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Zoë Keating

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Zoë Clare Keating (born February 2, 1972) is a Canadian-American cellist and composer once based in San Francisco, California, now based in Vermont. Music career Keating performed from 2002 to 2006 as second chair cellist in the cello rock band Rasputina. She is featured on Amanda Palmer’s debut solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer. In her solo performances and recordings Keating uses live electronic sampling and repetition in order to layer the sound of her cello, creating rhythmically dense musical structures. , her self-produced album One Cello x 16: Natoma reached number 1 on the iTunes classical charts four times, and “Into the Trees” spent 47 weeks on the Billboard classical chart, peaking at number 7. She is the recipient of a 2009 Performing Arts Award from Creative Capital. Keating’s songs have been featured in various commercials, TV shows, films, video games, and dance performances, including HBO’s White Lotus, Amazon Prime’s Mammals, CBS’s Elementary, NBC’s Crisis, So You Think You Can Dance, MTV’s Teen Wolf, Dateline, Have You Heard from Johannesburg, The Day Carl Sandburg Died, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, The Retrieval, The Witness, and PBS’s Searching: Our Quest f

Zoel Parenteau

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Zoel Parenteau (April 9, 1883 – September 13, 1972) was an American composer, arranger, and music director. He is best remembered for his work as a Broadway composer. Biography Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, Parenteau studied music composition with Ernest Bloch. the name for a Pittsburgh band founded by its star clarinetist Danny Nirella who was also a composer of many popular marches. In 1915 his comic opera The Lady of Luzon premiered in Pittsburgh. His first work on Broadway was contributing music to the 1915 Charles Dillingham revue Hip! Hip! Hooray!. He also contributed the song “Someday I’ll Find Your Words” and incidental music to David Belasco’s 1928 play Kiki; a song which was briefly a popular standard. As an arranger, Parteneau worked for a variety of notable people, including Dillingham, Florence Ziegfeld, and Victor Herbert. He also worked as the longtime music director for Pittsburgh’s KDKA (AM). Parenteau died on September 13, 1972, at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey at the age of 89. He was married to Emma Parenteau (née Summersgill). References

Zoltán Gárdonyi

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Zoltán Gárdonyi (; 25 April 1906 – 27 June 1986) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music for 26 years. Life and work Gárdonyi was born in Budapest. His mother, the pianist Maria Weigl, studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Liszt’s pupil, István Thomán, at the same time and in the same class as Béla Bartók. At the age of 17, Gárdonyi began his studies in composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Liszt Academy in Budapest. After studying with Paul Hindemith and Arnold Schering in Berlin, he taught as a professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest from 1941 until 1967. He also led the faculty for Protestant sacred music until it was closed by the communists in 1949. His oeuvre includes sacred music, orchestral works and chamber music. Three of his motets for choir a cappella were published in German by Schott, “Finnisches Busslied”, “Der Herr ist mein Hirte” (Psalm 23) and “Singet dem Herren” (Psalm 96). Gárdonyi’s musicological research yielded findings related to Bach and Liszt. His works were published in Germany, Hungary, Sweden and the United States. Gárdonyi lived in Germany with his family beginning in 1972. H

Zoltán Gáty

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Zoltán Gáty ( Gáti, Gáthy Gáthy) (Ajka, 5 March 1856 - Pápa, 17 July 1928) was a Hungarian music teacher, conductor, and composer. Biography Zoltán Gáty attended a primary school in his hometown, while playing the violin. He went on to study at the Pápa high school in Calvin. From 1874 he studied philosophy in Budapest, interrupted by the military years (1877-1879). He later attended a year of music school, and later obtained a diploma from Ferenc Liszt University of Music in the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in 1884. His most important teachers were Sándor Nikolits and Ferenc Erkel. After graduation he taught in music school, from 1890 in the Calvinist Teacher Training College at Pápa, from 1909 in the Calvinist … institute. He was also a choral conductor, and a leading figure of Pápa’s musical life. He retired in 1926. He and his wife had several children. Gáty was the subject of a biography by the conductor and composer published in 2015. Selected compositions * Magyar nyitány (1884, for full symphony orchestra) * Álmaimban gyakran (1884, by poem by Sándor Petőfi * Magyar ünnepi nyitány (1900, for 2 pianos) * Csonka honvéd (1903, by a poem by János Arany) * Psalm (1915, for

Zoltán Göncz

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Zoltán Göncz (born July 23, 1958, in Budapest) is a Hungarian composer who often applies archaic forms (canon, passacaglia) and complex structures in his compositions. He graduated from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in 1980. He was music editor at the National Philharmonic Agency between 1983 and 1997, then worked in the same capacity with the musical ensembles of the Hungarian Radio from 1997 to 2008. Since 2008 he has been researcher and lecturer at the Department of Hymnology of John Wesley Theological College in Budapest. He has dealt intensively with musicology for decades. Awards and distinctions For his strenuous work in the field of familiarizing and propagating contemporary Hungarian music he was awarded with the Artisjus-Prize twice (1994, 2006). For his outstanding achievements in international Bach research and the book entitled Bach testamentuma Bach’s Testament he has been decorated with the Silver Cross of Distinction of the Hungarian Republic in 2009. Works and completions * “…i rinoceronti del nero cosmo…” – omaggio a Dino Buzzati – for brass quintet (1985–86) * Great canon (Canon perpetuus per tonos et semitonium in contrario motu) – for orchestra (1987–88) *

Zoltán Jeney

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Zoltán Jeney (4 March 1943 – 28 October 2019) was a Hungarian composer. Jeney was born in Szolnok, Hungary. He first studied piano and attended Zoltán Pongrácz’s composition classes at the Debrecen Secondary Music School, later continuing composition studies with Ferenc Farkas at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest (1961–66), and pursuing postgraduate studies with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1967–68). In 1970, as part of a group of leading Hungarian composers, he cofounded the Budapest New Music Studio. Jeney’s earliest compositions exhibit the influences of Béla Bartók, Luigi Dallapiccola, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, the new Polish school, György Kurtág, and Zsolt Durkó. In the late 1960s, he began to take an interest in Pierre Boulez’s theories, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s compositions, and oriental philosophy—a direction intensified as a result of his contact with John Cage’s philosophy. In the 1970s Jeney began composing music in the minimal style, and his works are often characterized by an extremely spare and static quality. From 1986 onwards, Jeney was a professor at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music where, since 1995, he served

Zoltán Kocsis

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Zoltán Kocsis (; 30 May 1952 – 6 November 2016) was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer. Biography Studies Born in Budapest, he began his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the in 1963, studying piano and composition. In 1968 he was admitted to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, where he was a pupil of Pál Kadosa, Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág, graduating in 1973. Career He won the Hungarian Radio Beethoven Competition in 1970, and made his first concert tour of the United States in the following year. He received the Liszt Prize in 1973, and the Kossuth Prize in 1978. Kocsis recorded the complete solo piano works and works with piano and orchestra of Béla Bartók. In 1990 his recording of Debussy’s two books of Images and other piano works by the composer won The Gramophone Instrumental Award for that year. He won another with the violinist Barnabás Kelemen in 2013 in the chamber category for the recording of Bartók’s Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2. American critic Harold C. Schonberg praised Kocsis’ extraordinary technique and fine piano tone. According to Grove Music Online, he had “an impressive technique, and his forthright, strongly rhythmic playing is

Zoltán Kodály

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Zoltán Kodály (, ; , ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music education. Life Born in Kecskemét, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. In 1900, he entered the Department of Languages at the University of Budapest and at the same time Hans von Kössler’s composition class at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music. After completing his studies, he studied in Paris with Charles-Marie Widor for a year. In 1905, he visited remote villages to collect songs, recording them on phonograph cylinders. In 1906, he wrote a thesis on Hungarian folk song, “Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong”. At around this time Kodály met fellow composer and compatriot Béla Bartók, whom he took under his wing and introduced to some of the methods involved in folk song collecting. The two became lifelong friends and champions of each other’s music. In 1919, Kodály was appointed alongside Béla Bartók to the Music Directory by the People’s Commissariat for Education and Culture in the short-lived Hungarian

Zoltán Peskó

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Zoltán Peskó (15 February 1937 – 31 March 2020) was a Hungarian conductor and composer who held leading positions at German, Italian and Portuguese opera houses and orchestras, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, La Fenice, and Teatro Nacional de São Carlos. He was a regular conductor at La Scala, where he promoted contemporary opera. Early life and education Peskó was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 15 February 1937. In 1979, Peskó conducted Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge with the RAI Orchestra. Peskó then served as chief conductor of the , the orchestra of the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Among the highlights at the theatre was a performance of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed opera The Enchantress in a collaboration with the Mariinsky Theatre, staged by David Pountney. A review of The New York Times noted that Peskó’s “conducting responded keenly to the flow of the drama, and the Sao Carlos orchestra rose to the challenge of the unfamiliar score”. His tenure with the orchestra ended acrimoniously, with Peskó alleging that they had not paid him, while the orchestra claimed he had breached his contract by not spending sufficient time each year

Zoltán Pongrácz

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Zoltán Pongrácz (5 February 1912 – 3 April 2007) was a Hungarian composer. Pongrácz was born in Diószeg and studied composition from 1930 to 1935 with Zoltán Kodály at the Budapest Academy of Music, in Hungary. He became professor of composition at the Debrecen Conservatory in 1947 and continued in that position until 1958. For a time he ceased compositional activity, until attending the Darmstadt summer courses in 1964, 1965, and 1972, and the third Cologne Courses for New Music in 1965–66 with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Luc Ferrari, and Jaap Spek, and in Utrecht with Gottfried Michael Koenig stimulated an interest in electronic composition. He was professor of electronic composition at the Budapest Academy from 1975 to 1995. He died in Budapest on 2 April 2007. Compositions (selective list) *Az ördög ajándéka The Devil’s Present , ballet to a libretto by the composer (1936) *Apollo musagètes, women’s voices, clarinet, piano, and percussion (1958) *Negritude, for chorus and percussion (1962) *Ispirazioni, for chorus, orchestra, and tape (1965) *Phonothese, for tape (1965–66) *Hangok és zörejek Tones and Noises , for orchestra (1966) *Mariphonia, for tape (1972) *Concer

Zonke

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Zonke Dikana (born 11 October 1979), known simply as Zonke, is a South African singer-songwriter and record producer. Her rise to stardom came in 2011 following the release of her third album, Ina Ethe, which was certified double platinum and was nominated at the 18th South African Music Awards. In 2013, she recorded and released Give and Take Live, which was certified gold just two months after its release In September 2015, Zonke released Work of Heart, her fifth album, to critical acclaim with nominations in several categories at the 15th Metro FM Music Awards and 22nd South African Music Awards. She signed a record deal to Sony Music Entertainment in 2013. On 15 June 2018, she released L.O.V.E, her fifth studio album, with Sony. Early life and education Zonke was born in KwaZakhele, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Her father, Vuyisile Dikana, was a drummer for a group called Black Slave and the Flamingo, her mother, Fundiswa Peter, was a medical technician while her late stepmother Anneline Malebo was a singer for a musical band known as Joy. She is a young sister to Lulu Dikana who is also a music artist. She is an alumna of the University of the Free State, from where she graduat

Zoran Hristić

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Zoran Hristić (; 30 July 1938–12 November 2019) was a Serbian composer. He had a freelance artist status for a long time. At the initiative of Dušan Radović in 1979, he was nominated an editor, director and founder of the Concert Studio B. from 1982 to 1989, he was the chief music editor of Radio Belgrade, and then moved on RTVB, later RTS where he was editor in chief of the editorial board of Music programme until 1995. He received the prestigious Stevan Hristić Award for the best thesis Titles for the chorus and orchestra. Hristić’s work includes solo and chamber works, vocal and instrumental works, ballets, radiophonic works, music for theater, film and television. His compositions have been performed by prominent national and international performers. “I have never accepted that it is important to write music just for oneself and I think one is deceived by the artist who says he does not care about communication and influence. Art means to influence”. Awards *Stevan Hristić Award (1963) for a thesis Titles for the choir and orchestra *Yugoslav Broadcasting Award for Chamber Music (1967) for piano trio 4 for E *Golden Arena (1967), for the music in the film Hasanaginica *Golden

Zou Ye

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Zou Ye ( born 20 October 1957 in Henan province, China), is a Chinese modern classical and film music composer. Zou was from the first generation of musical composition graduates from the Wuhan Conservatory of Music (then named the Hubei Academy of Fine Arts), when such education resumed with the end of the Cultural Revolution. Subsequently, Zou became the resident composer at the Wuhan Dance Theatre. During his ten-year residency (1982-1992), he completed a large number of orchestral works and, at the age of 26, Zou composed Zheng He, a major opera based on the story of the ancient Chinese explorer with that name. In 1992, Zou started his residency at the National Children’s Theatre in Beijing, where he remains the sole composer to this day. It was at the National Children’s Theatre that he composed and debuted his successful children’s musical Ma Lan Flower, which has since been performed for over a decade and enjoyed by millions of people. After Zou moved to Beijing, his musical compositions for films started to attract appreciation from a number of fourth and fifth generation Chinese filmmakers. For example, he worked closely with the director Huang Jianzhong on a number of maj