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Tiberiu Olah

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Tiberiu Olah (2 January 1928 – 2 October 2002) was a Romanian composer, teacher, and musicologist of Hungarian ethnicity. Biography Olah was born in Arpășel village, Batăr commune, Bihor County, the son of Ioan Olah, a notary, and Maria Olah, née Molnar. After going to elementary school is his native commune, he attended from 1938 to 1940 the King Carol II High School in nearby Salonta, and then went to Oradea, completing his secondary education in 1946 at the Emanuil Gojdu High School. He then moved to Cluj, where he began his musical studies at the Cluj Conservatory. From 1949 to 1954, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1958 he took a position as a lecturer and later as a professor at the Bucharest Conservatory. with support from a DAAD grant. Works Olah composed orchestral and chamber music works in which he was initially inspired by Béla Bartók, George Enescu, and Igor Stravinsky and later by the Second Viennese School, including a five-part cycle dedicated to the sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, as well as cantatas, an oratorio, choral works, and film music. He was known for popularizing the oratorio. Selected compositions include: *Cantata for women’s choir, two flutes, s

Tibor Harsányi

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Tibor Harsányi (27 June 1898 in Magyarkanizsa, Kingdom of Hungary – 19 September 1954 in Paris) was a Hungarian-born composer and pianist. He studied at the Budapest Conservatory under Zoltán Kodály. He toured as a pianist around Europe and the Pacific, then settled in the Netherlands in 1920, and worked there as a pianist, conductor and composer before relocating to Paris in 1923. He helped to found the Société Triton, which organised concerts of contemporary music, and established ties with other expatriates, becoming one of the so-called Groupe des Quatre, along with Bohuslav Martinů, Marcel Mihalovici and Conrad Beck. He was also one of a related group of émigré composers known as the École de Paris, which helped bring him together with other colleagues from Central and Eastern Europe, such as Alexander Tansman and Alexander Tcherepnin. List of works (chronological) * Four Pieces, for piano (1924) * Petite Suite for Children, for piano (1924) * Petite Dance Suite, for piano (1925) * Rhapsody, for piano (1925) * Sonatine, for violin and piano (1925) * Twelve Small Pieces of Average Difficulty, for piano (1926) * La Semaine, seven short piano pieces for the days of the week (1927

Tibor Polgár

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Tibor Polgár (1907–1993) was a Hungarian composer of film scores. After working for several decades in the Hungarian film industry, spanning both the Horthy era and the Communist period, he emigrated to Canada. Selected filmography * The New Landlord (1935) * The Golden Man (1936) * Sensation (1936) * Beauty of the Pusta (1937) * Deadly Spring (1939) * Rózsafabot (1940) * Haunting Spirit (1940) * The Gyurkovics Boys (1941) * A Bowl of Lentils (1941) * Magdolna (1942) * The Perfect Family (1942) * Sirius (1942) * Beautiful Star (1942) * Devil Rider (1944) * Something in the Water (1944) * The Schoolmistress (1945) * Song of the Cornfields (1947) * The Siege of Beszterce (1948) * Gala Suit (1949) * Singing Makes Life Beautiful (1950) * Déryné (1951) * Relatives (1954) * Keep Your Chin Up (1954) * Accident (1955) * Sunday Romance (1957) * Don Juan’s Last Adventure (1958) * Up the Slope (1959) * Red Ink (1960) * In Praise of Older Women (1978) References Bibliography * Petrucci, Antonio. Twenty Years of Cinema in Venice. International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art, 1952. * Rîpeanu, Bujor. (ed.) International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Hungary

Tibor Serly

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Tibor Serly (; Losonc, Kingdom of Hungary, 25 November 1901 – London, 8 October 1978) was a Hungarian violist, violinist, and composer. Life Serly was the son of Lajos Serly, a pupil of Franz Liszt and a composer of songs and operettas in the last decades of the 19th century, who emigrated to America in 1905 with his family. Serly’s first musical studies were with his father. Spending much of his childhood in New York City, Serly played violin in various pit orchestras led by his father. In 1922, he returned to Hungary to attend the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied composition with Zoltán Kodály, violin with Jenő Hubay, and orchestration with Leó Weiner. For the most part, these efforts received praise, both by Bartók and by colleagues. After graduating in 1925 with high honors in performance and composition, Serly returned to America, where he played viola with the Cincinnati Orchestra (1926–1927), Philadelphia Orchestra (1928–1935), and the NBC Orchestra (1937–1938). During these years, Serly formed close relationships with the poets Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, who wrote a dedicatory poem to Serly, published in the avant-garde magazine Blues in Februa

Tibor Szemző

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Tibor Szemző (born 1955, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian composer, performer, media artist. His pieces often include spoken texts, film and other media. He creates installations and composes music for his own and others’ films. Ever since the beginning of his career, he has been performing actively and widely in Hungary and abroad as well. Biography Szemző was born in Budapest, into a middle-class family, declassed as a result of World War II and socialism. His family originates from former Upper Hungary. His musical training was conducted in accordance with the Kodály method. He attended an elementary school that specialised in music. Originally he studied fine mechanics at high school that he abandoned at the age of 17 to dedicate all of his time to instrumental studies. He completed the in two years and later studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music (1976–79). He earned a Media Design degree at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (2014) and pursued a DLA from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (2017). In 1973, he founded the Szemző Quartet (originally a trio) playing improvised chamber music, which later merged into Group 180. Group 180 was founded in 1979 and was

Tibors de Sarenom

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Tibors de Sarenom (French Tiburge; c. 1130 – aft. 1198) is the earliest attestable trobairitz, active during the classical period of medieval Occitan literature at the height of the popularity of the troubadours. Biography Tibors is one of eight trobairitz with vidas, short Occitan biographies, often more hypothetical than factual. Research into Tibors’ the poet’s identification with an independently recorded individual is hampered by the popularity of her name in Occitania during the period of her life. Tibors was the daughter of Guilhem d’Omelas and Tibors d’Aurenga, who brought her husband the castle of Sarenom, probably Sérignan-du-Comtat in Provence or perhaps Sérignan in the Roussillon. Tibors’ first husband, had already died. She had no recorded children by him, but with Bertrand she had three sons: Uc, father of Barral of Marseille; Bertran, father of Raimon; and Guilhem, also a troubadour. Tibors is said to have died soon after her husband (1180) in 1181 or 1182, but a document of her son Uc dated 13 August 1198 refers to “the advice of his mother Tibors”. Poetry Of Tibors’ work only a single stanza of a canso with its attached vida and razo has survived. Nonetheless, she

Tiburtio Massaino

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Tiburzio Massaino (also Massaini and Tiburtio) (Cremona, before 1550 – Piacenza or Lodi, after 1608) was an Italian composer. Life He was an Augustinian friar in Piacenza. He became maestro di cappella at S Maria del Popolo in Rome in 1571. He moved to Modena in 1578, Lodi in 1580 and Salò in 1587 before arriving at Innsbruck in the service of Archduke Ferdinand II in 1589-1590. He is registered then in Salzburg in 1591; in Prague where he met Philippe de Monte till 1594 when he left for Piacenza and Cremona. He was again in Piacenza in 1598 before being maestro di cappella in Lodi (1600–1608). Adriano Banchieri reports he was maestro di cappella in Piacenza in 1609. Works Sacred works *Concentus in universos psalmos … in vesperis omnium festorum per totum annum frequentatos, cum 3 Magnificat, 5, 9vv (1576 and 1588) *Motectorum liber primus, 5, 6vv (1576) *Missae liber primus: Missa ‘Rorate coeli’, Missa ‘Nuncium vobis’, Missa ‘Omnes gentes’, 5, 6vv (1578) *Sacri cantus … liber secundus, 5vv (1580) *Psalmi omnes ad vesperas per totum annum decantandi, una cum Magnificat, 8vv (1587) *Secundus liber missarum, 5vv (1587) *Motectorum … liber tertius, 5vv (1590) *Liber primus cantionum

Tielman Susato

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Tielman (or Tylman) Susato (c. 1510/15 – after 1570) was a Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and publisher of music in Antwerp. Biography While Susato’s exact place of birth is unknown, some scholars believe that because of his name—Susato meaning de Soest, of the town of Soest — he may be from the town of that name in Westphalia, or the town of Soest in The Netherlands. Not much is known about his early life, but he begins appearing in various Antwerp archives of around 1530 working as a calligrapher as well as an instrumentalist: trumpet, flute and tenor pipe are listed as instruments that he owned. In 1543, he founded the first music publishing house using movable music type in the Low Countries. He could be found in Antwerp, “At the Sign of the Crumhorn.” Until Susato set up his press in Antwerp, music printing had been done mainly in Italy, France and Germany. Soon afterwards, Susato was joined by Petrus Phalesius the Elder in Leuven and Christopher Plantin, also in Antwerp, and the Low Countries became a regional center of music publishing. It is possible that Susato also ran a musical instrument business, and he attempted several times to form partnerships with other pub

Tigran Chukhajian

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Tigran Chukhajian (; ; 1837 – March 11, 1898) was an Ottoman Armenian composer and conductor, and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire. Biography Tchouhadjian was born in Constantinople. He studied at composer Gabriel Yeranian’s class, then had classes in Milan. Along with other Armenian intellectuals of that period he fought for the development of national culture, organized Armenian musical societies, theatres, schools, papers and free concerts. In 1862, he took over publication of the Armenian musical journal Armenian Lyre.In his works, Tchouhadjian used the elements of European musical techniques and eastern music elements He is an author of pieces for piano, songs and romances, chamber and symphonic works, operas. His most successful opera was Leblebici hor-hor agha (1875), it was premiered at the French Theatre in Constantinople, it was so successful that during the season it was performed more than hundred times and during the month Ramadan it was performed every single night (Zemire, 1890) etc. He died in Smyrna (now İzmir). Chukhajian is buried in the Armenian cemetery of İzmir. He created the first Armenian opera, Arshak II (1868, partially sta

Tigran Mansurian

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Tigran Yeghiayi Mansurian (; born January 27, 1939) is a leading Armenian composer of classical and film music, People’s Artist of the Armenian SSR (1990), and Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR (1984). He is the author of orchestral, chamber, choir, and vocal works which have been played across the world. Biography Mansurian was born in Beirut, Greater Lebanon on January 27, 1939. His family moved to the Armenian SSR in 1947 and settled in Yerevan in 1956, where he continued his education. He studied first at the Romanos Melikian Music School under the Armenian composer Edvard Baghdasaryan and later at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. During his years of study, he wrote different works of varied genres and was awarded for some of them. He taught modern music theory at the Conservatory from 1967 to 1986. He was the Rector of the Conservatory from 1992 to 1995. An ECM album of Mansurian’s music, Monodia, was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for “Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)” and “Best Classical Contemporary Composition”. In 2017, ECM’s recording of Mansurian’s Requiem was nominated for two Grammys. The Requiem received the Presidential Awar

Tihomir Pop Asanović

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Tihomir “Pop” Asanović (born 16 November 1948) is a Croatian jazz-rock and fusion keyboardist, Hammond organ player and composer. Asanović is a keyboardist who played in the 1970s and in early 1980s in various Yugoslavian musical line-ups and toured with them around the world. On the 1973 tour with Boško Petrović in East Berlin, he was proclaimed as being the fourth best jazz organist in Europe. Career Asanović finished musical high school in Skopje. At 16 years, he started to perform with big dancing orchestra of RTV Skopje. When he was 18 years old, he relocated to Germany, where he performed for one year with the band Montenegro Five, then he joined the band The Generals and toured with them through Switzerland, where Janez Bončina also joined the band. After the release of this album Janez Bončina invited Asanović to the newly established band September, whose other members were Petar Ugrin, Čarli Novak, Braco Doblekar and Ratko Divjak; who has also left the band Time. In between Jugoslovenska Pop Selekcija band was formed, whose members were all great instrumentalists from the former SFR Yugoslavia. Along with Asanović the authors of the songs were Janez Bončina, Dado Topić an

Tikhon Khrennikov

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Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (; 10 June 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers (1948–1991), who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music. During the 1930s, Khrennikov was already being hailed as a leading Soviet composer. In 1948, Andrei Zhdanov, the leader of the anti-formalism campaign, nominated Khrennikov as Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers. He held this influential post until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Biography Early years Tikhon Khrennikov was the youngest of ten children, born into a family of horse traders in the town of Yelets, Oryol Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Lipetsk Oblast in central Russia). He learned guitar and mandolin from members of his family and sang in a local choir in Yelets. There he also played in a local orchestra and learned the piano. As a teenager he moved to Moscow. From 1929 to 1932, he studied composition at the Gnessin State Musical College under Mikhail Gnessin and

Tilo Medek

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Tilo Medek, originally Müller-Medek (22 January 1940 – 3 February 2006), was a German classical composer, musicologist and music publisher. He grew up in East Germany, but was inspired by the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He composed radio plays and incidental music. His setting of Lenin’s Decree on Peace led to restrictions, and after he showed solidarity with the expatriated Wolf Biermann, he also had to move to the West, where he composed an opera Katharina Blum based on Heinrich Böll’s novel, and worked in education. He received international awards from 1967 onwards. Career Müller-Medek was born in Jena, the son of the composer and musician Willy Müller-Medek (1897–1965) and his wife Rosa (1902–1976). He received musical training at the Jenaer Musikschule in violin, piano, improvisation and music theory. In 1957 he attended the 12th Darmstädter Ferienkurse in the western part of Germany where he took classes with Alexander Jemnitz, Luigi Nono, Hermann Scherchen and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1959 to 1962, he studied piano with Kurt Johnen in Quedlinburg. He received his Abitur in 1959, and studied then at the Humboldt University of Berlin, musicology with Walther Vetter, Ernst Her

Tim A. Duncan

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Tim A. Duncan, born Manchester, England, is a composer, conductor and sound engineer best known for his work around the world on major Ice dance shows also with recordings featuring artists including Joe Longthorne, Chris Farlowe, Ruby Turner, One Way System, and the Brass & Voices of Wales. In 2007 a production of Swan Lake featuring Duncan’s completely rearranged score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky received “Best Touring Theatrical Show 2007” for the season at The Lowry, Salford by the Manchester Evening News. Early life Duncan was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Middleton, Greater Manchester. In 1974 he joined the Middleton Band, playing Tenor Horn conducted at the time by Gordon Dean, whilst receiving tuition on French Horn from Ifor James and Michael Purton. He also joined the Besses o’ th’ Barn Band, later studying theory and composition at the Royal College of Music, London. Career From 1987 Duncan has worked in sound engineering with notable artists in studios across the country, including Parr Street Studios Liverpool, Strawberry Studios Stockport, Abbey Road Studios London and MosFilm Studio Moscow.and from 1996 has been involved in theatrical collaborations i

Tim Benjamin (composer)

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Tim Benjamin (born 1975) is an Anglo-French composer and technology executive. His compositional output centres on opera, with eight stage works premiered since 1998, alongside orchestral, chamber, and choral music. He won the BBC Young Musician of the Year Composer’s Award in 1993 at the age of seventeen, and the Stephen Oliver Prize for Contemporary Opera in 1996. His Symphony received its world premiere at the George Enescu Festival in Romania in 2021, and he serves on the jury of the George Enescu International Competition. Also a senior technology executive, he is currently Chief Technology Officer at Softwire, a UK technology consultancy. Early life and education Benjamin was born in 1975, grew up in North London, and attended Christ’s Hospital school. He lives in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Career Early recognition Benjamin’s compositional talent emerged early. At seventeen, while still a student at Christ’s Hospital, he won the 1993 BBC Young Musician of the Year Composer’s Award for Antagony, a substantial work scored for two large wind bands, amplified strings, and six percussionists. The work was performed by the London Sinfonietta under conductor Martyn Brabbins and broa

Tim Berne

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Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the alto and baritone saxophones. Biography Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. He was a fan of rhythm and blues, and it seemed to him that Hemphill was playing jazz with the soulfulness of R&B. In 1974, he went to New York to find Hemphill, who gave him saxophone lessons and advice on how to manage his career. For Empire, he recorded four albums with avant-garde jazz musicians such as John Carter, Alex Cline, Nels Cline, Olu Dara, Vinny Golia, Paul Motian, and Ed Schuller. After two albums with Columbia, he signed with JMT, a label known for avant-garde jazz. In the 1990s, he recorded in the trio, Miniature, with Roberts and Joey Baron, He led a trio with Michael Formanek and Jim Black, then added Chris Speed to form the quartet Bloodcount (which was occasionally a quintet with the addition of Ducret). PolyGram bought JMT and closed it. This motivated Berne to start Screwgun Records as the outlet for his albums. During the late 1990s he continued to perform with Bloodcount, formed Paraphrase, a trio with Drew Gress and Tom Rainey, and B

Tim Brady

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Timothy Wesley John Brady (born 11 July 1956) is a Canadian composer, electric guitarist, improvising musician, concert producer, record producer and cultural activist. Working in the field of contemporary classical music, experimental music, and musique actuelle, his compositions utilize a variety of styles from serialism to minimalism and often incorporate modern instruments such as electric guitars and other electroacoustic instruments. His music is marked by a synthesis of musical languages, having developed an ability to use elements of many musical styles while retaining a strong sense of personal expression. Some of his early recognized works are the 1982 orchestral pieces Variants and Visions, his Chamber Concerto (1985), the chamber trio …in the Wake… (1985, 1988), and his song cycle Revolutionary Songs (1994). He is internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading experimental/new music guitarists (1997, Guitar Player: “One of the 30 Most Important Guitarists for the Future of the Instrument”), and in recent years has gained a strong reputation as one of Canada’s leading composers of chamber, orchestral and music theatre works (2003 Prix OPUS Composer of the Y

Tim Driesen

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Tim Driesen is a Belgian actor, notable for roles in both musicals, plays, and television serials. He has composed a full-scale musical as well as a number of pop-songs. In 2007, he created the role of Adrian Banks (a character based on pop-star Mark Owen) in the Take That musical, Never Forget. Take That member Gary Barlow, who wrote the majority of the production’s musical numbers, said jokingly of the cast: “I’m just worried that they’re better than us”. When the musical opened, Driesen appeared with fellow cast members Dean Chisnall, Craig Els, Stephane Anelli, Eaton James and Nancy Sullivan on ITV’s GMTV performing the show’s title song, “Never Forget”. He also appeared in the UK tour of Starlight Express. Driesen appeared in the television series, The Bubbles. He is also noted for his voice-over work in televised commercials. Driesen appeared as Phoebus in Notre Dame de Paris in Belgium (Antwerp & Ghent). He played a role for which he won ‘Best Supporting Actor in a Musical’ at the VMPs (Flemish Musical Awards). His musical ‘My Super Girlfriend’ (previously known as ‘Super Alice Smith’) has been workshopped and showcased in conjunction with ‘Perfect Pitch’ at Trafalgar Studio

Tim Follin

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Timothy John Follin (born 19 December 1970) is an English video game music composer, cinematographer, visual effects artist and game developer, who has written tracks for a variety of titles and home gaming systems, including the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, Nintendo Entertainment System, Mega Drive, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Dreamcast, and PlayStation. Among Follin’s works are the soundtracks to Solstice, Silver Surfer, Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge, Plok!, and Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future. Follin has also co-founded a TV advertising company called ABF Pictures and a general-purpose media company called Baggy Cat Ltd, which to date has produced two video games, Contradiction and At Dead of Night. Video game career Insight Studios As a child, Follin had no significant music training. Leaving Liverpool’s Sandown Music College after one year of studies, Follin’s career began at the age of 15 working at Insight Studios. Follin ended up in video games due to his older brother Mike Follin learning how to program for the ZX Spectrum and obtaining professional work at Insight. followed by an arrangement of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird”, u

Tim Hodgkinson

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Timothy George Hodgkinson (born 1 May 1949) is an English experimental music composer and performer, principally on reeds, lap steel guitar, and keyboards. He first became known as one of the core members of the British avant-rock group Henry Cow, which he formed with Fred Frith in 1968. After the demise of Henry Cow, he participated in numerous bands and projects, eventually concentrating on composing contemporary music and performing as an improviser. Biography Hodgkinson was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in England on 1 May 1949, and was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated in social anthropology from Cambridge in 1971, but chose to pursue a musical career instead. His interest in anthropology, however, remained and he drew on it later during a series of study trips to Siberia. Henry Cow While still at university, Hodgkinson and fellow student Fred Frith formed the seminal avant-rock group Henry Cow in 1968. Hodgkinson remained with Henry Cow as one of the band’s core members until their demise in 1978 and composed a number of their musical pieces, most notably, “Living in the Heart of the Beast” (recorded on their 1975 album, In Praise of L

Tim Parkinson

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Tim Parkinson (born 7 July 1973) is a British experimental composer, pianist and curator. His music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles including Apartment House, the Basel Sinfonietta and the London Sinfonietta, and soloists including Anton Lukoszevieze and Rhodri Davies. It has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Resonance FM, WDR3 (Germany), and Radio SRF 2 Kultur (Switzerland). He is co-curator (alongside composer John Lely) of the concert series Music We’d Like to Hear, which has run since 2005, having previously organised concerts at the British Music Information Centre in London from 1997 onwards. Education Parkinson attended Bedford School before studying at Worcester College, Oxford and privately in Dublin with Kevin Volans, and participating in the Ostrava Days 2001. In 2011 he was visiting Professor of Composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and has taught at Ashmole Academy. In 2018 he was appointed a creative fellow at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading. Style and career His music has also been described as consisting of “melodious, somewhat Sixties sounds”, inspired by an older generation of British

Tim Risher

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Tim Risher (born 1957) is an American composer. Risher received his B.A. in Music at the University of Central Florida and his M.M. in music composition from Florida State University. While living in Tallahassee, Florida, Risher was a member of the new music ensembles Paragaté and Tallahassee Camerata. Risher’s output is typically tonal, with primary influences being minimal music, American and Brazilian popular musics, early music, and American shape note hymnody. Most works feature the use of conventional harmony, with great clarity of individual melodic lines. Risher’s works transcend the superficiality of much popular music, however, in their frequent use of complex canonic and polyphonic structures and additive rhythms. Risher composes prolifically for ensembles ranging from concert band to Chinese traditional instrumental ensemble. He has also composed works for electronic media and incidental music for theatrical works. His most significant output, however, comprises works for brass instruments (a preference likely shaped by his experience as a trombonist) and for early (Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque) instrument ensembles. Risher’s works for early instruments have been

Tim Simonec

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Tim Simonec (born June 11, 1951) is an American composer, orchestrator, conductor, and arranger. He is known for his work in film music, composing for movies such as Whiplash and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He has a long-term partnership with Michael Giacchino, orchestrating and conducting for Jurassic World, Zootopia, Lost, and The Incredibles, among many others. He is also known for scoring the video games The Incredibles and Ratatouille. He was nominated for Best Instrumental Arrangement at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, alongside Giacchino, for his work on Up. References External links *

Tim Souster

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Tim Souster (29 January 1943 – 1 March 1994) was a British composer and writer on music, best known for his electronic music output. Biography Education Born Timothy Andrew James Souster in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Souster was educated at Bedford Modern School (from 1952 through 1961) and New College, Oxford (from 1961 through 1964). His teachers included Bernard Rose, Sir David Lumsden and Egon Wellesz. In 1964, he attended summer courses at Darmstadt taught by Karlheinz Stockhausen, and took composition lessons with Richard Rodney Bennett the following year. Before the end of 1965, Souster was a producer with the BBC Third Programme, and put on many performances of contemporary music by composers such as Boulez, Berio, Barraqué, Cardew, Feldman, Henze and Stockhausen. After leaving the BBC in 1967, he began to devote more time to composing and songwriting. Foray into electronic music In the late 1960s, Souster began experimenting with electronics. His first acknowledged composition involving electronic techniques was Titus Groan Music (1969) for wind quintet, ring modulator, amplifiers and tape. In August of the same year he moved to King’s College, Cambridge and formed a live

Timo Jouko Herrmann

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Timo Jouko Herrmann (born September 22, 1978, in Heidelberg) is a German composer, musicologist and conductor. Biography Herrmann studied composition with Ulrich Leyendecker and musicology with Hermann Jung at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. During his studies, he received further influence from composers like Hermann Schäfer, Krzysztof Meyer, Detlev Glanert, Roberto Doati and Wladimir Sagorzew. Herrmann holds a PhD awarded for his thesis on Antonio Salieri and his German language stage works. His rediscovery of the lost song of joy Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia K. 477a by Salieri, Mozart and Cornetti in late 2015 brought him world-wide attention. Among others, Herrmann created works for the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Leipzig armonia wind ensemble, the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra and the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra. Additionally, he received commissions from festivals like the Heidelberg Biennale for Contemporary Music, the SYLTARTFESTIVAL and the concert series for contemporary music kontrapunkte in Speyer. The Theater Heidelberg premiered several of his stage works, among them the chamber opera Unreine Tragödien und aussätzige Dramati

Timofey Reznikov

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Timofey Reznikov (; born July 14, 1981) is a Belgian music producer, songwriter, sound designer, mixing engineer and mastering engineer from Brussels. Reznikov is best known for his music production and mixing work for David Guetta, as well as for Regi, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, among others. In 2022, he was nominated for the 65th Annual Grammy Awards’ Best Dance/Electronic Recording category for his production work on the David Guetta single “I’m Good (Blue)”, featuring Bebe Rexha. Early life Reznikov was born on 14 July 1981 in Saratov, Soviet Russia. His mother was a violinist in an orchestra and his father taught contrabass at a conservatoire. He initially studied jazz trumpet before enrolling aged 20 at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons in Belgium to study piano and electro-acoustic music. Following this, Reznikov went on to collaborate with several artists, most notably Belgian DJ Regi, with whom he was involved in the production of the single “Kom Wat Dichterbij”. Reznikov also co-produced Guetta’s 2019 single “Stay (Don’t Go Away)” featuring Raye and recently produced, mixed and mastered Guetta’s single, “I’m Good (Blue)” featuring Bebe Rexha. - 2024 “One in a Million” (as p

Timofiy Bilohradsky

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Timofiy Bilohradsky (), also given as Belogradsky, or Pelogradsky (c. 1710c. 1782) was a lutenist, composer and kobzar-bandurist of Ukrainian ethnicity. He was active in St. Petersburg and Königsberg. Life Little is known about Bilohradsky’s childhood. He is thought to have been born in or near the city of Cherkasy (now in Ukraine) and that he learned to play the kobza and the lute at the Hlukhiv Music Academy. He is said to have had an excellent singing voice and great musical aptitude. In 1725 he was invited to St Petersburg to sing in the Imperial Church Capella. In 1733 Tsarina Anna sent Bilohradsky to Dresden in the retinue of the ambassador, Hermann Karl von Keyserling. In Dresden, Bilohradsky was able to perfect his lute playing under the tutelage of Silvius Leopold Weiss - the most important lutenist-composer of the 18th century. He also studied voice with Faustina Bordoni-Hasse, and castrato Domenico Annibali. Bilohradsky became one of the highest trained musicians in the Russian Court Capella. In 1739, Bilohradsky returned to St Petersburg, where he continued to work as a court musician. In 1741 he returned to Germany where he became known as a virtuoso lutenist and singe

Timothy Archambault

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Timothy Archambault (born 1971) is an American composer and musician who plays Native American flute. He lives in Miami, Florida. Early life and education Timothy Archambault was born on February 9, 1971, in Willimantic, Connecticut. Archambault is of Kichesipirini Algonquin First Nation and Métis descent. Musical career Archambault began playing the Native American flute in 1989 and studied informally with the Native American flutists Kevin Locke (Lakota) and Edmund Wayne Nevaquaya (Comanche), and has collected songs of his Kichesipirini heritage, from elders in Canada as well as from archival wax cylinder recordings made in the early 20th century. He plays complex chromatic music on the Native American flute. He has performed the music of Native American composers David Yeagley, George Quincy, and Raven Chacon. His recording of Yeagley’s Wessi vah-peh, for Native American flute and orchestra, performed with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice, will be released by Opus One Records in late 2008. He was the first person to use the old warble technique (in which a single flute tone “splits” into a multiphonic oscillation) within the context of contemporary classical

Timothy Kramer

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Timothy Kramer (born 1959) is an American composer whose music has earned him a Fulbright Scholarship, an National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Currently Professor Emeritus at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, he served as the Edward Capps Professor of Humanities at Illinois College, and also served on the faculty of Trinity University (San Antonio) as Professor of Music, and is a founding member of the Composers Alliance of San Antonio. Career Kramer was trained as a composer and organist at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, Washington studying with David Robbins (composition) and David P. Dahl (organ). He also played electric bass and jazz piano in addition to his compositional studies. He earned his master’s degree and doctorate at the University of Michigan, where his primary composition teachers were William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom and George Wilson. He studied organ with James Kibbie and harpsichord with Edward Parmentier. As a Fulbright Scholar he studied with Martin Redel at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, in Germany from 1988 to 1989. Early in his career he taught at Indiana State University, Rose Hulman

Timothy Mahr

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Timothy Mahr (born March 20, 1956) is an American composer and conductor. He previously conducted the St. Olaf Band for 29 years before his retirement in 2023. Early life Mahr was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Theory and Composition in 1977 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education in 1978, both from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. In 1983 he completed a Master’s degree at the University of Iowa in Trombone Performance. He completed his doctorate Musical Arts in Instrumental Conducting in 1995, also at the University of Iowa. Professional work He is Past President of the North Central Division of the College Band Directors National Association (1999–2001) and has served on the board of directors of the National Band Association and the Minnesota Band Directors Association. Mahr remains active as a guest conductor and clinician, in demand as a guest composer/conductor on over 35 college and university campuses. Mahr’s compositions have been performed by ensembles worldwide, and many have been published. The first recipient of a commission from the American Bandmasters Association Commissioning Project, Mahr continues to be co

Timothy Williams (composer)

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Timothy Williams is an English/Canadian composer, conductor, and orchestrator known for his film, television, and video game scores. A graduate of the National Film and Television School, Williams has won numerous awards and is best known for his award winning work on the A24 film Pearl, Finding You, Brightburn, Get Out, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Deadpool 2 and Robert Duvall’s Wild Horses. He is a frequent collaborator of musician and composer Tyler Bates, Robert Duncan and Benjamin Wallfisch. Early life and education Williams went to St. Michaels University School in Victoria, Canada, at the same time as Leslie Hope, Andrew Sabiston, Kenneth Oppel, and Bert Archer. He then attended the National Film and Television School in England and furthered his studies at UCLA Extension and the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop. Career Theatre Williams wrote the musical Napoleon, which opened in 1994 at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto. It was nominated for a Dora Award for Best New Musical. EMI released a Highlights Album on their Angel Broadway label. In 1996, he relocated to England and worked with Directors Gale Edwards and Francesca Zambello to rework Napoleon until

Tina Davidson

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Tina Davidson (born 30 December 1952) is an American composer. Background Davidson was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1952, and was raised in Oneonta, New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her BA in piano and composition from Bennington College in 1976 where she studied with Henry Brant, Louis Calabro, Vivian Fine and Lionel Nowak. She founded the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Composers Forum and served as its director from 1999–2001. She was president of the New Music Alliance, a national organization, which has been responsible for the New Music America Festivals. She organized a nationwide festival entitled “New Music Across America,” which ran in 18 cities in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. In 1992 she wrote a widely circulated article on women in music for Ms Magazine. She was a South Central PaARTners’ Arts in Education Fellow. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Career Over her forty-year career, Davidson has been commissioned by well-known ensembles such as National Symphony Orchestra, OperaDelaware, Roanoke Symphony, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, VocalEssence, Kronos Quartet, Mendelssohn String Quartet, Cassatt Quartet, and public television (WHYY-T

Tish Daija

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Tish Daija (30 January 1926 – 3 October 2003) was an Albanian composer. He composed the first Albanian ballet Halili dhe Hajria (Halili and Hajria) that premiered on 13 January 1963 and has since been shown more than 250 times at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Albania, a record for the Albanian Theatre. He has also composed Spring (“Pranvera”), an Albanian opera. Tish Daija is an alumnus of the Moscow Conservatory. Football career Daija was also notable as a football player. He was part of Flamurtari before he dedicated himself to music, eventually becoming one of the Albanian Superliga top scorers in the Albanian Superliga in the 1948 national championship with 11 goals, tied to Zihni Gjinali of KS Dinamo Tirana. Filmography Personal life Daija died at Tirana in 2003. References External links * Tish Daija: C’bejnë organet kompetente përpara eksodit të paligjshёm të kulturёѕ?

Tison Street

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Tison C. Street aka Curry Tison Street (born May 20, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist. Early life and education Tison Street was born in Boston on 20 May 1943 to J. Curry Street and Leila Fripp Tison Street. After studying violin with Einar Hansen of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1951 to 1959, he studied a composition with Leon Kirchner and David Del Tredici at Harvard University, where he received his B.A. in 1965 and M.A. in 1971. Career As a violinist, Street has performed with Alea III, the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. He performed the violin parts for Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach in its 1984 revival. His compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Boston Classical Orchestra, as well as soloists such as Peter Serkin and Ani Kavafian. His works are published by G. Schirmer. In 1993, the New York Philharmonic commissi

Tito Mattei

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Tito Eduardo Achille Mattei (24 May 1839 – 30 March 1914) was an Italian pianist, composer, and conductor. Biography Born at Campobasso in Italy, he was educated in Naples where he studied with Sigismond Thalberg, Carlo Conti, and Michele Ruta. A musical prodigy, he gave his first concert in 1846 aged 5 afterwards touring Italy, France and Germany. At just 11 years-old in 1852 he was appointed Professor at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He gave his first performance in London in 1853 aged 12 In 1871 he married Amalia Colombo (born 1845) at Kensington in London. Their daughter Marie Jeanette Mattei was born in London in 1875. He wrote several hundred piano-pieces and songs which had a moderate success including the ballet The Spider and the Fly, ‘For the Sake of the Past’, ‘Dear Heart’, ‘Non torno’, ‘Non è ver’, and ‘Oh! Oh! Hear the Wild Wind Blow’. His operas included Maria di Grand and the comic opera La Prima Donna. He contributed ballet music and the song “O Leave Me Not, Dear Heart” A Freemason, in 1888 he joined the Rothesay Lodge No 1687 in London. Mattei enjoyed driving fast cars — in 1909 the 68 year-old Mattei broke the speed limit while the American la

Tito Schipa Jr.

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Tito Luigi Giovanni Michelangelo Schipa (born 18 April 1946), better known as Tito Schipa Jr., is a Portuguese-born Italian composer, singer-songwriter, producer, writer and actor. Career Born in Lisbon, Schipa is the son of the Italian tenor Tito Schipa. He studied singing and piano and made his professional debut in 1967 with a musical based on songs by Bob Dylan, Then an Alley. In 1970 he composed and directed Orfeo 9, which is considered the first Italian rock opera. It was adapted into a film directed by the same Schipa in 1973, while a double album based on the opera was released in 1972. In 1975 he founded the Teatro in Trastevere. In 1980 he released Er Dompasquale, the first triple album ever produced in Italy, which was a rock adaptation of Gaetano Donizetti’s opera Don Pasquale. In 1988 Schipa released Dylaniato, an album of Bob Dylan’s cover songs adapted in Italian and Romanesco dialect. Between 1989 and 1990 he published for the editor Arcana the translations of Jim Morrison’s poetries and of Bob Dylan’s complete works. Schipa’s varied career include credits as actor, radio and television writer and stage director. Discography ;Albums * 1972 – Orfeo 9 (Fonit Cetra, LP

Titos Xirellis

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Stavros Xirellis, known as Titos () (27 March 1898 - 24 January 1985) was a Greek operatic baritone and composer. Xirellis was a native of , Lesbos; the date of his birth is uncertain. He was born into a poor family, the son of a blacksmith. Early in life he was a cantor; he also took violin lessons in Mytilene before traveling to Athens for study at the Conservatory, where his vocal instructor was Nina Foka. Other instructors there included Philoctetes Economides, for harmony, and Armand Marsik, for theory, with whom he worked from 1917 until 1919. In the latter year he began studies with George Lombianikos, with whom he stayed until 1920. Throughout this time he remained a pupil of Foka. Xirellis graduated from the Conservatory with a Gold Medal for Excellence in Solo Work and Opera in 1920. Originally intending to be a tenor, he debuted instead as a baritone in 1918 with the Kyparissis troupe. Two years later he bowed at the Greek National Opera in the title roles of Rigoletto and Der fliegende Holländer. A scholarship allowed him in 1925 to move to Milan where he undertook lessons with Giuseppe Borghi; he also studied in Berlin with Mattia Battistini from 1926 to 1928, and was

Tivadar Nachéz

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Tivadar Nachéz (1 May 185929 May 1930) was a Hungarian violinist and composer for violin who had an international career, but made his home in London during his career. Tivadar Nachéz (he himself signed with Nachèz) was born in Budapest, where he studied under Sabathiel, the leader of the orchestra of the Budapest Opera. Franz Liszt heard him and gave his approval. Then he studied under Joseph Joachim in Berlin, and afterwards with Hubert Léonard in Paris. He performed at the foundation of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. He made a debut in Hamburg in 1881. His first appearance in the United Kingdom was at the Crystal Palace on 9 April 1881, and after that he gave continuous concerts and made tours in England and elsewhere. He performed twice at a private royal smoking concert held at the Queen’s Hall before its official opening in 1893. He performed his own 2nd Violin Concerto, op. 36 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on 17 April 1907, and repeated it with the New Symphony Orchestra under Landon Ronald on 27 January 1910. George Bernard Shaw, writing as an arts critic under the pseudonym Corno di Bassetto, saw him at Her Majesty’s Theatre in September 1889: ‘he plays some easy aff