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S Uciredor

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Rodericus was a French composer of the 14th century. Rodericus is known through a single ballade attributed to him in the Chantilly Codex as S. Uciredor, which is an anadrome of “Rodericus”. The piece, Angelorum Psalat, is in two voices and is an exemplary work of the Ars subtilior style, with many similarities to works of Jacob Senleches. Angelorum Psalat exhibits considerable rhythmic complexity and its text employs contrasting imagery of original sin and the harmony of the spheres, a common poetic device of the age. Nothing is known of Rodericus’s life, although Gilbert Reaney suggested that he is Rodrigo de la Guitarra, since Rodrigo is the only known contemporaneous musician with the same name. However, this Rodrigo appears in Toledo as late as 1458, which would have made him extraordinarily long-lived, even assuming he composed maturely from a young age. No other supporting evidence had arisen since Reaney’s conjecture. Crawford Young suggested in 2008 that Rodericus is the musician and clergyman Johannes Rogerii. Young argues that the author of Angelorum Psalat must have been an extremely well developed composer and musician. Rogerii is a plausible candidate, since his terms

Suchendra Prasad

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K. Suchendra Prasad (born 1 May 1972) is an Indian actor, director, and playwright known for his work in Kannada cinema, television, and theatre. He began his career in the 1990s. Over the years, he has worked across film, television, and stage, and has been involved in productions that have received national recognition. Early life and education Suchendra Prasad was born in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and has ancestral roots in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree and a Master of Arts (MA). He has been associated with the National School of Drama (NSD), where he worked as a tutor and later contributed to the Regional Resource Centre in Karnataka, focusing on stagecraft and folk traditions. Career Suchendra Prasad has appeared in Kannada cinema and television, including his role in Kanooru Heggadithi (1999), a film that received national recognition. He has also worked in a large number of television productions and has collaborated on various commercial and parallel cinema projects. His directorial projects include: Prapaatha (2010), Sangdhigdha, Ekacharam (2022), Maavu Bevu (2023), and Padmagandhi (2025). He has been associated with cultural and literary org

Suguru Goto

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is a Japanese composer and new media artist who lives in Paris. He performances using new technology such as projection mapping, Kinect, motion capture and robotics and programming which he invented himself. He integrates dances, sounds and images into the performance, highlighting boundaries between human and machine, reality and virtual. He was also a researcher and invited composer at IRCAM. He is currently professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Biography After he studied composition and piano in Japan, he moved to the United States to continue his studies at New England Conservatory in Boston. He preceded his post-graduate studies at Technische Universität Berlin and HDK in Berlin, Germany. Under Dieter Schnebel, professor of experimental music, Suguru Goto started his practices in mixing various representations : sound, dance and image. After having pursued his research in IRCAM and Paris University in France, he has been living in Paris for more than 20 years. In 2009, Suguru Goto was invited to Venice Biennale and His work “RoboticMusic” was played there. 1 In 2016, his first book “Emprise 2 ” was published in Tokyo. Suguru Goto explains the history and development of co

Sulkhan Tsintsadze

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Sulkhan Tevdores dze Tsintsadze (; ; August 23, 1925 – September 15, 1991) was a Georgian composer known for his chamber music and his film scores. Early life and education Tsintsadze was born in Gori, Georgia, in 1925. When he was seven years old, the family moved to Tbilisi, where his father, Fyodor, was appointed chief inspector of the Transcaucasus for sheep breeding. There, Tsintsadze began taking cello lessons with First Musical Gymnasium professor E. N. Kapelnitsky, though on the basis of his talent, he was soon transferred to the Tbilisi State Conservatory’s new department for gifted children to continue studies with Kapelnitsky. In 1937, Fyodor Tsintsadze was arrested as part of the Great Purge. In 1942, Tsintsadze began formal studies in the orchestra department of the Tbilisi State Conservatory with cellist Konstantin Minyar-Beloruchev, who died in January 1944. While enrolled at the conservatory, Tsintsadze also played in the GSSR State Symphony Orchestra. He was also the founding cellist of the original State String Quartet of Georgia, of which he was a member from 1944 to 1946. From 1945 to 1953, Tsintsadze attended the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he

Sulpitia Cesis

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Sulpitia Lodovica Cesis (15 May 1577 in Modena, Italy – ?), was an Italian composer as well as a well-regarded lutenist. Her father was Count Annibale Cesis and he gave 300 pieces of gold for her dowry when she entered the Augustinian convent in Modena in 1593. She was a nun at the convent of Saint Geminiano in Modena, although some sources report it as Saint Agostino. Her only known work is a volume of Motetti Spirituali, which she wrote in 1619. Aspects of Motetti Spirituali It is composed of 23 motets for 2–12 voices. Although most of the motets are written in Latin, four are written in Italian. Some scholars believe that the piece was composed earlier than 1619 because of its style. Unlike her contemporaries, her work contains indications for instruments such as cornetts, trombones, violones, and archviolones. Her 12-voice works are also especially different from the 2-3 voiced works popular in the 17th century Example of Sulpitia Cesis’s work “Mary Magdalena et altera Maria” This song was not intended as a congregational hymn and is an excerpt from Matthew 28:1-7 Translation: Mary Magdalene and the other Mary/ went to the palace of the sepulcher. It is Jesus whom you seek./ He

Sungji Hong

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Sungji Hong () (b. 1973) is a South Korean composer of contemporary music, based in the United States. Her work Missa Lumen de Lumine, a setting of the Roman-rite Catholic Mass ordinary for three voices, was written for Trio Mediæval in 2002. The trio recorded it in 2005. In a review for The Gramophone, Ivan Moody found it “rather a fragmentary affair”, though with “some dazzling moments”. Biography Sungji Hong received a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2022 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2024 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship. She has received commissions from the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago, the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, the National Flute Association, the Texas Flute Society, the MATA Festival, the Tongyeong International Music Festival, the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and Ensemble TIMF. She was the Manson Fellow of Composition at the Royal Academy and was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in London. She pursued her Ph.D. in composition at the University of York under the supervision of Nicola LeFanu, supp

Sunleif Rasmussen

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Sunleif Rasmussen (born March 19, 1961) is one of the foremost Faroese composers of classical music. Biography Rasmussen was born in Sandur in the Faroe Islands. He studied in Norway, then returned to Tórshavn in the Faroes as a music teacher and jazz pianist. From 1990 to 1995 he studied musical composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under Ib Nørholm and electronic music under Ivar Frounberg. In 1992 he received grants from the Leonie Sonning Foundation and the Danish Composer’s Society. He also became familiar with spectral music, which has its roots at the IRCAM in Paris, and the work of composers such as Tristan Murail. Rasmussen has produced a number of works combining electronic and acoustic instruments, some produced in co-operation with DIEM (the Danish Institute for Electro-Acoustic Music). In 1997, he was awarded a three-year grant from the Danish State Arts Foundation. In 2002, he won the Nordic Council Music Prize for his Symphony no. 1 - “Oceanic Days”, which, in the NOMUS committee description: “derives its inspiration from Faroese nature and from age-old Faroese hymns, from which Rasmussen has created a work of comprehensive dimensions. It rad

Suphi Ezgi

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Mehmet Suphi Ezgi (1869 – 12 April 1962) was an Ottoman-born Turkish military physician who specialized in neurology, and a musician, musicologist and composer. He is best known for his studies of Ottoman classical music. ,

Surendran Reddy

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Surendran Reddy (9 March 1962 – 22 January 2010) was a South African composer and pianist. After his studies at the Royal College of Music and King’s College in London he had a highly successful international career as a classical and jazz pianist. He invented his own new musical style called “clazz” in which he fuses classical, jazz, South African mbaqanga and other world music elements. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as solo instrumental and vocal works. Biography Surendran Reddy was born in Durban, South Africa, on 9 March 1962. He grew up in Zimbabwe where he started his musical career at an early age. He studied piano at the Rhodesian Academy of Music in Bulawayo and already did concert tours as a classical pianist at the age of 13. At 15 he won a scholarship which took him to the Royal College of Music in London where he studied from 1977 to 1981 with inter alia Bernard Roberts and Yonty Solomon (piano), George Malcolm (harpsichord), Virginia Pleasants (forte piano), Anthony Milner (Harmony and counterpoint). From 1981 to 1982 he studied musicology at King’s College, London University with inter ali

Susan Alexjander

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Susan Alexjander is an American sound artist, musical composer and teacher living and working in Portland, Oregon. Finding inspiration in the natural world and in science, she is fascinated by the vibrational frequencies of natural phenomena, ranging widely from the microscopic (elements, DNA) to the macroscopic (body rhythms, water, stars, time). She has created a microtonal system based on the frequencies of DNA, transforming natural vibrational patterns into sounds to create music. She has collaborated with both scientists and artists, and her compositions have been performed both nationally and internationally. Education Alexjander received a B.A. in English Literature, with teaching credentials, in 1966. She received a master’s degree in Theory and Composition from San Jose State University, California in 1982. Although her initial musical training was classical, she became interested in the gamelan and explored Indian classical music, studying and performing with Lou Harrison. Teaching Alexjander has taught at San Jose State and Goddard College and has been an adjunct faculty member of Union Institute in Sacramento, California. She also presents workshops on the physics and m

Susan Birkenhead

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Susan Birkenhead is an American lyricist. Birkenhead made her Broadway debut as one of a team of songwriters contributing to Working (1978), for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. Her second was earned for Jelly’s Last Jam (1992), which won her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics and a Grammy Award nomination. Additional Broadway credits include Triumph of Love (Drama Desk nomination) and additional lyrics for the Cole Porter tunes in the 1998 revival of High Society. Birkenhead’s Off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include What About Luv?, a musical adaptation of the Murray Schisgal play Luv, for which she won the Outer Critics Circle Award; Pieces of Eight with Jule Styne and Michael Stewart; Fanny Hackabout Jones with Erica Jong and Lucy Simon; The Night They Raided Minsky’s with Charles Strouse and Evan Hunter, the new musical Minsky’s based on the same; and, in collaboration with Henry Krieger, two potentially Broadway-bound projects based on hit films, The Flamingo Kid and Moonstruck (with a book by screenwriter John Patrick Shanley). Birkenhead is one of several lyricists who contributed to Hats!, a musical inspired by the Red Hat Society, whic

Susan Botti

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Susan Teresa Botti (born April 13, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, librettist, and soprano opera singer. Originally working in theater, she studied classical music at the Berklee College of Music and Manhattan School of Music, and she began a career in opera, with her work including Wonderglass (1993) and Telaio: Desdemona (1995). She has also performed as an opera singer for composer Tan Dun. Biography Susan Teresa Botti While in Boston, she studied jazz piano, percussion, and voice at Berklee, obtained her BM there in 1986, and was part of the Greek chorus in the American Repertory Theater production of Alcestis, directed by Robert Wilson. Botti has also collaborated with composer Tan Dun, particularly as a soprano performer. In a review of the 1997 New York City Opera performance of the Tan Dun opera Marco Polo, Justin Davidson of Newsday said that she “sang the role of Water with a voice that ran clear and sweet”. In 2001, she performed her own composition EchoTempo at Avery Fisher Hall; this was the first time a composition at a regular New York Philharmonic subscription concert featured its own composer as a vocalist. She was the 2003–2005 Danie

Susan DiBona

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Susan DiBona (born 18 February 1974) is an American-Italian film and television composer. On February 18, 1974, DiBona was born in New Haven, Connecticut and resided in Clinton, Connecticut. DiBona is fluent in eight languages. DiBona has performed in Europe. DiBona attended The Williams School. DiBona has studied at Barnard College and Columbia University. DiBona currently lives in Praia a Mare, Italy. References External links * Susan DiBona & Salvatore Sangiovanni Film Composers Italia * DiBona&Sangiovanni * DiBona&Sangiovanni - YouTube * Susan DiBona Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More * Susan Dibona Discography Discogs *

Susan Frykberg

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Susan Frykberg (10 October 1954 – 7 April 2023) was a New Zealand author, electroacoustic composer, and sound artist. She also composed acoustic music in a variety of genres. Life Susan Frykberg was born in Hastings, New Zealand, and studied at the University of Canterbury and the University of Otago, studying under, among others, John Rimmer, Barry Vercoe, Barry Conyngham, and Iannis Xenakis. She moved to Canada in 1979 and worked as a freelance composer in Toronto until a move to Vancouver in 1986, to complete a master’s degree at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax. She taught in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University for seven years. Frykberg was a long-time member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers, and helped to found both the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. She published a variety of papers on subjects related to electronic music, including computer music, and also wrote poetry. The Audio Birth Project The Audio Birth Project, a suite of four movements, was one of Frykberg’s most important projects. Funding was granted by the Canada Council, and revolved around concepts of giving birth and going int

Susan Hart Dyer

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Susan “Daisy” Hart Dyer ( – ) was an American composer, musician, poet, and music educator. Her best known work is the “Florida Night Song”, the second movement from her An Outlandish Suite for violin and piano. Life and career Susan Dyer was born on in Annapolis, Maryland, the daughter of US Navy Commodore George Leland Dyer and suffragist Susan Hart Palmer Dyer. Her schooling was frequently interrupted for trips abroad accompanying her parents to George Dyer’s various naval, diplomatic, and political posts. She kept a diary of her time in Madrid in 1897-1898 when her father was posted there as a naval attaché. When her father was Governor of Guam from 1904 to 1905, she worked in Guam as a school teacher. Dyer studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., from 1893 to 1895 and at the Art Students League of New York in 1896. However, music would be the focus of the rest of her education. The next year she began studying at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, under J. C. van Hulsteyn and Otis B. Bois. She graduated with a teaching certificate in violin in 1902. In 1909, Dyer began her long association with Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, w

Susan McFarland Parkhurst

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Susan McFarland Parkhurst (5 June 1836 – 4 May 1918) was an American writer and composer. Life Susan McFarland was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and composed popular songs and parlour piano solos during the 1860s. She was first recorded as an accompanist and soloist at a Methodist concert in New York City in 1860. She married E.A. Parkhurst and had a daughter, Effie. Her husband died in action in 1864 during the Civil War. She took a job at Waters’s Music Store where she met Stephen Foster and began to write songs, mostly on topical and religious themes. She and her daughter performed her song “Father’s a Drunkard and Mother is Dead” in concert and it became a standard at temperance meetings in New York. Parkhurst died in Brooklyn, New York. Stephen Foster’s New York publisher Horace Waters printed a Select Catalogue of Mrs. E.A. Parkhurst’s Compositions in 1864. She also provided songs for Horace Waters’ hymnals. Original prints of her songs are housed in the Music Division of the New York Public Library and her instrumental works are archived at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. Works Parkhurst was noted for songs on themes such as themes as temperan

Susan Morton Blaustein

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Susan Morton Blaustein (born 22 March 1953) is an American feminist, international development practitioner, professor, and philanthropist. She is the founder and Board Chair at WomenStrong International which invests in local women’s organizations worldwide, brings them together to learn and share, and amplifies their solutions to improve the lives of urban women and families and to advance progress toward gender equality. Blaustein, who also teaches at Columbia University, was previously a journalist and foreign policy analyst focused on international human rights issues, and a prizewinning American composer, with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Early life and education Susan Blaustein was born in Palo Alto, California, and was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Her grandfather, Jacob Blaustein, and great-grandfather, Louis Blaustein, developed the formula for a lead-free, “no-knock” gasoline in 1911 and founded the American Oil Company (AMOCO) to refine and market the product. Her grandfather also was a human rights leader who served as president of the American Jewish

Susan Spain-Dunk

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Susan Spain-Dunk FRAM (22 February 1880 Folkestone, England – 1 January 1962 London) was an English composer, conductor and violinist/violist. Life and career Susan was the third of four children (Ethel K Dunk b. 1876; John De Lanoy Dunk b. 1878; Susan Spain Dunk b. 1880; William Major b. 1882). Their father was a master plumber and house builder. Her second name, Spain, was added as the Dunk family were related to the Spain family. She studied violin and composition at The Royal Academy of Music, London with Alfred Gibson, Stewart Macpherson and Richard Walthew and later taught composition and harmony there. For a time she played the viola in a private quartet of Walter Cobbett. She also played (violin or viola) in the Winifred Small Quartet and Cobbett made suggestions for “Anthology” programmes for the quartet. She conducted some of her own works at the British Women’s Symphony Orchestra. She also conducted her own works at The London Promenade Concerts (1924-1927) and at Bournemouth, Folkestone, Eastbourne and Torquay. Susan Spain-Dunk also conducted work by other women composers, including Edith Swepstone’s tone poem, A Vision. and two grandchildren. In the mid-1930s she was l

Susanna Lindeborg

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Susanna Lindeborg (born April 18, 1952, in Halmstad) is a Swedish jazz pianist, flautist and composer, leader of the group Mwendo Dawa. She also was a member of female group the Jazz group Salamander. Career Susanna Lindeborg was born on April 18, 1952, in Halmstad Sweden. After taking classical piano lessons in the early 1970s, Lindeborg discovered jazz, which became an important source of inspiration for her. In 1974, she founded the quintet Mwendo Dawa with saxophonist Ove Johansson. With this group, for which she writes a large part of the repertoire, she went on many world tours and performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival. She performed in Europe, Asia, North and South America. By 2018, she had released 21 albums with Mwendo Dawa. In addition, Lindeborg toured extensively in the early 1980s with the all-female jazz band Salamander, with whom she performed in Europe and the USA. In 1989 she took part in the SWF’s New Jazz Meeting. In the same year she released her first solo album Susanna Lindeborg solo. In recent years she has also performed in the Lindeborg/Johansson Duo and then in the trio Natural Artefacts, with w

Susanne Erding-Swiridoff

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Susanne Zargar-Swiridoff (née Erding, born 16 November 1955) is a German composer and curator. She studied composition, English and American literature and linguistics in Stuttgart and Munich. She has composed more than 90 works of opera, orchestral music, concertos, chamber music and vocal music. Biography Susanne Erding was born in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. She studied composition and music education with Milko Kelemen at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. In 1977 she graduated in British and American studies and drama theory from the University of Stuttgart, and in 1981 in composition from the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. She continued her studies during summer courses in England, the United States, Canada and Argentina. In 1979 Erding-Swiridoff took a position as lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, and in 1991 and 1992 she was a visiting professor of composition at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim. She has also lectured as a visiting professor in Madrid, Vienna, Shaoxing, Shanghai and Vilnius. She married German journalist, broadcaster and Photographer Paul Swiridoff in Rome in 1988 and in 1994 they had a dau

Sushin Shyam

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Sushin Shyam is an Indian music composer, instrumentalist, and singer primarily associated with Malayalam cinema. He is also a founding member of the folk metal band The Down Troddence. He is known for his contributions to the films Varathan (2018), Kumbalangi Nights (2019), Minnal Murali (2021), Bheeshma Parvam (2022), Romancham (2023), Kannur Squad (2023), Manjummel Boys (2024) and Aavesham (2024). His work on Kumbalangi Nights earned him the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director in 2019. In 2025 July 4th, he made his debut as an independent music artist with the music video Ray. He is a two-time winner of Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director, for Kumbalangi Nights in 2019 and Bougainvillea in 2024. Early life Sushin Shyam was born at Thalasserry in Kannur district of Kerala to Shyam Prakash and Kalavathi. He studied at St. Joseph’s School and Mambaram School in Thalassery. Under his father’s guidance, a musician himself, Sushin learned to play the keyboard from an early age, including performing on stage at the age of 3. He relocated to Chennai in pursuit of new prospects within the music industry. He honed his skills during a two-year stint working with the

Susie Frances Harrison

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Susie Frances Harrison née Riley (February 24, 1859 – May 5, 1935) (a.k.a. Seranus) was a Canadian poet, novelist, music critic and music composer who lived and worked in Ottawa and Toronto. Life Susie Frances Riley was born in Toronto of Irish-Canadian ancestry, the daughter of John Byron Riley. She studied music with Frederic Boscovitz, at a private school for girls in Toronto, and later in Montreal. who was the organist of St. George’s Church in Montreal. The couple had a son and a daughter. The Harrisons lived in Ottawa in 1883, when Susie Harrison composed the song “Address of Welcome to Lord Lansdowne” to celebrate the first public appearance of the new Governor General, the Marquess of Lansdowne. Her String Quartet on Ancient Irish Airs, is likely the first string quartet composed in Canada by a woman. In 1896 and 1897, she presented a series of well-received lectures in Toronto on “The Music of French Canada. During the 1900s she contributed to and edited the Conservatory’s publication Conservatory Monthly, and contributed to its successor Conservatory Quarterly Review. She wrote the article on “Canada” for the 1909 Imperial History and Encyclopedia of Music. The Dictionary

Susie Ibarra

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Susie Ibarra (born Anaheim, November 15, 1970) is an American contemporary composer and percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and indigenous musicians. One of SPIN’s “100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music”, she is known for her work as a performer in avant-garde, jazz, world, and new music. She received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Music. As a composer, Ibarra incorporates diverse styles and the influences of Philippine Kulintang, jazz, classical, poetry, musical theater, opera, and electronic music. Ibarra remains active as a composer, performer, educator, and documentary filmmaker in the U.S., Philippines, and internationally. She is interested and involved in works that blend folkloric and indigenous tradition with avant-garde. In 2004, Ibarra began field recording indigenous Philippine music. Early years The youngest of five children, Ibarra was born in Anaheim, California, and raised in Houston, Texas. Her parents Bartolome and Herminia Ibarra were both physicians who immigrated from the Philippines. She began playing piano at the age of four. In grade school she sang in church and school choirs and played in a punk rock band in high school

Susumu Hirasawa

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is a Japanese musician and composer. He is well known for his work for the films of director Satoshi Kon and the animated adaptations of the Berserk manga series, alongside his work as a solo artist and as a member of P-Model. Early life Hirasawa was born on April 2, 1954, to his father , a firefighter as well as a calligrapher. Under the penname , he wrote the names of album and band for the cover art of the P-Model album Potpourri. Hirasawa lived with his older brother, artist , who goes by the moniker “YOU1”. He formed a stage effects team for Mandrake and appeared at the band’s final show, running on a treadmill. Yūichi was P-Model’s art director for the band’s first 9 years of existence, and has done occasional artwork for his brother from 2013 onwards. His only musical credits are for writing the lyrics of “For Kids” and “Sunshine City” (from In a Model Room), and for doing backing vocals on “Rocket” (from The Ghost in Science). Since childhood, Hirasawa had an interest in machinery, and thought of himself as an engineer. He was an RC plane enthusiast, wanting to be a pilot, and repaired broken devices like radios and flashlights given to him by his parents. He studied in the

Suzanne Doucet

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Suzanne Doucet is a German new-age musician, producer, composer, and singer, best known for being one of the founders of new age music. She was the founder of the first new age music store in Hollywood, California Only New Age Music in 1987 and founded the first New Age Music Conference in Los Angeles in 1989. Doucet was an actress and singer in Germany and Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s receiving European airplay for her German version of Be My Baby, which charted at number 1 on German music charts. Bunter Drachen, which appeared in the Guy Ritchie film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. also charted at number 1. She starred in Godspell, alongside Donna Summer, which toured throughout Europe. In 2020, Fact Magazine listed Doucet’s album Reflecting Light, Vol. 1 from 1983 at number 4 of the 20 Best New Age Albums of all Time. Her single, Forever, was featured in Shirley Maclaine’s videos, Inner Workout and Going Within. Early life and career Suzanne Doucet was born on August 27, 1944, in Tübingen, Germany. Her father, Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Doucet, wrote numerous books on dream interpretation and parapsychological phenomena and her mother, Helen von Muenchhofen was a theater actress. She

Suzanne Farrin

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Suzanne Farrin (born 1976) is an American composer and ondist. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, she is Frayda B. Lindemann Professor of Music at CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, and she has released two albums from New Focus Recordings. Biography Suzanne Farrin, from North Yarmouth, Maine, was born in 1976, and as a teenager she moved to coastal Massachusetts and then to Colorado; she cites her experiences in the former state as an inspiration in her work. Her grandparents inspired her interest in music, and she was a keyboardist for her school’s MIDI band, working with the encouragement of that band’s director. Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, Joseph Schwantner, and Evan Ziporyn were her teachers at Yale. She has released two albums from New Focus Recordings: Corpo di Terra (2012), inspired by the poetry of Petrarch; She considers composing to be “a way of approaching life, a view of the world” and “think s of it as an act, a habit”. The Courier Journal said that she was “widely recognized for imaginatively us ing electronic instruments in her work”. She later moved to the City University of New York, where she became Frayda B. Lindemann Professor of Music at CUNY Graduate Center

Suzanne Giraud

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Suzanne Giraud (born 31 July 1958) is a French music educator and composer of contemporary music. Her works are marked by a predilection for percussion, voices and strings; they resonate with her artistic, poetic and architectural inspirations. She has been a member of the Académie Charles Cros since January 2024. Biography Childhood Born in Metz, Suzanne Giraud grew up in Strasbourg, in an artistic environment with strong musical and literary influences. Her awakening to music was sparked by the works of Bach, Haydn, Beethoven or Chopin, with a strong preference for Mozart very early on. Training At the age of 8, she entered the conservatory of Strasbourg; she studied music theory, piano, violin, viola, musical writing, accompaniment, chamber music, as well as the orchestra as a violist, then as an apprentice chef; she discovered the school of Vienna, Messiaen and his successors, the first door to modernity. After a university degree in linguistics, she entered the CNSMDP in 1977; she followed the lessons of analysis, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and composition, as well as that of orchestra conducting; she graduated in these disciplines. Giraud diversified her musical edu