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Neapolitan School

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In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 17th and 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy, the best known of whom is Alessandro Scarlatti, with whom “modern opera begins”. Francesco Provenzale is generally considered the school’s founder. Other significant composers of this school are Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Niccolò Piccinni, Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello. It also addressed other musical genres, particularly the oratorio and the concerto. The Neapolitan School has been considered in between the Roman School and the Venetian School in importance. However, “The concept of Neapolitan school, or more particularly Neapolitan opera, has been questioned by a number of scholars. That Naples was a significant musical center in the 18th century is beyond doubt. Whether the composers working in Naples at that time developed or partook of a distinct and characteristic musical style is less clear” since so little is known about the repertory. Background In the second half of the 17th century, a more purist and classicist style began in Naples, with simplified plots and more cultured and sophisticated operas. At that time

Necil Kazım Akses

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Necil Kazım Akses (6 May 1908 – 16 February 1999) was a Turkish classical composer. Life Akses studied music and composition at the Musikakademie in Vienna with Joseph Marx and at the Prague Conservatory in Prague with Josef Suk and Alois Hába. He helped co-found the Ankara State Conservatory with the composer Paul Hindemith and served as director of the institution for a while. Together with Cemal Reşit Rey, Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, and Hasan Ferit Alnar, Akses belonged to a group called The Turkish Five, who were the first Turkish composers to adapt their homeland’s musical tradition to the techniques of Western classical composition. (Their name alluded to the Russian Five.) In 1949, Akses entered the service of the Turkish state. He worked as the Turkish cultural attaché in Bern and Bonn, among other posts. Akses composed orchestral works, chamber music, and pieces for piano. His most famous work is his Violin Concerto (1969). Works Operas * Mete, opera in one act. Libretto: Yaşar Nabi Nayır (1933) * Bay önder, opera in one act. Libretto: Münir Hayri Egeli (1934). (First performance: 27 December 1934-Ankara-Conductor: Adnan Saygun) * Timur, opera in four acts. Libr

Ned Bouhalassa

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Ned Bouhalassa (born 25 August 1962 in Le Mans, France) is a composer of film scores, television scores, and electroacoustic music. Bouhalassa is a Canadian citizen, and has been living in Montreal since 1967. In 1993, he began composing television soundtracks, and has been writing music for image full-time since 1997. His music has been heard in international television series such as 18 to Life, 15/Love, and Dogs with Jobs, as well as in independent feature films including Jack & Ella, Evil Words, These Girls, starring David Boreanaz, and On the Verge of a Fever (Le Goût des jeunes filles). A student of composer Francis Dhomont at l’université de Montréal, and professor Kevin Austin at Concordia University, Montreal, he has been composing electroacoustic music since 1987. Regularly programmed at Montreal’s Elektra and Réseaux festivals, his concert music has also been heard around the world. Since the late 1990s, he has been exploring hybridization by combining electronic beats with electroacoustic soundscapes, and more recently, he has been interested in collaborating with video artists and writing works for surround-sound systems. Bouhalassa received first prize in the electroa

Ned Rorem

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Ned Miller Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and a writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was considered the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Frequently described as a neoromantic composer, he showed limited interest in the emerging modernist aesthetic of his lifetime. As a writer, he kept—and later published—numerous diaries in which he spoke candidly of his exchanges and relationships with many cultural figures of America and France. Born in Richmond, Indiana, Rorem found an early interest in music, studying with Margaret Bonds and Leo Sowerby. He developed a strong enthusiasm for French music and received mentorship from Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson, among others. After two productive years in Morocco, Rorem was hosted by the arts patron Marie-Laure de Noailles in Paris, where he was influenced by the neoclassicist group Les Six, particularly Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. He returned to America in around 1957, establishing himself as a prominent composer and receiving regular commissions. For the American Bicentennial, he worked on seven different commissio

Ned Rothenberg

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Ned Rothenberg (born September 15, 1956) is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He specializes in woodwind instruments, including the alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute, and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). He is known for his work in contemporary classical and free improvisation. Rothenberg is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He was a founding member of the woodwind trio New Winds with J. D. Parran and Robert Dick. He has performed with Samm Bennett, Paul Dresher, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, John Zorn, Yuji Takahashi, Sainkho Namtchylak, and Katsuya Yokoyama. Discography As leader * Trials of the Argo (Lumina, 1981) * Portal (Lumina, 1983) * Trespass (Lumina, 1986) * Overlays (Moers, 1991) * Opposites Attract with Paul Dresher (New World, 1991) * Power Lines (New World, 1995) * Real and Imagined Time (Moers, 1995) * Amulet with Sainkho (Leo, 1996) * Monkey Puzzle with Evan Parker (Leo, 1997) * Port of Entry (Intuition, 1998) * Ghost Stories (Tzadik, 2000) * Tools of The Trade with Denman Maroney, (CIMP, 2001) * Intervals (Animul, 2002) * Decisive Action with Satoh Masahiko (BAJ, 2004) * En Passant with Peter A. Sch

Negin Zomorodi

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Negin Zomorodi (; also as “Negin Zomorrodi”, ; born 22 April 1973 in Tehran) is an Iranian composer and pianist. Biography Negin Zomorodi was born in 1973 in Tehran. She began playing the piano at childhood under the instruction of such renowned masters as Voski Ohanessian and Farimah Qavam-Sadri. After graduating in textile engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in 1996, motivated by her love for music, she pursued music composition more seriously than before, which ultimately led to her entrance to Tehran University of Art, and she did an MA in music composition in 2009. Zomorodi also took specialized courses in music theory and harmony at The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) in Toronto, Canada and got up-to-date with these fields. Since then her various works have been performed at festivals and concert halls, e.g. Roudaki Hall, including the piece “Shadow” for the flute and piano, performed at the Contemporary Composers Festival in Tehran; the string quartet “Suddenly”, performed by the Iranian group “Chahargan”; the string quartet “Migration”, performed by the group “Respina Quartet”; and the piece “Butterfly’s Dance”, performed at the Contemporary Composer

Negro Folk Symphony

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The Negro Folk Symphony is a symphony composed by William L. Dawson in 1934 and revised in 1952. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra debuted the Negro Folk Symphony on November 14, 16, and 17, 1934, with a follow-up performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall on November 20. It was recorded by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi in 2001. A recording by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted by was released in June 2020. Composition Dawson began working on his Symphony No. 1 In the late 1920s while living in Chicago. The initial four performances of Dawson’s symphony by a major orchestra made him only the third African American composer, after William Grant Still in 1931 and Florence Price in 1933, to achieve such a milestone. Audiences responded enthusiastically, breaking tradition by applauding after the second movement and giving standing ovations at the symphony’s conclusion. Critics, both Black and white, praised the work—a rare honor for any new American composition, especially by a Black composer. Despite its initial success and critical acclaim, the Negro Folk Symphony, like many works by Black composers, soon faded from the spotlight.

Neidhart von Reuental

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Neidhart (Middle High German ) c. 1190 (later often called Neidhart von Reuental) was one of the most famous . With around 1500 documented strophes of his songs surviving, Neidhart has the largest corpus of surviving lyrics of any , suggesting the great popularity of the songs. In addition, and quite unlike any of his contemporaries, many melodies to his songs have been preserved: manuscripts have almost 70 melodies to 55 of his songs. Neidhart’s lyrics are highly innovative: into the courtly genre of Minnesang, he introduced peasant characters, who are often shown in conflict with the knightly class. Both classes are sometimes treated as objects of satire. His songs are traditionally divided into summer and winter songs (), each group opening with a piece of seasonal description of nature. But there are also songs which fall outside these categories and which in the past were often regarded as the work of later imitators. Neidhart’s works continued to enjoy great popularity long after his death. He was transformed into the legendary, peasant-hating “Neidhart Fuchs” in late 15th century comical stories (German ), and he also had a legacy in the visual arts, with woodcuts, frescos a

Neil Bartram

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Neil Bartram is a musical theatre composer/lyricist based in New York. Bartram is the composer and lyricist of Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Theory of Relativity and Broadway’s The Story of My Life with book writer Brian Hill. Awards include a Jeff Award nomination for his score for Shakespeare in Love at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the ASCAP Foundation’s Yellen Award, a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship and a Dora Award. Music Theatre International licenses The Story of My Life and The Theory of Relativity. Concord Theatricals licenses The Adventures of Pinocchio. The Story of My Life and The Theory of Relativity cast albums were produced by PS Classics. Bartram is a Dramatists Guild member, ASCAP member, and an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop. His work is published by Warner/Chappell Music. Works *The Story of My Life with Brian Hill, directed by Richard Maltby Jr., starring Will Chase and Malcolm Gets *The Adventures of Pinocchio with Hill, commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Theater *Something Wicked This Way Comes with Hill *Belles Soeurs, Canadian National Tour *The Theory of Relativity with Hill, Goodspeed Musica

Neil Brand

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Neil Brand (born 18 March 1958) is an English dramatist, composer and author. In addition to being a regular silent film accompanist at London’s National Film Theatre, Brand has composed new scores for two restored films from the 1920s, The Wrecker and Anthony Asquith’s Underground. Neil Brand has been a silent film accompanist for nearly 40 years, regularly in London at the Barbican and BFI National Film Theatres, throughout the UK and Ireland and at film festivals around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, Israel, Scandinavia, Georgia, Ukraine, throughout Europe. Brand has also acted and written plays for the BBC. His book, Dramatic Notes, focuses on the art of composing narrative music for the cinema, theatre, radio and television. For his contribution to music, in 2016, Brand was awarded with a BASCA Gold Badge Award. Background and education Brand was born in Burgess Hill, Sussex, England, and attended Junction Road Primary School in Burgess Hill, then Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School (now Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College). At the age of 18, he went to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, to study Drama under John Edmunds. Ho

Neil Chotem

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Neil Chotem (9 September 1920 – 21 February 2008) was a Canadian composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and music educator. Works Chotem’s compositional style is tonal, and often incorporates elements of jazz and popular music. He composed a considerable body of works for television and radio and also wrote music for a number of leading Canadian performers like Maureen Forrester, Paul Piché, and Michel Rivard. In 1968 he, Paul de Margerie, and Marcel Lévêque were awarded a Montreal Festival du disque prize for 3-12, an LP for which the three men all worked together as conductors and arrangers. He received another prize from that same organization that same year for Renée Claude’s recording of his arrangement of Jacques Brel’s song Ne me quitte pas. For the progressive rock band Harmonium he wrote, arranged and conducted the orchestral score for their critically acclaimed double album L’Heptade (1976). In 1993, he received the Prix de la Guilde from the Guilde des musiciens du Québec. Biography Chotem was born in Saskatoon, and began studying the piano at the age of 5 at the Palmer School of Music. He became a pupil of Lyell Gustin in 1930 with whom he studied for almost the next n

Neil Richardson (composer)

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Neil Grant Richardson (5 February 1930 – 8 October 2010) was an English composer and conductor. Richardson composed “Approaching Menace” (the Mastermind theme tune) and “The Riviera Affair”. During the 1960s–1990s, he was an arranger and conductor of various BBC Radio Orchestras, working on programmes such as String Sound and The Radio Orchestra Show. He was a prolific composer of library music for companies such as KPM, and his music has been used in numerous TV, film and radio productions. Aged eight, he went to become a chorister at Westminster Abbey. For example, he co-composed the test card piece “Scotch Broth”. Another of his library music compositions, “The Riviera Affair” (aka “Prestige Production,” from the 1970 KPM album Impact and Action, Vol. II), is best known to New Yorkers as the opening theme music for WOR-TV’s late-afternoon movie program, The 4 O’Clock Movie, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The song was also used as part of an homage of The 4 O’Clock Movie in the opening logo sequence for the 2007 heist film, Ocean’s Thirteen. NFL Films also used some of his compositions in its American football highlight films. His library theme “Another Happening” was used fo

Neil Rolnick

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Neil Burton Rolnick (born October 22, 1947) is an American composer and educator living in New York City. Life Rolnick was born in Dallas, Texas, and studied English literature at Harvard University where he received a BA in 1969. He then turned to music, studying composition first at the San Francisco Conservatory in 1973–74), then with Richard Felciano, and finally with Andrew Imbrie and Olly Wilson at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an MA in 1976 and a PhD in 1980. Concurrently he also studied computer music with John Chowning at Stanford University and was a visiting researcher at IRCAM in Paris from 1977 to 1979 (Marshall 2001). Rolnick also studied composition with Darius Milhaud (Oteri and Rolmick 2013) and John Coolidge Adams, and computer music with James A. Moorer. He has lived in New York City since 2002. Teaching From 1981 to 2013 Rolnick taught at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he founded the iEAR Studios (Marshall 2001). In 1991, as head of Rensselaer’s Arts Department he led the establishment of the nation’s first MFA program in Integrated Electronic Arts. Musical production Rolnick’s compositions have appeared on 18 records and

Neil Slater

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Kenneth Neil Slater (born July 3, 1931) is an American educator, composer, and pianist. In 2008, he retired as professor emeritus. He has composed over 80 works for jazz ensemble and has written for symphony, chamber groups, a cappella choir, opera, and musical theatre. Career Early years Slater was born in July 1931 in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Beginning at age six, he learned piano from a friend of his parents. In 1952 he graduated from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. Two years later he received a master’s degree in composition from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1960, he took night classes for about two years at Teachers College, Columbia University, studying pedagogy, piano, and composition. From 1954 to 1956, Slater served in the U.S. Army, spending most of his time with the 97 Army Band at Fort Sill as a pianist but also playing French horn and valve trombone. He backed guest stars in shows produced by Daniel Melnick of the Music and Entertainment Section of Special Services. One such show featured vocalist Peggy King, who entertained the troops at Fort Sill in 1956. Slater also directed a weekly television show from Fort Sill.

Nélida Béjar

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Nélida Béjar (born 1979 in Munich) is a Spanish composer based in Germany. She studied Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and Composition with Wilfried Hiller at Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. In 2012 she received a PhD in Composition at Trinity College, Dublin, where she studied with Donnacha Dennehy. In 2009, she founded the undercoverfiction ensemble for contemporary music and music theater in Munich, along with theater director Björn Potulski. In this team, she has created opera productions in the spirit of community theatre, working with companies that are linked to the theme of the respective project: “Schwerer als Luft” (2010) in cooperation with Munich Airport, where the singers on stage were aircraft handlers; “This New Ocean” (2013) in cooperation with various airlines, where the singers are crew members of the airlines. Béjar teaches Music and Media at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. Selected works ;Orchestra * Kilter for large orchestra (2007) ;Ensemble * Nachtschattenklänge for two pianos and percussion (2002) * Cortaziana für baritone und 14 instruments (2005) * In der Sonne trage schwarz for wind octett and double bass (2008)

Nellie von Gerichten Smith

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Nellie von Gerichten Smith (April 24, 1871 – May 15, 1952) was an American composer, pianist, violinist, and writer who composed two operas. Smith was born in Sierra County, California, to Cecelia Meta Horeis and Philip Gerichten. Little is known about her education. She married Barnaby Hathaway Smith in 1893 and they moved to Prescott, Arizona, where Barnaby managed the Palace Saloon. During her time in Arizona, Smith made several quilts which remain in Arizona collections today. which was included in Women of the West, a book edited by Max Binheim and published in 1928. Smith’s musical compositions include: Operas *Lily of the Mohawks: Kateri Tekakwitha (text by Edward C. La More) *Twins of Bistritz Piano *“Calizona” *“Montezuma” *“Wait, My Little Darling” References

Nellie Weldon Cocroft

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Ellen Weldon Cocroft (November 4, 1885 – June 27, 1986) was an American musical composer. Early life Ellen Estelle Weldon was born on November 4, 1885, in Quitman, Georgia, the daughter of Richard Weldon and Virginia (Massey) Weldon. She was the eldest of three daughters, including Jeanivieve (b. 1893) and Minnie (b. 1896). Nellie Cocroft was a church organist and choir director in Thomasville. Her husband ran a music store, and published her compositions to sell in the shop under the name “N. Weldon Cocroft”. Published works by Nellie Weldon Cocroft included “When the Birds are Singing in the Springtime” (1909), “Pinywoods Rag” (1909), and “I’se Gwine to Highball” (1910). After a lengthy divorce in 1923-1924, and upon losing custody of her son, Cocroft’s “Georgia Cracker”, performed by pianist Nora Hulse (d. 2020), was included in Hulse’s 2002 compilation Ragtime refreshments: 25 rags by women composers. Music by Nellie Weldon Cocroft is played at the “Jazz & Swing Club” at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. References External links * * Nellie Weldon Cocroft at WorldCat.

Nelly Moretto

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Nelly Moretto (20 September 1925 – 24 November 1978) was an Argentine composer and pianist who is considered to be an innovator of electronic music in South America. She also served as the vice-president of the Agrupación Nueva Música from 1970. Early life and education Nelly Moretto was born in Rosario, Argentina on 20 September 1925. She attended the Musical Professorship School in Rosario. Subsequently, she studied at the National Conservatory and the Torcuato di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires, and then at the University of Illinois. Upon her return to Argentina after finishing university, she began creating her own chamber and symphonic music compositions. At the same time, she was taught contemporary music techniques by composer Juan Carlos Paz. Career In 1951, she joined the Agrupación Nueva Música, which had been created by her former teacher Juan Carlos Paz, and was considered one of its most active members. Moretto eventually became the group’s vice-president in 1970, and served in that role until her death in 1978. Due to these compositions and experiments, Moretto became known as an innovator of electronic music in South America. Death Moretto died in Buenos Aires on 24

Nelly Uchendu

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Nelly Uzonna Edith Uchendu, MON (1950 12 April 2005), was a Nigerian singer, composer and actress. Revered for modernising traditional Igbo folk music, Uchendu rose to prominence upon the release of her 1976 song “Love Nwantinti” which earned her the “Lady with the Golden Voice” sobriquet. She released 6 LP recordings during her career. Life and career She was born in 1950 in Osete, Umuchu, Anambra State, Eastern Nigeria. Uchendu started singing at an early age. She later joined Professor Sonny Oti’s music group under which she flourished using her vocals. In 1976, her music career shot to limelight following the release of the Homzy Sounds-produced classic titled “Love Nwantiti” off her debut LP composition Love Nwantiti; before she went on to release “Waka”, “Aka Bu Eze” and “Mama Hausa” which further established her in the Nigeria music industry. Her career saw her record in several genres of music including Igbo highlife, pop and gospel music. Uchendu’s career also saw her perform outside Nigeria, most notably performing in London, England alongside Sir Warrior and his Oriental Brothers during the 1980s. Acting In 1986, Uchendu guest-starred as Ikemefuna’s mother in NTA Network

Nelly Vuksic

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Nelly Vuksic (born August 19, 1938) is an Argentinian conductor and singer. She has worked with a variety of groups in several styles, and has released albums with Americas Vocal Ensemble. Outside of performing and conducting, she has also taught music at several establishments such as the Bloomingdale School of Music, Friends Seminary and Columbia University. Early life Nelly Perez Trevisan de Vuksic was born in Totoras, Santa Fe, Argentina, on August 19, 1938, to Emilio and Lydia Perez. Her family was well known in the town, as her grandmother was the first school teacher and her grandfather had owned the largest general store in the town. Her family were not well off, as while her father continued to run the store, it was no longer as profitable as it once was. Until Vuksic was eight, she studied in her grandmother’s private school, only then moving into the public school system. Her family enjoyed music, and she would sing with them as well as at the Catholic Church she attended. At the Church, she was trained by the nuns how to harmonise in a group as well as singing in a Gregorian chant. She also learned how to play the piano as a child, and performed in concerts at the El Ci

Neneco Norton

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Neneco Norton (born Elio Ramon González; December 8, 1923 – March 9, 2013) was a Paraguayan musician, composer and orchestra director. Early life and career Norton was born on December 8, 1923, in Asunción, Paraguay. His parents were Apolonio Benitez and Hermelinda González. Neneco got his start in music when he played trumpet in the battalion band of the Rojas Silva battalion of Salesianito, a private school in Asunción. His lessons in elementary music theory were taken with Ernesto Pérez Acosta. He learned theory and higher sight-reading with maestro Jose de Jesus Villalba, and then studied harmony with Professor Otakar Platill. While in the Rojas Silva battalion, he formed a musical group. Its members included Luis Meza Osmer, Rubito Medina on guitar, Benjamin Cabañas on clarinet, and a singer who later would be famous: Luis Alberto del Paraná. Norton was awarded the title of senior professor of theory and music theory at the Jorge Baez Conservatory. He formed his own orchestra, Los Caballeros del Ritmo, a remarkable grouping comprising Rudy Heyn, Chon Duarte, Paco Gomez, Victorio Ortiz and Nelson Mendoza. The band went on tour throughout Paraguay, as well as to cities in Argent

Nerida Tyson-Chew

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Nerida Tyson-Chew (born 1965) is an Australian music composer, conductor and orchestrator, principally working in screen music. She won her first Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) Award, in 1996, for her work on Hotel Sorrento (1995) and Brilliant Lies (1996). With Hotel Sorrento she was also nominated for an AFI Award for Best Original Music Score in 1995. In 2003 she won the Screen Music Award, co-presented by AGSC with APRA AMCOS, category Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie for Evil Never Dies ; in 2007 she won Best Music for a Television Series or Serial for Two Twisted, episode “Delivery Man” (2006) and she won Best Music for a Documentary for Trishna & Krishna: The Quest for Separate Lives (2009) in 2010. At the APRA Music Awards of 2020 she was acknowledged for her Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen. Biography Nerida Tyson-Chew was born in 1965. She was raised in Sydney where she attended the State Conservatorium of Music, then University of Sydney for a Bachelor of Music with honours in composition. When composing she uses “4 Ps : Pencil, Paper, Piano and Performer.” She began her career as an orchestrator for Australian composer Bruce Rowland.

Netta Aloni

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Netta Aloni (; born 1945) is a contemporary Israeli composer who composes for vocal and instrumental ensembles. He has written chamber, choral and instrumental works for both solo and group performers. Formal education Aloni studied musical composition with the Israeli composer Andre Hajdu, and continued his studies with Reuven Sarrousy, Betty Oliviero and Gideon Levinson, also Israeli composers. He took supplementary courses in composition during 2005-2007 at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Performances and awards Aloni’s work is performed in Israel and abroad. His compositions were recorded by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority and were broadcast over the radio, on the Voice of Music station in Israel, which is devoted to broadcasting both classic and contemporary classical music by foreign and Israeli composers. His work I Have Told Myself Completely was chosen to represent the Israel Broadcasting Authority in the International Rostrum of Composers.He is one of six recipients of the 2013 Composition by Classical Composers Award sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sport and given by the Israeli Prime Minister. http://mcs.gov.il/Culture/Professional_Information/Announcements

Netty Simons

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Netty Simons (née Rothenberg) (26 October 1913-1 April 1994) was an American pianist, music editor, music educator and composer. Biography Netty Simons was born in New York City and studied music at Third Street Music School. She graduated from New York University where she studied with Marion Bauer and Percy Grainger from 1931 to 1937, and taught at the Third Street Music School from 1928 to 1933. In 1933 she began studies with Alexander Siloti at the Juilliard School of Music, and in 1938 with composer Stefan Wolpe. From 1961 to 1962 she was producer and coordinator of concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She received a Recording Publication Award from the Ford Foundation in 1971. Her papers are archived at the New York Public Library Selected works *Songs for Wendy for voice and viola (c.1975) *Quartet *Quartet for Strings *Quintet *Night Sounds for piano *Windfall *Illuminations *Piano Work 1952 *2 Dot for 2 Pianos *Trialogue I: The Tombstone Told When She Died for alto, baritone and viola (1963); words by Dylan Thomas *Trialogue II: Myselves Grieve for alto, baritone and viola (1969); words by Dylan Thomas *Trialogue III: Now (Now, Say Nay) for mezzo-soprano, baritone a

Nevel Gracias

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Nevel Lourdes Sacramento Gracias (11 February 1964 – 13 May 2022) was an Indian Catholic priest, playwright, actor, singer, composer, director, and literary editor who primarily worked on the Konkani stage, best known for his lenten tiatrs. He was regarded as a one-man show and served in the general council of the Tiatr Academy of Goa. Career Priesthood Gracias was described as a diligent altar server who aspired to be a priest. He joined at Rachol Seminary in June 1984. Through his years at the seminary his love for tiatrs and volleyball persisted. He was ordained as a priest on 30 April 1991 at St Francis Xavier’s Church in Velim by then, Archbishop Emeritus Raul Nicolau Gonçalves. He served as an assistant to parish priest at the parishes of Taleigao and Piedade in Divar. In 2006, Gracias was appointed as the parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Utorda but within a year, he was summoned back due to his health issues. In 2007, he was promoted to Assistant director of Lar de Santa Terezinha, two years later in 2009 he was appointed as an Assistant director of the Diocesan Catechetical Center and then later as a Director of Lay apostolate, where he was an editor for religio