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Tobias Hume

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Tobias Hume (possibly 1579 – 16 April 1645) was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier. Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1579 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a prerequisite to which was being at least 50 years old, though there is no certainty over this. He had made his living as a professional soldier, serving as an officer with the Swedish and Russian armies. His published music includes pieces for viols (including many solo works for the lyra viol) and songs. They were gathered in two collections, The First Part of Ayres (or Musicall Humors, 1605) and Captain Humes Poeticall Musicke (1607). He was a particular champion of the viol over the then-dominant lute, something which caused John Dowland to publish a rebuttal of Hume’s ideas. Hume was also known as a prankster, as some of his somewhat unusual compositions illustrate. His most notorious piece was “An Invention for Two to Play upone one Viole”, also known as Prince’s Almayne. Two bows are required and the smaller of the two players is obliged to sit in the lap of the larger player. This work was notated in tablature and is indeed technically possible to p

Tobias Matthay

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Tobias Augustus Matthay (19 February 185815 December 1945) was an English pianist, teacher, and composer. Biography Matthay was born in Clapham, Surrey, in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and eventually became naturalised British subjects. He entered London’s Royal Academy of Music in 1871 and eight months later he received the first scholarship given to honour the knighthood of its principal, Sir William Sterndale Bennett. At the academy, Matthay studied composition under Sir William Sterndale Bennett and Arthur Sullivan, and piano with William Dorrell and Walter Macfarren. He served as a sub-professor there from 1876 to 1880, and became an assistant professor of pianoforte in 1880, before being promoted to professor in 1884. With Frederick Corder and John Blackwood McEwen, he co-founded the Society of British Composers in 1905. Matthay remained at the RAM until 1925, when he was forced to resign because McEwen—his former student who was then the academy’s Principal—publicly attacked his teaching. In 1903, after over a decade of observation, analysis, and experimentation, he published The Act of Touch, an encyclopedic volume that influenced piano pedagogy throug

Tobias Picker

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Tobias Picker (born July 18, 1954) is an American composer and pianist, noted for his orchestral works Old and Lost Rivers, Keys To The City, and The Encantadas, as well as his operas Emmeline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, An American Tragedy and Lili Elbe, among many other works. Biography 1954–1975: Early years, influences, and education Picker was born in New York City on July 18, 1954, the son of painter and fashion designer Henriette Simon Picker and news-writer Julian Picker, and the cousin of film executive David V. Picker, businessman Harvey Picker, former CEO of the American Film Institute Jean Picker Firstenberg, art-patron Stanley Picker, filmmaker Jimmy Picker, and economist Kenneth Rogoff. At the age of eight, he began composing and studying the piano: Picker started composing in 1962, and, that same year, began corresponding with composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who encouraged his studies. Three years later, Picker was taken into the preparatory division of the Juilliard School of Music for instruction in piano and theory. At the age of eighteen, Picker was an improvising pianist for Martha Graham at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, and, that same year, he enrolled a

Tobin Stokes

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Tobin David Stokes (born 1966) is a Canadian composer and theatre creator, notable for his work in opera, theatre, choral music and television. His works have been performed by New York City Opera, Long Beach Opera, City Opera of Vancouver, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and the Victoria Symphony. He also composes for television, including scores for documentaries by the BBC, ABC, and PBS. Life and career Stokes was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He studied the piano from the age of three and became a charter member of the Powell River Boy’s Choir at age seven, performing, competing and touring internationally with them until he was fourteen. He holds a BMus in percussion from the University of Victoria and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. Stokes was resident composer at the biannual International Choral Kathaumixw Festival in Powell River, British Columbia, B.C. from 1994 to 2014. He was resident composer with the Victoria Symphony from 2005 to 2008, at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and with the Urban Youth Choir Festival in Örebro, Sweden from 2011 to 2012. Stokes has composed several operas: Fallujah, with li

Tod Dockstader

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Tod Dockstader (March 20, 1932 – February 27, 2015) was an American electronic music composer and sound designer. He is regarded as one of the first American musique concrète composers. Biography Dockstader was born on March 20, 1932, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In the early 1990s, Starkland re-released most of the content of Dockstader’s out-of-print Owl recordings, alongside previously unreleased material, on two CDs. These releases brought him new, significant acclaim. The Washington Post called Dockstader “a highly imaginative pioneer,” and The Wire concluded: “The obsessive care with which Starkland have compiled these extraordinary recordings should ensure that Dockstader will be remembered as the innovative, visionary figure he undoubtedly was.” Reinvigorated, Dockstader returned to music at the start of the 21st century, adopting computer composition. New CDs appeared from Sub Rosa and ReR Megacorp. Work on a documentary about his life, Unlocking Dockstader, was begun in 2011; however,a lack of funding stalled the project. Dockstader died in Arlington, Massachusetts, on February 27, 2015, at the age of 82. In 2016, Starkland released From the Archives, a CD that premiered 15

Tod Machover

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Tod Machover (born November 24, 1953, in Mount Vernon, New York) is an Emmy-award winning composer, inventor of hyperinstruments and hyperscore software, promoter of music AI and participatory opera, and professor at the MIT Media Lab. He was named Director of Musical Research at IRCAM in 1980. Joining the faculty at the new Media Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, he became Professor of Music and Media and Director of the Experimental Media Facility. Currently Professor of Music and Media at the MIT Media Lab, he is head of the Lab’s Hyperinstruments/Opera of the Future group and has been co-director of the Things That Think (TTT) and Toys of Tomorrow (TOT) consortia since 1995. In 2006, he was named visiting professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has composed significant works for Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Matt Haimovitz, the Ying Quartet, the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Penn & Teller, and many others, as well as designed and implemented various interactive systems for performance by Peter Gabriel and Prince. Machover gave a keynote lecture at NIME-02, the second international conference on New Interfac

Todd Cerney

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Todd David Cerney (August 8, 1953 – March 14, 2011) was an American songwriter and musician. He composed “Good Morning Beautiful”, a 2002 five-week country number one (Billboard) hit for Steve Holy (co-written with Zack Lyle); “The Blues Is My Business” (co-written with Kevin Bowe), part of Etta James’ 2003 Grammy Award-winning album “Let’s Roll”; and “I’ll Still Be Loving You”, a 1987 country number one (Billboard) hit for Restless Heart (co-written with Pam Rose, Mary Ann Kennedy, and Pat Bunch). He and his co-writers were nominated for a Grammy Award for “I’ll Still Be Loving You”. The song won the 1988 award for “ASCAP Country Song of the Year”. Cerney was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Zanesville High School in Zanesville, Ohio in 1971. He began his song-writing career after moving to Nashville, where he initially worked at Buzz Cason’s Creative Workshop recording studio as an audio engineer. Some of the earliest artists to record his songs include Steve Carlisle (“I’ll Fall in Love Again”) and Levon Helm (“Blue House of Broken Hearts”). Music career Cerney became known as the “Rock Doctor” after co-writing songs with members of various bands including Cheap Tri

Todd Hunter

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Todd Stuart Hunter (born 22 June 1951) is a New Zealand musician and composer known for his involvement in the band Dragon. Their best known songs are “April Sun in Cuba”, “Are You Old Enough?”, “Still in Love With You”, and “Rain”. Hunter also composed John Farnham’s hit song “Age of Reason” with Johanna Pigott and music for film Daydream Believer (1991) and TV series Heartbreak High (1994–1999). On 1 July 2008 the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) recognised Dragon’s iconic status when they were inducted into their Hall of Fame. Biography Dragon - 1970s Hunter (bass guitar, vocals) formed Dragon in 1972 with Graeme Collins (piano, vocals), Neil Storey (drums) and Ray Goodwin (guitar, keyboards, vocals); the group was soon joined by Hunter’s younger brother Marc Hunter (vocals) and moved to Australia in 1975. The band toured Australasia, America and Europe and their songs from that time, “April Sun in Cuba”, “Are You Old Enough?” and “Still in Love With You” are still played on radio. Jen Brown Hunter’s first wife was poet, artist, writer Jen Jewel Brown (aka Jennifer Hunter Brown) who had written Million Dollar Riff (1975) a book describing Australian band Skyhooks

Tofig Bakikhanov

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Tofig Ahmed-agha oglu Bakikhanov () is a composer. He was awarded the title People’s Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (1990). Biography Tofig Bakikhanov, a descendant of Baku khans, was born on 8 December 1930 in Baku, in the family of Ahmed–agha Bakikhanov, People’s Artist of Azerbaijan. He began his musical activity as a violinist. In 1953, Bakikhanov graduated from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory specializing in violin, where Fikret Amirov was his teacher. In 1957, he majored in music composing, where his teacher was another prominent Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev. In 1950–1953, Bakikhanov worked as a violinist in the trio of the Azerbaijan Philharmonic Society. In 1953, he was the teacher and head of the string department of the Zeynally Baku College of Music. In 1966, he managed the department of arts edition and from 1968, the department of note-music literature of the Azernashr publishing house. From 1970, Bakikhanov began to work as the senior teacher of the department of chamber music and as the dean of the performing program of the Azerbaijan Conservatory. Creativity Bakikhanov is the author of concerts for violin, violoncello, flute, oboe, dual concerts, musical comed

Tolib Sodiqov

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Tolib Sodiqov (12 March 1907 – 5 September 1957) was among the founders of professional music in Uzbekistan, as well as the composer of musical dramas, quartets, operas, and romances. Sodiqov was born in Tashkent. From 1924 to 1928, he studied at the Institute of Music and Choreography in Samarkand, where his teachers included leading Uzbek poets and composers, such as Sadriddun Ayni, Sergey Mironov and Viktor Uspensky. He then studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow from 1934 to 1941, where he graduated as a composer and conductor in the class of Reinhold Glière. His many honors included the People’s Artist of the Uzbek SSR and the Stalin Prize. Sodiqov also founded the Uzbek Composers Union in 1934 and served as its director for the following 14 years. In 1939, he wrote the first Uzbek opera, Leili and Mejnun, based on the poem by Alisher Navoi and libretto by Khurshid. The opera was given its first performance by the Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Opera and Ballet in 1940. Among his other operas are Gulsara, Zainab and Omon. His more than 100 songs include Bul-bul (Song-bird), Bakhor (Spring), Sarvi-Gul (Flower), and Johon kurnur (I see such beauty). H

Tolis Voskopoulos

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Apostolos “Tolis” Voskopoulos (; 26 July 1940 – 19 July 2021 ) was a Greek singer. He was renowned for his mastery of laika, a Greek music style. He also starred in many films and played in the theatre in Athens. One of Voskopoulos’ greatest theatrical hits was Oi Erastes tou Oneirou (Dream Lovers), which he performed opposite Zoe Laskari. Voskopoulos was married to former minister Antzela Gerekou. Discography This is a partial list of Tolis Voskopoulos’ discography: Albums *1967: Doukissa & Voskopoulos – Anamnisis *1968: Agonia *1970: Adelphia Mou, Alites, Poulia *1970: Se Iketevo *1971: Mia Agapi *1972: Stigmes Agapis *1972: Tolis Voskopoulos (Stichimatizo) *1973: As Imaste Realiste *1974: Marinella & Voskopoulos *1974: Marinella & Tolis Voskopoulos - Ego Ki’ Esy *1975: Ego Ti Eho Ke Ti Tha ‘Ho *1976: Smyrneika Ke Laika *1976: Otan Tragoudo *1977: Ine To Kati Pou Meni *1977: I Anamnisis Xanagyrizoune *1978: Tragouda Theatrine! *1979: Mera Nihta Pantou *1980: 80 *1981: Kardia Mou Moni *1982: Den Thelo Na Thimame *1983: Eisai Dikia Mou *1984: O Tolis Voskopoulos Tragouda Manoli Chioti (Perasmenes Mou Agapes) *1985: Tote *1985: Tora *1986: Ametrita Giati *1987: 16 Ap’ Ta Oraiotera T

Tolu Obanro

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Tolulope Obanro known professionally as Tolu Obanro is a Nigerian film composer. He created the scores for Gangs of Lagos (2023), Jagun Jagun (2023), and A Tribe Called Judah (2023) which became the first Nollywood movie to hit ₦1 billion at the box office. Early life and education Tolulope Obanro was born in Ilorin, Kwara State but spent most of his childhood in Lokoja, Kogi State where he schooled at Government Science Secondary School for his secondary school. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Federal University of Technology, Minna before proceeding to the National Broadcast Academy in Lagos State. Career Tolu Obanro worked at an oil and gas company but left the industry for music. Tolu Obanro had previously worked in music production for gospel artists such as Mike Abdul, Kenny Kore and Monique before proceeding to music production and film scoring. After scoring for some YouTube videos, Obanro first feature film was Your Excellency (2019) which was followed by the series King of Boys: The Return of the King in 2021. Obanro became acclaimed for his scoring of A Tribe Called Judah (2023) which was the first Nollywood movie to hit ₦1 billion at the box office. - The

Tom Cora

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Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock. He recorded with John Zorn, Butch Morris, and the Ex, and was a member of Curlew, Third Person and Skeleton Crew. Biography Tom Cora was born in Yancey Mills, Virginia, United States. He made his musical debut as drummer on a local television program and in the mid-1970s he played guitar for a Washington, D.C. jazz club house band. He took up the cello while an undergraduate at the University of Virginia and studied with cellist Pablo Casals’ student Luis Garcia-Renart and later with vibraphonist Karl Berger. During this time he formed his own group, the Moose Skowron Tuned Metal Ensemble and began constructing instruments for it. In 1979 Cora moved to New York City, where he worked with Shockabilly guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, introducing the cello to the honky tonk circuits of North America. He performed at improvising clubs and venues in New York with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Andrea Centazzo, Butch Morris, Wayne Horvitz, David Moss, Toshinori Kondo and others. Cora also c

Tom Cothran

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Thomas Walter Cothran (1947–1987) was an American musicologist and composer, notable for his professional collaboration and personal relationship with American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Early life and education Tom Cothran was born in San Antonio to parents Walter M. and Betty (Nogle) Cothran. Walter was at the time a business equipment salesman. The family remained in Texas for some years, then moved to Pasadena, California, where Tom graduated from Pasadena High School in 1965. Cothran attended Northwestern University for two years, then transferred to UC Berkeley where he studied music and became interested in linguistics. Never graduating, he found employment at San Francisco radio station KKHI (then an all-classical format), rising to program director. Cothran met Bernstein at a party in 1971 and quickly found common interests with the composer/conductor. Bernstein introduced Cothran to acquaintances and friends within the former’s social and professional orbit. Multiple sources report that the two became lovers. As assistant to Bernstein Cothran assisted and advised Bernstein in small ways during the period of development of the latter’s Mass (1971) and was a

Tom Dissevelt

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Thomas Dissevelt, known as Tom Dissevelt (March 4, 1921 – January 29, 1989) was a Dutch composer, arranger and musician. He is regarded as a pioneer in the merging of electronic music and jazz. He married Rina Reys, sister of Rita Reys, in 1946. Tom Dissevelt was also known as bassist/arranger of the Skymasters, and contributed to recordings by Rita Reys. Between 1939 and 1944 Dissevelt studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He studied trombone for over three years, then went on to study clarinet, music theory and piano. Owing to schedule conflicts he discontinued his clarinet studies but later studied bass under the tutelage of Herman Stotijn of the Residentie Orchestra. After World War II Dissevelt moved to Indonesia with the Jos Cleber Orchestra to work. In 1947 he went on an international tour with Wessel Ilcken, the husband of Rita Reys, and the orchestra of Piet van Dijk. This tour lasted three years and was particularly focussed on Spain and North Africa. In 1955 Bep Rowold, leader of the Skymasters, hired Dissevelt as a bassist and arranger. Dissevelt became interested in twelve-tone serialism, listened to the many German radio stations, and heard works by Karlhein

Tom Gray (activist)

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Tom Gray (born 1 January 1977) is a Mercury Prize-winning British songwriter, composer, and activist. Early He was born on 1 January 1977 in Southport. He became a founding member of the rock band Gomez, the founder of the Broken Record campaign. and the elected Chair of the Ivors Academy. He is an elected Council Member of PRS For Music and sits on the board of UK Music. He is a UK Labour Party activist based in Brighton & Hove, and a member of the Musicians’ Union. Musical work Gray is a founding member and one of three vocalists in the UK indie rock band Gomez. With Gomez, he won the Mercury Prize in 1998. In 2016 their winning album, Bring It On, was voted BBC Radio 6 Music listeners’ favourite ever Mercury winner to date. The band went on to enjoy five UK Top 40 albums. As a composer, Gray has worked in film, theatre and television. He wrote the score for the first season of In My Skin, a comedy-drama series on the BBC and Hulu. He has also composed for the adaptation of Danny Champion of the World as a stage musical. He was the recipient of the 2022 Unsung Hero Award presented by the Music Producer’s Guild UK. and is a signatory to the ‘Music Declares Emergency’ climate decla

Tom Hedden

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Tom Hedden is an American score composer, the former music director at NFL Films, and National Football League Director of Music Administration. In 2009, Hedden left the NFL and has since composed music independently for, among others, NASCAR Media Group, Golf Channel, World Poker Tour, Hock Films, ESPN and The SEC Network. Career Hedden graduated out of Berklee College of Music, and became the music director of NFL Films in 1990. Hedden was instructed by NFL Films President Steve Sabol in 1994 to create a score for a TNT special titled, 75 Seasons: The History of the NFL. After nine months, Hedden was awarded the Emmy Award for Musical Score; working with David Robidoux, Hedden would eventually win four more Emmys for the specials Favre 4Ever, Emmitt Smith: Run With History, NFL Century – In Their Words, and Unitas. Together, Hedden and Robidoux would also create the score for History Channel’s Blood in a Stone. One of the pieces he composed, A New Game, featured an unusual 15/8 time signature; the piece would eventually be played at National Football League games whenever the visiting team calls a timeout. In 2008, he became the NFL’s Director of Music Administration, and is in c

Tom Hodge

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Tom Hodge is a British composer known for his work in film, television and documentary. His credits include The Mauritanian, McMafia, The Ipcress File, Cleaner and Testimony. He won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score for Testimony in 2026. Career Tom Hodge composed the score for the feature film The Mauritanian, directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim and Benedict Cumberbatch. His collaborations with Macdonald include High & Low: John Galliano, Last Song from Kabul, and Klitschko: More Than a Fight. In 2026, he composed the music for The Last First: Winter K2, a documentary film directed by Amir Bar-Lev and acquired globally by Apple Original Films. In 2025, Hodge composed the score for the action thriller Cleaner, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Daisy Ridley, Clive Owen and Taz Skylar. He has also composed music for television series including McMafia and The Ipcress File. He contributed additional music to the Netflix action film Extraction 2 starring Chris Hemsworth. In 2019, he received an Ivor Novello Award nomination for his score for the BBC and PBS documentary series Rise of the Nazis. In 2026, Hodge won the Ivor Novello

Tom Johnson (composer)

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Thomas Floyd Johnson (November 18, 1939 – December 31, 2024) was an American composer and music critic associated with minimalism. After a religious upbringing in Colorado, he studied at Yale with Allen Forte and in New York City with Morton Feldman. There he covered the work of several noted composers, bringing them to wider attention in The Village Voice. He found inspiration in the ideas of ancient and early modern mathematicians and philosophers, and collaborated with contemporary mathematicians, while incorporating theatrical and visual elements in his work. Johnson often sought to engage audiences by explaining or narrating the processes of his music in or as part of the musical experience. He relocated to Paris in 1983, where he remarried in 1986 and lived until his death. His works include An Hour for Piano, The Four-Note Opera, Riemannoper, and the Bonhoeffer Oratorio. Background and education Tom Johnson was born in Greeley, Colorado, on November 18, 1939, where he received a religious education at a Methodist church, which influenced his work. He earned two degrees from Yale, a B.A. (1961) and the M.Mus. (1967), however, the term ‘minimal’ had been used in minimal art si

Tom Lemonier

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Tom Lemonier (March 29, 1870 — March 14, 1945) was an actor and composer of popular music during the ragtime era, particularly active in Black Vaudeville. Some of his work was published by the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company. Early Life Thomas Lemonier was born on March 29th, 1869 in Manhattan, New York to parents William and Sarah. Lemonier has one brother, William. Lemonier’s grandfather, Augustus, was enslaved in Cuba before moving to New York City and falling in love with a woman. Augustus owned a tobacco shop in Hester Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood. Lemonier first got into music by playing the piano as a boy, but was well known in the city due to his harmonica skill. Career Numerous recordings of his songs were made including on Victor Records and Columbia Records. In 1909 he joined the staff of music publisher Rose & Snyder. Lemonier became one of the first African-American actors to perform in a Caucasian play when in 1910 he was hired to play a steward in William A. Brady’s production of Over Night. Previously these characters had been performed in blackface. In addition to the original production, he was part of a national tour of this show. In 1915 Le

Tom Roberts (pianist)

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Tom Roberts (born 1962) is an American pianist, composer, and arranger, a specialist in the stride piano style, and an expert on early jazz piano and jazz recordings. Tom is a master of all early jazz piano styles including ragtime, boogie woogie, swing, New Orleans jazz, and Harlen Stride piano. Early years Tom Roberts grew up in Swisshelm Park, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was the eldest of three brothers. His grandparents lived across the street and Roberts learned to play piano on his grandmother’s player piano. for three years while continuing to pursue his goal of performing jazz. After giving Leon Redbone an audition tape, he caught the man’s attention and Redbone offered Roberts a contract to go on tour with him. In Roberts’s first performance on that tour, he played on stage at The Tonight Show During his stay there, Roberts released his first solo album, Night Cap, in 1999. New York City In late 1999, Roberts relocated to New York City. In 2003, he performed twice at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Roberts formed the Allegheny City Ragtime Orchestra in order to share lost ragtime music, especially music written by local Pittsburgh composers, with a contemporary aud

Tom Scott (composer)

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Thomas Jefferson Scott (May 28, 1912 – August 12, 1961) was an American composer and singer. Biography Scott studied music at the University of Kentucky, after which he moved to New York City when he joined Fred Waring’s glee club. He was soon employed by the group as an arranger. In 1942, he began a successful career as a folk singer. He accompanied himself on the guitar and billed himself as “The American Troubadour”. He appeared at the Rainbow Room and the Cotillion Room of the Pierre Hotel, among other venues. Garnering praise, Scott landed his own radio show, which ran for several years. Although Scott did write some of his own folk songs, he is mostly remembered now for his classical works, and in particular his symphonic pieces, which for the most part are rooted in American folk music. His symphonic works include Ballad of the Harp Weaver, Binorie Variations, Colloquy for Strings, Coney Island, Fanfare and Cantilena, Hornpipe and Chantey, Johnny Appleseed, Music for String Orchestra, and Symphony No. 1. His work From the Sacred Harp was performed and recorded in its world premiere by the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. Among his other composition

Tom Third

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Tom Third is a Canadian film and television composer. He is most noted as a two-time Gemini Award and Canadian Screen Award recipient, winning Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Program, Mini-Series or TV Movie at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010 for The Summit, and Best Original Music Score for a Program at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014 for Borealis. He has also received two Gemini nominations for his work on the television series ReGenesis at the 21st Gemini Awards in 2006 and the 22nd Gemini Awards in 2007, and three CSA nominations for Original Music, Fiction for his work on the television series Coroner at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, and the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. In 2022, he received two nominations for the Screen Composers Guild of Canada’s inaugural Canadian Screen Music Awards, garnering nods in Best Original Score for a Series or Limited Series for Coroner and Best Original Score for a Non-Fiction Series or Limited Series for BLK, An Origin Story. He is the partner of documentary filmmaker Christy Garland. References External links * *

Tomás Bretón

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Tomás Bretón y Hernández (29 December 1850 – 2 December 1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer. Biography Tomás Bretón was born in Salamanca. He completed his musical studies at the School of Fine Arts in his hometown, where he earned his living playing the violin in small provincial orchestras, theaters and churches. At age 16, he moved to Madrid, where he played the violin in orchestras in zarzuela theatres. He also began his studies of the violin and piano at the Royal Conservatory under Emilio Arrieta. In 1872, Bretón received the first prize for composition at the Conservatory, together with Ruperto Chapi. After having worked in small theaters for several years, in 1882 he received a grant from the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando which enabled him to study in Rome, Milan, Vienna and Paris between 1881 and 1884. There, he found time to work on more ambitious works, such the oratorio El Apocalipsis and the opera Los amantes de Teruel. The premiere of this last work at the Teatro Real de Madrid cemented his name as one of the major composers of Spanish opera. Briton was also very active as a conductor, first in the Unión Artistical Musical (1878–81), which he founded, an

Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco

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Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco Sánchez (23 December 1644 – 23 April 1728) was a Spanish composer, musician and organist based in Peru, associated with the American Baroque. Life Torrejón y Velasco was born in Villarrobledo and spent his childhood in the town Fuencarral (now a district of Madrid), the birthplace of his father, Miguel de Torrejón, a huntsman in Philip IV of Spain’s employ. In 1658, while still in Spain, he entered into the service of Pedro Fernández de Castro y Andrade, Count of Lemos, who later became the viceroy of Peru. In 1667, he traveled to Lima along with the new viceroy, as one of the viceroy’s 113 personal attendants. From 21 November 1667 until 1672 he was superintendent of the armoury at Lima. In 1673 he was appointed magistrate and chief justice of Chachapoyas province, a position he held for four years. In 1676 he was appointed maestro de capilla at the Cathedral of Lima, replacing Juan de Araujo. He remained in that position until his death more than fifty years later in 1728. Torrejón seems to have been deeply religious, and adhered to the precepts of the Catholic Church as usual at the times for someone in his position. Married twice (his first wife died

Tomás Garbizu

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Tomás Garbizu Salaberria (12 September 1901 – 27 November 1989) was a Basque composer. He was the youngest and last of the Basque nationalist music movement composers. Early life and education Garbizu was born in Lezo, Guipázcoa, on 12 September 1901. He received first musical education in San Sebastián. Then he studied organ in Madrid and Paris under Charles Lebout. Career Garbizu worked at the San Sebastián Conservatory as an organ professor from 1954 to 1989, when he retired. Recordings * Tomás Garbizu: Piano Music. Álvaro Cendoya (piano). Naxos Spanish Classics * Garbizu: Works for Txistu & Piano. Old San Sebastian Songs. Euskal suitea I. Guipuzcoan Dances. Jose Ignacio Ansorena (Txistu and Tamboril), Alvaro Cendoya (piano) Naxos Spanish Classics * Garbizu: Basque Music Collection Vol.8 Misa Papa Juan XXIII. Ave Maria for Soprano and Orchestra. Cinco Canciones Vascas for Soprano and Orchestra. Olatz Saitua (soprano) Xavier de Maistre (harp) Esteban Elizondo (organ) Orfeon Donostiarra (choir) Basquen National Orchestra, Cristian Mandeal Claves Death Garbizu died in San Sebastián on 27 November 1989. References

Tomás Luis de Victoria

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Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes Italianised as da Vittoria; c. 1548) was the most famous Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus as among the principal composers of the late Renaissance, and was “admired above all for the intensity of some of his motets and of his Offices for the Dead and for Holy Week”. His surviving oeuvre, unlike that of his colleagues, is almost exclusively sacred and polyphonic vocal music, set to Latin texts. As a Catholic priest, as well as an accomplished organist and singer, his career spanned both Spain and Italy. However, he preferred the life of a composer to that of a performer. Life and career Family background and early years Tomás Luis de Victoria was born around 1548, most likely in Ávila, the main residence of his family at the time. Victoria’s birthplace has been the subject of debate, and remains unclear since his baptismal record has never been found. The town of Sanchidrián has been proposed as another possible birthplace, however it was only later that the Victorias would settle there, when Tomás’ eldest brother moved to Sanchidrián with his young family and widowed mother.

Tomás Marco

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Tomás Marco Aragón (born 12 September 1942) is a Spanish composer and writer on music. Life and work Marco was born in Madrid where he later studied violin and composition, while at the same time pursuing the study of law (he received his licenciate in law in 1963). He turned to composition in 1958, and in 1962 began attending the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse, where he furthered his studies with Bruno Maderna, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti, Gottfried Michael Koenig, and Theodor W. Adorno. In 1967 he participated in Stockhausen’s collective composition project Ensemble at Darmstadt. His compositional style is rooted in the music of the Darmstadt School. For example, Transfiguración (1974) strongly recalls Ligeti’s Lux aeterna (1966)—both are composed for 16 solo voices—as well as the harmonic overtone-singing of Stockhausen’s Stimmung (1968). In 1965 he began a brief association with the neo-Dada composers’ group Zaj, founded the previous year by Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, and Ramón Barce. He helped to found the Studio Nueva Generación in 1967, by which time some of his compositions were beginning to include references to historical styles and qu

Tomáš Svoboda (composer)

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Tomáš Svoboda (December 6, 1939 – November 17, 2022) was a French-born Czech-American contemporary classical composer and pianist, whose debut took place in Prague, Czechoslovakia on September 7, 1957, with the world premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Of Nature) with the FOK Prague Symphony conducted by Václav Smetáček. Svoboda’s catalog contains over 200 compositions, including six symphonies and five concerti. His music is performed worldwide and recordings of more than 50 works have now been released. Svoboda’s Piano Trios CD recording received a 2001 “Critics Choice Award” from the American Record Guide and his Marimba Concerto received recognition in a 2003 Grammy Award nomination for the Oregon Symphony. Works Selected recordings * Children’s Treasure Box, Vols. 1-4, for Piano, North Pacific Music (NPM LD 026), Recording by Tomas Svoboda. * Chamber Works, Vol. 1, With Clarinet, North Pacific Music (NPM LD 016), Recording by members of Oregon Festival of American Music & Tomas Svoboda. * Four Visions, Music for 1, 2 & 3 Pianos, North Pacific Music (NPM LD 013), Recording by Daniel Wiesner, David Svec & Tomas Svoboda. * Nine Etudes in Fugue Style, Vols. 1 & 2, for Piano, North Pac

Tomaso Albinoni

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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos. He is best remembered today for a work called “Adagio in G minor”, attributed to him but largely written by Remo Giazotto, a 20th-century musicologist and composer, who was a cataloguer of the works of Albinoni. Biography Albinoni was born in Venice, at the time part of the Republic of Venice, but now in Italy. His father was Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant. Tomaso studied violin and singing; in 1694, he dedicated his Opus 1 to the fellow-Venetian, Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (grand-nephew of Pope Alexander VIII). His first opera, Zenobia, regina de Palmireni, was produced in Venice in 1694. Albinoni was possibly employed in 1700 as a violinist to Charles IV, Duke of Mantua, to whom he dedicated his Opus 2 collection of instrumental pieces. In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Ferdinando de’ Medici, Grand Prin

Tomaso Antonio Vitali

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Tomaso Antonio Vitali (7 March 1663 – 9 May 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist of the mid to late Baroque era. The eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali, he is chiefly known for a Chaconne in G minor for violin and continuo, to which he is traditionally attributed as the composer. The earliest known source for Vitali’s Chaconne is a manuscript housed in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek Dresden with the shelfmark Mus. 2037/R/1. The work’s wide-ranging modulations into distant keys have raised speculation that it could not be a genuine Baroque work, while the lack of similarities to other works by Vitali have made modern scholars cast serious doubts on the attribution. Biography Vitali was born in Bologna on 7 March 1663; his father was the noted composer and violinist Giovanni Battista Vitali. He studied composition in Modena with Antonio Maria Pacchioni, and was employed at the Este court orchestra from 1675 to 1742. He was a teacher, whose pupils included Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco, Jean Baptiste Senaillé, Girolamo Nicolò Laurenti and Luca Antonio Predieri. Authentic works by Vitali include a set of trio sonatas published as his opus numbers 1 and 2 (1693), sonatas da cam

Tomaso Benvenuti

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Tomaso Benvenuti (also spelled Tommasso and Tommaso; 4 February 1838 – 26 February 1906) was a nineteenth-century Italian composer of opera. He was born in Cavarzere in the Veneto (at the time part of the Austrian Empire) and died in Rome at the age of 68. Works Benvenuti is known to have written the following seven operas: *Valenzia Candiano, an azione lirica, 1856. The librettist is unknown, as is the place, if there was one, of the first performance. A libretto published in Mantua in 1856, however, does include other details of what may have been the first production. From the character list it appears the opera was adapted from Valenzia Candiano, o, La figlia dell’ammiraglio, an historical novel published in 1843 by the Milanese writer Giuseppe Rovani. *Adriana, or Adriana Lecouvreur, a dramma lirico in 4 acts, 1857. The libretto by was adapted from the play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest-Wilfrid Legouvé, which would later form the basis for Francesco Cilea’s opera Adriana Lecouvreur. The opera’s first performance was on 26 November 1857 at the Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan. *Guglielmo Shakspeare (i.e. William Shakespeare), a melodramma in 5 acts, 1861. The op

Tomasz Golka

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Tomasz Golka (born 1975) is a Polish-American conductor, composer and violinist. Golka is the son of pianist Anna Karczewska-Golka and trombonist George Golka. He is the great-grandson of Max Stern. His younger brother Adam Golka is a pianist. Career Golka was born in 1975 in Warsaw, in Poland. His family emigrated to Mexico when he was young. He completed bachelor’s and master’s degrees in violin at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston, Texas, and became an American citizen in 1996. He studied conducting under David Effron at Indiana University and later under Markand Thakar and Gustav Meier at the Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University. In 2003, Golka won first prize at the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico City. From 2003-04, Golka was a visiting professor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and served as a conductor for the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, Golka was a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival. His work at Tanglewood included conducting a performance of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale with composers Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, and John Harbison as narrators. From 2007

Tomasz Lipiński

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Tomasz “Frantz” Lipinski is a Polish rock guitarist, lyricist, composer and singer. Born on 21 August 1955 in Warsaw, Lipinski is the founder of Tilt, one of the first punk rock bands in Poland, and co-founder of Brygada Kryzys, regarded as an influential rock band in Poland. Furthermore, he was a member of the bands Fotoness and Izrael. He is the son of the satirist and caricaturist Eryk Lipinski, but was raised by his mother, for the first time meeting his father at the age of eight. In 1975, Lipinski graduated from high school, and continued his education at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1979, Lipinski founded Tilt, one of the first punk rock bands in Poland. In the summer of 1981, together with Robert Brylewski, Lipinski founded Brygada Kryzys, an influential new wave group in Poland. After the dissolution of Brygada Kryzys, Lipinski shortly joined Izrael, later re-creating Tilt. In the 1990s, he wrote a column for the “Tylko Rock” music magazine, worked for BMG Poland, was editor in chief of the “Aktivist” magazine, wrote music for several films, and acted in some movies. Lipinski is a Buddhist, and has two daughters. In 2011, he was awarded The Order of Polonia Restituta

Tomasz Sikorski

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Tomasz Sikorski (19 May 1939 – 12 November 1988) was a Polish composer and pianist. The son of the composer Kazimierz Sikorski, he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory with Zbigniew Drzewiecki. Later, thanks to a scholarship from the French government, he studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. From 1975–76, as a recipient of a Senior-Fulbright Scholarship from the US government, he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City. His works He is the main so-called “Polish minimalist” (the other: Zygmunt Krauze). In addition to piano works and radio opera, Sikorski composed numerous instrumental works, among them: * Sequenza I for Symphony Orchestra (1966) * Homophony for 4 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 4 Trombones, Piano and Gong (1970) * Holzwege (1972) * Vox humana for Mixed Choir, 2 Solo Pianos, 12 Brass Instruments, 4 Gongs and 4 Tam-tams (1971) * Other voices for 24 Wind Instruments, 4 Gongs and Chimes, (1975) * Sickness unto Death (Choroba na śmierć) (1976). The words are taken from Søren Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death, 1849 * Music in Twilight for Piano and Orchestra (1978) * Strings in the Earth (1980) * Das Schweigen der Sirenen (1986) * Diario (1987) I

Tomasz Stańko

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Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (; 11 July 1942 – 29 July 2018) was a Polish trumpeter and composer associated with free jazz and the avant-garde. In 1962, Tomasz Stańko formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with saxophonist Janusz Muniak, pianist Adam Makowicz, bassist Jacek Ostaszewski, drummer Wiktor Perelmuter. Inspired by Ornette Coleman and the innovations of John Coltrane, Miles Davis and George Russell, the group is often cited by music historians as the first European group to play free jazz. In his later years, he collaborated with pianist Krzysztof Komeda on Komeda’s album Astigmatic, recorded in late 1965. In 1968, Stańko formed a quintet whose members were Janusz Muniak (tenor and soprano saxophones, flute), Zbigniew Seifert (alto sax and violin), Bronisław Suchanek (bass), Janusz Stefański (drums, percussion). In 1975, he formed the Tomasz Stańko-Adam Makowicz Unit. Stańko established a reputation as a leading figure not only in Polish jazz, but internationally as well, working with musicians including Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Reggie Workman, Rufus Reid, Lester Bowie, David Murray, Manu Katché and Chico Freeman. From 1984, he was a member of Cecil Taylor’s big band. Bio

Tomer Biran

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Tomer Biran (born July 10, 1976) is an Israeli music producer, arranger, composer, and singer. Biography Biran was born in Ofakim under the name Tomer Biton, to David and Yaffa Biton. Biran has a brother and sister, soundtrack designer Assaf Biton and fashion designer Yarden Biton. After his military service, Biran moved to Tel Aviv. Early in his career, Biran worked with Haim Tsinovich and participated in his album “Today’s Tears Are Tomorrow’s Honey” which he created in 2000, composing and arranging songs including “Habel, the Vanity of Grace, the Lie of Beauty.” Biran was also involved in his next album, “And the Fire Will Burn” from 2001. In 2007, he arranged the song “Abba” for Shlom Shabbat, which reached third place in the 2008 annual chart. In 2012, he arranged the song “Shmayim” for Yigal Bashan, which was a success and even reached the top of the chart for one week. In 2019, after Bashan’s death and at the request of the family, he arranged the song “Tabit. In 2019, two songs that he arranged and produced musically achieved great success: “Shevet Achim and Achiyot” performed by Omni Israel and “Aluf Ha’olam” performed by Hanan Ben Ari. The following year, the songs “Im Ta

Tomi Räisänen

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Tomi Räisänen (; born 2 June 1976) is a Finnish composer. Biography Räisänen was born in Helsinki. He studied composition from 2000 to 2006 at the Sibelius Academy under Erkki Jokinen graduating as a master of music. Before entering the Sibelius Academy he read music at the University of Helsinki studying musicology and composition under Harri Vuori. He has also participated in several international composition masterclasses, seminars and workshops under composers such as Louis Andriessen, Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, Jouni Kaipainen, Magnus Lindberg, Philippe Manoury and Marco Stroppa. Since the early 2000s Räisänen’s list of works has rapidly grown and contains around 100 compositions covering works from solo pieces to chamber and choral music, and includes orchestral works and concertos. Räisänen is one of the most performed composers of his generation in Finland. His music has been widely performed and broadcast in 44 countries across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. Same year, the youth orchestra work Kalalle won 2nd Prize in Pirkanmaan Pinna Composition Competition. In 2022, choir work Kiire won 2nd prize in the P. J. Hannikainen Ch

Tomislav Zografski

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Tomislav Zografski (, 29 March 193414 January 2000) was a Macedonian composer and music pedagogue who also wrote music for film and television. His neoclassical language played a key part in the journey of Macedonian music toward the postmodern era. Zografski’s musical language was not archetypal of neoclassical folklore-inspired pastiche but instead more the result of him venturing into the examination and development of more exemplar traditional repertoire in a way that was unconventional and compelling and which retained transformed elements from an earlier period. Zografski was born in Veles, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Macedonia) on 29 March 1934. He studied music at Skopje Music School and Belgrade Music School and composition at the Music Academy in Belgrade. In 1967 he became professor at the faculty of music at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. * Ten miniatures for piano, Op. 11 * Sonata for bassoon and piano, Op. 17 (1958) * Suite, Op. 27 (1960) * Suite for solo piano, Op. 27 (1961) * Scripts for baritone and piano, Op. 39 (1963) * String Quartet, Op. 58 (1968) * Sonatina in C for two pianos, Op. 142 (1969) * Cantus Coronatus (1969) * Siyaniem for soloist and m

Tommaso Bai

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Tommaso Bai, or Tommaso Baj, was born in Crevalcore around 1650 and died in Rome on 22 December 1714. He was an Italian conductor, composer, and tenor at the Vatican. He is most well known for his Miserere, which is associated with Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere. During the last years of his life he had been the Kapellmeister of the Cappella Giulia in Rome. Biography In the year of 1670 he joined the Choir of the Cappella Giulia and stayed there until his dying day. He also advanced to become a personal singer of the pope. He served the following superiors, who had been his predecessors as the Kapellmeister of the Cappella Giulia: * Orazio Benevoli (1646–1672) * Ercole Bernabei (1672–1674) * Antonio Masini (1674–1678) * Don Francesco Berretta (1678–1694) * Paolo Lorenzani (1694–1713) In 1713 he got to be the Kapellmeister. He kept this function until his dying day. According to Baini he died on 22 December 1714. Works Bai was acclaimed for his intricate attention to prosody, accentuation of words, and notation. His well known Miserere, which he composed in 1713, is claimed by some opinions to be an imitation Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere. According to Eitner this Miserere, that is perfo

Tommaso Giordani

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Tommaso Giordani (c. 1730 to 1733 – before 24 February 1806) was an Italian composer active in England and particularly in Ireland. Life Giordani was born in Naples between 1730 and 1733 and came from a musical family. His father was Giuseppe Giordani senior, born around 1695 in Naples, and died after 1762, probably in London (no relation to the Neapolitan organist Carmine Giordani, b. 1685). A possible younger brother was Giuseppe Giordani (1751–1798), called “Giordanello”. Tommaso was trained in Naples and moved with his father and siblings (including singer Nicolina) via Graz (1747), Salzburg and Frankfurt (1750), Amsterdam (1752) and Paris (1753) to London, where they performed four burlettas at Covent Garden in the 1753–54 season. Although the family performed in London for the next two years, Tommaso is not mentioned in the newspaper reports of the time. However in British publications of his time, Giordani was often referred to as “Tomaso Giordani”, with a single “m” in his first name, or more commonly as “Sig. Giordani” or “Signor Giordani”. His whereabouts in the following eight years are unknown. In 1764, he accepted an invitation to act as musical director of the Smock A

Tommaso Traetta

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Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (30 March 1727 – 6 April 1779), was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic reforms including reducing the ornateness of style and the primacy of star singers. Biography Traetta was born in Bitonto, a town near Bari in the Apulia region of Italy. He was a student of a composer, singer, and teacher Nicola Porpora in Naples, and found early success with his opera Il Farnace in 1751. Around this time, he came into contact with Niccolò Jommelli. Traetta found regular commissions throughout Italy, before accepting a post as court composer at Parma in 1759. The ruler of Parma, Philip, Duke of Parma had married the eldest daughter of Louis XV. In Parma, there was a craving for all things French and the splendor of Versailles. It was in Parma that Traetta’s operas first moved in new directions. As a result, Antigona, his 1772 opera for Saint Petersburg, was amongst his most forward-looking, the closest he approached the famous reform ideals usually associated with Gluck. It was at the court of the Duke of Bourbon-Parma, that Traetta

Tommie Haglund

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Tommie Haglund (born 15 January 1959) is a Swedish composer. He has composed chamber, choral, and orchestral music. His awards include the Christ Johnson Prize and H. M. The King’s Medal. Biography Early years Haglund became interested in music during a long hospital stay at the age of seven in his hometown of Kalmar. Three years later he began studying harmony and music theory at the municipal music school in Kalmar. At that time the influence of Mozart was strong. At the age of nineteen he moved to Halmstad, where he began studying music and composition with the guitar teacher Bo Strömberg. Through Strömberg, Haglund also discovered the composer John Dowland. Haglund was the subject of an extended interview volume published in 2022 as the Swedish-language book Ögonblickets oändlighet: Samtal med Tommie Haglund The Infinity of the Moment: Conversations with Tommie Haglund . An English-language edition, Listening to Eternity: The Music, Spirituality, and Creative World of Composer Tommie Haglund, was published in 2025. Recognition Haglund has received, among other things, the Great Christ Johnson Prize and the H. M. The King’s Medal. Work Symphonies * Symphony (2023, Gehrmans Musik

Tommy Banks (musician)

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Thomas Benjamin Banks (December 17, 1936 – January 25, 2018) was a Canadian pianist, conductor, composer, television personality, and senator. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice of prime minister Jean Chrétien in 2000 and served as a member of the Liberal caucus until 2011. Early life Banks was born in Calgary, Alberta on December 17, 1936. He was born to Benjamin and Laura Banks. He had three brothers: Jim, Terry, and John, and one sister, Wendy. In 1949, the Banks family moved to Edmonton, Alberta. Banks provided musical direction for the ceremonies of the XI Commonwealth Games, EXPO ’86, the World University Games, the XV Olympic Winter Games, and for several radio and television shows. He produced and/or conducted command performances for Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family, and for President Ronald Reagan. He was a member of the A. F. of M., ACTRA, the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (U.S.), the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, and of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Banks made his jazz-playing debut in 1950 in the touring band of saxophonist Don (D. T.) Thompson. At the age of 15, he performed at Varsity Hall.

Tommy Seebach

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Tommy Seebach (14 September 1949 – 31 March 2003), born Tommy Seebach Mortensen in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer. He is best known as front man of Sir Henry and his Butlers and for numerous contributions to the Danish qualifier for the Eurovision Song Contest, the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, which he won three times. He was the father of songwriter/producer Nicolai Seebach and singer/songwriter/producer Rasmus Seebach. Biography Musical beginnings Seebach began his musical career as an organist in his own group “The Colours” at age 14. In the following years he played in many pop and beat groups. He played the piano with various orchestras and groups, sometimes going under the name of “Boogie-Woogie-Tommy”. He gained mainstream popularity in Denmark in 1965, when he became a member of the band Sir Henry and his Butlers, writing many of their most popular hits. He also worked as a recording engineer at the Rosenberg Studio in Copenhagen and amongst other projects recorded the Icecross album there in 1973. Solo career In 1976 he emerged as a successful solo artist. His hit album “Tommygum” was released in 1977. It was at this

Tomosuke Funaki

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is a Japanese composer who has contributed to the Bemani series of music video games. He has produced songs for Beatmania, Beatmania IIDX, Pop’n Music, Dance Maniax, Guitar Freaks, DrumMania, Mambo a Gogo, and Dance Dance Revolution (Dancing Stage). He collaborated with the Shibuya-Kei vocalist “EeL” to provide original songs for BEMANI under his “EeL” pseudonym. Between 2000 - 2004 Funaki produced a series of Lounge Music compositions to accompany games created by Bemani Works using the name “Orange Lounge”. The tracks were recorded with French-speaking Japanese vocalist Shizue Tokui. In all they recorded just 14 tracks, with another eight or more extended remixes Orange Lounge’s signature track, “Love Is Orange” is a reference to the 1967 instrumental hit “Love Is Blue” by Paul Mauriat, whose work Funaki has cited as an influence. “Nick boys” is the pseudonym for his Hip hop-influenced collaboration with Des-ROW. “Zektbach” is the pseudonym used for his classical music influenced concept pieces by forms of fantasy worlds, usually with choirs and classical instrumentation. Bemani works beatmania *Feel the light, beatmania 6th Mix *What is love?, beatmania 7th Mix *u gotta groove -

Tomoyasu Hotei

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, also known simply as Hotei ( ), is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and actor. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Hotei claims record sales of over 40 million copies and has collaborated with artists from around the world. Hotei first rose to prominence in the 1980s as the guitarist for Boøwy, one of Japan’s most popular rock bands, before starting a solo career. In 2003, he was ranked number 70 on HMV’s list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. He ranked second in a 2011 poll on who the Japanese people thought was the best guitarist to represent Japan. An iconic artist in his native Japan, he moved to London in 2005 and continues to perform and release music globally. Hotei’s song “Battle Without Honor or Humanity” has been featured in numerous films, commercials, video games, and events, including Quentin Tarantino’s feature film Kill Bill. Early life Hotei was born to a Korean father and a Russian-born Japanese mother. He first began playing the guitar in junior high school. Inspired by a poster of T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan, he stole money from his mother’s purse and bought a Stratocaster at fourteen years old. His first band,

Ton de Leeuw

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Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - Paris, 31 May 1996) was a Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality. Life and career Taught by Henk Badings, Olivier Messiaen and others, and in his youth influenced by Béla Bartók, De Leeuw was a teacher at the University of Amsterdam and later professor of composition and electronic music at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam from 1959 to 1986, at which institute he served as director from 1971–73. For his notable students, “When I was quite young I once accidentally tuned in on a radio broadcast from an Arabian station. I was thunderstruck: I became deeply aware that there were other people living on this earth, living in thoroughly different conditions, having other thoughts and feelings” (Ton de Leeuw, 1978). He studied ethnomusicology with Jaap Kunst between 1950 and 1954 and the encounter with the Dagar brothers and Drupad on his first visit to India in 1961 deepened a lifelong interest in “transculturation”. Since then he has travelled throughout the world: Japan, Indonesia, Australia, the Philippines, Persia, the Sovjet Union, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland, where he hold workshop

Ton Hartsuiker

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Antoni Fredrik “Ton” Hartsuiker (12 May 1933 in Zwolle – 8 May 2015 in Utrecht) was a Dutch classical pianist, best known as a performer of 20th-century classical music, composer, music school administrator, and radio broadcaster. He was the director of both the Music Academy of Utrecht and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and was also on the faculty of the Rotterdam Conservatoire and Enschede Music Academy. For 22 years he presented the program Musica Nova on Radio 4, the Dutch classical radio station, for broadcasting organization NOS. He was the musical director of and a pianist in Ensemble M (1974–1978), founded by Hartsuiker and the conductor David Porcelijn. He won the Geneco Prize in 1998. For his contributions to music in the Netherlands he was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (1998) and in 2002 received the Hogenbijl Prize. Arthur Jussen, Vera Kerstens, Christiaan Kuyvenhoven, Ralph van Raat, Christiaan Richter, Joey Roukens, Maarten van Veen, and Ljuba Moiz. References

Tôn-Thất Tiết

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Tôn-Thất Tiết (born 1933 in Huê) is a Vietnamese-born French music composer. His double-character family name is Tôn Thất, his given name Tiết (尊室節). Biography Born in Huê in central Vietnam in 1933, Tiet came to Paris in 1958 to study composition at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1977 he adopted French citizenship. At the Paris Conservatoire he attended Jean Rivier’s and André Jolivet’s classes for composition. He was at first drawn to the serial technique but from 1966 on he turned to another mode of inspiration. Of André Jolivet he said: “As a professor, he has never tried to influence me, nor push me toward any special kind of style. Our professor-student relationship was of a spiritual order. Yet through his suggestion and what Rivier had said, I came to realize that it was in the oriental way of thinking that I would find my style in music. I owe to Rivier the language and the shaping of my music which, as Jolivet has said, should be “a mean to express ideas and not an aim in itself”. Tôn-Thất Tiết’s music has a special language in which both oriental and occidental trends are fused, although the inspiration and thoughts are drawn basically from oriental sources. This is obvi

Tona Scherchen

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Tona Scherchen, also Tona Scherchen-Hsiao (Simplified Chinese: 萧桐; born 12 March 1938), is one of the first composers who brought Chinese elements into European avant-garde art music. Life Tona Scherchen was born into a musical family in Neuchâtel. Her father was conductor Hermann Scherchen and her mother was composer Xiao Shuxian. She spent the first 12 years of her life in Europe, particularly in Switzerland. She arrived in China in 1950 with her mother and her older sister Féfé. In 1956, just a year before China fell into political chaos, she returned to Europe to be with her father in order to pursue further music education. Her teachers included György Ligeti and Hans Werner Henze. After the 1960s, Scherchen had become an active composer, titles of her music were frequently seen in contemporary music programmes. Her works were published by prominent publishers, and several articles on her as a composer can be found, although after some appearances in 1980s, she seemingly ceased to catch attention beyond her French circle. Music Scherchen’s music is an adaption of the avant-garde idioms of the European 1960s, ’70s, synthesized with a language of her own. Many of her composition

Tone Stith

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Antonio “Tone” Stith (born July 26, 1995) is an American R&B singer and songwriter signed to MNRK Records. Early life Stith was born and raised in New Jersey and raised in a musical family. He began playing the drums at three years old and also learned the piano and guitar. His family encouraged his musical abilities, with his mother helping him learn to sing after overhearing him singing along to a song on a DVD of a Tyler Perry play. Stith learned how to utilize production software and started pursuing a musical career when he was a teenager. He formed the group SJ3 in high school, which attracted the interest of music executive Jas Prince, the driving force behind Drake’s early career, when he was in his teens. In 2021, Stith performed at the BET Awards 2021 and Victoria Monét’s The Jaguar Tour as a supporting act in 2023. He was nominated for the Best New Artist at the 2021 Soul Train Music Awards. In 2022, he performed on stage at SXSW, Rolling Stone and Meta Creator House. On September 8, 2023, Stith released an extended play titled P.O.V under RCA Records. Stith has worked with notable acts including 2 Chainz, Ty Dolla Sign, H.E.R., Quavo, Swae Lee, Bryson Tiller and more. H

Toni Beaulieu

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Leone Florence Perry (8 May 1905 – 28 March 1994), known professionally as Toni Beaulieu, was an American composer of classical, semi-classical, and popular music. She later used the names Leone Perry Hall and Leone Perry Allen. In 1946, Beaulieu founded Artistic Records, which recorded some of the leading pop artists. Her name appears in the Internet Movie Database as a contributor to movie soundtracks. Her music is being published by Clear Note Publications. The first volume, Celestial Suite, is now available. One movement of the suite plus five other short pieces may be heard on the Mojave Beach podcast site. Biography Born in Highmore, South Dakota, on May 8, 1905, Leone Florence Perry began piano lessons at age six and violin lessons at age eight. She began playing the violin in public concerts and was considered a child prodigy. At age 14, she began studying in the Academy Department at Huron College in Huron, North Dakota. She graduated from the academy in 1920 and enrolled in the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis. She graduated from MacPhail with a Bachelor of Music degree in June 1924, then joined the MacPhail faculty teaching piano and violin. Leone had a short, uns

Toni Castells

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Toni Castells (born in Berga, Spain) is a Spanish composer based in London. His work combines elements of classical music, opera, electronic music, and contemporary sound art, often drawing on genres such as neo-classical, ambient, and classical crossover. Castells has collaborated with various performers and has presented his compositions at venues in the United Kingdom and other places in Europe. His musical style has drawn comparisons to a diverse range of artists. Ben Roberts of London Tourdates described it as “Massive Attack meets Mendelssohn”, while producer Michael Haas described it as “Morricone meets Satie.” The US label Magnatune characterised it as “Puccini meets Sigur Rós”. In addition to his musical career, Castells is a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, exploring the therapeutic potential of music. His research focuses on the effects of sound on heart rate variability and chronic stress. He lectures on Music Technology at the London College of Music and Imperial College London. Early Music Career Castells began his musical education at the age of four. At six, he was identified as a child with high capacities, a detai

Tonin Harapi

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Tonin Harapi (9 June 1926 – 30 July 1992) was an Albanian composer, pianist and teacher. He was one of the major figures of twentieth-century Albanian classical music and was associated with the first generations of professional Albanian composers trained after the Second World War. Harapi was born in Shkodër, a city with a strong musical tradition, and later studied at the Artistic Lyceum of Tirana and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. He became a professor of composition at the Conservatory of Tirana, where he trained later Albanian composers. His output included opera, operetta, choral works, orchestral music, chamber music, piano pieces, romances, children’s songs and arrangements of folk songs. Composer Thoma Simaku studied composition under Harapi at the State Conservatory of Music in Tirana. In a 2018 interview, Simaku recalled that Harapi had studied at the Moscow Conservatory and described him as a teacher who allowed students a degree of creative freedom despite the restrictions of the communist period. Compositional work Harapi composed in almost all the main genres cultivated in Albanian classical music during the socialist period. His works included the children'

Tõnu Kõrvits

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Tõnu Kõrvits (born 9 April 1969) is an Estonian composer. Kõrvits was born in Tallinn. In 1994 he graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with specialty in composition. * 2019: “You Are Light and Morning” for choir and orchestra, based on works by Cesare Pavese * 2022: “The Sound of Wings” for choir and orchestra, inspired by Amelia Earhart References

Tony Aubin

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Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (; 8 December 1907 – 21 September 1981) was a French composer. Life and career Aubin was born in Paris on 8 December 1907. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (music theory), Noel Gallon (counterpoint), Philippe Gaubert (orchestration and composition), and Paul Dukas (composition). He was awarded the Prix de Rome for the cantata Actaeon in 1930. He was artistic director at Paris-Mondial from 1937 to 1944, and professor at the Paris Conservatory from 1944 to 1977. He also conducted works for French radio between 1945 and 1960. His works, heavily indebted to the impressionism of Ravel and Dukas, include many film scores. His pupils included Olivier Alain, Garbis Aprikian, Raynald Arseneault, Jocelyne Binet, Jacques Castérède, Pierre Cochereau, Marius Constant, Ginette Keller, Talivaldis Kenins, Yüksel Koptagel, Ron Nelson, Makoto Shinohara, Francine Aubin, and Williametta Spencer. Works *Piano Sonata, 1930 *Quatuor à cordes, 1930–1933 *Prélude, Récitatif et Finale for piano, 1930–1933 *Six Poèmes de Verlaine, 1932–1933 *Cressida, Melodrama, 1934 *1er Sinfonie, “Romantique”, 1935–1937 *Le Sommeil d’Iskender, 1936 *Ca

Tony Britten

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Tony Britten is a British musical director, composer and film maker, also known for adapting the music and writing the text of the UEFA Champions League Anthem. Education and early career Britten was educated at Trinity School, Croydon where he sang in the Trinity Boys Choir, and took operatic roles in professional productions as a treble. Among these were Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande conducted by Pierre Boulez at the Royal Opera House in 1969. When his voice broke he began to compose, winning a bursary from the Society for the Promotion of New Music to study electronic music with George Newson at Goldsmiths’ College. He went on to study singing, piano and conducting at the Royal College of Music. Musicals and opera Britten spent the first few years of his career in theatre as a musical director, including working for Cameron Mackintosh as music supervisor on many shows including Godspell, The Rocky Horror Show and Oliver!. After that he worked at the National Theatre, where he was orchestrator and musical director of the National’s Guys and Dolls production in 1982, directed by Richard Eyre. In the 1990s Britten and his Music Theatre London company put on a series of adaptations

Tony Cucchiara

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Salvatore Cucchiara (30 October 1937 – 2 May 2018), known under the stage name Tony Cucchiara, was an Italian folk singer-songwriter, playwright and composer. Life and career Born in Agrigento, Cucchiara debuted in the late 1950s, mainly recording cover versions of American hits, before starting his career as singer-songwriter in 1962. His first hit was the song " Annalisa", named after Cucchiara’s first daughter. This song was used as closing theme of the RAI variety show Alta pressione. In the following years he embraced folk music, first recording some classic pieces of the Sicilian tradition and then creating a musical duo with his wife Nelly Fioramonti, called Tony e Nelly, entirely devoted to the folk repertoire. In 1970 Cucchiara debuted as a playwright with a musical titled Cassandra 2000. In 1972 he reached a large national and international audience, and critical success, with a musical comedy titled Caino e Abele (“Cain and Abel”). In 1973 his wife died from childbirth giving birth to the couple’s second child, a boy. In later years Cucchiara focused his activity on stage, as author of other successful plays such as Pipino il Breve (1978) and La baronessa di Carini (1980

Tony Haynes (English composer)

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Tony Haynes (10 July 1941 – 17 September 2024) was an English composer and bandleader best known for his work with Grand Union Orchestra since 1982. He played piano and trombone. Early life Tony Haynes’s musical career began in 1954, as a 13-year-old piano and trombone player in dance bands earning £2–3 per show. He also had stints as a church organist and brass band trombonist, but playing jazz was a more formative experience. After studying music at the University of Oxford, Haynes took a postgraduate degree in contemporary music at the University of Nottingham, Returning to the country in 1975, shortly after the revolution, Haynes met musicians from the former Portuguese colonies Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, and Mozambique. Haynes composed full scores for plays by politically inspired writers such as John Arden, Christopher Bond and Adrian Mitchell, combining music and theatre with tough material and a strong political message. The play was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1982. RedBrass In Autumn 1975, Haynes founded the ten-piece British jazz rock band RedBrass, initially as an offshoot from the left-wing theatre ensemble Belt & Braces Roadshow. RedBrass was celebrated fo

Tony Muréna

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Tony Muréna (1917 – 1970) was an Italian-born Musette accordionist and jazz composer who lived and worked in France. Life and career Antonio Muréna was born in Borgo Val di Taro, Italy. His family emigrated to France in 1923 and settled in Nogent-sur-Marne. His uncle gave him his first accordion and he began a performing career assisted by his cousin Louis Ferrari. Muréna played in cabarets and music halls from an early age. In 1932 Muréna began to play the bandoneón in tango orchestras, including that of Rafael and Eduardo Bianco Canaro, at French clubs including La Boule Noire, Java, The Silhouette, Balajo (rue de Lappe), Pré Catelan and Ciro’s. He also toured in South America, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. In 1949 he bought the Le Mirliton cabaret where he often played with Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt. He also played with Matelo Ferret, Henri Crolla, Didi Duprat, Jo Privat and Gus Viseur. In 1958 he established the Radio Luxembourg Orchestra and also hosted the 36 Candles television show. He died in France. Works Muréna composed works including: *Passion *Indifference (1942, co-written with Joseph Colombo) *Jockey Club *Ping Pong Singles * - 1957 Que Sera Sera/Les

Tony Russell (musician)

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Keith Anthony Caesar Russell (24 May 1929 – 20 July 1970), known as Tony Russell, was an English jazz musician and composer, pianist and trombonist. Notably, he worked extensively with Johnny Dankworth and created the score for The Matchgirls, together with writing theme tunes and background music for TV series such as On the Buses and the children’s programme The Herbs. He also composed the music for The Herbs’ spin-off, The Adventures of Parsley. At the end of his life, he turned from the jazz idiom to write a setting of a Mass. Early life Tony Russell was born 24 May 1929 in Wanstead, Essex, England. As a youth, he became very interested in jazz, learning the trombone, baritone horn and piano. Russell was the half-brother of geologist Michael Russell, and the half-siblings are distantly related to German opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. Career Russell’s jazz career began at the age of 15, when he played as a New Orleans-style trombonist with the London-based Washington and Lee Swing, George Webb’s Dixilanders George Webb. In 1946 he formed the pioneering trad band, the Russell-Wickham Hot Six, which he led with the trumpeter Alan Wickham. At this time he was known as Rag’s Russ

Tonye Garrick

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Tonye Garrick (born 27 August 1982), simply known as Tonye is a British-born Nigerian singer and songwriter. Her a cappella song titled “What About Us?” was used at the Nigerian Youth Presidential debate in 2011. Born in England, Tonye was raised in France, Nigeria and the United States of America where she dropped her job as a business consultant to pursue a career in music in 2013. In 2015, she released a marriage-themed single title “Ari Belema” which got her nominated in the “Most Promising Act” category at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. She is signed to Made Men Music Group since April 2016. Growing up Tonye is a native of Benin City in Edo State, South-South Nigeria. Her name “Tamunotonye” was given to her by her grandmother who is a native of Kalabari, Rivers State. She grew up listening to songs by Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Celine Dion and Brenda Fassie before she developed her interest in music at the age of 7. Early life and education Born in England into the family of an Edo State father who was a diplomat and an Anambra State mother, Tonye had most of her early life in Nigeria, Paris and the United States of America. She attended Vivian Fowler Memorial Col

Tor Aulin

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Tor Aulin (10 September 1866 – 1 March 1914) was a Swedish violinist and a conductor and a composer. Biography Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1877-1883) under and then in the Conservatory of Berlin (1884-1886) with Émile Sauret and Philipp Scharwenka. From 1889 to 1892 Aulin served as concertmaster of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He went on to conduct the principal symphony orchestras of Stockholm and Gothenburg. In 1887 he formed the Aulin Quartet, the first full-time professional quartet in Sweden. It gained an excellent reputation. It disbanded in 1912. Along with Wilhelm Stenhammar, Aulin spearheaded a revival in interest in the work of Franz Berwald, and as soloist he premiered some of Stenhammar’s works for violin and orchestra. Aulin composed a number of orchestral and chamber music works, including a violin sonata, three violin concertos, an orchestral suite, and many small pieces for the violin. His sister, Laura Valborg Aulin, was a pianist and composer whose output included two string quartets, in F major and E minor, among other works. List of compositions With opus number *Violin Concerto Nº. 2, in A minor, Opus 11 (exists in t

Tore Johansson

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Tore Johansson (born 6 November 1959) is a Swedish record producer, composer and musician based in Malmö, Sweden. Biography In an interview with HitQuarters, Johansson claimed that the main impetus for his becoming a music producer was the lack of good recording studios in the Malmö area at that time in which to record his own band. Untutored in the art of recording, he acquired his skills through “trial and error”. His main inspiration at that time was classic recordings from the 1960s and ’70s, and in fact attempted to capture an old style in a conscious reaction against the production methods employed at that time, which he and his friends thought were bad. More recently, Johansson prefers to write for or co-write with solo artists. Production work Johansson has gained particular international recognition through his production work with The Cardigans and Franz Ferdinand, but has also worked with a number of other recording artists such as: *a-ha *A Camp *Anouk *Nicole Atkins & the Sea *Mathieu Boogaerts *Melanie C *Eggstone *Sophie Ellis-Bextor *Tomoyo Harada *Mayumi Iizuka – Smile×Smile *Tom Jones *Kira and The Kindred Spirits *David Kitt *The Little Flames *The Mighty Roars *

Tori Freestone

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Victoria “Tori” Freestone is a British saxophonist, flautist, violinist and composer. She has performed British jazz since 2009 as a band leader and sidewoman, known for her robust tenor sound and melodic invention. Her “Trio” albums, released in 2014 and 2016, were awarded at least 4 stars. The Guardian critic John Fordham described her first album In The Chop House as “an imposingly original sound”. In 2017 Freestone was shortlisted for a Fellowship in Jazz Composition supported by PRS for Music Foundation, UK Arts Foundation. That year Freestone was also nominated in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2017 in the Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year category. Career Freestone started performing in folk clubs at the age of seven. She joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra when she was 17 and then went on to study jazz flute at Leeds College of Music, then progressed to the saxophone when she was 26. Freestone likes to compose for unusual instrumentation that challenges traditional composition and improvisational techniques, most notably in her trio she explores the avenues of composing for a group that is led without a harmony instrument. More recently she appeared at The Barbican, Lond

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen

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Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen (born 11 January 1964) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Life Aagaard-Nilsen was born in Oslo and grew up in Kabelvåg on Lofoten in northern Norway. From 1986 to 1990, he studied at the Bergen Conservatory of Music (now known as the Grieg Academy) and at the University of Bergen. From 1990 to 1994, he worked at the Bergen Conservatory as a teacher of contemporary classical music. Furthermore, he was leader of the Autunnale-festivalen - (Music Factory and Autunnale), also in Bergen. In 1992 and 1993, he arranged and composed for the Forsvarets Stabsmusikkorps Vestlandet - Norwegian Army Band, Bergen (NABB), writing, among other works, Arctic Landscape. In this period Aagaard-Nilsen wrote many works for wind band and brass band. As a composer, he has written for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, wind band and brass band. Works that exemplify Aagard-Nilsen’s focus on narrative and visual aspects in a nearly impulsive form include Fabula I and Fabula II (1996), Sinfonietta (1998) and The Season of Blue Lights (2008) commissioned by BIT20 Ensemble. A stronger focus on expressive elements in Aagard-Nilsen’s output is evident in works such as Pierrot’s Lament

Torsten Rasch

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Torsten Rasch (born 1965 in Dresden) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. He lives in Berlin, but has found success in the UK. Biography Torsten Rasch was born in Dresden in 1965 and began piano lessons at the age of six. From 1974-82 he was a member of the renowned Dresdner Kreuzchor and subsequently went on to study composition and piano at the Carl Maria von Weber College of Music in Dresden. In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he emigrated to Japan and established himself as a successful composer of film and TV scores, completing over 40 to date. Following an orchestral commission in 1999 from the (Völuspa-Der Seherin Gesicht for narrator and orchestra), Rasch was approached once again by the orchestra in 2002 for a commissioned song-cycle based on music and lyrics by the German industrial metal band Rammstein. Deutsche Grammophon recorded and released the disc of the resultant 65-minute cycle Mein Herz brennt with bass René Pape, voice Katharina Thalbach and the Dresden Sinfoniker conducted by John Carewe. This followed premiere performances of the work in Dresden and Berlin in late 2003. In 2004 the disc was released in Japan and the USA, and was awar

Tōru Takemitsu

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was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music and writer on music. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for his subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy and for fusing sound with silence and tradition with innovation. Takemitsu composed several hundred independent works of music, scored more than ninety films and published twenty books. His 1957 Requiem for string orchestra attracted international attention, led to several commissions from across the world and established his reputation as the leading 20th-century Japanese composer. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honours and the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award is named after him. Biography Youth Tōru Takemitsu was born on 8 October 1930 in the northern Hongō district of Tokyo. The family moved a month later to the then Japanese-controlled Dalian, Manchuria, where Tōru’s father Takeo Takemitsu, was a government official. After his father’s early death in 1938, Tōru’s mother Reiko sent him back to Japan to attend elementary (1938–1943) and middle school (1944). He lived with an aunt and uncle, again in Hongō, Tokyo

Toshi Ichiyanagi

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was a Japanese avant-garde composer and pianist. One of the leading composers in Japan during the postwar era, Ichiyanagi worked in a range of genres, composing Western-style operas and orchestral and chamber works, as well as compositions using traditional Japanese instruments. He studied composition with Tomojirō Ikenouchi, Kishio Hirao, and John Cage. His decision to return to Japan, while Ono remained in New York, rendered the marriage untenable. Career Returning to Japan in 1960, Ichiyanagi collaborated with the anti-art collective Neo-Dada Organizers. Many of Ichiyanagi’s early scores use graphic notation: Sapporo (1963) is one of the better known examples. Another notable early work is the 1960 composition Kaiki, which combined Japanese instruments, shō and koto, and western instruments, harmonica and saxophone. Another work, Distance (1961), required the performers to play from a distance of three meters from their instruments. Anima 7 (1964) stated that chosen action should be performed “as slowly as possible”. In 1963, Ichiyanagi co-founded an avant-garde music collective called New Direction along with fellow composers Takehisa Kosugi, Yūji Takahashi, and Kenji Kobayashi

Toshio Hosokawa

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is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima, and instrumental music. He was the cofounder and artistic director of a Japanese festival for contemporary music and has been a composer in residence at international festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Lucerne Festival, Warsaw Autumn and Rheingau Musik Festival. His operas premiered at the Munich Biennale and La Monnaie, among others. Hosokawa lives in Nagano and Mainz. Career Hosokawa was born in Hiroshima on 23 October 1955. * 2021: Goethe Medal Compositions IRCAM has a detailed list of Hosokawa’s works, also Schott Music, Opera class=“wikitable sortable” ! Premiere ! Title ! class=unsortable Description ! class=unsortable Libretto and source ! class=unsortable Notes - 19 April 1998, Gasteig / Munich Biennale Vision of Lear Opera in 2 acts, 105’ Tadashi Suzuki, after his stage play The Tale of Lear - 17 March 2012, , Brussels The Raven monodrama for soprano, 45’ Setting of Poe’s The Raven - 24 January 2016, Staatsoper Hamburg Stilles Mee

Toshio Iwai

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is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital musical instrument design. Education and early work Iwai was born in 1962 in Kira, Aichi, Japan. As a child, he spent time creating flip book-style animations in the corner of text books and making motor-driven mechanical toys, since these were the only technologies available to him. In 1981 Iwai matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Tsukuba, studying Plastic Art and Mixed Media. Influenced by the work of Norman McLaren, he began producing installation art that combined pre-cinema animation techniques (the phenakistoscope and the zoetrope) with modern methods of image capture and creation (photocopiers, video cameras and computer graphics) and of stroboscopic lighting (video monitors, video projectors and LEDs). His 1985 installation Time Stratum won the Gold prize at the High Technology Art Exhibition ‘85, held in Shibuya Seibu, Tokyo. In Piano - As Image Media (1995), audience members operate a trackball to draw lighted dots on a grid projected onto a sheet of

Toshio Masuda (composer)

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is a Japanese composer. He has composed and synthesized scores for several Japanese television shows and animated series. Masuda is perhaps best known as the composer of the 2002 hit anime series Naruto where he combined traditional instruments like the shamisen and shakuhachi together with guitar, drums, bass, piano and other keyboard instruments along with chanting. Works Animation * Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf (1992) * Flint the Time Detective (1998) * Excel Saga (1999) * Jubei-chan (1999) * Di Gi Charat specials (2000) * Hand Maid May (2000) * Daa! Daa! Daa! (2000) * Mahoromatic (2001) * Puni Puni Poemy (2001) * Naruto (2002) * Ai Yori Aoshi (2002) * Nanaka 6/17 (2003) * Di Gi Charat: Leave it to Piyoko! (2004) * Jubei-chan 2 (2004) * Di Gi Charat Nyo! (2004) * Mushishi (2005) * Ghost Hunt (2006) * Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin (2006) * Higepiyo (2009) * Kamisama Kiss (2013) * Mushishi -Next Passage- (2014) * Kamisama Kiss◎ (2015) * Nobunaga no Shinobi (2016) * Nobunaga no Shinobi: Anegawa Ishiyama-hen (2018) * My Clueless First Friend (2023) OVA * Animation Runner Kuromi (2001) * Puni Puni Poemy (2001) * Animation Runner Kuromi2 (2003) Specials *Mushi-Shi Special: The Shadow

Toshiro Mayuzumi

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was a Japanese composer. He was known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sources ranging from jazz to Balinese music, and he was considered a pioneer in the realm of musique concrète and electronic music, being the first artist in his country to explore these techniques. Over the span of his career, he wrote symphonies, ballets, operas, and film scores. Mayuzumi was the first Japanese composer to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, for the 1966 film The Bible: In the Beginning…. He was the recipient of an Otaka prize by the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Purple Medal of Merit. John Huston called him a “modern Beethoven”. Biography Born in Yokohama, Mayuzumi was a student of Tomojirō Ikenouchi and Akira Ifukube at the Tokyo University of the Arts immediately following the Second World War, graduating in 1951. He then went to Europe where he attended the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur de musique, studying with Aubin and becoming familiar with the new developments of Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez, as well as with the techniques of mus

Totò Savio

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Gaetano “Totò” Savio (18 November 1937 – 25 July 2004) was an Italian composer, lyricist, producer, guitarist and occasional singer. Early life Born in Naples, Savio started playing the guitar at six years old, and at 13 he won a radio contest for guitarists. In 1955 he became a member of the musical group of Marino Marini, with whom he toured in Europe and Africa. He formed his own band in 1961, and the two of them toured throughout Italy and appeared on a number of radio and television shows. References Further reading * External links * * *

Tots Tolentino

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Tots Tolentino (born on July 2, 1959) is a jazz musician from the Philippines. Biography Tots Tolentino’s interest in jazz began at age 16 upon hearing recordings by Charlie Parker. In 1977, he enrolled at the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music where he studied flute under Prof. Eric Barcelo and played with the U.P. Jazz Ensemble, switching to saxophone. He afterwards enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, under the tutelage of Joseph “Joe” Viola where he graduated magna cum laude in 1982. His professional career as a first-call session musician in the Philippine recording industry culminated in his own first album in 1990. Albums Tots Tolentino has five solo albums to date, namely the self-titled Tots Tolentino (1991), both under Blackgold Records; and Color Real (1993) with Dypro Records. In 2012 he released a Christmas album entitled Tots Tolentino Plays Vehnee Saturno Christmas Songs . In 2015, he released another Christmas album under the Jesuit Communications Foundation, called God Rest Ye! (Christmas Jazz with Tots Tolentino). Bands In the early 90s, Tots Tolentino fronted the group Buhay, a band composed of Pinoy jazz musicians W

Tove Lo

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Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson (; born 29 October 1987), known professionally as Tove Lo ( ; ), is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She is known for her raw, grunge-influenced take on pop music. Referring to her autobiographical lyrics, Out called Lo “the saddest girl in Sweden”, while Rolling Stone called her “Sweden’s darkest pop export”. Raised in the Djursholm district of Danderyd, Lo is an alumna of the music school Rytmus Musikergymnasiet. She formed the rock band Tremblebee in 2006. After it disbanded, Lo pursued a career in songwriting and earned a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music in 2011. Working with producers Alexander Kronlund, Max Martin, and Xenomania, she became a successful songwriter, while also recording and releasing her own compositions independently. In 2013, Lo was signed to Universal Music, Island and Polydor. The following year, Lo rose to prominence with her debut album, Queen of the Clouds, which opened at number 14 on the US Billboard 200 chart in October 2014. It spawned the sleeper hit single “Habits (Stay High)”, which peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100, as well as “Talking Body”. Her second album, Lady Wood, was released in October 2016

Toyoko Takami

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Toyoko Braun Takami (born January 1, 1945) is a Japanese composer and music educator who teaches music in Germany. Takami was born in Shimane, Japan, to a family which included a music teacher and a composer. She studied piano as a child, then received a B.A., a music education diploma, and an M.A. at the University of Tokyo. Takami moved to Germany in 1971, where she studied with Harald Genzmer at LMU Munich. Takami taught music in German schools in Bruhl and Hiirth. Her composition So-Mon won an Honorable Mention in the Sixth International Women Composers’ Competition. *Wind Quintet Orchestra *Symphonic Movement *Two Symphonic Movements Vocal *“Four Songs” (baritone and piano) *“So” (voice, flute, cello and percussion) *“Three Songs” (baritone and piano) References