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Øyvind Hegg-Lunde

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Øyvind Hegg-Lunde (born 12 February 1982 in Lærdal, Norway) is a Norwegian drummer and composer, raised in Borgund, Lærdal, but today resides in Bergen. He is known from collaborations with José Gonzalez, Junip, Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken, Frode Haltli, Trygve Seim, Per Jørgensen, Terje Isungset, Håkon Kornstad, Kurt Johannessen, Stein Urheim, The Megaphonic Thrift, Odin Staveland, Odd Martin Skålnes, Erlend O. Nødtvedt, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset and Marilyn Mazur. Career Hegg-Lunde holds a Master’s degree in jazz/improvised music at Griegakademiet and the Högskolan för scen och musik in Gothenburg. He is active in several separate projects, like Building Instrument, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Strings & Timpani, Electric Eye, BERG, Crab is Crap, Glow, Krachmacher, The Big Almost, PSST, Oliva/Abbuehl/Hegg-Lunde, Susanne Abbuehl. Since 2001 he has toured clubs and festivals in Norway and Scandinavia, as well as Europe, America, Africa. He has collaborated with other art forms such as dance, poetry, theater, performance art and VJs. He has received various scholarships and awards, including Nattjazz sin Vitalpris. Together with co-composer Stephan Meidell, Hegg-Lunde got bril

Øyvind Mæland

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Øyvind Mæland (born 1985) is a Norwegian composer. Career Øyvind Mæland studied the piano at the Barratt Due Institute of Music with Jiri Hlinka, before studying composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music with Olav Anton Thommessen, Ivar Frounberg and Henrik Hellstenius. He has also participated in several master classes, with lessons from composers such as Aperghis, Furrer, Billone, Ferneyhough, M. Stroppa and Czernowin. Mæland’s compositional output is primarily centered on chamber and ensemble works, and he has collaborated with such performers and ensembles as Håkon Austbø, Marco Fusi, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen, Stine Motland, Pinquins, Oslo String Quartet, Kairos Quartet, Aksiom, BIT20 Ensemble with Pierre-André Valade, Telemark Chamber Orchestra, Bodø Sinfonietta, Sjøforsvarets musikkorps, and the Oslo Sinfonietta with Christian Eggen. His music has seen a number of performances at festivals such as Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Borealis and Oslo International Chamber Music Festival. In 2013 Mæland completed his two hour long opera Ad undas – Solaris Korrigert (for full orchestra, 6 soloists, and a nine-voiced choir), which opened at the Norwegian Opera House

Øyvind Torvund

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Øyvind Torvund (born 1976) is a Norwegian composer. Torvund was born in Porsgrunn. He studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo) with Bjørn Kruse and Ivar Frounbergand, as well as at Universität der Künste (Berlin) with Friedrich Goldmann. Equally important is his background as a guitarist in rock and improvising groups. He has ongoing relationship with groups such as asamisimasa (Norway), Oslo Sinfonietta and Plus-Minus ensemble (UK), as well as the video artist Yorgos Sapountzis. Torvund has been a composer in residence for Oslo Sinfonietta, written pieces for ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble Zwischentöne, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Plus Minus ensemble and Yarn/Wire. His pieces have been performed in Donaueschinger Musiktage, MaerzMusik, Ultraschall, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Transit festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Other Minds festival and at the Darmstadt International Ferienkurse. Key Torvund works includes “Giants of Jazz” (sax, accordion, double bass). “How Sound Travels” (orchestra), the improvisation series “Bandrom”, “Tune Park” (chamber ensemble), “Wolf Studies” (sextet), “Forest Construction” (chamber ensemble), “Krull Qu

Yvar Mikhashoff

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Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff (born Ronald Mackay; March 8, 1941, in Troy, New York – October 11, 1993, in Buffalo, New York) was an American virtuoso pianist and composer. He is best known for his performance of contemporary classical music. Mikhashoff studied at the Eastman School of Music, the Juilliard School, and the University of Houston, and received his doctorate in composition from the University of Texas in 1972. He also studied in France with Nadia Boulanger. He served as Professor of Music at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York from 1973 until his death from AIDS, in 1993, aged 52. From 1983 to 1991 he commissioned no fewer than 127 tangos for solo piano from 127 composers. Mikhashoff was considered one of the leading performers of contemporary piano music of his day. He worked closely with composers all over the world, including leading figures like John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, Per Nørgård, Poul Ruders, and numerous others. In addition to his performance schedule, he also did a lot of artistic advisory work, like working with Pierre Audi at the Almeida Festival in London, for many years the leading London venue for contemporary music pr

Yves Balmer

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Yves Balmer (born 6 June 1978) is a French and Swiss composer. He is also a professor, musicologist, and specialist in French music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is a professor of musical analysis at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. Life and work Balmer has a dual background in music and academia. He studied piano from 1996 to 2000 at the Conservatoire de Lille, where he obtained four gold medals in piano, chamber music, musical writing, and music history. From 2000 to 2005, he studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, where he obtained six first prizes and two Diplômes de Formation Supérieure. Balmer also earned a doctoral degree in musicology in 2008 from the university Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III, under the supervision of Joëlle Caullier. His thesis focused on the music of Olivier Messiaen. Balmer was admitted to Agrégation in 2003 From 2006 to 2018, he was a lecturer, then reader at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, where he was also the Deputy Director (2010-12) and Director (2012-13) of the Department of Arts. Balmer’s research focuses on French music of the 20th century, particu

Yves Daoust

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Yves Daoust (born 10 April 1946) is a Canadian composer who is particularly known for his works of electroacoustic music. He currently resides in Montréal. Life Born in Longueuil, Quebec, Daoust began his musical studies at the age of seven, studying piano with Alice Vigeant. At sixteen, he produced his first experiments in electroacoustic music when he “prepared” the family piano in order to create the soundtrack for a friend’s 8mm experimental film. At nineteen, Daoust completed his first electronic work: an hour of music for a gestural theater work premiered in Berlin (Germany) as part of an international amateur theater festival. At twenty he entered the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec in Montréal, initially in the piano class of Irving Heller and subsequently in the composition class of Gilles Tremblay. After meeting Maurice Blackburn, Daoust entered a training program in film music techniques at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in Montreal. This was followed by an apprenticeship at the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges, IMEB, from 1974 to 1976. In 1976, he returned to the NFB as a sound designer for three years in the

Yves de la Casinière

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Yves-Marie Chiron de la Casinière (11 February 1897 – 26 October 1971) was a French musician, composer and music educator. Life Born in Angers, la Casinière studied with Nadia Boulanger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and with Max d’Ollone and Georges Caussade at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1925 he won the first Second Grand Prix de Rome with the cantata La mort d’Adonis. He worked as general inspector of the city of Paris for music lessons. In addition to his compositions, including symphonic works, instrumental concertos and chamber music, de la Casinière wrote several music pedagogical writings. La Casinière died in Paris on 26 October 1971. Works * Hercule et les Centaures, symphonic poem, 1920 * Symphonie pour piano et orchestre, 1922 * Béatrix, cantata, 1923 * Les Amants de Vérone, cantata, 1924 * Sonatine for piano and cello, 1924 * La mort d’Adonis, cantata, 1925 * Persée et Andromède, symphonic poem * Au clair de lune, song, poem by Aïda de Romain (éditions Maurice Sénart) 1923. * , film score, 1927 * Sonatine for piano and violin, 1941 * Quatuor avec piano, 1942 * Trio avec piano, 1944 * 7 Petites pièces très faciles pour clarinette for piano, 1956 * Berceuse

Yves Laferrière

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Yves Laferrière (1943 – December 11, 2020) was a Canadian musician and composer. He was a two-time Genie Award winner, for Best Original Song at the 6th Genie Awards in 1985 for “Touch Me”, which he cowrote with Paule Baillargeon and Marjolène Morin for the film A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l’hôtel), and for Best Original Score at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990 for Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal). Filmography Composer *The Red Kitchen (La Cuisine rouge) - 1980 *La Phonie furieuse - 1982 *Lucien Brouillard - 1983 *Just a Game (Rien qu’un jeu) - 1983 *A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l’hôtel) - 1984 *Like a Heartbreak (C’est comme une peine d’amour) - 1985 *Sonia - 1986 *Transit - 1986 *Le Chemin de Damas - 1988 *Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal) - 1989 *White Is the Night (Blanche est la nuit) - 1989 *Impasse de la vignette - 1990 *Babylone - 1990 *Moody Beach - 1990 *Solo - 1991 *Montreal Stories (Montréal vu par…) - 1991 *Kitty Cats - 1991 *Le Complexe d’Édith - 1991 *Between the Solitudes - 1992 *The Sex of the Stars (Le sexe des étoiles) - 1993 *Bandes-hommages 100 ans de cinéma - 1996 *Poverty and Other Delights (Joyeux Calvaire) - 1996 *The Secret Laughter of Wome

Yves Lapierre (composer)

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Yves Lapierre (born 9 August 1946) is a Canadian composer, arranger, record producer, and singer. He began his career performing and recording with the folk vocal quartet Les Cailloux during the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s he was highly active as a composer, arranger, and record producer for a large number of notable Canadian musicians. Some of his best known songs are Get That Ball, Tout va trop vite, Le Désamour, and Moi, de la tête aux pieds. He also composed music for several Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television dramas; including the Guy Fournier TV serials Jamais deux sans toi (1977–80) and L’Or et le papier (1988–89) and Lise Payette’s La Bonne aventure. Early life Born in Montreal, Lapierre is the grandnephew of composer Eugène Lapierre. A graduate of the École de musique Vincent-d’Indy, he studied conducting and instrumentation with Michel Perrault. Career He began his career as a founding member of the folk vocal quartet Les Cailloux, which he directed from 1963 to 1968. During that time the group he toured regularly throughout the Quebec region. They also embarked on an international tour in 1967, giving performances in Europe, Africa and Asia. The ensemble rele

Yves Nat

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Yves Philippe Avit Nat (29 December 1890 – 31 August 1956) was a French pianist and composer. Biography Nat was born in Béziers and showed an early aptitude for both piano and composition. By the age of seven he was allowed to improvise each Sunday at the organ of Béziers’ cathedral during mass. At the age of ten he conducted his own Fantasie for orchestra. Both Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns encouraged him to pursue his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris in the master class of the pianist Louis Diémer, receiving the class first prize in 1907. He dedicated himself to chamber music, undertook concert tours with the violinist Jacques Thibaud and George Enescu and appeared frequently in a duo with Eugène Ysaÿe. In 1911 he made the first of a number of tours of the United States. He was mobilised in the course of the First World War, around which time he produced the first of his published compositions, the Six Préludes pour Piano and the Six chansons à Païney. In the years which followed, Nat toured and performed extensively. However, he retired from concert life in 1937 to devote himself to teaching in the Paris Conservatoire and composing. He emerged from this retirement i

Yves Prin

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Yves Prin (born 3 June 1933) is a French composer and conductor of classical music. Life Prin was born on 3 June 1933 in Sainte-Savine. He studied piano with Yves Nat and conducting with Louis Fourestier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he won several first prizes. He started his career as a pianist, but upon meeting Bruno Maderna (assistant at the Mozarteum, Salzburg from 1968 to 1969), decided to turn towards conducting. This association with the Italian maestro was the reason for his final decision to dedicate his work mostly to contemporary music. Prin was subsequently guest conductor of the orchestras of the Residentie (The Hague) and of Haarlem in the Netherlands (1968–1973), then music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de la Loire (1970–1974), of the Atelier Lyrique du Rhin (1974–1980) and of the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (1981–1982). He worked at Ircam of Pierre Boulez in Paris for the composer’s cursus in 1978. He has recorded more than a dozen records (Etcetera, REM, Adès, Salabert Actuel, MFA, Accord) and conducted many pieces by composers from all over the world: from Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Ama

Yvonne Adair

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Yvonne Madeleine Adair (18 March 1897 – 17 December 1989) was a British pianist, teacher and composer whose educational compositions still regularly appear in the graded pieces of music college examination boards. Some pieces were published under the pen name Ella Fairall. Life Adair was born in Guernsey. Her father was the Wesleyan minister Philip George Adair, and from 1901 she grew up with her family at 2 Vauxhall Street, St Helier, Jersey. She was educated at Kent College, Folkestone and trained at the Royal Academy of Music, where she was a bronze and silver medallist. She taught with the Training School for Music Teachers in London, and privately, specialising in rhythmic and aural training for children. During the war (1916–18) she served in the War Office Intelligence Department. From 1945 she was a music teacher at Sheen Gate House Preparatory School. Her work includes original vocal, piano and percussion pieces and arrangements for individual learners and ensembles of young players, such as the collections Sketches from Hans Christian Andersen and Little Dog Tales. Between the 1930s and the 1950s Adair published a series of what Christopher Scobie calls “rhythmic, didacti

Yvonne Desportes

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Yvonne Desportes (18 July 1907 – 29 December 1993) was a French composer, writer, and music educator. She was born in Coburg, Germany, to Émile Desportes, a composer, and Bertha Froriep, a painter. She was a student of Paul Dukas and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1932. She taught at the Paris Conservatoire and wrote many music textbooks. She composed over 500 works. Education She studied piano with Yvonne Lefébure and Alfred Cortot. She took a preparatory solfege class at the Paris Conservatoire in 1918. She studied for three years at the École Normale de Musique and then attended the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris from 1925 to 1932. She took classes from Jean and Noël Gallon, Marcel Dupré, Maurice Emmanuel, and Paul Dukas, whose class is pictured below. Prix de Rome In 1927, Desportes won the Premier Prix in harmony. In 1928 she won the Premier Prix in fugue. She competed for the Prix de Rome four times. In 1929 she did not advance to the second round. In 1930 she won the Deuxième Second Grand Prix. Paul Bertrand’s review of Desportes’s cantata Actéon, which appeared in Le Ménestrel, remarked on her harmonic conception and on her femininity: “On the whole it is

Yvonne Rokseth

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Yvonne Rokseth (, 17 July 1890 – 23 August 1948) was a French composer, musicologist, organist, violinist, and writer. She was active in the French resistance during World War II and is best known for her research on medieval music. Life and career Yvonne Rihouët was born in Maisons-Laffitte. Her father was a law officer at the appellate court in Paris. She studied music at the Paris Conservatory, the Schola Cantorum, and the Sorbonne. Her teachers included Abel Decaux, Vincent d’Indy, Andre Pirro, and Albert Roussel. Her dissertation was entitled (Organ Music of the 15th and Early 16th Centuries). The Schola Cantorum awarded a prize for her composition Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra. Rokseth had a daughter, Odile Ledieu, in 1918. She married the Norwegian literary scholar in 1925, and they had two daughters, Anne-Cécile and Ève-Marie. In 1921, Rokseth began working as an organist at the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Paris, later moving to be the organist for a Danish church nearby. In 1933, she became a librarian at the Paris Conservatory. Her publications include: Articles and books *47 book reviews *Deux livres d’orgue (originally published by Pierre Attaingnant; edite