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Mychael Danna

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Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for Life of Pi. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on the miniseries World Without End. Personal life Danna’s family moved to Burlington, Ontario, when he was four weeks old. He is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He studied music composition at the University of Toronto. He has two children with his wife, Aparna. Career Danna served for five years as composer-in-residence at the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto (1987–1992). Works for dance include music for Dead Souls (Carbone Quatorze Dance Company, directed by Gilles Maheu 1996), and a score for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s Gita Govinda (2001) based on the 1000-year-old classical Gita Govinda, with choreographer Nina Menon. In June 2014, Danna was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Toronto, for his career achievements in the field of music. He has been scoring films since his 1987 feature debut for Atom Egoyan’s Family Viewing, a score which earne

Myke Roy

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Myke Roy (born 2 July 1950) is a Canadian composer and recording engineer. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, his compositional output includes a substantial amount of electroacoustic music, instrumental music, multi-media works, and music for the theatre. In 1976 he was awarded the Sir Ernest MacMillan Award/Fellowship by the Composers, Authors and Publishers Association of Canada for his works Sveln (piano and synthesizer), Dra-men Dzunkt (8 performers or more) and Tsé Tnant/Te Deum (17 amplified instruments and tape). In 1987 he won the Robert Fleming Prize. Education Born in Trois-Rivières, Roy began his musical education at the École supérieure de musique de Nicolet where he studied from 1970 to 1972. He pursued further studies at the Université de Montréal where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1975, a Master of Music in 1980, and a Doctor of Music in 1989. One of his principal teachers at the UM was Serge Garant. Career Roy began his career as a recording engineer in 1972. In 1974-1975 he worked with Alcides Lanza and Mario Bertoncini at McGill University’s Electronic Music Studio. He was also employed at the Uni

Mykhailo Verbytskyi

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Mykhailo Mykhailovych Verbytskyi ( ; March 4, 1815 – December 7, 1870), also anglicized as Michael Werbitzky, was a Ukrainian composer and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. He is considered to be one of the first professional composers of Galicia. Biography Mykhailo Verbytskyi was born in Nadsiannia. Sources often differ as to the exact location of his birth, with some claiming he was born in Jawornik Ruski and christened 8 km away in Ulucz (the site of the oldest wooden church in Poland where his father was the local priest). Both are now located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland. Verbytskyi was born into the family of a priest. He was left an orphan at the age of ten, and was raised from then on by his father’s brother, Bishop Ivan Snihurskyi. Snihurskyi took Mykhailo to live with him in Peremyshl, where his uncle was very active: founding the city’s first Ukrainian language printing press, published compilations of folklore and textbooks about the Ukrainian language. In 1818, Snihurskyi even founded a diak-teaching institute in the city, and ten years later, a cathedral choir and music school. In 1859 Verbytskyi received a parish in the village of Mlyny, Ya

Mykhailo Verykivsky

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Mykhailo Verykivsky ( 20 November 189614 June 1962) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher. He was an Honored Artist of Ukraine in 1944. Biography In early years Mykhailo Verykivsky grows in an atmosphere of love and respect for Ukrainian native folk songs, which influenced his musical work. After graduating from elementary school, Verykivsky entered the city school and was admitted to the bishop’s choir. He continued his musical education at the Kremenets Commercial School (1912–1914), where he conducted the choir and orchestra of folk instruments, played in the school symphony orchestra, studied cello, piano and made his first attempts at composition - he created piano preludes and romances. In 1914 Verykivsky began to study at Kyiv Conservatory as double bass player. From 1922 he works as a teacher at the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama and, later, in Kyiv Conservatory (until 1960, with a break in 1941–1944; from 1946 he was its professor). 5 operas (including Taras Shevchenko-based operas The Sotnyk and The Servant Girl); an oratorio on Marusia Bohuslavka; five cantatas; a concerto for piano and orchestra (1950); a number of orchestral works; a large body o

Mykhaylo Chemberzhi

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Mykhaylo Ivanovych Chemberzhi (, 15 July 19445 March 2018) was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, scientist and politician. Director of . Biography He was born on July 15, 1944, in the city of Izmail, Odesa region. In 1967, he graduated from the Odesa State Music College, began his teaching career at the children’s music school in Izmail. Scientific publication Author of about 60 scholarly publications. Composer of works in a variety of genres, including orchestral works, opera and ballet. Notes References External links * Біографія на сайті Національної спілки композиторів України * Біографія на сайті Національної академії мистецтв України * Відійшов у вічність /Сайт Національної академії педагогчних наук, 5.3.2018/ * Раптово помер Михайло Чембержі /День, 5.3.2018/ * Чембержі М.І. /Сайт “Відкрита Україна”/

Mykola Leontovych

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Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych (, ; 13 December 187723 January 1921) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, and teacher. His music was inspired by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko and the Ukrainian National Music School. Leontovych specialised in a cappella choral music, ranging from original compositions to church music to elaborate arrangements of folk music. Leontovych was born and raised in Monastyrok in the Podolia province of the Russian Empire (now in Vinnytsia Oblast, west of Ukraine). He was educated as a priest in the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological Seminary. With the independence of the Ukrainian State in the 1917 revolution, he moved to Kyiv, where he worked at the Kyiv Conservatory and the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama. He composed “Shchedryk” in 1914 (premiered in 1916), now known to the English-speaking world as “Carol of the Bells”. He was murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921 and is known as a martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian Church, where he is also remembered for his liturgy, the first composed in the vernacular, specifically in the modern Ukrainian language. During his lifetime, Leontovych’s compositions and arrangements be

Mykola Lysenko

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Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor, and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time, he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during the Ukrainian national revival, in the vein of contemporaries such as Grieg in Norway, The Five in Russia, and Smetana and Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic. By studying and drawing from Ukrainian folk music, promoting the use of the Ukrainian language, and separating himself from Russian culture, Lysenko’s compositions form what many consider the quintessential essence of Ukrainian music. This is demonstrated in his epic opera Taras Bulba from the novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. The grandeur and complexity, and a libretto in Ukrainian, prevented the opera being performed during the composer’s lifetime. To promote and cultivate Ukrainian culture, Lysenko set works by many Ukrainian poets to music, especially Taras Shevchenko, to whom he was particula

Mykola Markevych

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Mykola Markevych (; 7 February 1804 – 21 June 1860) was a Ukrainian historian, ethnographer, musician and poet of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was known as a friend of Alexander Pushkin, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Anton Delvig and Kondraty Ryleyev. His main work is his five-volume History of Little Russia, which was published in Moscow between 1842 and 1843. Life Background and early life Mykola Markevych was of Ukrainian Cossack descent. He was born in Dunaiets, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire (now in modern-day Ukraine) on 7 February 1804. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Pedagogical Institute from 1817 to 1820, before studying piano and composition under John Field in Moscow. His collections Elegies and Jewish Melodies and Erotic Poems and a translation of Byron’s poem Parisina were published in Moscow in 1829, followed in 1831 by Ukrainian Melodies. Death and legacy Markevych died in Turivka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire on 21 June 1860. Many of his works remain unpublished. His personal archive and diary are kept at the Institute of Russian Literature in Saint Petersburg. References External links * Косачевская Н. А. Маркевич, 1804—1860. — Л. : Изд-во ЛГУ, 1987. —

Mykola Pavlovych Dyletsky

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Mykola Pavlovych Dyletsky, also Nikolai Pavlovich Diletsky (, ), c. 1630c. after 1680) was a choir director, music theorist, and composer born in the Kiev Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and active in the Tsardom of Russia. There is evidence he died in Moscow. Little information about his life is known. He was widely influential in late 17th-century Russia with his treatise on part song, A Musical Grammar, of which the earliest surviving version dates from 1677. Dyletsky’s followers included the Russian composer Vasily Titov. Life Little is known about Mykola Pavlovych Dyletsky, who at various times during his life lived in Vilnius, Kyiv, Smolensk, and Moscow.. Kyiv Ioannikii Trofimovich Korenev, a fellow music theorist, described him as a resident of Kyiv—()—and this remark is considered evidence of Dyletsky’s Ukrainian origins. Korenev’s statement is probably reliable, as they were apparently were well acquainted. The pair worked together; their treatises are paired in some manuscript sources. However, the date and even the year of Dyletsky’s birth are not known, and no details on his early life have surfaced. Vilnius Dyletsky may have been educated at the Vilni

Myles Boisen

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Myles Boisen (born October 19, 1956) is an American guitarist, composer, record producer and sound engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was a member of several bands, including Splatter Trio and the Club Foot Orchestra, and has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Fred Frith, John Zorn and Henry Kaiser. Boisen has also released four solo albums. Boisen is the owner and lead engineer of the Guerrilla Recording studio and the Headless Buddha Mastering Lab in Oakland, California. He has recorded, mastered and produced over 150 recordings by groups and musicians. Boisen has been described as a “beyond-jazz pioneer”, and his music, “unheard of” and “highly flammable”. Biography Boisen was born in Omaha, Nebraska on October 19, 1956. He was raised in Seattle, Washington, and has since moved to Berkeley, California. He obtained a BA degree in 1979 in 20th-Century Media and Contemporary Art from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University. Boisen’s music is primarily avant-garde jazz, experimental and free improvisation, often using prepared guitars. He plays a custom-built double-neck guitar and bass, with a Gibson SG-shaped body and necks. In 1980, Boisen

Myriam Marbé

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Myriam Marbé (9 April 1931 in Bucharest – 25 December 1997 in Bucharest) was a Romanian composer and pianist. She won a number of prizes, including the GEDOK at Mannheim in 1961, 1966 and 1970, six first prizes from the Composers’ Union of Romania, the Bernier Prize and the Romanian Academy Prize. Life Marbe received her first piano lessons from her mother, Angela Marbe, who was a piano teacher. Her father Max Marbe was a bacteriologist. From 1953 to 1965, she was a film director at the Casa de filme in Bucharest. She taught counterpoint and composition at the Bucharest Conservatory from 1954 to 1988, where her refusal to join the Romanian Communist Party prevented her from reaching the rank of Professor. Works *Nunta Zamfirei, ballet, 1954 *Sonata for viola and piano, 1955 *In Memoriam, lyrical piece for oboe, 2 horns, piano, celesta, drum set, and string orchestra, 1959 *Chorsuite, choral suite on texts by and Paul Aristide, 1959 *Sonata (Prologo – Aria – Epilogo) for 2 violas, 1966 *Le Temps Inévitable, 1968–71 *Serenata – Eine kleine Sonnenmusik, 1974 *La parabol du grenier for an interpreter on piano, harpsichord, celesta, and optional glockenspiel and tubular bells, 1975–76 *

Myron Fink

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Myron Fink (born April 19, 1932) is a Chicago-born composer of opera and other pieces for voice, piano, and chamber ensemble. His compositions have been performed around the world. The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music holds the Myron Fink Music Collection, 1961–2008. Subsequently, he was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Memorial Fellowship, allowing him to study with Robert Palmer at Cornell University during 1954–55. Furthering his education, Fink received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Staats-Akademie der Musik in Vienna from 1955 to 1956. Operas *1954 The Boor *1956 Susanna and the Elders *1961 Jeremiah *1969 Judith and Holofernes *1981 Chinchilla *1985 The Island of Tomorrow *1997 The Conquistador *2000 Animalopera *2003 Edith Wharton: A self portrait References * http://www.myronfink.com/bio.htm

Myrtle Elvyn

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Myrtle Elvyn (born circa 1887 – died February 1975), later Myrtle Elvyn-Bloch, was an American pianist and composer. Early life Myrtle Elvyn was born in Sherman, Texas and raised in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Edward Elvyn and Fannie M. Goldsmith Elvyn. Her parents were from Arkansas and Kentucky. Theatrical manager Sid Grauman was her first cousin; their mothers were sisters. She studied music with Carl Wolfsohn in Chicago, and in Europe with Leopold Godowsky. She also studied composition with Hugo Kaun. Career Elvyn made her debut as a pianist in Berlin in 1904, and played in Germany, Austria, Holland, Belgium, and Great Britain from 1905 to 1907. She was described as one of the three great American women pianists in 1908, along with Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and Julie Rivé-King. “Myrtle Elvyn is wholly unexcelled in power, brilliance and endurance in the playing of strictly ‘show pieces’”, declared one music writer in 1914. Elvyn toured nationally in the United States from 1909 to 1914. She performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major with the New York Philharmonic on November 21, 1909. She lived in Chicago and concentrated her performing schedule especially in the A