist and many of her early works were written for piano. In the 1890s, her compositions began to be published as on sheet music. These titles included “Slumber Songs” and “Three Moravian Dances”. Her works were performed by local si

Laura Netzel

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Laura Constance Netzel ( Pistolekors; pseudonym, N Lago; 1 March 1839 — 10 February 1927) was a Finnish-born Swedish composer, pianist, conductor and concert organizer who sometimes used the pseudonym N. Lago. She was born in Rantasalmi, Finland, and was proud of her Finnish heritage throughout her life, even though she was just one year old when she moved permanently to Stockholm. Netzel studied piano with Mauritz Gisiko and Anton Door, voice with Julius Günther and composition with Wilhelm Heinze in Stockholm and Charles-Marie Widor in France. Netzel was active in social causes, including support for poor women, children and workers. In 1866 she married professor Wilhelm Netzel of the Karolinska Institute. She died in Stockholm. Life Laura Pistolekors was born in 1839. In her childhood home, as was customary at the time, frequent music salons were organized; at one of these events the organist Elfrida Andrée premiered her first “Tritet for piano” (1860). Laura performed the piano part with two musicians from the court orchestra on violin and cello. Netzel’s opportunities to perform in public diminished after her marriage, and it was then that she turned her creativity to composit

Laura Rossi

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Laura Rossi is a British composer of film and concert works. Originally from Devon, she graduated with a master’s degree from the London College of Music, having previously studied at the University of Liverpool. Work Her credits include scores for films including Paul Andrew Williams’s London to Brighton and The Cottage, Song for Marion and The Eichmann Show. Rossi has scored music for many silent films such as Silent Shakespeare and Jane Shore for the British Film Institute. She was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum in 2006 to write an orchestral score to accompany the digitally restored 1916 film The Battle of the Somme. In the centenary year, 100 live orchestral screenings of the film with Rossi’s score took place worldwide to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle. In 2014, Rossi’s work Voices of Remembrance, inspired by ten of World War I’s most famous poems, was recorded with the Chamber Orchestra of London with readings by Vanessa Redgrave and Ralph Fiennes. Rossi is working as a lecturer in Film Music at the London Film Academy. Filmography * Hurricane (2018) *The Eichmann Show (2015) * Unfinished Song (2013) * The Battle of the Ancre (2012) * Song for Marion (2012

Laura Schwendinger

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Laura Elise Schwendinger (born January 26, 1962) was the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin’s Berlin Prize. Biography Schwendinger was the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin Prize, and her opera Artemisia, is the winner of the 2023, American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Opera Award, the largest such award for vocal music in the US. Additionally, she is a recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships from the Yaddo Colony, MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Center. She is a Professor of Composition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also the Artistic Director of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and Head of Composition. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, where she studied with Andrew Imbrie and Olly Wilson. Schwendinger has been invited to present her music to seminars at Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Juilliard School, the University of California at Berkeley Davis, University of California Los Angeles, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Royal Irish Academy o

Laura Sedgwick Collins

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Laura Sedgwick Collins (c. 1859 – April 20, 1927) was an American musician, composer, lyricist, and actress. Born in Poughkeepsie, she was active as a music educator and composer in New York. While she composed a wide range of works, she was most productive in creating music for the stage and as a composer of art songs. She is remembered for being the first American woman to study music composition with Antonín Dvořák. and Emily L. Collins, Laura Collins was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, c. 1859. Her mother was a painter and her father was a civil servant. Her initial music studies were with her mother, followed by studies under W. H. B. Matthews, Henry Wolfgang Amadeus Beale, Oscar Coon, and Carl Bergstein. She belonged to the Music Teachers National Association, and was a prolific writer of songs for children for use in music education. an organization credited as providing opportunities for women composers at a time when opportunities were rarely available elsewhere. Laura Sedgwick Collins died on April 20, 1927, aged 68, at the Knickerbocker Hospital in Manhattan. Resurgence of her music In the early 1990s, there was a brief resurgence of interest in Collins’s music in the Ne

Laura Shigihara

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is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter, composer, video game developer, and Twitch streamer. She is best known as the lead composer and sound designer for the tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies and the creator of the acclaimed indie RPG Rakuen. Shigihara has worked on over 30 other published video game titles including Deltarune, World of Warcraft, To the Moon, defunct mobile game High School Story and the 5th Anniversary Edition of Super Meat Boy. She co-created the ending theme song for Minecraft: The Story of Mojang with C418 and worked together with Yasunori Mitsuda on the official Square Enix Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross 20th Anniversary Album. Early life Born in the United States to a Japanese father and a French American mother, Shigihara grew up in both the US and Japan. she was given an old version of Sonar (known as Cakewalk since 2018) which she used to start learning about mixing, arranging and production by recreating old video game soundtracks and composing her own songs. After a friend leaked her original material to record companies in Japan, Shigihara was offered record contracts as a singer there, but ended up turning them down for personal reasons. Career Sho

Laura Stevens

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Laura Stevens is a South African and British composer of music for concert hall, film and media, stage and dance. Stevens composed the original score for the documentary Elephant Refugees (2022, dir. Louise Hogarth) , narrated by Jerome Flynn; and various ballet music works for the English National Ballet. She is also known for collaborating with living poets on musical settings of their work, among them Katharine Towers and Hollie McNish Music Stevens created the original score for documentary Elephant Refugees in 2022, directed by Louise Hogarth, an account of elephants fleeing drought in Botswana In 2016 the English National Ballet commissioned Stevens to compose the music for Unsilenced, the youth ballet accompaniment to their She Said triple bill project. The work was danced at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London and the Britten Theatre. Previously, she had worked with the company on their Choreographics showcase at Sadler’s Wells, collaborating with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple on her work Give my Love to the Sunrise Stevens has written in cross-disciplinary genres, having also collaborated with poets Katharine Towers on a musical setting of her poem “the way we go”, for S

Lauren Bernofsky

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Lauren Bernofsky is an American composer of solo, chamber and choral music as well as larger-scale works for orchestra, film, musical, opera, and ballet. Trained as a violinist, she is particularly known for her writing for brass and winds. Her Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra is frequently performed as audition and recital repertoire and has been featured in the journal of the International Trumpet Guild; it was also the subject of a doctoral dissertation. Her piece “Sonatine” for flute and piano won the National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Competition. She has taught at the Peabody Institute. Bernofsky studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), The Hartt School, where she was a student of Eric Rosenblith, New England Conservatory of Music, and at Boston University, where she studied under Lukas Foss. While at NOCCA, she met and took lessons from Ellis Marsalis. Bernofsky’s music is generally tonal/modal, showing influences of Shostakovich, Ravel, Prokofiev, klezmer, and other Eastern European folk music, and often features soaring melodic lines set over syncopation-fueled rhythms and contemporary/experimental approaches to chord structure. Her Tr

Laurence Crane

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Laurence Crane (born 1961 in Oxford) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Career Laurence Crane is closely associated with the ensemble Apartment House, who have given over 40 performances of his works. Some performances they have given include Riis (1996) and John White in Berlin (2003). He has written a considerable amount of piano music. Pianists who have performed his work include Michael Finnissy, Thalia Myers and John Tilbury. His piece Octet was shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in the Chamber-Scale Composition category, along with works by Harrison Birtwistle and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 2017, he won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2017. In the same year, his piece Omloop Het Ives for bass flute and string quartet was nominated for the British Composer Awards. In 2021, Juliet Fraser, in association with Oxford Lieder Festival and Musica Sacra Maastricht, commissioned Crane to write a new piece that responds to the work of marine biologist Rachel Carson. The commission, Natural World for soprano and piano/sampler keyboard, won the Small Chamber Ivor Novello Award in 2022. Commenting on the piece, the jury added

Laurence Owen (composer)

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Laurence Owen is a British composer, musician, comedian and actor. Early career Laurence Owen’s career began in the 1990s as a child actor. He had notable credits in the feature film Wilde (playing Vyvyan Wilde opposite Stephen Fry) and the BBC period drama Berkeley Square, in which he had a recurring role. Composer Owen attended Brighton University from which he graduated with First Class Honours in Digital Music and Sound Arts. Since 2011 he has written music for a number of stage and film projects, including several short pieces for film festivals. In 2013, he won the Früh Kölsch Audience Award for Best Music in a Short Film for his score for the animated short White Morning. In the Autumn of the same year he provided sound design for 1927 Productions’ Golem, which was first performed at the Salzburg Festival before transferring to the Young Vic, London, and the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. For his work on Golem, he was nominated for Best Theatre Sound at the Pro Sound Awards 2015. Owen was composer and musical director of the live music and cartoon theatre show Cat & Mouse, a 1927 and Village Underground co-production which was also part of the 2017 Latitude Festival. In 2019, h

Laurence Traiger

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Laurence Traiger (October 16, 1956 – October 18, 2024) was an American composer. Originally from Bellmore, Long Island, New York, he studied and worked in Europe since 1976. Life and career At age 11 he composed duos for violin; at age 14 he took lessons in harmony, counterpoint and composition from his violin instructor, William Cosgriff, and at 16 had a work performed at the Hartt School of Music. In 1974 he graduated from John F. Kennedy High School (Bellmore, New York) where he studied under Barry A. Beeber and performed with the Long Island Youth Orchestra and the Long Island Holiday Festival Orchestra under Martin C. Dreiwitz. He received a scholarship from the University of Kansas, studying composition under Prof. John Pozdro. Leaving Kansas after his sophomore year, he moved to Europe. He first studied with Prof. Cesar Bresgen at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, graduating in 1980. From 1980 to 1982 Traiger studied at the Conservatoire National in Paris with Ivo Malec. In 1982 he became a student in the master class of Wilhelm Killmayer at the Munich College of Music. His list of works include chamber music, choral music, orchestral music, film music as well as composi

Laurent Ferlet

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Laurent Ferlet (born 5 October 1961) in Paris is a French classical pianist, arranger and composer with a focus on film music. Filmography Film Ferlet composed music for film including: *Le seigneur des aigles (1991) * Hanuman (1998) *Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins (2008) * (On the Way to School) (2013) * Bären (2014) * Peru – Eine Jugend zwischen Urwald und Großstadt (2018) * A Child’s Smile (2018) * Gogo (2019) Television *Une femme d’honneur (1996-2008) References External links * * * * Laurent Ferlet (in German) filmstarts.de * Musiques de campagne : quand les candidats veulent se faire entendre (in French) francetvinfo.fr

Laurent Lefrançois

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Laurent Lefrançois (born in 1974 in Caen) is a French composer. Life Winner of the Claude Arrieu Prize of the Sacem in 2016 and public prize at the international competition for young composers in Boulogne in 2006 (with Philippe Hersant as president of the jury), Lefrançois graduated from the École normale de musique de Paris in orchestration and musical composition in Michel Merlet’s class. He studied harmony and counterpoint with Stéphane Delplace and composition with Guillaume Connesson. Lefrançois received commissions from the in 2004, from for the Alternance Ensemble, from ProQuartet in 2006, for the Modigliani Quartet and Lise Berthaud, from Alla breve at Radio France, from the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier in 2007, for the pianist Cyril Guillotin, from the in 2009, for Ria Ideta and Paul Meyer, from the orchestra in 2014 under the baton of Frédéric Lodéon and from in 2016 for clarinetist Paul Meyer and the Rouen Orchestra. Works * Sextuor, commission from Radio France for the Festival Présences 2004 * Erinnerung, sextet for string instruments, commission from Proquartet * Padouk Phantasticus for strings, commission from the Festival international de musique de Salo

Laurent Petitgirard

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Laurent Petitgirard (born 10 June 1950, in Paris) is a French classical composer and conductor. Biography Laurent Petitgirard was born in Paris on 10 June 1950. He studied piano with his father Serge Petitgirard, a pupil of Alfred Cortot and Yves Nat, and composition with his older brother Alain Kremski (Kremski being their mother’s name). He has composed over twenty works of symphonic music, operas, ballets, chamber music and nearly one hundred and forty scores for film and television, in a style that is “always refined, dramatic and precisely tailored to the images”. He notably wrote the music for several films by Francis Girod and the 1991 Maigret television series. He also composes lyrical works. His first opera, Joseph Merrick dit Elephant man, with a libretto by Éric Nonn, premiered in 2002 at the Prague State Opera, under the direction of Daniel Mesguich. A new production of this opera was presented in 2005 at the Minneapolis Opera, directed by Doug Varone. His second opera, Guru (commissioned by the State), based on a libretto by Xavier Maurel, explores the subject of mental manipulation. It was recorded in Budapest for the Naxos label in October 2010 under the composer’s d

Laurent Voulzy

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Lucien Voulzy (, born 18 December 1948), better known as Laurent Voulzy (), is a French singer-songwriter, composer, and musician. Life and career Laurent Voulzy was born in Paris, France. Early in his musical career, he led the English-pop-influenced group Le Temple de Vénus before joining singer Pascal Danel as a guitarist from 1969 to 1974. Voulzy is best known for his long-standing songwriting collaboration with Alain Souchon, as well as for his own successful solo career as a singer. He achieved international recognition with the 1977 hit single “Rockollection”, which combined original French lyrics with excerpts from classic rock songs in English. Among his other major hits are “Paradoxal Système”, which reached the Top 10 in France, and “Le Soleil Donne”, a multilingual song featuring lyrics in French, English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Another notable success was the double single “Belle-Île-en-Mer, Marie-Galante”/“Les Nuits Sans Kim Wilde”, the latter inspired by English pop singer Kim Wilde. Other popular titles in his discography include “Bopper en larmes”, “Le Cœur Grenadine”, and “Désir, désir”. Voulzy’s music also found success in Belgium, Switzerland, and Québec, ofte

Lauri Conger

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Lauri Conger is notable primarily as the keyboardist and one of the principal co-writers of most of the songs of The Parachute Club. History Conger is a native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, where she began her professional music career in the 1970s. She received early piano and dance training in Port Arthur, Ontario, prior to its merger into Thunder Bay, and was a graduate of Hillcrest High School. Conger moved to Toronto, where she and Lorraine Segato were members of Mama Quilla II. In 1982, Conger and Segato, along with percussionist Billy Bryans, formed the nucleus of what would become The Parachute Club. Conger and Lorraine Segato, together with other band members and lyricist Lynne Fernie, wrote of most of the group’s songs, including the song for which the group is best known, “Rise Up”. Conger was a band member during the production of its three albums, released between 1983 and 1986, but left the group in mid-1987. Her final performance was before the Duke and Duchess of York in Toronto. at Toronto’s Ontario Place. Following her departure from the group and despite her significant contributions to music, Conger did not continue in a prominent role as a professional musician or s

Laurie Johnson

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Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson (7 February 1927 – 16 January 2024) was an English composer and bandleader who wrote scores for dozens of film and television series, described as “one of the most highly regarded arrangers of big-band swing and pop music” in England. Early career, theatre and KPM Johnson was born in Hampstead, London, England on 7 February 1927. He studied at the Royal College of Music, where his tutors included Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams. One of his first major projects was as composer and music director in a musical adaptation of Henry Fielding’s Rape Upon Rape, entitled Lock Up Your Daughters (1959). The score, with lyrics by Lionel Bart, won an Ivor Novello Award. It opened the new Mermaid Theatre in 1959 and was later revived at the Mermaid in 1962, transferring to the West End in 1963. Johnson’s other stage work included music for the Peter Cook revue, Pieces of Eight (1959), and The Four Musketeers (1967), starring Harry Secombe. At the sessions Johnson produced two styles of music: light orchestral and big band jazz. He was also house conductor for KPM in the 1960s. The Trend Setters, recorded for KPM in 1960, was used as the theme tune for th

Laurie San Martin

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Laurie Ann San Martin in Oakland, California. where she was one of the last students of Richard Swift before his retirement. In 1999, she was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Scholarship in 2000. In 2003, she obtained her PhD in theory and composition at Brandeis University; her doctoral dissertation Compositional devices: How melodic and harmonic elements function to achieve a large-scale dramatic structure in the first movement of Andrew Imbrie’s “Spring Fever” was supervised by Martin Boykan. In April 2010, her piece Two Pieces for Piano and Percussion was performed at a Louis Karchin premiere at the Kaufman Music Center, performed by the Washington Square Ensemble. In 2011, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble selected her piece Linea Negra, which The New York Times called “fitfully leaping and rolling”, to be performed at Joe’s Pub. In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She won the 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Andrew Imbrie Award in Music. Her piece Seven Pines premiered at Radius Ensemble’s May 2019 concert; Zoë Madonna of the Boston Globe compared it to “a series of alchem

Laurie Scott Baker

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Laurie Scott Baker (1943 – 16 November 2022) was a British composer and musician of experimental and electronic music. He was a pioneer of live electronics and graphic scores from the 1960s. Career Early life Laurence Baker was born 1943 in Sydney, Australia. From 1958 he studied at the Julian Ashton Art School. His musical career began playing double bass at the El Rocco jazz cellar, Sydney’s major jazz venue at that time, with his school friend pianist Serge Ermoll. He worked for the Sydney Morning Herald as a trainee graphic artist. Baker left Australia in 1964, working his passage in the band on the Greek liner Patris. Britain In London he worked on several collective projects with the composer Cornelius Cardew. He took part in Music Now, a concert society founded in 1968 by Victor Schonfield which introduced avant-garde music to British audiences, including the first UK performance of In C and also in the first performances of the composers Frederic Rzewski and John White. He took part in Christian Wolff’s ‘Burdocks’ concert. He was a member of the Scratch Orchestra from its formation in 1969. Following on from this came the formation in 1972 of Peoples’ Liberation Music with

Laurie Spiegel

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Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse. She is also a guitarist and lutenist. Spiegel’s musical interpretation of Johannes Kepler’s Harmonice Mundi appeared on “Sounds of Earth” section of the Voyager Golden Record. Her 1972 piece “Sediment” was included in the 2012 film The Hunger Games. She has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Education Spiegel was born on September 20, 1945, in Chicago. Her early musical experiences were largely self-directed, beginning with the mandolin, guitar, and banjo she had as a child, which she learned to play by ear. She became interested in electronics after using a tape-operated computer at Purdue University as part of a high school class field trip. At the age of 20, she taught herself Western music notation, after which she began writing down her compositions. Spiegel attended Shimer College in Naperville, Illinois, through the school’s early entrance program. She subsequently spent a year at the University of Oxford through an exch

Lauro Rossi

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Lauro Rossi (19 February 1810 in Macerata – 5 May 1885 in Cremona), was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. There is no known connection with Luigi Rossi (1597–1653). Life and career Rossi studied in Naples and produced his first opera there. His greatest success was with the comic opera originally entitled La casa disabitata, which was performed for many years in its revised form under the title I falsi monetari. However, Rossi suffered a fiasco in 1835, after which he left Naples for Mexico, then Cuba. There he set up his own opera company, and married its prima donna, Isabella Obermayer. He returned to Italy in 1843 and continued composing, but, thereafter, he was mainly known as an academic figure as director of the Conservatory, first at Milan (1850–1870) and then at Naples (1870–1878). He was commissioned by Giuseppe Verdi to compose a portion of the Messa per Rossini; specifically, Number V. Agnus Dei, for solo Alto. Two of his late operas were also highly successful: La Contessa di Mons and Cleopatra. Operas * Le contesse villane (1829, revised as La villana contessa and also as Le principesse villane, 1830) * Costanza e Oringaldo (1830, in collaboration with P. Ra

Lawnie Wallace

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Lawnie Wallace (born April 15, 1977) is a Canadian country singer. Wallace recorded one studio album for MCA Canada, Thought I Was Dreaming, in 1996. Four singles from the album charted on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada, including the number 8-peaking title track. Biography Wallace was born in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada. At age seven she began performing and writing songs. At the age of fifteen Wallace signed a publishing deal with TMP Publishing, and an artist development deal with Warner Chappell. After relocating to Nashville she began co-writing songs. Before the age of seventeen Wallace had signed a major record deal with MCA Records and began touring to promote her first album Thought I was Dreaming. Following this tour she took a break from the stage, working with students wanting to get into the Radio and TV business. In 2015 Wallace released her second album, The Lost Years, and has returned to performing live with her band The Chosen Ones. Discography Albums Singles Music videos References

Lawrence Benjamin Brown

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Lawrence Benjamin Brown (August 29, 1893 – December 25, 1972) was an American singer, composer and pianist born in Jacksonville, Florida. He is best known for his arrangements of Negro spirituals, many of which he performed as accompanist for Paul Robeson, performing on piano and singing harmony. Early life Lawrence was raised by his father, Clark Benjamin Brown, and his stepmother, Cenia Brown. Lawrence’s birth mother died when he was three years old. Clark and his father were formerly enslaved. Education and early career Brown’s first music teacher was William Riddick, and was sent to study his principal instrument, piano, in Boston, Massachusetts. He worked as an elevator operator to make up for the costs his scholarships did not cover. He made his debut as a concert accompanist for tenor Sydney Woodward, and was later discovered by tenor Roland Hayes, with whom he toured from 1918 to 1923, including a performance at Buckingham Palace in 1921. While in England, he attended Trinity College for advanced training, where he received education in composition from Amanda Aldridge. In addition to piano and vocal arrangements, he performed string arrangements with cellist Beatrice Harri

Lawrence Chandler

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Lawrence Dean Chandler (born 27 November 1961) is a British American composer, musician, producer and sound artist based in London. Best known as a founding member of seminal New York duo Bowery Electric, he works in ambient, contemporary classical, electronic and experimental styles. Life and career Chandler studied English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences before pursuing formal training in music composition. Following Bowery Electric’s final tour in 2000, he took a hiatus during which he studied composition privately with La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros, with Conrad Cummings at The Juilliard School, worked for Philip Glass and completed a Master of Music in Composition from Goldsmiths College in London. He returned in 2009 with Everybody Here Is Fine, commissioned for Make Music New York and premiered at The Bell House, Brooklyn on 21 June 2009. Subsequent works include: Music for Rock Ensemble, commissioned for 50 Years of Minimalism, premiered by Chandler, Katia and Marielle Labèque and ensemble at Kings Place, London on 26 November 2011;The Tuning of the World, a realisation of his evolving 24-hour, 24 part, sustained

Lawrence Dillon

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Lawrence Dillon (born July 3, 1959) is an American composer, and Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His music has a wide range of expression, generally within a tonal idiom notable both for its rhythmic propulsiveness and a strong lyrical element. Acclaimed particularly for his chamber music, he has also written extensively for voice and large ensembles. Early life and education Dillon was born in Summit, New Jersey to James and Jeanne Beaumont Dillon. He was the youngest of eight children. His father died of a brain tumor when Lawrence was two; his mother lived well into her nineties. He lost 50% of his hearing in an early childhood bout with chicken pox. Intrigued by his siblings’ piano lessons, he began his own at age seven, and soon developed a habit of composing a new work for his lesson each week. After undergraduate studies at the Hartt School of Music, he became the youngest composer to earn a doctorate at The Juilliard School, winning the Gretchaninoff Prize upon graduation (1985). He studied privately with Vincent Persichetti, and in classes with Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, David Diamond, Leon Kirchner and Roger Sessions. Oth

Laxio Beats

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Bernard Antwi-Darko, better known as Laxio Beats, is a Ghanaian record producer and composer. He is best known for the production of Ghanaian rapper Guru’s hit single akayida in 2013. Early life, music career Laxio Beats, the youngest of seven siblings, was born February 28, 1987, at Kumasi. He started his music career as the entertainment prefect for his high school. In 2013 he produce “akayida”, which won the 2014 Ghana music awards for hiplife song of the year. Production credits * Geesus – “Kisses for Breakfast” ft Stonebwoy *Phootprintz – “Forgetti” ft Laxio Beats *TicTac – “Don’t Let Go” *Revy – “Prepaid” *Guru – “Akayida” *Criss Waddle – “Girls Abr3” *Just-Ice – “Hold It” *Echo – “Akuaba” *Rebbel Ashes and Ajoejoe – “Mene Woa” *Akoo Nana – “Nahna Nahna” *Preachers – “Meyi W’aye” *Keche – “Body Lotion” *Bisa Kdeix Sarkodiex phootprintz – “Jackie Appiah” *Iyanya – “Don’t Fear” *Jeff Spain – “Higher” References

Layale Chaker

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Layale Chaker (; born 1990) is a French-Lebanese violinist and composer whose music integrates elements of classical, contemporary, jazz, Arabic music and improvisation. Music career She was born in Paris and moved to Lebanon at the age of 6. In 2005, Chaker began her musical studies at the National Higher Conservatory of Beirut. She later studied at the Conservatoire Régional de Paris beginning in 2010 and the Royal Academy of Music in London starting in 2017 with professors including Mohamed Hashem, Carmen Scripcariu, Jeanne-Marie Conquer and Nicholas Miller. She currently performs with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. Chaker has performed at a variety of festivals and concert halls. Festival highlights include La Biennale di Venezia, Spoleto Festival, London Jazz Festival, Alderburgh Festival, Morgenland Festival Osnabrueck, Junger Kunstler Festival Bayreuth, Lucerne Festival for Contemporary Music, Impuls’ Festival, Beethoven Festival Bonn and Avignon Festival. She has performed at concert halls such as Berlin Philharmonie, Abbaye de Royaumont, Hancher Auditorium, Stone, National Sawdust, Banff Centre, Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall. Her album Radio

Layla Angulo

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Layla Angulo, and known mononymously as Layla, is an American saxophonist, composer, singer, band director, and recording artist specializing in Latin music. Layla was born to a Greek mother and an Irish-American father. Her grandfather’s upright bass playing inspired her to learn the saxophone at an early age. Layla’s first released album, Live at The Triple Door, was recorded at the noted Seattle theater and released in 2005. The album’s first single Que Te Vaya Bien was Top 10 for three months on OurStage and reached semi-finalist position in the International Songwriting Competition (ISC). “La Rumbera”—also from Live at the Triple Door—received ISC Honorable Mention in 2006. The album received warm reviews from Seattle Times and Chip Boaz’s Latin Jazz Corner. Mientras was Layla’s second album, recorded in New York with Arturo O’Farrill, Oscar Estagnaro, Tony Escapa, and Dario Escanazi. Released in 2008, Mientras was Editors Pick at Descarga.com and was lauded by critics such as Michael G. Nastos at AllMusic. Layla moved to New York City in 2009, subsequently spending a year on tour with reggaeton artist Don Omar. Her third album TriAngulo yielded a single, “No Se Como Olvidarte

Lazar Weiner

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Lazar Weiner (, October 24, 1897 – January 10, 1982) was a Russian and American composer of Jewish music. He also worked as conductor, vocal coach, and accompanist. He was trained as a pianist at the Kiev Conservatory where he began his studies at the age of 13. He studied music composition in New York with Frederick Jacobi and Robert Russell Bennett, and was also well known vocal coach in Manhattan. The composer Yehudi Wyner was his son. Works Weiner composed more than 200 art songs as well as Yiddish and Hebrew cantatas and full synagogue services. He wrote several cantatas, among them Legend of Toil (1933), Fight for Freedom (1943), and To Thee, America (1944). He also wrote the music to the Yiddish play Generations of Green Fields (1974). References External links * Biography at the Milken Archive of Jewish Music

Lazare Saminsky

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Lazare Saminsky (born Lazar Semyonovich Saminsky; ; 8 November 1882 – 30 June 1959) was a Russian-American performer, conductor and composer, especially of Jewish music. Life Born to a merchant family in Valehotsulove (now ), near Odessa, Saminsky received a broad education in the arts, sciences and languages. He studied music at the Odessa Conservatoire from 1903–1905, and then went to Moscow, where he studied mathematics and philosophy as well as music. Expelled for his participation in the student protests of 1905, he went to St.Petersburg, where he studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov, and Nikolai Tcherepnin. While still a student he became a founder member, with Mikhail Gnesin, Lyubov Streicher, and others, of the ‘Society for Jewish Folk Music’. He wrote music for the Society and helped organise its earliest publication. He continued an active member, even though from 1911 to 1918 he lived in Tbilisi, where he also interested himself in Georgian and Armenian music, and from 1917 to 1918 he was head of the conservatory. During this period he also wrote an opera Tsar Yulian (Emperor Julian) (which he later destroyed), and researched Jewish music of the Caucasian

Lazare-Auguste Maquaire

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Lazare-Auguste Maquaire (25 October 1872 – 16 August 1906) was a French organist and composer. A student of Charles-Marie Widor, he is known for a few works for the organ, most notably his First Organ Symphony in E-flat major, Op.20, his only published work. Life Maquaire was born in Lyon on 25 October 1872 to a family of embroiderers. At Paris Conservatory he studied under Charles-Marie Widor, and subsequently became his assistant at Saint-Sulpice. In 1905, he composed his most well-known work, Première Symphonie pour Orgue, Op. 20, better known as the First Organ Symphony in English. He dedicated the work to his teacher. His other works include the Fugue in G minor, composed in 1901, which was neither published nor given an Opus number. Its manuscript is currently stored at the Bibliothèque nationale. Shortly after writing his First Organ Symphony, Maquaire died in 1906. References

Lazarus Ekwueme

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Lazarus Edward Nnanyelu Ekwueme (born 28 January 1935), popularly known as Laz Ekwueme, is a Nigerian musicologist, composer, scholar and actor. He is one of the pioneer lecturers of music in Nigeria and also a prolific writer. He is a scholar who has written numerous articles and books on music especially the role of music in the lives of Africans and Africans in diaspora. He is the traditional ruler of Oko Kingdom. Biography Lazarus Ekwueme was born in Oko, Anambra State. He attended Government College, Umuahia for secondary education and the Royal College of Music, London, where he majored in composition and was under the direction of Gordon Jacob. In London, he earned a total of 10 diplomas in music, Speech and Drama and he also obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Durham. In 1962, he obtained the professional teaching diploma, Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music. While studying in Britain, he embraced the theatre and he was an actor in some African films produced by the African Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. He left Britain in 1964, and returned to Nigeria, where he took up a faculty position at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. As a l