Music TheoryPrint

MI

Composers whose names start with MI.

21st Century

Michael Abels

Michael Abels (born October 8, 1962) is an American composer best known for the opera Omar, co-written with Rhiannon Giddens, and his scores for the Jordan Peele films Get Out, Us and Nope. The

Read →
21st Century

Michael Alcorn

Michael Peter Alcorn (born 22 January 1962) is a full-time academic and current Director of the School of Music and Sonic Arts at Queen's University, Belfast and a partite composer. He was born in

Read →
21st Century

Michael Alec Rose

Michael Alec Rose (born 1959) is an American composer of chamber and symphonic music. He is Professor of Composition at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. His awards and commissions

Read →
Renaissance

Michael Altenburg

Michael Altenburg (27 May 1584 – 12 February 1640) was a German theologian and composer. Altenburg was born at Alach, near Erfurt. He began attending school in Erfurt in 1590; he began studying

Read →
Classical

Michael Arne

Michael Arne (c. 174014 January 1786) was an English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor. He was the son of the composer Thomas Arne and the soprano Cecilia Young, a member of the

Read →
Post-War

Michael B. Tretow

Bo Michael Tretow (20 August 1944 – 20 May 2025) was a Swedish record producer and audio engineer, musician, and composer, best known for his work with the Swedish pop group ABBA (1972–1982), and

Read →
Post-War

Michael Berkeley

Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer, broadcaster on music and non-party political member of the House of Lords, speaking as an advocate

Read →
Post-War

Michael Blake (composer)

Michael Blake (born 31 October 1951) is a South African contemporary classical music composer and performer. He studied in Johannesburg in the 1970s and was associated with conceptual art and the

Read →
20th Century

Michael Bowles

Michael Andrew Bowles (; 30 November 1909 – 6 April 1998) was an Irish conductor and composer, who was also active in New Zealand, the US, and England. Life Bowles was born in Riverstown, County

Read →
Post-War

Michael Brand (composer)

Michael Brand (born 1952) is an English orchestral conductor and composer, also known for his work with members of Van der Graaf Generator. He previously worked as a radio producer for the BBC. Early

Read →
Post-War

Michael Brook

Michael Brook (born 1951) is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, music producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores.

Read →
Entry

Michael Bruce (composer)

Michael Bruce (born 22 November 1983) is a Scottish composer and lyricist working in theatre, television and film. He was composer-in-residence at the Donmar Warehouse theatre during Josie Rourke's

Read →
21st Century

Michael Campion (musician)

Michael John Campion (born December 4, 1962) is an American producer, entrepreneur, musician and songwriter. He is known for resurrecting the guitar company Danelectro. Early life Michael Campion was

Read →
Post-War

Michael Carnes

Michael Page Carnes (1950) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Life and career Carnes was born in North Carolina. The son of a piano teacher, he received his first formal musical

Read →
21st Century

Michael Ching

Michael Ching (born September 29, 1958) is an American composer, conductor, and music administrator. A prolific and eclectic composer, he is best known nationally as the composer of innovative

Read →
Baroque

Michael Christian Festing

Michael Christian Festing (29 November 1705 – 24 July 1752) was an English violinist and composer. His reputation lies mostly on his work as a violin virtuoso. Biography Michael Christian Festing was

Read →
Post-War

Michael Conway Baker

Michael Conway Baker (born March 13, 1937) is an American-Canadian composer and music teacher. He became a Canadian citizen in 1970 and lives in North Vancouver. Life and career Baker was born in

Read →
Early Romantic

Michael Costa (conductor)

Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (14 February 180829 April 1884) was an Italian-born conductor and composer who achieved success in England. Biography He was born as Michele Andrea Agniello Costa in

Read →
Post-War

Michael Dadap

Michael Amper Dadap is a popular Filipino guitarist, composer, and conductor, and an influential advocate of Filipino folk music. He was influential in the creation of a world-class rondalla ensemble

Read →
Post-War

Michael Daugherty

Michael Kevin Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. He is influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Daugherty's notable works include his

Read →
Post-War

Michael Dellaira

Michael Dellaira (born August 5, 1949) is an American composer. He is a citizen of the United States and Italy and resides in New York City with his wife, the writer Brenda Wineapple. Early life and

Read →
21st Century

Michael Denhoff

Michael Denhoff (born 25 April 1955 in Ahaus) is a German composer and cellist. Life Denhoff has lived and worked in Bonn since 1982. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where his

Read →
21st Century

Michael Djupstrom

Michael Djupstrom (born 1980) is an American composer. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. After completing undergraduate and graduate studies in composition at the

Read →
Renaissance

Michael East (composer)

Michael East (or Easte, Est, Este) (c. 1580–1648) was an English organist and composer. He was a nephew of London music publisher Thomas East (c. 1540–1608), although it was once thought that he was

Read →
Post-War

Michael F. Robinson

Michael Finlay Robinson (3 March 1933 – 18 February 2026) was an English composer, musicologist and academic best known for his scholarly work on Italian opera, particularly Neapolitan opera of the

Read →
Post-War

Michael Finnissy

Michael Peter Finnissy (born 17 March 1946) is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is "notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy".

Read →
21st Century

Michael Flade

Michael Flade (born in 1975) is a German composer. Life Born in Dessau, Flade was a pupil of Hans Jürgen Wenzel in the . From 1993 he studied musical composition with Jörg Herchet, music theory with

Read →
21st Century

Michael Foumai (composer)

Michael Thomas Foumai (born 1987, Honolulu, Hawai'i) is an American composer of classical music. He is the first Composer-in-Residence at the Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra as well as its Director of

Read →
21st Century

Michael Friedman (composer)

John Michael Friedman (September 24, 1975 – September 9, 2017) was an American composer and lyricist. He was a Founding Associate Artist of theater company The Civilians. His musical Bloody Bloody

Read →
Post-War

Michael Garrett (composer)

Michael Garrett (17 June 1944–23 August 2023) was a British composer, born in Leicestershire. He was active in composing and performing for more than fifty years. His many works extend across a wide

Read →
21st Century

Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino ( ; ; born October 10, 1967) is an American film, television, and video game score composer. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, a Golden

Read →
Post-War

Michael Gielen

Michael Andreas Gielen (20 July 19278 March 2019) was an Austrian conductor and composer known for promoting contemporary music in opera and concert. Principally active in Europe, his performances

Read →
21st Century

Michael Gilbertson (composer)

Michael Gilbertson (born 1987) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. He was one of three finalists for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, making him one of the youngest finalists in the

Read →
21st Century

Michael Gordon (composer)

Michael Gordon (born July 20, 1956) is an American composer and co-founder of the Bang on a Can music collective and festival. He grew up in Nicaragua. Life and career Michael Gordon was born in

Read →
21st Century

Michael H. Weinstein

Michael H. Weinstein (born June 26, 1960) is a Swiss composer active in America. Weinstein has written music for all major genres of art music—with the exception of opera—though he is primarily known

Read →
Entry

Michael Halstenson

Michael Halstenson is a native to North Dakota. He is a musician and composer. Currently, he resides in Elk River, Minnesota. his compositions have been performed in many places. Performances of his

Read →
Post-War

Michael Hannan (composer)

Michael Francis Hannan (born 1949) is an Australian composer, keyboardist, and musicologist. Described in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians as a composer "exceptionally gifted for the

Read →
21st Century

Michael Harrison (musician)

Michael Harrison (October 24, 1958 - April 17, 2026) was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist living in New York City. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year

Read →
Classical

Michael Haydn

Johann Michael Haydn (; 14 September 1737 – 10 August 1806) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period and the younger brother of Joseph Haydn. Life Michael Haydn was born in 1737 in the

Read →
20th Century

Michael Head (composer)

Michael Head, FRAM (28 January 190024 August 1976) was an English composer, pianist, organist and singer who left some enduring works still popular today. He was noted for his association with the

Read →
Romantic

Michael Hebenstreit

Michael Hebenstreit (ca 1812 – after 1875) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer for stage music. Life Almost nothing has been handed down about Hebenstreit's life, only a few scores have

Read →
21st Century

Michael Heisch

Michael Heisch (born 20 May 1963) is a Swiss composer, double bass player, cultural critic and illustrator. Life Heisch was born in 1963 in Schaffhausen as son of the writer and satirist Peter

Read →
Post-War

Michael Hennagin

Michael Hennagin (17 September 1936 – 4 June 1993) was an American composer and university professor. Life and career Hennagin was born in The Dalles, Oregon. He studied composition at the Curtis

Read →
21st Century

Michael Hersch

Michael Nathaniel Hersch (born June 25, 1971) is an American composer and pianist. He currently serves as faculty at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, where he completed

Read →
21st Century

Michael Holohan

Michael Holohan (born 27 March 1956) is an Irish composer. Biography Michael Holohan was born in Drumcondra, Dublin. Music Holohan has composed for solo instrument, ensemble, orchestra, stage, choir

Read →
Post-War

Michael Hurd (composer)

Michael John Hurd (19 December 1928 – 8 August 2006) was a composer, teacher and author, principally known for his dramatic cantatas for schools and for his choral music. Life Michael Hurd was born

Read →
Post-War

Michael J. Lewis (composer)

Michael John Lewis (born 11 January 1939) is a Welsh composer and conductor. He is known for his various film, theatre, and television scores. Career He studied harmony, counterpoint and composition

Read →
21st Century

Michael Jarrell

Michael Jarrell (born 8 October 1958) is a Swiss composer and academic teacher, whose operas, such as Cassandre, have been performed internationally. Life Born in Geneva, Jarrell studied at the

Read →
20th Century

Michael Jary

Michael Jary (Maximilian Michael Andreas Jarczyk; 24 September 1906 – 12 July 1988) was a German composer who was born in Laurahütte, Siemianowitz and died in Munich. Early years Jary's father worked

Read →
Classical

Michael Kelly (tenor)

Michael Kelly (25 December 1762 – 9 October 1826) was an Irish tenor, composer and theatrical manager who made an international career of importance in musical history. One of the leading figures in

Read →
Entry

Michael Kohler (musician)

Michael Kohler is an American composer, music producer and sound designer who has composed music for numerous television shows, commercials and promos since 1993. A large number of his compositions

Read →
20th Century

Michael Krasznay-Krausz

Michael Krasznay-Krausz (also known as Michael Krausz; Hungarian: Krasznai Krausz Mihály; 11 April 1897 – 3 November 1940) was a Hungarian–Austrian composer. He was born in Pancsova, Austria-Hungary

Read →
Post-War

Michael Lawson (priest)

Michael Charles Lawson (born 23 May 1952) is an Anglican priest (formerly the Archdeacon of Hampstead), and also a composer, film maker, and author. Lawson was educated at Hove Grammar School,

Read →
Post-War

Michaël Lévinas

Michaël Lévinas (born 18 April 1949) is a French composer and pianist. Biography Born in Paris, Levinas was a student of Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris. As an interpreter he made

Read →
Renaissance

Michael Maier

Michael Maier (; 1568–1622) was a German physician and counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg. He was a learned alchemist, epigramist, and amateur composer. Early life Maier was born in Rendsburg,

Read →
Post-War

Michael Matthews (composer)

Michael Matthews, born August 28, 1950, is a Canadian composer and photographer. He completed a Ph.D. in composition at North Texas State University in 1985. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of

Read →
21st Century

Michael McCann (composer)

Michael Anthony McCann is a Canadian composer for television, video games and film. He is best known for composing the scores to the video games Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Deus Ex:

Read →
21st Century

Michael McGlynn

Michael McGlynn (born 11 May 1964) is an Irish composer and the founder and artistic director of the vocal ensemble Anúna, which he established in Dublin in 1987 as the principal vehicle for the

Read →
Post-War

Michael McLean (composer)

Michael H. McLean (born 1952) is an American songwriter, playwright, author, and filmmaker based in Heber City, Utah. Early life McLean attended high school in the Chicago area, where he served as

Read →
20th Century

Michael Mosoeu Moerane

Michael Mosoeu Moerane (20 September 1904 – 27 January 1980) was a choral music composer and the first black South African to write a symphonic poem, in 1941. Early life Moerane was a member of the

Read →
21st Century

Michael Nicolella

Michael Nicolella (born December 31, 1963, in Providence, RI) is an American classical guitarist and composer. Described as an iconoclast, he is known for his versatile, adventurous and eclectic

Read →
Post-War

Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy

Read →
21st Century

Michael Oliva

Michael Oliva (born 18 April 1966) is a British composer of contemporary classical music, working mainly in electroacoustics and opera. Early life Oliva was born in Edmonton, north London to a German

Read →
20th Century

Michael P. Grace II

Michael Paul Grace ll (August 6, 1917 – April 1, 1995) was the producer of the Broadway shows King of Friday's Men (1951) and John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953). Grace was the lyricist and

Read →
Post-War

Michael Parsons (composer)

Michael Edward Parsons (born 12 December 1938) is a British composer. Since the 1960s, when he met Cornelius Cardew and helped found the Scratch Orchestra, Parsons has been strongly associated with

Read →
Entry

Michael Patrick Walker

Michael Patrick Walker is a composer, lyricist, writer, and musician. Life Walker was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and raised in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. He lived in Pittsburgh for several years

Read →
21st Century

Michael Pisaro

Michael Pisaro (born 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is an American guitarist and composer. A member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, he has composed over 80 works for a great variety of

Read →
Renaissance

Michael Praetorius

Michael Praetorius (probably 28 September 1571 – 15 February 1621) was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly

Read →
21st Century

Michael Reudenbach

Michael Reudenbach (born 13 September 1956) is a German composer. He performs as an interpreter of Early and New Music. Life and achievements Reudenbach was born in Aachen. After training as a church

Read →
21st Century

Michael Ricketts (musician)

Michael David Ricketts (born January 21, 1965, in College Park, Maryland) is an American rock musician, and songwriter. Guitarist for heavy metal rock band ALLOY20. Michael acted as primary recording

Read →
Post-War

Michael Rosenzweig (composer)

Michael Rosenzweig, born 1951 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a composer, conductor, choral trainer and director, multi-instrumentalist and jazz musician. Education Merton Barrow provided him a

Read →
21st Century

Michael Rubin (composer)

Michael Rubin II is an American music producer, composer, voice actor and lyricist best known for his work in children’s television. Rubin has created musical pieces for shows including Bubble

Read →
Post-War

Michael Sahl

Michael Sahl (September 2, 1934 – March 29, 2018) was an American composer, pianist, and music director known for his eclectic and polystylistic approach to music. Early life and education Sahl was

Read →
21st Century

Michael Saxell

Michael Saxell (born 1 October 1956) is a Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He was born in Helsingborg, Sweden but has spent many years on the

Read →
21st Century

Michael Schneider (composer)

Michael Schneider (born 6 September 1964) is a Swiss composer and musicologist. He is active as a music and culture journalist as well as manager. Life Schneider was born in Göttingen in 1964 and

Read →
21st Century

Michael Seltenreich

Michael Seltenreich (; born 1988 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He is known for his distinctive, rhythmically captivating and technically

Read →
21st Century

Michael Sidney Timpson

Michael Sidney Timpson (born February 26, 1970) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is a Professor of Music Composition at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. Early

Read →
Entry

Michael Stimpson

Michael John Stimpson (born 1948) is a British composer. Early life and education Stimpson was brought up in Hammersmith and Wimbledon. His first degree was in Botany and Zoology, but immediately on

Read →
21st Century

Michael Tavera

Michael Anthony Tavera is an American composer best known for his animation scores. He has also worked on countless television series, live-action films, and direct-to-video sequels. He composed at

Read →
20th Century

Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. In his lifetime he was sometimes ranked

Read →
21st Century

Michael Torke

Michael Torke (; born September 22, 1961) is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Torke was born in Milwaukee, where he attended Wilson Elementary School,

Read →
Post-War

Michael Vetter

Michael Vetter (18 September 1943 – 7 December 2013) was a German composer, novelist, poet, performer, calligrapher, artist, and teacher. Biography Vetter was born in Oberstdorf in the Allgäu region

Read →
21st Century

Michael Vincent (music journalist)

Michael Vincent (born 1976) is a music journalist, media executive, and composer, who splits his time between Toronto, Ontario and Moncton, New Brunswick. Since 2014, he has been publisher and

Read →
Post-War

Michael von Biel

Michael von Biel (born 30 June 1937) is a German composer, cellist, and graphic artist. Life Biel was born in Hamburg, the son of Werner von Biel and Ursula von Biel (née Lampert). After finishing

Read →
Early Romantic

Michael William Balfe

Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 – 20 October 1870) was an Irish composer, best remembered for his operas, especially The Bohemian Girl. After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an

Read →
Baroque

Michael Wise (musician)

Michael Wise (born c.1647 in Salisbury, died there 24 August 1687) was an English organist and composer. He sang as a child in the choir of the Chapel Royal as one of the earliest groups of

Read →
20th Century

Michał Kondracki

Michał Kondracki (5 October 1902 – 27 February 1984) was a Polish composer. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Michał Kondracki was born on

Read →
21st Century

Michał Lorenc

Michał Lorenc ( Polish : ; born 5 October 1955) is a Polish film score composer, who composed music of films such as 300 Miles to Heaven (1989), Psy (1992), Bastard (1997), Blood and Wine (1997) and

Read →
21st Century

Michal Novinski

Michal Novinski (born Michal Ničík 4 October 1971) is a Slovak composer. He is best known for his film scores and theatre music. He received two Czech Lion Awards for scores for the films Kooky and

Read →
20th Century

Michalis Souyioul

Michail Sougioultzoglou ( ; 1 August 1906 – 16 October 1958), known professionally as Michalis Souyioul ( ) was a prominent Greek composer of light music in the early 20th century. Biography He was

Read →
Baroque

Michel Blavet

Michel Blavet (March 13, 1700 – October 28, 1768) was a French composer and flute virtuoso. Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument, he specialized in the bassoon and the flute

Read →
20th Century

Michel Boulnois

Michel Boulnois (31 October 1907 – 30 November 2008) was a 20th-century French organist and composer. Biography Born in Paris in a family of musicians, his father, Joseph Boulnois, was also an

Read →
Post-War

Michel Bühler

Michel Bühler (30 April 1945 – 7 November 2022) was a Swiss singer-songwriter, playwright, composer, actor, and teacher. Biography Bühler spent his childhood and secondary studies in Sainte-Croix

Read →
Post-War

Michel Colombier

Michel Colombier (23 May 1939 – 14 November 2004) was a French composer, arranger, and conductor. Career Colombier wrote the scores of several motion pictures and TV productions. He also wrote

Read →
Baroque

Michel Corrette

Michel Corrette (10 April 1707 – 21 January 1795) was a French composer, organist and author of musical method books. Life Corrette’s father, Gaspard Corrette, was an organist and composer. Little is

Read →
Entry

Michel Corriveau

Michel Corriveau (born June 29, 1962) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores from Quebec. He has received multiple nominations and awards throughout his career for Canadian and

Read →
Baroque

Michel de la Barre

Michel de la Barre (c. 1675 – 15 March 1745) was a French composer and renowned flautist known as being the first person to publish solo flute music. He played at the Académie Royale de Musique, the

Read →
Post-War

Michel Decoust

Michel Decoust (born 19 November 1936) is a French composer and conductor. Biography Decoust was born in born Paris on 19 November 1936. He studied from 1956 to 1965 with Jean Rivier and Darius

Read →
Post-War

Michel Herr

Michel Herr (born 16 February 1949 in Brussels) is a Belgian jazz pianist, composer and arranger. In addition to releasing jazz albums, composing for jazz ensembles and touring widely as a performing

Read →
Baroque

Michel Lambert

Michel Lambert (1610 – 29 June 1696) was a French singer, theorbist, and composer. Career Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, Poitou, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at

Read →
Post-War

Michel Longtin

Michel Longtin (born 20 May 1946) is a Canadian composer and music educator based in Montreal. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers, he won the

Read →
Post-War

Michel Magne

Michel Magne (20 March 1930 in Lisieux, Calvados, France – 19 December 1984 in Cergy-Pontoise, Val-d'Oise ) was a French film and experimental music composer. Early life He was the fifth child in a

Read →
Post-War

Michel Merlet

Michel Merlet (26 May 1939 – 3 May 2026) was a French composer and pedagogue. Life and career Michel Merlet was born in Saint-Brieuc, France in 1939. Merlet studied music at the Conservatoire de

Read →
Post-War

Michel Perrault

Michel Brunet Perrault (20 July 1925 – 6 February 2010) was a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and percussionist. As a composer, his work largely pulls on Canadian folk melodies and his

Read →
Post-War

Michel Philippot

Michel Paul Philippot (2 February 1925 – 28 July 1996) was a French composer, acoustician, musicologist, aesthetician, broadcaster, and educator. Life Philippot was born in Verzy. His studies of

Read →
Baroque

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (4 December 1667 – 22 September 1737) was a French composer of the baroque period. He was born Michel Pignolet in Andelot, Champagne (province), France, and only later

Read →
Post-War

Michel Puig

Michel Puig (born 1930) is a French composer. In 1953 he studied composition with René Leibowitz. In 1957 he published his Sonata for Piano and, the following year, Fantasia for Violin and Piano. In

Read →
21st Century

Michel Reis

Michel Reis (born 11 September 1982) is a Luxembourgish jazz pianist and composer who has performed internationally both individually and with other bands. Biography Born in Luxembourg City, Reis

Read →
Baroque

Michel Richard Delalande

Michel Richard Delalande de Lalande (; 15 December 1657 – 18 June 1726) was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV. He was one of the most important composers

Read →
21st Century

Michel Roth (composer)

Michel Roth (born June 26, 1976 in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland) is a Swiss composer, music researcher, and university professor. Life Michel Roth studied musicology and linguistics for one year at the

Read →
21st Century

Michel van der Aa

Michel van der Aa (; born 10 March 1970) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music. Early years Michel van der Aa was born 10 March 1970 in Oss. He trained as a recording engineer at the

Read →
Classical

Michèl Yost

Michèl Yost (Paris, 1754 – Paris, July 5, 1786) was a French clarinetist and cofounder of the French clarinet school. He was a brilliant instrumentalist and even known beyond the boundaries of

Read →
Renaissance

Michelagnolo Galilei

Michelagnolo Galilei (sometimes spelled Michelangelo; 18 December 15753 January 1631) was an Italian composer and lutenist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, active mainly in Bavaria and

Read →
Baroque

Michelangelo Grancini

Michel’Angelo Grancini (Grancino, born in Milan, 1605; died in Milan, April 17, 1669) was an Italian organist and composer. Grancini composed sacred music. Nineteen volumes were published in Milan

Read →
Baroque

Michelangelo Rossi

Michelangelo Rossi (Michel Angelo del Violino) (ca. 1601/1602 – 1656) was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era. Rossi was born in Genoa, where he studied with his

Read →
21st Century

Michelangelo Sosnowitz

Michelangelo Sosnowitz is an American music composer. His works include ballet, musical theater, electronic and popular music, as well as commercial, television and film. His feature film scores

Read →
Classical

Michelangelo Valentini

Michelangelo Valentini (1720–1768) was an Italian composer and organist. Biography and work Michelangelo Valentini was born in Naples, around 1720. He was probably a student of Leonardo Leo. He

Read →
Post-War

Michèle Bokanowski

Michèle Bokanowski (born 9 August 1943) is a French composer. Biography She was born in Cannes, and was educated in traditional music. She continued her studies in composition in Paris with Michel

Read →
Early Romantic

Michele Carafa

Michele Enrico Francesco Vincenzo Aloisio Paolo Carafa di Colobrano (17 November 1787 – 26 July 1872) was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini.

Read →
Late Romantic

Michele Esposito

Michele Esposito (29 September 1855 – 19 November 1929) was an Italian composer, conductor and pianist who spent most of his professional life in Dublin, Ireland. Training Esposito was born at

Read →
Baroque

Michele Mascitti

Michele Mascitti (1664 in Villa Santa Maria (from Chieti); 24 April 1760 in Paris) was an Italian violinist and Baroque composer. Life Mascitti was educated by a relative, Pietro Marchitelli

Read →
Romantic

Michele Novaro

Michele Novaro (; 23 December 1818 – 20 October 1885) was an Italian composer. Novaro was born on 23 December 1818 in Genoa, where he studied composition and singing at the Scuola Gratuita di Canto

Read →
Post-War

Michèle Reverdy

Michèle Reverdy (born 12 December 1943) is a French composer. Life and career Michèle Reverdy was born in Alexandria (Egypt). She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris especially with Claude Ballif

Read →
Classical

Michele Stratico

Giuseppe Michele Stratico (31 July 1728 – 31 January 1783) was a Venetian composer and violinist of Greek descent. Biography Stratico was born in Zara, Republic of Venice (today Zadar in Croatia).

Read →
Post-War

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux

Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux (9 August 1938 – 2 February 1985) was a Canadian composer and music educator who played an important role in the contemporary classical music scene of Canada and

Read →
Entry

Michelle DiBucci

Michelle DiBucci is an American composer born in 1961 who writes scores for opera, theater, dance, film, and TV. She has composed several of the scores featured in Wendigo, Carrier, Gêmeas and

Read →
21st Century

Michelle Willis

Michelle Willis (born November 6, 1986) is a British-born, Canadian-raised singer/songwriter and keyboard player. She performs regularly as a solo artist and as a side musician with David Crosby and

Read →
20th Century

Michiko Toyama

Michiko Francoise Toyama (September 1, 1913 – March 31, 2006) was a Japanese modernist composer. to study at the Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center (today known as the Computer Music Center).

Read →
21st Century

Michiru Ōshima

is a Japanese composer and arranger. She works on music in wide range of areas, such as anime, films, television series, video games, and concerts. She has written scores for over 100 films, over 200

Read →
Post-War

Mickey Newbury

Milton Sims "Mickey" Newbury Jr. (May 19, 1940 – September 29, 2002) was an American singer-songwriter. He is a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Early life and career Newbury was

Read →
Late Romantic

Mieczysław Karłowicz

Mieczysław Karłowicz (, 11 December 18768 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. Life Mieczysław Karłowicz was born in Vishneva, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in

Read →
20th Century

Mieczysław Weinberg

Mieczysław Weinberg (December 8, 1919 – February 26, 1996) was a Polish, Soviet, and Russian composer and pianist. Born in Warsaw to parents who worked in the Yiddish theatre in Poland, his early

Read →
Post-War

Mieko Shiomi (composer)

is a Japanese artist, composer, and performer who played a key role in the development of Fluxus. A co-founder of the seminal postwar Japanese experimental music collective Group Ongaku, she is known

Read →
20th Century

Miguel Ablóniz

Miguel Ablóniz, also known as Michelis Ablonitis (29 May 1917 – 19 July 2001) was a Greek-Italian guitarist and composer who composed and performed in diverse styles, including classical and Bossa

Read →
21st Century

Miguel Álvarez-Fernández

Miguel Álvarez-Fernández (born 28 November 1979 in Madrid, Spain) is a sound artist, composer, filmmaker, theorist and curator working between Madrid and Berlin, where he has taught at the Electronic

Read →
Post-War

Miguel Ángel Coria

Miguel Ángel Coria Varela (24 October 1937 – 24 February 2016) was a Spanish composer of classical music. His early work showed affinities to the music of Anton Webern, but he became increasingly

Read →
20th Century

Miguel Bernal Jiménez

Miguel Bernal Jiménez (16 February 1910 – 26 July 1956) was a Mexican composer, organist, teacher, and musicologist. He is widely regarded as the best representative of 20th century Mexican religious

Read →
Renaissance

Miguel de Fuenllana

Miguel de Fuenllana (c.1500–1579) was a Spanish vihuelist and composer of the Renaissance. Biography Little is known of his life. It is assumed from his name that his roots lie in the municipality of

Read →
Baroque

Miguel de Irízar

Miguel de Irízar y Domenzain (1635–1684) was a Spanish Baroque composer. Irízar was born in Artajona and trained as a choirboy in León and Toledo. In August 1657 he became maestro de capilla in

Read →
21st Century

Miguel del Águila

Miguel del Águila (born September 15, 1957, in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan American composer of classical music. He has been nominated for the Grammy Awards three times and has received many other

Read →
Late Romantic

Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (composer)

Miguel Lerdo de Tejada (September 29, 1869 in Morelia – May 25, 1941) was a Mexican composer/songwriter, pianist, and conductor. Lerdo de Tejada studied in Morelia and Mexico City. One of his most

Read →
Romantic

Miguel Marqués (composer)

Pedro Miguel Juan Buenaventura Bernadino Marqués y García (20 May 1843 – 26 February 1918) was a Spanish composer and violinist. Life He was born in Palma, Majorca, the son of a chocolate maker. By

Read →
Post-War

Miguel Roig-Francolí

Miguel Ángel Roig-Francolí (born 1953) is a Spanish/American composer, music theorist, and pedagogue. His 1980 Cinco piezas para orquesta (Five Pieces for Orchestra), commissioned by Radio Nacional

Read →
20th Century

Miguel Sandoval (composer)

Miguel Angel Sandoval Cabrera (3 November 1902 – 24 August 1953), was a Guatemalan-born American pianist, conductor and composer. He spoke Spanish, English, French, and Italian. His musical works

Read →
Post-War

Mihai Brediceanu

Mihai Brediceanu (14 June 1920 – 4 March 2005) was a Romanian composer, conductor, and musicologist. Biography He was born in Brașov, the son of composer Tiberiu Brediceanu and grandson of Coriolan

Read →
20th Century

Mihail Andricu

Mihail Andricu (22 December 1894, Bucharest – 4 February 1974, Bucharest ) was a Romanian composer, violinist, and pianist. He studied with Alfonso Castaldi, Robert Klenck and Dumitru Kiriac. Andricu

Read →
21st Century

Mihály Víg

Mihály Víg (born 1957, Budapest) is a Hungarian composer, poet, songwriter, guitarist, singer and actor. Career Born into a family of musicians. He is the co-founder of bands Trabant (1980–1986) and

Read →
Late Romantic

Miina Härma

Miina Härma (; 9 February 1864 – 16 November 1941) was an Estonian composer, organist, choir director, and music teacher, known for being Estonia's first professional female composer and organist.

Read →
21st Century

Mikael Karlsson (composer)

Mikael Karlsson (Johan Mikael Karlsson; born August 12, 1975, in Halmstad, Sweden) is a Swedish composer based in New York City. He grew up in Gävle, Sweden and moved to NYC in 2001 to study and he

Read →
Post-War

Mikael Tariverdiev

Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev (also Mikayel Levoni Tariverdian; 15 August 1931 – 25 July 1996) was a Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of the Soviet Cinematographers'

Read →
20th Century

Mikalay Shchahlou-Kulikovich

(; 13 October 1896 – 31 March 1969) was a cultural and social activist, composer and musicologist, researcher of Belarusian church and secular music. Biography Kulikovich was born on October 13,

Read →
Late Romantic

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (; 22 September 1875 – 10 April 1911) was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and

Read →
Entry

Mike Catalano (musician)

Mike Catalano is an American contemporary jazz pianist, composer, and producer who has worked and recorded with many artists in the contemporary and Brazilian jazz genres. He is known for his work

Read →
21st Century

Mike Francis

Francesco Puccioni (26 April 1961 – 30 January 2009), better known under his stage name Mike Francis, was an Italian singer and composer, born in Florence, Italy. Internationally, he was best known

Read →
21st Century

Mike Holober

Mike Holober (born April 21, 1957) is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and educator. Holober moved to New York in 1986, and worked as a composer and sideman pianist. After working with

Read →
Post-War

Mike Johnson (guitarist)

Mike Johnson (born 1952) is an American experimental rock guitarist and composer, best known as the co-founder and member of the Denver-based avant-rock group Thinking Plague. He has also been a

Read →
21st Century

Mike Morasky

Mike Morasky (born June 14, 1964) is an American composer, visual effects artist, director and programmer. He composed the scores for the Valve games Team Fortress 2, the Left 4 Dead series, Portal

Read →
Early Romantic

Mikhail Glinka

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (; 1 June 180415 February 1857) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical

Read →
Late Romantic

Mikhail Gnessin

Mikhail Fabianovich Gnessin (or Gnesin; ; 2 February 18835 May 1957) was a Russian Jewish composer and teacher. His grandfather Y'shayah was also a famous singer and Badchen (wedding entertainer) in

Read →
20th Century

Mikhail Goldstein

Mikhail Emmanuilovich Goldstein (, also transcribed as Michael Emmanuilowitsch Goldstein, ; pen name: Mykhailo Mykhailovsky; 18 September 19177 September 1989) was a German composer, violinist and

Read →
Late Romantic

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (; born Mikhail Mikhailovich Ivanov; 19 November 185928 January 1935) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and teacher. His music ranged from the

Read →
Romantic

Mikhail Ivanov (composer)

Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov (; 23 September 184920 October 1927) was a Russian composer, critic and writer of music. Biography Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov was born in Moscow in 1849. He studied at

Read →
Post-War

Mikhail Plyatskovsky

Mikhail Spartakovich Plyatskovsky (; 1935–1991) was a Soviet playwright, poet and songwriter. Biography Born 2 November 1935 in Rykovo (present-day Yenakiyeve). He graduated from the Maxim Gorky

Read →
20th Century

Mikhail Zhukov (conductor)

Mikhail Nikolayevich Zhukov (; 14 January 1901, Moscow – 8 November 1960, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian conductor and composer. Zhukov graduated 1918 from the National Choral Academy in Moscow. In

Read →
Post-War

Mikis Theodorakis

Michail "Mikis" Theodorakis ( ; 29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021) He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He was a three-time BAFTA nominee, winning for Z. For

Read →
Post-War

Mikko Heiniö

Mikko Kyösti Heiniö (born 18 May 1948) is a Finnish composer and musicologist. Life Mikko Heiniö was born in 1948 in Tampere, and studied composition with Joonas Kokkonen and piano with Liisa Pohjola

Read →
21st Century

Mikko Tarmia

Mikko Tarmia is a Finnish video game music composer known for working with Codeblender Software, Frictional Games, and Wolfire Games. He founded the independent record label The Sound of Fiction. His

Read →
21st Century

Miklós Both

Miklós Both (born 3 June 1981, Budapest) is a Hungarian composer, performer, folklorist, singer for the band , guitarist, and vitar violin player. He won the Fonogram and Budai awards, and honored

Read →
Post-War

Miklós Kocsár

Miklós Kocsár (21 December 1933 – 29 August 2019 ) was a Hungarian composer. Biography He was born in Debrecen, Hungary, (son of László Kocsár and Erzsébet Borsy) and studied composition at the

Read →
20th Century

Miklós Radnai

Miklós Radnai (1 January 1892 – 4 November 1935) was a Hungarian composer, critic and music writer. From 1925 to his death in 1935, he was a noted Intendant of the Hungarian Royal Opera House in

Read →
20th Century

Miklós Rózsa

Miklós Rózsa (; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United

Read →
Post-War

Miklós Sugár

Miklós Sugár (born 2 July 1952) is a Hungarian conductor, music educator, and composer. Life Sugár is the son of the composer Rezső Sugár and he was born in Budapest. Sugár studied at the Ferenc

Read →
20th Century

Mikola Ravienski

Mikola Jakaŭlievič Ravienski (; ; 5 December 1886 – 9 March 1953) was a Belarusian composer, conductor and music critic who authored music for the famous hymn Mahutny Boža (Almighty God). Early life

Read →
21st Century

Mikolai Stroinski

Mikolai Stroinski (or Mikołaj Stroiński, ; born 3 June 1979) External links * (in English) * * * Mikolai Stroinski in Polish Internet Movie Database (in

Read →
Renaissance

Mikołaj Gomółka

Mikołaj Gomółka (c. 1535 – after 30 April 1591, most probably 5 March 1609) was a Polish Renaissance composer and a member of the royal court of Sigismund II Augustus. At the court, he served as a

Read →
21st Century

Mikołaj Górecki

Mikołaj Górecki (born 1971) is a Polish composer. He is the son of the composer Henryk Górecki (1933-2010). In 1995 he graduated with honours in composition from the Music Academy in Katowice. In

Read →
Renaissance

Mikołaj z Radomia

Mikołaj Radomski, also called Mikołaj z Radomia and Nicholas of Radom, was an early 15th-century Polish composer. He was connected with the court of Władysław Jagiełło and wrote polyphonic music

Read →
Renaissance

Mikołaj Zieleński

Mikołaj Zieleński (or Zelenscius; ) was a Polish composer, organist, and Kapellmeister to the primate Baranowski, Archbishop of Gniezno. Life Neither the date of his birth nor of his death are known;

Read →
Late Romantic

Mikuláš Moyzes

Mikuláš Moyzes (born December 6, 1872; died April 2, 1944) was a Slovak composer, organist and pedagogue. As a young man, he worked in various parts of Transleithania, in what is now Slovakia,

Read →
Late Romantic

Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský

Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský KSG (24 May 1881, Trnava – 28 May 1958, Bratislava) was a Slovak composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was popular mostly because of his songs, some becoming traditional.

Read →
Post-War

Milan Kymlicka

Milan Kymlicka (Czech: Milan Kymlička; 15 May 1936 – 9 October 2008) was a Czech-Canadian arranger, composer and conductor. He was known for his composition of film and television scores, including

Read →
Post-War

Milan Mihajlović

Milan Mihajlović (; born 3 July 1945 in Belgrade) is a Serbian composer, music pedagogue and conductor. Biography Mihajlović was born in a musical family: his father, Konstantin, studied composition

Read →
Post-War

Milan Zelenka

Milan Zelenka (born 4 June 1939) is a Czech guitarist, composer and music arranger. Music career Zelenka was born in Czechoslovakia and studied guitar at the Prague Conservatory with Štěpán Urban.

Read →
20th Century

Mildred Adair

Mildred Grace Adair (August 5, 1895 – April 30, 1943), later Mildred Grace Adair Stagg, was an American composer, pianist and teacher. Her compositions were mostly for piano solo, although she also

Read →
20th Century

Milenko Paunović

Milenko Paunović (November 29, 1889 in Újszentiván – October 1, 1924 in Belgrade) was a Serbian composer and writer, the author of the first Serbian musical drama. Biography Paunović was educated in

Read →
21st Century

Milla Viljamaa

Milla Viljamaa (born 1980) is a Finnish musician, composer and producer known for her creative works in various fields ranging from folk music, tango, rock, pop and chamber music to theatre, opera,

Read →
Late Romantic

Miloje Milojević

Miloje Milojević (Serbian Cyrillic: Милоје Милојевић; 27 October 1884 in Belgrade – 16 June 1946 in Belgrade) was a Serbian composer, musicologist, music critic, folklorist, music pedagogue, and

Read →
21st Century

Miloš Bok

Miloš Bok (born 16 January 1968) is a Czech composer, conductor, pianist, organist, choirmaster and music educator. Life and career Miloš Bok was born on 16 January 1968 in Prague. He graduated in

Read →
20th Century

Miloslav Kabeláč

Miloslav Kabeláč (1 August 1908 – 17 September 1979) was a Czech composer and conductor. Kabeláč belongs to the foremost Czech symphonists, whose work is sometimes compared with Antonín Dvořák's and

Read →
Post-War

Miłosz Magin

Miłosz Magin (6 July 19294 March 1999) was a Polish composer and pianist. Biography Born in Łódź, Poland, Miłosz Magin showed considerable musical abilities from early childhood. He was a student of

Read →
20th Century

Milton Adolphus

Irving Milton Adolphus (January 27, 1913 – August 16, 1988) was an American pianist and composer. Biography Milton Adolphus (January 27, 1913 – August 16, 1988) was an American composer, pianist, and

Read →
20th Century

Milton Ager

Milton Ager (October 6, 1893 – May 6, 1979) was an American composer, regarded as one of the top songwriters of the 1920s and 1930s. in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. He taught

Read →
20th Century

Milton Babbitt

Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher. He was a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, recognized for

Read →
Post-War

Milton Barnes (composer)

Milton Barnes (16 December 1931 – 27 February 2001) was a Canadian composer, conductor, and jazz drummer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, his music is noted for its frequent use of Jewish

Read →
21st Century

Milton Mermikides

Milton Mermikides (born 26 May 1971) is a British composer, guitarist and academic of Greek heritage. His diverse output includes compositions, academic papers, talks (TED (conference)) and musical

Read →
20th Century

Milton Samuels

Isadore Milton Samuels (January 28, 1904 – January 29, 1990) was an American pianist, composer, and music publisher. Early life Samuels was born January 28, 1904, in Denver, Colorado, to

Read →
20th Century

Milton Suskind

Milton Suskind, also known by the pseudonym Edgar Fairchild, (June 1, 1898 – February 20, 1975) was an American pianist, composer, songwriter, music arranger, music editor, and conductor. He used his

Read →
Romantic

Mily Balakirev

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ( , ; , ; – ) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian

Read →
Entry

Mimi Allard

Mimi Allard is a Canadian sound editor and composer from Quebec. She is most noted for her work on the documentary film The White Guard (La Garde blanche), for which she won the Prix Iris for Best

Read →
20th Century

Mimi Wagensonner

Maria Wagensonner-Schipper (13 March 1897 – 21 August 1970), best known as Mimi Wagensonner, was an Austrian composer and poet. Wagensonner was born in Aussig an der Elbe in what is now the Czech

Read →
Post-War

Mimmo Cavallo

Cosimo Cavallo (born 1 January 1951), best known as Mimmo Cavallo, is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Lizzano, Apulia, Cavallo spent his childhood in Turin, where

Read →
Post-War

Mimmo Locasciulli

Mimmo Locasciulli (born 7 July 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, producer and musician. Life and career Born in Penne, Pescara, Locasciulli is the son of a vet who in his spare time

Read →
21st Century

Mindia Khitarishvili

Mindia Khitarishvili (; Batumi, born January 1, 1973) is an Israeli and Georgian composer. Biography Mindia Khitarishvili is an Israeli and Georgian composer, music arranger, music producer and

Read →
Entry

Minnie T. Wright (composer)

Minnie T. Wright (c. 1874) was an American pianist, organist, and composer from Philadelphia. Biography Her compositions "A Summer Day" and "Love-Song" were recommended as "drawing room" pieces.

Read →
21st Century

Mino (rapper)

Song Min-ho (; born March 30, 1993), better known by the stage name Mino, is a South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, music producer, artist and actor. After a stint in the two-year ballad group BoM

Read →
Post-War

Minoru Miki

Minoru Miki (, 16 March 19308 December 2011) was a Japanese composer and Artistic director. He was known for promoting Japanese, Chinese and Korean traditional instruments as well as some of their

Read →
20th Century

Minuetta Kessler

Minuetta Shumiatcher Borek Kessler (September 5, 1914 – November 30, 2002) was a Russian-born Canadian and later American concert pianist, classical music composer, and educator. A child prodigy, she

Read →
Post-War

Miquel Roger i Casamada

Miquel Roger Casamada (Barcelona, Spain, 16 July 1954 - Vilagrassa, 24 March 2017) was a Spanish Catalan composer and music producer, who began composing in 1977. He founded the Anacrusi record label

Read →
20th Century

Mireille Hartuch

Mireille Hartuch (30 September 1906 – 29 December 1996) was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille," it being a common practice of the time to use

Read →
20th Century

Miriam Gideon

Miriam Gideon (October 23, 1906 – June 18, 1996) was an American composer who wrote at least 130 pieces of music. Life Miriam Gideon was born in Greeley, Colorado, on October 23, 1906. She studied

Read →
20th Century

Miriam Hyde

Miriam Beatrice Hyde (15 January 191311 January 2005) was an Australian composer, classical pianist, music educator, and poet. She composed over 150 works for piano, 50 songs, other instrumental and

Read →
Post-War

Miroslav Martinjak

Miroslav Martinjak (1951) is a Croatian organist, liturgist, composer, arranger, church musician, Catholic priest and university professor. He is among the most prominent Croatian contemporary

Read →
21st Century

Miroslav Srnka

Miroslav Srnka (born 23 March 1975 in Prague) is a Czech composer. Early life Srnka studied musicology at Charles University Prague from 1993 to 1999 and composition with Milan Slavický at the

Read →
20th Century

Mirrie Hill

Mirrie Irma Hill (née Solomon) (1 December 18891 May 1986) was an Australian composer. Early life Mirrie Irma Jaffa Hill was born on 1 December 1889 in the Sydney suburb of Randwick. She was the

Read →
20th Century

Mischa Portnoff

Mischa Portnoff (August 29, 1901 – May 15, 1979) was an American composer and teacher. Introduction American composer and teacher Mischa Portnoff's distinctive gift as a musician was the breadth of

Read →
Post-War

Misha Mengelberg

Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. A prominent figure in post-WWII European Jazz, Mengelberg is known for his forays into free improvisation, for

Read →
Post-War

Misha Segal

Misha Segal () is an Israeli music producer and film composer. He studied music, film, and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and apprenticed under Dieter Schöhnbach in Germany. Segal also studied

Read →
21st Century

Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli (born October 27, 1980) is an American composer and pianist who has received critical acclaim for her chamber, orchestral and operatic work. In 2018 she became one of the first two

Read →
Post-War

Mitch Teemley

Mitch Teemley (born May 12, 1950) is an American writer, director, producer, actor and composer best known for his work on the feature films Healing River (2020) and Notzilla (2020). Early life "A

Read →
21st Century

Mitsuto Suzuki

is a Japanese video game composer and musician who has been employed at Square Enix since 2006. He is best known for his work on the Final Fantasy franchise, most notably Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final

Read →
Post-War

Miúcha

Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda (30 November 1937 – 27 December 2018), known professionally as Miúcha, was a Brazilian singer and composer. She belonged to a musical family. Her siblings included

Read →
21st Century

Miya Masaoka

Miya Masaoka (born 1958, Washington, D.C.) is an American composer, musician, and sound artist active in the field of contemporary classical music and experimental music. Her work encompasses

Read →