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Na'ama Zisser

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Na’ama Zisser () is a London-based composer. Her work is visually driven and often collaborative with other art forms, with a focus on opera, contemporary dance, moving image, installations, staged performances, and instrumental music. Her practice involves the use of both electronic and acoustic mediums. Her music is concerned with intonation, textures, intimacy, and nostalgia, and has been described as ‘free of cliches’ (The Guardian) and ‘hauntingly melodic’ (The Stage). She is the first to introduce cantorial music into contemporary opera. She is currently based in London. Early life and education Zisser was raised in an ultra-orthodox background. The fourth of five siblings, she began her classical music education at the age of six, playing piano. She went on to study composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, before moving to London to study at the Royal College of Music with Mark-Anthony Turnage where she won the Hurlston & Cobbett Prize. Musical career Between 2015 and 2018, Na’ama Zisser was the doctoral composer in residence at the Royal Opera House and made her debut with the opera company with Mamzer/Bastard in the 2018 season. Na’ama Zisser has been commi

NaBBoo

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Boban Apostolov (, born 2 November 1984), known as NaBBoo, is a Macedonian composer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. Biography Boban Apostolov was born in 1984 in Yugoslavia. At the age of six, he began to play violin in the music school Ilija Nikolovski – Luj, continued his studies at the Music High school, Music Academy in Skopje and Berklee College of Music in Boston as Specialist Studio Production. 2009–2014 He was a part as production manager, Pro Tools and sound engineer in F.A.M.E’S Project – Orchestral Music Recording and Production company, specializing in Film, Television, Documentary, Video games, and Publishing. Some of the projects he was involved in recording orchestral music for movies are: Hostel: Part III, Camus, Keryti, Zwart Water, Omaggio a Roma (casting Monica Bellucci), Ana Winter, Hostel 3, Marea de Arena, 2033, La Commanderie, Joseph et sa fille, Les colts de l’or noi, Sound of Noise, The Lost Medallion, and many more titles for productions like TF1, EMI Music, Universal, Canal+, National Geographic. Boban is a founder of Loops Lab Media, Company specialized for creating professional Music Samples, Loops, Drum Kits, Construction Kits, and Stock Mus

Nachum Heiman

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Nachum Heiman (; May 6, 1934 – August 17, 2016) was an Israeli composer and musician. Some of the over 1,000 songs he composed have become classics of Israeli folk music. Biography Nachum (Nakhche) Heiman was born in Riga, Latvia in 1934 to a musical family that immigrated to Mandatory Palestine when he was five years old. As a child he began playing the piano. After becoming ill with polio at the age of nine, he switched to playing the accordion and the harmonica. He was hospitalized for three and a half years in an iron lung until he recovered. At age 14, following his parents’ divorce, he moved to Kibbutz Na’an as a yeled hutz (child from outside the kibbutz), where he studied with kibbutz members Yehuda Oren and composer David Zahavi. After his mother remarried, he moved with her to Rehovot, where he composed his first song, “Nitzanim niru ba’aretz” (text from the Song of Songs) at 17 years of age. Since he did not get along with his stepfather, he moved to Kfar HaMaccabi, where he met Matityahu Shalem from nearby Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan. He worked with Shalem as a shepherd and studied with him and his colleagues. Under the influence of Gurit Kadman, one of the pioneers of Israel

Näcip Cihanov

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Näcip Ğayaz ulı Cihanov (15 January 19112 June 1988, Russification : Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov) was a Soviet and Tatar composer, pedagogue and statesman. He was born in Uralsk; and died in Ufa. Cihanov wrote eight operas (notably Altınçäç and Cälil), three ballets, 15 symphonies, other symphonic works (Qırlay, Suite on Tatar Themes, Näfisä, Symphonic novellas, and Symphonic Songs among them), the cantata Republic of Mine (1960), camera-instrumental compositions, and romances and songs. Granted the titles of People’s Artist of the USSR (1957) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1981), Cihanov served as artistic leader of the Tatar Opera and Ballet from 1941 to 1943, chairman of Tatarstan’s Composers Union from 1939 to 1977, and rector of Kazan Conservatory from 1945 to 1988. He was made professor in 1953; Kazan Conservatory was renamed in his honor in 2000. Importantly, Cihanov was one of the founders of the State Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan. In his capacity as statesman, he served as a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR (1951–1959), the Tatar ASSR (1963–1967, 1977–1988), and indeed the Soviet Union (1966–1970). Operas *Qaçqın (1939) *İrek (1940) “Freedom” *Altınçäç (1941) “The gol

Nadeeka Guruge

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Nadeeka Guruge (; born 27 September 1976) is a Sri Lankan composer, musician, and music educator. He is best known for his work in film and theatre music. Guruge has received multiple awards for his contributions to music direction and background music. He served as the inaugural dean of the School of Music at the Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC). He is also known for his onstage concert performances and public engagement in music education and research. Early life and education Guruge was born in Anuradhapura and raised in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. He began learning guitar at the age of 14 and was initially taught by his brother. He was influenced by composer Premasiri Khemadasa, whose work shaped his approach to Western classical and Sri Lankan folk music. Sunil Santha and Clarence Wijewardena were major influences on his musical outlook, while Johann Sebastian Bach shaped his approach to film scoring and instrumental composition. Exposure to diverse musical traditions through travel and research influenced his interest in indigenous musical forms, which would become a central focus of his career. Career Guruge began his professional career in 1999 with Sanyugma, a folk music

Nadezhda Simonyan

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Nadezhda Simonyan (26 February 1922 - 7 June 1997) was a Russian composer, who wrote over 40 film scores for movies, radio, and television, as well as chamber and orchestral works, and music for circus performances. Simonyan was born in Rostov-on-the-Don. She studied composition and piano at Leningrad Conservatory, where she received a diploma in 1950 and earned a medal. Her teachers included Oles Chishko and Venedikt Pushkov. In 1956, Simonyan wrote her first film soundtrack for Old Man Khottabych, a children’s film by Gennadii Kazanskii. Peter Rollberg described Simonyan’s strength as a composer as a “. . . warm melodiousness that equally energizes cheerful, dramatic, and tragic episodes with a pragmatic, flexible approach to instrumentation.” In 1960, Italian film maker Federico Fellini praised her soundtrack for the movie Lady with the Dog. She often used smaller chamber orchestras, sometimes with folk instruments, for her film scores. Chamber *Sonata (violin and piano) *Chief of Chukotka *Day of Happiness *Lyalka-Ruslan and His Friend Sanka Piano *pieces Radio scores *Golden Apples *On the Bank of Sevan *Story of Turkey *Three Bears *Year of My Birth Vocal *Lake Sevan Cantata

Nadia Boulanger

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Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. Born into a musical family (her father Ernest and sister Lili were acclaimed composers), Boulanger entered the Conservatoire de Paris at an early age but, believing that she lacked particular compositional talent, she forsook writing music and became a teacher. In that capacity, she influenced generations of young composers, especially those from the United States and other English-speaking countries. Among her students were many important composers, soloists, arrangers, and conductors, including Grażyna Bacewicz, Daniel Barenboim, İdil Biret, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, David Diamond, John Eliot Gardiner, Philip Glass, Roy Harris, Quincy Jones, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Astor Piazzolla, Julia Perry, George Walker, and over 250 others. She taught in the United States and the United Kingdom, working with music academies including the Juilliard School, the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Longy School, the Royal College of Music and

Nagisa (harpist)

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Nagisa or Nakisa was a noted harpist and composer of Sasanian music in the royal court of Khosrow II (). She was singing in this court. Nizami mentioned her in his book Khosrow and Shirin. Amir Khosrow Dehlav i mentioned her in another story of Shirin and Khosrow. Historical context The music of Iran stretches to at least the prehistoric depictions of arched harps from 3300 to 3100 BCE, though not until the 224–651 CE Sasanian Empire is substantial information available. This influx of Sasanian records suggests a prominent musical culture in the Empire, especially in the areas dominated by Zoroastrianism. Many Sassanian Shahanshahs were ardent supporters of music, including the founder of the empire Ardashir I and Bahram V. Khosrow II () was the most outstanding patron, his reign being regarded as a golden age of Persian music. In addition to Nagisa, musicians in Khosrow’s service included Āzādvar-e Changi, Bāmshād, Rāmtin, Sarkash and Bārbad, who was the most famous. These musicians were usually active as minstrels, which were performers who worked as both court poets and musicians; in the Sassanian Empire there was little distinction between poetry and music. Court service and mu

Naida McCullough

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Naida Portia McCullough (c. 1901 – September 19, 1989) was an American educator, pianist, and composer based in Los Angeles. Early life Naida McCullough was born in Colorado, the younger daughter of George A. McCullough and Georgia A. McCullough. She was raised in Denver, where she began as a performer and learned to play the church organ, and graduated from Los Angeles High School in the winter class of 1917. She and her elder sister, Yolande McCullough (1898–1964), taught music classes together as young women. Yolande married Leonard Stovall, a doctor in World War I who worked on tuberculosis prevention after the war. College activities McCullough was described in 1921 as “the first colored girl to graduate from the music department of the University of Southern California”. She was the first African American woman to receive a Pi Kappa Lambda Key (Music). McCullough was a founding member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority chapter at USC, and she helped to found the chapter at UCLA in 1925, and was a founding member of the west coast graduate chapter, in 1927. She was president of the Los Angeles graduate chapter in the 1940s, succeeded by Audrey Boswell Jones in 1945. She perform

Naji Hakim

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Naji Subhy Paul Irénée Hakim (Arabic: ناجي صبحي حكيم Naji Sobhi Hakim ; born 31 October 1955) is a Franco-Lebanese organist, composer, and improviser. He studied the organ under Jean Langlais at the Conservatoire de Paris, and succeeded Olivier Messiaen as titular organist at the Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, holding this position from 1993 to 2008. Before this, he was titular organist at the Sacré-Cœur basilica in the same city from 1985 to 1993, succeeding Daniel Roth. Hakim’s numerous improvisations and compositions for organ, orchestra, and other instruments have received renown. His works have been published by Schott Music, UMP, Combre, Éditions Alphonse Leduc, ABRSM, Fitzsimons, Éditions Gérard Billaudot, and American Carillon. Biography Youth: 1955–1972 Naji Subhy Paul Irénée Hakim was born into a Catholic family on 31 October 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon; to a businessman father, Subhy (died 2022), and his wife Katy Hakim. His Christian name is Paul. His family were music-loving: his father played the mandolin and sang; his mother is an amateur pianist, and he and his three siblings also studied a variety of instruments of different types. Before the organ, Hakim studied

Najla Jabor

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Maia de Carvalho Najla Jabor (25 September 1915 – 9 March 2001) was a Brazilian conductor and composer. She composed concerti and symphonic works, but is best known for sacred songs. She was born and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Works Selected works include: *Suite de seis peças, no. 3. Um adeus (Text: Alda Pereira Pinto), no. 5. A um poeta (Text: Alda Pereira Pinto), no. ?. Louco devaneio (Text: Alda Pereira Pinto) *A palavra de Deus (Text: Stela Dubois) *A semente é a dor amor (Text: Roque Martins) *A um poeta (in Suite de seis peças) (Text: Alda Pereira Pinto) *A um poeta - Loucos devaneios *Alucinação (Text: José Alfredo Maia de Carvalho) *Assim falou o poeta *Ave Maria (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts) *Balada n.1: Teus olhos (Text: Beni Carvalho) *Balada n.2 (Text: Ricardina Marques da Silva) *Barcarola, op. 92 (Text: Dylma Cunha de Oliveira) *Batuque n.1 (Text: Silvio Moreaux) *Batuque n.2 (Text: Raimundo de Brito) *Berceuse, op. 11 *Canção bárbara (Text: Olga Mayer) *Canção de amor (Text: Iveta Ribeiro) *Canção do trovador (Text: José Alfredo Maia de Carvalho) *Canção dos olhos *Canção simples (berceuse), op. 83 (Text: Nóbrega de Siqueira) *Copo de cristal (Text: Agrip

Nam Tae-hyun

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Nam Tae-hyun (; born May 10, 1994), also known as Taehyun, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, producer and actor. He was previously the main vocalist of K-pop group Winner, in which he also composed and produced. In March 2017, he founded a music label, South Buyers Club. Sometime afterwards, the label was renamed to The South. Under the label, Nam debuted the band South Club, of which he is leader, main vocalist, guitarist, and main composer. As of 2024, he transitioned into a solo artist, with his returning single ‘On the Edge of the Night.’ Life and career Pre-debut: Win: Who Is Next Prior to his debut as a member of Winner, Nam performed as a backup dancer for the YG Family Concert 2011. In 2013, he competed in the reality program Win: Who Is Next as a trainee in “Team A”, which he went on to debut as a member of group Winner. Nam co-composed and co-wrote two songs that were used to compete on the show. 2014–2015: Official debut, 2014 S/S, and television appearances Nam participated in the production of Winner’s debut album, 2014 S/S, which was released in August 2014. He co-composed three songs from the album – “But” (), “Tonight” () and his solo track “Confession” (). The

Nancy Dalberg

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Nancy Dalberg (born Nancy Hansen, 6 July 1881 – 28 September 1949) was a Danish composer. Born into a wealthy family, she studied under notable composers such as Johan Svendsen and Carl Nielsen, the latter becoming a good friend and a significant figure in her life. In addition to the orchestral works mentioned, she wrote around fifty songs, including three for voice and orchestra. Life Nancy Dalberg was born at the estate on the Danish island of Funen (Fyn), where she was raised in a manor house. Her father, Christian D. A. Hansen, was a well-off manufacturer as the founder of Chr. Hansen, a factory for chemical products for the food industry, which is still one of Denmark’s leading companies. The family was always well-off financially, which meant that Nancy didn’t have to worry about her income, which her music most of the time couldn’t promise. From a young age she was steered toward a musical career, partly due to her acquaintance with the composer Hilda Sehested, who was twenty years her senior and from the nearby Broholm estate. As was customary, she received private piano instruction from Ove Christensen, making her debut in 1907. Unfortunately her father refused her wish t

Nancy Galbraith

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Nancy Galbraith (born 1951 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American postmodern/postminimalist composer. She is professor of composition at Carnegie Mellon University. Compositions Note: This list is incomplete. Orchestral works *Morning Litany (1988) *Danza de los Duendes (1992) *Piano Concerto No. 1 (1995) *A Festive Violet Pulse (1998) *Tormenta del Sur (2001) *De Profundis ad Lucem (2002) *Fantasy for Orchestra (2003) Vocal/choral works *In Unity and Love (1997) *Christ By Whose Death (1999) *Missa Mysteriorum (1999) *Magnificat (2002) *Four River Songs (2002) *God of Justice (2004) *Requiem (2004) *Sacred Songs and Interludes (2006) *Two Emily Dickinson Songs (2007) *Novena (2007) Works for wind ensemble *with brightness round about it (1993) *Danza de los Duendes (1996) *Wind Symphony No. 1 (1996) *Elfin Thunderbolt (1998) *Dream Catchers (1998) *Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble (2000) *Internal Combustion (2001) *Washington’s Landing (2006) *Febris Ver Chamber music *Time Cycle (1984) *Fantasia (1986) *Into Light (1989) *Aeolian Muses (1993) *Incantation and Allegro (1995) *Rhythms and Rituals (1995) *String Quartet No. 1 (1996) *Inquiet Spirits (String Quartet No. 2)

Nancy Laird Chance

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Nancy Laird Chance (born March 19, 1931) is an American pianist and composer. She studied at Bryn Mawr College from 1949 to 1950 and Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening and Chou Wen-chung. After completing her studies, Chance worked as a piano teacher, composer and arts administrator. She received the ASCAP/Nissim prize for orchestral composition in 1981 for Liturgy and in 1984 for Odysseus. She also received two awards from the NEA, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Sundance Film for composition in 1988. Her works have been performed at venues such as the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Carnegie Hall. Laird Chance lived and taught in Kenya from 1974-1978. Works Selected works include: *Liturgy, for orchestra, 1979 *Odysseus, suite for orchestra, 1983 *Planasthai, for orchestra, 1991 *Darksong, for chamber ensemble, 1972 *Edensong, for chamber ensemble, 1973 *Daysongs, for chamber ensemble, 1974 *Ritual Sounds, for chamber ensemble, 1975 *Ceremonial, for chamber ensemble, 1976 *Declamation and Song, for chamber ensemble, 1977 *Duos II, oboe, English horn, 1978 *Duos III, violin, violincello, 1980 *Exultation and Lamen

Nancy Plummer Faxon

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Nancy Plummer Faxon (November 19, 1914 – February 1, 2005) was an American soprano, music educator, and composer of organ music. Early life and education Nancy Blanton Plummer was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the daughter of Walter George Plummer and Emily Blanton Plummer. She graduated from Millsaps College in 1936. As a young woman she was in theatrical productions with fellow Mississippian Eudora Welty. She went on to earn master’s degrees in voice and piano in 1938, at Chicago Musical College, where she was a student of Rudolph Ganz and Nelli Gardini. She studied composition with Max Wald. Career As a young soprano in Chicago, Nancy Plummer joined the Sorrentine Touring Opera Company in 1938 as a soloist. Nancy Plummer Faxon was a member of American Women Composers. She wrote over a hundred choral and orchestral compositions, mostly for performance at Trinity Church. The Brookline Library Music Association gave a concert of Faxon’s compositions in 1985. A CD titled The Music of Nancy Plummer Faxon (2001) was recorded by the Ralph Farris Chorale and the Madison Symphony, at the Old South Church in Boston. In 1986, she was the recipient of the Orah Ashley Lamke Award from Mu Phi

Nancy Telfer

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Nancy Telfer (born May 8, 1950) is a Canadian choral conductor, music educator and composer. Biography Nancy Ellen Telfer was born in Brampton, Ontario. She began piano lessons at age six and later played French horn in bands, orchestras and chamber ensembles. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario and worked as a music and drama teacher in the public schools. In 1977 she continued her studies at the University of Western Ontario under Jack Behrens, Kenneth Bray, Peter Paul Koprowski, and . She graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a bachelor’s in music in 1979 and began composing. Works Telfer has composed more than three hundred works for orchestra and solo instruments, with concentration in choral ensembles and solo voice. She is well known for her work for CNCM (Canadian National Conservatory of Music) and RCM (The Royal Conservatory of Music), contributing many pieces to their graded piano repertoire. Selected works include: * Trampoline (Northern Lights by CNCM) * Dancing In The Garden (Northern Lights by CNCM) * Sun and Rain (Northern Lights by CNCM) * Spring Break (Northern Lights by CNCM) * Delivering Newspapers (Northern Lights by CNCM) * Chi

Nancy Van de Vate

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Nancy Jean Van de Vate (; December 30, 1930 – July 29, 2023) was an American-born Austrian composer, violist and pianist. She also used the pseudonyms Helen Huntley and William Huntley. She is known for operas such as All Quiet on the Western Front, and orchestral music such as Chernobyl and Journeys, including concertos like the Kraków Concerto for percussion and orchestra. Van de Vate taught at several universities in the United States and led composers’ organizations such as the Southeastern Composers League and the International League of Women Composers. In 1985, she moved to Vienna, where she taught and founded a CD company for new orchestral music together with her husband. Life and career Nancy Jean Hayes was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on December 30, 1930. she graduated from North Plainfield High School in 1948. She studied piano on a scholarship at Eastman School of Music and music theory at Wellesley College. She completed graduate degrees in music composition at the University of Mississippi and Florida State University, where she earned a Ph.D. She pursued further studies in electronic music at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire. The first profe

Nando Lauria

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Nando Lauria (born 11 May 1960) is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. Biography At the age of seven, Lauria picked up the violão (Brazilian acoustic guitar). He was raised in a musical family—his older brother played electric guitar in a band. Lauria used to attend his concerts and mimic the playing of his brother’s band members on his acoustic guitar. As a youth he listened repeatedly to the music of The Beatles and popular Brazilian musicians of the 1970s. On his own he picked up the elements of music and taught himself to play chords. He learned to improvise and took great pleasure in his musical discoveries. At the age of 12 he took part in many school productions and was seen on local television and theater. When he was 15, he attended the “Abertura” music festival in Brazil, where he got in touch with the guitar duo Burnier & Cartier. Other musicians at the festival included Milton Nascimento, Clube da Esquina, Ivan Lins, Djavan, and Egberto Gismonti. At age 16 he wrote his first song, “Jangadeiro”, which is said to have influenced his desire to become a composer. In 1978 Lauria formed the band Nós e Voz, which was influenced by the vocal group Boca Livre. With this band he pl

Nanna Liebmann

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Nanna Magdalene Liebmann, née Lehmann, (September 27, 1849 – May 11, 1935) was a Danish, music educator, music critic, concert promoter and composer. Early life Nanna Lehmann was one of nine children born to a socially active family; her brother Carl Lehmann became a politician, another brother Edvard Lehmann became a religious historian, her sister Signe Lehmann also became a musician, and her uncle was the politician Orla Lehmann. She was a cousin of the literary critic and women’s suffrage advocate Margrethe Vullum. Career She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Victor Bendix, Johann Christian Gebauer, J.P.E. Hartmann, Niels W. Gade, August Winding and Carl Helsted. At the conservatory she met composer Axel Liebmann, whom she married in 1874. He died soon afterward and she turned to composing and teaching music to support herself and her son, Poul Liebmann. Most of her compositions are written between 1869 and 1914, and she wrote reviews for Dannebrog. Liebmann and her husband were both buried in Garrison Cemetery, Copenhagen. Notable works Selected works include: *Syv sange til tyske tekster 1885 *Syv sange 1885 *Minnelieder 1903 *Fem sange 1904 *Thema med Variati

Nanne Grönvall

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Marianne Elisabeth Grönvall (, née Nordqvist; born 18 May 1962), known by her stage name Nanne (), is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Biography Grönvall’s musical career started in the 1980s group Sound of Music. The trio participated twice in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest selections, Melodifestivalen, finishing fourth both times; in 1986 with “Eldorado” and in 1987 with “Alexandra”. Over the following ten years, she established herself as a songwriter in Melodifestivalen, writing two songs for the 1992 competition and the 1995 runner-up “Det vackraste” (“The Most Beautiful Thing”) performed by Cecilia Vennersten. From 1991 till 1997, she was a member of the group One More Time with her husband, Peter Grönvall, and Maria Rådsten. They won the Melodifestivalen 1996 final with the folk-ballad “Den vilda” (recorded in English as “The Wilderness Mistress”). It finished third (out of 23) in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 behind Norway and winners Ireland. Boosted by this, Nanne began a solo career following One More Time’s final album in 1997. In 1998 she returned to Melodifestivalen with “Avundsjuk” (“Envious”), a satirical song about her hatred of successful people. For the Melod

Nannie Louise Wright

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Nannie Louise Wright (June 30, 1879 March 16, 1958) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator born in Fayette, Missouri. She graduated from Howard-Payne Junior College in Fayette and the Columbia School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Wright studied piano with Mary Wood Chase in Chicago and with Josef Lhévinne in Berlin. She returned to Fayette to become the Director of Music at Howard- Payne College in 1909. Later, she served as President of the Missouri State Music Teachers’ Association and as Dean of Music at Central Methodist University’s Swinney Conservatory of Music in Fayette, where one of her students was William Gillock. Early life Wright was one of five children of Dr. Uriel Sebree Wright and Carrie Shafroth Wright. At the age of five, she started piano lessons from her mother. At the age of ten, her piano skills were advanced enough that she succeeded her late mother as organist at the First Baptist Church of Fayette. Career After graduations, Wright returned to Howard-Payne to teach. She eventually succeeded Marion Eloise Lasher as director of instrumental music in 1906. In this position, the music department at Howard-Payne expanded to include more music his

Naoki Kodaka

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is a Japanese video game music composer who worked for Sunsoft. He is currently a professor of music at several universities and occasionally composes new music for special events. Following his graduation, he briefly worked on producing music for radio and television. Among his classmates, Kodaka was known to spend much of his spare time in arcades, and this ultimately attracted Sunsoft to hire him as a video game composer. He is best known for writing the soundtracks for Journey to Silius, Batman (NES, Genesis and Game Boy versions), Blaster Master, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, the Albert Odyssey series, Super Fantasy Zone, and a few other titles. He was almost always assisted on his NES projects by sound programmers Nobuyuki Hara, Shinichi Seya, and sometimes Naohisa Morota. Usually, Kodaka would compose songs on traditional sheet music, and the sound programmers would translate the compositions for the NES, sometimes receiving feedback from Kodaka on how the songs should sound. At some later time, he also joined the faculty at Daido University, where he teaches music theory and computer-based music. Works *Atlantis no Nazo (1986) *Dead Zone (1986) *The Wing of Madoola (1986) *Naz

Naoya Wada

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is a Japanese composer and arranger. Biography Born on June 6, 1986, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. A self-taught pianist, he began composing music at age 11 and completed his first band composition at age 15. In 2009, he earned a degree from the Toho College of Music where he was a student of Jun Nagao. His works have been performed in many countries and have been recorded on CDs by many bands in such countries as the United States, Japan, Germany, and Belgium. Also in 2009, he received the 42nd Kitakyushu Cultural Award for his compositions. Compositions Concert Band Fanfare Band Flex Band String Orchestra Ensembe Arrangements Concert Band Flex Band External links * Official website *Naoya Wada bio and list of works at C. L. Barnhouse Co. official website *Naoya Wada bio and list of works at TRN Music official website *Grand Mesa Music Publishers *Beriato Music *Molenaar Edition

Napoléon Alkan

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Napoléon Alexandre Alkan, born Napoléon Alexandre Morhange (2 February 1826 – August 1906), was a French composer and music teacher. Career Alkan was born in Paris, one of six children of Alkan Morhange and Julie Abraham. The family was Jewish, and Alkan Morhange ran a successful music school. All of the Morhange children adopted their father’s name as their surname, and all successfully attended the Conservatoire de Paris. Céleste Alkan (married surname Mayer-Marix) (25 February 1811 – 1891) began her training at the Conservatoire at the age of seven and won first prize in solfège at the age of eleven. Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), the most distinguished of the siblings, became a well-known composer and piano virtuoso. Ernest Alkan (11 July 1816 – 1876) was a student of Jean-Louis Tulou and became known as a flutist. Maxime Alkan (28 May 1818 – 1891) wrote popular music including dances for piano. The youngest of the siblings was Gustave Alkan (24 March 1827 – 1882). Napoléon became a student at the Conservatoire in 1835 where he studied piano with Pierre Zimmermann, organ with François Benoist and counterpoint and fugue with Adolphe Adam. In 1843 he won first prize for pian

Napoléon Coste

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Claude Antoine Jean Georges Napoléon Coste (27 June 1805 – 14 January 1883) was a French classical guitarist and composer. Biography Napoléon Coste was born in Amondans (Doubs), near Besançon, France. He was first taught the guitar by his mother, an accomplished player. As a teenager he became a teacher of the instrument and appeared in three concerts in the Franche-Comté. In 1829, at the age of 24, he moved to Paris where he studied under Fernando Sor and quickly established himself as the leading French virtuoso guitarist. Despite declining demand in Paris for guitarists during the years after he arrived, Coste achieved financial stability as a professional musician and composer. Unable to find a publisher, he had to self-publish his works. Napoléon Coste was influenced by the Early Classical-Romantic composers of the time including Hector Berlioz. Coste’s Opus no.47, La Source du Lyson is inspired by nature much like Berlioz’s program music. Coste injured his left shoulder in 1863, though was able to continue public performances until 1881, two years before his death. After Sor’s death, Coste edited and republished Sor’s original method for guitar as Méthode complète pour la Gui

Napoléon Henri Reber

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Napoléon Henri Reber (21 October 1807 – 24 November 1880) was a French composer. Life and career Reber was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, and studied with Anton Reicha and Jean François Lesueur, wrote chamber music, and set to music works of French poets. He became professor of harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1851, succeeded Fromental Halévy as professor of composition in 1862 and served as inspector of the branch conservatories. In 1853, he was elected to the chair previously occupied by George Onslow in the Académie des Beaux Arts. His instrumental arrangement of Frédéric Chopin’s Funeral March from the Funeral March Sonata was played at the graveside during Chopin’s burial at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris on 30 October 1849. He was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1855, and an officer in 1870. On his death, he was succeeded as a member of the Institut by Camille Saint-Saëns. Notable students include Adolphe Danhauser and Jules Massenet. Reber died in Paris. Works Among his works are a ballet, Le Diable amoureux (written jointly with François Benoist, 1840); the comic operas, Le Nuit de Noël (1848), Le Père Gaillard (1852), Les Papillotes de M. Benoist (1853), an

Napoleon Orda

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Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda (; ; 11 February 1807 – 26 April 1883) was a Polish–Lithuanian musician, pianist, composer, and artist, best known for numerous sketches of historical sites of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Biography Napoleon Orda was born in the village of Varacevičy in the Pinsky Uyezd of Minsk Governorate (now in Ivanava District of Belarus) in his father’s manor. His father, Michał Orda, was an impoverished noble of Lithuanian ancestry and the marshal of the powiat of Kobryn. His mother was Józefa (nee Butrymowicz). After finishing Svislach gymnasium in 1823, he started mathematical studies at the Imperial University of Vilnius. However, his university career came to an end on 27 August 1826, when he was arrested by the Russian secret police for taking part in a secret student society “Zorzanie”, which was active in Svislach and Białystok gymnasiums. Although he was released soon afterwards, he was expelled from the university and was not allowed to continue his studies. Orda took part in the failed November Uprising of 1830 against Russian Empire and served with distinction in the famous 4th Regiment (Czwartacy). For his bravery he received the highes

Narcisa Freixas

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Narcisa Freixas i Cruells (13 December 1859 – 20 December 1926) was a Catalan sculptor, painter and composer. She was born in Sabadell, Barcelona, the daughter of Pere Freixas Sabater, and first studied painting and sculpture with Modest Urgell i de Torcuato Tasso. However, she developed an interest in music and began the study of piano with Juan Bautista Pujol. She married Miquel Petit, a doctor who died soon afterward, and also lost her daughter at a young age. After 1900 Freixas published collections of Catalan songs and nursery rhymes, and helped foster musical education for school children in Barcelona. She died in Barcelona in 1926. Works Freixas composed for voice and instruments and was known for children’s songs. Selected compositions include: *La font del romaní for voice and piano *L’ametller (‘A mig aire de la serra veig un ametller florit’), for voice and piano *La barca (‘La doncella baixa al riu al trenc de l’alba’), for voice and piano *La son soneta, for voice and piano *Primaveral (‘On va el Sol de març revestit de festa?’), for voice and piano *L’ombra de Natzaret (‘Sentadeta va filant la Natsarena Maria’), for voice and piano *Dolorosa (‘Rient les penes fugen de

Narcisse Girard

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Narcisse Girard (28 January 179716 January 1860) was a French violinist, conductor and composer. Life Girard was born in Nantes. A pupil of Pierre Baillot (violin, winning first prize in 1820), and Anton Reicha (counterpoint) at the Conservatoire, after completing his studies there he went to Italy for a year to further his training. After conducting orchestras at the Hotel de Ville, Girard became the conductor of the Opéra Italien from 1830 to 1832. He was chief conductor at the Opéra Comique from 1837 to 1846, then moving to the Paris Opéra, where he conducted the premieres of Le prophète and Sapho. On 30 October 1849 Girard conducted Mozart’s Requiem as part of the funeral service for Frédéric Chopin. From 18 October 1848 to 17 January 1860 Girard was the conductor of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, leading them in over 100 concerts. Girard conducted the first performance of Harold en Italie by Hector Berlioz at the Salle du Conservatoire on 23 November 1834, with Chrétien Urhan (viola). Girard was a professor of violin at the Paris Conservatoire where his pupils included Jules Danbé, Charles Lamoureux and Édouard Colonne. His compositions included an overture Antigon

Narendra Bhide

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Narendra Bhide (1973 – December 10, 2020, in Pune) was an Indian film score composer, best known for his work on the films Aandhali Koshimbir (2014), Chi Va Chi Sau Ka (2017), Hampi (2017), and Mulshi Pattern (2018). He won a Maharashtra State Film Award in 2011 in the category of Best Music Director. Discography References External links *

Narong Prangcharoen

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Narong Prangcharoen (born 23 July 1973) is a Thai composer of contemporary music. His compositions have won him the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize, and the Alexander Zemlinsky International Composition Competition Prize. He is the founder of Thailand International Composition Festival (TICF). Currently, he serves as Dean of the College of Music, Mahidol University in Thailand, as well as composer-in-residence for Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and Pacific Symphony in Orange County, California. His scores for orchestra and wind ensemble are published exclusively by Theodore Presser Company. Biography Early life Narong Prangcharoen is originally from the Uttaradit province in northern Thailand. His first experience with classical music took place during the secondary education at Horwang School in Bangkok, where he became a member of the school’s wind ensemble playing trumpet. In 1991, he became a music education major at Srinakharinwirot University in 1991. He took some music theory classes with Kit Young, an American composer and pianist who exposed Prangcharoen for the first time to 20th-century music. During his junior year, Prangcharoen turned his focus to piano when h

Natalia Janotha

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Natalia Janotha (8 June 18569 June 1932) was a Polish pianist and composer. Biography Natalia Janotha was born in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Juliusz Janotha, who was a composer and teacher at the Music Institute in Warsaw. She started piano lessons with her father at a young age and later studied music in Berlin with Ernst Rudorff, Woldemar Bargiel, and Clara Schumann. She also may have had lessons from Johannes Brahms. She performed her first recital in 1868 and toured Europe as a concert pianist. She was known as an interpreter of the music of Chopin, whose sister was a very close friend of her mother’s; and she received advice from Chopin’s pupil Princess Czartoryska née Radziwill. In 1885 she became the Imperial Court pianist in Berlin. She also won notoriety as a mountain climber, sometimes wearing men’s trousers. In 1883 she became the first woman to ascend Gerlach, the highest mountain in the Carpathians. She lived in London for a few years, but was deported in 1915 owing to the political circumstances of World War I, because she was the German court pianist. Then, she emigrated to The Hague, where she served as accompanist to the dancer Angèle Sydow. She died in The Ha

Natalia Raigorodsky

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Marie Leda Natalia Raigorodsky Heimsath Harter Parris (28 July 1929 - 28 August 2018) was an American composer, educator, and music critic who produced over 150 works, including two operas and two symponies. She published under the name Natalia Raigorodsky. Biography Raigorodsky was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Ethel McCaleb and Paul M. Raigorodsky. She grew up in Texas, then moved to Maine in the early 1940s. She graduated from Barnard College in 1952 and earned a master’s degree in composition and music history in 1963 from American University. She taught music theory and piano privately throughout her life. Raigorodsky married Charles Herman Heimsath and had two sons. In 1987, she married James L. Parris. Some of Raigorodsky’s compositions were self-published. Others were published by Culley Music and Wings of the Morning Music. Many of her works are archived at the Library of Congress. Her compositions include: Chamber *Dusk (flute and piano) Opera *The Promise of Peace *The White Cliffs (text by Alice Duer Miller) *Symphony No. 2 *Open Windows: Five Musical Settings of Poems of Spiritual Inspirations *“Psalm of Thanksgiving” *Psalms 21, 23, 27, 100, 121 *She Lies Asleep, Requie

Natalie Draper

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Natalie Draper is an American composer who teaches composition at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. Biography Draper completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in 2017. Her teachers include Oscar Bettison and Joel Hoffman. In 2015, Draper was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. Draper has been featured by GAMMA-UT, MusicX, SEAMUS, the Fromm Scholarship ensemble, Lunar Ensemble, and SONAR New Music Ensemble. Her works has been recognized by the Baltimore Sun, Portland Press Herald, and Fanfare, among others. Draper’s work, Timelapse Variations, was commissioned by Symphony Number One and premiered in November 2016. Works such as Decadent Music Box have garnered various awards and positive mentions. In 2018, Draper collaborated with NASA to help provide music from Timelapse Variations for a major research presentation on the impact crater of the Hiawatha Glacier. Draper has also published an article on Stephen Sondheim. Partial list of works * Decadent Music Box * Deflected Harmlessly into the Ceiling * O Sea-Starved, Hungry Sea * The Ravens of Unresting Thought * Strains in the Signal * Timelapse Variations * Water in t

Natalie Sleeth

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Natalie Allyn Sleeth (née Wakeley; October 29, 1930 – March 21, 1992) was an American composer of hymns and choral music. Sleeth was born in Evanston, Illinois. She began to study the piano at the early age of four. In 1952, she earned a BA in music theory at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She married the Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Sleeth, a professor of Homiletics. The anthem “Hymn of Promise” was composed in early 1985, and dedicated simply “To Ron,” that is, her husband Dr. Ron Sleeth, who was diagnosed with cancer and died weeks after the anthem’s premiere. Soon after publication, the anthem became a hymn under two different names. Under the title “In the Bulb There is a Flower,” it appears as hymn #703 in the United Church of Canada hymnal, Voices United and as hymn #433 in The New Century Hymnal produced by the United Church of Christ in the US. It appears as hymn #707 under the title “Hymn of Promise” in The United Methodist Hymnal. It is frequently sung in the United Church of Canada and the United Church of Christ. The hymn was translated into German by Lothar Pöll in 1999 and is included in the Gesangbuch der Evangelisch-methodistischen Kirche. Death Sleeth died of cancer in

Natalise

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Natalise (born Robin Nathalis Chow, on September 27, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter. Natalise has been featured on television networks such as the WB, UPN, CBS, ABC, and MTV. She is also known for her appearances in The New York Times, Blender, and Maxim. Natalise’s first single “Love Goes On” from the album Forever Now was made popular when it aired on San Francisco’s KYLD, Wild 94.9. Her subsequent singles “Wonderful” and “Enough” also received airplay on San Francisco’s pop/adult AC station Alice 97.3. Natalise’s second album I Came to Play received awards for Best Dance CD, Best Produced, Best Video by a Female, and Best Dance Song by Muse’s Muse. Natalise was also voted “Girlfriend of the Day” in August 2008 by Maxim and “Video of the Week” by Blender.com. Many of Natalise’s songs, including “The Hotness” and “I Came to Play” were heard on various MTV programs, such as “Yo Momma,” “My Super Sweet Sixteen,” and “Next.” She was also heard on “Degrassi: The Next Generation” and “One Tree Hill.” Natalise has performed at various Los Angeles iconic venues, such as the House of Blues, the Roxy, and the Viper Room. She has also sung the National Anthem for the Golden State Wa

Natasha Barrett (composer)

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Natasha Barrett (March 1972, Norwich, England) is a British contemporary music composer specialising in electroacoustic art music. Her compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues. In addition to acousmatic concert music, she composes for instruments, live electronics, sound installations, multi-media works including digital video art, real-time computer music improvisation, has made soundscapes for exhibitions, and music for contemporary dance and theater. Her work has been influenced by spatialisation as a musical parameter, and the projection of 3-D sound-fields. Since 2020, she has expanded her repertoire to include works for large orchestra and electronics, as well as interactive real-time computer graphics. She currently lives in Norway. Natasha Barrett began her studies in electroacoustic music while completing a master’s degree in analysis and composition under the guidance of Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham (UK). This study also gave her the opportunity to work with BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) which influenced her later work, and lead on to a doctoral degree in composition supervised by Denis Smalley, awarded in 1998 at Ci

Natela Svanidze

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Natela Svanidze (, ; , ; 4 September 1926 – 17 November 2017) was a Georgian composer. Biography Natela Svanidze was born in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. She studied composition at Tbilisi State Conservatoire with Andria Balanchivadze, graduating in 1951. She was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Georgia in 1981. Svanidze died on 17 November 2017, at the age of 91. Works Svanidze composes for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo instrument and experimental performances. Selected works include: *1949 – “Symphony Dances” for orchestra *1951 – “Samgori” symphony poem *1963 – “Kvarkvare” symphony poem *1965 – “Burlesque” for piano, wind and percussion instruments *1967 – Symphony for piano, string and percussion instruments *1968 – Symphony-ballet for symphony orchestra *1983 – Symphony No. 2 *1954 – “Garden of Kartli” cantata for mixed chorus and symphony orchestra. (in three parts), text by Giorgi Leonidze *1970 – “Pirosmani” chamber oratorio for reader, contralto, male sextet and instrumental ensemble (in five parts), texts by Boris Pasternak, Pavel Antokolsky, Titsian Tabidze *1975 – “Poem of Never-to-be-forgotten” oratorio for reader, female sextet, two choruses, organ, violin, 12 cell

Nathan Currier

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Nathan Currier (born 1960, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) is an American composer. Biography Coming from a musical family, Currier is son of composer Marilyn Currier (1931) and brother of composer Sebastian Currier (1959). His principal teachers were David Diamond, Joseph Schwantner, Bernard Rands, Stephen Albert and Frederic Rzewski. He studied at the Juilliard School, where he received the Doctorate in 1989, and also served on their Evening Division faculty over a ten-year period. Starting in 2007 he served for two years as a visiting faculty member at the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia. In 2016 he initiated a concert series called Orchard Circle, with concerts in New York City and Philadelphia. Awards * 2008 International Sackler Prize for Music Composition * 2008-09 Fellowship at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities * 1999 Academy Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters * 1995-96 Rome Prize for Composition from the American Academy in Rome * 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship * 1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship * 1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship * 1991 Fromm Foundation Grant * 1991 Charles Ives Fellowship from The A

Nathan Felix

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Nathan Felix (born 1981) is a classical music composer from Austin, Texas. He now resides in San Antonio. He is also the band leader for The Noise Revival Orchestra. Felix is known for his innovative approaches to opera. Career Felix’s symphonies have been performed in Bulgaria, Portugal, Denmark, Mongolia and the United States with a performance of his 2nd Symphony, Neon Heaven, at SPOT Festival. In 2013, his 1st Symphony, The Curse the Cross & the Lion, was featured by the BBC and later made into a documentary entitled The Curse & The Symphony. The documentary has screened at 28 film festivals, and was picked up by Gaiam TV. In 2015, PBS affiliate KLRU featured Felix’s 6-Piano Project on an episode of Arts in Context, in which he restored abandoned pianos to premiere his works written for six pianos and then donated the pianos to lower-income schools in Austin. 6-Pianos was nominated for a Lone Star Emmy in 2016. The 6-Piano Project has since been presented in San Antonio (2016), Barcelona (2017), Melbourne (2017) and Houston (2019). In 2018, Felix premiered his Headphone Opera entitled The War Bride at Luminaria Festival in San Antonio with two concerts. Based on the memoir of F

Nathan Wang

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Nathan Tsung-hsien Wang (; born August 8, 1956) is an American film composer, who has worked extensively in both the United States and in Hong Kong. He is best known internationally for his work with Jackie Chan, and with directors Benny Chan and Stanley Tong. He also scored the Detective Chinatown film series. Early life and education Wang was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents from Shanghai, China. He began playing the piano at age three. He attended Pomona College, graduating in 1979, and received an Ambassadorial Scholarship from Rotary International to study at Oxford University. Career Wang’s first film score was for the comedy Screwball Hotel. In 1995, Wang was hired by Hong Kong film studio Golden Harvest to score the Jackie Chan film Rumble in the Bronx. The film proved a hit and Chan’s North American breakthrough. Wang has subsequently scored Chan’s films Police Story 4: First Strike (1996), Who Am I? (1998), He also worked with notable Chinese-language filmmakers like Stanley Tong, Benny Chan, Chen Sicheng (on the Detective Chinatown films) Wang is also an associate professor of film scoring at Peking University. Composer * Never Say Never (2023) * Vanguard (202

Nathaniel Cleophas Davis

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Nathaniel Cleophas “N.C.” Davis (1888-1972) was an African American musician, composer, educator, bandleader, and owner/publisher of N.C. Davis Music Company of Nashville, Tennessee. Early life Born in Tennessee on August 14, 1888, Nathaniel Davis was living and working as a trombonist in Nashville by 1908. With his brothers Otis B. Davis and Clarence M. Davis, he started N. C. Davis Music Publishing at 510 1/2 Cedar Street, Nashville. He taught music for a time at Fisk University and the Tennessee School for the Blind, and founded his own music teaching business about 1913, referred to a different times as the Traveling Conservatory of Music and the Davis Band and Orchestra School. Among his pupils at Fisk University was trumpeter Adolphus Anthony “Doc” Cheatham. When Davis registered for the draft shortly after the United States entered World War I, he described himself as self-employed and a “band organizer and school teacher.” From March 29, 1918 to March 7, 1919, Davis served with the U.S. Army’s 368th Regiment (92nd Infantry Division) as a musician. The Regiment, whose enlisted men and junior officers were African Americans but its senior officers all white, was stationed in

Nathaniel D. Mann

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Nathaniel D. Mann (1866–1915) was an American composer best known for his work with L. Frank Baum. He composed at least two songs with Baum, “Different Ways of Making Love” and “It Happens Ev’ry Day,” and another with John Slavin, “She Didn’t Really Mind the Thing at All,” for The Wizard of Oz stage musical in 1902, and in 1908, composed the first original film score (27 cues) for The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, one of the earliest feature-length fiction films (and the earliest film adaptations of the novels The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, John Dough and the Cherub, and Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, presented by Baum himself), which debuted September 24, 1908. With Baum, he also composed the musical The King of Gee-Whiz (dated February 23, 1905), which went through various titles such as Montezuma (November 1902), King Jonah XIII (September 1903), and The Son of the Sun (1905). This was collaboration with and based on a novel by Emerson Hough, which was never completed and the extant scenario published in 1969. His other works The Mayor of Tokio with William Frederick Peters (1905), The Alaskan with R. F. Carroll (1909), Imam : A Mohammedan Serenad

Nathaniel Giles

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Nathaniel Giles (1558 – 1633 or 1634) was an English Renaissance organist and composer. He was the organist for Worcester Cathedral and wrote Anglican anthems. While Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal he took over Blackfriars Theatre in a business arrangement with producer Henry Evans and there he worked with Ben Jonson on a children’s company. Giles had the power under a royal warrant to impress children for service in the Chapel Royal. He allowed Evans and others to use the warrant to legally abduct children not for service as choir boys, but to work in their theatre. When in 1600 they abducted the son of a nobleman, this led to the Clifton Star Chamber Case. He was also a master of the Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle and an organist at Westminster Abbey. His Te Deum (Durham Cathedral manuscript A2, folio 56) has instructions for the organist to play an octave lower than written, and one assumes this is to give the ‘dark’ sonority of a 10 ft organ stop rather than the everyday colour of the standard 5 ft Principal stop of the Tudor organ. His Vestigia mea dirige was included in the manuscript collection known as the Dow Partbooks. His son, Nathaniel Giles beca

Nathaniel Stookey

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Nathaniel Stookey (born 25th April 1970, San Francisco, California) is an American composer and musician. Education Stookey is the son of Richard Phelps Stookey, an attorney and novelist, and Martha Milton Stookey, an actor, stage director, and teacher. Both parents came from musical families: Martha’s father was an Army bugler and cornet player, and Richard’s grandparents were church and barn-dance musicians whose descendants include Noel Paul Stookey of the folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary. Stookey spent his early childhood in the Basque village of Banca. He attended French American International School and Lowell High School in San Francisco and Lycée Hoche in Versailles, France. He began violin study at age 5 with Anna Teksler in San Francisco, continuing with Malgorzata Rouger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, and with Daniel Kobialka of the San Francisco Symphony. As a student, he played violin and viola with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and sang in the chorus of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He studied music theory with Donald Galfond and took his first composition lessons from Tom Constanten of the Grateful Dead at the San Francisco Community Music Cente

Nathi

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Nkosinathi Mankayi (born 23 December 1982), professionally known as Nathi, is a South African singer-songwriter. He shot to limelight upon the release of his critically acclaimed song titled “Nomvula” off his triple-platinum debut studio album Buyelekhaya. He later released his second album titled Umbulelo Wam on 28 October 2016. He is presently signed under Gallo Record Company. The in 2025 he released his song titled"Bhunguza lam “with Lazola and others Early life Nkosinathi Mankayi was born among five siblings to a single mother in Mthatha, a small town in Eastern Cape, South Africa. He grew up in Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa where he was educated and developed an interest in music and drawing. In 2006, Nathi was sentenced to 8 years in prison for a 2002 robbery-related crime. He was however released after serving 4 years. Career 2008–2014: Early beginnings With the aim of pursuing a career in music, Nathi competed and won a local music competition known as “Dare to Dream”. He had his share of luck in November 2014 after Vusi Nova heard him sing and insisted on featuring him on a song titled “Noma Kanjani”, a song that was well received and went on to get massive airplay

Natsagiin Jantsannorov

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Natsagiin Jantsannorov (; born on 25 March 1949) is a Mongolian composer and musicologist, known for his modern classical Mongolian works. Early life Jantsannorov was born on 25 March 1949 in a place called “Khondloy” in Tsagaan Khotol, in the territory of Ölziit district, Övörkhangai province. He was born to an average herder family. Prior to the introduction of birth certificates in 1956, when registering Jantsannorov for school, his father, Natsag, recorded Jantsannorov’s birth year as 1948, which included his gestational age. This circumstance led to Jantsannorov’s birth year being registered as 1948 on his citizen ID. Education Between 1957 and 1961, he enrolled at the primary school of his home district, Ölziit. Later, he studied for six years at the secondary school in the neighboring Khujirt district, graduating in 1967. Between 1967 and 1971, after completing his secondary education, Jantsannorov studied at a teacher-training school in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Mongolian People’s Republic, majoring in music teaching. He briefly worked as a music theory teacher at the latter school for two years until 1973. In 1974, he studied at the Petro Tchaikovsky Kyiv Conservator

Naughty Boy

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Shahid Khan (; born 1 January 1981), known professionally as Naughty Boy, is an English DJ, record producer, music programmer and songwriter. In 2012, Khan signed a three-year publishing deal with Sony ATV, as well as a recording contract with Virgin EMI Records to release his debut studio album, Hotel Cabana (2013). Its first two singles, “Wonder” (with Emeli Sandé) and “Lifted” (with Sandé), both peaked within the top ten of the UK singles chart, while its third, “La La La” (featuring Sam Smith), peaked atop the chart. His 2015 single, “Runnin’ (Lose It All)” (with Beyoncé and Arrow Benjamin), received double platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Naughty Boy and Sandé also formed a writing and production partnership, leading her to sign with Virgin and EMI as a recording artist. Khan produced her debut studio album Our Version of Events in 2012, and subsequently began doing so for other artists including Leona Lewis, JLS, Cheryl, Jennifer Hudson, Alesha Dixon and Tinie Tempah, among others. Early life Shahid Khan was born on 1 January 1981 in Watford, Hertfordshire. His parents being originally from Pakistan, and explaining the importance of his Pakis

Nazim Aliverdibeyov

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Nazim Aghalar oghlu Aliverdibeyov (August 24, 1926, Baku – February 16, 1986, Baku) was an Azerbaijani composer. He was the composer of the music for many famous Azerbaijani films. Life Nazim Aliverdibeyov was born in 1926. He was a composer, as well as a film composer and music editor. He graduated from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory. From 1951 to 1985, he taught at the Bulbul Specialized Secondary School and the Azerbaijan State Conservatory. From 1964 to 1985, he served as the director of the Bulbul Specialized Secondary School. He re-orchestrated Uzeyir Hajibeyov’s operas “Asli and Kerem” and “Leyli and Majnun”. He was also the editor of the published scores of Uzeyir Hajibeyov’s operas “Leyli and Majnun” (1983) and “Koroghlu” (1985). The composer was the cousin of Uzeyir Hajibeyov. He was the son of musicologist Aghalar Aliverdibeyov. He was the brother of violinist Rasim Aliverdibeyov, conductor Kazim Aliverdibeyov, and pianist Nushaba Aliverdibeyova. Nazim Aliverdibeyov died on February 16, 1986, in Baku. Instrumental - “Bayatı Shiraz” for organ Musical Comedy - “Nazkhanim Naz Eleyir” (1974) — co-authored with Maharram Alizadeh Awards Medal “For Distinguished Labour” - 9