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Ye Xiaogang

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Ye Xiaogang (; born September 23, 1955) is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Ye was born in Shanghai in 1955. His teachers include Alexander Goehr. He teaches at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he serves as Assistant President and vice dean of the composition department. His Starry Sky was premiered at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the summer of 2006, Ye took part in the inaugural “Composer Alive!” transpacific correspondence project with Accessible Contemporary Music in Chicago, Illinois. This project consisted of Ye composing a piece, Datura, and sending its fragments as they were completed to Chicago, electronically. They were subsequently read by ACM’s performance ensemble and posted to the Internet for Ye’s approval. The project culminated with Ye traveling to the United States for the completed work’s premiere performance. Ye was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester in December 2025. Selected compositions The Great Wall Symphony (2002) consists of nine movements, with vocal parts and traditional Chinese musical instruments and folk tunes are used in it. Ye composed the so

Yedidya Admon

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Yedidya Admon, also given as Yedidiah Admon, Yedidyah Admon Gorochov, or Yedidyah Admon-Gorokhov, (5 December 1894 – 2 April 1982) was an Israeli composer and singer. As a composer he was known for blending Western classical music with Middle Eastern music. Some of his best known works include the songs “Shir Hagamal” and “Shoshanat Yaakov”. where he was a pupil of Abraham Zvi Idelsohn. During World War I, Admon enlisted in the British Army and stationed in Egypt. After the war he returned to Palestine where he obtained employment as an accountant. While working he studied singing with Jehuda Har-Melaḥ; training as a countertenor. In 1923 Admon left Palestine to continue his music studies in the United States studying at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1927 after four years of study. In Baltimore he studied composition and singing. While in America he was commissioned to write a vocal composition in the Arab-Bedouin style, and enlisted the help of Lazare Saminsky to complete this work. Admon himself was a gifted singer in the type of vocalizing. His first songs, “Ya leil” (‘Oh night’) and “Bein nhar prat” (‘Between the River Euph

Yegana Akhundova

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Yegana Akhundova (; born May 22, 1960, Sheki, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR) is an Azerbaijani pianist, composer, and teacher. She has held the title of People’s Artist of Azerbaijan since 2012. Biography Yegana Akhundova was born on May 22, 1960, in Sheki, Azerbaijan. In 1983 she graduated from the Azerbaijan National Conservatory named after U.Hajibeyov (N.Usubova’s class) and, in 1985, completed her on-job training under the guidance of professor Lev Naumov in Moscow State Conservatory. There are different music styles and epochs in the repertoire of Yegana Akhundova: Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Debussy, Rakhmaninov, Shostakovich and others including the works of the Azerbaijanian composers Uzeyir Hajibeyli, Gara Garayev, Fikrat Amirov, Jeyhun Hajibeyli, and Arif Malikov. Yegana Akhundova has numerous concert tours abroad; she played in Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Turkey, France, Austria, Poland, Great Britain, Russia, Spain, Hungary, Morocco, and Romania. She performed with the Budapest’s “Duna Palota” (Hungary) and UK Royal Filarmonic Orchestras as well as the Istanbul, Israel, Johannesburg, and Vienna Chamber Orchestras in collaboration with the famous conduc

Yehuda Yannay

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Yehuda Yannay (; May 26, 1937 – December 14, 2023) was a composer. He was born in Timișoara, Romania, and emigrated to Israel in 1951. In Israel, he studied at the Rubin Academy, Tel Aviv. He subsequently studied at Brandeis University, the Tanglewood Music Center and the University of Illinois, before becoming a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UW–M). He was an emeritus professor of music at UW–M. Biography Yannay was born to Hungarian-speaking Jewish parents on 26 May 1937 in Timișoara, in the Banat region of Romania. Against all odds he and his immediate family in Timișoara and Budapest survived the Holocaust era. Yannay studied piano as a child but had no particular interest in music. His childhood interests were in natural sciences. In 1948 the Romanian Communist regime expropriated his parents’ house and small paper-goods factory. The family was allowed to immigrate to Israel in 1951 and had to renounce Romanian citizenship. In Israel he attended the elite agricultural high school at Pardes Hanna Agricultural High School() with a full scholarship and served after graduation in the Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces as a criminal investi

Yekaterina Chemberdzhi

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Yekaterina Chemberdzhi (), also Katia Tchemberdji (nickname) or Jekaterina Wladimirowna Tschemberdschi (German form) (born 6 May 1960), is a Russian pianist and composer. Life and career The daughter of Vladimir Posner and Valentina Chemberdzhi and granddaughter of the composers Zara Levina and Nikolai Chemberdzhi, Katia Chemberdzhi was born in Moscow and began her study of music at age 7. In 1978 she studied composition and piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Korndorf and Yuri Kholopov. After ending her studies, Chemberdzhi took a position from 1984 to 1990 teaching at the Moscow Gnessin State Musical College. In 1990 she moved to West Berlin. She has been active in international festivals as a pianist and as a composer. Her compositions were commissioned by such festivals as Berliner Festspiele, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Tage Neuer Musik Zürich, and performed and commissioned by such soloists and ensembles as The Hilliard Ensamble, Charoun Ensemble, Sibelius Quartet, Staats- und Domchor Berlin, Singakademie zu Berlin, Münchner Kammerorchester, Boris Pergamenschikow, Natalia Gutman, Eduard Brunner, Charles Neidich etc. She has composed film music for several Russian

Yesung

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Kim Kang-hoon (born Kim Jong-woon; August 24, 1984), as the older son of two; his younger brother’s name is Kim Jong-jin. Yesung has since changed his name to Kim Kang-hoon. He was born in Seoul and later moved to Cheonan, South Chungcheong. From a young age, Yesung expressed an interest in singing. In 1999, he joined a broadcast singing competition and won gold at the Cheonan Singing Competition. In 2001, Yesung’s mother, Im Bo-kyung, signed him up to audition for SM Entertainment’s Starlight Casting System, in which he impressed the judges with his “artistic voice”, and signed as trainee under SM Entertainment that same year. His label gave him the stage name Yesung which is derived from the Korean phrase “”, and can be translated as an “art-like voice”. Yesung is a tenor. Career 2005–2007: Debut, sub-unit debut and acting activities Yesung officially debuted as part of 12-member project group Super Junior 05 on November 6, 2005, on SBS’s music programme Popular Songs, performing their first single, “Twins (Knock Out)”. Their debut album SuperJunior05 (Twins) was released a month later on December 5, 2005, and debuted at No. 3 on the monthly MIAK K-pop album charts. In March 2006

Yevgeny Brusilovsky

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Yevgeny Grigoryevich Brusilovsky (; 12 November 1905 – 9 May 1981) was a Soviet and Russian composer who settled in Kazakhstan. He wrote the first Kazakh opera, co-wrote the music for the anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and was a People’s Artist of the Kazakh SSR. Early life and education Brusilovsky was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1905. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and later at the Leningrad Conservatory, under Maximilian Steinberg. Career In 1933, he was sent to Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (then the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic) to study the folk music of the region, and stayed there for the rest of his life. From 1934 to 1936 he was the music director of the Kazakh National Theatre, and from 1949 to 1951 the artistic director of the Philharmonic. Brusilovsky taught at the Alma-Ata Conservatory (now the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory) from 1944, becoming Professor of Composition in 1955. His students included A. Zatsepin, B. Baikadamov, M. Tulebaev, B. Yerzakovich, K. Kuzhamyarov, E. Rakhmadiyev and S. Mukhamedzhanov. Death He died in Moscow in 1981, aged 75. He was buried at the Kuntsevo Cemetery. Works Yevgeny Brusilovsky frequently used the music an

Yevgeny Krylatov

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Yevgeny Pavlovich Krylatov (; 23 February 1934 – 8 May 2019) was a Soviet and Russian composer who wrote songs for over 120 Soviet and Russian movies and animated films. Biography Krylatov was born on 23 February 1934 in Lysva in the working class family of Pavel Krylatov and his wife Zoya. After graduating he found himself impoverished, lacking work or a permit to reside in Moscow. He would go on to compose music for more than 150 feature and animated films. He died in Moscow on May 8, 2019, survived by his daughter Maria. Filmography (selection) #1961: Absolutely Seriously (Совершенно серьезно) with Anatoly Lepin and Nikita Bogoslovsky #1968: Film, Film, Film (Фильм, фильм, фильм) with Aleksandr Zatsepin #1969: Umka (Умка) #1970: Umka is Looking for a Friend (Умка ищет друга) #1970: About Love (О любви) #1971: Oh, That Nastya! (Ох уж эта Настя!) #1972: Property of the Republic (Достояние республики) #1973: Looking for a Man (Ищу человека) #1974: Woodpeckers Don’t Get Headaches (Не болит голова у дятла) #1976: The Little Mermaid (Русалочка) #1978: Three from Prostokvashino (Трое из Простоквашино) #1979: The Adventures of the Elektronic (Приключения Электроника) #1979: Aquanauts (А

Yevstigney Fomin

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Yevstigney Ipat’yevich Fomin () (born St. Petersburg 16 August 1761 – died St. Petersburg c 27 April 1800) was a Russian opera composer of the 18th century. Biography Fomin was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a cannoneer, an artillery soldier of the Tobolsk infantry regiment. His father died when he was 6, and he passed into the care of his stepfather, I. Fedotov, a soldier. Fedotov took him to the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg on 21 April 1767, where Fomin studied architecture. As a full student there, he began learning the harpsichord in 1776 with Matteo Buini. From 1777 he studied theory and composition with Hermann Raupach, and from 1779 with Blasius Sartori. In 1782 he went to Bologna to study with Padre Martini and Stanislao Mattei; three years later he was accepted into the Accademia filarmonica. Returning to St. Petersburg in 1785, he taught at the theatrical school and composed operas. From 1797 he was répétiteur for the imperial theater under Paul I. He composed about 30 operas including Yamshchiki na podstave The Coachmen at the Relay Station (1787); Vecherinki Soirées (1788); Orfey i Evridika (1792), Amerikantsy The Americans (a comic opera) (1800), a