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Shafiga Akhundova

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Shafiga Akhundova (; 21 January 1924 – 26 July 2013) was a prominent Azerbaijani composer, the first professional female author of an opera in the East and People’s Artist of Azerbaijan. Akhundova was born into a family of an eminent cultural figure Gulam Akhundov in Shaki in 1924. Gulam Bagir oglu Akhundov, who was a public servant and intellectual of his time, worked as the first secretary of Shaki between 1917 and 1920, while her mother was a housewife. In 1943–1944, Shafiga received her primary education at Baku Musical School named after Asaf Zeynally, where she was taught by Uzeyir Hajibeyov. Then, in 1956, she continued her education at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov, where she graduated from the class of B. Zeydman. In 1998, Shafiga Akhundova was conferred a title of People’s Artist of Azerbaijan and in 2004 she was awarded the Shohrat Order. Creative works In 1972, Shafiga Akhundova composed her first opera “Galin gayasi” (Bride’s rock) So that she became the first woman in East history who composed an opera. She also composed such works as “Ev bizim, sirr bizim” operetta (1965), 600 songs such as “Leyla”, “Bəxtiyar ellər”, “Victory Anthem”, “V

Shahab Paranj

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Dr. Shahab Paranj (Persian شهاب پارنج) (born April 17, 1983, Tehran) is an Iranian-American composer and instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. He is considered one of the pioneers among his generation of composers whose composition style integrates Persian and Western composition techniques. Known as a tombak virtuoso, he has performed, recorded and collaborated with some of the most celebrated artists worldwid! Paranj is a founder and artistic director of “Du Vert à L’infini” a contemporary music festival in the Franche-Comte region of France. He currently serves as a faculty member at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Education Paranj received his first BM in cello performance from the Tehran School of Music and a second Bachelor’s degree in classical composition from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a Master’s degree from Manhattan School of Music and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the tutelage of David Garner, Richard Danielpour, Ian Krouse and David Lefkowitz. Career Acclaimed by The San Francisco Examiner as “impressive”, and by John Adams as “unique”, Paranj blends Persian rhythmic and melodic influences with Western texture and form. R

Shakhida Shaimardanova

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Shakhida Shaimardanova (11 November 1938 – 17 February 2020) was an Uzbek composer who is best known for her Symphony in C Major. Shaimardanova was born in Tashkent, where she studied music at the Tashkent Conservatory from 1957 to 1964. She uses themes from Uyghur folk music in her compositions. Her Symphony in C Major was recorded by the Uzbek State Philharmonic directed by Zakhid Khaknazarov on Molodiva D 076785/86. Shaimardanova died on 17 February 2020, at the age of 81. Works Shaimardanova’s compositions include: Orchestra *Sinfonietta *Violin Concerto Vocal *Songs References

Shalom Hanoch

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Shalom Hanoch (; born 1 September 1946) is an Israeli rock singer, lyricist and composer. He is considered one of the founders of Israeli rock and modern Israeli music in general, both of which have been profoundly influenced by his work. His collaboration with Arik Einstein produced some of the first Israeli rock albums. He is often referred to as “The King of Israeli Rock”. Biography Shalom Hanoch was born in Kibbutz Mishmarot in 1946, roughly 16 months before the establishment of the state of Israel. His musical talent as a child was recognised in the kibbutz, where he began to play, sing, and compose his first songs. Before discovering rock music, he was exposed to a wide variety of genres (from Classical, through Russian folk music, Gospel, to Blues). Musical career Hanoch began writing and composing music after getting his first jazz guitar from his dad when he was around 12 years old. By 14, he had completed his first song, Laila (Night). He continued writing lyrics and music with another member of the Kibbutz, singer-songwriter Meir Ariel. Hanoch and Ariel joined the Kibbutz’s band, HaMishmaron in their teens. Songs from that time include classics such as Agadat Deshe (Gras

Shambhu Das

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Shambhu Das (born 1934) is an Indian classical musician and educator. He is best known for his long association with Ravi Shankar, on whose behalf Das has acted as an ambassador for Indian music in Canada since the early 1970s, and his friendship with George Harrison of the Beatles, whom Das helped teach sitar in 1966. His assistance in Harrison’s immersion in Indian culture helped inspire the Beatles’ career direction and, due to the band’s popularity and influence, the direction of the 1960s counterculture. In 1970, Das established the Indian Music Department at Toronto’s York University, where he taught for four years. Das recruited the Indian musicians and played sitar on Harrison’s 1968 solo album Wonderwall Music, which was partly recorded in Bombay. He occasionally accompanied Shankar at his concerts and has performed himself throughout North America, Europe and India. From the 1990s, Das’s work has increasingly drawn on the connection between music and meditation as a means of physical and spiritual healing. In the early 2000s, he formed the Indo jazz ensemble Shanti. A 24-hour sitar recital he gave in Toronto in October 2004, undertaken as a benefit for those affected by f

Shamir Tandon

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Shamir Tandon is an Indian music composer and director who works in Indian cinema. He made his debut as a Music Director with Raveena Tandon’s ‘Stumped’ in 2003. He is known for the movies like Page 3, Traffic Signal, Inkaar, Bal Ganesh, Mission Istaanbul and Corporate. He has made singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Jagjit Singh and Manna Dey sing to his tunes. He is also the founding managing director at ‘Music Boutique’ He has created an anti-piracy song titled ‘Salaami ho jaye’ to spread awareness about intellectual property rights which was released on the occasion of World Intellectual Day. Early life Shamir Tandon was born into a middle-class Hindu family located in Mumbai, Maharashtra and lost his parents early in life. He completed his cost accountancy and MBA and then entered the corporate world where he last worked for EMI Virgin Group. Career Shamir Tandon with an MBA in Cost Accounting from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies started his career as a merchant banker with firms like Kotak Mahindra and then Birla Global which was then followed by a couple of years at Plus Channel. He then joined Virgin EMI, as a marketing manager where he played a key rol

Sharif lotfi

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Sharif Lotfi (Persian: شریف لطفی, born 16 May 1950) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor and music pedagogue. He is the founder of the Faculty of Music at Tehran University of Arts and has served as one of its professors and the dean until 2010. Biography Sharif Lotfi was born on 16 May 1950 in the city of Rasht. He left for Tehran at the age of ten due to a change in his father’s job. At the age of twelve, he entered the Tehran Conservatory of Music with the encouragement of his father, who was a student of Abolhassan Saba, and studied the horn as a specialized instrument under Morteza Hananeh. and after that, he founded and led the Tehran University Symphony Orchestra. He was the conductor of the Bahman Cultural Center Symphony Orchestra, the re-registration and re-establishment of the Iranian Philharmonic Association, the establishment of the Gilan University Music Ensemble, and the conductor of the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra after the 1957 Revolution. Sharif Lotfi, the founder, a member of the faculty and one of the professors of the Faculty of Music of Tehran University of Arts, was the dean of the Faculty of Music of the University of Arts until the end of 2010. The

Sharon Elery Rogers

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Sharon Elery Rogers (4 March 19293 May 2022) was an American composer, music educator, and organist who published over 550 compositions of sacred music. Rogers was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, to Lea and Leo Elery. She married Walter Rogers and they had one daughter. Rogers belonged to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the Cecilian Music Society, the National Federation of Music Clubs and Sigma Alpha Iota. She received 46 special awards from ASCAP; first prize in the 1993 American Guild of English Handbell Ringers composer’s contest; an Honorary Alumni Achievement Award from Hillsdale College; and an Honorary Life Membership in the American Guild of Organists (Detroit chapter). In 1999, the Jeffers Handbell Supply Publishing Company named her Composer of the Year. Rogers’ sacred music for brass, choir, handbells, organ and piano has been widely published by Alfred Music, Bourne Company Music Publishers, Chorister’s Guild Publishers, Flammer-Shawnee (today the Hal Leonard Corporation), Hope Publishing Company, Lorenz Publishing Company (today the Lorenz Corporation) and Sacred Music Press. References External links *Listen to music by Sharon Ele

Sharon Knight (musician)

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Sharon Knight is a San Francisco-based neopagan composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist known for writing, recording, and performing Celtic fusion music she calls Neofolk Romantique. She also records and performs harder edged music with Middle Eastern themes as the front-person of the pagan rock /folk metal group Pandemonaeon. Knight is the co-owner of Trance Jam Records. Biography Sharon Elizabeth Knight was born on January 8, 1966, and raised in Redwood City, California. She studied in the Feri tradition of witchcraft with Gabriel Carrillo. Knight has also studied Thelema and Tibetan Buddhism. In 1994, she married the German musician Winter, who has been her musical collaborator since. Career Knight’s debut album, Incantation, was released in 1996, followed by the self-titled Pandemonaeon debut (2001), Temple of Dreams-Live! (2003), and her second solo album, Song of the Sea (2004), featuring two duets with Shay Black of the Black Family. Two of Knight’s songs from Song of the Sea, “May Morning Dew” and “Song of the Sea”, also appear on Sequoia Records’ Celtic Lounge I (2006) and Celtic Lounge II (2007). The latter contains a music video for “Song of the Sea. Knight collabora

Sharon Ruchman

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Sharon Ruchman (born 1949) is an American classical music composer and musician. Ruchman’s works have been performed on Connecticut Style on WTNH, channel 8 in Connecticut, at the National Composers Association in San Francisco, the Hartford Women Composers Festival, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut, and Pomperaug Woods in Southbury, Connecticut. Early life Ruchman was born in New York. Her great uncle was violinist Rudolph Fuchs, who in the 1920s debuted in Steinway Hall, played for President Calvin Coolidge and was a concertmaster on KMTR in Los Angeles. Ruchman began her musical career at age 5, composing tunes as she played piano. She began taking piano lessons at age 8. Throughout her childhood, Ruchman studied voice, dance and cello. One of her teachers was Juilliard School of Music’s Rosetta Goodkind. In high school, Ruchman developed her voice and performed in high school recitals and plays. By her junior year, she was chosen to sing with the All-County Chorus in Nassau County, All-State Chorus in New York and the All-Eastern Chorus, performed in Boston. Education She studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and was both singer and pianist

Shaul Berezovsky

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Shaul Berezovsky (, , , 1908–1975) was a Polish and Israeli composer, pianist, and music director. He composed music for productions by many of the leading figures of the Polish Yiddish Theatre of the interwar and postwar period, including Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher, Moishe Broderzon, and Ida Kamińska. He was also well known as a choir director and arranger. Biography Early life Berezovsky was born in Grodno, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire (today located in Belarus) on 5 June 1908. However, when his mother fell ill, he returned to Grodno and became a pianist in a silent film theatre for a time. As the war approached, Shaul was drafted into the Polish army, being stationed in the 42nd infantry based in Białystok. During that time he organized an army string ensemble, and was also permitted leave at night to supplement his income by playing in ensembles in cafes. The troupe managed to stage two full shows in 1940: (Singing and Dancing) and (Raisins and Almonds). He died on 2 April 1975 in Tel Aviv. A number of his compositions are still performed today. These include (under the ruins of Poland, an adaptation of an Itzik Manger poem), (I am tired, also a Manger poem), (ada

Shaun Davey

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Shaun Davey (born 18 January 1948) is an Irish composer. Early years Shaun Davey was born in Belfast in 1948 and attended Rockport School in County Down. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in the history of Art in 1971. He then took a master’s degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In the late 1970s, he made his first recording, Davey and Morris, with James Morris, and guest artist Dónal Lunny, produced by Tony Hooper of The Strawbs. He worked as a composer of advertising jingles, including “The Pride of the Herd” for the National Dairy Council, 7up, Bank of Ireland and many more. Orchestral music relating to Ireland Davey’s reputation is built on four large-scale concert works based on Irish history, all using uilleann pipes and folk tunes. #The Brendan Voyage (1980) depicts the journey taken by explorer Tim Severin, in 1978, from Ireland across the Atlantic to Newfoundland in a leather currach. Severin’s journey was a recreation of the one allegedly made by Saint Brendan. The style is similar to that of film composer John Williams. The work uses the traditional uilleann pipes to represent the small currach, while the rest of the orchestra represents the condit

Shawn Okpebholo

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Shawn E. Okpebholo is a Nigerian American composer of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Shawn Okpebholo was born on March 28, 1981, and was raised by a single mother in the projects of Lexington, Kentucky. He grew up in the Salvation Army church, where he received free music lessons from a young age. His first instrument was the baritone horn, which he played in the Salvation Army brass band. As a teenager, he began composition lessons with James Curnow, a fellow church member and music professor at Asbury University. These experiences have been cited as Okpebholo’s inspiration for his desire to spread music to places that are underserved. Okpebholo obtained a bachelor’s degree in music composition from Asbury University. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in composition from the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) at the University of Cincinnati. Career Okpebholo’s music has been commissioned by organizations including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the United States Air Force Strings, Imani Winds, WindSync, Urban Arias, Sparks & Wiry Cries, and the Copland House Ensemble, as well as Tanglewood, Aspen, and Newport Classical music festivals. His art s

Shawn Patterson (composer)

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Shawn Michael Patterson (born September 14, 1965) is an American composer and songwriter. He is known for writing the song “Everything Is Awesome” for the Warner Bros. feature film The Lego Movie (2014). Early life Shawn Patterson was born in Athol, Massachusetts, to working-class parents Ronald and Joan Patterson. Career In 1986, Patterson left for Los Angeles to attend the Grove School of Music. In 1988, Patterson accepted a scholarship to attend the Jazz in the July program of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Patterson studied and performed with Dr. Billy Taylor and Max Roach. In 1991 in Los Angeles, Patterson wrote a song for the animated television show, Alvin and the Chipmunks. The song was a rap song titled “Rock the House”. He began writing for trailer houses, as well as making music for international advertisement campaigns such as The Fisher King, My Girl, Alien 3, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and several others. Patterson joined The Ren & Stimpy Show in various roles. He was asked to write original songs and bits of score for the show. When The Ren & Stimpy Show ended, Patterson worked as a freelance composer and songwriter. Billy West handed Patterson’s demo

Shaydee

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Shadrach Adeboye Folarin (born September 21, 1987), professionally referred to as Shaydee, is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and vocalist. In 2015, Shaydee was listed on notJustOk’s list of “15 Artists to Watch in 2015”. He is best known for his hit single titled “Won Gbo Mi”, featuring vocal appearance from Wizkid. Early life and education Born in the ancient city of Kano, Kano State, Northern Nigeria, Shaydee is the second child of four children. Career Upon his movement from Kano to Lagos, Shaydee started singing with a friend while in secondary school. On June 11, 2012, Shaydee signed a recording deal with Empire Mates Entertainment, a move that helped launch his career further. He is often credited to have featured and written some songs off EME’s compilation album titled Empire Mates State of Mind which was released in 2012. Shaydee has since worked with Ice Prince, Seyi Shay, Skales, Cynthia Morgan, Legendury Beatz among others. On November 16, 2013, Shaydee collaborated with Wizkid to release a Legendury Beatz-produced freestyle titled “Won Gbo Mi”. “Won Gbo Mi” topped local music charts in the country and was widely received among music fans and critics. The video of the son

Sheida Gharachedaghi

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Sheida Gharachedaghi () is a Persian-Canadian composer and music educator, based in Montreal. Life and career Born in Tehran in 1941, Sheida Gharachedaghi studied at the Vienna Music Academy in Austria and in 1971 established the Music Department at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran. Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran Gharachedaghi moved to Germany and later settled in Canada. The Fairies In 1989 Sheida Gharachedaghi wrote an opera based on the English translation of Ahmad Shamlu’s The Fairies. The opera premiered at Metropolitan Convention Centre in Toronto in 1989. The CD of 1989 - live performance of this opera released in Europe in July 2020, on the 20th anniversary of Shamlu’s death. The opera had not been published in Iran due to the ban of solo-women singing. The Fairies is the first Persian (Iranian) opera with an English libretto. The British journal Opera cited it as a “distinctly pre-modernist piece…” which “has so little to do with the tradition of Persian music.” Selected compositions Instrumental * In Memory of Forough Farrokhzad (for piano solo) * Duo (for flute and piano) * Chahargah (for clarinet

Sheila Nelson

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Sheila Mary Nelson (5 March 1936 – 16 November 2020) was an English musician, music educator, writer and composer. She had played with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Menuhin Festival Orchestra but was best known as a violin and viola teacher. She is usually referred to as Sheila Nelson but appears in her published works as Sheila M. Nelson. Biography Nelson studied at the Royal College of Music and had a B.Mus degree from London University. She also studied at the University of Birmingham and in Denmark. In 1976 she went to the United States on a Churchill Fellowship to study with the eminent string pedagogue Paul Rolland, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The Tower Hamlets Project taught strings and piano to whole school classes in a deprived area of London, and was featured in a six-part TV documentary series, Beginners Please. She was an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM), a distinction limited to 300 musicians. Nelson died aged 84 on 16 November 2020 having lived with Alzheimer’s disease in her final years. Publications Nelson was a prolific writer and composer. Selected works include: * Christmas Tunes for str

Sheila Silver

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Sheila Jane Silver (born October 3, 1946) is an American composer. Early life and studies Sheila Silver was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946, the youngest daughter of Robert and Fannie Silver. She started piano studies at the age of five. After two years at the University of Washington, she transferred to the University of California where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1968. She then studied with Erhard Karkoschka at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, and with György Ligeti in Berlin and later in Hamburg. She attended the 1970 Darmstadt Summer Institute, and spent a summer at the Tanglewood Music Center (1972) where she studied with Jacob Druckman. At Brandeis University she studied with Arthur Berger and Harold Shapero, earning her PhD in 1976. Silver is Professor Emerita at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and served as visiting professor at the College of William and Mary. Career Silver has merged tonal and atonal elements in works starting with her 1979 Canto, A Setting of Ezra Pound’s Canto XXXIX, for baritone and chamber ensemble (commissioned by the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood). Richard Dyer wrote in the Boston Globe

Shelly Knotts

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Shelly Knotts is a composer, performer and improvisor of live electronic, live coded and network music based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She performs internationally, often using Live coding techniques, and a range of styles including Noise, Drone and Algorave. She often collaborates on performance, including a PRS for Music commission with Annie Mahtani, an audio/visual collaboration Sisesta Pealkiri with Alo Allik, uiaesk! with Holger Ballweg, Algobabez with Joanne Armitage, and as part of the Birmingham Laptop Ensemble. Her work often has a political dimension, using network music to explore social structures, and live coding to explore failure as an alternative to virtuosity, as well as exploring and encouraging diversity through workshops and hackathons. Knotts has also engaged with computer science in schools, through a Sonic Pi commission and BBC Live lesson. Knotts is also active in event curation, including organising several Algorave events in Newcastle, three editions of the international Network Music Festival, chairing the Live Coding and Collaboration symposium in 2014, and chairing the artistic programme of the International Conference on Live coding in 2015. Sh

Shena Fraser

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Shena Eleanor Fraser (26 May 1910 – 1993) was a Scottish pianist and composer who also used the pseudonym Sebastian Scott. She was born in Stirling, Scotland, and studied piano performance with Henry Wilson, and composition with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music in London. Her debut piano recital was held at the Grotrian Hall, London, in 1934. Fraser had a lifelong interest in choral music for women and the teaching of amateur and younger musicians. She was also Music Adviser to the National Federation of Women’s Institutes for four years and served on Kent Music Committee for many years. Over 100 of her pieces for women’s voices, and educational pieces for piano were published. She founded the Faversham Subscription Concerts Society to assist young performers, and (with piano teacher Yvonne Enoch) set up Fraser-Enoch Publications to publish works by young unknown composers. She had three sons, one daughter and fourteen grandchildren. After marriage Fraser taught piano privately and held a weekly Aural Training class for children aged six to eight. *Prelude and Scherzino for oboe and piano (1954) * Five Pairs, for violin and piano (1959) *Hornpipe and Jig for two pianos

Sheree Clement

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Sheree J. Clement (born 8 December 1955, Baltimore) is an American composer. She was President of the League of Composers. She graduated from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. Clement was a Guggenheim fellow, and a MacDowell fellow. About She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She moved to New York and completed a DMA in Music Composition at Columbia University. She remained there to revamp their music community. Clement is known for composing contemporary classical works. Clement started her compositional career by composing smaller chamber ensembles, focusing on motivic material. One of her more famous works from this time is Chamber Concerto. This work was written for seventeen players, which can be found at Albany Records. Works * Belladonna Dreams (1979): * Chamber Concerto (1982): for Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Horn, Trumpet, Trombone, Tuba, 2 Percussion, Piano, Single Strings * Variations / Obsessions (1985) * Avian Moments (2015): for Piccolo, C Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Flute * Voices (2023) * Sacred and Profane (2024) * Swimming Upstream * Table Manners Awards * Guggenheim Fellowship * Goddard Leiberson Award * Fellowships at the Tanglewood Fes

Sherri Chung

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Sherri Chung is an American film and television composer, pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. She has composed scores for television series including Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Based on a True Story, and Found, as well as films like Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase , Divorce In The Black and The Lost Husband which was nominated for Outstanding Original Score for an Independent Film at the Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards. In 2022, she became the first female elected as governor of the Music Branch Peer Group of the Television Academy. Chung’s composition for the documentary The Other Side of Home was shortlisted for Best Short Documentary at the 2017 Oscars. In 2024, she was nominated for the International Film Music Critics Association Award (IFMCA) Breakthrough Composer of the Year. Early life and education Sherri Chung developed an interest in music during childhood and trained as a classical pianist. While in middle school, she became interested in composition after hearing Michael Kamen’s score for the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. She graduated from Jacksonville University in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in music composition and theory. After gradua

Shigeaki Saegusa

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Shigeaki Saegusa (, formerly ; Saegusa Shigeaki; born July 8, 1942) is a Japanese composer. Career Saegusa is best known for Chushingura, his opera version of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chūshingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002. His newest opera, Jr. Butterfly is a sequel to Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. He has also written the background music for anime, the foremost of which being Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Other anime he has written for are Astro Boy (1980), Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack, Catnapped! The Movie, and Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve. Works Opera *1997 Chushingura *2004 Jr. Butterfly Oratorio *1989 Yamato Takeru Orchestral works *1971 Piano Concerto *1983 The Symphony *1985 Symfonic Suite Z Gundam *1989 Orchestra ‘89 Chamber/Instrumental works *1963 Bläserquintet (Wind Quintet) *1965 Novelette for string quartet *1977 Memory for narrator, string quartet and tape *1981 Radiation Mass for 4 synthesizers, vocorder and percussion *1983 Sho ‘83 for sho, percussion and keyboard *19

Shigeomi Hasumi

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(7 December 1967 – 18 June 2017) was a Japanese composer, arranger and musician. He also used the alias Glenn Miyashiro. He graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Department of Mongolian Studies. He was the grandson of Shigeyasu Hasumi, a historian of Japanese art. His father, Shigehiko Hasumi, a French literature scholar, literary and film critic, was a professor at the University of Tokyo and the 26th President (1997-2001). His mother was Chantal Van Melkebeke, a French-speaking Belgian. Life and work He was born on 7 December 1967 in Tokyo, Japan, to a Japanese father, Shigehiko Hasumi, and a Belgian mother, Chantal Van Melkebeke, whose native language was French. His father’s book Han Nihongo Ron (1977) describes an episode about Shigeomi’s life, who grew up to be bilingual when he was a child. In 1970, the French Broadcasting and Television Office interviewed him and his parents in French for 20 minutes. While in high school, he joined Keihin Kyodaisha, a musician group consisting of Yuichi Kishino, Midori Okamura, Hibiki Tokiwa, and Yu Yamaguchi. In 1995, he made his debut with the electronic light music unit PACIFIC 231 formed with Ta

Shih (composer)

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Shih (born 29 November 1950 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a naturalized Austrian composer. Shih has been living and working in Vienna since 1974. In Europe Shih forgoes his full Chinese name due to experience with incorrect writing and pronunciation. However, in Taiwan he is still known by his full name Shih Chieh (Chinese 施捷). Early life and education Shih was born on 29 November 1950 in Taipei, Taiwan. Shih studied composition and harp at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts, graduating in 1983. Career He has been living and working in Vienna since 1974 as a freelance composer, teacher, and artistic director of the Pacific Youth Orchestra Vienna, founded in 2002. He has been awarded special merits for regularly presenting contemporary Austrian music in China. His own works – chamber music, ballet, lied, orchestra works, opera and oratorio – have been performed in many European und Asian countries, as well as in the United States, and regularly appear both on TV and radio (ORF, ARD, MDR, RAI etc.). Shih’s international breakthrough came with his opera „Vatermord“ (“Death of a Father”), first performed in Dresden in 1994 and followed by performances at Leipzig Oper and in Nu

Shih Wei-Liang

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Shih Wei-Liang (September 3, 1926 – February 14, 1977) was a Taiwanese composer, ethnomusicologist and one of the most influential and representative figures in the modern history of Taiwanese music, who made outstanding contributions to Taiwanese National Music. He died of lung cancer in 1977 at the age of 50. Early life Shih Wei-Liang was born in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province. During the Sino-Japanese War, he participated in the underground anti-Japanese work of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s “Northeast China Party Affairs Commissioner” under the pseudonym “Shi-Li.” In his teens, Shih participated in underground intelligence work as a disguised printing factory worker and was later arrested and imprisoned. After graduation, Shih taught at numerous educational institutions, including Affiliated Primary School of Taipei Teachers College, Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University, Affiliated Taoyuan Agricultural and Industrial Senior High School of National Taipei University of Technology, National Keelung Senior High School, and National Taipei University of Education. Also during this period of time, he produced and hosted the broadcast program “Concert

Shih-Hui Chen

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Shih-Hui Chen (; born 1962) is a Taiwanese composer who lives and works in the United States. Biography Chen Shih-hui (陳士惠) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and came to the United States in 1982 to study for a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University and a doctoral degree from Boston University. After receiving her D.M.A. in music composition, Shih-Hui Chen took a position at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University where she is currently Professor of Music Composition and Theory. Chen also serves on Asia Society Texas Center’s Performing Arts & Culture Committee and is the director of 21C: Classical, Contemporary, and Cross-Cultural Music Festival at Rice University. Chen Shih-hui’s work has been performed widely throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Taiwan, China, Germany, and Italy. In 1999, she received an American Academy in Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000, and a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2007. In 2010, Chen received a Fulbright Fellowship to study traditional Chinese Music, Nanguan music, and music of Taiwanese Indigenous peoples. Work Musical style Chen Shih-hui composes for orchestra, chamber ensem

Shin Hye-sung

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Jung Pil-kyo (; born November 27, 1979) is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He is best known as a member of the South Korean boy group Shinhwa. The main vocalist of Shinhwa, he debuted as a solo artist in 2005 and has since released multiple albums in both Korean and Japanese. Biography 1998: Debut with Shinhwa Shin auditioned in America through Brothers Entertainment and joined Shinhwa after bandmates Andy and Eric. He officially debuted as part of Shinhwa on March 24, 1998, with a performance of their first single “해결사” (The Solver) on KM Music Tank. Since then, he has released thirteen Korean and one Japanese studio albums with Shinhwa. 2005: Solo career Shin debuted as a solo artist in 2005 with the release of his solo album entitled Love of May (오월지련, 五月之戀) in 2005. This album ranked number one on the HMV pre-order sales chart in Japan in February 2005, with 180,000 copies sold. Shin released his second album, entitled The Beginning, New Days on August 8, 2007. His song, “First Person”, was No. 1 on the K-pop Top 10 chart. His album sold 30,000 copies on its first day of release and 50,000 copies in a week. He has since released five Korean and two Japanese studio albums. In

Shin Mizutani

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is a Japanese contemporary music composer. He completed the Master’s Program in Music at the Graduate School of Music, Toho Gakuen School of Music. He studied under Richard Barrett and others, and pursued studies at the Codarts University for the Arts and the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 2018, Mizutani was awarded a prize at the International Composition Competition “Città di Udine”, with the result reported in the Italian newspaper Il Friuli. In 2022, Mizutani presented a portrait concert commemorating the Great East Japan Earthquake. The event was reviewed by musicologist Minoru Nishihara in the Japanese music magazine Ongaku Gendai. Publications His works are published by Donemus. Awards * 1st Prize, Solo and Ensemble Composition Category, 12th Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Città di Udine” (Italy) * 2nd Prize, 4th Sergey Slonimsky International Composition Competition (Russia) * 2nd Prize, Category A, International Competition for Young Musicians, Città di Barletta (Italy) * 1st Prize, Category B, International Competition for Young Musicians, Città di Barletta (Italy) * 3rd Prize, Category C, International Competition for Young Mus

Shinji Hosoe

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, also known as Megaten and Sampling Masters MEGA, is a Japanese video game composer and musician most famous for scoring Ridge Racer, Street Fighter EX and many Namco arcade games between 1987 and 1996. He also runs the music production and publishing company SuperSweep, alongside long time collaborator Ayako Saso. Biography Early life Hosoe was born on February 28, 1967, in Gero, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. His family moved to Chōfu while he was in first grade of elementary school. At the age of 8, he bought Isao Tomita’s electronic music album The Planets. He also listened to electronic music by artists such as Yellow Magic Orchestra and Jean-Michel Jarre. During his teenage years, he played bass in a Yellow Magic Orchestra tribute band. At the time, he did not have a serious interest in music and received low grades in music classes. After graduating high school, he studied computer graphics at Japan Electronics College. Namco (1985–1996) Hosoe joined Namco in 1985 as a part-time game tester and CG artist, creating music in his spare time as a hobby. After showing his music to fellow co-workers, he was assigned the position of a composer in 1986. This led to him composing for Drago

Shiori Usui

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Shiori Usui is a composer of contemporary classical music, improvising musician and music animateur based in Scotland. She is originally from Japan. Career Usui’s music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles around the world including BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Cottbus State Theatre Philharmonic Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, A Far Cry, Collegium Novum Zurich and Artisan Trio, and with conductors such as Ilan Volkov, Martyn Brabbins, Peter Rundel and Franck Ollu. In 2018, Usui’s composition “from scratch” was awarded the Scottish Awards for New Music for large ensemble and she was shortlisted for the Twenty Fifth Anniversary Awards by the Arts Foundation. In 2017, “from scratch” was performed by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Usui as a vocalist with conductor Ilan Volkov at Tectonics Glasgow festival. In 2016, Usui won a publishing deal with Ricordi Berlin. In 2015, Usui’s music “Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l.” was performed at the BBC Proms by BCMG and conductor Franck Ollu. In 2013 – 2014, Usui was awarded the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music composer-in-residence, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra Connect Fellow funded by BBC

Shirish Korde

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Shirish Korde (born June 18, 1945) is a Ugandan composer of Indian ancestry. He is the Chair of the Music Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has previously been on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music, the New England Conservatory, and Brown University. Korde studied jazz and composition at the Berklee College of Music, analysis and composition at the New England Conservatory, and ethnomusicology at Brown University. Works His works include: * Tenderness of Cranes, for solo flute, influenced by Japanese shakuhachi techniques * Time Grids, for amplified guitar and tape * Constellations, for saxophone quartet * Drowned Woman of the Sky, a song cycle based on poems by Pablo Neruda * Nesting Cranes (2006), for solo flute and strings, premiered by Jennifer Gunn and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot * Svara-Yantra (2005), a violin concerto premiered by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra with soloist Joanna Kurkowicz, who also played the American premiere *Songs of Ecstasy (2008) *Zikhr: Songs of Longing (2009) for soprano, flute, string trio, harp, tabla and percussion, premiered by the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of

Shirley Myers

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Shirley Myers is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Signed to Stony Plain Records in the 1990s, she released her debut album, Let It Rain, in 1997. The first single, the title track, reached the top five of the RPM Country Singles chart in Canada. Myers was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Country Female Vocalist in 1998. Discography Albums Singles Music videos Notes References External links *

Shirley Thompson (composer)

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Shirley Joy Thompson (born 7 January 1958) is an English composer, conductor, and violinist of Jamaican descent. Her output as a composer encompasses symphonies, ballets, operas, concertos, and other works for ensembles, as well as music for TV, film, and theatre. Her New Nation Rising, A 21st Century Symphony was composed in 2002 and debuted in 2004. Also an academic, she is currently Professor of Music at the University of Westminster. In the 2019 New Year Honours she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Music. Early years and education Shirley Thompson was born in London, UK, of Jamaican parents. Her early musical experience included playing the violin in various youth symphony orchestras in London, and choral singing with local choirs in Newham. She graduated in music from Liverpool University and in composition from Goldsmiths’ College after studying with Professor Stanley Glasser. Career After university, Thompson composed a body of solo and instrumental ensemble works for concert hall as well as working as a freelance composer of music for TV, films, and the theatre. to celebrate one thousand years of London’s history. Alongside A

Shirley Walker

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Shirley Anne Walker (née Rogers; April 10, 1945 – November 30, 2006) was an American film and television composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood during her career. Walker was one of the first female composers to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture (preceded by Suzanne Ciani for 1981’s The Incredible Shrinking Woman) and according to the Los Angeles Times, is remembered as a pioneer for women in the film industry. Walker often wrote her film scores entirely by hand, and always orchestrated and conducted her own scores herself. She won two Emmy Awards during her career, while the ASCAP Shirley Walker Award was created in her honor in 2014. Early life Walker (née Rogers) was born in Napa, California, on April 10, 1945. Her father was an industrial patternmaker for the U.S. Navy, and her mother gave piano lessons while raising five children. She grew up in Napa Valley and Contra Costa County. She attended Pleasant Hill High School. Walker was a musical prodigy. She had an early start performing as a teenager at various hotels, jazz and art bands in 1964-1967. Walker was also a piano soloist with the San Fr

Shirō Hamaguchi

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is a Japanese composer, arranger and orchestrator. He is best known for composing music to the anime franchises Girls und Panzer, One Piece, and Oh My Goddess! and arranging/orchestrating music in the Final Fantasy series. He frequently collaborates with fellow composers Kohei Tanaka and Akifumi Tada on anime scores. Biography Early life and career Born in Fukuoka, Japan, Shiro Hamaguchi graduated with a music degree from Tokyo University of the Arts, where he befriended fellow video game musician Masashi Hamauzu. After graduation, he was hired as a department project manager at Victor Entertainment from 1994 to 1996. In 1996, he joined the anime and video game music production company Imagine, where he worked alongside famed composers Hayato Matsuo, Kohei Tanaka, and Kow Otani. His debut role was the anime series Violinist of Hameln (1996), where he arranged Tanaka’s works. His music impressed Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, who chose Hamaguchi as the arranger for the Final Fantasy VII Reunion Tracks album. He provided orchestral renditions of “Aeris’s Theme”, “Main Theme of Final Fantasy VII”, and “One-Winged Angel”, which have become iconic through their use in various Fin

Sholom Secunda

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Sholom Secunda (, 4 September 1894, Alexandria, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire13 June 1974, New York) was an American composer of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, best known for the tunes of “Bei Mir Bistu Shein” and “Donna Donna”. Biography He was born in 1894 as Shloyme Abramovich Sekunda () in Aleksandria city, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) to the family of Abram Secunda and Anna Nedobeika. In 1897, the family moved to the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv, where they opened an iron bed factory. In 1919-1920, he earned his first solo composer’s credits with S. H. Kon’s The Rabbi’s Daughter and Free Slaves. He worked in Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House with director Boris Thomashevsky; in 1921-22 he was director and composer at Clara Young’s Liberty Theater. He composed for the musical Di Yidishe Shikse by Anshel Schorr (1927) and A nakht fun libe (A Night of Love) by Israel Rosenberg. An exhaustive list of his many works can be found in the Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater. Together with Aaron Zeitlin, he wrote the famous Yiddish song “Dos kelbl (The Calf)” (also known as “Donna Donna”) which was covered by many musicians, including Donovan and Joan Baez. Al

Shona Mooney

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Shona Mooney (born c. 1984) is a Scottish fiddle player and composer. Career Shona Mooney was the winner of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician competition in 2006. She has appeared at international festivals such as the Tønder Festival (Denmark), and toured with the Scottish Folk orchestra The Unusual Suspects. To date, she has recorded two albums, Heartsease and Sensing the Park. Heartsease (viola tricolour) was released on Footstompin’ Records in 2006. It combines the traditional Borders style with components of a contemporary style. It was chosen to be “Top of the World” (editor’s choice) in Songlines magazine and has received 5-star reviews in The Herald and multiple broadcasts on BBC’s Late Junction. Shona began playing in O’er the Border with her parents Barbara and Gordon Mooney, bowing a small fiddle bought for her in a junk shop in Peebles. During her childhood, moving between Newstead, Newtown, Westruther, Maxton, Eildon and Lauder in the Borders, she studied classical violin. She also studied traditional fiddle styles with violinist Lucy Cowan before joining the musical scene at Kelso High School. References External links *

Shoshana Riseman

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Shosh (Shoshana) Riseman (or Raizman, ; born 10 April 1948) is an Israeli music educator, stage director and composer. She studied composition and orchestration with Noam Sheriff, Leon Schidlowsky and Yosef Dorfman at Tel Aviv University in Israel, with Hans Heimler, at Guilford University in England, and Ralph Shapy, Chicago University in the USA. She also studied electroacoustic music with Sanday and voice with Mira Zakai and Hanna Hacohen at Tel Aviv University. Reisman is highly regarded for her extensive work composing music for dozens of theatre productions across Israel’s major stages. Her compositional work spans nearly every genre, from original plays and Israeli drama to classical and modern international works. She teaches theater arts at Tel Aviv University. Honors and awards *1969 - America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship *1986 - First prize for the music to “Hymn for David”, Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre *1987 - Special prize, Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre *2001 - Nominee for Israeli Theatre Award Works Riseman has composed music for about fifty plays. Selected works include: *1972 - The Good Soldier Svejk, operetta *1972 - Backgro

Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

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Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. is a landmark 1948 New York Supreme Court decision that was the first case in United States copyright law to recognize the theory of moral rights in authorship. The Shostakovich case was brought following the United States premiere of The Iron Curtain, a 1948 spy film and the first anti-Soviet Hollywood film of the Cold War era. The film featured the music of several Soviet composers: Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, and Nikolai Myaskovsky. The composers—as nominal plaintiffs standing in for the Soviet government, according to some scholars—sued the film’s distributor, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, in the New York Supreme Court, the state’s trial court. Conceding that their compositions were in the public domain under United States law, the composers sought an injunction prohibiting further distribution of the film. The composers relied on several legal theories, most notably that they had moral rights in authorship preventing the misuse of their works in a manner that contradicted their beliefs. The court rejected the composers’ arguments, holding that the standard for adjudicating moral rights was

Shuki Levy

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Shuki Levy (; born June 3, 1947) is an Israeli-American music composer and television producer. Levy created soundtrack compositions for children’s television programs of the 1980s, such as The Real Ghostbusters, Inspector Gadget, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, M.A.S.K., Dinosaucers, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. In the 1990s, he worked on the Power Rangers franchise, Digimon: Digital Monsters, Masked Rider, VR Troopers, and Big Bad Beetleborgs. He has also written and directed episodes for some these television shows, and directed a few films, such as Perfect Victims (1988) and Blind Vision (1991). He was also part of the musical duo Shuky & Aviva (alternatively Shuki & Aviva), with his partner Aviva Paz. Early life Levy was born in Jaffa, British Mandate of Palestine. His father was an Ashkenazi Jew originally from Russia, and his mother of Sephardi Jewish origin. His career began as a singer and music performer, playing in various clubs around Tel Aviv. He also appeared in the musical Hair. Career Shuky & Aviva During the 1970s, Levy performed in France and Germany with Aviva Paz as the duo “Shuki & Aviva”

Shulamit Ran

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Shulamit Ran (; born October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her the Pulitzer Prize for Music. She was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first being Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1983. Ran was a professor of music composition at the University of Chicago from 1973 to 2015. She has performed as a pianist in Israel, Europe and the U.S., and her compositional works have been performed worldwide by a wide array of orchestras and chamber groups. Biography Early life Born in Israel in 1949, Ran began composing songs to Hebrew poetry at the age of seven. By the age of nine, she was studying composition with some of Israel’s top composers, most notably Alexander Boskovich and Paul Ben-Haim. As a child, Jewish cantoral music played on the radio by her father had a huge impact on Ran. This is apparent in her opera Between Two Worlds – The Dybbuk. She was able to continue her composition studies into her adult years with scholarships from Mannes College of Music in New York and the American Israel Cultural Foundation.

Shunsuke Kikuchi

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was a Japanese composer who was active from the early 1960s until 2017. He specialized in incidental music for media such as television and film. Kikuchi was regarded as one of Japan’s most highly demanded film and TV composers, working principally on tokusatsu and anime productions, and also popular action films, jidaigeki, and television dramas. Early life and education Kikuchi was born on November 1, 1931 in the city of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. He graduated from Aomori Prefectural Hirosaki Technical High School, specializing in mechanics. Kikuchi then attended the Nihon University College of Art. Career After graduating from the Nihon University College of Art, he made his debut composing for the 1961 film . The Tō-Ō Nippō Press wrote that the contrast between the heroic opening theme and the melancholic ballad ending theme that Kikuchi composed for the 1969 Tiger Mask anime, “changed Japanese anime music.” The Tō-Ō Nippō Press also wrote that the success of the TV drama Abarenbō Shōgun, which aired for 800 episodes from 1978 to 2008, had people say; “If Shunsuke Kikuchi is in charge of the music, the show will be a hit.” Retirement and death Kikuchi ceased composing music

Shwe Pyi Aye

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Shwe Pyi Aye (; born Tin Maung Aye 13 February 1909 – 22 October 1977) was a Burmese musician and composer. Biography Shwe Pyi Aye was born in Yangon in Burma during British rule on 13 February 1909 to his father, the amateur pianist U Nu and his mother, Daw Hlaing. He was the fourth son of five siblings. At the age of five, he started learning the basics of rhythm from his uncle, a Burmese harp artist. At the age of 8 he was able to play and sing by himself. At the age of 10, he had mastered the violin. Growing up with violinists Nyein, U Ba Thwin, and Ko Ba Yee’s mastered the violin while still young. He became a violinist by the musical direction of violinist U Ba Latt and Ko Ba Yee. He became proficient in the piano under the musical direction of U Thar Din and became known as pianist Maung Aye in the 1930s. When the tape was first recorded at Columbia Records in 1932, the name “Shwe Pyi Aye” was assigned by Benjo Ko Nit and Ma Kyi Aung. The piano playing style of Shwe Pyi Aye became innovative. “When a film scene disappeared, the music disappeared.” As soon as the next film scene continued, the music changed suddenly. At the time no one was better than Shwe Pyi Aye in finding