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Yu-Hui Chang

Yu-Hui Chang (Chinese: 張玉慧; born 1970) is a Taiwanese composer based in the United States. She received awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009, and the Arts and Letters Award from the

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Yugo Kanno

is a Japanese composer and musician known for his work on many television dramas, anime series, and movies. Biography Kanno was born in Saitama, Japan. He attended junior high school in Kawagoe

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Yuka Kitamura

is a Japanese composer. She is best known for her compositions for various games by the Japanese development studio FromSoftware, most notably serving as the lead composer for Dark Souls III. She

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Yukihiko Haida

was a composer, ukulele player and steel guitarist. He and his brother Katsuhiko Haida founded the Nihon Ukulele Association. Early life and education Haida was born in Honolulu on 24 April 1909, to

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Yüksel Koptagel

Yüksel Koptagel (born 27 October 1931) is a Turkish composer and pianist. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey, granddaughter of General Osman Nuri Koptagel, a commander in the Turkish War of

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Yulia Tsibulskaya

Yulia Tsibulskaya (, , , born 15 June 1933) is a Moldovan-Russian composer. Biography Yulia Tsibulskaya was born in Leova, Romania. She graduated from the Chișinău musical school (1954), the faculty

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Yuliy Meitus

Yuliy Serhiyovych Meitus (; 28 January 1903 – 2 April 1997, Kyiv), was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, considered the founder of the Ukrainian Soviet opera. His early style was modernistic, later he

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Yuliya Veysberg

Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg (Yuliya Rimskaya-Korsakova) (Julia Weissberg) (b. 6 January 1880 , d. March 1, 1942) was a music critic and composer. Life and career Yuliya Veysberg was born in Orenburg,

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Yun Seok-cheol

Yun Seok-cheol (; born April 10, 1985) is a South Korean jazz pianist, composer and record producer. Coming to prominence in the Korean jazz scene as part of the Yun Seok Cheol Trio, he is also a

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Yuna (singer, born 1992)

Seo Yu-na (; born December 30, 1992), better known by the mononym Yuna, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actress and yoga instructor. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group AOA and

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Yuniya edi kwon

yuniya edi kwon (stylized in lower-case; born 1989), is an American violinist and composer. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Biography kwon was born and raised in Minneapolis, to Korean immigrant

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Yuno Avshalumov

Yuno Zakharyevich Avshalumov ( ; 1934–1981) was a Soviet composer, conductor, and teacher of Mountain Jewish descent. In recognition of his contributions to Soviet culture, he was honored with the

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Yuri Arnold

Yuri Karlovich Arnold, also Jury, Georgy, Yourij, and Arnol't, Arnol'd (; November 13, 1811 – July 20, 1898), was a Russian composer, musicologist, music critic, choral conductor, theorist and music

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Yuri Falik

Yuri (Yury ) Alexandrovich Falik (; July 30, 1936, Odessa, USSR – January 23. 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian composer, orchestral conductor, cellist, a board member of the Leningrad

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Yuri Kasparov

Yuri Sergeyevich Kasparov (born 8 June 1955, in Moscow, —his name is variously transliterated) is a Russian composer, music teacher and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory where he had studied for

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Yuri Khanon

Yuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov (), a Russian composer. Prior to 1993, he wrote under a pen name Yuri Khanin, but later transformed it into Yuri Khanon, spelling it

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Yuri Shaporin

Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin () (8 November 1887 – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Soviet composer. Two Stalin Prizes first degree (1941, 1946). Stalin Prize second degree (1952). Biography Shaporin was

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Yuriy Oliynyk

Yuriy Oleksiiovych Oliynyk (December 1, 1931 – September 13, 2021) was a composer, concert pianist, and professor of music who lived and worked in the United States. Biography Yuriy Oliynyk was born

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Yury Chernavsky

Yury Alexandrovich Chernavsky (; March 17, 1947 – 29 September 2025) was a Russian producer, composer and songwriter. Chernavsky was a member of performance rights organisations such as GEMA, BMI,

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Yusef Greiss

Yusef Greiss (; (December 13, 1899 – April 7, 1961) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers. Greiss was of Coptic heritage. He composed

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Yuta Bandoh

, also known as , is a Japanese composer. He is best known for his work on Belle (2021), Yuri on Ice (2016), Kaiju No. 8 (2024), and Poupelle of Chimney Town (2020), as well as his collaborations

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Yuval Avital

Yuval Avital (; born 1977) is a multimedia artist, composer, and guitarist based in Milan, Italy. His installations and performances have been presented in prominent museums, biennials, opera houses

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Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja (born 31 August 1979), known officially as Abdul Khaliq, He mainly scores music for Tamil films along with few Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi films. Considered a versatile composer, he

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Yuzo Koshiro

is a Japanese video game composer. He is often regarded as one of the most influential innovators in chiptune and video game music, producing music in a number of genres including rock, jazz,

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