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Đuro Živković

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Đuro Živković, also rendered as Djuro Zivkovic (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Живковић; born 1975), is a Serbian-Swedish composer and violinist. He has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2000. Biography Živković was born in Belgrade, where he studied violin and composition at the Music Academy. He later studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm under Pär Lindgren. His musical style is characterized by fantastic narration, virtuosic instrumentation and stylistic, highly profiled sound. He has developed a variety of compositional techniques such as polyrhythmic improvisation, special harmony-based scales, microtones, layer-polyphony and heterophony. His “harmonic field” technique, which include the difference tone harmonisations as well as the Ancient mode was a topic for academic research at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz in Austria, and can be found in several of his works, including “Le Cimetière Marin” and “The White Angel.” He has composed a wide range of works including chamber, orchestral and vocal music, music for solo instruments and choral music. Živković is also a professional violinist and violist, performing new music, as well as an improviser on vi

Urato Watanabe

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was a Japanese classical and film music composer. Early life Urato Watanabe was born on March 2, 1909, in Aomori, Japan, his family moved to Tokyo when he was two years old. He studied music at the Tokyo University of the Arts and graduating in 1929. In 1955, Watanabe traveled to Europe for the first time to participate in the International Folk Music Conference in Oslo, Norway. Works Film scores * Shirayuki-sensei to kodomo-tachi (1950) * Elegy (1951) * A Man in the Storm (1957) * Suzunosuke Akado: The One-Legged Demon (1957) * Doggie March (1963) (1966) - Soundtrack writer * Judgment (1962) References External links * *

Ursula Mamlok

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Ursula Mamlok ( Meyer; February 1, 1923 – May 4, 2016) was a German-born American composer and teacher. Education and influences Mamlok was born as Ursula Meyer in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family, and studied piano and composition with Professor Gustav Ernest and Emily Weissgerber until her family fled Nazi Germany following the nationwide pogrom in 1938. Due to American immigration quotas, the family moved to Guayaquil, Ecuador. Ursula emigrated alone to New York City in 1940 to attend the Mannes School of Music, which had offered her full scholarship on the basis of one of her compositions. Career and awards Also an influential teacher, Mamlok held many university positions including placements at: New York University (1967–76), City University of New York, Temple University, Kingsborough Community College (1972–75) and the Manhattan School of Music, where she taught for four decades. She served on the board of the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music. Mamlok had received two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1974 and 1981), a Fromm Foundation Grant (1994), a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation (1995) and commissions from various orga

Þuríður Jónsdóttir

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Þuríður Jónsdóttir (born 30 March 1967) is an Icelandic composer and flautist. As a composer, she is known for her inventive combinations of live instruments and electronics, and as a flautist she is a member of the Viibra flute septet. Career Þuríður studied flute at the Reykjavík College of Music, and in 1989 moved to Italy to continue her education. She studied composition and electronics at the Bologna Conservatory under Christina Landuzzi, Adriano Guarnieri and Charles Camilleri. She attended a course with Franco Donatoni in 1992, and in 1995–1996 she took lessons in composition with Alessandro Solbiati in Novara. She later moved back to Iceland, where she now lives. Her works have been performed at festivals in Iceland and Europe, including Présences in Paris, Musica Nova in Copenhagen, ISCM in Salzburg. and Musica sui più dimensioni in Palermo, She has been commissioned to write works for Radio France, the Caput Ensemble and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and has composed for renowned soloists such as flautist Mario Caroli (Flutter) and accordionist Geir Draugsvoll (Installation Around a Heart). Þuríður has received particular praise for her combination of live instruments