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A-Zal

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Atif Afzal, also known by his stage name A-Zal, is an India-born, London-raised, New York–based singer-songwriter and composer. He is known for his music compositions for the American television series Ms. Marvel (miniseries), Loki (TV series), NCIS: Los Angeles and The Twilight Zone and for the films Resort to Love, Prague, Pune 52, Monsoon Shootout, and Baji. Early life and education Atif Afzal was born in Mumbai, India, but grew up in Hounslow, in London, England. He attended Hounslow Heath School. He studied engineering at the K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering and then worked at KPMG before starting a career in music. He trained under an alumnus from the Royal College of Music. Career Afzal is known by his stage name A-Zal. Afzal began his music career in 2013 by composing the film scores and soundtracks of Prague, Pune 52 and Baji. He has also worked on international films, including a German film, Gift, a European film, Then a Hero Comes Along, a New York short film, The Alternative, and Bachelor Girls. He also composed music for the Marathi film Charandas Chor. Afzal’s film albums have been released on major record labels including Universal Music Group, Times Music, Zee

Aaron Jay Kernis

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Aaron Jay Kernis (born January 15, 1960) is a Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning American composer serving as a member of the Yale School of Music faculty. Kernis spent 15 years as the music advisor to the Minnesota Orchestra and as director of the Minnesota Orchestra’s Composers’ Institute, and was the workshop director of the Nashville Symphony Composer Lab. He has received numerous awards and honors throughout his thirty-five-year career. Background, early life, and education Aaron Jay Kernis was born in Philadelphia, and grew up in neighboring Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania. He is Jewish and has said that Jewish history and music have influenced his own compositions. He began his musical career by playing the violin and piano. His composition career began at age 13, and he was awarded three BMI Foundation Student Composers Awards throughout his time as a student. He studied composition with John Adams at the San Francisco Conservatory; Charles Wuorinen at the Manhattan School of Music; and Morton Subotnick, Bernard Rands, and Jacob Druckman at Yale University. His wide range of teachers and time spent on both the east and west coasts helps to define his eclectic musical

Aaron Robinson (composer)

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Aaron Robinson is an American composer, conductor, and musicologist. In 2013, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for composing Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s Maine Arts series theme music. Personal background Robinson attended Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro, Maine. At 16 years of age—a self-taught musician who never took piano lessons By his late teens, he was creating, performing and producing concerts and theatrical productions, including the musical Moody Blue for which he wrote both the music and lyrics. According to a 2013 interview, Robinson studied composition and piano performance at the Boston Conservatory of Music with composers John Adams and Larry Thomas Bell, as well as film scoring with John Williams at the Berklee School of Music; but chose not to graduate with a degree. Instead, he “went out and lived the life of music,” as he said in a 2017 interview. In 2001, he became organist and choirmaster for “Music at Immanuel” at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Portland, Maine. Robinson lives on the coast of Maine. In 1997, Robinson conducted Treemonisha: The Concert Version by ragtime composer Scott Joplin at the Rockport Opera House in Rockport, Maine, with a

Aaron Zigman

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Aaron Zigman (born January 6, 1963) is a classically trained American composer, producer, arranger, songwriter, conductor, and musician who has scored music for films including The Notebook, The Company Men, Bridge to Terabithia, John Q., The Proposal, Flicka, For Colored Girls, Flash of Genius, Sex & the City, Alpha Dog, and Escape from Planet Earth. He has also written, arranged and produced over 50 hit albums, and co-written songs with legendary and contemporary artists including Quincy Jones, Christina Aguilera, Phil Collins, Was (Not Was), John Legend, Dionne Warwick, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Seal. Early life and career Zigman was born in San Diego, California. His mother, a pianist and harpist, was his first music teacher, and he developed an early interest in jazz and concert music, studying with Rocky Slight, Gene Hartwell (a San Diego jazz player), and Florence Stephenson. A graduate of Point Loma High School, he studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1983, he began studying with his cousin George Bassman (who orchestrated The Wizard of Oz and wrote the music for the films Marty and The Postman Always Rings Twice). In t

Abbie Betinis

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Abbie Betinis (born January 21, 1980) is an American composer. She has composed music for a variety of musical ensembles, and is best known for her choral music and other vocal works. Early life and education Born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Betinis began Suzuki piano and ear training at age 4 at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s American Suzuki Talent Education Center (now Aber Suzuki Center). Valedictorian of her high school class, she enrolled in St. Olaf College on a piano scholarship, but during her sophomore year was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and was forced to return home to begin chemotherapy. When she returned to St. Olaf, she changed course to pursue music composition and linguistics, graduating in 2001. She later earned a M.A. in music composition from the University of Minnesota, and studied harmony and counterpoint in the tradition of Nadia Boulanger at the European American Musical Alliance (EAMA) Summer Institute in Paris, France. Her teachers have included Mary Ellen Childs, Peter Hamlin, Philip Lasser, and Judith Lang Zaimont. Career The music of Abbie Betinis has been described as “inventive and richly melodic” (The New York Times), “the highligh

Abdalla El-Masri

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Abdallah Hani El Masri عبدالله هاني المصري (born 1962, Beirut) is a Lebanese -Russian composer, now resident in Kuwait, of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Life and career El-Masri studied guitar with Isaa Escaf at a music school in Hammana from 1977 to 1979 and studied guitar and music theory with Joseph Ashkhanyan at the Centre Culturel Espagnol in Beirut from 1979 to 1982. He then studied composition with Konstantin Batashov and Roman Ledenyov, theory and harmony with Yuri Vorontsov and Yuri Kholopov and orchestration with Nikolai Rakov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow from 1982 to 1993, where he earned his MFA in 1991 and DMus in 1993. Among his honors is an honorable mention in the young composers competition of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (1988). He has been an active member of the Russian Composers Union since 1998. His music has been performed in Egypt, France, Germany, Kuwait, Lebanon, Russia, and Switzerland. El-Masri is also active in other positions. He founded the vocal ensemble Al-Jabal in 1977 and wrote songs for it from 1977 to 1982. Later he founded the vocal ensemble Al-Wilada in 1984, wh

Abel Korzeniowski

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Abel Korzeniowski (; born 18 July 1972) is a Polish composer of film and theatre scores. Early life and education Korzeniowski was born in Kraków. He had contact with music from early childhood: his mother Barbara plays the cello and both his brothers Antoni and Andrzej are musicians. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Kraków majoring in cello and composer studies under the supervision of Krzysztof Penderecki. Career Korzeniowski won acclaim as the composer of music for films and theatre plays. In 2000, he received his first major individual prize – Golden Lions for Best Film Score at the Gdynia Film Festival for his music to Jerzy Stuhr’s (The Big Animal). In 2012, Korzeniowski arranged Patricia Kaas’s album, , which was recorded as a tribute to Edith Piaf. Since 2017, Korzeniowski has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. - 2010 World Soundtrack Awards Best Original Film Score of the Year - 2010 AFT Awards Best Original Score - 2010 The International Cinephile Society (ICS) Best Original Score - rowspan=2 2010 rowspan=2 World Soundtrack Award Public Choice - Discovery of the Year - Best Original Score for a Drama Film - 2016 Anthony Asquith Awar

Abhijit Majumdar

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Abhijit Majumdar (11 September 1971 – 25 January 2026) was an Indian film music director and composer in Odia films. Life and career Majumdar was born on 11 September 1971. He started his career from Sambalpuri Industry, later he started working on Ollywood. He has composed more than 700 songs for Odia movies, albums and Sambalpuri industry. Majumdar died from liver disease at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, on 25 January 2026, at the age of 54. Filmography * All films are in Odia, unless otherwise noted. References External links *

Adam Bałdych

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Adam Bałdych (born 18 May 1986 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) is a Polish violinist, composer, and music producer. Baldych is an ACT MUSIC (Germany) recording artist. He is known from a series of record releases and collaborations with musicians like Marius Neset, Morten Lund, and Lars Danielsson. Career Bałdych picked up the violin at the age of 9 years and started at a music school in Gorzow Wielkopolski under guidance of Grazyna Wasilewska. He is a graduate of the Institute of Jazz and Popular Music at Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music and got a scholarship to continue at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At the age of 16 he had already achieved great recognition, and was called a “prodigy” in Poland. He started touring with prominent Polish and American musicians in Poland, Germany, Serbia, England, Finland, Hungary, Spain, France, Indonesia and the US. His second album for ACT The New Tradition was recorded together with Israeli pianist Yaron Herman and released on 30 May 2014. Recently ACT released Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IV – Accordion Night which is a recording from the concert within the Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic series. 28 August 2015 his third album for ACT wil

Adam Fong

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Adam Fong (born June 21, 1980) is an American composer, performer and producer active in the San Francisco Bay area. He studied English and Music at Stanford University earning an M.A. in 2004. He then completed an M.F.A. in media studies at Cal Arts in 2006 where his teachers included James Tenney and Wadada Leo Smith. Career He began working with Charles Amirkhanian for the well known concert organization Other Minds in 2006 where he served as Associate Director. In addition he co-founded Emerging Arts Professionals, a network for people working in the arts sector in or near San Francisco. He continues to be a part of the Leadership Group of this organization. He is active as a performer with various groups in the bay area. Center for New Music San Francisco, Inc. The Center for New Music San Francisco, Inc.was founded in 2012, and is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation. The Center was conceived in 2011 by Adam Fong and Brent Miller. Partial List of Compositions *Yizkor (2002) for clarinet, piano and cello Premiered May, 2003 at Stanford *String Quartet No. 1 (2003) Premiered May, 2003 at Stanford *Five Times Remembered (for Bill Evans, 2004) for piano and tape Premiered Novem

Adam Gwon

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Adam Gwon is an American composer and lyricist living in New York City. Personal life Gwon was born in Boston, and spent his childhood in Baltimore before attending New York University Tisch School of the Arts. While studying acting at NYU, Gwon was encouraged to pursue writing by a teacher, David Bucknam, and was later mentored by the musical theater writing team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Gwon is of Chinese-American and Jewish descent. Professional life Gwon made his off-Broadway debut in 2009 with Ordinary Days, the first musical production in Roundabout Theatre Company’s black box space, Roundabout Underground. In 2011, Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, premiered Gwon’s musical The Boy Detective Fails, based on the novel by Joe Meno, as part of their American Musical Voices Project. South Coast Repertory commissioned and premiered his musical Cloudlands, written with Octavio Solis, in 2012. In 2015, Gwon had two simultaneous world premieres, both co-written with Julia Jordan: Bernice Bobs Her Hair, adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, and Cake Off at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. Cake Off received a He

Adam Schoenberg

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Adam Schoenberg (born November 15, 1980) is an American composer. A member of the Atlanta School of Composers, his works have been performed by numerous orchestras and ensembles in the U.S. Schoenberg was the 2010–2012 guest composer for the Aspen Music Festival, the 2012–2013 composer-in-residence for the Kansas City Symphony, the 2013–2014 composer-in-residence for the Lexington Philharmonic, and the 2015–2017 composer-in-residence for the Fort Worth Symphony. Schoenberg’s honors include a 2009 and 2010 MacDowell Colony fellowship, the 2007 Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP, and the 2006 Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Schoenberg earned his master’s degree and Doctor of Musical Arts from The Juilliard School, where he studied composition with John Corigliano and Robert Beaser and wrote his thesis about noted film composer Thomas Newman. While at Juilliard, Schoenberg was awarded the Palmer-Dixon Prize (for “Most Outstanding Composition”). A resident of Los Angeles, Schoenberg is assistant professor of Composition at Occidental College. He is married to playwright and screenwriter Janine Salina

Adam Scime

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Adam Scime (born 1982) is a Canadian composer and double bassist based in Toronto, Ontario. Early life and education Scime was born in Hamilton. Career Scime played bass on Jim MacDonald’s 2005 album Weights and Measures. In 2012 Adam’s piece Mirage earned third prize in the Sir Ernest MacMillan category of the Annual Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada Foundation Awards for Young Composers. Also in 2012 Adam’s piece After the rioT was awarded the Karen Keiser Prize in Canadian Music. He has received commissioning grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Ontario Arts Council that include works for Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, The Esprit Orchestra, Array Music, and New Music Concerts. In 2015 Scime won the Canadian Music Centre Toronto Emerging Composer Award. Scime became an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, and serves as music director for FAWN Chamber Creative in Toronto. References External links *Official website *

Adam Vincent Clarke

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Adam Vincent Clarke (born 1992) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, opera, and dance. Clarke was born in Nova Scotia, later moving to Antwerp, Belgium where he co-founded the dance-theatre company Âmok/Âmok in 2016. His style of composition is characterized by a fusion of folk traditions, contemporary classical music, and melodic structures. Early life and education Clarke was born in 1992 in Nova Scotia, Canada, growing up in the community of Greenwood. He developed an interest in music as a child, beginning to learn to play the bagpipes at the age of nine. During this period he cultivated a fascination for Eastern Canadian folk music, which later influenced his compositions. Clarke was also inspired by heavy metal, and learned to play the electric guitar prior to pursuing formal musical education. He studied composition at Acadia University under Dinuk Wijeratne and Derek Charke, going on to earn a master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in Belgium. Career Clarke’s work spans contemporary classical music, opera, and interdisciplinary performance. His compositions have been commissioned and performed internationally by ensembles and companies such

Adam Wingard

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Adam Wingard ( ; born December 3, 1982) is an American filmmaker. He has served as a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, actor, and composer on numerous American films. Following an early career as a member of the mumblecore movement, he became notable for his works in the horror and action genres, especially the films You’re Next (2011), and The Guest (2014), and the bigger-budget franchise films Blair Witch (2016), Death Note (2017), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), and its sequel Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024). Early life Wingard was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and graduated from Full Sail University in 2002. Career His first feature, the horror comedy Home Sick, starring Bill Moseley and Tiffany Shepis, was a stepping stone to his second feature, the psychotropic ghost story horror film Pop Skull. Made on a total budget of $2,000, Pop Skull had its international premiere at the Rome Film Festival and its domestic premiere at the AFI Film Festival in 2007. A Horrible Way to Die (2010) and What Fun We Were Having (2011) that followed. The romantic horror film A Horrible Way to Die premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in the Vangu

Adina Izarra

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Adina Izarra (born 1959) is a Venezuelan musician, music educator and composer. Biography Adina Izarra was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied music under Alfredo del Mónaco in Caracas and received her Ph.D. in composition from York University, England, in 1988, after studying with Vic Hoyland. After 1988 Izarra returned to Caracas where she took a position as professor of composition at Simón Bolívar University. Between 1999 and 2001, she was a member of the executive committee of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). Currently residing in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where she is a professor at the University of the Arts. She works in the areas of live electronics and audio-reactive visuals. She has a duet with Rubén Riera, who plays ancient and contemporary plucked string instruments, with whom she performs original improvisations, works by both, as well as covers a lot of old music, transformed through electronics. Adina has just received a Master’s degree in Digital Audiovisual Postproduction from ESPOL, Guayaquil and has a PhD in composition from the University of York, England.Currently residing in Guayaquil, Ecuador, working as a professor at the University of

Adrian Johnston (musician)

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Adrian Johnston (born 1961) is an English musician and composer for film and television scores, who resides in London and Samois-sur-Seine. Early life and education Born in the county of Lancashire, Johnston attended the University of Edinburgh, studying English. He has been a drummer in bands including Moles for Breakfast, The Waterboys, the Wanglers, Combo Zombo, and The Mike Flowers Pops. Career During his twenties, Johnston travelled the world providing music accompaniment to silent films at film festivals. He later scored productions for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Johnston’s first film score was for the 1996 Thomas Hardy adaptation Jude. He has also composed original scores for The Turn of the Screw (1999), Becoming Jane, a 2007 film about Jane Austen, and the 2008 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. In 2008, he was awarded a BAFTA for the score of the BBC film Capturing Mary. Johnston’s score for Charles Sturridge’s mini-series Shackleton won a 2002 Primetime Emmy. In 2009, he scored the British science-fiction procedural TV series Paradox. He composed the theme music for the BBC detective series Zen, which won him a 2011 RTS

Adrian Knight (composer)

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Adrian Knight (born 3 January 1987 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish composer, songwriter and musician living and working in New York City. Between 2006 and 2009 he studied with Pär Lindgren and Jesper Nordin at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and between 2009 and 2011 with David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman, and Ingram Marshall at the Yale School of Music in New Haven. He is a member of a pop group, Blue Jazz TV, as well as ambient duo Private Elevators and the experimental jazz collective Synthetic Love Dream Ensemble. His music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Living Earth Show, the Swedish Wind Ensemble, Red Light New Music, loadbang, Yale Philharmonia and Kungliga Musikhögskolans Symfoniorkester. In 2011, he composed the music for a Yale School of Drama production of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Since 2008, he has operated what he calls “the smallest record label in the world”, Pink Pamphlet. Knight’s works are published by Schott Music New York through their new digital initiative Project Schott New York, Svensk Musik and Pink Pamphlet. and the Society of Swedish C

Adrian Sutton

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Adrian Geoffrey Sutton (15 August 1967 – 10 October 2025) was a British composer, best known for his theatre music but also widely known for his symphonic and chamber music for the concert hall. He composed the scores for a series of well received National Theatre productions, including War Horse (2007) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2011). In September 2022, Sutton was diagnosed with an incurable cancer from which he died in 2025. Life and career Sutton was born on 15 August 1967 in Tenterden near Ashford, Kent. His family then moved to Zimbabwe and later to South Africa where he grew up. Before his success at the National Theatre, Sutton spent 15 years as a composer of “applied music”, especially music for television commercials. Sutton was introduced to his brother, the theatre director Tom Morris. That led to a commission from the National Theatre in 2005 to write the score for Helen Edmundson’s “play with music” Coram Boy, for which Sutton adapted and extended the music of Handel. The score for War Horse two years later is interspersed with simple folk songs on which Sutton collaborated with John Tams. The orchestral sections combine an English folk idi

Adrian Younge

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Adrian Younge (born May 7, 1978) is an American composer, arranger and music producer based in the Los Angeles area. Background Younge grew up in Fontana, California, United States. His father is a lawyer and Younge himself earned a Juris Doctor degree from the American College of Law in Orange County. Younge has worked as a lawyer and law professor—having taught entertainment law at his alma mater. Early in his career, Younge worked for the legal department of MTV. He played bass and keyboards in a band during the late 1990s, and began composing after sampling records with an MPC. He quickly learned to play several instruments and experimented with analog recordings which resulted in the Italian influenced Venice Dawn, which he released on EP. In 2009, his soundtrack for the film Black Dynamite was released on the Wax Poetics label. In 2011, Younge revived and expanded Venice Dawn into a longer work called Something about April. In 2013, he released Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics with William Hart of the Delfonics and Twelve Reasons to Die with Ghostface Killah. Younge also operates a vinyl record store in Los Angeles called Artform Studio. and Something About April III (202

Agata Zubel

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Agata Zubel (born 1978 in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish composer and singer. Life Zubel is a graduate of Wrocław’s Karol Szymanowski High School of Music (percussion and music theory) and the Karol Lipiński University of Music, where she studied composition with Jan Wichrowski. She is a member of the Youth Circle of the Polish Composers’ Union and a recipient of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship. Currently she teaches at the Academy of Music in Wrocław (full professor). In 2013 she was honoured by the International Music Council’s International Rostrum of Composers with the best composition title for Not I, which she wrote for soprano, instrumental ensemble and electronics. In October 2017 she was awarded the Bronze Medal “Gloria Artis”. She is an ordinary member of the Polish Composers’ Union. Selected works * Lumiere pour percussion (1997) * Nocturne for solo violin (1997) * Three Miniatures for piano (1998) * Birthday for mixed a cappella choir; text by Wisława Szymborska (1998) * A Song about the End of the World for voice, reciter and instrumental ensemble; text by Czesław Miłosz (1998) * Meditations for mixed a cappella choir; text by Jan Twardowski (19

Agboola Shadare

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Agboola Shadare is a Nigerian songwriter, composer and producer. He started as a church musician, then moved into club and studio production in Nigeria. He produced for popular Nigerian artistes such as Gbenga Owoeye-Wise and Mike Aremu, and released two solo albums, Dream Dawn and Glory. Shadare then moved to the US, playing Christian smooth jazz. Agboola’s music is now played around the world. He has performed alongside Bob James, Ron Kenoly, Yolanda Adams and other top artistes and several times on TBN. Agboola held concerts across Europe, being due to return to the United States in March 2009, where he was to release two albums and a play at a concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. Early life Agboola was born in Kano City in Africa on 9 May Originally from Ilesa, in Southern Nigeria. At the age of twelve Shadares became a drummer in the church. By age 19 he had learnt more instruments, particularly the guitar, which became his signature instrument, playing with his style. Between 1993 and 1994, Agboola appeared in several concerts with the group Treasure Band. He later concentrated on a Christian approach; between 1994 and 2002 he played with House on the R

Agoria (musician)

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Agoria, born Sébastien Devaud (born 16 January 1976) is a French electronic record producer, composer, and DJ. He has released four albums, including the soundtrack to the film Go Fast. He is one of the founders of the record label InFiné and also helped to create the music festival Nuits Sonores. He released his debut album, Blossom, in 2003 and has since produced albums including The Green Armchair (2006), Impermanence (2011), Drift (2019), .dev (2011) and Unshadow (2024). Agoria is the founder of Sapiens Records label and is a film composer, with soundtracks for films including and . Early life Sébastien Devaud, known as Agoria, grew up in Valencin, Isère. Inspired by a Jeff Mills DJ set at 15, he taught himself to mix and, by 17, was performing at clubs, opening for Richie Hawtin and Carl Cox. After high school, he briefly attended university but left to organize parties and work in record shops. By 23, he committed fully to music. Music career First albums Agoria released his debut LP, Influence Hivernale, in 1999 on the Kubik label, then managed by Cyrille Bonin, the future director of the Transbordeur in Lyon. His breakthrough came in 2001 with La Onzième Marche, initially r

Agustín Fernández (composer)

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Agustín Fernández (born 1958 ) is a Bolivian composer. Career In Bolivia Fernández began musical life as a child, singing and playing the charango in folk clubs, including Peña Ollantay, Peña Naira and the country’s then only television channel. Still a teenager he worked as a violinist and then principal viola with the National Symphony Orchestra and taught harmony at the National Conservatoire, while studying composition with Alberto Villalpando. He later studied in Japan with Takashi Iida and with Akira Ifukube, while working part-time at the Bolivian Embassy and as a language instructor at Nichisei Gakuin and later at Komagane Training Institute. In the United Kingdom, after obtaining an MMus at Liverpool University and a PhD at City University Fernández was composer-in-residence at Queen’s University Belfast since 1990 until 1994. Fernández’s work has been performed and acclaimed internationally, featuring at festivals such as Focus!, Summergarden (New York), ISEA (Montreal), International New Music Week (Bucharest), Latin American Music Festival (Caracas), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, London International Opera Festival and many others. Some of his folk arrangeme

Ailbhe McDonagh

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Ailbhe McDonagh (born 29 November 1982) is an Irish concert cellist and composer. She performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist with several studio albums to her name. McDonagh has composed works for orchestra, chamber music ensembles and pedagocial purposes. Collections of her compositions have been published by Boosey & Hawkes and are featured regularly in the ABRSM, Royal Irish Academy of Music and other exam syllabi. McDonagh is a professor of cello at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland. Career Born in Dublin, Ailbhe McDonagh is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, USA, where she studied under Steven Doane, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM), Dublin, Ireland. She currently teaches cello performance at the RIAM. As a chamber musician, McDonagh performs with pianist John O’Conor and also in a duo, The McDonagh Sisters, with her sister and pianist Orla McDonagh. She is a member of the chamber music group Ficino Ensemble and the crossover group Trio Elatha where she plays traditional Irish music on the cello. McDonagh joined the cello faculty of the RIAM in 2010 and has been invited to give mast

Airat Ichmouratov

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Airat Rafailovich Ichmouratov (, Tatar Cyrillic: Айрат Рафаил улы Ишмурат, born 28 June 1973) is a Russian-born Canadian composer, conductor and klezmer clarinetist of Volga Tatar descent. He is a founding member and clarinetist of award-winning Montreal-based klezmer group Kleztory and invited professor at Laval University in Quebec, Canada. Early life Ichmouratov was born and raised in Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. He is the second child of Razima Ichmouratova (Gatina) and Rafail Ichmouratov. Airat Ichmouratov is a representative of a well-known Tatar theatrical dynasty. His grandfather, Riza Fakhrutdinovich Ishmurat (Ishmuratov), was a playwright, publicist, and director. He was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic). His grandmother, Rashida Abdulazyanovna Ziganshina, was an actress at the Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre, as well as a playwright and public figure, and was a People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Russian Federation. At the age of seven, Ichmouratov began his musical education at Kazan Children’s Music School No. 3, named after Röstäm Yaxin. There, he initially

Akari Kaida

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is a Japanese video game music composer. She composed various soundtracks for Capcom games, including multiple in the Mega Man series. She has occasionally been credited as Akari Groves, taking the surname of her husband. Career Kaida was a jazz piano major in college, spending her first year at the Osaka College of Music before joining Capcom in 1994. She became a freelance composer in 2005, but still continued to work on various Capcom projects, most recently becoming part of the Inti Creates sound team for Mega Man games. Notable works References External links *

Akio Yasuraoka

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(born January 13, 1958) is a Japanese composer. Biography Yasuraoka was born in Tokyo and studied with composers Teruyuki Noda (野田暉行) and Akira Miyoshi graduating Tokyo University of the Arts in 1984 with a master’s degree in music composition. He has received several awards and distinctions including the 1st Prize in Composition at the Music Competition of Japan (日本音楽コンクール) in 1980 and the 1982 Japan Symphony Foundation Composition Award for his Symphony. He was recipient of the 1994 Kenzo Nakajima Music Award (中島健蔵音楽賞). In 1985, Yasuraoka organized Art Respirant, a chamber orchestra of young performing artists and composers. Currently Yasuraoka is professor at Toho Gakuen School of Music and Tokyo University of the Arts. He is a member of the 21st Century Music Association (21世紀音楽の会) and a director of the Japan Society for Contemporary Music (日本現代音楽協会). Selected works The works of Yasuraoka are published by the Japan Federation of Composers, Zen-On Music, Ongaku-no-tomo Sha and Tokyo Academia Music. ;Orchestra * Symphony (1982) ;Concertante * Métamorphose concertante (協奏的変容) for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1991) * Concerto Grosso No.1 “Animatori” (1993) * for Viola and Orchestra

Akira Yamaoka

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is a Japanese composer and sound designer. He has scored almost every installment of Konami’s horror video game series Silent Hill since 1999, also producing some of the entries and composing for three film adaptations. He has been the sound director at Grasshopper Manufacture since 2010 and has served as director and sound designer at Supertrick Games since 2018. Early life Akira Yamaoka was born in Niigata on February 6, 1968. He sought to become a designer, but instead became a musician whilst studying product design and interior design at Tokyo Art College. Career Yamaoka joined Konami on September 21, 1993. He immediately began to work on the games Contra: Hard Corps, Sparkster, and Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2. Shortly thereafter, he worked on the music for the PC Engine and Sega CD versions of Snatcher. When Konami began searching for a musician to compose the score for Silent Hill, Yamaoka volunteered because he thought he was the only one capable of making the soundtrack. He later named Silent Hill 2 as his favorite of his own soundtracks. On December 2, 2009, it was announced that Yamaoka was leaving Konami. On February 3, 2010, he joined Grasshopper Manufacture

Alain Celo

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Alain Celo (born 1960) is a French composer and violist with the . He has written about twenty works, mainly instrumental. He followed a complete cursus of music writing and musical composition at the , with . He was awarded the SACEM Prize, and also received advice from Claude Lefebvre and George Crumb. His influences range from Debussy and Stravinsky to Ligeti, through jazz and ethnic music. His pieces most often feature the relationship between man and nature (from Oiseaux imaginaires pour piano in 1993 to Espaces désertiques for flute, violin, double bass and percussion in 2003) or are directly related to literary works (Commentaires sur Verlaine for viola, piano and narrator, 1996, Erlkönig after Goethe for voices and strings, 2001). Commissioned by the Pyxis Ensemble, his work, L’Amour et le Sablier (soprano voices, flute, viola and piano), on poems by , was premiered in 2004 (printed since at Éditions musicales européennes). His works have been performed by the Stravinsky ensemble, the Cergy-Pontoise Studio, Symblêma, Souffle d’ébène. References External links * Official website * Le mouton à cinq pattes composition by Alain Celo (YouTube)

Alain Mayrand

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Alain Mayrand is a Canadian composer, orchestrator, and conductor known for his contributions to film music. He served as the lead composer for the animated feature film Mosley and has contributed to the scores of major motion pictures such as Ender’s Game and Elysium, among others. Career Mayrand holds a bachelor’s degree in piano performance and guitar from Bishop’s University, as well as a master’s degree in composition from The University of British Columbia. In addition to his formal studies, he trained in cello and flute to enhance his compositional skills, with the cello remaining his favorite instrument. Mayrand served as Composer-in-Residence with the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra for four years. Mayrand’s concert music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by ensembles worldwide. Among the orchestras that have performed his music are the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, the Russian Film Music Symphony Orchestra, the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra of Taipei, the Ramat-Gan Orchestra in Israel, and the Troy University Concert Band in Alabama. Mayrand was twice commissioned by the Dallas Chamber Symphony to compose original scores for their silent film series. In 2

Alain Trudel

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Alain Trudel (born 13 June 1966) is a Canadian conductor, trombonist and composer. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, Trudel first became known to the public as a trombone soloist. He made his solo debut at the age of 18, with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Trudel was the first Canadian to be a Yamaha international artist, and Yamaha has named a trombone mouthpiece in his honour. He served on the faculty of the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal from 1995 to 2008, teaching trombone and chamber music. From 2004 to 2012, Trudel was conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. From 2006 to 2008, Trudel was music director of the CBC Radio Orchestra, the final conductor to hold the post whilst the orchestra was under the auspices of the CBC. Trudel was also interim music advisor for the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra from 2007 to 2008. He suffered from a rare cancer in his late 30s that caused him to cease work temporarily. In 2006, Trudel became music director of l’Orchestre Symphonique de Laval. He made his Opéra de Montréal debut in 2009, with Die Zauberflöte, as well as the 30th anniversary gala, which was released as a live CD and nominated for a

Alan Chang

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Alan Peijei Chang (born December 4, 1979) is an American pianist and songwriter, best known for his work with Michael Bublé. Biography Originally from San Jose, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music with a degree in jazz studies in 2002. Chang began his passion for jazz at Castillero Middle School. At the age of 13, Chang began accompanying nearby Pioneer High School with their daily musical rehearsals as well as a local dance studio. When Chang attended Pioneer High School, he soon received local recognition for his playing, and by his senior year he had recorded an independent “senior project”. The CD included original compositions and was sold locally to recoup recording expenses. Later that year Chang was selected as one of two pianists to the San Francisco High School Grammy Band. After graduating from USC’s Thornton School of Music, Chang was discovered and asked to audition for an up-and-coming artist, Michael Bublé. Since 2003, Chang has been Bublé’s musical director and pianist, traveling the world to sold-out shows, radio, and television appearances. Works In 2005, Chang co-wrote “Home” with Bublé and Amy Foster-Gil

Alan John

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Alan John (born 7 May 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian composer. He studied music at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1980. His compositions include original music for various plays, films (such as Holding the Man, Three Dollars and The Bank) and TV series (including Love My Way), and the musicals Jonah Jones, Orlando Rourke and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. Operas His opera The Eighth Wonder was premiered in 1995 by Opera Australia. It was revived in 2000, during the Sydney Olympics Arts Festival, and again in 2016. In May 2008, his chamber opera Through the Looking Glass, to a libretto by Andrew Upton, was premiered by the Victorian Opera at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, conducted by Richard Gill. In May 2011, his opera How to Kill your Husband (and other handy household hints), to a libretto by Timothy Daly and based on Kathy Lette’s 2007 book of the same name, premiered at the same venue under the same conductor. Awards and nominations APRA-AGSC Awards The annual Screen Music Awards are presented by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC) for television and film scores and soundtracks. - 2004 Shark Net – John Best

Alastair King (composer)

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Alastair King (born 1967) is a British composer and conductor, perhaps best known for his musical contributions to film and television. He frequently collaborates with composers Charlie Mole, Geoff Zanelli, Nicholas Hooper and Rupert Gregson-Williams by either conducting for them or acting as an orchestrator or both. Biography King studied music at Bath College of Higher Education, graduating in 1991. He then undertook postgraduate study at Birmingham University and the University of Kansas. His work Hit the Ground (Running, Running, Running) was the only European entry in the final of the composing competition Masterprize 2001. In addition to his concert works, King has composed music for various films, including Shrek, Chicken Run, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and television programmes, including the FIFA World Cup 2002, The Last Detective, Second Nature and William and Mary. King’s most recent roles include conducting and orchestrating on Doctor Who for Murray Gold and Segun Akinola. He replaced Ben Foster after his departure in 2015 and took on the full role for Series 10. He left the show after the 2017 Christmas special Twice Upon a Time, then returned in 2021 f

Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska

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Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska (born 20 October 1965 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-born Luxembourgish composer, a pianist and musical pedagogue. In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of “Gladius” for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble. The Cultural Commission and Madam Mayor, Mrs. Theresa Gantenbein, granted her the “Cultural Award” and also the title of merits for services rendered to the cultural life of the municipality of Hesperange on the event of Excellence Awards. In 2007 she became a Jury member of the International Composition Competition “Valentino Bucchi” in Rome, Italy, representing Luxembourg. Very active as a composer, she devotes much of her creative energy to the musical CBT and teaching of young talented children. The idea, concept and creation of the Club “Artistes en Herbe” are in large part due to her efforts. Consequently, she is President-Founder of the International Composition Competition “Artistes en Herbe” under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg. Master in Musical Composition and Notation, she has been granted awards for piano, solfège

Albert Patron

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Alberto Patron (born December 26, 1969), known in America also as Albert Patron, is an Italian composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, aporetic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Patron is one of the leading figures of the contemporary trent aporetic music as well as aporetic philosophy. Critics have lauded him as one of the most innovative Italian composers since 1990. He also contributed to philosophy. Patron is perhaps best known for his 1990 compositions The Ten Aporetic Tropes, the ten movements of which are the tables of the contemporary trend called Aporetic Music, or Aporetic Philosophy. The content of these compositions is meant to be perceived as the sounds of the human being and its several faceted ethical ways, and the pieces became one of the most controversial compositions of the last 20 years. Patron played on the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by placing various objects in the strings), for which he wrote numerous musical pieces, the best known of which is Hapax (1995). Life Patron was born in Pordenone, Italy. He is known as a composer, pianist, organist, committee director and

Albert Schnelzer

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Albert Schnelzer (born 3 June 1972, Värmland) is a Swedish composer. As a youth, Schnelzer was a keyboard player in a rock band. He later became a student at the Malmö Academy of Music from 1994 to 2000. His teachers in Sweden included Sven-David Sandström and Rolf Martinsson, and he was a conducting pupil of Gunnar Staern and Lars Jensen. In the UK, Schnelzer studied music at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Julian Anderson. He continued his conducting studies with John Carewe. In 1998, Schnelzer won the “Composer of Tomorrow” competition with the orchestral work Erupto. He joined the Society of Swedish Composers in 2001. He became better known outside of Sweden with his piano trio Predatory Dances, composed on commission from Radio France and premiered at the Présence Festival in 2004. Selected Compositions Orchestral and band works: * Erupto (1998) * Dance Ecstatic (for string orchestra; 2001) * Symphony No. 1 (“Azraeel”; 2006) * A Freak in Burbank (2007) * Azraeel Suite (for wind orchestra; 2008) * Emperor Akbar (for string orchestra; 2009/2010) * Tales from Suburbia (2012) Concertos: * Bassoon Concerto No. 1 (“Auroral Dances”; 2006) * Oboe Concerto (“The

Alberto Giurioli

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Alberto Giurioli (born 24 July 1991) is an Italian pianist and composer, based in London. Born in Badia Polesine, Italy (a municipality in Rovigo), Giurioli is the son of Pietro Giurioli and Alice Fasolin. He began studying piano at the age of 4 and studied at the music school Libera Espressione Musicale. He has also studied at the Cat Sound Studio under Patrizia Arduini and Mario Marcassa, and at the conservatory of music Conservatorio di Musica Francesco Venezze in Rovigo. Giurioli earned a degree in International Economics from the University of Padua. Giurioli also plays keyboards, electric guitar, bass guitar and drums. He has appeared on television on channels such as 7 Gold, and performed in London on public street pianos. He lives in London. Giurioli’s first album, Ali, was released in July 2011 through Cat Sound Records. After moving to London in 2015, Giurioli began collaborating with the orchestrator Geoff Lawson, deepening his understanding of orchestration in the Neo-classical genre. Giurioli has performed as a guest for Sofar Sound in London. His collaboration with Classic FM led to a performance as part of Global’s Make Some Noise in October 2017, performing at Stein

Alberto Posadas

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Alberto Posadas (born 1967 in Valladolid), is a Spanish composer. Biography Alberto Posadas was born in 1967 in Valladolid where he underwent his first musical education which he then continued in Madrid at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. In 1988 he met Francisco Guerrero Marín with whom he studied composition and whom he considered his real master. This meeting represented an important turning point in his career. Together with Guerrero he discovered new techniques for musical form creation such as mathematical combinatorics and the fractals. Nonetheless, his determination and constant search for the integration of aesthetics in these procedures led him to employ another “model” of composing such as the translation of architectural spaces into music, the application of topology and painting techniques related to perspective or the exploration of the acoustic features of instruments at a micro level. He explored the possibilities of electro-acoustic music developing, in a self-taught way, through various projects starting with Liturgia de silencio (1995) and continuing with more recent pieces like Snefru or Versa est in luctum (2002). His interest in investigating the application of

Aldo Brizzi

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Aldo Brizzi is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Brizzi was born in Alessandria, Italy, in 1960. He studied piano, viola and composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and later graduated in DAMS from the University of Bologna. As a composer and conductor, he has worked between Europe and Brazil. In 2016, he founded the Núcleo de Ópera da Bahia in Salvador. His stage works include Gabriel et Gabriel, performed at the Opéra de Tours in November 2015. He also composed Jelin, an opera in two acts, which premiered at the Teatro Alessandrino in Alessandria on 17 September 2021. Brizzi collaborated with Gilberto Gil on Amor Azul, an opera co-written by the two musicians and performed at the Auditorium de Radio France in Paris in December 2022. The production was presented in concerts on 2, 3 and 4 December 2022 by the Chœur de Radio France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with Brizzi conducting. In 2025, he co-composed the opera I-Juca Pirama with Gilberto Gil, with a libretto by Paulo Coelho. The work received its world premiere at the Theatro da Paz in Belém on 10 November 2025, with further performances on 11 and 12 November, as part of the XXI

Ale Carr

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Ale Carr is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist, music teacher and composer, known for his work with his Danish trio Dreamers’ Circus and his collaboration with the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Notable instruments includes the Nordic cittern and the träskofiol (clog-fiddle). The Press & Journal has described Carr as “one of the leading players of plucked string instruments within the Nordic folk tradition.” Career In July 2023, Carr appeared at the BBC Proms in London, performing in a presentation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Pekka Kuusisto and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the Royal Albert Hall. According to Scan Magazine, Dreamers’ Circus have collaborated with artists such as The Chieftains, Sharon Shannon, and Japanese composer Yasunori Mitsuda, and have performed with orchestras in Denmark and Sweden. The trio also curate Folkets Festival, a Copenhagen event focused on Nordic folk music and related collaborative performances. Awards * 2008 - Zorn award in silver and the title of riksspelman (national folk musician) in Delsbo, Sweden, for playing violin in the tradition of Skåne * 2013 - Danish Music Awards Folk - Artist of the Year * 2015 - Danish Music Awards F

Aleandro Baldi

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Aleandro Baldi (born 11 April 1959) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Greve in Chianti, Florence as Aleandro Civai, blind, Baldi began playing the guitar as an autodidact while he was at the Reggio Emilia College for the Blind. He debuted in 1986, entering the Sanremo Music Festival with “La nave va”, a song he composed and arranged, ranking second in the “Newcomers” section. He later won the Newcomers section of the Festival in 1992, in a duet with Francesca Alotta, with the song “Non amarmi”, which later became an international hit with the title “No Me Ames”. Outside of his musical career, Baldi is also a massophysiotherapist. Discography Album * 1987 - Aleandro Baldi * 1989 - E sia così * 1992 - Il sole * 1994 - Ti chiedo onestà * 1996 - Tu sei me * 2002 - Il meglio e il nuovo * 2007 - Liberamente tratto * 2010 - Italian Love Songs References External links * * Aleandro Baldi at Discogs *

Alejandro Brittes

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Alejandro Brittes (born July 5, 1976) is an Argentine composer, accordionist and researcher of the music of the littoral region of Argentina. He has been residing in Porto Alegre, Brazil since 2010. He was the first accordionist of the genre to perform at the Library of Congress in the United States . Considered by The Boston Globe as one of the greatest exponents of contemporary chamamé, the complexity of his works is reminiscent of Astor Piazzolla . Career A son of parents from the province of Corrientes, at 12 years old, Alejandro began to study accordion with Nini Flores. When he was 15 years old, he formed his first musical group, and recorded his first album “Por la Senda Chamamecera”. In 1989, he went to study music at the Juan Pedro Esnaola School, later continuing his career as a musician. In 1996, he won the Cosquín de Oro award, for Best Instrumentalist with his national debut at the Próspero Molina plaza in the Festival Nacional de Folklore de Cosquín, Córdoba, Argentina. In the same year, Alejandro was invited by the rock group Los Piojos to record on the album “3er arco” playing accordion on the songs “Todo Pasa” and “Don’t say tomorrow”, and performing in the album r

Alejandro Román

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Alejandro López Román (born 1971) is a Spanish composer and pianist. Musician of eclectic style, his works cover both current symphonic composition like jazz or film music. Biography Born in Madrid, he studied composition with Antón García Abril, Valentín Ruiz and Zulema de la Cruz at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid. From 1991 to 1995 he was awarded scholarships by the AIE (Society of Artists and Performers) for studies of Jazz with Tony Heimer, Jorge Villaescusa and Ricard Miralles (piano), Claudio Gabis, Eva Gancedo and Miguel Blanco (harmony, composition and arrangements, music theater), Bob Sands and Victor Merlo (improvisation and ensemble). He belonged to several Jazz and Rock groups with whom he recorded a dozen albums. He has composed over seventy works for piano, voice, guitar, orchestra, chamber, electroacoustic, and teaching music, modern (jazz, pop) and film music, theatre and dance. He has scored fifteen short films and three feature films. In 2014 he obtained the Doctorate in Philosophy from the Department of Aesthetics, UNED, after completion of his thesis “Musivisual analysis, audition guide and study of film music”, where he analyses the connections betwe

Aleksander Kolkowski

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Aleksander Kolkowski (born 1959 in London) is a British musician and composer whose work combines instruments and machines from the pioneering era of sound recording and reproduction (Stroh violins, wind-up Gramophones, shellac discs and wax-phonograph cylinders) to make live mechanical-acoustic music. He lives and works in London, England. About Kolkowski studied music at the University of London, Goldsmiths College, violin with Clarence Myerscough at the Royal Academy of Music. Taught by John Tilbury, Hugh Davies and in 1982 participated in seminars and performances directed by John Cage. In the late 1970s, Kolkowski played on the then burgeoning punk rock scene in London, featuring on the records of Henry Badowski, an early member of The Damned, a British multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer, who was a member of several punk rock bands in the 1970s. Kolkowski played violins on Badowski’s post punk album, Life Is a Grand…, alongside sometime Generation X (band) guitarist, James Stevenson (musician) and Dave Berk, drummer with Johnny Moped, an early Stiff Records punk rock band from the late 70s’ first wave of punk in England. Over the past 25 years he has worked inte

Aleksandra Gryka

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Aleksandra Gryka (born 17 May 1977) is a Polish classical composer of experimental music. Her works have been performed at such festivals as the Warsaw Autumn, Sacrum Profanum and Juilliard Focus! Festival. Early life and education Aleksandra Gryka was born on 17 May 1977, in Warsaw. She started learning to play the piano at the age of six. In 2003, she graduated with honors in composition under Magdalena Długosz During her studies, she also took composition courses in Kraków, Helsinki, Buckow Gryka’s work has appeared in the repertoire of, among others, an_ARCHE new music ensemble and Kwadrofonik. was staged at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, to which Gryka composed music. The piece was inspired by the works of Stanisław Lem. Works * For D. for piano solo, 1999 * LIEN-AL for cello, harpsichord and accordion, 2000 * High3bbingNor. for symphony orchestra, 2000 * Interioryzacion for computer, 2000 * OXYGEN nr.369,1 for tape and piano, 2001 * NonStopping center for harpsichord solo, 2001 * (1”)exists as…(-1”) for flute, accordion, piano, 3 percussions and cello, 2001 * Project ien for tape, video and dancer, 2002 * JaIchIJe for string quartet and marimba, 2002 * Interialcell for instrume

Aleksandra Vrebalov

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Aleksandra Vrebalov (born September 22, 1970) is a Serbian-American composer based in New York City and Novi Sad, Serbia. Biography Vrebalov was born in the former Yugoslavia and came to the United States for study in 1995. She became a U.S. citizen in 2015. Vrebalov studied composition with Miroslav Statkic at Novi Sad University, then with Zoran Erić at Belgrade University, Elinor Armer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Ivana Loudová at the Prague Academy of Music. She was Composition Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center in summer 1999. Vrebalov earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan where she studied with Evan Chambers and Michael Daugherty. Aleksandra Vrebalov’s more than 100 works range from concert music and opera to music for modern dance and film. Her music has been performed by the Kronos Quartet, Glimmerglass Opera with Cincinnati Opera, Serbian National Theater, English National Ballet, Rambert Dance, Sybarite5, Jorge Caballero, the Sausalito Quartet, ETHEL string quartet, Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre, Ijsbreker, Moravian Philharmonic, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, and Festival Ballet Providence, among others. Vrebalov’s c

Aleksi Eeben

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Aleksi Eeben (born 2 July 1976), born Antti Aleksi Mikkonen, is a Finnish composer, sound designer, musician and programmer. He is best known for his musical contributions to the demoscene under the alias Heatbeat, where he has composed hundreds of modules using music tracker software and developed his own tools. He has also composed for video games, and was employed as a sound designer at Nokia (later Microsoft Mobile) between 2002 and 2015, creating many ringtones and sounds. His brother is Konsta Mikkonen, also a demoscene musician and dance producer known under the alias Muffler. Biography Early life Eeben has been interested in music and computers since he was a child, where he played with bongos and sung, and took basic tutorials from magazines. This led to him programming in BASIC on the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, as well as composing music. Demoscene and games Eeben joined the demoscene group Rebels in 1990, and later formed his own group Carillon, which merged with Cyberiad to form the group CNCD. He composed hundreds of tracks for demos and competitions, as well as the soundtrack for the Amiga game Elfmania. He later became inactive in the demoscene, although continued to c

AleMor

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Alejandra Mor Tatis, known professionally as AleMor, is a Colombian-American musician, singer, and composer. Her musical style includes genres such as pop, latin alternative, rock, bolero, R&B, soul, neo-soul, and hip hop. In 2021, AleMor released her debut extended play (EP) titled Alemorología, which was nominated for the 2021 Latin Grammy Awards in the category of Best Singer-Songwriter Album. In 2023, AleMor released her first album, Beautiful Humans Vol. 1, which was nominated, this time in Category 5 for Best Latin Pop Album at the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards., Spain. Early life AleMor was born in Bogotá, Colombia At the age of 12, her family relocated to Miami, Florida in the US. Music career Between 2019 and 2020, AleMor participated in “La Voz US”, a singing competition. In 2021, AleMor independently released her debut album, titled Alemorología. This received a Latin Grammy nomination in the Best Singer-Songwriter Album category. In May 2023, AleMor released her second album, Beautiful Humans Vol. 1, produced by Juan Carlos Pérez Soto and Bruno Romano. The album received a nomination Category 5 for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2023 Latin Grammy Awards. Discography Studio albu

Alen Ilijic

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Alen Ilijic (Serbian Cyrillic: Ален Илијић), (born 30 January 1975 in Gevgelija, SFR Yugoslavia), is a Serbian new media avant-garde composer and polymedia artist. He studied film music with Professor Amit Sen at City of Westminster College in London, and composition, orchestration, electronic music, and sound engineering at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, with one of the most well-known composers, music theorists and modern music scholars in Eastern Europe, Srđan Hofman. Career During his studies in London as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, Alen Ilijic formed the band Zealot, in 1993. At the time, his musical expression was in the form of experimental rock, noise, and Byzantine music. Zealot performed at Rock Garden, Hope and Anchor, Islington, Red Eye, Mean Fiddler, etc. With its innovative sound, Zealot had a big impact on the British underground scene during the nineties. The band stopped performing in 1999, due to Alen’s return to Yugoslavia, Serbia. From this point onward, Alen Ilijic’s interest was in the avant-garde movement, under the influence of Béla Bartók, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Serbian polymedia artist and composer Vladan Radovanović. His album I have no

Alessandro Cipriani

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Alessandro Cipriani (born April 28, 1959) is an Italian composer of electronic music. Biography Cipriani was born in Tivoli, Italy. After ordinary musical studies Alessandro Cipriani completed his studies in composition and electronic music at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He created a number of pieces involving instrumental music with electronic processing, including a string quartet and magnetic tape, entitled “Quadro”, and a 60-minute work for piano, percussions and magnetic tape, “Il Pensiero Magmatico” Cipriani then became interested in establishing concrete connections with the music of cultures that are dissimilar to the classical and contemporary western tradition. A fundamental piece by Cipriani in this context is the trilogy concerning Islamic, Jewish and Gregorian religious chants, composed by the author from 2001 to 2007 in various stereo, quadraphonic and 5.1 versions, both acousmatic and live. In these works Cipriani re-elaborates some traditional chants of these three monotheistic religions, while maintaining a strong connection between the original voice, its comprehensibility and its electronic processing. The three pieces are “Al Nur (The Light)”, ba

Alessandro Grego

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Alessandro Grego (born 18 March 1969, Trieste) is an Italian contemporary classical composer, theatre and film score author. Biography He studied composition with Giorgio Gaslini, electronic music with Curtis Roads, musicology at the School of Palaeography, Musical Philology of Cremona and Music for Films at the Experimental Film Centre in Rome. In 2023, in Radom, Poland, he won the first prize at the international composition competition “Arboretum,” conceived by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, with a violin concerto with string orchestra titled “The Eternal Sea,” inspired by a collection of poems by Biagio Marin and dedicated to the memory of Edda Serra, a literary critic and scholar of his work. Additionally, the composer received a special prize created by Elżbieta Penderecka, Penderecki’s wife. In 2025, he is recognized for his musical achievements by the Carl Reinecke International Music Competition. Theatre In 2008, he composed the original music for the show Senza vincitori né vinti (Without winners or losers). The play, starring Francesco Niccolini and Arnoldo Foà, is inspired by the novel Storia di Tönle by the Italian writer andveteran Mario Rigoni Stern. It de

Alessandro La Cava

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Alessandro La Cava (born 21 February 2000) is an Italian songwriter and record producer. Biography He made his debut as a contestant on the third edition of the talent show Io canto hosted by Gerry Scotti in 2011. Passionate about music from a young age, in 2018 he won the second edition of the Tour Music Fest in the “Junior Singer” category. He began writing his first songs at the age of twelve and began studying piano at Mogol’s CET, graduating as a lyricist in 2016 and as a pop music composer in 2019. In 2018, he decided to enter the seventh edition of the “Genova per voi” competition for authors and composers, reaching the finals. In 2019, he participated again in the Tour Music Fest in the “Songwriters” category, reaching the national finals. In 2020 he signed a contract with Universal Music Group and began working professionally as a songwriter for third parties. Also in 2021, he wrote the single “Guardare giù” as sole songwriter for Noemi, also collaborating on the song’s production with Francesco “Katoo” Catitti. In 2022, he competed as a songwriter at the 72nd Sanremo Music Festival with the songs “Farfalle” by Sangiovanni, “Insuperabile” by Rkomi, “Ti amo non lo so dire”

Alessandro Solbiati

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Alessandro Solbiati (born 9 September 1956) is an Italian composer of classical music, who has composed instrumental music for chamber ensembles and orchestra, art songs and operas. He received international commissions and awards, and many of his works are recorded. He is also an academic, teaching in Italy and France. Career Born on 9 September 1956 in Busto Arsizio, * Quartetto con lied, Borciani string quartet (Stradivarius,) * Trio, trio Matisse (Ermitage) * Tre pezzi per chitarra, Filomena Moretti (Phoenix) * Alessandro Solbiati ensemble Alternance (Stradivarius) * Solbiati & Botter: Agli inquieti spiriti (Stradivarius) * By my Window (Stradivarius) * Piano Works (Stradivarius) * Crescendo, orchestra (EMA Vinci records) * Il suono giallo, Opera (EMA Vinci records – EMA Vinci contemporanea) * Leggenda, Opera (EMA Vinci records – EMA Vinci contemporanea) * INSIEME, ensemble (EMA Vinci records – EMA Vinci contemporanea) References External links * Profile, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni (in Italian) * * “Intervista con Alessandro Solbiati su Trittico per fisarmonica da concerto”, interview with Alessandro Solbiati on “Trittico for accordion” by Corrado Rojac and Lidia Bramani, 25 May 2

Alex Burtzos

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Alex Burtzos (born 1985 in Denver, Colorado, United States) is an American composer based in New York City and Orlando, Florida. Life and career Alex Burtzos was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in nearby Colorado Springs. He studied music at Loyola University New Orleans before moving to New York City in 2010, where he earned his doctorate in composition from Manhattan School of Music in 2016. His primary teachers include James Paton Walsh, J. Mark Stambaugh, and Reiko Fueting. Burtzos’ music has been performed across four continents, and has received awards from numerous organizations within the United States. He has received particular attention for his compositions for authentic baroque-era instruments. Other of Burtzos’ compositions utilize rappers, metal guitar, and other sounds drawn from popular music. Burtzos is the founder of ICEBERG New Music, a composers collective based in New York City. In 2018, he was named the Endowed Chair of Composition Studies at The University of Central Florida. Compositions Solo * pWr (2021) for Cello Solo * Perforation (2018) for Piano Solo * Should the Wide World Roll Away (2018) for Piano Solo * Wilfred Owen at the Gates (2015) for Pia

Alex Conrado

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Álex Conrado (born 29 March 1969) is a Spanish soundtrack composer for TV and cinema. Biography Born and raised in Madrid, he has been musical since an early age. At seven he learnt to play the guitar and, at twelve, he and his brother formed a band and composed, sang and performed their own songs. He attended the Madrid Royal Conservatory, where he studied piano, orchestration and composition, and he graduated in 1996 with the Flora Prieto Award in harmony and composition. Between 1991 and 1999, he researched and studied under famous avant-garde composers such as György Ligeti, Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Metzger, Mathias Espahlinger, Mauricio Kagel, Franco Donatoni, and Brian Ferneyhough. Interested in discovering new musical languages, he entered the field of electroacoustic music. In 1993 he co-founded the Laboratory of Electroacoustic Music at the Conservatorio Padre Soler, where he worked as a composer until 1996. That same year, the CDMC (Center for the Diffusion of Contemporary Music) granted Alex a scholarship that allowed him to research and work in the laboratories of the center. In 1996 he became the director of the Conservatorio Maestro Alonso, in San Lorenzo del Escorial

Alex Khaskin

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Alex Khaskin (born 1961) is a Russian-Canadian composer living and working in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life and education He was born in St. Petersburg. He spent his early years studying music, classical orchestration, and arrangement. Career Khaskin immigrated to Canada in 1981 and later began working as a film composer while residing in Toronto. IN 2015 he wrote the score for the film A Christmas Horror Story by creating spooky adaptations of traditional Christmas carols. Filmography *Fulltime Killer (2001) *Ginger Snaps Back (2004) *Chryzinium (2014) *A Christmas Horror Story (2015) *A change of Heart (Nature of Things - David Suzuki) *Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain *Nostradamus (2000) *My Opposition: the Diaries of Friedrich Kellner (2007) *Ghost Trackers (YTV Canada) CCI Entertainment *Erky Perky (CCI and Ambience Entertainment.) *The Fifth Estate (CBC) *Driving Dreams (Barna Alper) *Haunter. References External links * * “Alex Khaskin”. WorldCat Identities.

Alex Otterlei

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Alex Otterlei (born 17 September 1968) is a Belgian composer who writes music for orchestra, concert band and other ensembles. Otterlei has created music and sound effects for theatre, short films, video games, roleplaying games and art installations. His music appears on various albums. Biography In the 1990s Otterlei pioneered the art of writing soundtracks for roleplaying games, resulting in popular rpg-soundtracks such as “Battlethemes”, “Arthur” and “Where Evil Lurks”. His Cthulhu-inspired orchestral soundtrack “Horror on the Orient Express” achieved international acclaim. Between 2003 and 2018 Alex Otterlei scored music and/or created sound effects for various videogames including the award-winning series Monkey Tales . Starting from 2009 Otterlei also began to write concert music for orchestra, concert band and other ensembles. Although considered mainly autodidact, Otterlei was later on mentored by Hans Lamal and prominent composer Luc van Hove. Style Best described as neo-tonal, Otterlei does not shun recognizable melodies. He employs modern as well as traditional harmonies, integrating consonance and dissonance in a fluid and logical way. His rhythmic structures can be co

Alex Prior

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Alexander Prior (born 5 October 1992) is a British composer and conductor who is the music director of the Eugene Symphony. He studied from the age of 13 to 17 at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was Chief Conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra from 2017 to 2022, appointed at the age of 23. In September 2022, the Edmonton Symphony and Prior released a video of Ian Tyson’s Four Strong Winds. Alex has also been a champion of music by younger living composers, especially the music of Nicole Lizée, Gabriella Smith, Vivian Fung, and Alissa Cheung. Life and career Prior was born in London to a British father and a Russian-Ukrainian mother, who is a direct descendant of Konstantin Stanislavski. Prior began composing at the age of eight and by his early teens had written 40 works, including symphonies, concertos, two ballets, two operas, and a requiem for the children of Beslan. At an early age, he began piano lessons. He later enrolled in the junior department of the Royal College of Music. At 13, he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory where he studied composition with Boris Tishchenko and opera and symphonic conducting with Alexander Alexeev (a pupil of Hans Swarowsky).

Alex Shapiro

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Alex Shapiro (born January 11, 1962, in New York City, NY) is an American composer and creator advocate. Her acoustic and electroacoustic music concert works are characterized by their genre eclecticism incorporating influences including minimalism, 12-tone serialism, pop, jazz, electronic dance music, and cinematically inspired sound worlds. Education Alex Shapiro was born in Manhattan and raised in its Yorkville neighborhood. Her early education began at the 92nd Street Y, followed by two years of elementary school at P.S. 158, and then entering The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, from which she graduated high school in 1980. Shapiro began composing at age 9 and in 1977 at age 15 began formal composition lessons when she enrolled in Mannes College of Music summer classes, studying electronic music with David Tcimpidis and composition with Leo Edwards. and studied ear training with George Tsontakis at the Aspen Music School and Festival in 1978 and 1979, and was accepted as a composition major at the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School in 1979 where she was a student of Craig Shuler and Bruce Adolphe, graduating in 1980. and theory with Ludmila Ulehla. In the summer of

Alexander Acha

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Raúl Alexander Acha Johnson-Alemán (born January 25, 1985) is a Mexican singer-songwriter. Life He is the son of Mexican pop singer Emmanuel and Mercedes Aleman, who taught Alexander piano and other instruments. Acha is also a pianist and a Berklee College of Music alumnus. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and still attends Mass. His debut album Voy (2008) reached gold status in his native country, with Te Amo being his first single. On November 5, 2009, he won the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist. Discography Albums * Voy (2008) * La vida es… (2011) * Claroscuro (2014) * Luz (2018) * Las Italianas (2022) References External links *Official Website

Alexander Keuk

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Alexander Keuk (born 13 October 1971) is a German composer and music journalist. Life Born in Wuppertal, Keuk completed an apprenticeship as a retail salesman from 1990 to 1992 after his Abitur. From 1993 to 1999 he studied musical composition with Hans Jürgen Wenzel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. He graduated with a thesis on The 7 Sonatas for 2 Violins by Allan Pettersson, followed by a postgraduate education. (among others with Wilfried Krätzschmar) in composition, which he completed in 2001 with a Konzertexamen. Starting during his studies, Keuk has been working as a freelance author for the cultural editorial department of Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten since 1996. Since 2002 he has been working in Dresden as a freelance composer and music journalist. He regularly writes articles for the Neue Musikzeitung, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and the specialist magazine . From 2001 to 2003 Keuk was the managing director of the Saxon Society for New Music. Since 1992 he has been on the board of the International Allan Pettersson Society and was chairman of the Dresdner Kammerchor until 2018. In 1999 he was a scholarship holder of the Sächsische Kulturstiftung and the

Alexander Moosbrugger

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Alexander Moosbrugger (born 21 August 1972 in Bregenzerwald) is an Austrian composer, living since 2001 in Berlin. Biography Alexander Moosbrugger completed studies at the Vorarlberger Landeskonservatorium (organ and harpsichord), at the Universität Wien (Philosophy) and at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. Characteristic musical concerns Moosbrugger’s work encompasses a fine differentiation of the entire soft dynamic range. He primarily is writing in chamber ensemble settings, rarely doubled, preferring among other genres the string quartet. In the foreground of a composition Moosbrugger interweaves auditory and non-auditory sources, establishing musical relations through translations of historical, sociopolitical and private points of reference, analysis of symbolic functions, the devising of intonations, and “reconceived instrumental practices”. Playing techniques manifest the “speaking” of musical images and are devised anew in each piece, or series of works. His compositions are internationally played, for example in the Konzerthaus Berlin or at King’s College, Cambridge, in festivals of contemporary music (2013 at the London Ear Festival, F

Alexander Radvilovich

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Alexander Yuryevich Radvilovich (; born 1955) is a Russian composer, pianist, teacher, and lecturer from Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) who specializes in contemporary music discourses. He is the recipient of numerous domestic and foreign awards, and has had his compositions performed internationally, including Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His musical style focuses on exploiting the extremes of music in order to create from them new modes of communication which are both accessible in nature for listeners yet complex in its language. Education From 1962 to 1973, Alexander studied in the Secondary Specialized Music School within the St. Petersburg Conservatory in piano and theory with the composer Vladimir Arzumanov. Alexander happened to be his first graduate, and due to this close relationship he would introduce Alexander to Nikolas Slonimsky. Alexander would go onto study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the faculty of composition under Slonimsky, graduating in 1978 and continuing his education through participation in numerous courses and private tutorship with European (non-Russian) composers like Witold Lutoslavsky, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Ton de

Alexander Raytchev

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Alexander Alexandrov Raytchev (, born 15 March 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian classical pianist und composer who lives in Germany. Biography The pianist and composer Alexander Raytchev comes from a multigenerational family of artists. His father is the composer Alexandar Ivanow Raytchev (born 11 April 1922 in Lom; died 2003 in Sofia), his mother Milena Atanassova is actress at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia. Alexander Raytchev received his first piano lesson at the age of five. Six years later, he won the national competition PROWADIA, was shortly afterwards invited as a composer at Baden-Baden’s Brahms Symposium and was honored in Japan for his compositions. After his secondary studies in 1993, Alexander Raytchev studied piano and composition at the University of Music Trossingen with Johannes van Beek in parallel with Jowtsho Kruschev in Sofia. He then successfully completed a Concert Exam with Arie Vardi and Bernd Goetzke at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. He was awarded numerous prizes, including the Students’ Competition in Hanover, and won the “Performance of the Year” contest with the Sofia Radio Orchestra. In 2000, Alexander Raytchev was ap

Alexander Schubert

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Alexander Schubert (born 13 July 1979) is a German composer. Much of his music is experimental, involving multimedia, improvisatory, and interactive elements. He draws upon free jazz, techno, and pop styles. Biography Alexander Schubert was born in Bremen. He studied Bioinformatics in Leipzig, then spent a year at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe at the Institute of Music and Acoustics. He received a doctorate in multimedia composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, studying under Georg Hajdu and Manfred Stahnke. He teaches at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, directs the electronic studio at Musikhochschule Lübeck and has been a visiting lecturer at Darmstadt International Summer Courses. A founding member of ensembles Decoder, Trnn, Schubert-Kettlitz-Schwerdt, and Ember, he has also pursued an experimental pop music solo project under the name Sinebag. Schubert’s pieces have been performed at several international institutions, including Wien Modern, ICMC, SMC, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, DLF Forum neuer Musik, IRCAM, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Blurred Edges in Hamburg. Music

Alexander Shchetynsky

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Alexander Shchetynsky (Shchetinsky) (; ; Aleksandr Stepanovich Shchetins’kiy) is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas. Education and influences Shchetynsky graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute in 1983. Although he studied composition officially with Valentyn Borysov, another Ukrainian composer, Valentyn Bibik, strongly influenced him in those formative years. Another important source of inspiration was so called Soviet musical avant-garde: Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Valentin Silvestrov. Later Shchetynsky participated in master classes with Edison Denisov and Poul Ruders in Denmark, and summer courses in Poland, where he attended lectures by Louis Andriessen, Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Boguslaw Schaeffer, and Magnus Lindberg. Music of the Second Viennese School, Olivier Messiaen, and György Ligeti had a significant impact on Shchetynsky. (for chamber opera Annunciation in frame of the performance Voices of the Invisible – The Bible Triptych at the

Alexander Shulgin (musician)

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Alexander Valeryevich Shulgin (born August 25, 1964) is a Russian author and composer. He was born in Irkutsk, Russia, and currently lives in Moscow. Music career Shulgin’s career began at the age of 19 in Russian rock band Kruiz. Shulgin wrote compositions for the albums “Anna”, released in 1995, “Famillia, and “The eyes of the sky colour”. Shulgin helped “FM GROUP” to record their debut album, MADE IN RUSSIA and recorded an album of Alexander Byinov. Afterwards Shulgin recorded a solo album for “FM GROUP” lead-singer Alevtina Egorova, and also worked with Tatiana Ovsienko, Nastya Shirokova. In spring of 2005, Shulgin got the suggestion to write music for the new music serial with the tentative title “Primadonna”, the serial made for showing on the Russian TV Channel. For this “Primadonna” serial Alexander wrote 20 original songs, and at the very least three leading themes from the film and all the songs of a composer got into the final variant of “Primadonna”. Shulgin also wrote all the music filling-out for the new socio-political TV Channel “SPAS” (The Festival of the Saviour). Shulgin released his first solo album “Predstavlenie” (The Introduction), and Shulgin signed with The

Alexandra Fol

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Alexandra Fol (born July 11, 1981 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Career Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players, the thingNY ensemble, the Young Artists Orchestra, McGill University Orchestra, and others. Fol’s works have been performed by the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, the Sofia Philharmonic, the New Score Chamber orchestra, among others. In 2005 she was one of four composers commissioned to write a children’s work for the 70th anniversary of the Montréal Symphony Orchestra’s Children’s series. “Pegasus”, op. 37 was performed throughout the 2005-2006 season and included in an educational CD for children. Important performances of her works include the premiere of her “Two Songs for Voice and Orchestra” by one of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestras in 1994 and the premiere of her Concerto for Violinon a 16 c. Storioni violin by Leonid Iogansen and the Boston University Orchestra in 2001. Fol teaches composition for the She was a finalist for the 2006 Gaudeamus In

Alexandra Stréliski

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Alexandra Stréliski is a Canadian neo-classical composer and pianist based in Quebec. She has released three albums: Pianoscope (2010), Inscape (2018) and Néo-Romance (2023). Early life Stréliski was born in Montreal, Quebec and is of Polish Jewish descent. After living a few years in Paris, she returned to Montréal where she studied at Collège international Marie de France, McGill University and Université de Montréal. Stréliski is the sister of Montreal-based comedian and writer Léa Streliski and Mathieu Stréliski. Career Stréliski released her debut album, Pianoscope, in 2010. Songs from the album have appeared in several films and movies, specifically those by Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée. This includes the Dallas Buyers Club, Demolition, and Big Little Lies. She collaborated with Vallée to create new compositions for the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects. Her second album, Inscape, was released in 2018; it was long-listed for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize. Inscape was the number one classical album on Apple Music at the end of 2018 in the United States and two of the tracks have reached over 20 million streams on Spotify. It was named number 9 on Exclaim’s Top 10 Experimental

Alexandre Danilevski

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Alexandre Danilevski (; born in 1957 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian-born French composer, lutenist, vielle player, active in Metz, France. He is the artistic director of Syntagma, an early music ensemble noted in particular for interpretations of music by the trouvères, Italian composers from Trecento, and Russian and Ukrainian baroque composers. In 2012 Danilevski was profiled in an hour-long program on the Dutch radio station Concertzender. List of works Piano solo * Sonata N° 2 (1987) Sonata-Reminiscenza: In Memoriam Nikolai Medtner * Sonata “1985. In Memoriam Charles Ives” * Le Retour * Piano Suite in g * Raining on Kopenhagen; * Sonates I and II; * Night Music; * Concerto for two pianos Other instruments * Sonata I for violin and piano; * “Revelation” for cello solo, ed. by HH-Musikverlag: AD001 * Three Inventions for three melodic instruments * Ricercars (7 pieces for recorder or flute solo – in print now: Edition Tre Fontane); * “Tombeau de Messiaen” for organ, commissioned for the festival “La Route des Orgues”; * Dolce Suono for two recorders – ed. by Tre Fontane: ETF 2038 * “Antiphones – I” (1997 – in print Tre Fontane) and II * Senza Titolo * Organum for string orches

Alexandre Desplat

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Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (; born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards. Desplat was made an Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres both in 2016. Desplat has received two Academy Awards for Best Original Score for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and The Shape of Water (2017). He was Oscar-nominated for The Queen (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The King’s Speech (2010), Argo (2012), Philomena (2013), The Imitation Game (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018), and Little Women (2019). Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Golden Compass (2007), The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) & Part 2 (2011), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Godzilla (2014), Unbroken (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022), Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), and Frankenst

Alexandros Mouzas

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Alexandros Mouzas (born 1962) is a Greek composer. He studied composition with Theodore Antoniou, advanced theory with Haris Xanthoudakis and electronic music with Dimitris Kamarotos. He has composed for various ensembles and has received commissions from organizations and orchestras. He has collaborated with the choreographer Konstantinos Michos and the Lathos Kinissi dance group in many productions, among them Trisha Never Left Home, Days of Vironas, Papageno and Calamity till the Dawn and with Airesis Dance Company. His professional activities include image-related music. He has written original music for short films, television series, documentaries and commercials for most of the Greek television channels. He was the artistic director of the Greek Section of the European programme New Media Edge Project (2003). In 2004, he composed under commission by the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee, original music for the Athens Olympic Games corporate videos. His recent professional activities include production management of various important CD releases of Greek orchestral music. He is the manager and founding member of the Ergon Ensemble. He runs his own production company, Anax – Cu

Alexej Gerassimez

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Alexej Gerassimez (born 1987 in Essen) is a German solo percussion player and composer. Gerassimez was born in Essen, Germany. His brothers are also musicians: Nicolai Gerassimez is a pianist and Wassily Gerassimez is a cellist. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory of Music, the Berlin Conservatory and the Munich Conservatory of Music. as well as the Audience Award and the Press Prize. In 2015 he took up a tutoring position at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in England. In 2022 he performed the New Zealand premiere performance of New Zealand composer John Psathas’s work Leviathan for orchestra and solo percussion. Gerassimez has made numerous recordings and CDs and is also a composer. External links * Alexej Gerassimez’s website References

Alexey Shor

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Alexey Vladimorovich Kononenko (born 1970) is an American composer. He is the Composer-in-Residence for the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and an associate composer at the Yehudi Menuhin School. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary professorship at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. Early life and mathematics career Alexey Vladimorovich Shor was born on 20 May 1970 in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). In 1991, he left the Soviet Union for Israel with his parents. Subsequently, he moved to the US for his graduate studies and obtained a PhD in mathematics in 1996. He worked as a mathematician until 2016 (in geometry and dynamical systems). From 1999 until 2016 he worked for the Long Island hedge fund Renaissance Technologies. Shor is a citizen of Israel, US, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Malta. His works have been published by several publishers and showcased in many venues. The overture to his ballet “Crystal Palace” was performed at the 40th Gramophone Classical Music Awards event in London. In 2019, a documentary about Alexey Shor was showcased on Medici.tv. An investigation by German Van Magazine showed that Shor built an extensive promotional ecosystem to promote his music, incl

Alexis Agrafiotis

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Alexis Agrafiotis (born 1970) is a German-Greek composer, conductor and pianist. Life Alexis Agrafiotis was born the son of conductor Dimitris Agrafiotis and Evangelia Syngelakis. Soon after his birth in Salzburg, the family moved to Reutlingen, where his father became principal conductor of the . In 1978, the family moved to Ettlingen, where he attended primary school and the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Ettlingen. He attended the last two years of secondary school at the German School of Athens (Abitur 1989). He graduated in piano at the Athens Conservatory “Athenaeum” and studied Orchestra Conducting with Uros Lajovic and Composition with Erich Urbanner (magister artium 1995 and 1996) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He attended courses with Roland Seiffarth, Péter Eötvös and Karl Österreicher and was assistant to Gunther Schuller, Rüdiger Bohn and Hans Drewanz. Stations as a solo répétiteur and conductor took him to the theatres in Görlitz, Lübeck, Bern, the Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin and the Theater Bielefeld. From 2011 to 2017 he was engaged as director of studies and Kapellmeister at the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. Since December 2017, he has been engag

Alfons Karabuda

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Alfons Karabuda, born 2 December 1967 in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish composer and EU cultural politics personality. Karabuda has been president of ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance), executive chairman of SKAP (the Swedish Association of Composers, Songwriters & Lyricists) and expert in the field of artistic rights to the UN Human Rights Council. He has also been the president of the UNESCO founded IMC (International Music Council), member of the board of The Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Musiksverige (Music Sweden) and STIM (The Swedish Performing Rights Society) and Svensk Musik (Swedish Music). Karabuda is also chair of the Polar Music Prize Award. As expert to the UN Human Rights Council, Karabuda was part of producing the first ever UNHRC report on artistic rights in 2013. The report was followed by new reports during 2014. As the president of ECSA, Karabuda was a driving force in getting the EU to decide on the new Copyright Directive in 2019 and the formation of a European–American collaboration between the music creator organisations ECSA and SGA (Songwriters Guild of America). The organisations have focused on the global issues of artistic rights,

Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky

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Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky (; born 7 August 1970), also known as Fred Momotenko or just Momotenko, is a Russian and Dutch composer, percussionist, and sound engineer. Born to a musical family, he pursued studies in music in his native Soviet Union, where his experiences with vocal music and audio recording were important to his later development. An invitation to play in the Netherlands led him to settle there permanently. Initially composing electronic and multimedia works, a commission that led him to discover Alfred Schnittke’s Choir Concerto eventually resulted in his later works being increasingly influenced by Znamenny and Byzantine chant. Early life and education Momotenko was born in Lvov, Ukrainian SSR on 7 August 1970. His father was a military doctor, as well as a choirmaster and pianist; his mother was a singer and actress. Momotenko said that his later interest in vocal music was determined by his musical upbringing. The serious illness of one of Momotenko’s siblings forced his family to move to warmer regions. They initially went to the Moldavian SSR, then to the Georgian SSR, until they finally settled in the city of Sochi, Russian SFSR. Exposure to the various cultur

Alfredo Sirica

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Alfredo Sirica (born 25 April 1999) is an Italian composer, pianist and orchestrator. Best known for his activity as soundtrack composer, he has written and produced music for cinema, video games and TV series. With his work for the Italian animated series Lampadino e Caramella nel MagiRegno degli Zampa, produced by Rai Ragazzi, he became the first composer of a soundtrack suitable also for children with disabilities such as blindness or autism, merging narration with music therapy. With the third season of The Rising of the Shield Hero, he also became the first Italian musician to work with Kadokawa as music composer for an anime. Career He writes his first soundtrack at the age of sixteen for the feature film Porches and Private Eyes, after winning an online competition promoted by Running Wild Films. In 2017, he is chosen by HeR Interactive and Eric Lindstrom, screenwriter for Tomb Raider, to write the soundtrack for the videogame Odyssey – The Story of Science, promoted by the scientific communicator Vsauce and currently in use in several institutes for educational purposes. During the same year, he worked on the short film Pawns by David Barbeschi, which soon becomes viral, re

Ali Ahmadifar

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Ali Ahmadifar (, born 12 July 1976) is an Iranian composer, teacher and researcher. Book * Author of the book “Stylistics of Arvo Pärt music (Persian:سبک شناسی موسیقی آروو پارت)”, published 2007. Works * “Where are you, o thou fairy?"(An Iranian variation) was performed by MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2006. * one of his works was performed by valid flute soloist Reza Najfar in 2008, Rasht. * “Minimove” (An Iranian variation for flute and strings) was performed by Camerata symphony orchestra led by Keyvan Mirhadi in 2008, Rasht. * “Bâng – e Robâb” was performed by the Avram ensemble in 2011. * Radio contemporary music program editor and writer in Iranian radio broadcast network culture, 1999-2000. * The founder and first conductor of Gilan sinfonietta orchestra and choir, performing concert at Vahdat Hall, September 2007. Lectures * Concepts and specification of Music * International Customary instruments and symphony orchestra * Composition * Orchestration * Variation * Canon and Fugue * Sonata * Form * Symphony from the beginning until today * Opera from the beginning until today * Concerto from the beginning until today * Chamber music from the beginning until today *

Ali Radman

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Ali Radman (born 20 June 1973) is an Iranian musician, composer, conductor, pedagogue and pianist. Life Ali Radman was born on 20 June 1973 in Tehran, Iran. He was introduced to a classical music foundation and basic theory topics of music by his father, Mohammad Hassan Radman, from early age. He was improving his knowledge of basic elements of music, piano playing, and the theory of Iranian music under the conservatory teachers’ supervision. At the same time, he was a sophomore in the field of electronics at Kerman University. In 1990, he was a member of UNIMA as a composer and in 1995, he was accepted as a bachelor student in the field of music at the Faculty of Fine Arts in University of Tehran. In composition, he is an art graduate of the school of Alireza Mashayekhi. Besides music composing, he improved his knowledge of Iranian music repertoire through Majid Kiani ’s lessons, the basics of ethnomusicology through Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh. He acquired the techniques of piano playing under the supervision of . He learnt techniques of orchestra conducting from Edo Mičič, Manuchehr Sahbaei and Iradj Sahbaei as well. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts-University of Tehran.

Alice Ho (composer)

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Alice Ping Yee Ho (Chinese: 何冰頤; pinyin: Hé Bīngyí; b. 1960) is a Canadian pianist and composer, considered to be “among the most important composers writing in this country”. Ho performed a solo piano recital for CBC Radio 2. Her works have been featured at music festivals including the ISCM World Music Days, Ottawa Chamberfest, the CRUSH New Music Festival in Denmark and Asian Music Week in Japan. Her work has been performed by ensembles and solo performers including the China National Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Choir, the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Nieuw Ensemble, the Penderecki String Quartet, violist Rivka Golani and percussionists Sumire Yoshihara and Beverley Johnston. She has received awards from the 2014 Prince Edward Island Symphony Composers Competition, the 2014 Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Friendship Orchestral Composition Competition, the 2013 Boston Metro Opera International Composition Competition, the du Maurier Arts Ltd. Canadian Composers Competition, the MACRO (Macro Analysis Crea

Alissa Firsova

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Alissa Firsova (Russian: Алиса Фирсова; born 24 July 1986) is a Russian-British classical composer, pianist and conductor. Biography Born in Moscow to the composers Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov, she moved to the UK in 1991. In 2001 she won the BBC/Guardian/Proms Young Composer Competition with her piano piece “Les Pavots”. She graduated from Purcell School as a composer and pianist in 2004, and Royal Academy of Music as a pianist in 2009, where she also developed her conducting studies with Paul Brough. In 2009 she entered the Conducting Postgraduate Course in Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Colin Metters. Her piano teachers included Tatiana Kantorovich, Valéria Szervánszky, James Gibb, Simon Mulligan, Hamish Milne, Ian Fountain, and Stephen Kovacevich. Among her composition teachers were Jeoffrey Sharkey, Richard Dubugnon, Jonathan Cole and Simon Speare. She also participated in workshops and master classes with composers Nicholas Maw, Simon Holt, Anthony Gilbert, David Bedford, David Matthews, and Mark-Anthony Turnage. She had her Wigmore Hall debut in May 2009, followed by a Royal Albert Hall debut playing Stravinsky’s Les Noces in the Proms festival in August. H

Allan Gilliland

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Allan Gilliland (born 1965 in Darvel, Scotland) is a contemporary Canadian composer. Gilliland moved to Canada in 1972 and settled in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies (trumpet) from Humber College, and degrees in performance and composition from the University of Alberta. His teachers were Violet Archer, Malcolm Forsyth and Howard Bashaw. He has written music for solo instruments, orchestra, chorus, brass quintet, wind ensemble, big band, film, television and theatre. His works have been performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, ProCoro Canada, the Canadian Brass, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the New York Pops, the Hammerhead Consort, and the brass section of the New York Philharmonic. From 1999 to 2004, Gilliland was Composer in Residence with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, composing nine major works, including concerti for violin, and two harps. Dreaming of the Masters I (2003), a jazz concerto written for clarinet soloist James Campbell, is perhaps his most popular work, and received its American premiere by the Boston Pops in 2004. Dreaming of the Masters II - GEB, a jazz rhapsody for piano and orchestra written for William Eddins and jointly

Allan Stephenson

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Allan Stephenson (15 December 1949 – 2 August 2021) was a British-born South African composer, cellist and conductor. Life Born in Wallasey, near Liverpool, he studied the cello in Manchester at the Royal Manchester College of Music before moving to Cape Town in 1973 to join the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. He retained the position of associate principal cello until the CTSO closed in 1997. After landing in Cape Town on 13 January 1973, he quickly became involved teaching cello at SACS, and managed these two jobs until his fiancée Christine arrived from England to also teach at SACS. They were married in July 1973. He directed the UCT College Orchestra from 1978 to 1988 and taught as a part-time lecturer of both cello and composition at the University of Cape Town. Stephenson has written over 110 works including a large number of instrumental and chamber pieces, three operas, two symphonies and concertos for Piano, Oboe and Piccolo. Works Operas *The dark tale (1991) *Who killed Jimmy Valentine (1995), based on the novel with the same title by South African writer Michael Williams *Animals, based on George Orwell’s Animal Farm and written with Willem van der Walt and Michael Willi

Allardyce Mallon

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Allardyce Mallon is a Scottish composer, conductor, repetiteur and pianist. He was born in Hong Kong in 1965, moving to Scotland at age nine. He was educated at University of Edinburgh, University of Surrey and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, then subsequently studied piano and conducting at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1990 to 1994. Mallon’s style of composition has evolved over the last two decades. His early style was strongly influenced by his teachers Kenneth Leighton and James MacMillan, along with a number of American composers among them John Adams and William Schuman. His more recent work has crossed disciplines and has been permeated by influences spanning contemporary architecture, theatre and traditional diatonic elements. His “Visions and Interludes”, premiered in Chicago in 1997, demonstrates architectonic elements as represented by sonic structures. His many compositions include his 2008 Alba Song for Panpipes and Orchestra, which has been performed by the Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra (VDE Gallo). Mallon also demonstrates great skills at arranging and orchestration. For the Meiningen Opera he arranged Poulenc’s L

Allison Cameron (composer)

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Allison Cameron (born 1963) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. She composes works for conventional classical instruments, early music instruments, and modern electric instruments such as the electric guitar. She is also a performer of free improvisation and experimental music. Early life and education Cameron was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and moved with her family to North Vancouver. She studied at the University of Victoria and York University. She has cited Michael Longton and Rudolf Komorous as significant influences. Career Cameron moved to Toronto in 1989. She founded a six-piece chamber ensemble, Arcana, in 1992, which performs a contemporary composition repertoire. Cameron’s 1998 composition, “Retablo”, was commissioned through the Canada Council for the Arts to be played by the classical music quartet The Burdocks. Her 2000 release, Ornaments, features her compositions performed by violinist Marc Sabat, pianist Stephen Clarke, and clarinetist Ronda Rindone. Cameron has worked with Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk, Per Nørgård, and Frederic Rzewski in Europe, and Rudolf Komorous, Michael Longton, and James Tenney in Canada. She was a member of the

Allison Loggins-Hull

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Allison Loggins-Hull is an American composer and flutist known for her work with the Cleveland Orchestra, Lizzo, Frank Ocean, Hans Zimmer, and as one half of the flute duo Flutronix. Loggins-Hull was named the Daniel R. Lewis Composition Fellow of the Cleveland Orchestra, a three-season residency, in 2022. The Cleveland Orchestra released an album of her music in 2026, titled Allison Loggins-Hull: The Cleveland Residency, the orchestra’s first portrait album of work by a living composer. A second album of her chamber works, Patchwork, was released in 2026 as well, performed by Cleveland Orchestra Musicians alongside Loggins-Hull. She is the New Jersey Symphony’s Resident Artistic Partner. She was named 2026 Susan D. Boyd Composer-in-Residence at the Spoleto Festival USA. Her work has been commissioned and performed by institutions including The Knights, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, The Seattle Symphony, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, The National Orchestral Institute, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Roomful of Teeth, and Third Coast Percussion. Loggins-Hull wrote the original score for “Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back”, a documentary about Maurice Hines

Alma Deutscher

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Alma Elizabeth Deutscher ( ; born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine. At the age of ten, she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta, and its U.S. premiere a year later. Deutscher’s piano concerto was premiered when she was 12. She has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2018. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019 in a concert dedicated to her own compositions. Background and education Alma Elizabeth Deutscher was born on 19 February 2005, in Basingstoke, England. She is the daughter of literary scholar Janie () and linguist Guy Deutscher. Deutscher also has a younger sister, Helen Clara. She began playing piano at the age of two, followed by violin at three. Her strong affinity to music was apparent from an early age. She could sing in perfect pitch before she could speak, and she could read music before she could read words. She received a little violin

Alwynne Pritchard

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Alwynne Pritchard (born 1968, Glasgow) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Bergen, Norway. She is of Scottish, Welsh, English, Polish and Irish heritage. Alwynne is the daughter of the composer Gwyn Pritchard. She studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has a Master’s degree in Musicology and a PhD in Composition from the University of Bristol. Her work combines her skills as a composer, singer, actor, physical performer and violinist with her interest in text, costume and video. Alwynne’s performances, compositions and installations have been presented around the world and in 2005 her electro-acoustic composition Decoy, created at the Experimentalstudio des SWR in Freiburg for the Donaueschingen Musiktage, received the special prize given by the Foundation Ton Bruynèl, STEIM and the Foundation GAUDEAMUS. In 2019, she was nominated by BIT Teatergarasjen for the Bergens Tidende Audience Award (Publikumspris) and in 2024, her work Counting Backwards was nominated for Work of the Year (Årets Verk) by the Norwegian Society of Composers. In 2016, Alwynne was awarded the commission to create a fanfare or ‘marker’ to celebrate the opening of the University of B

Amanda Black

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Amanda Benedicta Antony (born 24 July 1993), known professionally as Amanda Black, is a South African singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Gcuwa, her career began in 1999 at the age of 6 singing in church choirs. Amanda was a contestant on Idols South Africa season 11. Black relocated to Johannesburg in 2016 to pursue her music career. She signed a record deal with Ambitiouz Entertainment in 2016 and achieved recognition in the same year following the release of her hit single “Amazulu”, which was nominated for several music awards. Her debut studio album Amazulu (2016), was commercially successful and won “Album of the Year”, “Best Newcomer of the Year,” “Best Female Artist of the Year” and “Best R&B Soul/Reggae Album”. In 2019, she was named the most-streamed artist on Apple Music. Amanda’s third studio album, Mnyama was released in 2021. It was preceded by two singles; “Kutheni Na” and “Let It Go”. Early life and education Amanda Benedicta Antony is Xhosa. She was born on 24 July 1993 in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa, and grew up in Butterworth, Eastern Cape, where she spent most of her early life; she also lived in East London. She later moved to Port Elizabeth, wher

Amanda Jones (composer)

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Amanda Jones is an American composer and musician who has composed scores for films, commercials, and television series. She is a member of the indie rock band The Anti-Job and has earned the distinction of becoming the first African American woman nominated in a score category at the Emmys for her work on the Apple TV+ series Home. Life Jones was born on October 26, 1988, in Columbia, Maryland and began playing piano at the age of three and guitar around the age of fourteen. Jones attended Vassar College intending to study chemistry but subsequently changed her major to music. Her work during that time included the films How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Kingsman: The Secret Service. In 2018, Jones got an opportunity to score her first feature film, One Angry Black Man. Jones has since scored numerous short and feature films, including Andre Hormann’s documentary feature Ringside; Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan’s Oscar-nominated documentary St. Louis Superman; and Sujata Day’s feature film Definition Please. Jones television credits include OWN’s anthology series Cherish the Day, produced by Ava DuVernay; BET’s Twenties produced by Lena Waithe; HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show produced b

Amarachi

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Amarachi Uyanne (born 17 July 2004), popularly known by her stage name Amarachi, is a Nigerian singer and dancer. She is best known for winning the maiden edition of Nigeria’s Got Talent. Background Amarachi is a native of Delta State in the South-South region of Nigeria. She grew up in Edo State, South-South Nigeria, where she started dancing at the age of 5. In 2012, she won a cash prize of N10,000,000 after she was announced as the winner of the first edition of Nigeria’s Got Talent. She was subsequently dubbed the “youngest millionaire in Nigeria”. Education She attended University Preparatory Secondary School in Benin City, Edo State. The young celebrity recently graduated from secondary school in July 2019 and had her tertiary education from Benson Idahosa University, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Career After emerging as the winner of Nigeria’s Got Talent, Amarachi released her debut single titled “Amarachi Dance”. She proceeded to feature Phyno in a song titled “Ova Sabi”; her first two singles received massive airplays and positive reviews from music critics. She currently runs the Amarachi Talent Academy, a talent school conceived with the aim of nurturing and training

Amber Ferenz

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Amber Ferenz (born 1972) is an American musician, music educator and composer. Life Amber Ferenz graduated with a bachelor’s degree in bassoon performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts in orchestral performance from the California Institute of the Arts, and they studied with Mark Popkin, Julie Feves and Steven Dibner. After completing their studies, they worked as a bassoonist, becoming principal bassoonist of the Fayetteville Symphony, and the second bassoonist with the Asheville Symphony. They have also taught bassoon at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California Institute of the Arts, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Wake Forest University. Ferenz is also a violinist and has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. They are a founding member of the Los Angeles-based chamber music collective inauthentica and have performed with the Open Dream Ensemble. Works Ferenz composes mainly for solo bassoon and chamber ensemble. Selected works include: *Love Medicine *Unfinished Conversations *Ice Cream Truck, for bassoon quartet *Songs for Wicked children *Los Angeles Sketches, for 4 bassoons *Ice Crea

Ambrose Akinmusire

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Ambrose Olusiji Akinmusire ( born May 1, 1982) is an American avant-garde jazz trumpeter and composer. Biography Born and raised in Oakland, California, Akinmusire was a member of the Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble, where he caught the attention of saxophonist Steve Coleman, who was visiting the school to lead a workshop. Coleman hired him as a member of his Five Elements band for a European tour. Akinmusire was also a member of the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. The same year, he released his debut recording, Prelude… to Cora, on the Fresh Sound New Talent label. Akinmusire made his debut on the Blue Note label in 2011 with the album When the Heart Emerges Glistening, featuring his quintet of tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown. Akinmusire’s third album, entitled The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint, was released in 2014. His album Origami Harvest was included in The New York Times Best Jazz of 2018. His sixth studio album, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment, again with his quartet of longtime bandmates and received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumenta

Amir Shpilman

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Amir Shpilman (; born December 4, 1980) is an Israeli composer. Education and career Shpilman was born in Tel Aviv where he started his composition studies at the age of 17. After three years in Paris where he studied solfege, harmony piano and composition, he moved to the United States, in 2006, to study at the City University of New York where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in music composition under the tutelage of Tania León, Jason Eckardt and with close mentorship of pianist Ursula Oppens. He received his master’s degree in composition with a focus on conducting from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden under the tutelage of Mark Andre, Manos Tsangaris, and Franz Martin Olbrisch. In 2011, He founded the Ensemble Moto Perpetuo, a New York-based chamber orchestra specializing in contemporary music and collaborative creations, and served as its artistic director until 2015. During his career, Shpilman has worked with a variety of performers, orchestras, and ensembles including the Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), International Contemporary Ensemble (New York), Mivos Quartet, Ensembles Meitar and Nikel (Tel Aviv), Interface (Frankfurt), AuditivVokal Dresden

Amit Golan

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Amit Golan (; 1964 - 2010) was an Israeli pianist, composer, and jazz educator. Born in Haifa and educated first at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and then at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, he returned to Israel in the 1990s to teach the style. He was the founder of the Center for Jazz Studies at the Israel Conservatory of Music in Tel Aviv and performed with the Amit Golan Jazz Quintet. Life and career Golan received his initial music education at The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance where he studied classical music and composition. After he finished his classical studies, he went to New York City where he discovered his passion for jazz. He was influenced by Bill Evans’s playing, but decided that to understand Evans’s technique he had to learn what influenced Evans himself. He then attended The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York and studied privately with “old school” players like Walter Bishop, Jr., Reggie Workman, Billy Harper, Jim Hall, Kenny Werner, and Barry Harris. He focused his studies on Jazz History, studying with Phil Schaap and Ira Gitler. Between 2004 – 2007, he was the music director of many jazz worksho

Amnon Wolman

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Amnon Wolman (; born 1955) an Israeli-American musician. He holds a doctorate degree in music composition. His catalogue of compositions includes works involving computer generated and processed sounds, symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces for different ensembles, film music, and music for theater and dance. His recently premiered pieces include “Picnic Site” used for a choreography by Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton for the Lyon Biannale; “End Divided Road” for Flute and electronics for Mario Carolli at the TRAIETTORIE Festival in Parma, Italy; “Cruising Prohibited when Lights Flashing” for the Gay Gotham Chorus at the Greenwich House, New York; and “and her mind moves upon silence”, for harpsichord and electronic sounds, for Vivienne Spiteri in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Career His scores are published by the Israel Music Institute and the Israel Music Center. Before Joining the faculty at Brooklyn College he taught at Northwestern University, Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. At Brooklyn College he was a member of the composition faculty and Director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM). Wolman’s film mus

Amos Elkana

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Amos Elkana (Hebrew: עמוס אלקנה; born 1967) is a composer, guitarist, and electronic musician. His works span chamber, orchestral, electroacoustic, and multimedia forms, often integrating algorithmic and fractal processes with narrative and philosophical elements. Biography Elkana studied composition at the New England Conservatory in Boston and Jazz guitar at the Berklee College of Music. He pursued graduate studies in computer music at Bard College, where he worked with Pauline Oliveros, George Lewis, and Larry Polansky. His music has been performed by ensembles and orchestras worldwide, including Ensemble Meitar, the Israel Contemporary Players, Ensemble Reconsil (Vienna), UMZE (Budapest), the Tel Aviv Soloists, and the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion. His chamber and electronic works have been featured at international festivals such as the Venice Biennale, ISCM World Music Days, the Cervantino Festival (Mexico), and the MISE-EN Festival (New York). In 2025, Elkana released Que sais-je? on New Focus Recordings, performed by Ensemble Meitar under Pierre-André Valade. The album was included on the 2026 First Round GRAMMY® Ballot. His next album, Gefunden, is scheduled for

Amy Scurria

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Amy Scurria (born September 24, 1973) is an American composer. Biography Amy Scurria was born into a military family and showed an early interest in music, memorizing the piano assignments of her sister Jackie. At age 11 she took lessons under the Suzuki method and began composing. Scurria graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in composition. In 1998, she received a master’s degree in composition from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her doctoral degree in 2015 from Duke University in Durham. Dr. Scurria has also studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. Teachers she studied with include: Chen Yi, Robert Sirota, Narcis Bonet, Anthony Kelley, and Stephen Jaffe. Her compositions have been performed in the United States, England, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, France, and Japan. She was a composer-in-residence at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 2001. Personal life In 2004, Amy Scurria married Zane Corriher. They have a daughter, Lily, Works Selected works include: * Beyond All Walking for Full Orchestra, (1998) * A Prayer for SATB Choir, (1999) * And He Shall Be Like a Tree for SATB Choir and Organ/Piano, (2000)

Amy Williams (composer)

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Amy Williams (born 1969) is an American composer and pianist. She was born in Buffalo, New York, into a musical family, with her mother, a violist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and her father Jan Williams, percussionist and professor emeritus at the university at Buffalo. One of Williams’s most notable works is her ambitious Cineshape series of chamber pieces inspired by different films. This was presented in May 2016 with live performances by the JACK Quartet, flautist Lindsey Goodman and percussionist Scott Christian, with a new video component by Aaron Henderson. Education Williams began playing piano at the age of four and took up the flute a few years later with Robert Dick. Throughout her childhood, she was exposed to the latest contemporary music performed at the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, meeting composers who would later become great influences on her own works, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lukas Foss and Elliott Carter. She made the decision to devote her life to performing and composing contemporary music whilst studying at Bennington College and after a fellowship year in Denmark, she completed a master’s degree in piano performance

Ana Lara

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Ana Lara (born 30 November 1959) is a Mexican composer. Life Ana Lara was born in Mexico City and studied at the National Conservatory of Music with Mario Lavista and Daniel Catán and later with . She continued her studies at the Warsaw Academy of Music with and Włodzimierz Kotoński. She also studied ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, graduating with a Master of Arts degree. After completing her studies, Lara worked as a composer and music producer. In 1989 she began producing a Mexico City University Radio (Radio UNAM) contemporary music program, and in 2000 she was nominated as Best Classical Album Producer at the Latin Grammy Awards. She founded and served as artistic director of Mexico’s International Festival Música y Escena, and served as artistic director of the Puebla Instrumenta Verano 2004 summer courses. She also teaches music and seminars on Latin American and twentieth century music. Works Selected works include: *1996 Y la marcha de la humanidad? for stage. Choreography by Alicia Sánchez *1998 Más allá for stage *1999 Viejas Historias for stage. Choreography by Rossana Filomarino *2000 Celebraciones for stage. Choreography by Rossana Filomarino *2002 Elles

Ana Sokolovic

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Ana Sokolovic (; born 1968 in Belgrade) is a Canadian music composer based in Montreal, Quebec, whose contemporary pieces have won several awards in Canada. She is also the artistic director of the Quebec Contemporary Music Society. Career Sokolovic studied composition under Dušan Radić at the University of Novi Sad and Zoran Erić at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She received her master’s in composition from the Université de Montréal studying under José Evangelista. Sokolovic’s repertoire is wide, covering theatrical, chamber, operatic, orchestral, and vocal genres. The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) dedicated the “Hommage Series” to Sokolovic for the 2011–2012 season, marking the twenty years since she immigrated to Quebec. Her body of work was celebrated in 200 events taking place across Canada. Sokolovic’s opera, Svadba-Wedding, focused on the day before a Serbian wedding and was produced by the Queen of Puddings Music Theater. The production toured Canada and Europe from 2012 until 2015, as well as returning in March 2018 for a performance at the Opera de Montreal. In 2015, she became the first woman composer to create an operatic work for the Canadian

Ana-Maria Avram

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Ana-Maria Avram (1961– 1 August 2017) was a Romanian composer, pianist, conductor and musicologist. Avram was the co-conductor of the Hyperion Ensemble and co-founder and artistic director of the Spectrum XXI festival, which was designed to showcase innovative Romanian music. Biography Avram was born in 1961 in Bucharest, Romania. She attended the National University of Music Bucharest from 1980 to 1985, after which she studied aesthetics at Sorbonne, Paris. She was also the co-director of Hyperion Ensemble with her husband Iancu Dumitrescu, who founded the ensemble in 1976. Musical style Avram’s music synthesized contemporary classical, improvisation, electro-acoustic- and electronic music. Her music tended to move between improvisation and notation and often used electronics to augment her sonic palette. She composed around 130 pieces, and released 25 collaborative albums with her husband. References

Analia Llugdar

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Analia Llugdar (born 1972) is an Argentine composer living and working in Montreal, Quebec since 1999. She has created both instrumental and vocal compositions and has won several music competitions. Early life and education Llugdar was born in Argentina. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the National University of Córdoba in 1999. She then entered the graduate music program at Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, but soon transferred to the Université de Montréal where she graduated with a Master of Music and a Doctor of Music in composition. Among her teachers at the school were José Evangelista and Denis Gougeon. Career Llugdar won first prize in the chamber music category of the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers. She also won the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada Award and the Grand Prix of the Canada Council for the Arts, Llugdar won the 2008 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for her work “Que sommes-nous”. Her composition “Tricycle” was performed by the Trio Fibonacci, and included on their 2009 album 5 x 3. In 2010, Llugdar received a $15,000 Canada Council grant. That year her composition “La Machi” was premiered

Anatii

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Anathi Bhongo Mnyango (born 8 January 1993), known professionally as Anatii, is a South African rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Career Anatii began his professional musical journey at the age of 14 when he received his first major South African placement with L-Tido, for the song “When It Rains”. His debut studio album Artiifact was released on 9 September 2016. The album features South African acts AKA, Cassper Nyovest, Nasty C and Uhuru, as well as Nigerian singer Tiwa Savage, Somali-Canadian electronic duo Faarrow and American singer Omarion. In August 2017, Anatii was selected as The Young Independents influencer of the year October 2017 saw Anatii being selected by GQ South Africa as one of the best-dressed men in South Africa In November 2017, Anatii, was selected to be a high-level influencer for the LuQuLuQu project set up by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. The official launch in South Africa for the project took place on 29 November 2017 at the Four Seasons Westcliff hotel in Johannesburg. 2018 has seen Anatii, listed in Forbes Africa’s 30 under 30 creatives list. Discography Studio albums Singles Production credits ;2018 * Anatii – Thixo

Andersen Viana

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Andersen Viana (born 1962) is an international composer. Life Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Viana has a Ph.D. in music composition from the Federal University of Bahia. He began composing at the age of thirteen and became a professor at the age of nineteen. He has studied with his father – Sebastiao Vianna – and in courses and seminars about music and film in several official institutions at Accademia Chigiana di Siena, Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, Arts Academy of Rome, Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Federal University of Bahia, among others. He currently works as a composer and a professor at the Clóvis Salgado Foundation in Brazil, in addition to offering lectures and workshops in various institutions both in Brazil and abroad. His first teacher was his father, Sebastião Vianna (assistant and reviser for the Brazilian composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos), and most recently furthered his studies in other institutions in Brazil, Italy, and Sweden. He has also published over forty articles both in Brazil and Europe. Viana has received 37 composition awards in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Spain, Ukr

Andi Almqvist

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Andi Almqvist (born 2 July 1968) is a Swedish singer, musician and composer known for his dark, cinematic sound and haunting lyrics. Almqvist has released six solo albums, Can’t Stop Laughing (2005), Red Room Stories (2007), Glimmer (2009), Warsaw Holiday (2013), Tiltad (2018) and Not Too Far From Happy (2024). Touring Andi Almqvist has toured extensively over the years, headlining or supporting artists like Woven Hand, Mark Lanegan, Holly Golightly, Kaizer’s Orchestra, B.B. King, The Blind Boys of Alabama and Bettye LaVette among others. Almqvist has played many of Europe’s big festivals, such as Eurosonic Festival (Holland), Les Ardentes (Belgium), Spot Festival (Denmark), Dias Nordicos (Spain), Peace & Love (Sweden), and Hultsfred Festival (Sweden). Miscellaneous During July and August 2010, Almqvist’s song Low-Dive Jenny was the most downloaded on well-known American music magazine Paste Magazine’s website. In May 2011 the documentary “The Misadventures of Andi Almqvist” aired on Swedish national television. The film was released on DVD in November 2011. In February 2012, Almqvist’s song Big Bad Black Dog Blues was featured in American TV-series Justified, episode 5, season 3.

Andi Spicer

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Andrew John Preston “Andi” Spicer (1959 – 30 April 2020) was an English electroacoustic classical music composer who used electronics (see Electronic Music) in his compositions. The composer was also a writer and journalist. He has contributed to The Wall Street Journal and The Gramophone as a reviewer, and has written for many international newspapers, magazines and news agencies, including Dow Jones Newswires, The Associated Press, The Independent, The Financial Times and The Observer. His music is published by Edition Tre Fontane in Münster, Germany. History and influences Spicer was born in Birmingham, England. He studied economics at Aston University in Birmingham and pursued a career in journalism, while composing and performing free form improvised music (see free improvisation). He lived in Johannesburg, South Africa between 1996 and 2003, working as a foreign correspondent for major US and British newspapers, after which he moved back to England. He lived in Brighton from 2013, and was a member of the New Music Brighton and London Forum collectives of composers in the UK. His compositions have been featured at the Brighton Festival, Soundwaves Festival, Huddersfield Contem

André Mehmari

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André Ricardo Mehmari (born April 22, 1977) is a Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger. His works were played by the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP), Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica and Orquestra Amazonas Filarmônica, among other Brazilian orchestras. In popular music, he played and recorded albums with the mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda and the singer Ná Ozzetti. He likes playing improvisations since an early age. He has performed in all of Brazil’s major jazz festivals and abroad at Umbria Jazz in Italy and Juan Les-Pins in France. Awards * Prêmio Nascente (USP-Editora Abril) - category Popular Music-Composer (1995) and category Classical Music-Composer (1997). * 1° Prêmio Visa de MPB Instrumental (1998). Discography * (1998) Odisséia (with Célio Barros and Sérgio Reze) • PMC records * (2000) Canto • Núcleo Contemporâneo * (2001) Improvisos (with Célio Barros and Sérgio Reze) * (2003) Lachrimae • CAVI Records * (2004) Nonada (quintet with Proveta, Teco Cardoso, Tutty Moreno and Rodolfo Stroeter) * (2005) MPBaby Internacional: Beatles (solo) - Vol. 10 * (2005) Piano e Voz (with Ná Ozzetti) * (2007) Continua Amizade (with Hamilton de Holanda) * (2007) DVD Piano

André Moraes

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André Moraes (born 6 March 1977 as André Torres Moraes) is a Brazilian Latin Grammy-nominated musician, film director, music producer and soundtrack composer. He has worked in the entertainment industry for two decades. He has been married to actress Ana Carolina Machado since 24 August 2010. Career André began studying classical music and blues guitar at the age of 6 inspired by his father, Geraldo Moraes. He then studied film music under the tutelage of David Tygel and Gabriel Yared. While still a teen, he relocated to Rio de Janeiro and co-formed music group Infierno, which toured and released a full-length album. In 1997, at age 20, he composed his first soundtrack score, for No Coração dos Deuse (In the Heart of the Gods), directed by his father, working alongside Faith No More member Mike Patton. To date, Andre has composed 45 film scores, eight short-film scores and music for four TV shows. Among his works, he has composed for Assalto ao Banco Central, Meu Tio Matou um Cara, O Coronel e o Lobisomem, Melhor Trilha Sonora, Viva Sapato! and Lisbela e o Prisioneiro. In addition, André has served as producer for several albums, including Dante XXI by Sepultura, Guns N’ Roses keyb

André Ristic

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André Ristic (born December 19, 1972) is a Canadian composer, pianist, accordion player, and music theorist. He has won several awards, including the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in 2000 for his work Catalogue de bombes occidentales, the Prix Opus for Composer of the Year in 2002, and the Prix Québec-Flandre in 2003. Life and career Born in Quebec City, Ristic’s parents originated from Poland and Montenegro. He began his professional studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal in mathematics, and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, where he studied piano, harpsichord, and musical composition. His background in mathematics has influenced his work as a music theorist, with a particular interest being the mathematical representation of sound. In the early 1990s, he applied himself to research in video synchronisation by the algorithmic numerical analysis of audio data. Later on, the use of mathematical models in his compositions took various forms, usually mixing simple musical material with sophisticated systems such as the Lotka–Volterra equations. In the mid-1990s, Ristic served as the pianist for the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal. In 1998, he co

Andre Vibez

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Alexander Uwaifo (born 25 September 1988) known professionally as Andre Vibez, is a Nigerian music producer and songwriter. He is best known for producing “Rush” from Ayra Starr’s album 19 & Dangerous and Rema international hit single “Calm Down” which peaked at number one on the India IMI International chart and also peak no.3 on Billboard Hot 100 after its remix with Selena Gomez. In September 2022, he was announced as one of the newly signed record producers of the Nigerian record label, Mavin Records. Early life Vibez was born on 25 September 1988 and grew up in the south-south region of Nigeria, Benin City, Edo State. He attended Kings College, Lagos where he completed his secondary education, and later on he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Benin, Nigeria. Vibez’s musical career started when he was a teenager in the year 2005. He grew up as a part of his father, Victor Uwaifo’s music band “Titibiti”. Career Vibez’s father, Sir Victor Uwaifo was a Nigerian highlife musician well known for winning the first gold disc in Africa. Vibez started producing music in 2005 and worked alongside his father as a keyboardist. His music production

André Vida

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André Vida (born 1974) is an American-born German saxophonist, lyricist, avant-garde musician, and experimental composer. Vida has been on the forefront of several major developments in experimental music, including his membership in Anthony Braxton’s original Ghost Trance Ensemble, as founding member of New York collective the CTIA, performances with The Tower Recordings and subsequent ‘freak folk’ groups. He is based in Berlin. His father was Julius A. Vida (1928–2018), a Hungarian refugee to the U.S. during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; and a prominent chemist and pharmaceutical businessperson in Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.. In 1995, Vida moved to New York City and co-founded the Creative Trans-Informational Alliance Presents (CTIA) with Brandon Evans and Dominique Eade. Vida graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997. He received a M.F.A. degree in experimental sound practices in 2005 from the school of music at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Career In 2001, Vida moved to Berlin and soon after launched the Kreuzberg suite, a once a week concert series with Vida and a frequently changing musical guest creating improvisational music around the subject of “Fish A

Andrea Belfi

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Andrea Belfi (born 1979) is an Italian electro-acoustic musician and composer. He began playing drums at the age of 14. From 1995 to 1998 he was involved in numerous punk bands. He studied art in Milan, before becoming involved in experimental music in 2000. He’s been member of electronic outfit Medves (with Giuseppe Ielasi, Stefano Pilia, Riccardo Wanke & Renato Rinaldi), the duo Christa Pfangen with Mattia Coletti, the trio Rosolina Mar. From 2002 he’s collaborated with a wide range of artists like: Carla Bozulich, Mike Watt, David Grubbs, Hobocombo, Stefano Pilia, Aidan Baker, Simon James Phillips, BJ Nilsen, Ignaz Schick, Mattia Coletti, Å, Attila Faravelli, Machinefabriek, David Maranha, Giuseppe Ielasi, RCF, Riccardo Wanke, Renato Rinaldi. In 2017 Andrea signed to London based label FLOAT and announced his new album Ore. Selected discography Solo albums *Ned n°2 CD (Chocolateguns 2002) *Between Neck & Stomach CD (Häpna 2006) *Knots CD (Die Schachtel 2008) *Wege CD (Room 40 2012) *Dubbing & Doubling LP ltd. (ROOM40 2012) *Natura Morta CD (Miasmah Recordings 2014) *Ore CD, LP (FLOAT 2017) *Strata LP, EP (FLOAT 2019) Collaborations *Gilda 7" (Halley records 1997) as member of Gi

Andrea Cera

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Andrea Cera (born 1969 in Vicenza) is an Italian electroacoustic composer, sound designer and sound installation artist. Biography Andrea Cera graduated with MA degree (diploma) in piano and music composition at the in Padua (Italy). He studied computer music at the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music at IRCAM, in Paris. From 2000 to 2010, Cera has mainly worked with several choreographers including Hervé Robbe at the Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre, Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer, Pascal Montrouge, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. In the same period he has explored sound art: installation sites have included the Centre Pompidou, in Lille-Tourcoing, institutions and art centres in Italy and France. One example of his work is Reactive Ambient Music (2005). This installation is a sort of a waiting room where external sounds of other installations control a generative background music system. In 2004 he realized NightRun, an interactive installation based on the screaming of the visitors. They are here (2008) is an interactive video and sound installation created for the Centquatre-Paris, in collaboration with IRCAM. After 2010, Andrea Cera focused in research and soun

Andrea Clearfield

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Andrea Clearfield (born 1960) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Her works include music for opera, orchestra, chorus, soloists, chamber ensembles, dance, film, and multimedia collaborations. Biography Early life Clearfield was born on August 29, 1960, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Bala-Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia. She was raised in an artistic family and studied piano from age 5. She began exploring composition as a young teen, arranging pop songs for voice, strings and percussion. She founded The Salon, a performance series in her home featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic, dance, and world music since 1986. Compositional style Clearfield’s catalog includes works for orchestra, opera, chorus, chamber ensemble, dance, and multimedia collaborations. Her music has its roots in a variety of cultural and artistic traditions. Among her works are seventeen cantatas including Kabo Omowale (Welcome Home, Child) commissioned and premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra in collaboration with writer and storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston. Other works, including her choral cantata Tse Go La, are inspired by Tibetan music fieldwork that s

Andrea Di Paolo

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Andrea Di Paolo (born in Atessa, Italy, on 24 February 1978) is an Italian pianist and composer of modern classical, contemporary, postminimalism and neoclassical music. Biography Andrea Di Paolo began studying music at age 8. He studied piano (Bachelor and Master degree) with Maria Cristina Boccadamo at the “D’Annunzio” Conservatory in Pescara (Abruzzo - Italy) and Composition at the Cité de la Musique et de la Danse, Conservatoire de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France) with Mark André. In 2010, he got a Diploma of high specialization in Composition at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy) with Ivan Fedele; fundamental in his human and artistical development was his meeting with composer Valentyn Sylvestrov in Kyiv (Ukraine). He attended composition classes of Luciano Berio, Arvo Part, Gyorgy Kurtag, Salvatore Sciarrino, Beat Furrer. His works, for solo instrument, ensemble and orchestra, were performed in Europe, Russia and the USA, broadcast by Radio France and Radio RAI. In 2008, he won the International Competition for composers “From Romanticism to Contemporary” in Bucharest (Romania), sponsored by the European Commission with his work “L’azur” from a Mallarmé’s tex

Andrea Farri

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Andrea Farri (born 11 February 1982) is an Italian film composer. Life and career Born in Rome, Farri is the son of actress Lucia Poli and the nephew of actor Paolo Poli. An autodidact, he started composing incidental music at 17 years old. In 2015, Farri won the Globo d’oro for best score for Latin Lover. In 2023, he won the “Soundtrack Stars Award” during the 2023 Venice Film Festival for Matteo Garrone’s Io capitano. In 2024 he scores the music to Those About to Die directed by Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner. In 2026 he has been appointed as music director and composer for 2026 Winter Olympics’ opening ceremony. Partial filmography Films * A Game for Girls, directed by Matteo Rovere (2008) * Drifters, directed by Matteo Rovere (2011) * When the Night, directed by Cristina Comencini (2011) * 10 Rules for Falling in Love, directed by Cristiano Bortone (2012) * Fuga di cervelli, directed by Paolo Ruffini (2013) * I Can Quit Whenever I Want, directed by Sydney Sibilia (2014) * Soap Opera, directed by Alessandro Genovesi (2014) * Belli di papà , directed by Guido Chiesa (2015) * I Killed Napoléon, directed by Giorgia Farina (2015) * Latin Lover, directed by Cristina Comencin

Andrea Ferrante

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Andrea Ferrante (born 16 August 1968, Palermo, Italy) is an Italian composer whose music is performed throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas and published by Videoradio and Rai Trade Labels, Edizioni Carrara and Edizioni Simeoli. He teaches at the Conservatorio di Musica di Stato “Arcangelo Corelli” in Messina. Composing His compositional activity, as shown in the essay Backstage of the creative act, the music psychologist Rosa Alba Gambino, can be divided into two phases: the first (which ends with the composition of the holy La sposa del vento for soloists, chorus and orchestra staged in Palermo in 2000 by Operalaboratorio) in which Andrea Ferrante investigates the Mediterranean sounds of his land through the filter of the contemporary, and the second (after ten years of silence, and in collaboration with his favourite pianist Domenico Piccichè) in which the mature composer’s own language is inspired by multiculturalism and the concept of emotion / enjoyment of music that cast its production outside Europe. (piano), introduction by Giovanni Sollima, Videoradio Labels, 2011. * Free Emotion, Domenico Piccichè * Axios-Ferrante. Axios String Quartet, Videoradio-RAI Trade, Milano 20

Andrea Guerra (composer)

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Andrea Guerra is an Italian composer. He is known for his film scores of Facing Windows (2003), Hotel Rwanda (2004), and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). Biography Guerra is the son of poet and screenwriter Tonino Guerra. He was born in October 1961 in the northern Italian town of Santarcangelo di Romagna. After studying composition and arrangement under maestro Ettore Ballotta, he moved to Rome where he began his career composing music for nature documentaries. In succeeding years, he wrote several film scores for directors such as Ferzan Özpetek, Roberto Faenza, Giuseppe Bertolucci, and others. In 2015, he made his debut in Bollywood by composing the film score of the Dum Laga Ke Haisha. In 2016, he composed the background score for the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Fan. Filmography Awards and nominations * Venice Film Festival 2017 - Soundtrack Stars Award * European Film Awards 2005 - Best Composer (Hotel Rwanda) * Golden Satellite Awards 2005 - Best Original Song (“Million Voices”, from the movie Hotel Rwanda, written by Andrea Guerra, Wyclef Jean and Jerry ‘Wonder’ Duplessis ) * Apex Award 2005 - Best Original Song (“Million Voices”) * Ravello CineMusic 2004 - Best Original Song (“C

Andrea Liberovici

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Andrea Liberovici (born 1962) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music and a theatre director. Biography Andrea Liberovici was born in Turin, the son of Sergio Liberovici (musician, Turin, 1930–1991) and Margot Galante Garrone. He studied composition, violin and viola at the conservatories of Venice and Turin. He also studied acting at the Scuola del , and singing with Cathy Berberian at the International Festival in Montalcino in 1980. He recorded his first at the age of fifteen. As a composer and director, he co-founded Teatrodelsuono (theatre of sound) with poet Edoardo Sanguineti (librettist of Luciano Berio) and Ottavia Fusco. Jean-Jacques Nattiez wrote, “Andrea Liberovici is a composer of his time. He define himself a modern. … We can find in his Frankenstein Cabaret a metaphor of the composer today. … he his a musician, a tragic-postmodern composer who tell about man and woman compared with the absurd and unbearable loneliness in which Internet borders more and more humanity.” Over the last decade, in collaboration with artists such as Peter Greenaway, Claudia Cardinale, Aldo Nove, Judith Malina, Vittorio Gassman, Giorgio Albertazzi, Enrico Ghezzi, Ivry Git

Andrea Molino

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Andrea Molino (born 1964 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Andrea Molino was born in Turin and studied in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich and Paris. In 1997, as musical director of the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg he conducted the world premiere of Alessandro Melchiorre’s Unreported inbound Palermo and in 2000, the premiere of the stage version of Heiner Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities. His own projects the smiling carcass (1999), based on the subject of advertising, and Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice (2001), on death penalty, both in collaboration with the Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, are the first examples of his commitment towards innovative, multimedia oriented music theatre. From 2000 to 2006 Andrea Molino was artistic director of Fabrica Musica, the music department of the Italian communication research center, Fabrica. CREDO, a multimedia music theatre on the theme of ethnic and religious conflicts was premiered in April 2004 at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then performed at the Stazione Termini in Rome with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, on the occasion of the World Summit of

Andrea Reinkemeyer

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Andrea Reinkemeyer (born 1976) is an American composer from Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon and continued her studies in composition at the University of Michigan, graduating with a master’s and doctoral degree. She was awarded a 2017 Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commission, 2022-23 Edith Green Distinguished Professor and 2019 Julie Olds and Thomas Hellie Creative Achievement Award for Linfield Faculty; her Smoulder for Wind Ensemble was awarded the 2021 Alex Shapiro Prize in the 40th Annual Search for New Music by the International Alliance of Women in Music (IAWM) and named a 2020 finalist for the National Band Association William D. Revelli Composition Contest. Her music has been described as “haunting”, “clever, funky, jazzy and virtuosic”. While at the University of Michigan, Reinkemeyer taught as a graduate student instructor in electronic composition. After completing her education, she took a position teaching composition, theory and technology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She previously served as Associate Professor of Music Composition and Theory and Chair of the Department of Music at Linfield Univers

Andreas Kunstein

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Andreas Kunstein (born 25 June 1967) is a German composer who was born in Brühl (North Rhine-Westphalia). In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. After finishing high school, he studied history and philosophy in Düsseldorf. He also had private composition lessons with David Graham and Ratko Delorko. During 1992–1998 he studied composition at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, with . At the Rotterdam Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans, he completed his studies in composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans and Klaas de Vries in April 2002. He participated in masterclasses of Manfred Trojahn, Edison Denisov and George Crumb, amongst others. * Toccata for piano (1980/1991) * Fantasy in G-minor for piano (1991) * String quartet No. 1 (1992) * 10 Epigrams for toy piano (1992) (Version for piano: 1996) * Woodwinds Quintet (1993) * String quartet No. 2 (1994) * Mutter denkt nach for mezzo-soprano and piano (text: Hedda Zinner, 1929) (1995) * 2 Portraits for piano (1995–1997) * 13 Epigrams for orchestra (1998) (New version: 2000) * String Trio (1992/1999) * Szenen aus einem Studentenleben for orchestra (2001–2002) (Version for piano: 2001) * String quintet (2002) * Sui

Andreas Weidinger

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Andreas Weidinger (born 1970) is a German composer, producer, conductor, and arranger for film, television, and records. Early life and education Weidinger began his musical training at age nine with lessons in piano and music theory. After his high school diploma, Weidinger moved to Berlin to study bassoon, music theory and political science at the University of Arts and started working on his first film-music projects. He then was accepted at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich as one of the first students studying in the newly opened Film Scoring program. Career Weidinger has composed music for over 100 films as well as classical contemporary orchestral and chamber music works. He has worked with oboist Stefan Schilli, Chinese cheng player Wu-Wei and members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and has a long term working relationship with German director Tim Trageser. He has scored films with composer Christoph Zirngibl. His recent credits include the 3-D Sci-Fi Drama Shockwave, Darkside with director Jay Weisman, “The Banshee Chapter” with director Blair Erickson, the film “The Teacher” with director Tim Trageser, and Playing Hooky. and the 2014 Ironclad: Ba

Andreia Pinto Correia

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Andreia Pinto-Correia (born 23 August 1971) is a Portuguese composer based in the United States. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, she has performed for the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute and New York Philharmonic. Biography Andreia Pinto-Correia was born on 23 August 1971 in Lisbon. She is the daughter of literature professors, with her father João David Pinto Correia being one of her creative collaborators. Raised in her birthplace, she was influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose stories her mother did Portuguese-language translations of, as well as the medieval literature her father would read to her before bedtime. She performed at the 2012 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute; Rob Hubbard of the St. Paul Pioneer Press said that her “evocative soundscapes … certainly have a future there”. Joshua Kosman criticized her symphonic poem “Alfama” at its 2013 premiere at the Berkeley Symphony, saying that its layered nature “is so gray and unattractive – densely dissonant without pointing in any clear harmonic direction – that the effect is muted”. In 2015, Pinto-Correia was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition. In 2020, she was awarded an American Academy

Andrej Aćin

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Andrej Aćin is a Serbian director, screenwriter and composer from Belgrade, currently residing in Toronto, Canada. In the 1990s, he fronted the gothic rock band BAAL, with which he released one studio album. After BAAL disbanded in 1995, Aćin released the material intended to be released on the second BAAL album under the name Retro Deux. After cooperating with the French group Noir Désir in the late 1990s, he dedicated himself to film score composing and directing short and documentary films, receiving a number of awards for his work. He graduated from the film directing department of the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Musical career BAAL Having composed ambiental music during the 1980s, Aćin founded the gothic rock band BAAL in 1989, as its keyboardist and lead vocalist, with bass guitarist Srđa Popović, guitarist Vojkan Petković, and drummer Vlada Marinković. The band released their debut album Između božanstva i ništavila (Between Divinity and Nothingness) in 1993. featured guest appearances by Mizar vocalist Goran Tanevski, on the track “Talas” (“The Wave”), Ekatarina Velika frontman Milan Mladenović, guitar on the title track, Van Gogh frontman Zvonimir Đukić, guitar on t

Andres Uibo

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Andres Uibo (born 16 April 1956) is an Estonian organist, composer, music producer and pedagogue. He has been the organist of St. Nicholas Church in Tallinn, now the Niguliste Museum-Concert Hall, since 1981 and has taught at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre since 1994, becoming professor of organ in 2005. In 1987 he founded the Tallinn International Organ Festival; he later became artistic director of the Suure-Jaani Music Festival and initiated the Tallinnfest B-A-C-H series at Niguliste in 2001. In 2001 he was awarded the Medal Class of the Order of the White Star. Early life and education Uibo was born in Kivi-Vigala. In 1994 he joined the faculty of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, where he later became professor of organ; he also worked as a producer for the state concert agency Eesti Kontsert. Uibo has appeared widely as a recitalist in Estonia and abroad. In 2017 ERR reported that he was the first Estonian organist invited to perform in the BachOrgelFestival at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. He has also performed at the Malta International Organ Festival, where the Times of Malta reviewed his recital at St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta in 2015 and co

Andreu Jacob

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Andreu Jacob Martínez Foglietti (born 18 September 1971) is an international film composer, orchestrator and sound designer based in Norway. He is known for composing original scores for feature films, documentaries and short films, as well as for interdisciplinary art projects. Jacob’s work has been presented at major international film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival (70th and 71st editions). His music combines contemporary orchestral writing, acoustic instrumentation, electronic sound design and field recordings. He has collaborated internationally with filmmakers, production companies and cultural institutions. Early life and education Jacob was born in Barcelona, Spain, and grew up in the El Raval neighborhood. He began his musical studies at the age of nine at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona. In 1995, Jacob participated in his first international jazz festivals in Poland, performing at the 13th edition of Jazz na Kresach in Zamość and at the 10th International Jazz Festival “Solo–Duo–Trio” in Kraków. In 2000, Jacob won a composition competition held in connection with the 75th anniversary of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. Caree

Andrew Ager

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Andrew Ager (born 12 February 1962) is a Canadian composer of symphonies, operas, chamber, and solo music. He lives in Ottawa, where he composes full-time. Early life Andrew Ager was born to a musical family. His maternal grandfather, Charles Aharan, was a professional musician during the early part of his life, and his parents and sisters all played piano. Ager commenced piano studies as a child and began composing seriously around age fourteen. He did not study music at school, but was an avid private piano and theory student in suburban Ottawa, winning several Ottawa Music Festival classes as a teenager. When he was fifteen the family moved to Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, where Ager dropped out of school a year later and spent much time in a studio on their property studying music and literature on his own. 1990-2010 In the 1990s Ager began to write for larger ensembles and received numerous commissions while living in Halifax and Toronto. He felt that he had waited a certain period of time before doing this in order to “get it right” in terms of technique and structure. He was especially busy as a freelance pianist and composer in Toronto from 1993-2010, writing for many of Toronto

Andrew Cadima

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Andrew William Cadima (born October 8, 1984) is an American composer and painter. Biography Cadima is currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles ranging from solo harp to large orchestra and for events and venues ranging from rock concerts to symphony halls. Cadima began his studies in composition in Austin, Texas, with Joe Harchanko at the University of Texas at Austin. Subsequently, he received B.M. and M.M. degrees in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying under Dan Becker and David Garner. During his studies at the San Francisco Conservatory, Cadima was the recipient of the Agnes Albert Scholarship. He has also studied abroad and performed on the piano, guitar, and violin in cities including Vienna, Paris, and Valencia, Spain. Cadima’s music has been performed both locally and internationally by many soloists and ensembles including members of the San Francisco Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, The Curtis Institute of Music Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, the SFCM New Music Ensemble (Nicole Paiement, director), the SFCM Chorus, the Huntingto

Andrew Choi

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Andrew Choi (born December 25, 1980), is a South Korean singer and composer. He is best known for providing the singing voice for the character Jinu in the Netflix animation, KPop Demon Hunters (2025). He was previously known for working as a producer and composer under SM Entertainment and for finishing in third place on SBS’s K-pop Star 2. He released his first album, Love Was Enough on May 27, 2013. Background Choi was born in Busan on December 25, 1980, but grew up in the United States. He was five years old when his family moved to New Jersey. He was brought on board the KPop Demon Hunters project by Ejae and originally asked to sing as Romance or Mystery but eventually became the singing voice for the main male character, Jinu. - ! scope=row Love Was Enough * Released: May 27, 2013 * Label: Sony Music * Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 11 * KOR: 1,145 - Singles Promotional singles Soundtrack appearances Filmography Film Television Awards and nominations Listicles Notes References External links *

Andrew Chubb

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Andrew Chubb (born 1975 in Sydney, Australia) is a Newcastle, New South Wales based pianist, composer, teacher, and lecturer. Since 1999, he has taught and lectured at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music, University of Newcastle, Australia. As a pianist, Chubb has always taken interest in a variety of classical repertoire including performing contemporary minimalist piano works, especially those of the American composer Philip Glass. By 2006, he was the first and only Australian pianist who had publicly performed the main cycle of published solo piano works by Glass. These concerts were given at the Newcastle Conservatorium Concert Hall in 2002, 2003, 2006, and the Newcastle City Hall, the Brisbane Conservatorium of Music in 2007 and Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada in 2008. In 2007 he gave the Australian premiere of the large-scale 75min solo piano work, The Book of Sounds, by the late German composer, Hans Otte and in the same concert on the Australian made Stuart & Sons piano the World Premiere of his own solo piano work, Meditation at Bar Beach. In recent years, Andrew Chubb has devoted time to composition and since 2004, has had works published by Publications by W

Andrew Ford (composer)

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Andrew Ford (born 1957) is an English-born Australian composer, writer, and radio presenter, known for The Music Show on ABC Radio National. Early life and education Andrew Ford was born in 1957 in Liverpool, UK. Career Ford was Fellow in Music at Bradford University from 1978 to 1982. After moving to Australia, he lectured at the School of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong, NSW, from 1983 to 1995, *2016: Order of Australia Medal APRA / Art Music Awards The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). They include the Art Music Awards (until 2009 Classical Music Awards) which are distributed by APRA and the Australian Music Centre (AMC). These awards include: - 2004 Learning to Howl – Ford Best Composition by an Australian Composer - 2005 Tales of the Supernatural – Ford – Australian String Quartet, Jane Edwards Vocal or Choral Work of the Year - 2008 Ford Outstanding Contribution by an Individual - 2009 Learning to Howl – Ford – Arcko Symphonic Project Best Performance of an Australian Composition - 2011 A Dream of Drowning – Ford – West Australian Symphony Orchestra Work of the Year – Orchestral - 2013 Blitz – F

Andrew Gant

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Andrew John Gant (born 6 August 1963) is a British composer, singer, author, teacher and Liberal Democrat politician. He was organist, choirmaster and composer at Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal from 2000 to 2013, and has published several books on musical subjects. Gant serves as a Liberal Democrat Councillor on both Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council. He was the party’s parliamentary candidate for The Cotswolds constituency at the 2017 general election and for the Staffordshire Moorlands constituency at the 2019 general election. In 2022 he was elected to the Cabinet of Oxfordshire County Council with the Highways Management portfolio. He is the husband of Katherine Willis, Baroness Willis of Summertown. Education Gant attended Radley College before going on to read music and English at St John’s College, Cambridge. He was a choral scholar and sang in the college choir under George Guest. He subsequently studied composition with Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music and completed his PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. *O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music (2015) *Music: Ideas in Profile (2017) *Johann Sebastian Bach: A Very Brief

Andrew Hugill

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Andrew Hugill (born 1957) is a British composer, writer and academic. He is both a professor of music and a professor of creative computing. He directs the Creative Computing programme at University of Leicester. Biography Andrew Hugill studied composition with Roger Marsh at the University of Keele between 1976 and 1980, and in 1983 he founded the ensemble “George W. Welch”. He began lecturing at Leicester Polytechnic in 1986, working alongside Gavin Bryars and Dave Smith, eventually becoming subject-leader for the BA Performing Arts: Music. He taught composition, performance and music history. He founded the Music, Technology and Innovation programme in 1997 at De Montfort University and taught Creative and Negotiated Projects, Musicianship and Internet Music. In 2006 he founded the Institute of Creative Technologies and was its director until 2012. In 2013, he set up Creative Computing at Bath Spa University. In 2018, he founded the Creative Computing programme at University of Leicester. Hugill is a Principal Fellow and a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Hugill has had a huge impact on the views of Aural Diversity. Compositions Hugill’s compositions inc

Andrew March

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Andrew March is an English composer (born 1973). He was the winner of the first-ever Masterprize Composition Competition with his piece Marine — à travers les arbres. Andrew studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Jeremy Dale Roberts, graduating in 1996. His compositions have received critical acclaim and have been recorded and performed by some of the world’s most famous orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic. Career March was the 1996 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition prize winner. In 1997, his symphonic poem Easdale was included on the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) shortlist. Marine—à travers les arbres was featured at 1998’s Proms, with the EUYO conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. His composition “A Stirring in the Heavenlies”, a commission awarded as a prize by The Musician’s Company in 1998, was recorded by the Kyiv Philharmonic under composer/conductor Robert Ian Winstin for the 12–CD series “Masterworks of the New Era”. Sanguis Venenatus (2009) was an elegy written by March in memory of Haemophiliacs affected by the Tainted Blood Scandal. It was recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic with conductor Petr Vr

Andrew Norman

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Andrew Norman (born October 31, 1979) is an American composer of contemporary classical music whose texturally complex music is influenced by architecture and the visual arts. His string trio The Companion Guide to Rome (2010), was a runner-up for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. While composer-in-residence for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, he first gained international attention for the orchestral work Play (2013), which was nominated for the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition and won the 2017 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. He received another Grammy nomination for the orchestral work Sustain (2018), a commission from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Other noted works include the fantasy for piano and orchestra Split (2015) and the opera A Trip to the Moon (2017). Norman was on the composition faculty of the Juilliard School and is currently teaching at the USC Thornton School of Music. Biography Norman studied composition at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and Yale School of Music. Much of his music is influenced by architecture and visual arts, in which he has had a lifelong interest. He was composer-in-r

Andrew Paul MacDonald

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Andrew Paul MacDonald (born 30 November 1958) is a Canadian classical composer, guitarist, conductor, and music educator. Early life and education Born in Guelph, Ontario, MacDonald studied music theory and piano with Rosemarie Hamilton and guitar with Alexandre Lagoya, Michael Lorimer, Ray Sealey and Manuel Lopez-Ramos. He earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Western Ontario in 1981 where he was a pupil of Arsenio Girón and Alan Heard. He pursued graduate studies in music composition at the University of Michigan (UM) where he earned both a Master of Music (1982) and a Doctor of Musical Arts (1985). At the UM he was a pupil of William Albright, William Bolcom, Leslie Bassett, and George Balch Wilson. At the school he was instrumental in founding the Ensemble Musica Nova, an organization of which he is serves as the Artistic Director. From 1993 to 1997 he served as Vice-President and Council member of the Canadian League of Composers. In addition to teaching and composing, he remains active as a classical and electric guitarist and as a conductor. Compositions MacDonald’s compositions have been performed in many countries including England, Norway, France, Germany, the

Andrew Prahlow

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Andrew Prahlow (born March 5, 1988, in Winter Park, Florida) is an American video game, film, and television composer based in Los Angeles, California. He is a BAFTA-nominated composer. Prahlow is best known for his work on the action-adventure game Outer Wilds and its expansion, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye. His music has been featured in many trailers, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Martian. He also co-wrote music featured at Disney’s Epcot and in Westworld. He began his career as a composer’s assistant for Legend of Korra and Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. In 2022, his score for Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye earned him a G.A.N.G. Award for Best Music for an Indie Game as well as two nominations, Best Main Theme and Creative and Technical Achievement in Music. The score also earned him a Music+Sound Award nomination for Best Original Composition in Gaming. In 2020, his Outer Wilds score was nominated for two G.A.N.G. Awards, Best Music for an Indie Game and Best Interactive Score. In August 2022, Prahlow released an expansion to Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye titled Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye (The Lost Reels). References External links *

Andrew Waggoner

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Andrew Waggoner (born November 10, 1960) is an American composer and violinist. Biography Andrew Waggoner grew up in New Orleans, Minneapolis and Atlanta, and studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University. His music has been commissioned and performed by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Saint Louis, Denver, Syracuse, and Winnipeg Symphonies, the Cassatt, Corigliano, Miro, and Villiers Quartets, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the California EAR Unit, pianist Gloria Cheng, violist Melia Watras, ‘cellist Robert Burkhart, the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic of Zlin, Czech Republic, Sequitur, the Empyrean Ensemble, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, Ensemble X, CELLO, Flexible Music, Ensemble Nordlys, of Denmark, and Ensemble Accroche Note, of France. Together with his wife, cellist Caroline Stinson, he is Co-Artistic Director of the Catskills-based Weekend of Chamber Music. Waggoner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. A Fromm Foundation Commission supported Waggoner’s Fifth String Quartet, written for the Lydian String Quartet. Compositions String chamber works *Down/Up for ob., vn., va.,

Andrew York (guitarist)

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Andrew York (born 1958) is an American Grammy Award winning classical guitarist and composer. Biography York was born in 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and grew up in Virginia. He received degrees from James Madison University in Virginia and the University of Southern California (USC). He studied in Spain, where he met classical guitarist John Williams. Williams has performed and recorded compositions by York. In 1989, York released his debut solo album, Perfect Sky (Timeless, 1989). He was a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet from 1990 to 2006. York is the only alumnus in USC’s history to have received their Distinguished Alumni Award twice, in 1997 as a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and again in 2003 for his solo music career. He played lute with the USC Early Music Ensemble. In addition to his solo career, recording and performing his own compositions, York’s recent collaborations include projects with Andy Summers, W. A. Mathieu, Dai Kimura, and Mitsuko Kado. York’s tour schedule has included concerts in thirty countries. York’s compositions and arrangements for guitar have been performed and recorded by guitarists John Williams, Christopher Parkenin

Andrey Gubin

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Andrey Viktorovich Gubin (; born 30 April 1974), born Andrey Valerevich Klementyev () is a Russian pop-singer, poet, composer, hitmaker and record producer. Honored Artists of the Russian Federation (2004). Early years Gubin was born on 30 April 1974 in Ufa. His family moved to Moscow in 1983, where they wandered about because of constant lack of money. Musical career Gubin’s first album I Am A Hobo (), released when he was 15, sold 200 copies. Gubin’s second and third album Ave Maria and Prince and Princess () respectively were the start of his career. His first performance on stage with his first hit Nomad Boy () was in 1994. In the late 2000s, Gubin stopped performing due to serious physical health problems. According to the singer, in the mid-2000s, he was diagnosed with left-sided trigeminal neuralgia of the face, a disease of the nervous system that causes constant facial pain. Gubin also disclosed that he was experiencing heart issues. In 2024, media sources erroneously concluded that Gubin officially announced his retirement from singing while Gubin has clearly stated his intentions to gradually complete and record multiple new songs he has written over the years, as long a

Andrey Kasparov

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Andrey Rafailovich Kasparov (; ; born 6 April 1966) is an Armenian-American pianist, composer, and professor, who holds both American and Russian citizenship. Biography Early life and education Kasparov was born on 6 April 1966 in Baku, Azerbaijan, to a family of Armenian descent. He began his musical studies at the age of six, and he moved to Moscow at fifteen. He later entered the Moscow State Conservatory, graduating with honors in Music Composition and Piano, in 1989 and 1990, respectively. At the Conservatory, he studied harmony and counterpoint were with Yuri Kholopov, a famous Russian musicologist. Among his keyboard instructors were Nina Emelianova, Vladimir Bunin, Sergei Dizhur, Dmitri Sakharov, and Victor Merzhanov. His composition studies began with Tatyana Chudova and Tikhon Khrennikov; he later continued them in the independent studio of Alexandr Chaikovsky. In 1985, he was awarded a Third Prize for his Toccata for piano, and in 1987, was awarded Second Prize for his Six Aphorisms for flute, violin and cello, at the All-USSR Composition Competition. Kasparov pursued subsequent doctoral studies in composition at the Jacobs School of Music and the Indiana University at B

Andrzej Szpilman

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Andrzej Szpilman (born March 28, 1956) is a Polish dentist, composer, music producer, publisher, and son of the pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman. Biography Szpilman started his music education in 1962 under Prof. S. Kawalla (violin) and later from 1965 until 1974 in the 4th State School of Music in Warsaw (class of Prof. Nasalska violin and later viola). In 1976, he started to record for Polish Radio as a composer and music producer. He has worked with Polish singers Irena Santor, Hanna Banaszak, Grażyna Świtała, Bogusław Mec, accompanied by the Warsaw Radio Orchestra and Poznań Radio Orchestra. In 1980-81, as a music director, Szpilman produced several shows for TV-Poland. From 1982-83 he became the producer of the first record by the 1980s Polish group, “Oddział Zamknięty” (Close Department), which sold about 450.000 records in 1983 and received “Gold Record 83” from the Polish Recording Company. Besides his artistic activities he studied Dentistry at the Warsaw Medical Academy. In 1983 he moved to Hamburg, Germany, and until 1988 he worked as an assistant professor at the Conservative Dentistry Department of the University of Hamburg, while continuing to work at his own d

Andy Akiho

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Andy Akiho (born February 7, 1979, Columbia, South Carolina) is an American musician and composer of contemporary classical music. A virtuoso percussionist based in New York City, his primary performance instrument is steel pans. He took interest in becoming a percussionist when his older sister introduced him to a drum set at the age of 9. Akiho first tried his hand at the steel pan when he became an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina. He began taking several trips to Trinidad after college to learn and play music. From there, he started writing pieces of his own. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at Princeton University. Career Akiho has tried to learn everything he could with what was available to him at the time as a percussionist while at the University of South Carolina. He has played in a percussion ensemble as a classical percussionist, concert band, and in orchestras. Akiho had also joined a local West African percussion ensemble, Brazilian drumming ensembles, and steel bands. He began to realize once he finished at South Carolina that he truly loved playing the pans the most and from there he traveled to Trinidad several times without knowing

Andy Garfield

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Andrew Douglas Garfield (born January 31, 1974, in Fullerton, California) He is best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Adam Green, as the composer of films including Hatchet, Frozen, and Hatchet II. Garfield’s other contributions to the horror genre include music and score for The Eden Formula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Chillerama, The Summer of Massacre, and Almost Human. Under the banner of his company Pachinko Media, he has also been prolific in themed entertainment. Early life and education Garfield was born Andrew Douglas Garfield on January 31, 1974, in Fullerton, California. After graduating from Canyon High School in Anaheim Hills, Garfield went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in music and architecture from the University of Southern California, studying under famed Disney composer Buddy Baker. Career Film Garfield’s first feature film was the slasher film Hatchet in 2006, which was his first of four collaborations with filmmaker Adam Green. The ride received a Thea award for Outstanding Achievement from the Themed Entertainment Association. He worked with Phil Hettema once again on a 4D immersive experience at Los Angeles Union Station. Garfield

Andy Hunter (DJ)

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Andy Hunter (born 23 April 1974) is a British Christian DJ and electronic dance music artist. Born in Leicester and starting his career in the drum and bass scene of Bristol during the 1990s, he has continued to release new music, releasing his 14th album in 2019. Biography Hunter, professionally known as Andy Hunter°, was born in Leicester, England, on 23 April 1974. He became involved in music in his early days of adolescence, and later became interested in sound engineering in the 1990s. He worked with Suede and The Wonder Stuff. In 1992, he joined New Generation Music and Mission as a travelling engineer and moved to Bristol—the scene that was breaking drum and bass. In 1997, Andy formed a band named “Trip” with lead programmer Martin King and several other production partners. In 1999 Trip released an album called Cultural Shift. In the following years, Hunter worked in the studio, producing techno music. In fall of 2002, his work culminated into the album Exodus, which Hunter released on Nettwerk. Early in 2005, Hunter released a six-track album, Life. He gained attention from Rolling Stone magazine, which praised his first album, Exodus, and from appearances in video games (

Andy Sturmer

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Marvin Andrew Sturmer (born March 11, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and composer who co-founded the rock band Jellyfish in 1989. He was the group’s lead vocalist, drummer, and primary songwriter. Following their break-up in 1994, Sturmer became involved with Tamio Okuda, as writer and producer for the Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi. Although Sturmer maintains a low public profile, he continues working as a songwriter for cartoons produced by Disney and Cartoon Network. While their records earned critical praise and they toured the world several times, Jellyfish failed to meet commercial expectations, and intra-group friction led to Jellyfish’s dissolution in early 1994. In a May 1994 article published in the San Francisco Chronicle, it was reported that Sturmer and Manning would form new bands in the aftermath of Jellyfish. Sturmer nearly released a solo album on Virgin Records before deciding against the proposal. He was already a friend of main Puffy composer and producer Tamio Okuda and was credited as “godfather” of the band for giving the group their name. Sturmer also worked with the Swedish pop band the Merrymakers, who tracked him down through the Inter

Andy Vores

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Andy Vores (born 1956) is a Welsh classical music and opera composer. He has lived in the United States since 1986 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Education Vores studied composition at Lancaster University in Lancaster, England. He initially focused on playing drums and keyboards in local rock bands, but his studies under the tutelage of composer Edward Cowie switched his focus to writing classical music. He received first prize in the Kucyna International Composition Competition at Boston University in 1985, and the following year he returned to Massachusetts as a Fellow in Composition at Tanglewood. His work Hammer and Darkness, Mirror and Knife, written in the summer of 1986, won the Tanglewood Prize for Composition. Also in 1986, he met pianist Patricia Thom, whom he later married, and decided to take up residence in the U.S. Operas On December 2, 1994, Vores presented his first opera Freshwater, an adaptation of the Virginia Woolf play of the same name, at Boston University. Vores first came across the Woolf text while browsing the shelves of the Boston University bookstore. He received assistance in the opera’s creation from Woolf’s nephew and executor, Quentin Bell,

Andys Skordis

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Andys Skordis (born in Nicosia, 24 August 1983) is a Cypriot composer. Skordis was awarded the Buma Toonzetters Prize 2012 for the best Dutch composition for that year, as well as the Berlin Opera Prize 2022. Biography Andys Skordis (Cyprus, 1983) studied composition and film scoring at Berklee College of Music, graduating in 2007. He followed his postgraduate studies in composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, studying with Richard Ayres and Wim Henderickx, graduating in 2011. Skordis has also studied Karnatic music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Javanese gamelan with Elsje Plantema and Balinese gamelan at Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar. His work list includes more than eighty compositions, consisting mostly of operas, orchestral and chamber music, oratorios, gamelan pieces and music for theatre, dance and short films. Skordis’ music has been featured at renowned contemporary festivals, including Holland Festival, November Music, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Bali Arts Festival, Voix Nouvelles, CTM Festival, Unsafe and Sounds, and Symphony for Asia. He has received commissions from Neuköllner Oper, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, International Ensemble Modern Academ

Ángel Mahler

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Ángel Jorge Pititto (23 May 1960 – 25 May 2025), known by the pseudonym Ángel Mahler, was an Argentine composer and conductor. He was the Minister of Culture of the city of Buenos Aires between July 2016 and December 2017. Biography Ángel Jorge Pititto was born on 23 May 1960 in Buenos Aires. Throughout his life he conducted and composed a number of musicals, notably El Jorobado de París, Drácula, el musical (1991) and El fantasma de Canterville (2003). Pititto died in Buenos Aires on 25 May 2025 at the age of 65. References External links * *

Angel-Eye

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Angela Shuman (; born 11 September 1974), known professionally as Angel-Eye, is a Dutch artist, composer and producer, who since her solo record deal with EMI Belgium has been collaborating with René Shuman since 2000. Since 2003, they have appeared together on stage as the duo Shuman & Angel-Eye, Mr. & Mrs. Rock’n Roll. Brouwers composes and produces music and develops marketing projects. She wrote many well-known advertising tunes and songs for advertising. René Shuman contacted her following a TV documentary in 2000 about her activities. Together, they produced the tune for an Audi commercial that was broadcast worldwide. In 2001, they also produce Shuman’s comeback album Set the clock on Rock!. From 2003, they successfully continued together as a duo under the name “Shuman & Angel-Eye”. Since then, she has been producing their joint TV productions. As Shuman & Angel-Eye, they now have several golden records/DVDs. She and Shuman got married 14 February 2010. References

Angélica Negrón

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Angélica Negrón (born 1981) is a Puerto-Rican composer and multi-instrumentalist recognized for composing music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics, as well as for chamber ensembles, orchestras, choirs, and films. Negrón is a founding member of the electronic indie band Balún, where she sings and plays the accordion. She is based in Brooklyn, New York, where she is a teaching artist for New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers program and Lincoln Center Education. She grew up in San Juan where she received her early education in piano and violin at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. Caribbean influences can be heard in her work, most notably in Balún, the indie dream-pop band she founded. Negrón is an artist in residence at National Sawdust working on a lip sync opera, Chimera, for drag queen performers and chamber ensemble exploring the ideas of fantasy and illusion as well as the intricacies of identity. Life Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican native, born in San Juan, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. As a child, she studied piano and violin at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. She earned her master’s degree at New York University and is w

Anirudh Ravichander

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Anirudh Ravichander (born 16 October 1990), also credited mononymously as Anirudh, is an Indian composer and playback singer who works primarily in Tamil cinema, in addition to Telugu and Hindi films. He has won two Filmfare Awards South, ten SIIMA Awards, six Edison Awards and five Vijay awards. His debut song “Why This Kolaveri Di”, composed for the 2012 film 3, went viral across the globe and has achieved over 590 million views on YouTube. A.R. Murugadoss signed him to compose music for Kaththi (2014) starring Vijay & Samantha which included the viral hit “Selfie Pulla”. The soundtrack for the film became Anirudh’s highest profile soundtrack until he was signed to compose music for Rajinikanth’s Petta in 2019. In the same year, he featured with Diplo on the remix of Major Lazer’s hit single “Cold Water”. Personal life Anirudh Ravichander was born in a Tamil family to Indian actor Ravi Raghavendra and classical dancer Lakshmi Ravichander. He also has an elder sister. He is the nephew of Latha Rajinikanth, thus making Aishwarya, Soundarya and Hrishikesh his cousins and Rajinikanth is his uncle. Anirudh’s great-grandfather was the director K. Subramanyam, a filmmaker in the 1930s.

Ann Millikan

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Ann E. Millikan (born June 10, 1963) is an American composer. Life and career Ann Millikan was born in San Diego County, California. Millikan composes in several genres, including orchestral, opera, choral and instrumental, and her works have been used for purposes such as installation, theatre and dance. Millikan’s works have been performed internationally and are widely available on recorded media. She currently resides in Minnesota. Honors and awards Millikan has received grants and awards from the following: *2011 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative *2010 McKnight Composer Fellowship *California Arts Council *American Music Center *ASCAP awards *American Composers Forum *Meet The Composer *Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund *Jerome Foundation *Zellerbach Family Fund *Berkeley Civic Arts Program *Waging Peace Through Singing (Highest Honors) Works Selected works include: ;Orchestra *Trilhas de Sombra *Ballad Nocturne *Landing Inside the Inside of an Animal *Red Migration for orchestra ;Chamber *Thunder Woman *Kuiper Belt Wamfle *The Woodcarver & The Blacksmith *Cantando para a Onça *Choro do Zeitgeist *Red Migration *221B Baker Street *Trens Coloridos para Gabriela *Thr

Anna Appleby

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Anna Appleby (born 1993, Newcastle Upon Tyne) is an English composer and songwriter of contemporary classical and experimental pop music, based in Manchester, UK. Her pop music is released under her moniker Norrisette. She is also a published short story author. Appleby composed an opera, Drought, for the BBC Philharmonic and singers from the Royal Northern College of Music, with words by poet Niall Campbell, which was premiered in October 2022 and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in August 2023. Appleby was music fellow with the Rambert Dance Company in 2016/17. Appleby co-composed a collaborative youth opera for Glyndebourne which won ‘Best Opera’ at the YAM Awards in 2023. She has also composed music for Streetwise Opera, a company who work with people who have experienced homelessness. She appeared on BBC Breakfast in 2018 to discuss gender equality in classical music and songwriting. She also appeared on BBC Radio 4 Front Row to discuss the pop-classical experimental album LUX by Rosalía in 2025. Appleby was appointed a professor of composition at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2025. References

Anna Drubich

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Anna Drubich (born Anna Solovieva Drubich, 27 June 1984) is a Russian composer, pianist, and actress known for her film scores in horror films and frequently working with the composer Marco Beltrami. She has scored over 35 major film and TV projects across the US, Russia, and Europe. In 2012, she graduated from the University of Southern California’s Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program. Recent projects include Barbarian (2022), Navalny (2024), The Master and Margarita (2024), and Netflix features Sting and Time Cut (2024). * BMI Film Music Awards: Winner for Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark * Moscow Beethoven Competition: First Prize * Bremen International Piano Competition: Mozart Prize Selected filmography * Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) * Fear Street Parte Tres: 1666 (2021) * Werewolves Within (2021) * Barbarian (2022) * Sting (2024) * The Master and Margarita (2024) * Time Cut (2024) * Forbidden Fruits (2026) * Corporate Retreat (2026) References External links * * Official profile at Kraft-Engel Management * Instagram

Anna Höstman

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Anna Höstman (born 1972 in Port Hardy, British Columbia) is a Canadian composer. She currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Höstman studied with John Celona, Christopher Butterfield, Gordon Mumma at the University of Victoria and Gary Kulesha at the University of Toronto. From 2005-2008 she was Composer-in-Residence with the Victoria Symphony. and she has since written 6 pieces for the orchestra, including a flute concerto for Mark McGregor. Höstman has written music for film, including the music for From Harling Point, a National Film Board of Canada documentary about a Chinese cemetery in BC, directed by Ling Chiu. Höstman’s opera, What time is it now? was based on an original libretto by P.K. Page, performed by the Victoria Symphony and recorded by CBC Radio. It is a chamber opera for three singers and six players about a woman with dementia. Höstman’s large-scale work, Nuyamł-ił Kulhulmx (Singing the Earth): 11 Pieces about a Place, makes use of historical and contemporary sources in four languages (Nuxalk, Norwegian, English and Japanese) in the creation of an artistic response to the isolated landscape and culture of Bella Coola. The piece was made in collaboration wi

Anna Jalkéus

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Anna Jalkéus (born 4 May 1992 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz singer, harpist, composer and educator. She has been active professionally since 2012 and is an associate professor of jazz voice at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (Kungliga Musikhögskolan, KMH). Early life and education Anna Jalkéus comes from a family of professional musicians. Her parents, Anders Jalkéus and Margareta Bengtson, are founding members of the Swedish a cappella group The Real Group. She grew up in Tyresö, south of Stockholm, and attended Adolf Fredrik’s Music School (Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser) from the age of ten. She studied jazz voice and harp at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and later at the University of North Texas in the United States, where she completed a Graduate Artist Certificate in Music Performance. Early career At the age of 12, Jalkéus was a member of the Swedish duo Limelights. The duo won the national competition Lilla Melodifestivalen 2004 with the self-written song “Varför jag?” and represented Sweden at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Lillehammer, Norway. Career Composition As a composer, Jalkéus writes music for harp ensembles and vocal jazz set

Anna S. Þorvaldsdóttir

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Anna Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir (Anna Thorvaldsdottir) (born 11 July 1977) is an Icelandic composer. She has been called “one of Iceland’s most celebrated composers”, and was the 2012 winner of the Nordic Council Music Prize. Her music is frequently performed in Europe and in the United States, and is often influenced by landscapes and nature. Early life and education Anna Thorvaldsdottir trained as a cellist in her youth, and began composing at a young age. She studied composition at the Iceland University of the Arts (BA in Composition), and later attended the University of California, San Diego, gaining her MA and PhD. Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Intercontemporain, BBC Proms, and Carnegie Hall. Portrait concerts of Anna’s work have been presented at many major venues and music festivals, including: Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival in NYC, Münchener Kammerorchester’s Nachtmusic der Moderne series, National Sawdust, the Composer Portraits Series at NYC’s Mi

Anna Weesner

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Anna Weesner (born 1965) is an American classical composer. Originally a flute student, educator, and performer, she later shifted towards composing in the 1990s. A 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, she has released two albums – Small and Mighty Forces (2014) and My Mother in Love (2024) – and she is Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. Early life and career Anna Weesner was born in 1965 in Iowa City, Iowa. She was later raised in Durham, New Hampshire, where her father worked at the University of New Hampshire at the time. Bernard Holland of The New York Times said that in a 1996 performance in Voices of the Spirit at the 92nd Street Y, she “offer ed a spiritual vision that prefers hard truths to warm reassurance.” In 2000, Peter Dobrin of The Philadelphia Inquirer said that the instrumental ranges of her piece “Sudden, Unbidden” “mak e for an unattractive, expressive skittishness”; the next year, he praised her for “knowing the value of repetition” and being “especially communicative” in the first song of her composition series Early, After, Ever, Now. Weesner’s 2002 piece “Still Things Move”, commissioned for the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, was comme

Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean

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Anna-Maria Yordanova Ravnopolska-Dean (), Sofia, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian and American harpist, composer, pedagogue, musicologist and TV host. Biography Education as a Harpist By a recommendation of Nicanor Zabaleta she was accepted as a student by Italian harpist Liana Pasquali. After her participations in international competitions, Ravnopolska-Dean was invited to continue her studies by Susann McDonald at Juilliard School, New York and at Indiana University, Bloomington. At the Indiana University School of Music, Anna-Maria was awarded an Artist Diploma for ‘Superior Artistic Achievement in Harp Performance’. When asked about her education as a harpist Ravnopolska-Dean highlights that both of her major professors were students of the French harp school: Liana Pasqualli was a student of Marcel Tournier, while Susann McDonald was a student of Henriette Renie. Performing Career Ravnopolska-Dean began her career as a soloist at the international stage in a series of notable international competitions, including those of Gargilesse in Berry, Munich, and Jerusalem, where she was first noticed by renowned names such as Nicanor Zabaleta and Susann McDonald. During her education in Juill

Anne Dudley

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Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the BBC Concert Orchestra’s first Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genres, as a film composer, and was one of the core members of the synth-pop band Art of Noise. In 1998, Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of Les Misérables, also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music. Career Dudley was born in Chatham, Kent. She attended Eltham Hill Grammar School for Girls. She graduated with a master’s degree in music from King’s College London in 1978. Trained as a classical performer, she moved into the competitive commercial field as a session musician, where her professional relationship with Trevor Horn began. In 1982, Dudley contributed to the ABC album The Lexicon of Love, produced by Horn. She went from fleshing out keyboard parts to scoring the album’s orchestrations (which were, according to Horn, her first-ever string arrangements) and also co-writing

Anne Vanschothorst

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Anne Vanschothorst (born 9 July 1974 in Emmen, Drenthe) is a Dutch harpist and composer. She plays the pedal harp, celtic harp and historical harps as well; an antique Erard harp (double action) and a Schwieso Grosjean (single action). The Canadian composer Jean Chatillon has dedicated to her a composition for harp solo. Vanschothorst composed her first music piece, “Still Life” at age 15. The composition is originally written for harp and flute and later arranged for harp solo. Vanschothorst is producing CDs and DVDs for her indy label Harp and Soul Productions. She is also responsible for the compositions and film recordings of these productions. She has been assigned also for composition projects. The composition “Streetlife” has been selected from many submissions for the 60x60 project in 2006–2007, of composer and musician Robert Voisey. Several compositions could be heard on (inter)national radio stations and podcasts. Radio Indy has honoured Vanschothorst with the Gold Artist award for the CD I am a Dreamer. She participates with poets, musicians and composers. With the Swedish composer Goran Jonasson, the English singer Sharon Selman, the American flutist Cathy Feldman and

Annelies Van Parys

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Annelies Van Parys (born 5 June 1975) is a Belgian classical composer of chamber music, symphonic music, music for theatre productions and opera. Life Born in Bruges, Van Parys studied at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, piano with Johan Duijck and composition with Luc Brewaeys. She composed in 2001 Phrases V for guitar, harp, piano and percussion. The piece of about 9 minutes was written for the Ictus Ensemble and premiered in Bruges by the ensemble Contr’Art. It was awarded the prize Vlaanderen/Quebec and was performed in Montreal on 15 May 2002. In 2005, she wrote Méditation, a piece of about 7 minutes for a double wind quintet. It was premiered by at a festival in Antwerp’s centre for the arts deSingel on 23 October 2005. Her first symphony, written on a commission by deFilharmonie (now Antwerp Symphony Orchestra) and dedicated toLuc Brewaeys and subtitled “Carillon”, was premiered at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR), on 26 October 2006 by deFilharmonie conducted by Sian Edwards. She composed Poème for solo voice for the mezzo-soprano Els Mondelaers, who premiered it at the Academia Belgica in Rome on 30 March 2006. Van Parys wrote Stanza for solo harp on a commission

Annette Schlünz

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Annette Schlünz (born 23 September 1964) is a German musician and composer. Biography Schlünz was born in Dessau, East Germany. She studied music at the Dresden Music School from 1983 to 1987 with Udo Zimmermann and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1988 to 1991 with Paul-Heinz Dittrich. She also studied with Iannis Xenakis at Darmstadt and Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. Schlünz took a teaching position at the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music in 1987 and taught at the Dresden Music School from 1987 to 1992. She went on a concert and lecture tour in South America in 1996, and also appeared in Denmark, France, Spain, the USA, and Vietnam in 2001. She has also lectured at the electronic music studio of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Brandenburg Colloquium, the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome. She was composer-in-residence at GRAME Centre National de Création Musicale in Lyon in 2005. Honors and awards *Hanns Eisler Prize (1990) *Heidelberg Artists Award (1998) *Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award (1999, for the EMI Classics recording of MOCCOLI) *Scholarships to Darmstadt (1990, 1992) Works Schlünz has comp

Annie Gosfield

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Annie Gosfield (born September 11, 1960) is a New-York-based composer who works on the boundaries between notated and improvised music, electronic and acoustic sounds, refined timbres and noise. She composes for others and performs with her own group, taking her music to festivals, factories, clubs, art spaces and concert halls. Much of her work combines acoustic instruments with electronic sounds, incorporating unusual sources such as satellite sounds, machine sounds, detuned or out-of-tune samples and industrial noises. Her work often contains improvisation and frequently uses extended techniques and/or altered musical instruments. She won a 2012 Berlin Prize. She was born in Philadelphia. Work Gosfield’s work includes large-scale compositions, opera, orchestral work, chamber music, electronic music, video projects, and music for dance. She uses traditional notation, improvisation and extended techniques to explore relationships between music and noise. Her music is often inspired by non-musical sounds, such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 rpm records, and detuned radios. She often collaborated with musicians to emphasize their unique qualities. Gosfield’s compositions h

Anoushka Lucas

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Anoushka Barbara Lise Lucas (born 24 December 1987) is an English singer, composer, actress, and playwright. She began releasing music in 2009. She later went into theatre and earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. Early life Lucas was born in Fulham, West London, to Anglo-Indian father Chris from Southampton and French-Cameroonian mother Any, and grew up in a council flat in Hammersmith. Her parents were both musicians and she has two younger sisters. Lucas attended the French Lycée on a scholarship. She went on to graduate from the University of Oxford in 2009 with a degree in Russian and Italian. During her time at Oxford, she joined a choir and did open-mic nights. Career Lucas released her first self-titled EP in 2009 after graduating from Oxford. This was followed by another EP, Left to My Own Devices, in 2011. In 2013, Lucas won a contest to perform at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival, beating hundreds of applicants also looking to perform at the new event alongside headliners Bryan Ferry and Jools Holland. After meeting playwright Ché Walker in 2010 at the age of 22, Lucas began writing music for theatre, including her contributions to Walke

Anslem Douglas

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Anslem Douglas (born 23 July 1964) is a Trinidadian musician and composer. He is best known for the hit single “Doggie”, which was later covered by the Bahamian junkanoo band Baha Men as “Who Let the Dogs Out”. Biography Douglas was born and raised in the village of La Romaine in the southern part of Trinidad. Douglas started singing at his local Pentecostal Church and, at age 16, along with a few of his friends in the church, formed a band called Exodus. In 1984, Douglas enlisted in the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard where he served for a period of six years. During this time, he performed with the Coast Guard band. Douglas later, after he was introduced to Trinidad’s native genre, soca, performed with some local bands out of Trinidad such as Fire Flight (with whom he recorded his first song in 1988) and Atlantik. During this time he composed Ragga Poom Poom, Good Music To Dance, and the hit single Who Let the Dogs Out? which went on to win a Grammy in 2001, although the most well-known version of the song outside the Caribbean is the cover version of the song sung by the Baha Men. Douglas also wrote Friend on the Soul Island album and Ooh Ahh, the smooth jazz hit produced by Edd

Anthony Brandt

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Anthony K. Brandt (born 1961) is an American composer, academic, and writer. He is Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the co-author with neuroscientist David Eagleman of the 2017 book The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World. As a composer, his works include three chamber operas, an oratorio, and orchestral, chamber, and vocal music. External links * *Brandt, Anthony and Eagleman, David (October 2017). “How Your Brain Takes Good Ideas and Makes Them Better”. Psychology Today (article explaining the main tenets of their book The Runaway Species) *Video: Maternity on the official YouTube channel of Musiqa Houston. (Brandt discussing the compositional process of his oratorio Maternity with excerpts of the music)

Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux

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Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux (born April 27, 1977 in Geneva, Switzerland, ) is a multi-instrumentalist composer. He is the founder of Plombage Records and produces his own movies. Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux has been described in media sources as an “Unidentified flying object” of cinematography and electronic music. He writes, performs, records, mixes, and masters his compositions in his studio with rare musical instruments of all ethnicities, synthesizers, organs and old analog tape recorders. Biography At the age of six, Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux falls on his uncle’s old synthesizer Roland. That day, he discovers a great fascination for sounds. His mother subscribes him to the Geneva Conservatory. The boy continued to compose by himself with his synthesizer, other instruments and tape recorder. These first devices allowed him to work his music in his studio. In 1991 he founded a rock band. He also composed and performed as a drummer for Desdemona in the first concert parts of such groups Dionysos (French band) and Astonvilla (French bands). an electronic music project revealed in the albums : Rendez-vous chez le dentiste and Foufounes Alkantara mastered by the Björk and Daft Punk London

Anthony Kellman

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Anthony Kellman (born 24 April 1955) is a Barbados-born poet, novelist, and musician. In 1990, the British publishing house Peepal Tree Press published his first full-length book of poetry, Watercourse, which was endorsed by the late Martiniquan poet Edouard Glissant and which launched Kellman’s international writing career. Since 1990, he has published three novels, four CD recordings of original songs, and four additional books of poetry, including Limestone: An Epic Poem of Barbados, the island’s first published epic poem which covers over four centuries of Barbadian life. In 1992, he edited the first full-length U.S. anthology of English-language Caribbean poetry, Crossing Water, and in 1993, he received a U.S. National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Kellman is the originator of the Barbados poetic form Tuk Verse, derived from melodic and rhythmical patterns of Barbados’s indigenous folk music. Early life Kellman was born in Whitehall, Saint Michael, Barbados, and attended Combermere Secondary School. At the age of eighteen, he left for England, where he worked as a troubadour, playing pop and West Indian folk music on the pub and folk club circuit. He also became in

Anthony Lledo

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Anthony Lledo (born 11 January 1972) is a Danish composer. He has composed music for several films and tv-series and made his feature film debut with the score for the Swedish film Frostbite. His dark thematic orchestral score received widely critically acclaim and won the Best Score Award at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Music from Frostbite was later performed in concert by the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. In 2008, Lledo moved to Los Angeles upon being invited by film composer Harry Gregson-Williams, and did additional music and arrangements for several major films, including X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, DreamWorks’ Shrek Forever After, Ben Affleck’s The Town, Cowboys & Aliens, and the Tony Scott films The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Unstoppable. Lledo has scored the four-time Emmy Award winning Civil War film Gettysburg (exec. produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott), the horror/thriller Darkroom starring Kaylee DeFer and Elisabeth Röhm, as well the animated fantasy TV series Legends of Chima which received widely critical acclaim and was named one of the best scores for television in 2013 by several reviewers – winn

Anthony Suter

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Anthony Suter is an American composer and music educator. Dr. Suter has a deep interest in mentoring younger musicians and is a vocal advocate for public school music programs, often serving as a guest conductor and clinician for K-12 music programs. He resides in Redlands, California, just outside Los Angeles. Dr. Suter’s music has been heard in nearly every major U.S. city, as well as a growing list of international venues. Dr. Suter joined the University of Redlands faculty in the Fall of 2008, where he teaches composition and music theory. He earned his B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Southern California, his M.M. in Music Composition from the University of Michigan, and his D.M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. His works include three chamber operas, chamber and orchestral music, and several works for wind ensemble. Upcoming projects include Sex Sting, a collaborative electro-acoustic opera with playwright Doris Baizley and the electronic music duo MLuM (Marco Schindelmann and Michael Raco-Rands), as well as a new choral work for the University of Redlands Madrigals group (Nicholle Andrews, director). Recent projects have included works for

Anthony Whittaker

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Anthony John Whittaker-Mahoney (born 1968) is an English composer. His first musical experiences were in the local church choir age 7 and as a tenor recorder player; he did not begin formal study of the piano until 1982 with Peter Wild. Lessons with Ann Bond on the organ followed in 1986. After acquiring the LRAM diploma in 1989, ARCO and LTCL in 1991, he graduated from the University of London in 1994 BMus (hons). Composition became increasingly important for Whittaker during the 1990s where he composed for staff and students at the Performing Arts department of Liverpool Community College. His MMus and PhD degrees are from the University of Liverpool where he studied with James Wishart (1957–2018) https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2018/apr/15/james-wishart-obituary and the American composer, Ben Hackbarth.Notoriety came in 2000 with the SPNM http://www.spnm.org.uk/ performance of Drift for six pianos which was performed alongside Steve Reich’s music for 6 pianos; the principal pianist was Joanna MacGregor. Choral music became important after this time;Agnus Dei (TTBB) received performances in Berlin and Montreal. A Litany also for TTBB was performed at the International Eis

Antonina Armato

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Antonina Armato is an American songwriter, record producer, music producer and businesswoman. She is the co-founder and member of Rock Mafia, a record production/songwriting team. She has worked with Justin Bieber, Zedd, Gwen Stefani, Demi Lovato, Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Hudgens, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, No Doubt, Wyclef Jean, Green Day, Sheena Easton, Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, Flo Rida, Ellie Goulding, Tokio Hotel, AGNEZ MO, Jojo Siwa, and BTS. She has produced and written songs for the soundtracks of the films Descendants 3 and Descendants: The Rise of Red. Career 1980s–1990s One of Armato’s first major hits was “I Still Believe”, which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 for Brenda K. Starr after being featured on her self-titled album. The track was later covered by Mariah Carey. Armato wrote the song about her first love, later recalling that she “felt every word of it”. She wrote the Top 40 radio hit “Come Back To Me” for singer Vanessa Hudgens. She also wrote and produced the top 5 single, “Love You like a Love Song” for Selena Gomez. She co-wrote and produced Miley Cyrus’s Top 10 singles “See You Again” and “7 Things” and her single “Fly on the Wall”. She co

António Chagas Rosa

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António Chagas Rosa (born 1960) is a Portuguese composer of contemporary classical music. His output includes chamber operas, song-cycles and numerous works for chamber and symphony orchestras. His work has been played all over Europe as well as in Asia and America. Biography Born in Lisbon, he studied Piano at the Conservatório Nacional and History at the New University of Lisbon. From 1984 to 1987, with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon, Chagas Rosa studied Contemporary Piano and Chamber Music with Alexander Hrisanide at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Between 1987 and 1992, with a scholarship granted by the Portuguese government, he studied composition at the Rotterdams Conservatory under Klaas de Vries and Peter Jan Wagemans. In The Netherlands, António Chagas Rosa worked as a repetiteur and assistant at the Dutch opera house, Het Muziektheater, and became a teacher of the opera class at the Sweelinck Conservatorium. Among other productions, he worked with Robert Wilson on De Materie by Louis Andriessen, and with Oliver Knussen during the rehearsals of “Die Glückliche Hand”, by Arnold Schönberg. As a pianist he took part in many of the con

Antonio Florio

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Antonio Florio (born 1956) is an Italian conductor, musicologist and composer. In 1987, Florio founded the Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini music ensemble, renamed Cappella Neapolitana in 2016. Biography Antonio Florio was born in Bari in 1956. He studied at the Conservatory of Bari under Nino Rota, graduating in piano, cello, and composing. After graduation, he moved to Naples and started to teach at the Conservatory. He remained active in studies of ancient instruments and led intensive musicological research, exploring the repertoire of Neapolitan music from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and uncovering many neglected works. Among many works, rediscovered by Florio, there are La colomba ferita (1670), Il schiavo di sua moglie (1671) and La Stellidaura vendicante (1674) by Francesco Provenzale, Il disperato innocente by Francesco Boerio (1673), La finta cameriera by Gaetano Latilla (1673), Li Zite’n Galera by Leonardo Vinci (1722), Il Pulcinella vendicato by Giovanni Paisiello (1767), Statira by Francesco Cavalli, Montezuma by Francesco De Majo (1765), and many more. Important collaborations in Florio’s early career include Roberto De Simone (especially La Gatta Cenere

Antônio Pinto (composer)

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Antônio Alves Pinto (born 1967) is a Brazilian film score composer. He is the son of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo and the brother of the film-maker Daniela Thomas. His work earned him a World Soundtrack Award and an ASCAP award, as well as a nomination in the Best Original Song category at the 65th Golden Globe Awards for writing the song “Despedida” with Shakira. He has collaborated with director Asif Kapadia a number of times, providing the scores for Kapadia’s biographical documentaries Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona. They are said to be collaborating on dystopian documentary 2073. He composed the soundtrack to The Mosquito Coast and played the key instruments. Filmography *1994: Menino Maluquinho - O Filme *1995: Socorro Nobre *1998: O Primeiro Dia *1998: Menino Maluquinho 2 - A Aventura *1998: Central Station *1999: Notícias de Uma Guerra Particular *2001: Behind the Sun *2001: Palíndromo *2001: Onde a Terra Acaba *2002: City of Men (TV series) *2002: City of God *2002: A Janela Aberta *2004: Crónicas *2004: Nina *2004: Collateral (additional music) *2005: Lord of War *2005: All the Invisible Children *2005: Jonny Zero (TV series) (theme music) *2006: Journey to the End of the

Antonio Rey

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Antonio Rey Navas (Madrid, born 9 March 1981) is a Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer. He is a winner of several national and international flamenco guitar competitions including the Concurso Nacional de Arte Flamenco de Córdoba (National Competition of the Art of Flamenco of Córdoba), the Concurso Nacional de Guitarra Flamenca Niño Ricardo (Niño Ricardo National Competition of Flamenco Guitar) and the Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Flamenca Los Cernícalos de Jerez (International Flamenco Guitar Competition in Kestrels, Jerez). Biography Antonio Rey Navas was born in Madrid in 1981 and began his artistic career at the age of ten when he accompanied his father Tony Rey in various tablaos (flamenco venues) in Mexico. A few years later, he made his first tour of Japan with the dancer Yoko Komatsubara. At eighteen years of age, he worked in the company of Antonio Canales and later composed the music for Gallo de pelea for the Nuevo Ballet Español (New Spanish Ballet). Rey composed other compositions, such as “Romeo and Juliet”, for the Antonio Canales which was founded in 1996 by Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodriguez. He went on to perform in the capacity of accompanist for singers

Antonio Tublén

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Antonio Tublén is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, composer, and author. Career Tublén began his career with short films: Hollywood (2004), Havanna (2005), and The Amazing Death of Mrs Müller (2006), co-directed with Alexander Brøndsted. He followed with LFO (2013), which premiered at Fantastic Fest. The film was produced by Pingpongfilm and SpectreVision with Elijah Wood. It sold to Netflix worldwide. In 2017, he directed the psychological thriller Robin, followed by the English-language horror-comedy Zoo (2018) starring Ed Speelers and Zoë Tapper. Released by Seville International and eOne. Got picked up by HBO/MAX. In 2025, Tublén debuted as a novelist with the psychological thriller Antagonisten, published by Bokfabriken; the novel received positive reviews in the Swedish press. Filmography * Original (2009) – Writer, Director * LFO (2013) – Writer, Director * Zoo (2018) – Writer, Director Reception Original was praised for its Nordic tone and influences from directors such as Roy Andersson and Aki Kaurismäki. Writing for fantasticfest.com, Todd Brown called LFO “a clever, totally lo-fi science fiction dramedy” that “delights in a good idea executed well,” praising Tublén

Apostolos Paraskevas

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Apostolos Paraskevas is a Grammy nominated composer and guitarist. He was born in Volos, Greece. Parents of Apostolos were Panayiotis Paraskevas (1925-1990) and Chrysoula Paraskevas (1929-2002). Career Apostolos Paraskevas is a published recording artist and recently an award-winning Film Director/Producer. Gold Level Award at the 2010 California Film Awards, Silver Screen Award in the 2010 Nevada Film Festival. Classical Guitar Magazine/London acknowledged him as the only guitarist ever to have a major orchestral piece performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and the international press as the only musician who performed at Carnegie Hall in a Grim Reaper’s outfit He has received five First Prizes in International Composition Competitions. “Lukas Foss” Composition Competition 2000/USA, “Pappaioanou Composition” 1997/Greece, as well as performing with Lukas Foss at Carnegie Hall, Paraskevas has performed at Weill Hall/New York, Wertheim Performing Arts Center/Miami, Jordan Hall/Boston, Capella Hall/Russia, and the Athens Concert Hall/Greece etc. His eclectic compositional style arises as an idiosyncratic integration of seemingly conflicting influences – from avant-garde approaches to h

Ara Gevorgyan

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Ara Gevorgyan (, born April 19, 1960) is an Armenian musician, composer and musical producer. In 2004 he was awarded the Honorary Artist of Armenia title by the President Robert Kocharyan. Biography Gevorgyan is the son of Armenian folk-singer Valya Samvelyan. He studied at School #31 of Yerevan and at the A. Tigranyan Musical School at the same time. During the two years he studied at Yerevan #8 college of Fine Arts. From 1983 to 1987 he studied at Armenian State Pedagogical University at the faculty of woodwind instruments and pop music department. In 1987-1989 Gevorgyan taught conducting at the same Institute, then he worked at Armenian Television (“3 Alik” TV program). In 1983 he founded the “Rally” Armenian pop-rock band, the participant of “Song-85” festival. He participated in the Opening Ceremony of the Cultural Year of Armenia in Russia hosted at the Moscow Kremlin Music Hall and honored by the presence of the presidents of Armenia and Russia Robert Kocharyan and Vladimir Putin respectively and the famous French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour. Ara Gevorgyan co-operates with Jivan Gasparyan, Ian Gillan, Demis Roussos, Pedro Eustache, Daniel Decker and others. Among his mo

Aramide (musician)

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Aramide is a Nigerian Afro-soul singer and songwriter. She won Best Vocal Performance (Female) for “Iwo Nikan” at the Headies 2015. She graduated with a political science degree from the University of Jos. In 2019, Aramide was appointed by The Recording Academy to the board of governors for the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Academy. Life and career Personal life Aramide is married and has a child. Her traditional marriage and white wedding were held on 18 April 2015 in her hometown, Ibadan. Music career and breakthrough single Aramide’s music quest started in 2006, when she contested on ‘Star Quest’ one of Nigeria’s most prestigious and competitive music talent hunt shows. Her band did very well in the competition as they were judged the 3rd Runners Up. In 2008, she was a part of a show called ‘Divas Unplugged’ in the famous city of Jos in Nigeria; the show had all the leading female artistes in the Nigerian music industry and her participation in this show was very challenging and rewarding, and her performance and involvement was very inspirational. On September 9, 2014 she got signed to Baseline Music after exiting from Trybe Records. Iwo Nikan On February 4, 2015 Aramide rele

Ari Posner

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Ari Posner (born 1970) is a Canadian film and television composer, most noted as a multiple Gemini Award and Canadian Screen Award winner for his television scores. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, he moved to Toronto, Ontario, in 1989 to study music at York University. He is a frequent collaborator with composer Amin Bhatia. He has also been a record producer, most notably on Jen Gould’s album Music Soup, which was the winner of the Juno Award for Children’s Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2008. Filmography Film Television Awards References External links *

Arjan Breukhoven

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Karel Jan (Arjan) Breukhoven (Rotterdam, 18 May 1962) is a Dutch musician. Education Breukhoven started his musical training with Jan Brandwijk. He later studied principal professional organ and church music at the Royal Academy in the Hague with Wim van Beek and Bert Matter. He studied piano with Albert Brussee, and also singing, improvisation and choir direction. In this academy time he also got lessons from the French organist and pedagogue Gaston Litaize. He also attended choir and orchestra direction with professor Kurt Thomasstichting. Performances Breukhoven acts as a pianist, organist, soloist, as well as accompanying musician for soloists and choirs. He also works as a conductor. He has collaborated with a lot of other musicians like Ernst-Daniël Smid, Vicki Brown, Berdien Stenberg, Marco Bakker, Ben Cramer, Kamahl, Henk Poort, Marjolein Keuning, Margriet Eshuijs and Cor Bakker. He played with Louis van Dijk and Daniël Wayenberg, among others. In 2007 he celebrated his 25th year’s jubilee as a musician by concerts with baritone Ernst-Daniël Smid and two concerts in Bruges’ Church of Our Lady and Ghent’s Saint Bavo and moreover with an organ concert on Garrels-orgel in the

Arlene Sierra

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Arlene Sierra (b. June 1, 1970) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, working in London, United Kingdom. Education Sierra studied at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Yale University School of Music and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, receiving a DMA in 1999; her principal teachers were Martin Bresnick, Michael Daugherty and Jacob Druckman. A composition fellow at the Britten-Pears School (Aldeburgh Festival) in 2000 and Tanglewood in 2001, teachers included Louis Andriessen, Magnus Lindberg, and Colin Matthews. She also worked with Judith Weir at the Dartington International Summer School in 1999, Paul-Heinz Dittrich in Berlin in 1997-8, and Betsy Jolas at The American Conservatory of Fontainebleau Schools in 1993. Career Sierra’s music has been commissioned by organizations including the Seattle Symphony, Tanglewood Music Festival, the New York Philharmonic, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Albany Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Cheltenham International Festival, the Jerome, PRS and Cheswatyr Foundations, and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust. Performers of her work have included New York City Opera VOX, the London Sinfonietta, I

Arly Larivière

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Arly Larivière (born on August 22, 1972 in Cap-Haïtien, Nord, Haiti) is a Haitian singer, songwriter and keyboardist. He is best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the Kompa band Nu-Look. Early life Larivière was born in Cap-Haïtien, Nord, Haiti on August 22, 1972. He was the second oldest of five children. At a young age, he formed the band Kazak Eksperyans D’Haiti in his hometown. He eventually left Kazak to form the band Feeling with Shedly Abraham, Elliot “Prince Elo” Alouidor and Nickson “Niki Bass” Mesidor. In 1992, he joined archrival Lakol Mizik Majik forming a superband. That same year, they released a well acclaimed carnival song before heading to the United States for Lakol’s first international tour. All but two of the band’s members (Herard Atticus and Alphonse “Ti Fredo” Patrick Duret elected to overstay their visas and pursue their musical careers in the USA. Lariviere, also known as Ti Arly and whose father and primary influence is a Haitian composer for Tropicana, decided to settle in Florida where he eventually founded the musical formation D’Zine which was later rebranded Nu-Look. Career Larivière migrated to the U.S. and resided in Florida. During the 1

Armin Suppan

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Armin Suppan (born 16 October 1959) is an Austrian brass musician and composer. Life Born in Graz, son of the musicologist Wolfgang Suppan, Suppan studied music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz as well as at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. In 1984, he received his diploma in French horn training with Michael Hoeltzel. In 1987, he completed additional studies in conducting and chamber music with Walter Hügler in Biel and Milan Turković in Vienna. Initially active as a conductor of wind orchestras in the South Baden area of Kappelrodeck, Ortenberg, he began his military bandmaster training in Austria in 1994. In 1999, Suppan passed the military bandmaster examination. In the same year he joined the teaching staff of the , where he heads the wind department and the wind music information centre. Suppan has gained international recognition as wind music expert and instrumentator for Symphonic Wind Orchestra. Compositions * Johann-Joseph-Fux-Suite, Freiburg 1987, Schulz. * Rondo für Schulorchester, für solistische Bläser und Streichquartett, Freiburg 1988, Schulz (Musik aus der Steiermark, issue 128). * Schlossberg-Hymne, Freiburg 1988, Schulz. * Wiener Barock-Ouver

Arnaldo Freire

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Arnaldo Freire is a Brazilian guitarist, teacher, cultural producer and composer. Composition Arnaldo Freire is an alumnus of Consevatório Musical Guarulhos and also studied at the Conservatory of Music and the Instituto Paulista Booklyn Souza. He is currently majoring in Composition course at the Federal University of Goiás – UFG. His composition “Apocalypse” for solo guitar was awarded by the Culture Secretariat of Goiânia. The award-winning short film by Roxanne Towers, “Catadores de Papel “, has an original score by Arnaldo Freire. Freire has also composed soundtracks: “Entre Memórias e Conquistas”, “Umas e Outras” and “Maria da Gruta” which were all directed by Lázaro Ribeiro. In his compositions, there are Brazilian techniques mixed with refined approaches: modinhas, frevos, sambas, valsas and other colors are mixed with post-tonal techniques, refined counterpoints and unusual instrumentation. The work of composition is quoted in Arnaldo Freire Guia de Música Contemporânea Brasileira, edited by CDMC – Brasil / Unicamp, a subsidiary of the Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine, based on Cité de la Musique, Parc de la Villette, in Paris. Achille Picchi, Eduardo Es

Arne Eigenfeldt

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Arne Eigenfeldt (born 1962) is a Canadian composer and creator of interactive and generative music systems based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Both his music and his research into intelligent systems have been presented internationally. He is currently a professor of music at Simon Fraser University. He also produces electronica under the pseudonyms Raemus and loadbang. Eigenfeldt has composed extensively for contemporary dance, especially in collaboration with choreographer Serge Bennathan. His electroacoustic music is predominantly live, generated or performed in software he has written in Max/MSP. His recent research focusses on encoding knowledge into intelligent performance systems. Eigenfeldt is also known for his goalkeeping skills in the local old-timers league, playing for virtually every team in the Fraser Valley. Works and publications * * Eigenfeldt, Arne. “Multi-agency and Real-time Composition: In Equilibrio.” eContact! 11.4 — Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2009 (TES) / Symposium Électroacoustique 2009 de Toronto (December 2009). Montréal: CEC. * Eigenfeldt, Arne. “In Search of Tools for the Laptop Ensemble.” eContact! 13.3 — TES 2010 etc.: Toronto Electroacousti

Arno Krabman

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Arno Krabman (; born 19 March 1982) is a Dutch songwriter and producer. He is known for his work with, among others, Suzan & Freek, Snelle, S10 and Claude, and has had over thirty-five Dutch Single Top 100 hits as a songwriter. His repertoire consists mainly of Dutch-language pop songs. He studied Music and Technology at the Utrecht School of the Arts in Hilversum. Krabman has scored number-one hits in the Netherlands with the singles "" (2019) by Suzan & Freek, "" (2021) by Snelle & Maan, and "" (2022) by S10. The song "" (2020) by Jaap Reesema & Pommelien Thijs reached number one in both the Netherlands and Belgium. In 2018, Krabman was a member of the Dutch jury for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. In 2021, the song “”, which Krabman had co-written with S10, was internally selected by the Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. By finishing in second place in the first semi-final on 10 May 2022, it became the first Dutch-language entry to reach the final of the Eurovision Song Contest since the introduction of the semi-finals in 2004. In the final on 14 May 2022, the entry finished in 11th place with 171 points. Claude repres

Arno Lücker

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Arno Lücker (born 14 April 1979) is a German composer, musicologist, music critic and music dramaturge. He worked as a journalist in Berlin for press and radio, and as dramaturge at the Konzerthaus Berlin where he installed the series 2 x hören, presenting the same music twice. He has been lecturer of musicology at the University of Marburg, and journalist for Opernwelt, the leading trade journal for opera. Life Born in Braunschweig, Lücker grew up in Langenhagen near Hanover. As a boy, he received piano lessons. He has published in various musicological journals, and has been active as a music critic, among others for the Berliner Zeitung The violinist Daniel Hope, dubbed in it with lewd remarks, had threatened legal action. Lücker then deleted the video from his YouTube channel, and reconciled with Hope. In 2021, Lücker developed a website to find women composers. He has been lecturer of musicology at the University of Marburg, and journalist for Opernwelt, the leading trade journal for opera. Awards *2000: Hans Stieber Prize Publications * Reinhard Keisers Orpheus-Opern – Anmerkungen zu den Libretti. In Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft. 7 (2004) 9, . * „Mahlers Gefa

Arnulf Herrmann

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Arnulf Herrmann (born in Heidelberg, 12 December 1968) is a German composer. After studying piano with Gernot Sieber at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich he enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, where he studied composition with Wilfried Krätzschmar and piano with Arkadi Zenzipér. In 1995/96 he was a pupil of Gérard Grisey and Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), after which he completed his training with Hartmut Fladt and Jörg Mainka (theory) and with Friedrich Goldmann, Gösta Neuwirth, and Hanspeter Kyburz at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 1999/2000 he attended a post-graduate course in composition and new technologies at IRCAM in Paris. His awards include the Hanns Eisler Composition Prize (2001), the Stuttgart Composition Prize (2003), and the International Rostrum of Composers (for Terzenseele, 2006). In 2008 he was awarded the Förderpreis Musik (of the Kunstpreis Berlin) and a scholarship to the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2010 he received the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. His first opera, Wasser, with words by Nico Bleutge, received its world premiere at the 2012 Munich Biennale in a co-production with Oper Frankfurt.

Arshia Samsaminia

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Arshia Samsaminia (born 1989) is an Iranian composer. Biography He studied contemporary composition at Sibelius Academy of Music in Finland, University of Gothenburg (Academy of Music and Drama) in Sweden, Universität der Künste Berlin in Germany, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre under the supervision of Helena Tulve, Malin Bång, etc. He has had composition and orchestrating projects, collaborations with Ensemble Modern, GEPO orchestra in Paris, Tbilisi Contemporary Ensemble, Omnibus contemporary Ensemble, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Aepex Contemporary Performance Sepia Ensemble Poland, Ensemble Garage Germany, etc. His audio-visual work “Railroading in the East/Metro Project” has been selected for ART & SCIENCE DAY 2016 in France Bourges, AEPEX CONTEMPORARY MUSIC in USA Michigan and International Computer Music Conference 2018 Daegu, South Korea. His compositions have been selected and performed in different festivals such as Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Sound of Stockholm, Tehran contemporary music festival, Poznań Contemporary Music Festival Poland, Mixtur Barcelona, UNM Nordisk Iceland, Eufonija Festival in Serbia, Lerici Music Festival “Suoni Dal Golfo” Italy, etc. He attended

Art Phillips (composer)

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Art Phillips (born 1955, Erie, Pennsylvania) is a composer of film, television, and popular music. He has been working in film and television for over 50 years. Education and early career Phillips’s career began in the early 1970s in Los Angeles, where he was a session guitarist, composer, and orchestrator working and recording for popular artists including Barry Manilow, Minnie Riperton, Demis Roussos, The Carpenters, Smokey Robinson, Dory Previn, Burl Ives, and The Lettermen. He did work on television series and feature films before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1987. He was musical director, conductor, and orchestrator on live concert tours for Demis Roussos, Dory Previn, and John Rowles, and toured as guitarist for Barry Manilow for over three years. He produced recordings for Demis Roussos, Barry Manilow, Sally Kellerman, and John Rowles, achieving a Gold Record Award for his production work on the album Another Chapter for Rowles. Phillips’s earlier composition credits include background music for The Love Boat. He wrote the R&B single “Here We Go” for Minnie Riperton, and co-wrote the Motown Records release “Now That I Have You” for artist Teena Marie. He holds a Master of

Arturas Bumšteinas

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Arturas Bumšteinas is Lithuanian composer and sound artist. Active in the field of art music since the end of the 90s, in the year 2012 he started performing under his Refusenik moniker. Biography Arturas Bumšteinas (b.1982, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian artist working within the intersections of sound, music and art. His practices could be divided into several categories: experimental music, acoustic sound works, sound installations, pieces for theatre, radio art. In the mid-1990s Bumšteinas was the first Lithuanian artist to use the internet to collect sounds from people around the world and make collage-compositions from these submissions. He is the initiator of various musical projects and since 2000 he has collaborated with different artists like Anton Lukoszevieze, Vladimir Tarasov, Krystian Lupa, Žilvinas Kempinas, Gintautas Trimakas, Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė, Laura Garbštienė, Gailė Griciūtė, Piotr Kurek, Ivan Cheng and others. Bumšteinas’s projects were presented in various venues in Europe and his solo exhibitions have been held at Vilnius Contemporary Art Center, Vartai Gallery, AV17, Galerie Antje Wachs and at various residencies around Europe. In 2017 Bumšteinas was an

Arturo Cardelús

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Arturo Cardelús (born 1981) is a Spanish-American composer of film and concert music. His scores for films Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles and Dragonkeeper have been nominated for Goya Awards. He became an American citizen in 2019. He studied at the Conservatorio Superior de Música (Salamanca, Spain), Royal Academy of Music, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and Berklee College of Music. In 2012, Cardelús orchestrated the score for the film The Paperboy. In 2017, Cardelús composed the soundtrack for the animated short In a Heartbeat, which went viral and attracted wide attention. The score won Best Original Score – Animated Short Film at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. In 2019, Cardelús scored the animated feature Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles. His music for the film won awards for best score at the 2019 Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the 2019 Málaga Film Festival. The score was also nominated for a Goya Award, a Feroz Award, and a Spanish Cinema Writers Circle Award for best original score and for a Hollywood Music in Media Award and an International Film Music Critics Association Award for best original score in an animated film. In classical mu

Arturs Maskats

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Arturs Maskats (born 20 December 1957 in Valmiera) is a Latvian composer and since 1996 artistic director of the Latvian National Opera. His orchestral composition, Tango, received international exposure as one of the finalist works of the third Masterprize International Composing Competition in 2003. It was also played at the 2022 Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn by the Vienna Philharmonic under Andris Nelsons in Vienna, Austria. Works * Tango for orchestra * Opera Valentina References

Arve Furset

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Arve Eilif Furset (born 5 December 1964 in Askvoll Municipality, Western Norway) is a Norwegian composer, jazz musician (piano, keyboards) and music producer, known from a series of record releases and cooperations with the likes of Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk, Kjersti Stubø, Elin Rosseland, Johannes Eick, Vigleik Storaas, Jostein Hasselgård, Eivind Aarset, and Norma Winstone. Career Furset studied music at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1983–85), and was a member of bands like the Bodega Band (1985–89), Saz Semai (1986–87), and Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk & The Sympathy Orchestra (1989–90). He also worked regularly with bands like the quintet First Set, with whom he performed at festivals in Lillehammer, Vossajazz and Moldejazz, the trio Konerne ved Vandposten and Orleysa. Since 1999, he toured with Eivind Aarset’s band Électronique Noire. In the late 1990s he also worked with pop musicians like the band Flava to da bone and Lynni Treekrem. Furset was orchestra leader and composer of Trøndelag Teater and participated in more than thirty of the ensembles tours. Later he worked at the Sentralteateret and in Oslo Nye Teater and worked as a composer, arranger and composer for the big Saturday night

Asteryth Sloane

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Asteryth Sloane (formerly Xia Leon Sloane) is a British composer of contemporary classical music and a poet. They were the winner of the 2016 Cambridge Young Composer of the Year competition and also one of seven winners of the Classic FM/Royal Philharmonic Society 25th Birthday Commissions in 2017. In 2018 they won the senior category of the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ competition. Composer Sloane began composing music through improvisation at the age of six and started taking formal lessons when they were twelve. Common themes that run through their compositions are those of nature (particularly climate change), philosophy and psychology, taking much inspiration from Buddhist, environmental and synaesthetic imagery. As well as vocal music, they enjoy writing for unusual combinations of instruments and the setting of texts from languages and cultures such as Basque and Mandarin. Sloane sees the arts as a means through which people can reconnect and this is the focus of much of their work. The use and effect of silence in music fascinate them, as does the use of music as a form of deep self-expression. Their compositional method is to strongly imagine the pitches they wish t

Astrid Kruisselbrink

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Astrid Kruisselbrink (born 9 February 1972) is a Dutch composer. While studying at the Rotterdam Conservatory (1993–99) she won first prize at the European Young Women Composers Contest with the choral work Zijn lippen zijn uw lippen (His Lips are Your Lips). In 1998, her Spin for soprano and ensemble was selected for the international Gaudeamus Music Week for young musicians. Just before graduation, her composition In for orchestra was selected for the Project Jonge Componisten (Project Young Composers) and performed by the Balletorchestra, conducted by Richard Dufallo. She has since composed for various ensembles and choirs. During and after her studies she studied briefly with Luciano Berio, Betsy Jolas, Louis Andriessen and György Kurtag. Biography Born in the Dutch town of Velsen, from the age of nine she received piano lessons, both classical and jazz. In 1993, she entered the Rotterdam Conservatory (Codarts) where she studied composition under Klaas de Vries, Peter-Jan Wagemans ánd René Uijlenhoet, graduating cum laude in 1999. Notable works include String quartet (2000) recorded and performed by the Doelenkwartet. Pra (2003) for orchestra and soprano was performed by Moniqu

Atle Bakken

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Atle Bakken (born 1962 in Sandefjord, Norway), is a composer, performer and producer from Norway, known on both sides of the Atlantic, through his work with Stevie Wonder, Sting, Diana Ross, Andy Summers, Snoop Dogg, Andraé Crouch and scoring credits such as the Fox/HBO award-winning TV comedy series Martin, starring Martin Lawrence. Bakken has since 1986 been a journalist for music magazines such as Keyboard magazine (US), Ballade (NO), Sonic Shocks (UK) and Musikkpraksis (NO). Life and career Atle Bakken started his music involvement at 5 years of age by copying Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade” on a Hohner melodica. He took up classical studies at 10 with Dr. Norbert Bojanowski, going through the repertoire of Grieg, Bach, Mozart and Liszt, and the likes. At 14 Bakken started his own organ jazz trio and started to perform concerts in the spirit of Larry Young and Jimmy Smith, and recorded his first radio show (at NRK). He also started performing R&B and soul with a band a la Tower of Power. At age 15, Bakken was discovered by Sony Music A&R, Kristian Lindeman by having recorded his own material for local talent scout & manager, Fredrik Friis. Bakken was noted nationally in Nor

Atli Ingólfsson

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Atli Ingólfsson (born 1962) is a composer. His works have been performed in new music festivals across Europe and occasionally overseas. His oeuvre comprises a big range of different works, from solo to orchestral to music theatre. Of his chamber works, the most widely performed might be Object of Terror for chamber group (Ed. Ricordi, Milan), present on his profile CD Enter, issued by BIS in Stockholm in 2005 Early life and education He was born in Njarðvík, Iceland where he completed his studies in classical guitar, composition and philosophy before proceeding his composition studies in Italy (Milan Conservatory) and France, finally studying privately with Gérard Grisey. Career as composer After living in Italy from 1990 to 2005 he returned to Iceland where he presently teaches composition at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. In recent years, Atli has composed three music theatre works which have been staged by Cinnober Theater in Gothenburg, directed by Svante Aulis Löwenborg. These are: Suzannah (on a text by Jon Fosse), 2005, Play Alter Native (text by Finn Iunker), 2011, and Njals saga (text by Ludvig Uhlbors), 2015. “His music has been widely performed at European festivals a

Atli Örvarsson

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Atli Örvarsson (; born 7 July 1970) is an Icelandic-American BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated film score composer. Atli’s credits include composing and orchestrating music for some of Hollywood’s biggest projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Angels & Demons, The Holiday, The Eagle, Vantage Point, Babylon A.D., Thick as Thieves, The Fourth Kind, and Season of the Witch. Atli’s most recent credits include Apple TV’s Silo and Defending Jacob, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, A Single Shot, NBC series Chicago Fire, and together with Hans Zimmer contributed music to the Zack Snyder Superman reinstallment Man of Steel. Guan Hu, Fei Zhenxiang - 2026 Ladies First Thea Sharrock - Television References External links * * * Interview with Atli Örvarsson at FilmMusicSite

Attila Pacsay

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Attila Pacsay (born October 30, 1970) is a Hungarian composer who is particularly known for his music written for films, television, and the theatre. His compositions encompass a wide variety of music from chamber music and symphonic works to jazz pieces and contemporary music. Career He began his musical studies in piano, trumpet, and trombone at age 7. A few years later, he started preparing for a career as composer. His compositions were performed by his own band. At age 14, he was accepted in the composition class of László Draskóczy and Attila Reményi at the János Richter Conservatory in the city of Győr. He received his college degree in composition at the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, where he studied in the class of Emil Petrovics. After graduation, Mr. Pacsay began working as freelancer. Initially, he composed music for television and radio programs, and, in 1997, he met his childhood musician friend the director Géza M. Tóth, who was searching for a composer for his animated films. Their collaboration resulted in hundreds of short animated television ID-s and several animated short films. During these years, besides film scores, Mr. Pacsay composed music for the

Augusta Read Thomas

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Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition. Biography Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at the Tanglewood Music Center; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University; and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College in 1990–91 and a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1991 to 1994. Thomas was the longest-serving Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, from 1997 to 2006. This residency culminated in the premiere of Astral Canticle for solo flute, solo violin, and orchestra, a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Music. During her residency, Thomas premiered nine commissioned orchestral works and helped establish the MusicNOW series. A former chairperson of the American Music Center, she is on many boards and, according to Wise Music Classical, “has become one of the most recognizable and widely loved figures in American music.” Commis

Aurora Nealand

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Aurora Nealand is an American multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, clarinet, accordion), singer and composer. Among her many musical endeavors, she leads her own traditional jazz band, Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses. Early life and education Nealand was born the youngest of four children in Pacifica, California, In 2001, Nealand earned a degree in music composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she created her own major in music composition. Nealand moved to New Orleans in 2004. Along with the Royal Roses, Nealand also performs as a member of the rockabilly band Rory Danger and the Danger Dangers and solo under the name The Monocle. In 2019, Nealand, under the name Monocle, brought her project “KindHumanKind” to the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, receiving a positive review from OffBeat magazine. Nealand began playing musical scores to the silent films of comedian Buster Keaton. Awards and honors * 2021: South Arts: Jazz Road Creative Residencies grant recipient * 2020: Downbeat Rising Star: Soprano Saxophone; Clarinet * 2018: Offbeat Best of the Beat Award: Best Saxophonist * 2018: Downbeat Rising Star: Soprano Saxophone; Clarinet * 2017: Downbeat Rising St

Avi Benjamin

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Avi Benjamin (; ; born 3 March 1959) is an Israeli composer and performer, musical director of the Israeli Gesher Theater since its foundation in 1991. Biography Avi Nedzvetsky (later Benjamin) was born in Tallinn, Estonia. His father was a professor of psychology at the University of Tartu and his mother was a physician. At the age of 4, Benjamin started to learn piano in Tartu, and when he was 15 his family moved to Tallinn, where he continued his studies at the Musical College with the pianist and teacher Renate Goznaya. Benjamin is married to the actress Evgenia Dodina who works at Habima Theater (she met Benjamin when both were working at Gesher). They have a daughter Anna (b. in 1995). Benjamin has also a son Gur (b. in 1985) from his first marriage. Music and theater career After graduation he was accepted to the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater. At the academy, Benjamin studied piano under Bruno Lukk (himself a student of Arthur Schnabel and Paul Hindemith) and Toivo Nahkur. Among his teachers were pianist Anna Klas and composer Jaan Rääts. In the mid-70s, in Tallinn, Benjamin became familiar with the contemporary Western music, mostly prohibited in the USSR at that ti

Avner Dorman

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Avner Dorman (Hebrew: אבנר דורמן; born April 14, 1975, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-born composer, educator and conductor. Education Dorman holds a doctorate in music composition from the Juilliard School, where he studied as a C.V. Starr fellow with John Corigliano. He completed his master’s degree at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music of Tel Aviv University (where he majored in music, musicology, and physics) studying with Josef Bardanashvili. Career At age 25, Dorman became the youngest composer to win Israel’s Prime-Minister’s award. He has since been awarded the ACUM prize for his Ellef Symphony. and the performance of his song cycle “Boaz” received the Israeli Cultural Ministry Prize for best performance of Israeli music the same year. Dorman’s “Variations Without a Theme”, premiered by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2003 and won the 2004 Best Composition of the Year award from ACUM. This piece led to a commission from Zubin Mehta, PercaDu, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for “Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!”, a concerto for percussion duo and orchestra. Orchestras that have performed Dorman’s music include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,

Awaga

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Albert McCarthy Boateng, professionally known as Awaga, is a Ghanaian record producer, sound engineer and disc jockey. Early life Boateng Albert was born on August 20, 1994. Career Awaga began his career in 2014, combining beat making with side mixing and mastering. He has worked with artists such as Stonebwoy and R2Bees. Discography His major productions include Live In Love (Livingstone EP) by Stonebwoy which was considered for 2017 Grammy Award nominations, “We Made It” by Stonebwoy ft. R2Bees, “Enku Lenu” by Stonebwoy, “Guy Guy” by Stonebwoy ft Bisa Kdei, “Behw3 " by Dj Killer Fingers ft VVIP & Miyaki, “Anafra” by Miyaki, “Jah Love” by Eye Judah, “Support” by Eye Judah, “Beautiful Soul” by Eye Judah, “Sugar” by Dawuni X Dawuni(DXD) and “Jah Jah” by Netherlands-based Ghanaian reggae / dancehall artiste Dominiq. In 2017, his first project The Shanti Riddim featured 30 artists from Africa and around the globe. Recognition External links *Producedby Awaga at Instagram *Producedby Awaga at Twitter References

Ayal Adler

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Ayal Adler (), is an Israeli composer. Active internationally, his works are continuously performed worldwide. Serves as associate professor in composition and theory at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Recipient of numerous awards, including: Two Prime- Minister Awards for Composers; Two Acum Prizes (equivalent to ASCAP), and International prizes. Serves as the Director of the Israel Composers’ League. Biography Ayal Adlerr’s compositions were performed in recent years in the United States; Canada; Germany; Austria; England; Lithuania; Spain; Finland; Czech Republic; Russia; Hungary; Croatia; South Korea, and more. Adler’s oeuvre includes music in various genres including solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral. His work, In Motion - Concerto for Continuo and Large Orchestra was commissioned by the Bregenz Festival in 2023. Resonating Sounds for Large Orchestra was commissioned and premiered by Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern DIVAN Orchestra, at the following venues: BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall; Lucerne Festival; Salzburg Festival; Colon Theatre, Buenos Aires. His song cycle, Alone, I return from the Night, was commissioned and premiered by the Munich Philharmonic, co

Aydın Esen

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Aydın Esen (born 1962) is a Turkish jazz musician who plays keyboards and electronics. Career The son of a trumpeter, Esen began music lessons at the age of five in Turkey and attended a music conservatory, continuing for 13 years. His background was in classical music although he also enjoyed playing drums. At the age of ten, he began sneaking out of school to play with other musicians and as a teenager he led several groups in a variety of styles. Esen first came to the United States when he was awarded a four-year scholarship to Berklee College of Music where he reportedly completed all of his classes within one year. After studying at the New England Conservatory of Music and Juilliard, he had opportunities to play with Gary Burton, Eddie Gomez, Pat Metheny and Emily Remler. in 1989, he won the 1st prize at the Martial Solal Piano Competition in Paris. He has worked with Dave Liebman and Wolfgang Muthspiel. His composition “scape-X” (commissioned by Big Basel Festival) was premiered by the Ensemble Phoenix Basel with him as a soloist at the Big Basel Festival in January 2020. Discography As leader * Pictures (Bellaphon, 1989) * So Many Lifetimes (JMS, 1989) * Aydin Esen (JMS, 1

Ayla (musician)

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Ingo Kunzi (born 7 November 1966) is a German trance producer and DJ, best known for his work under his recording names Ayla and Tandu. The Ayla name was inspired by the name of a girl in the recording studio during his first Ayla recording. Kunzi is also related to other projects including Karuma, Elastique Culture, Tarot and Intrance. Career Ingo Kunzi was born in 1966 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Influenced by the likes of Supertramp and Pat Metheny, he started out in the rock scene, building his own studio in 1985 and engineering demos for rock bands before discovering electronic music via the likes of Cosmic Baby and Talla 2XLC’s Moskwa TV project. After “Ayla’s” success, Kunzi produced “Atlantis”, “Ayla Part II” and “Liebe”, which is a cover of the Cosmic Baby classic. Ayla’s fifth single, “Angelfalls”, was released in 1999, reaching the top 3 of the German dance chart. In the same year, Ayla released his first album, Nirwana, which peaked at number 4 in the Norwegian Charts. His remix of Lange’s “I Believe”, which was released under the name DJ Tandu, was included in the first installment of Tiësto’s popular series In Search of Sunrise as well as in Gatecrasher Wet, the th

Ayumi Tanaka

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Ayumi Tanaka (born 1986) is a Japanese pianist and composer, known for numerous albums with Norwegian and international jazz musicians. Education Tanaka moved to Norway in 2011, and got her education at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where she finished her master’s degree as a performing jazz musician, after studies with Misha Alperin, Ivar Antonsen, Helge Lien and others. Career Tanaka is acclaimed for her own trio with the bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen and the drummer Per Oddvar Johansen. The group released their debut album Memento in January 2016. With the trio Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrød, with Johan Lindvall and Christian Wallumrød, she released the album 3 Pianos i 2016. She has also recorded with Nakama, Mongrel, and with Thomas Strønen’s acclaimed Time is A blind Guide on ECM. Discography As band leader Ayumi Tanaka Trio with Christian Meaas Svendsen and Per Oddvar Johansen *2016: Memento (AMP Music & Records) Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrød with Johan Lindvall and Christian Wallumrød *2016: 3 pianos (Nakama Records) Collaborations With Thomas Strønen’s Time is A blind Guide *2018: Lucus (ECM) With Nakama *2015: Before The Storm (Nakama Records) *2016:Grand line (Na

Ayuo Takahashi

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Ayuo Takahashi (born October 19, 1960) is a Japanese-born American composer, poet, lyricist, singer, and performer of plucked string instruments including guitar, bouzouki, Irish harp, Chinese zheng, Japanese koto, and medieval European psaltery. He is adept at adapting the ancient music of Japan, China, Persia, Greece, and medieval Europe to create a new and original music without abandoning their strict forms while simultaneously making them relevant to contemporary music styles. He has composed for classical ensembles including string quartets, piano, various chamber ensembles, and orchestra, as well as composed, produced and performed with rock, jazz and musicians of various traditional music from around the world. He has also composed many music theater pieces, some of which has been released on CD in the United States and Japan. Biography Much of the biography here is a summary from Ayuo’s autobiography first published in Japanese on his homepage (ayuo.net) and later expanded in his autobiographical book, “Outside Society” published by Getsuyosha in Japan. This book will be published in English in 2025. Most profiles of Ayuo as seen on websites such as All Music and Tzadik ar

B.I (rapper)

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Kim Han-bin (; born October 22, 1996), known professionally as B.I () is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer. He debuted in the South Korean boy band iKon under YG Entertainment in September 2015. On June 12, 2019, he departed from the group due to substance allegations. During his time with the group, he played a significant role in the production and songwriting of their music, and is credited as the sole record producer for all of the group’s releases. His contributions to iKon’s second studio album, Return, for the lead single “Love Scenario”, earned him the prestigious “Songwriter of the Year” award at the 2018 Melon Music Awards. Cosmos, the first half of his second studio album was released in November 2021. In 2022, he launched his global album project Love or Loved, starting with the single “BTBT” in May, followed by the EP Love or Loved Part.1 in November. B.I released his second studio album To Die For on June 1, 2023, and the last part of the Love or Loved project, the EP Love or Loved Part.2, in November 2023. His third studio album, Wonderland, was released on June 1, 2025. In 2009, B.I made his first appearance by featuring and participating in

Balázs Havasi

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Balázs Havasi (born 18 September 1975) is a Hungarian pianist and composer. As a contemporary composer, he has founded four different musical projects, including compositions for a symphony orchestra, rock drums, and piano. Education Havasi first played the piano at the age of 4. During his years at the Academy of Music, Havasi won first prize at a piano competition of Yamaha Foundation of Europe. Early albums (2000–2005) In 2000, Havasi signed a five-year exclusive record contract with EMI. During the term of his EMI contract, he produced two soundtrack albums. Havasi did not extend the contract, instead establishing his own record company. The Unbending Trees Havasi founded the band The Unbending Trees with singer-lyricist Kristóf Hajós in 2006. The band was offered its first record contract by British record publisher and producer Ben Watt, and soon released its first album called Chemically Happy (Is The New Sad). Hajós wrote lyrics to the music of Havasi on the album. The Unbending Trees made its debut in London in 2007 and its first four-song EP was called “The First Day”. Later, their song “You Are A Lover” was reworked by British singer Tracey Thorn. The Guardian newspaper

Bang Si-hyuk

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Bang Si-hyuk (; born August 9, 1972), also known as “Hitman” Bang, is a South Korean music executive, record producer and songwriter who is the co-founder of JYP Entertainment, founder of record label Big Hit Music, and chairman of HYBE Corporation. One of the 50 wealthiest people in South Korea according to Forbes Asia, Bang is the only billionaire in the South Korean entertainment industry. , his reported net worth is an estimated $1.25 billion, according to Forbes 2026 Korea’s 50 Richest List. Early life and education Bang was born to Bang Geuk-yoon, former president of the Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Corporation at the Korea Social Insurance Research Institute, and his wife, Choi Myung-ja. Bang has a younger sister. Bang developed a passion for music from an early age, having grown up in a musical home, but was discouraged from pursuing a career in the industry by his parents. Bang formed a band with his friends while in middle school and wrote and performed songs he composed. He attended Kyunggi High School before graduating from Seoul National University with a degree in aesthetics. Career Bang debuted as a composer while in college. He met Park Jin-young in 1997,

Bang Ye-dam

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Bang Ye-dam (; born May 7, 2002) is a South Korean singer, songwriter and producer. He is best known as a former member of South Korean boy band Treasure and for competing in the second installment of K-pop Star (2012–2013), where he finished as runner-up. He debuted as a soloist with the digital single titled “Wayo” () on June 5, 2020. In August 2023, he signed with GF Entertainment as soloist and producer. Life and career 2002–2011: Early life Bang Ye-dam was born on May 7, 2002, in Seoul, South Korea. Coming from a musically oriented family, his father, is well known for creating over forty songs for commercials and animations including the Korean-dub for Japanese anime opening songs Pokémon, Dragon Ball and more. His mother, Jung Mi-young is well known for singing soundtracks in Korean drama Friends and film After the Show Ends (). Within his family, he is an only child. Five-year-old Bang (Korean age) participated in the opening songs for EBS’ television series Bboong bboong-E () and the Korean-dub version of the Japanese anime Onegai! Samia-don (). On March 5, 2007, he made his first television appearance on EBS’ documentary 15 Second Fever, Hold the World with his parents. D

Bartosz Chajdecki

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Bartosz Chajdecki (born 28 September 1980) is a Polish film music composer. Biography He started composing at the age of 12. Four years later, he was already working with the Akne Theatre in Kraków, including on the play “A Little Requiem for Kantor”, which was staged in England, Germany, France, Brazil. He received the Fringe First award at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival for it. He has worked for the Yale School of Drama, the New York School of Visual Arts and the Samuel Beckett Theatre in London, among others. In 2004, he graduated with honours from the Academy of Music in Kraków. Composer of music for feature films and TV e.g. The Duel, Simona Kossak, Gods, Breaking the Limits, Little Rose 2, Feast of Fire, The Champion of Auschwitz, Colors of Evil: Red, Life feels good, I’m a Killer, My Daughters of the Cow, Baczynski, Warsaw Uprising, Animals, Le temps d’Anna, the TV series Furia (season 2), Raven, The Behaviourist, Chyłka, Langer, Mission Afghanistan, A Vote of No Confidence, Days of Honor. Winner of the Transatlantyk Oceans Award granted by composer Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, the special “Bo wARTo!” award as part of RMF Classic’s MocArt and the Polish Soundtrack of t

Baudime Jam

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Baudime Jam (born 1972 in Clermont-Ferrand) is a French violist, composer and musicologist. Biography He has made himself known by composing original scores for accompanying silent films, performing numerous transcriptions for string quartet, as well as his research on the composer George Onslow, to whom he has devoted two works and several articles. He is the founder and violist of the Prima Vista Quartet in which he has performed in France and abroad since 1997. Composer Soundtracks Feature films * The General (Buster Keaton) * Nosferatu (Friedrich Murnau) * The Black Pirate (Douglas Fairbanks) * Orphans of the Storm (David Griffith) * The Goddess (Wu Yonggang) * (André Sauvage) * Deux Étoiles dans la voie lactée (Shi Dongshan) * Wings (William Wellman) * La Grande Guerre : # La Femme française pendant la guerre (Alexandre Devarennes) # Les Enfants de France pendant la guerre (Henri Desfontaines) # No Man’s land (archives ECPAD) * Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (John Robertson) Short films * The Haunted House (Buster Keaton) * One Week (Buster Keaton) * The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin) * A Film Johnnie (George Nichols) * L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat (Louis Lumière) * Le Barbier

Beata Hlavenková

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Beata Hlavenková, née Morávková (born 2 February 1978) is a Czech composer, singing pianist, arranger and producer. In June 2020 Hlavenková received an award as a Best female singer at Anděl Awards 2019. Discography Studio albums *S’aight (2004) *Eternal Seekers (2008) *Joy for Joel (2009) *Eternal Seekers (2012) (reedition from 2008) *Theodoros (2013) *Pišlické příběhy (2015) *Scintilla (2015) *Bethlehem (2017) *Sně (2019) *Žijutě (2021) References External links *

Beata Moon

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Beata Moon (born 1969) is a Korean-American classical pianist and composer. Biography Moon was born in North Dakota and raised in Indiana. She made her musical debut at age 8 with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Moon trained as a pianist at the Juilliard School with Adele Marcus earning both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees there. She is self-taught as a composer. Work Moon’s compositions are compared to post-minimalist, but defy a strict definition of genre. She released Perigee & Apogee in 2001 on the Albany label and Earthshine on her own label, Bibimbop Records in 2004. In 2007, Naxos Records added a CD of her works for solo piano, performed by Moon herself, to their catalog of important 21st-century composers. Her work has been acclaimed by Kyle Gann, Gramophone, Allmusic, and others. Moon has frequently collaborated with choreographer Henning Rübsam and his company SENSEDANCE. “After Yet Another Fall” (1992), “Dolphins and Antelopes” (1996), “Moonpaths” (1998), “Dinner is West” (2005) and “Tenancy” (2011) are among her commissions for the company. Rübsam choreographed to other works by Moon, including her “In Transit” from 1999 which was used for the choreographer’s "

Bechara El Khoury (composer)

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Bechara El Khoury (born 18 March 1957 ) is a Franco-Lebanese composer. Biography Born in Beirut, he moved to Paris in 1979. Before his departure he was extremely active as a composer, pianist, conductor as well as Kapellmeister. He became a French national in 1987, and as a result many French institutions commissioned works for him like Orchestre de Paris, Musique nouvelle en liberté, Radio France, Festival Menuhin in Gstaad, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Mecklenburg Festival etc. He received the Prix Rossini (Institut de France) in 2000 and his work was performed by many orchestras. as the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Orchestre philharmonique du Liban, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Basel Chamber Orchestra … Among the musicians who conducted his music, Pierre Dervaux (who recorded “Danse des aigles, opus 9” with the Orchestre Colonne), Kurt Masur, Daniele Gatti, Paavo Järvi, Daniel Hard

Ben Goldberg

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Ben Goldberg (born August 8, 1959) is an American clarinet player and composer. Career In the early 1990s, Ben Goldberg performed alongside electric bassist Dan Seamans and percussionist Kenny Wollesen as the New Klezmer Trio. They went on to produce three albums and the free improvisation on “Masks and Faces” was described as having “kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music.” Goldberg’s musicality has influenced and inspired local musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Goldberg is also the founder of the music label BAG Production. Recently Goldberg has branched out into songwriting. His “Orphic Machine” project, largely commissioned by Chamber Music America, was performed in Los Angeles. Regarding songwriting and composing, in a 2010 profile piece in All About Jazz, Goldberg said, “I don’t just want to give people something that they can appreciate or understand, or that makes them think, or something like that. I used to kind of feel that that’s what I wanted to do, but that’s not what I want anymore. I want to give people something that they can love.” In 2011, Goldberg was named the No. 1 Rising Star Clarinetist by the Down Beat Critic’s Poll.

Ben Moore (composer)

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Ben Moore (born January 2, 1960) is an American composer whose works include art song, musical theatre, cabaret, chamber music, choral music and opera. His songs have been recorded by Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham Nathan Gunn and Lawrence Brownlee on the EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Classics and Opus Arte labels. Other singers who have performed his music include Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Robert White, and Audra McDonald. Biography Ben Moore – 14 songs was published by G. Schirmer in 2006. The Metropolitan Opera’s farewell gala for Joseph Volpe, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2006, featured two of his operatic parody songs. His song cycles include So Free Am I commissioned by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Ode to a Nightingale and Dear Theo. Moore wrote the score for the opera Enemies, a Love Story which premiered at Palm Beach Opera in February, 2015, and for Odyssey, commissioned by the Glimmerglass Festival. Moore was born in Syracuse, New York and received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.F.A. from the Parsons School of Design. *Henry and Company (musical theatre) *Bye Bye Broadway (musical theatre) References External links * Official website

Ben Neill

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Ben Neill (born November 14, 1957) is an American composer, trumpeter, producer, author, and educator. He is the inventor of the “Mutantrumpet”, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. Early life, family and education Neill was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His early studies included the North Carolina School of the Arts and Eastern Music Festival, where he played alongside many notable young musicians including Wynton Marsalis. He attended the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University, where he earned Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. His primary trumpet teacher was Esotto Pellegrini, but he also studied trumpet with Bernard Adelstein and James Darling. In 1983 he moved to New York City, and earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music. He also studied privately with La Monte Young and was mentored by Jon Hassell. Career In 1980 Neill formed The B-Minors, a new wave band with drummer Don Yallech, and became an active participant in the Northeast Ohio punk/new wave scene, frequently performing at The Bank in Akron, JB’s in Kent, and the Cedars in Youngstown. Neill began writing his own music and developed the prototype for h

Benet Casablancas

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Benet Casablancas Domingo (born 2 April 1956 in Sabadell) is a Catalan composer and musicologist. Biography Casablancas started to study music in Barcelona’s Conservatory of Music and privately with Josep Soler Sardà and then moved to Vienna, where he attended lessons in the Vienna Academy of Music with Friedrich Cerha and Karl Heinz Füssl. He also graduated in philosophy in Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona (1982) and has a PhD in musicology by the same university. He has always combined composition with teaching and research. Career In 2000, Casablancas published the book “El humor en la música” and in 2002, he was appointed Academic Director of the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu of Barcelona. His “New Epigrams” (1997) represented Spain at the ISMC World Music Days Vilnius in 2008. Also in 2008, the “Seven Scenes of Hamlet” had its UK premiere in a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and in 2009, his work “Alter Klang. Impromptu for Orchestra” was played by the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, and the Belgian National Orchestra. In the chamber field, the Arditti Quartet gave the premiere of Casablancas’ “String Quartet n

Benjamin C. S. Boyle

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Benjamin C. S. Boyle (born September 1, 1979) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. Life and career Benjamin C. S. Boyle was born on September 1, 1979, in Monterey, California, United States. His compositional output includes opera, orchestral music, chamber music, choral music, art songs, and works for piano. Notable performances include the premiere of Boyle’s Hudson Sinfonia for brass ensemble premiered by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at Riverside Church in New York City in April 2009. His Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra was premiered with marimbist Makoto Nakura and Montreal Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Wanda Kalusny in June 2015. Chicago Lyric Opera premiered Boyle’s choral work The Holly and the Ivy in December 2008. His Concerto for Organ and Orchestra was commissioned by Hope College Orchestra and premiered with organist Huw Lewis, conducted by Richard Piippo in November 2007. In May 2005, Bachanalia Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Lande, premiered the Cantata To One in Paradise for string orchestra and four vocal soloists at Merkin Hall in New York . That same year he won the Young Concert Artists composition competition. He has b

Benjamin Dwyer

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Benjamin Dwyer (born 3 August 1965) is an Irish composer, guitarist and musicologist. Life Dwyer was born in Dublin and studied the classical guitar at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Dublin, and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He also studied music at Trinity College Dublin, and in 2000 he received a PhD in composition from Queen’s University Belfast. As a guitarist, he made his concerto debut with Rodrigo’s Concierto d’Aranjuez with the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany; since then he has performed as soloist with most of the major Irish orchestras and string quartets, and he has given recitals throughout Europe and North America. He has also performed with a variety of chamber music partners, including tenor John Elwes, saxophonist Kenneth Edge, flautist Susan Doyle, jazz guitarist Mike Nielsen and classical guitarist Dario Macaluso. Dwyer spent the years 2002 to 2007 in Spain (Andalusia and Barcelona), before returning to Ireland, where he has taught guitar at the Royal Irish Academy of Music since 2009. Since 2012 he holds the first professorship in music at Middlesex University. Dwyer has a strong interest in contemporary art music. He has been

Benjamin Lazar Davis

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Benjamin Lazar Davis is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and record producer. He is a member of several bands, including Okkervil River and Cuddle Magic. Davis attended New England Conservatory of Music. Early life Davis was raised in Saratoga Springs, New York. His father, Peter, started being a musician at the age of five. Davis has a brother and two sisters. He collaborates with his brother Tim on songs. Bands and collaborations In 2006 while students at The New England Conservatory of Music Davis, Alec Spiegelman, Christopher McDonald, Kristin Slipp, Cole Kamen-Green, and David Flaherty founded Cuddle Magic in 2006. The band is known for collaborations with many artists including Fred Frith, Ran Blake, the David Wax Museum, Larkin Grimm, Mike & Ruthy (formerly of the Mammals), Phyllis Chen, Joy Kills Sorrow. Individuals from Cuddle Magic have also performed with Dirty Projectors, Bridget Kearney, Railbird, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Baby States, Ronald Reagan, Bird Fly Yellow, Margaret Glaspy, The People’s Champs, Girls Guns and Glory, Lake Street Dive, Petal Shield, Split Red, Yapp! and The Superpowers Horns. Davis went to West

Benjamin Staern

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Benjamin Staern (born 6 December 1978) is a Swedish composer. He was born in Gothenburg, the son of Gunnar Staern. Education Staern studied in his childhood cello, piano and percussion at the local music school in Malmö. During his studies in musicology at Lund University and before he felt that composition proved to be an interesting path to pursue. The following year he was accepted at the composition department at Musikhögskolan in Malmö, where he studied during the years 1998 to 2005 with professors Rolf Martinsson, Hans Gefors, Kent Olofsson (electronic music), Björn-Tryggve Johansson (instrumentation and counterpoint), Per Mårtensson and Lars Sandberg. During his masters his main professor was Luca Francesconi. He was awarded a Diploma of Fine Arts and Music at the latter mentioned academy. Career Staern’s music has been performed at festivals for new music, such as Ung Nordisk Musik, Stockholm New Music and Sirenfestivalen in Gothenburg. In August 2006, his work The Threat of War was performed twice by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Stockholm Concert Hall, conducted by Michael Christie. Staern also received grants from the Swedish Royal Musical Academy, Helge

Benjamin Verdery

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Benjamin Verdery (born 1955) is an American classical guitarist, composer and teacher. Verdery has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera, and Wigmore Hall (London). He has played and recorded with a wide range of classical and other musicians, including guitarists William Coulter, Leo Kottke, Paco Peña, Andy Summers and John Williams, vocalist Hermann Prey, composer Anthony Newman, and his wife, flutist Rie Schmidt. New York Times classical music critic Allan Kozinn described Verdery as “one of the guitar’s grand individualists” and “an iconoclastic player,” known as much for his devotion to new music and transcriptions of Jimi Hendrix songs as for inventive interpretations of Bach. As of 2021, Verdery had released 19 albums and been featured on several others. He has taught at the Yale School of Music since 1985. He became interested in music after hearing The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” in 1963. After learning four pieces in order to audition for conservatory, he was accepted at SUNY Purchase in 1974, where he studied with composer-organist Anthony Newman and guitarist-composer Frederic Hand, and ear

Benjamin Yusupov

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Benjamin Yusupov (; born November 22, 1962, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is a classical composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Yusupov was born in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR (today in Tajikistan) in 1962. He studied piano, composition and conducting at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow with Roman Ledeniov, Yuri Fortunatov and Dmitri Kitajenko. He received his PhD degree at Bar-Ilan University. Yusupov works closely with outstanding artists as Maxim Vengerov, Mischa Maisky, Vadim Repin, Alexander Kniazev, Maxim Rysanov, Sergei Nakariakov, Konstantin Lifschitz, Reinhold Friedrich and others. His extensive catalogue, which is published exclusively by Sikorski Musikverlag (Hamburg), has been performed extensively by a wide range of renowned artists and orchestra across the globe the likes of the London Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Bogota Philharmonic, New World Symphony, NDR Radio-Philharmonie Hannover, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, to name a few. In 2005, Yusupov’s Viola Tango Rock Concerto - written for the internationally renowned violini

Benoît Delbecq

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Benoît Delbecq (born 6 June 1966) is a French pianist and composer. Early life Benoît Delbecq was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and raised in a musical environment. He started studying piano in Bougival at the age of seven with Nicolle Mollard, a former student of Alfred Cortot. He first studied jazz harmony with parisian pianist Jean-Pierre Fouquey, then joined IACP in Paris (in 1982), a jazz and improvised music school founded and directed by bassist Alan Silva, while he continued high school and furthermore sound engineering studies. In 1983 he met Mal Waldron who encouraged him to work on his own music. As he had become an assistant director for films as well as an assistant in sound engineering, Delbecq finally opted to become a professional musician after attending the Banff Centre Jazz Workshop, Canada, in the summer of 1987, where he studied with Dave Holland, Steve Coleman and Muhal Richard Abrams among others. He then studied composition and music analysis with Solange Ancona at the Versailles National Conservatory, studied with pianist Georges Delvallée at Cachan Conservatory. Together with saxophonist Guillaume Orti from France, he went back again to the Banff Jazz wor

Benoît Jutras

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Benoît Jutras (born 1963) is a Canadian composer. Jutras is best known for his work with the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil, first as music director and later as composer for several of the company’s contemporary circus shows. Jutras’ music often blends eclectic influences, including world beat, classical, rock, trip hop, and electronica. His scores for Cirque du Soleil shows include O, Mystère, Quidam, and La Nouba. His work outside Cirque du Soleil has included original soundtracks for Le Rêve (a show at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas), the Glow in the Park Parade (a nighttime parade at Six Flags theme parks), and The House of Dancing Water (a show at the City of Dreams resort in Macau). He has also composed for film and television. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Jutras now resides in Barbados. He has one daughter, Audrey Brisson-Jutras, who performed and sang in Quidam as the principal character Zoé. (Her performance can be seen on the DVD that Cirque du Soleil has released of the show.) Jutras also has a brother, François Jutras. His sister-in-law is Roxane Potvin, lead singer for the Cirque du Soleil show O. “With globalization, a merging of musical styles is

Benson Taylor

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Benson Taylor (born Mark Davison) is an English composer, songwriter, record producer, and humanitarian. He is best known for his music in The Big Bang Theory, Orange is the New Black, London Fields, and the eighth highest-grossing Mexican film of all time The Perfect Dictatorship. In November 2016, Taylor was awarded an honorary doctorate for services to humanitarian causes and music. He founded A Remarkable Idea in 2017, a sub label of Universal Music, located in Santa Monica, California & London. Taylor has collaborated with, and produced a range artists for the label, including MOBO-winning jazz quartet Kairos 4Tet, The Halle Orchestra, Mercury Prize-nominated Maxïmo Park and Kele Okereke, Bloc Party, Good Charlotte’s Billy Martin, Pulled Apart by Horses, Robot Koch, Lack of Afro, Benoît Pioulard, Freddie Cowan, Bo Ningen, James Brown, and Menace Beach. Taylor won the “Best Original Music” award at the 2014 Monaco International Film Festival. In 2018, he scored and produced the music to Mathew Cullen’s thriller adaptation of the Martin Amis novel, London Fields, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Jason Isaacs, Cara Delevingne, Theo James and Johnny Depp. In 2020, he scor

Bent Sørensen (composer)

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Bent Sørensen (born 18 July 1958) is a Danish composer. He won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2018 for L’isola della Città (2016). He studied composition with Ib Nørholm at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and with Per Nørgård at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. Works Organ * Lais (1985) Piano * Angelus (?) * The Shadows of Silence (2002) * The Masque of the Red Death (1990) * Lullabies (2000) * Berceuse No.2 (2007) * Twelve Nocturnes (2000–2014) * Fantasia Appassionata (2017) Solo * The Songs of the Decaying Garden for clarinet (?) * Troldspil for clarinet (1982) * The Lady of Shalott for viola (1987) * The Bells of Vineta for trombone (1990) * The Shadows of the Shepherds for oboe (1990) * Plainte d’un Troubadour for oboe (1993) * Angelus Waltz for guitar (1996) * Shadow Siciliano for guitar (1997) * Sliding Sarabande for guitar (1999) * Looking on Darkness for accordion (2000) * The Hill of the Heartless Giant for double bass (2001) * Midnight Mazurka for guitar (2006) * Doll March & Dark Jig for guitar (2008) Chamber music (2 to 6 players) * Trotto for violin, cello, oboe, bassoon and horn (1983) * Mädelein for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn (1985)

Bernardo Bonezzi

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Bernardo Silvano Bonezzi Nahón (6 July 1964 – 30 August 2012) was a Spanish film music composer and musician who was born in Madrid. He won a Cinema Writers Circle Award for Bendito infierno, and was nominated for three Goya Awards and won one for his work on Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto. He was a frequent collaborator of Pedro Almodóvar on his early films, having composed for five, before being succeeded by Alberto Iglesias. He began his career as a member of the 1980s teen group “Los Zombies”. They are best known for the song “Groenlandia”, which is perhaps Bonezzi’s most famous composition. On the fifth anniversary of his death, the song “Fade to Black” was released as a tribute to him. It was written and recorded by his long time friend, actress, and singer Tres Hanley. Bonezzi was found dead in his home on 30 August 2012. It is reported that his last Facebook post to friends was “I’m fading to black”. Which is where the title of the song comes from. The music video for “Fade To Black” features clips from Bonezzi’s home movies as well as clips with Los Zombies. Filmography *Labyrinth of Passion (Laberinto de Pasiones) 1982 *What Have I Done to Deserve This? (

Bernardo Kuczer

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Bernardo Mario Kuczer (30 April 1955 – 22 June 2023 ) was an Argentinian composer, music theoretician and architect. Biography Argentina Bernardo Mario Kuczer was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 30 April 1955. Until his early twenties, he was involved in rock music as composer and guitarist, also writing music for the theatre. Simultaneously, he studied architecture and graduated in 1978. Through the study of the classical guitar with Hector Rocha and then with Jorge Panitsch he came into classical music. He studied harmony and musical analysis with Nestor Zadoff and then with Sergio Hualpa and later Renaissance counterpoint with Nestor Zadoff. He became a member of an interdisciplinary music investigation group, collaborating with psychologists, biologists, doctors and musicologists. In 1979 he presented a thesis under the supervision of Sergio Hualpa with own ideas about “the Basic Components of Music, their multiple interrelations and a special kind of “energy” generated by their uni- and multidimensional dynamic interactions, an energy which determines and enables the micro and macro Articulation of the Music-stream”. The thesis was first named: “La forma natural de la músi

Bernd Franke (composer)

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Bernd Franke (born 14 January 1959) is a German composer. Career Franke was born in Weißenfels/Saale. From 1975 to 1981, he studied musical composition in Leipzig at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig with Siegfried Thiele and conducting with Wolf-Dieter Hauschild. As a founder, he presided over the “Junge Musik” group in Leipzig from 1980 to 1983. In 2003, Franke became adjunct professor at the Alma mater lipsiensis (University of Leipzig). He gave master classes and lectures (among others at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, the Pitea Festival Sweden or also the Music Academy Prague and the Music Academy Vilnius/Lithuania). 2008/09 Composer in Residence at ARS NOVA Copenhagen and Paul Hillier. ** “Konform – Kontraform”, scene for 8 instruments (1988) ** Music for wind quintet in five movements (1989) ** Music for violin, violoncello and piano (Hope as a breath…) (1992) ** Seasons of Light (for Richard Pousette-Dart), for bassoon and ensemble (1994) ** “ATTEMPT AT CLOSENESS” – Fragments for string quartet (in memory of Louis Krasner) (1999–2000) ** “Prambanan”, for bassoon and piano (2000) ** CANZONI (1), for brass ensemble (1999–

Bernd Redmann

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Bernd Redmann (born 10 May 1965 in Bamberg) is a German composer, music theorist, and musicologist. Career Born in Bamberg, Bernd Redmann studied at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, music pedagogy and composition with Dieter Acker, and music theory. He was also enrolled for musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, with Peter Michael Braun, among others. From 1992 he studied musicology at the Mozarteum. In 1997 he worked at the IRCAM on a scholarship of the . From 1993 Redmann taught at the Musikhochschule München, first accompaniment of Lied, from 1995 also music theory. In 1998/99 he taught at the Mozarteum. From 1999 to 2005 he was Professor for “Tonsatz und Improvisation” at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 2005 he was appointed Professor of music theory and ear training at the University of Music and Theatre Munich, where he served as president from 2014 to 2022. Since 2022 he is president of the Lübeck Academy of Music. Redmann has been a member of the board of the (Association of German-speaking Music Theory) from 2004 to 2006. He has been in the jury of the comp

Bernhard Kießig

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Bernhard Kießig is a German pianist, especially jazz pianist, composer and lecturer. He composed part of the oratorio Eins for Ökumenischer Kirchentag 2021. Career Kießig studied Protestant church music and jazz piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, on a scholarship of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung. He was a recipient of prizes of both Jugend musiziert and Jugend jazzt, and played in the Landesjugendjazzorchester Hesse. He founded a jazz quartet, The Academic Project, supported by the “Live Music Now” foundation, and recognised in the Frankfurt jazz scene. He worked at the Staatstheater Darmstadt as pianist and repetiteur for opera and ballet. In 2013, Kießig became referent for pop music at the Evangelische Landeskirche in Hessen und Nassau. Beginning in 2018, he has also worked as pianist for the dance faculty at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. External links * * 1000 and 1 Years archiv.luminale.de 18 March 2018 * Bernhard Kießig: Einschätzung zum Monatslied-Projektder Nordkirchebezogen auf dessenWirkanalyse (in German) popularmusik-nordkirche.de April 2021 * Trumpet meets Organ (in German) trumpetmeetsorgan.de

Bernhard Lang

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Bernhard Lang (born 24 February 1957 Linz, Austria) is an Austrian composer, improviser and programmer of musical patches and applications. His work can be described as contemporary classical, with roots, however, in various genres such as 20th-century avant-garde, European classical music, jazz, free jazz, rock, punk, techno, EDM, electronica, electronic music, and computer-generated music. His works range from solo pieces and chamber music to large ensemble pieces and works for orchestra and musical theatre. Besides music for concert halls, Lang designs sound and music for theatre, dance, film and sound installations. Bernhard Lang came to prominence with his work cycle Differenz/Wiederholung (DW, Difference/Repetition), composed since 1998, in which he illuminated and examined the themes of reproductive and DJ cultures based on the philosophic work of Gilles Deleuze. Sociocultural and socially critical questions, as in Das Theater der Wiederholungen/The Theatre of Repetitions (2003) are examined as closely as intrinsically musical and music-cultural problems (“I hate Mozart”, 2006). Another focus is the “recycling” of historic music, which Lang creates using self-programmed patc

Bernhard Ruchti

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Bernhard Ruchti (born in 1974 in Berkeley, California, USA) is a Swiss pianist, organist, composer and music researcher. Life Ruchti studied piano with Eckart Heiligers and organ with Rudolf Scheidegger, Stefan Johannes Bleicher, and Bernhard Haas. Since 2013, he has been organist at the ev.-ref. Stadtkirche St. Laurenzen in St. Gallen. During his time as a student he became interested in the performance practice and playing technique of the 19th century. Inspired by his studies with Bernhard Haas, he published an essay “Thoughts on the stimulation of organ playing by a pianistic playing technique” in 2006. In 2010 and 2011, Ruchti spent a sabbatical in the United States and lived in San Francisco for 10 months. He began composing music and wrote a number of piano pieces, including “Five Songs of The Wind.” These were released on his album “Liszt & The Black Hills” in 2012. He released another album of his own works (“Echoes from Chrysospilia”) in 2017. In 2017 he was awarded by the city of St. Gallen with the Förderpreis Kultur. In 2018, the world premiere of his choral cantata “Auf die Tiefe: ein irdisch Fahrtenlied” on a text by Bernd Gonner took place. The same year, he began h

Bert Selen

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Bert Jacobus Martinus Selen (born 30 August 1985) is a Dutch music producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter based in Los Angeles. His scoring work includes Rules of Engagement, (Sony/CBS), Fast Layne (Disney Channel), Raven’s Home (Disney Channel), K.C. Undercover (Disney Channel), Lab Rats (Disney XD), Lab Rats: Elite Force (Disney XD), Mystery Girls (ABC Family) and Power Rangers Dino Fury, Power Rangers Cosmic Fury (Nickelodeon & Netflix). His music has been featured on Parks and Recreation (NBC), NCIS Los Angeles (CBS), The Mentalist (CBS), Gossip Girl (CW), Awkward (MTV), Finding Carter (MTV), Trailers: Danny Collins (Al Pacino), Advertising: American Music Awards (E! Network), Verizon, Vogue, Logitech, Head & Shoulders, as well as in the video game WET (Artificial Mind and Movement/Bethesda Softworks) Stage productions include The Pee-Wee Herman show on Broadway (HBO), and Pee-Wee Herman live at the Nokia Theatre. Early life Selen was born in Kessel-Eik, The Netherlands. Musical career At age 17, Selen moved to the United States with his band. Selen assumed producer duties on their first record. He then worked with local and international music acts. His songs

Beth Denisch

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Beth Denisch (born Augusta, Georgia, Feb. 25, 1958) is an American composer. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, and an MM and (in 1993) a DMA from Boston University, where her teachers in composition were John Harbison and Bernard Rands. She has taught at UMass Dartmouth and Northeastern University. She is currently Professor of Composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1996 she founded the New England chapter of the American Composers Forum, and she served as their director until 2005. She presently serves as Co-Chair of Gender Research in Music and Education International. Denisch’s music has had many prominent performances, and she has received notable prizes and commissions. For instance in 2002, the Handel and Haydn Society performed her “Sorrow and Tenderness” as part of a collaborative youth concert at Brockton High School in Massachusetts. Her “Fire Mountain Intermezzo” for string orchestra was performed by Chamber Orchestra Kremlin (directed by Misha Rachlevsky) in Moscow and New York City, after it was one of the winners of their Homage to Mozart competition. Writing in The New York Times, Bernard Ho

Bettina Skrzypczak

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Bettina Skrzypczak (born 25 January 1963) is a Polish/Swiss composer. Biography Skrzypczak was born in Poznań, Poland. She studied piano at Bydgoszcz and music at the Academy of Music in Poznan. In 1985 she graduated with a degree in music theory, and in 1988 with a degree in composition, studying with Andrzej Koszewski. From 1984-88 she studied with Witold Lutoslawski, Luigi Nono, Henri Pousseur, and Iannis Xenakis in composition courses organised in Kazimierz by the Polish section of the ISCM. In 1988 she studied electronic music with Thomas Kessler and composition with Rudolf Kelterborn in Basel, Switzerland. She also studied musicology with Jürg Stenzl and complementary studies in cultural philosophy with Hans Saner in Fribourg. In 1990 she studied computer music with Klarenz Barlow in Cologne. In 1999 she received a doctorate degree from the Academy of Music in Kraków. In 2002 Skrzypczak took a position as a professor at the Music University Lucerne. She also served as a guest lecturer at schools and universities including the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt in 2004, the European Chamber Music Academy, Hannover, and Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich. Skr

Bevlyn Khoo

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Bevlyn Khoo (; is a jazz pop singer songwriter based in Singapore. Her ability to sing in 5 languages has generated international interest and acclaim for each of her 5 albums. Despite her commercial success, she is credited with being a pioneer within the Singaporean DIY and independent musician community, having founded two music-based companies in addition to her own artistic pursuits since 2002. After parting ways with Japanese record label S2S in 2011, Bevlyn returned to her independent status focused efforts on The Storyteller Wave, the music production and consultancy company she founded in 2013. She currently teaches pop vocals to private students and at various music colleges. Early life and education Khoo was born in Singapore and was educated at River Valley High School, Singapore and Hwa Chong Junior College. She started singing part-time in 1999 at Singapore’s Ark Cafe with Dennis Chew and Kelvin Tan while she was a student at the National University of Singapore. Singing career Khoo signed as a part-time singer with the A Cappella Society of Singapore until 2006, during which she sang in two A Cappella groups. In 2003, Khoo joined Singapore’s national Mandarin-Pop Son

Big George

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George Webley (29 May 1957 – 7 May 2011), better known by the stage name Big George, was a British musician, composer, bandleader and broadcaster who has been described as one of Britain’s most successful theme music writers. Early life Webley was born in Clapham, London. His aunt Vera was the fan club secretary for Frankie Laine, who was Webley’s godfather on 1 June 1957. His first introduction to music was when Donald Swann attended his primary school to play to all the pupils after the school’s music teacher died. Webley later said “From the first moment he lifted the piano lid, I knew the direction my life was going to take.” Webley left school at the age of 14 to go on the road with a showband. He became friends with and regularly accompanied Herbie Flowers in his late teens after writing to the bassist for advice and was a session bass player until the age of 30. Music career Webley became a musical director for EMI at 30 and produced dozens of chart records. In 1989 he became bandleader on Jameson Tonight with Derek Jameson and Shane Richie. He composed or arranged the theme music for the television programmes Have I Got News for You, The Office, Room 101, and The Graham Nor

Bill Brown (composer)

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Bill Brown IV (born 1969) is an American composer of music for video games, films, and television productions. He is best known for creating the system sounds and tour software music for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, as well as his work on the soundtracks of CSI: NY and several Quake, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Command & Conquer, and Wolfenstein games in the 1990s and 2000s. His father was New York City radio disc jockey Bill Brown III (d. 2011). Filmography Video games *Quake II (1997) *Trespasser (1998) *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (1998) *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (1999) *Disney’s Villains’ Revenge (1999) *Quake III (1999) *Timeline (2000) *Shadow Watch (2000) *Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001) *Clive Barker’s Undying (2001) *Anachronox (2001) *Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon (2001) *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Black Thorn (2001) *The Sum of All Fears (2002) *Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Island Thunder (2002) *Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2 (2004) – theme co-written with Tom Salta *Command & Conquer: Generals (2003) *Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour (2003) *Lineage II: The Chaotic Chronicle (2003) with Inon Zur *Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (2003) *Wolfenst

Bill Sherman

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Bill Sherman is an American composer, producer, arranger, and orchestrator. He is known for his work on In the Heights, Hamilton, and Sesame Street. Sherman is also a member of Team Supreme that co-hosts the Questlove Supreme podcast. Biography Sherman was born in New York to Susan B. Sherman and Dr. Fredrick T. Sherman. Sherman graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 2002. In 2003, he joined his roommate Lin-Manuel Miranda to form the freestyle rap group Freestyle Love Supreme, while also working with Miranda to orchestrate and arrange the music for In the Heights. His work on In the Heights won him the 2008 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. He collaborated again with Miranda to produce the Hamilton album, for which he won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Sherman is the musical director for several Sesame Workshop shows, including Sesame Street, for which he has written over 3000 songs. He has won three Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Original Song – Children’s and Animation” for his work on Sesame street: “What I Am” in 2011, “The Power of Yet” in

Birke J. Bertelsmeier

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Birke Jasmin Bertelsmeier (born 23 April 1981) is a German composer. Life Born on 23 April 1981 in Hilden, Bertelsmeier received piano lessons from Barbara Szczepanska and composition lessons from as a schoolgirl. After graduating from high school, she studied piano with Pavel Gililov at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (diploma 2005) and composition with Wolfgang Rihm at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (diploma 2008, concert exam 2011). She also completed a master’s degree in musicology in 2009. Her works are performed at international festivals and by various performers, such as the Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble ascolta, Ensemble recherche, Fukio Saxophone Quartet, , Marc Bouchkov, Erik Nielsen, Christoph Eschenbach, Tabea Zimmermann, Orchester Nationale de Lorraine, , Bamberg Symphony and by members of the Berliner Philharmonic. In 2017, her orchestral work for the 80th anniversary of the Bombing of Guernica was premiered for the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa with choir and children’s choir. In 2014, two music theatre works, Querelle of Brest after Jean Genet and The Nightingale and the Rose after Oscar Wilde’s short story of that name, were p

Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred

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Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred (born 1970) is a Norwegian composer, arranger, improviser and teacher. Career Skjelbred was educated at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He has composed more than 60 works across a variety of genres, including solo and chamber music, electro-acoustic pieces, works for sinfonietta and orchestra, as well as film and theatre scores. He has collaborated with various groups, ensembles, and performers, including theatre collective De Utvalgte, percussionist Eirik Raude, ensemble Pärlor for svin, Nordic Voices, Ensemble 2000, and flautist Marianne Leth. Skjelbred’s works have seen performances in the Nordic countries, Germany, France, the US, and Canada at festivals such as Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Ilios, and UKM. Parallel to his compositional career, Skjelbred teaches composition and improvisation. He has also served as deputy director of Ny Musikk Oslo and as a member of the board for the Norwegian Society of Composers. Selected works Large ensembles * Different Rooms (2017) * On Shaking Ground commissioned by Manger Musikklag (2015) * Shadows of an Anthem II - 2014, commissioned and premiered by Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (2014) * Wave-Chains Liq

Blake Allen

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Blake Liahona Allen (born July 21, 1988, in Tucson, Arizona) is an American composer and viola player who is most known for writing Insomnia—which debuted at Carnegie Hall— and The Shards of an Honor Code Junkie, music directing the 2019 revival of Over Here!, writing the theme song for the talk show Doris Dear’s Gurl Talk, and appearing on Shade: Queens of NYC. Early life and education Blake Liahona Allen was born in Tucson, Arizona on July 21, 1988, the fourth child of pianist Marsha Allen (née Wilcox) and San Allen, an engineer and chief operating officer for Winchester Electronics. His family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida shortly after his birth, then to Gainesville before eventually settling in El Paso, Texas, where he spent most of his youth. He grew up a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was in the viola sections of both the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and Las Cruces Symphony while attending Franklin High School. Allen studied viola performance at Brigham Young University and worked at the Primrose International Viola Archive at Lee Library. Career Allen was artist-in-residence at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2014 and was principal of

Bob Belden

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James Robert Belden (October 31, 1956 – May 20, 2015) was an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, bandleader, and producer. As a producer, he was mostly associated with the remastering of recordings by trumpeter Miles Davis for Columbia Records. Biography Belden, born in Evanston, Illinois, grew up in the Charleston, South Carolina suburb of Goose Creek. He briefly attended the University of South Carolina where he met composer Jay Knowles who introduced him to the music of Gil Evans. He then studied saxophone and composition at the University of North Texas before joining the Woody Herman band. He recorded his first album Treasure Island in 1990. This was followed by a series of adventurous albums featuring jazz-tinged arrangements of contemporary pop songs culminating with Black Dahlia in 2001. In 2008, he arranged and produced Miles from India, a world fusion music recording based on the compositions of Miles Davis for which he assembled a group made up of Davis alumni and musicians from India. In addition to his work as arranger, composer, conductor and A & R director, Belden contributed numerous liner notes for noted recordings, such as “Lou’s Blues” by Lou Marini and the

Bob Chilcott

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Robert Chilcott (born 9 April 1955) is a British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxfordshire, England. He was a member of the King’s Singers from 1985 to 1997, singing tenor. Early life and early career Chilcott was born in Plymouth, Devon, in 1955. While still young, he relocated with his family to a new home near Watford, Hertfordshire. Although his family was not musical, he joined the local church choir, where the assistant organist was Andrew Davis. Chilcott sang in the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, both as a boy and as a university student, when he conducted the voluntary Choral Society, which included many singers from other colleges. He performed the Pie Jesu of Fauré’s Requiem on the 1967 King’s College recording. Composer Chilcott is well known for his compositions for children’s choirs, including Can You Hear Me?, which he has conducted in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, and the Czech Republic. In 2008, Oxford University Press published his Aesop’s Fables for SATB and piano (“The Hare and the Tortoise”; “The Mountain in Labour”; “The Fox and the Grapes”; “North Wind and the Sun”; “The Goose and the Swan”). Chi

Bob Pritchard (composer)

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Bob Pritchard (born 1956 in Calgary, Alberta) is a composer and teacher. His creative work includes experimental concert music, interactive music and video pieces, sound installations, direct synthesis, video/film, radiophonic works, and software development. His music is represented by AMP. Education Bob Pritchard received a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition and Theory from the University of British Columbia. He subsequently obtained the Master of Music degree from the University of Toronto, where he became active with the Structured Sound Synthesis Project in the U of T Computer Systems Research Group. In the late 1990s, Pritchard returned to UBC to complete his Doctor of Music degree in composition, with a specialty in computer applications. Career Pritchard has taught music at Brock University and Douglas College, and acoustics in the University of British Columbia Dept. of Physics, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Music. He is a researcher at the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC), and the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) He has received research funding through the

Bobby (rapper)

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Kim Ji-won (; born December 21, 1995), known professionally as Bobby (), is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and member of iKon. In 2016, he formed a sub-unit with Mino under the name MOBB. He is best known for finishing in first place on Mnet’s survival show Show Me the Money 3. Early life Kim Ji-won was born on December 21, 1995, in Seoul, South Korea. In 2005, he and his family moved to Fairfax, Virginia, where he auditioned for YG Entertainment and later met Kim Jin-woo of Jinusean in New York City. In January 2011, he was signed as a trainee under the label. Career After over two years of training, Bobby participated in the 2013 survival show Win: Who Is Next? under Team B. He started using his stage name Bobby, named after his idol, Bob Marley. Because Team A won the program, Bobby continued training under YG Entertainment. In November 2013, while still a trainee, Bobby appeared in the music video for “Ringa Linga” by label-mate Taeyang of Big Bang alongside B.I and Jinhwan from Team B, Winner’s Mino and Taehyun, and Blackpink’s Lisa. In May 2014, together with B.I, Bobby competed on Mnet’s Show Me The Money 3. He finished in first place under Team Illionaire, mento

Bohdan Sehin

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Bohdan Dariiovych Sehin (born 1976, in Borshchiv) is a Ukrainian composer. Early life and education Sehin was born in 1976, in Borshchiv, Ternopil Oblast. In 1999, he graduated from the Lviv Conservatory, having studied with Myroslav Skoryk. Career Sehin’s music is often performed in Ukraine and abroad. He has been part of musical collaborations with the Polish Institute in Kyiv, the Goethe-Institut, and the Austrian Cultural Forum. In 2012, Sehin began working as commercial director for the development of contemporary music of the Lviv Regional Philharmonic and executive director of the Contrasts contemporary music festival. He is a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. As program organizer *Contrasts, 1998 to 2006, Lviv *Velvet Curtain, 2006, Lviv *Kyiv Music Fest, 2009, Kyiv *International Youth Music Forum 2009 and 2011–2012, Kyiv *Ensemble Nostri Temporis, 2009–present *Kyiv International Master Classes of New Music course, 2012–present *Ukrainian Biennale of New Music, March 2013, Kyiv and Lviv *StART All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Artists 2nd prize (2003) *Gaude Polonia scholarships (2003, 2006) *Levko Revutsky award (2004) *Gulliver Connect grant (2008)

Bohdan Syroyid

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Bohdan Syroyid (Ukrainian: Богдан Сироїд, born 13 April 1995) is a Ukrainian-born Spanish composer and Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Salamanca. Career Syroyid was born in Lviv (Ukraine). At the age of six, he began studying piano through private lessons. At the age of seven, he moved to Spain, where he continued his piano studies at the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Elementary Music Conservatory and at the Gonzalo Martín Tenllado Professional Music Conservatory. At the age of fourteen, he was the youngest student to enroll in the bachelor’s program of music composition at the Higher Conservatorio of Music of Málaga, where he studied with Jesús Manuel Ortiz Morales and Diana Pérez Custodio. In 2012 he participated as a pianist in the opera staging of Suor Angelica with the staging at the Echegaray Theater in Málaga. In February 2014, he completed his bachelor’s degree in music composition with honors obtaining a high distinction awarded by the Musical Foundation of Malaga for the best academic record of the 2013-14 promotion. He received a major commission from the Musical Foundation of Málaga for a piano concerto, titled Capricho Andaluz, which was premiered in 2

Bohdana Frolyak

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Bohdana Oleksiivna Frolyak (born 5 May 1968) is a modern Ukrainian composer. Biography Frolyak was born in , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, and made her first musical steps in her native village under the guidance of Vasyl Kufliuk, a village teacher who gained educational and musical graduation in Warsaw. In 1986, she graduated from Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv Musical School after studying piano, music theory and composition. In 1991, she graduated from Lviv Conservatory as a composer. Her teachers in the academy were Volodymyr Flys and Myroslav Skoryk. In 1998, Frolyak completed a non-degree postgraduate course of the same university. In 2009, she attended two courses at the faculty of composition and faculty of contemporary music and jazz of Academy of Music in Kraków (Poland). Since 1991 she has been a lecturer at faculty of musical composition at Lviv Conservatory. She is also a member of the Ukrainian Composers’ Union. Scholarships and awards * Scholarships: ** 2001 — scholarship of Warsaw Autumn Friends’ Foundation and Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung; ** 2004 — scholarship Gaude Polonia from Minister of Culture of Poland; * Awards: ** 2000 — Levko Revutsky award in th

Bongani Ndodana-Breen

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Bongani Ndodana-Breen (born 1975, in Queenstown, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa), is a South African-born composer, musician, academic and cultural activist. He is a member of the Xhosa clan. He was educated at St. Andrew’s College and Rhodes University in Grahamstown (where he graduated with a PhD in Music Composition ) and also studied composition in Stellenbosch under Roelof Temmingh. In 1998 Ndodana-Breen was the first Black classical composer to be awarded the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music, by the National Arts Festival and sponsored by Standard Bank of South Africa. He was one of Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans and was profiled on CNN African Voices for his work Harmonia Ubuntu commissioned for the centenary of Nelson Mandela and based on his writings and speeches. He is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University for the 2019/2020 academic year. Dr. Ndodana-Breen’s music is a blend of African and classical styles. Some of his music reflects on various scenes from his native Xhosa culture (such as Hintsa’s Dances, which is based on the life of Paramount Chief Hintsa ka Khawuta, Apologia at Umzimvubu and Sons of The Grea

Boris Kovač

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Boris Kovač (; born 1955) is a Serbian composer and multi-instrumentalist. Biography Kovač was born in Novi Sad, Vojvodina region of Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia. He studied on the accordion as a child and later received one year of instruction on saxophone, but is self-taught on a wide array of instruments. In 1977 he formed Meta Sekcija, a jazz group. Kovač released his first album, Ritual Nova, in 1986 in Yugoslavia, and Recommended Records of the United Kingdom released its 1989 follow-up, Ritual Nova 2, as part of its eastern European music series, Points East. In 1989, Kovač established Ogledalo, a chamber music theater group in Novi Sad. From 1991 to 1996, Kovač lived in Italy, Slovenia and Austria to escape the Yugoslav wars, but he returned to Serbia following the cessation of fighting. Inspired by the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in the Kosovo War, he formed La Danza Apocalyptica Balcanica, shortened to LaDaABa Orchest, in 2001. The group played ballroom dance music “to exorcise the madness of war.” In 2002, Kovač founded Kachara Records (from the Serbian качар kačar) named for his family house in Bukovac (part of the Petrovaradin municipality in the city of Novi Sa

Boris Yoffe

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Boris Yoffe (, ; born 21 December 1968 in St. Petersburg) is a Russian-born Israeli composer, resident of Karlsruhe, Germany. Biography Boris Yoffe initially studied violin but turned to composing early, premiering his first works in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1983. He emigrated to Israel before the break-up of Soviet Union and completed his composition studies at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. Later he moved to Karlsruhe, Germany to study with Wolfgang Rihm in 1997. Yoffe was a scholarship holder from various foundations; In 2000 he received the prize from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Around that time, the composer began composing a series of short one-page pieces for string quartet. These were given a performance at ZKM in Karlsruhe in May 2003 and recorded on the ECM label by the Rosamunde Quartett with the Hilliard Ensemble. Boris Yoffe himself considers his work not specifically national: Russian, Israeli or German, but in principle ″belonging to all three cultures″. Yoffe is also the author of numerous arrangements and arrangements as well as several musicological and philosophical essays. References *Website of Boris Yoffe *Profil Boris Yoff

Borja Penalba

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Borja Penalba Catalá (born 1975 in Valencia, Spain) is a composer, record producer, arranger and musician. He has worked with and for, among others, Feliu Ventura, Lluís Llach, Maria del Mar Bonet, Lluís Danés, Obrint Pas, Miquel Gil, , , Sílvia Pérez Cruz, , Albert Pla, , Elena Gadel, , and . He also was a member of the Valencian rock band Dropo. Main works * Original soundtrack for “3D Flames”, the first 3D documentary about the Falles of Valencia, directed by Paulí Subirà, released at l’Hemisfèric (Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències) of València on 27 February 2013. * Original soundtrack for the documentary film “Interior de Paisatge”, directed by Elisenda Trilla. A production by Setmàgic Audiovisual and Televisió de Catalunya. * Original soundtrack for the documentary film “Enxaneta”, directed by Paulí Subirà. A 3D production by TV3. (review:* Original soundtrack, together with Lluís Llach, musical director, arranger and live musician for the http://www.lluisdanes.com Lluís Danés’ show Llits (Beds) * Original soundtrack and sound effects for some flashes or visual poems created by Lluís Danés for the cultural TV show Ànima broadcast by the Catalan channel Canal 33 * Original sou

Børns

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Garrett Clark Borns (born January 7, 1992), better known by his stage name Børns (stylized in all caps), is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Grand Haven, Michigan, Børns began performing in his youth. In 2012, he released his debut album, A Dream Between, through REZidual Records. His first major label release was the Candy EP (2014), through Geffen and Interscope. The EP peaked at number two on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The Dopamine tour followed, preceding his debut studio album Dopamine in 2015. The album was a commercial success, peaking at number 24 in the US and generating numerous singles include the platinum-certified, “Electric Love”. Børns then embarked on tours with artists including Charli XCX, Bleachers, and Halsey, as a supporting act, along with a set at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2016. His second album, Blue Madonna, was released on January 12, 2018. The record spawned several singles, including “God Save Our Young Blood” with Lana Del Rey, which charted on the US rock chart. To further promote the LP, he headlined the MoneyMan Tour (2017–18) and supported Del Rey on her LA to the Moon Tour. Bø

Bradley Joseph

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Bradley Joseph (born September 2, 1965) is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestras, chamber ensembles, and solo piano pieces. He has also played various instruments in rock bands throughout the Midwestern United States. Early life and education Bradley Joseph was born in 1965 in Bird Island, Minnesota and raised in Willmar, Minnesota. While attending, he played saxophone and guitar in local bands but left to focus on piano. Between tours, Joseph worked as a studio musician. Joseph then signed a record deal with Narada Productions, Artistry Musical style Hear the Masses and Rapture are two of Joseph’s best-known full orchestrations, combining smooth jazz with contemporary instrumental themes. A review of Rapture in New Age Voice stated that Joseph “paints romantic pictures in sound with voices and instruments that escalate from quiet, intimate passages to big, energetic movements”. In contrast, albums such as Solo Journey and The Journey Continues are described as “stripped back and basic”. For the 2002 album One Deep Breath, he combines “structured melodic pieces and free-form ambient composition

Bram Inscore

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Bram Katz Inscore (January 11, 1982 – December 19, 2023) was an American musician, songwriter, and producer. Born and raised in California, he wrote and produced many pop songs, including for Troye Sivan, as well as K-pop songs popular in South Korea. Early life Bram Katz Inscore Career Inscore began his career as a touring musician with Jem, Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Thurston Moore, and Twin Shadow. As a session musician, he played the electric bass on Beck’s 2014 album Morning Phase, on Gainsbourg’s IRM, and on a number of other projects. Inscore co-wrote and co-produced several songs on Troye Sivan’s 2015 Blue Neighborhood album, including “Talk Me Down” and “Youth”, and on his 2018 album Bloom, including “The Good Side” and “Animal”. According to The New Indian Express, “his work with Troye Sivan continues to stand out.” Besides Sivan, Inscore co-wrote songs for Allie X, Ben Platt, Chloe & Halle, Claud, Duncan Laurence, Hayley Kiyoko, Mayer Hawthorne, Niki, Rina Sawayama, as well as other songs for NCT 127, SuperM, Baekhyun, and Taemin. Inscore co-wrote the music score of the 2018 film Sierra Burgess Is a Loser. A year later, he was a co-writer of Andy Grammer’s “Don’t Give U

Brandon Moore (composer)

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Brandon Moore (born November 25, 1976) is an American composer known for Universal’s Aliens Ate My Homework (2018) and the sequel Aliens Stole My Body (2020) featuring the voice talents of William Shatner and George Takei. He’s also known for the comedy-horror series Killer Sisters’ Midnight Hour (2012) for Hulu, and the IFS Festival’s Best Drama winner The Year I Did Nothing (2019). Brandon has been a musician since an early age and a life-long film music fan. Upon completing his undergrad in music theory and composition in Fort Worth, TX, he moved to Los Angeles to attend USC’s Film Scoring program. Brandon has composed a wide range of scores for a variety of film projects and genres. His music has played in film festivals all over the world for as long as he’s been an active composer in Hollywood. Biography Early life Brandon Moore grew up listening to film scores and performing music in his native Arlington, Texas. His father John Moore (1942-2011) was an architect and his mother Cheryl Ford-Mente, a communications director for non-profit organizations, was heavily involved in Dallas-Fort Worth community theater as an actress and fundraiser and host of a local cable talk show "

Brave Brothers

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Kang Dong-chul (, born June 7, 1979), also known by his stage name Brave Brothers, is a South Korean rapper, record producer and songwriter for Brave Entertainment. He was a producer and composer for YG Entertainment from 2004 to 2008. In 2008, he started his own record label called Brave Entertainment. He has produced hit songs for After School, Sistar, 4Minute, T-ara, Son Dam Bi, Big Bang, Brown Eyed Girls, AOA, Hello Venus, RANIA and U-KISS. In 2009, he made his music debut with Attitude and later released Passionate on December 8. His label manages acts such as Electroboyz, BIGSTAR, and DKB. Kang was a judge panelist on JTBC’s Made In U program in 2011. Music career On October 21, representatives of RaNia revealed that Brave Brothers would be producing their album Time To Rock Da Show. He was awarded the Hallyu Composer Award at the 19th Korean Culture Entertainment Daesang Awards on December 15, 2011. He stated, “Thank you so much for honoring me with such a great award. I will return the favor with more great new songs. I would like to return this honor to the artists that express my songs and to the Brave Sound family. Personal life On KBS’s Win Win, he revealed he had a tro

Brent Lee

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Brent Lee (born 1964, Wynyard, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian composer and professor of Music Composition at the University of Windsor. Growing up, he studied guitar and saxophone. He received a Bachelor’s (1986) and Master’s (1990) degree in Music Composition from McGill University in Montreal. Brent showed interest in both computer and electroacoustic music. While still a student, he was awarded several composition prizes through CAPAC and SOCAN, and was one of six young composers to receive a Residency Prize at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Festival in 1988. Following his studies in Montreal, Lee had residencies in the Netherlands, Bourges and at the Banff Centre, before settlingin Calgary in 1990. There, he taught at the Mount Royal College Conservatory, as well as working with New Works Calgary, Strictly Plutonic and Modus Vivendi ensembles. He was named an associate composer of the Canadian Music Centre in 1991. He completed a doctoral degree in composition at the University of British Columbia, studying composition with Keith Hamel and Steven Chatman. He also studied orchestration with Nikolai Korndorf in Vancouver. Lee accepted a position at the University of

Brett Dean

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Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is an Australian composer, violist and conductor. Early life Brett Dean was born, raised, and educated in Brisbane. He attended Brisbane State High School. He started learning violin at age 8, and later studied viola with Elizabeth Morgan and John Curro at the Queensland Conservatorium, where he graduated in 1982 with the Conservatorium Medal for the highest-achieving student of the year. In 1981 he was a prizewinner in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards. Career From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he decided to pursue a freelance career and returned to Australia, where his many appointments have included curating classical music programs with the Sydney Festival (2005) and the Melbourne Festival (2009). As a composer and musician, he is a regularly invited guest to concert stages around the world. He was the Creative Chair for the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich’s 2017/2018 season. Dean was artistic director of the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne until June 2010, when his brother, Paul, took up the post. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra celebrated Dean’s 50th birthday, and

Brian Balmages

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Brian Philip Balmages (born January 24, 1975) He is best known for composing educational music for wind instruments. Early life and education Brian Balmages obtained a Bachelor’s of Music degree in music industry from James Madison University, with a focus on trumpet performance, and a Master’s of Music in media scoring and production from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. Career Brian Balmages was the director of bands and orchestras at Towson University. He has been the guest conductor of orchestras around the US, in Canada, Italy, and Australia. Balmages was the Director of Instrumental Publications for the FJH Music Company for over 20 years. Currently, he is the Director of MakeMusic Publications and since 2022 the Director of Digital Education for Alfred and MakeMusic. Works For wind instruments * Pele for Solo horn and Wind Ensemble (2004) * Moscow 1941 for Concert Band (2006) * Apollo for Soprano Saxophone and Wind Ensemble (2008) * Summer Resounding! for Concert Band (2008) * Three Celtic Dances for Concert Band (2008) * Arabian Dances for Symphonic Band (2009) * Elements for Concert Band (2010) * Escape from the Deep (2010) * Incantation and Ritual for

Brian Clifton (composer)

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Dirk Pilaet (born March 20, 1962, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium), known professionally as Brian Clifton, is a Belgian musician, composer and orchestrator. He composed the music for over 30 films and television series, including De Kollega’s Maken de Brug! (1988), the VRT series Alfa Papa Tango (1990-1991), the American movies Bird of Prey (1995) featuring Richard Chamberlain and Philippe Mora’s Back in Business (1997), Ellektra (2004) starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Axelle Red, and Spike and Suzy: The Dark Diamond (2004). Brian Clifton has been associated with film directors such as Vincent Rouffaer, Robbe De Hert and Nnegest Likké. Clifton is also known for composing the hymn for the Belgian First Division A, the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium, TV commercials for ICI Paris XL and Christian Dior, and the End Titles for the 2005 Thai historical drama film The King Maker. In recent years, he became a steady guest-lecturer at the Brussels film school RITCS-School of Arts. Selected works Music for movies and series * De Dwaling (1987) (mini) TV Series * Het Ultieme kerstverhaal (1987) by Vincent Rouffaer * A Three-Day Weekend (1988) * Hoogtevrees (1988)

Brian Head (composer)

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Brian Head (born October 14, 1964) is an American composer, guitarist, and music theory and composition professor. He performs frequently as a soloist and collaboratively with numerous groups, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Opera, New World Symphony, inauthentica, Jacaranda and Xtet. His compositions have been widely performed throughout the U.S. and abroad. Brian Head holds an unusual dual appointment at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he is a member of both the Classical Guitar and the Composition faculties, positions he has held since 2001. He maintains an active guitar studio there, lectures on a wide range of subjects, and directs the music theory program. As of 2010, he is the acting chair of the Classical Guitar department and Assistant Dean for curriculum. Heads is Artistic Director of the Guitar Foundation of America. From 2004 to 2010, he was its president. Training Raised in Adelphi, Maryland, Brian Head is the son of the noted trumpeter Emerson Head and his first wife Linda Head, a piano teacher and professional accompanist. He received undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland in both Mus

Brian John Shucker

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Brian John Shucker (May 29, 1958 – April 12, 1991) with his partner William “Bill” Sawyer (March 28, 1953 – August 12, 1991) were the authors of the musical Babes, a 1940s-style musical that opened in Los Angeles just before their deaths due to AIDS complications. Biography Shucker grew up in Huntington Beach, California. Sawyer was from Camas, Washington. Shucker worked as a vocalist and then became the musical director of the Curtain Call Theater. Later he toured the country with vocalists for whom he did musical arrangements. In March 1991, Shucker, visibly weakened, attended the audition session to select the cast for the second run of Babes. From the hospital, he rewrote one of the songs, Give It a Whirl. At the same time, the second run for Babes in Los Angeles, at the Maxim Theater, was opening. On Friday, April 12, 1991, Shucker died in Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, California. Sawyer who was completing their second full musical together and at Shucker’s death said “I have several more years left”, Shucker and Sawyer are listed side by side on the AIDS quilt project. His friend Michael Michetti, art director of Babes, References

Brice Catherin

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Brice Catherin (born 16 October 1981) is a French composer and cellist. Studies and first professional steps Born in Brussels, Belgium, Brice Catherin studied the cello at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (Switzerland) with professor Marc Jaermann (cellist of the sine nomine quartet) where he successfully completed his diploma in 2004. At the same time, he was studying composition at the Haute École de Musique of Geneva (Switzerland) with professors Michael Jarrell, Luis Naón and Éric Daubresse. He received his diploma in 2005. The following year he studied at the Basel Musikhochschule with professor Roland Moser. Career During 2005-2017, Brice Catherin gave several hundreds of concerts and performances as a cellist, composer, improviser, and performance artist in Europe, Japan, Russia, Iceland and Canada. He also composed about 80 works for soloists for large ensembles, ranging from ten minutes to ten hours duration. He premiered works he commissioned for solo cello or chamber ensembles from composers such as Dror Feiler, Christian Rosset, Evis Sammoutis, Patricia Bosshard, Baudoin de Jaer, Abby Swidler, Jacques Demierre, Arash Yazdani and Ludovic Thirvaudey. He worked with

Bridget Kearney

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Bridget Kearney (kə́ːnɪj, car’-nee) is an American musician and songwriter. She is a founding member of the band Lake Street Dive and winner of the 2005 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Jazz category. Kearney’s solo recording work began with her debut solo album, Won’t Let You Down, which recordings took place over three years, largely encouraged and supported by drummer/engineer/producer Robin MacMillan in his Brooklyn Studio, and released by Signature Sounds Recordings in 2017. A number of singles followed, some of which found their way onto Kearney’s second solo album, Snakes of Paradise self-released in 2023. Similarly, singles from her third album,Comeback Kid were also released in advance of the April 12, 2024 release by Keeled Scales for that album on an expanding number of streaming platforms and social media sites such as Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube and Instagram as well as physical media outlet channels such as Bandcamp. Early life, influences and education Kearney was born and grew up in Iowa City, Iowa. Her mother played flute. Her father played bass with “Langston Hughes Memorial Eclectic Improvisational Jazz Exposition”. Her grandmothers, Ellen and Vickey, wer

Bright Sheng

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Bright Sheng (; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese and American composer, pianist and conductor. Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001; he also was a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His music has been commissioned and performed by virtually every major American symphony orchestra, in addition to the Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra among numerous others. His music has been performed by such musicians as the conductors Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, Gerard Schwarz, David Robertson, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Robert Spano, Hugh Wolff; the cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell, and Alisa Weilerstein; the pianists Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, and Peter Serkin; the violinists Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang

Brittney Boykin

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Brittney Elizabeth Boykin (born 1989) Early life and education Boykin is from Alexandria, Virginia. She is African American. She grew up in a musical family, and began learning piano at age seven. She graduated in May 2013 with a Master of Music in Sacred Music, concentrating in choral studies. Boykin is Assistant Professor of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Awards & Recognition During high school, Boykin won first place three consecutive years in the NAACP’s Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics. Style & Influence Boykin mainly writes choral music but in 2023 she had her first opera debut. References

Brodinski

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Louis Rogé (), known professionally as Brodinski, is a French composer, producer and DJ from Reims. Brodinski performs internationally and is regularly invited to major music festivals. He has appeared at events such as Parklife in Melbourne, Lovebox in London, and Sónar in Barcelona, where he has been a recurring performer. Biography 2007–2011 Rogé became passionate about DJing while in high school. His early inspirations were Damian Lazarus, Ivan Smagghe, 2 Many DJ’s, and Andrew Weatherall. In Reims, his hometown, Brodinski became connected with DJs in the local electronic scene, including Yuksek. With Yuksek, he produced his first single, “Bad Runner”, released on the renowned Swiss label Mental Groove. Being signed to the imprint allowed Brodinski to raise his profile and attract attention. He made his first appearances as a DJ and got the opportunity to publish a series of remixes by popular artists, from Klaxons or Bonde do Rolê. Rogé’s entry into electronic music was heavily influenced by internet culture; he described himself as a “nerd” during his teenage years, spending thousands of hours discovering music online. While beginning his music career at age 18, he chose to pr

Brody Brown

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Christopher Steven “Brody” Brown is an American songwriter and record producer. He met Bruno Mars in 2008, and in 2015 formed the production team Shampoo Press & Curl He is also a member of the production group 1500 or Nothin’, alongside James Fauntleroy, Lamar Edwards and Larrance Dopson. Brown has written or produced for artists including Nipsey Hussle, CeeLo Green, Kesha, Adele, Lukas Graham, Ed Sheeran, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, and Mark Ronson. Early life Brown was born in Compton, California. Growing up, although he listened to some jazz, he mainly listened to the gospel that he was surrounded by at home. As a child, he taught himself to read music and play the drums, bass, guitar and piano. In junior high school, in addition to playing with the school band, he played with rock, salsa, and jazz bands. He also performed regularly at local churches. Brown was a member of The Crips. He was shot at and jailed as a teenager. In a 2016 interview he said that music “kept him from becoming another statistic in a hard neighborhood.” Career Brown joined 1500 or Nothin’ in 2003, and prior to dropping out of high school in 2005, began writing and playing with Bobby Valentino, whom he met

Brother Su

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Kim Hyung-soo (; born December 22, 1990), better known as Brother Su (), is a South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer. Su debuted in 2010 and has been signed under Starship Entertainment’s subsidiary label Starship X since 2015. Career 2010–2015: Early work and RealCollabo Prior to his debut, Brother Su participated in “Christmas Card from Real Collabo” with his remix of “Winter Wonderland”. The next year he officially debuted as RealCollabo’s first singer with single “It was You”. In the same year, he released another single “You Got Me”. The following years, Brother Su started featuring and writing for his label mates as well as other artists. Started with featuring in Mad Clown’s “Basil”, he was also featured in Andup’s “Like This Right Now”, Giriboy’s “Player”, Cheeze’s “Papapa”, d.ear’s “We Need to Talk”, Kebee’s “Travel Bag”, and Swings’s “Two Thumbs”. He produced label mate Siaena’s “Sound of Rain” and Lovey’s “Return”, as well as Crucial Star’s “Flat Shoes”. In his early years as a lyricist, Brother Su teamed up with Ra.D for Jooyoung’s “All of You” and “Hang Up the Phone”, and Ra.D’s “Thank You, Thank You”. On July 4, 2013 he released his first full album Paper,

Bruce Adolphe

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Bruce Adolphe (born May 31, 1955) is a composer, music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist. He is currently Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where he has been a key figure since 1992. From 2002 to 2025, Adolphe performed his weekly “Piano Puzzler” segment on the nationally broadcast Performance Today classical music radio program hosted by Fred Child. The program is also available as a podcast and from iTunes. Mr. Adolphe was also founding artistic director of Off the Hook Arts Festival, an interdisciplinary festival combining music, science, and visual arts, based in Fort Collins, Colorado, from 2010 to 2022. Adolphe’s recent books include Visions and Decisions: Imagination and Technique in Music Composition published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press in the Elements series on Imagination and Creativity, edited by Anna Abraham. In 2021, Oxford University Press published an expanded third edition of Adolphe’s book The Mind’s Ear:Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Composers, Performers, and Listeners. Adolphe contributed a chapter to The Routledge Companion to Music and Human

Bruce Wolosoff

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Bruce Wolosoff (born March 27, 1955) is an American classical composer, pianist, and educator. He lives in Shelter Island, New York with his wife, the artist Margaret Garrett. He has two daughters, the singer-songwriter Juliet Garrett and the sculptor and mixed media artist Katya Wolosoff. Biography Wolosoff was born Bruce Germont, the son of Jeanette (née Rothenberg) and Marc Germont. After his father’s death when Wolosoff was five years old, his mother remarried to Alvin Bibbs Wolosoff. As a teenager, Wolosoff played in a variety of rock bands while pursuing studies in classical piano performance. He received a B.A. at Bard College, where he studied with Joan Tower and ran an improvisational group with multi-instrumentalist and composer Elliott Sharp, and an M.M. in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. It was at the New England Conservatory that he met jazz composer-pianist Jaki Byard, an artist who exerted enormous influence on Wolosoff’s musical development. Wolosoff studied composition and orchestration with Lawrence Widdoes, and pursued post-graduate studies at the Dalcroze School of Music with Dr. Hilda Schuster. Wolosoff’s principal piano

Bruno Mantovani

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Bruno Mantovani (born 8 October 1974) is a French composer. He has been awarded first prizes from the Conservatoire de Paris which he joined in 1993. His work has been commissioned by the French government as well as other organisations. In September 2010, he was appointed to the post of director of the Paris Conservatory. Biography At 37, Bruno Mantovani became the director of the Conservatoire de Paris. In October 2018, his new composition Threnos was premiered at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Marin Alsop. In March 2019, he was named music director of the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, a position that began in January 2020. Awards * 2010 Claudio-Abbado-Kompositionspreis of the Orchester-Akademie of the Berlin Philharmonic Works list Orchestra * Art d’écho, for orchestra, 2000 * Con Leggerezza, for orchestra, 2004 * Concerto pour deux altos et orchestre, for two violas and orchestra, 2009 * Concerto pour deux pianos, for two pianos and orchestra 2012 * Concerto pour violoncelle, for cello and orchestra, 2005 * Fantaisie, for piano and orchestra, 2010 * Finale, for orchestra, 2007 * Jeux d’eau, for violin and orchestra, 2011 * Le Cycle des gris, for orchestra,

Bruno Moretti

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Bruno Moretti (born 1957) is an Italian composer, pianist, and conductor. He has composed ballet music (as well as theatre, cinema and television music) working in collaboration with the choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti. He is also an accompanist for singers. Biography Moretti was born in Rome, and initially studied with Armando Renzi. Then he became Nino Rota’s assistant for creating the opera Napoli milionaria at the Spoleto festival in 1977. Later, he studied conducting at Siena’s Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He made his conducting debut in 1979 at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. He has conducted throughout Italy and in England, Israel, the Far East and North America. Works Opera * Lady E (1999), opera in two acts to a libretto by Pasquale Plastino and Silvia Ranfagni Ballet * Caravaggio (2008), a two-act ballet by Mauro Bigonzetti. Moretti wrote the score based on several works by Claudio Monteverdi. Moretti’s interpretation was reviewed as “light … then darker and always varied in texture … romanticised Monteverdi, but it fits the stage action perfectly.” * Don Giovanni, emozioni di un mito (1996), for Il Balletto di Toscana * Comoedia

Bruno Rossignol

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Bruno Rossignol (born 1958 in Nanterre) is a French composer, choral conductor and conductor, pianist and music educator. Biography He studied music at the École normale de musique de Paris and the Sorbonne. He then directed choirs: first trainee conductor at the Paris Opera and at the choir of the Orchestre de Paris (by Jean Laforge and Arthur Oldham), he was then founding conductor of the Île-de-France Chamber Choir. (first prize of the International competitions of Malta in 1989 and Verona in 1993). With this ensemble, he received the Grand Prix des Hauts-de-Seine in 1996. From 1985 to 1995, he was the choir conductor of the musical shows of Jean-Michel Jarre, whom he accompanied in London, Paris-La Défense (1990), Berlin, Budapest, Seville, Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, Mont-Saint-Michel. He was director of the Conservatories of Jouy-en-Josas from 1989 to 1992, Suresnes from 1992 to 1997, Orsay from 1997 to 2000, Bourges from 2000 to 2005 and Hector Berlioz in Paris 10th from 2005 to 2010. In 2011, he was appointed director of the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental (CRD) de la Dordogne and artistic director of the Dordogne instrumental ensemble. (E.I.D.) with which

Bryan E. Miller

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Bryan E. Miller (born September 23, 1965) is an American film composer, pianist, and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. Miller has scored several documentaries including America: Imagine The World Without Her. TOC Career After leaving his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico to pursue a career in film composition, Miller began studying at the Grove School of Music and the UCLA Extension film-scoring program. Early in his career Miller assisted composer Mark Waters on numerous Disney TV episodes, and worked as an orchestrator and conductor for Academy Award-winning composer Mychael Danna. Miller’s compositions can be heard on numerous film, TV, documentary, and commercial projects. He works regularly for clients such as NBCUniversal, Lionsgate, Disney, CBS, ABC, and A&E. He has also provided music for Super Bowl commercials and brands such as Microsoft, Taco Bell, Campbell’s, Dodge, Wells Fargo, Yamaha, Nike, and the Comcast logo. This documentary became the sixth highest grossing political documentary of all time. Milan Records released the feature film’s soundtrack in 2014. In 2015, Miller was chosen to compose the original score for Te Ata. The film, based on a t

Bryn Harrison

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Bryn Harrison (born 1969 in Bolton, England) is a British experimental composer. His works have been widely performed by international ensembles and he was a recipient of the 2013 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers. He is currently Reader in Composition at the University of Huddersfield. His music deals with ideas of repetition and memory by using “recursive musical structures” and sometimes extended durations, such as the 45-minute ensemble work Repetitions in Extended Time (2008) and the 76-minute piano piece Vessels (2013). Education Harrison initially studied at the Leeds College of Music (1988–91), before completing a master’s degree under composer Gavin Bryars at De Montfort University, Leicester. In 1999 he was selected to compete for the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in the Netherlands. He also studied briefly with Christian Wolff and Alvin Lucier in 2001 at the Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic. Ensembles and soloists who have performed his music include Ensemble recherche, Klangforum Wien, the London Sinfonietta, the London Symphony Orchestra, Apartment House, Plus-Minus, Asamisimasa, ELISION, EXAUDI, the pianists Philip Thomas and Mark Knoop, and the v

Bumzu

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Kye Beom-ju (, born November 8, 1991), better known by the stage name Bumzu (), is a South Korean record producer, songwriter and singer. He signed to Pledis Entertainment early in his career, and has been co-CEO of the Prismfilter Music Group since 2016. He is best known for his work with Pledis Entertainment labelmates NU’EST and Seventeen, and has amassed credits working with other South Korean artists including Shinee, Fromis 9, NCT 127, TWS, and BTS’s Jin. In 2025, he also became a member of The Recording Academy. Biography and career Bumzu was born in Seoul, South Korea, on November 8, 1991. He learned the violin as a child, and by the age of high school, he became active in Hongdae’s underground music scene. His first mainstream work was composing for H.O.T’s Jang Woo-hyuk’s “Don’t Go, Go Away” in 2011. He then participated in the singing competition show Superstar K 4 at the age of 22, which has been noted as his big break. Following the show, he began producing songs for Pledis artists including After School and NU’EST, and has produced songs alongside Woozi for Seventeen since their debut song “Adore U”. In 2024, Bumzu started producing music for Pledis’ new group TWS und

Bushra El-Turk

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Bushra El-Turk (born 1982 in London, UK) is a British composer and contemporary music educator of Lebanese parents. Named by the BBC as “one of the most inspiring 100 Women of today”, she has written numerous compositions for live concerts, dance, theatre and multi-media performances, performed and broadcast on radio and television by prestigious musicians in various countries of Europe and the Middle East. Life and career El-Turk studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for five years. In 2017, she graduated with a PhD in Musical Composition at the University of Birmingham, having been supervised by Michael Zev Gordon, with her thesis focused on the relation of Middle-Eastern and Western classical music. Up to 2023, her more than 60 musical works include a wide variety of styles and influences. Among others, she has composed vocal music for soloists and choirs, accompanied by piano, non-western musical ensembles or symphony orchestra. Her works often integrate musical traditions and musicians from different cultural backgrounds. They have been performed in live performances, film scores and programmes on radio and TV, and often include elements of dance, thea

Byron Adams

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Byron Adams (born 1955) is an American musicologist, composer, and conductor. Education Adams received his bachelor of music degree from Jacksonville University, his master of music degree from the University of Southern California, and his doctor of musical arts degree from Cornell University. Career Adams is a composer of tonal music. His music was performed at the Warsaw Autumn, Bargemusic, the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles, and the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France (where he taught in the summer of 1992), as well as by such ensembles as Cantus, the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra. As a musicologist, Adams specializes in British and French music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. and Music & Letters. In 2007, he was appointed scholar-in-residence and a member of the program committee for the Bard Music Festival, for which he was the editor of Edward Elgar and His World (Princeton, 2007). He also gave pre-concert lectures and contributed program notes. Other notable organizations for which he has written programs notes include the Philadelphia Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra, among others. I

C Duncan

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Christopher Duncan (born 29 July 1989) is a Scottish composer and musician. His compositions have been featured on various television programmes, including Waterloo Road, and have been performed by Icebreaker and the Sirens of Titan choir. His first solo single, “For”, was released in December 2014. He is currently signed to Bella Union. His debut album Architect was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize. In October 2016, he released his second album The Midnight Sun. On 18 January 2019 Duncan announced his third album, Health, would be released on 29 March 2019. On the same day, he released the first single from Health, “Impossible”. Health was produced by Elbow’s Craig Potter at Blueprint Studios at Salford, Manchester, and will be Duncan’s first album he did not record and produce entirely by himself. The album was shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year Award 2019. Life and career Duncan’s parents are both classical musicians. He initially took up piano and viola as instruments, but playing with bands in his teenage years, he also learned to play guitar, bass and drums. He enrolled in Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Calliope Tsoupaki

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Calliope Tsoupaki (; born 27 May 1963) is a Greek pianist and composer. Biography Calliope Tsoupaki was born in Piraeus, Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellinicon Conservatory in Athens and composition with Yannis Ioannidis. She continued her studies with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and graduated in 1992. After ending her studies, Tsoupaki settled in Amsterdam and began a career as a pianist and composer. Her works have been performed in Europe and in the United States and at international music festivals. In 1993 she lived and worked in Budapest on a three-month residency from the Pepinières Foundation for young artists. In 2007 she took a position teaching composition at Koninklijk Conservatorium. Since 2018 Calliope Tsoupaki is the composer laureate of the Netherlands. Works Selected works include: *Enigma for viola solo (1999) *Medea (Μήδεια) for viola and 3 female voices (1996); words by Euripides *When I Was 27 (Στα 27 μου χρόνια) for viola and double bass (1990) *Music for Saxophones *Greek Love Songs *Vita Nova chamber opera for solo voice, baroque violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord *Sappho’s Tears for female voice, tenor

Calvin Jones (composer)

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Calvin P. Jones (born May 3, 1966) is an American musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and pianist. He composed the hit song “Whitewater Chopped Sticks” popular in talent shows, recitals and pageants. “Whitewater Chopped Sticks” was edited by Jones and performed by Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan to win the 2011 Miss America Pageant with over 14 million viewers watching on ABC TV. Jones has composed music for many soundtracks, including the hit documentary 2016: Obama’s America. Produced by Gerald R. Molen (Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park), 2016 was a major theatrical release, grossing over $33.45 million at the box office, making it the second highest domestic-grossing political documentary in the United States since 1982. Jones has worked with Producer Jerry Marcellino (Michael Jackson, Diana Ross), Kerry Livgren of the group Kansas (“Dust in the Wind”, “Carry On Wayward Son”) and director Jim Hanon (End of the Spear) among others. Early life Jones was born in Eureka, South Dakota, to parents Norman and Lena Jones. Shortly thereafter the family relocated to Sutton, Nebraska, where his father was pastor of the Hope Reformed Church. As with many artists, Jones’ first expo

Camara Kambon

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Camara Kambon (born February 4, 1973) is an American film composer, songwriter, pianist, music producer and educator. He is known for collaborating with Dr. Dre on Chronic 2001, as well as Eminem on The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP. He co-wrote the Mary J. Blige song Family Affair, composed the theme for the Mara Brock Akil produced CW sitcom, Girlfriends, and the score for the DreamWorks’ feature film, Biker Boyz. Kambon has received an Emmy Award, two Emmy nominations, three Grammy nominations, a BMI Pop Award and a BMI Film/TV Award. Early life and career Camara Kambon grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and began piano studies at an early age. At 10, Kambon received the Jacques Kahn scholarship to attend the Peabody Preparatory School of the Johns Hopkins University, to study jazz, classical piano, and musicianship. Later at 14, he performed with jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. In the same year, he met Bill Cosby collaborator, Stu Gardner, which led to an interest in composing for TV and film. In the same year, Kambon was hired to work with rapper and record producer Dr. Dre as his keyboardist, music director and orchestrator in residen

Camilla Gottschalck

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Camilla Gottschalck is a Danish composer, singer, and musician. She has a musical education as a singer and musician (drums, piano). Camilla Gottschalck has also many years of experience as a composer. She has been a lead singer in several soul/pop/acoustic bands, a member of various choirs and she is often hired as a backing singer on studio recordings. She has worked with many internationally known producers, songwriters and musicians throughout the past years. Composer Camilla Gottschalck has written songs for many international artists. Amongst them is Hera Björk, with whom she co-wrote Heras winning song “Because You Can” in Vina Del Mar 2013. during the years she has worked with artists such as Icelandic Erna Hrönn, the Swedish group Titanix and DQ. In ESC 2013 she has co-written songs like “Fool In Love” performed by Dāvids Kalandija and Dināra in the Latvian national final and in Moldova, Svetlana Bogdanova performed the song “Conquer My Heart” in the first semifinal. In 2012 she had the song “Run” with Eva Boto, in the Slovenian preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. And back in 2011 Camilla had her ESC Debut by participating in the Irish preselection with the song

Camille Kerger

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Camille Kerger (born 1957) is a Luxembourgish composer, opera singer and music teacher. In 1996, he was a founding member of the Théâtre National de Luxembourg which he directed until 2006. Since 1982, he has composed a wide variety of chamber and orchestral works. Early life Kerger was born on 9 February 1957 in Redange-sur-Attert in central Luxembourg. He studied trombone, singing and composition at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg, in Metz, and at the Mannheim and Düsseldorf Musikhochschule where he graduated in singing. Career He first played as a trombonist in various orchestras including the RTL Symphony Orchestra and the Trier Theatre Orchestra. He was twice a member of the European Youth Orchestra and played in numerous chamber ensembles. As a tenor opera singer, he has performed at a variety of venues across Europe, sharing the stage with celebrates such as Barbara Hendricks and James Bowman and working under the leadership of Leopold Hager, Pierre Cao and Robert King. In 1996, he was a founding member of Théâtre National du Luxembourg which he led until June 2006. He is currently the director of Luxembourg’s Institut Européen de Chant Choral. Since 2007, he has been a memb

Carin Bartosch Edström

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Carin Bartosch Edström (born 1965 in Malmö) is a Swedish composer and author, and is especially interested in opera. Biography Bartosch Edström had an international upbringing. Though she spent some time in the United States, she lived in Rome, Italy and Lund, Sweden for most of her childhood. While in Italy, she received voice training. Bartosch Edström studied composition with Rolf Martinsson, Hans Gefors, Lars Ekström, Lars-Erik Rosell, and Sven-David Sandström. She graduated from Lund University’s Malmö Academy of Music in 1999 with a degree in composition. She founded the Skanör/Falsterbo chamber music festival and was director of the Musica Vitae chamber music orchestra in Växjö from 1990 to 1992. In 2000, she was elected to the Society of Swedish Composers. In 2011, Edström’s debut crime novel, Furioso, was published. It followed the action surrounding the lives of a Swedish female string quartet. Compositions ;Stage *Trassel på tråden, Opera (1999); libretto by the composer *Huvudsaken (The Main Thing), Opera in one act (2005); libretto by Kerstin Perski ;Orchestral *Playtime for string orchestra (1996) ;Wind band *Cyd Cybersonix Meets Webby Web Webster (1998) ;Concertante

Carl Faia

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Carl Faia (born 1962 at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma) is an American composer and live electronics designer and performer. Faia studied composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Florida State University and the Royal Danish Academy of Music on a Fulbright grant. Some of his past teachers include Edward Applebaum, Peter Racine Fricker, Per Nørgård and Karl Aage Rasmussen. Later, he participated in masterclasses with Tristan Murail, Philippe Manoury and Harrison Birtwistle. Since 1995 he has been active as a live electronics designer working at IRCAM in Paris, at the CIRM in Nice where he has also been studio manager and a freelancer. He has collaborated with numerous composers including James Dillon, Jonathan Harvey, Harrison Birtwistle, Fausto Romitelli, Luca Francesconi, Alejandro Viñao, Philippe Leroux, as well as the National Jazz Orchestra of France. He has collaborated with artists to present new works with computer electronics in various festivals throughout Europe including Ars Musica (Brussels), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Musica (Strasbourg), Agora (Paris), Gaida (Vilnius), MaerzMusik (Berlin), Lille 2004 as well as the Casa da Música (Porto, Spain

Carl Ludwig Hübsch

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Carl Ludwig Hübsch (born 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German jazz and improvisation musician who plays tuba. Life and career Hübsch initially learned clarinet, then switched to drums, and in 1983 changed from clarinet to tuba. He studied largely as an autodidact, but also studied percussion, voice, and electronic music as well as harmony and music theory at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg. He was later a guest student in the composition class of Johannes Fritsch at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He has founded his own groups, including Primordial Soup with Frank Gratkowski, Michael Griener, and Axel Dörner. Together with Gratkowski, Matthias Schubert, and Norbert Stein, he was one of the four leaders and composers of the James Choice Orchestra. In 1994, he founded the group Post No Bills with Chris Weinheimer, Tom Lorenz, Robert Schleisiek, and Ole Schmidt, which focuses on improvised music and contemporary music, performing works such as John Cage’s “Variations” and “Number Pieces” and Christian Wolff’s “Exercises”. Since 1989, Hübsch has collaborated with musicians including Arthur Blythe, Lester Bowie, Jasper van ’t Hof, Paul Lytton, Hannes Zerbe, Willem Breu

Carl Schimmel

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Carl Schimmel is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He has been awarded the Joseph H. Bearns Prize from Columbia University, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University, a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other honors. An album of his compositions, Roadshow, was released in 2017. Education and early career Schimmel was born in 1975 in Pensacola, Florida and raised in Wakefield, Rhode Island. He received degrees from Case Western Reserve University (B.A. Mathematics & Music, 1997), Yale School of Music (M.M. Music Composition, 1999), and Duke University (Ph.D. Music Composition, 2008). His mentors at these institutions included Martin Bresnick, Stephen Jaffe, and Sydney Hodkinson. Career Schimmel’s music has received numerous awards including the Lee Ettelson Award, first prize in the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble competition, a First Music Award from the New York Youth Symphony, and first place in the Clefworks Composition Competition. His music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, Alarm Will Sound, Da Capo Chamber Players, and many other ensembles. A

Carl Wittrock

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Carl Wittrock (born 1966 in Goor) is a composer, conductor, music educator, violinist and clarinettist from the Netherlands. Biography Wittrock started with lessons in violin and clarinet at the school of music in Goor. He studied music education and conducting at ArtEZ Conservatorium in Enschede. He finished his conducting studies with a variety of national and international conducting courses. Since 1984 Wittrock conducts several orchestras and works as music educator at Twickel in Hengelo. In 1985 he started composing and writes especially for harmony and fanfare orchestra. He was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau on 28 June 2014 by Ank Bijleveld, Commissioner of the King. Compositions * 1989 Antarctica, written for harmony, fanfare and brassband orchestra * 2000 Spanish Dance, written for Alto saxophone (or alto oboe) and harmony orchestra * 2000 The Tournament, written for harmony and fanfare orchestra * 2001 Fanfare for the sun, written for harmony orchestra * 2001 Lord Tullamore, written for harmony, fanfare and brassband orchestra * 2001 The African Connection, written for harmony, fanfare and brassband orchestra * 2002 Fanfare for a festival, written for harmo

Carla Scaletti

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Carla Scaletti (born April 28, 1956) is an American harpist, composer, music technologist and the inventor of the Kyma Sound Design Environment as well as president of Symbolic Sound. Biography Carla Scaletti was born in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from the public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then completed a Bachelor of Music from the University of New Mexico, a Master of Music from Texas Tech University, a master’s in computer science from the University of Illinois and a doctorate in music composition from the same school. In the 1970s, she worked as principal harpist in the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and composed for acoustic instruments, but later she developed an interest in computer generated music. After completing her education, she worked as a researcher at the CERL Sound Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and later as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois before leaving the university to launch the Symbolic Sound Corporation. Scaletti designed the Kyma sound generation computer language and co-founded Symbolic Sound Corporation with Kurt J. Hebel in 1989 as a spinoff of the CERL Sound Gr

Carlo Forlivesi

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Carlo Forlivesi (born 23 October 1971) is an Italian composer, performer and researcher. Forlivesi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied at Bologna Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome. He then joined IRCAM (Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) and subsequently DIEM (Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music), Tokyo College of Music, and Northwestern University, with fellowships from the governments of Italy, Denmark, Japan, and the United States (Fulbright Commission). His activity has mainly focused on new music in Europe, the United States, and Japan. Forlivesi has conducted extensive research in the field of traditional Japanese music and dance including the ethnic music of the Ainu. Beside contemporary music, he cultivates a particular interest in early music, which he studied and performed for several years. Forlivesi has collaborated with first-class performers and received numerous awards. His music is regularly programmed by festivals and theatres worldwide. Several times nominated artist-in-residence, lecturer, workshop coach, and music–contest judge, Forlivesi’s international stance is reflec

Carlo Pedini

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Carlo Pedini (born 19 June 1956) is an Italian classical composer. Life Born in Perugia, Pedini taught himself music from the age of 13, before studying with Fernando Sulpizi at the Perugia Conservatory, Franco Donatoni in Siena and Salvatore Sciarrino in Città di Castello. He now teaches at the Perugia Conservatory, having previously taught in Avellino, Adria and Pesaro. Since 1980 Pedini has won prizes in numerous competitions. In 1995 his orchestral piece Il Cantico dei Cantici (“The Song of Solomon”) won a prize at the “2 August” competition in Bologna. In September 1990 the RAI National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vittorio Parisi took part in the 42nd Prix Italia in Palermo, playing Pedini’s Predica agli Uccelli (“Sermon to the Birds”) for soprano, piano, synthesised voice, tape and orchestra on a text by Lucio Lironi and Claudio Novelli. In 1993 the RAI commissioned his dramatic oratorio Il Mistero Jacopone (the story of Jacopone da Todi, the greatest Italian poet before Dante) for four voices, baritone, medieval instruments, chorus and orchestra, performed by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karl Martin, with the voice of Jacopone Mario Scaccia. In 2004 t

Carlos Sandoval

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Carlos Sandoval Mendoza (born 1956, Mexico City) is a Mexican/German multidiscipline artist mostly recognized for his work joining technology and a Gestalt approach to the art of music composition, multi channel video, time-lapsed performance, AI-assisted art and Ink-Pen Drawing. Michael Zwenzner describes him as a “Socio-critical magician of the extended-multimedia instrumental theater.” On more recent Sandoval’s work, Davood wrote: " … Each piece, whether sound or video art, music composition or intricate drawings, reflects an artist who is as much a global citizen as he is a silent observer of the internal human odyssey". Life and work Sandoval was born in an archetypal barrio in downtown Mexico City. Since his childhood, he was exposed to harrowing social and cultural conditions which were later reflected in his work. In 2009 he became a German citizen and now holds a dual Mexican-German passport/nationality. Having abandoned his music studies at Escuela Nacional de Música UNAM 1976-79, Sandoval went on to study composition, analysis and theory, privately, with Julio Estrada (1985–90). He also assisted and took part in private sessions with several other composers. In Europe

Carlos Simon (composer)

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Carlos Simon (born 1986) is an American composer of Western classical music. He is the composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center, inaugural composer chair for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and associate professor at Georgetown University. Early life and career Simon, who is of African American heritage, was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Atlanta. He is the son of a preacher and grew up in a household where he was forbidden to listen to anything other than gospel music. He said that gospel’s improvisatory nature was a critical influence in the development of his own compositional style, He completed degrees at Morehouse College and Georgia State University; he continued doctoral studies at the University of Michigan with Michael Daugherty and Evan Chambers. Formerly on the music faculty of Spelman College and Morehouse College, in 2019 Simon became a professor in the department of performing arts at Georgetown University. In 2024, the Boston Symphony Orchestra appointed Simon the inaugural Deborah and Philip Edmundson Composer Chair, a position lasting three-seasons in which he will lead educational and outreach concerts, collaborate with Andris Nelsons to curate program

Carlos Stella

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Carlos Stella (born 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine composer. Training and career Self-taught in composition, Stella studied piano at the Buenos Aires National Conservatory of Music and in 1985 he was invited by Krzysztof Penderecki to the Cracow Academy of Music. Back in Buenos Aires he received other scholarships from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and the Fundación Antorchas and began to work for the Teatro del Sur with director Alberto Félix Alberto. He lives in Berlin, Germany, since 1999. His style is notable for combining multiple elements of heterogeneous musical traditions like gagaku, Noh and kabuki, sequences and tropes, ragam thanam pallavi, baroque and rococo, kebyar, military bands, Thai piphat, circus music, gamelan, organa, tango, Tibetan ritual music, etc. and for exploring the possibilities of variation, imitation, parody, montage, transcription, copy, quotation, paraphrase, trope and recurrence. Typical is also his use of ideas like kaleidoscope, labyrinth, mosaic, spiral, echo and mirror. Works * the frog, the moon, buddha and I, after haiku by Basho, Issa, Buson and Shiki, for female voice and piano * transformation of an own theme in another one by beet

Carlos Villalobos (composer)

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Carlos Jonathan VillaLobos, Jr. (born January 28, 1975) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist musician, who writes and produces original music for rock and pop artists, and composes modern orchestral music for trailers, television shows and films. Career Esperanza Esperanza is VillaLobos’s Latin-new age flamenco project, on which he performed all instruments, and engineered, recorded, produced, and mixed the albums, with guest guitarist Andre Barboza appearing on both La Esperanza and Esperanza II (2001), and bass player Rob Hagopian on the first release, La Esperanza. The group released its self-titled debut LP on the Higher Octave label on September 22, 1998. JazzTimes described the album as “swirling, fleet flamenco guitar work meets modern dance rhythms with many rewarding layers to uncover”. In 1999, the group appeared on the compilation album Chicago Rapid Transit: Grooves 99 with a remix track named “Spanish Eyes/Flamenc Tronic Mix”. The season finale of Sex and the City, “Ex and the City”, which aired on October 3, 1999, featured four Esperanza songs: “La Punta”, “El Loco”, “Love & Lust”, and “Cara Mia.” La Esperanza released Esperanza II on July 17, 2001, again

Carly Paradis

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Carly Paradis is a Canadian-British composer, songwriter, and pianist. She composes soundtracks for movies, TV series and solo albums. In 2007, she worked with film composer Clint Mansell arranging piano parts on Mansell’s soundtrack for the film Moon directed by Duncan Jones, and played all piano on the official score and soundtrack. As of 2022, Paradis has been playing keyboards for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Career Background Paradis was born in Hamilton, Ontario and raised in nearby Stoney Creek. She was formerly in a Canadian pop/rock duo called Oceanship. The group released one self-titled album. Film and television scoring She worked alongside Clint Mansell, arranging piano in the 2009 feature film The Rebound starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. She composed the score to the 2010 Steven Seagal film Deadly Crossing and his 2011–2012 television series True Justice. In 2010 she composed the score to the BBC Two documentary Davis v Taylor: The ‘85 Black Ball Final, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1985 World Snooker Championship final which was hosted by her husband Colin Murray. She composed the theme to BBC’s drama Line of Duty, the ITV prequel series Prime Suspect 1973,

Carola Bauckholt

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Carola Bauckholt (born 21 August 1959) is a German composer. She was born in Krefeld, West Germany. She worked at the Marienplatz Theater in Krefeld and studied music with Mauricio Kagel at the Cologne College of Music and Dance from 1978–84. Bauckholt in 1985 co-founded Thürmchen Verlag (literally, “Turret Publications”), a publisher of experimental music in Cologne, and in 1991 co-founded the affiliated Thürmchen ensemble, also in Cologne. In 1990-91, she attended the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart on scholarship, in 1992 the Schreyahn Artists’ Colony in Lower Saxony and in 1997 the Villa Massimo in Rome. Honors and awards * Young Composers of North Rhine-Westphalia * Bernd Alois Zimmermann Today * Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship from the City of Cologne (1986) * Chosen for ISCM World Music Days (1987) * Cologne-New York Exchange (1989) * West German Radio Competition (1989) * Carl Maria von Weber Competition (Dresden 1992/3) * :de:GEDOK GEDOK (Federation of German & Austrian female Artists’ Associations) International Orchestral Competition (1994) * Stuttgart Composers’ Competition (second prize) * Boswil International Composers’ Competition (second prize) * Chosen for

Caroline Charrière

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Caroline Charrière (26 December 1960 – 1 October 2018) was a Swiss composer, conductor, flautist and educator. From 2000 on she concentrated on composing, creating chamber music, choral music and orchestral pieces. In 2001, she established her reputation as a composer with the oratorio Le livre de Job (The Book of Job) for mixed choir, bass, soprano and orchestra. Her works have since been performed widely in Switzerland and abroad. Biography Born in Fribourg, Charrière studied transverse flute at the Lausanne Conservatory under Pierre Wavre, earning diplomas in teaching (1982) and concert performance (1984). She also began studying orchestration and composition in Lausanne under Jean Balissat, followed by post-graduate study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. She received her orchestral conducting diploma from the Lausanne Conservatory in 1994. Charrière taught the flute at the Fribourg Conservatory, established the “Choeur de Jade”, a female choir, became the director of other Fribourg choirs and composed her own works. As a result of increasing interest in her compositions, in 2000 she decided to concentrate first and foremost on composing. Charrière

Caroline Shaw

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Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She is a founding member of the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. In 2013 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices, and received the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Narrow Sea. She also won the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for her Rectangles and Circumstance. Early life and education Caroline Adelaide Shaw was born on August 1, 1982, in Greenville, North Carolina. She is related through her mother to Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins from then-Siam (now Thailand), who are her great-great-grandfather and great-great-great-uncle. At two years old, Shaw began playing the violin, being initially taught the Suzuki method by her mother Jon, a violinist and singer. Early influences included the choir of her local Episcopal church and the organist there who frequently played Bach. NPR’s Elena Saavedra Buckley notes that Shaw’s “personal place of worship was in front of her Sony boombox radio. She would call into the classical station and request a

Carolyn Yarnell

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Carolyn Yarnell (born 1961) is an American composer and visual artist. A recipient of the Rome Prize, Charles Ives Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is particularly noted for works which combine visual and musical depictions of landscape and light, many of which were inspired by the landscapes of her native California. Background Yarnell grew up in the Sierra Nevada region of California. She studied composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music in 1986 and at Yale University where she received her master’s degree in 1989. Yarnell is a long-time member of the Common Sense Composers Collective who via collaborations with groups such as the New Millennium and American Baroque ensembles have premiered many contemporary works by their members and other composers. The collective has produced several CDs including TIC (2007) and The Shock of the Old (2002). The latter featured contemporary compositions played on baroque period instruments. Selected works *The Same Sky, for piano, electronics and video projection (2000) * Symphony No. 1. *Living Mountains, tone poem for orchestra *Film score for La Souriante Madame Beudet (1927 silent f

Carsten Bo Eriksen

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Carsten Bo Eriksen (born 2 October 1973) is a Danish composer, pianist, guitarist, vocalist, and producer. He works both under his own name and under the artist monikers My Beautiful Decay 1973 and Secretly Dead . His music ranges from neoclassical and electroacoustic works to dark, experimental rock, and he is known for a personal and distinctive sonic signature that blends acoustic and electronic elements. Eriksen’s music has been streamed many millions of times on streamingplatforms, and in 2025 he received his first gold record for streaming under the name My Beautiful Decay 1973. Education and Background Eriksen holds a degree in composition from the Royal Academy of Music as a composer (1997–2003), pupil of Professor Ib Nørholm, Ivar Frounberg and Hans Abrahamsen and he has also studied at Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts, US. He works within contemporary music, electroacoustic music, neoclassical music, and experimental pop, and has distinguished himself with a style that combines melodic clarity, timbral depth, and both pulsating and atmospheric structures. Eriksen has additionally studied the Balinese gamelan music in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, with the musician Pak Tam

Cassandra Miller

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Cassandra Miller (born Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada, 1976) is a Canadian experimental composer currently based in London, UK. Her work is known for frequently utilising the process of transcription of a variety of pre-existing pieces of music. She has been widely commissioned by international orchestras, ensembles and soloists, and has won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music twice, in 2016 and in 2011. In 2019, writers of The Guardian ranked her Duet for cello and orchestra (2015) the 19th greatest work of art music since 2000, with Kate Molleson writing, “Miller is a master of planting a seed and setting in motion an entrancing process, then following through with the most sumptuous conviction.” Since 2018, she has been Professor of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK. Education Miller studied with Christopher Butterfield at the University of Victoria (2005) and at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague (2008) with Richard Ayres and Yannis Kyriakides before studying privately with Michael Finnissy in 2012. Miller returned to academic research in 2014, as a PhD candidate at the University of Huddersfield, supervised by Dr Bryn Harrison a

Caterina Barbieri

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Caterina Barbieri (born September 14, 1990) is an Italian composer and musician. Education Barbieri studied electroacoustic composition and classical guitar at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna, in which she earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree, respectively. She also has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Bologna with a thesis in ethnomusicology about Hindustani classical music and minimalism. Music career 2010s Barbieri’s work explores consciousness and the psychoacoustic effects of repetition. Most of her compositions make use of modular synthesis, and she was first inspired by the Buchla 200, though she has stated she is less interested in the hardware and prefers to focus on the music itself. She is often cited as a minimalist composer and takes a no-frills approach towards composition. From 2013, she attended the Elektronmusikstudion electronic music studios in Stockholm and, after releasing a split album under the name Morbida with Medicine Bow (2014), composed and produced her solo debut album Vertical, released in 2014 by Cassauna, a sub-label of the U.S.-based Important Records. Since 2016, Barbieri has collaborated closely with Berlin’s hi

Catherine Delaunay

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Catherine Delaunay (born 31 October 1969) is a French jazz clarinet player and composer, best known as a leader of Y’en a qui manquent pas d’air. She is also a member of the French Laurent Dehors’s big band “Tous Dehors”. Biography Delaunay grew up in Brittany, France. She started studying the clarinet at the age of six in a local music school. Later on, she studied the piano (1978–1985) and drums (1991 and 1994). She then studied music at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rennes. From 1989 to 1995, she studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon (CNSMD). She studied the clarinet with Jacques Di Donato (where she passed the Diplôme National d’Etudes Supérieures Musicales of clarinet in 1993), Chamber Music with Jacques Aboulker (where she passed the Certificat d’Etudes Spécialisées of chamber music in 1993), Contemporary music (where she passed the Certificat d’Etudes Complémentaires Spécialisées “Atelier instrumental du XXème siècle” in 1993), Composition, Musical Analysis and Harmony with Loïc Mallié, and 5 keys clarinet and chalumeau with Jean-Claude Veilhan (where she passed the Certificat d’Etudes Complémentaires Spécialisées de clarinet ancienne e

Catherine Lamb

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Catherine Lamb (born 1982 in Olympia, Washington) is an American composer and violist, and a winner of the 2020 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. Career Lamb describes her music as exploring “the interaction of tone, summations of shapes and shadows, phenomenological expansions, the architecture of the liminal (states in between outside/inside), and the long introduction form”. Most of her works explore extended harmonic spaces in just intonation. Lamb explained her compositional philosophy in The Wire: “I follow the philosophy that the most intense sound is not the most intensive… I don’t agree with those who believe that sounds need to be pushed in order to be physical, or that they need to be loud in order to hear difference or summation tones. Particularly when working with particular tonal colourations and shadings, the more the tones are played in a plain and relaxed manner with room to blossom, the more expressive and generative they might become.” Lamb was also the film score composer for Anhe Ghore Da Daan. She has collaborated with Éliane Radigue, Marc Sabat, and Johnny Chang; received commissions from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Dedalus, Ensemble Musi

Cecilia Chailly

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Cecilia Chailly (born February 2, 1960) is an Italian harpist, composer, singer and writer. Biography Chailly was born in Milan, Italy into a family of Romagnol and French descent. She is the daughter of the composer Luciano Chailly, and sister of the conductor Riccardo. She studied musical composition with Azio Corghi at the musical conservatory in Milan. At the age of 19, she became first harp at La Scala. Afterwards, she collaborated with Giorgio Strehler’s Piccolo Teatro and played in many concerts, culminating with her debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Along her career, she collaborated, among others, with John Cage, David Parsons, Mina, Andrea Bocelli, Fabrizio De André, Teresa De Sio, Giorgio Conte, Lucio Dalla, Ron, Morgan, Planet Funk, Gianni Morandi, Le Vibrazioni, Alex Britti, Hector Zazou. She pioneered the use of the electric harp in Italy, performing the album Stanze (BMG Ricordi, 1992), composed by Ludovico Einaudi. Some of the tracks in the album were later used for the soundtrack of the film Fuori dal mondo (1999) by Giuseppe Piccioni. In 1997, Chailly was awarded the Premio De Sica (De Sica Prize) for her album Anima (Warner, 1996), recorded in California in coll

Cecilia Damström

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Cecilia Damström (born 28 July 1988) is a Finnish award-winning composer. She is known for expressing strong political opinions through her works for orchestra and choir. Career Born in Helsinki, Damström studied composition at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (2008–2014) and at Malmö Academy of Music (2014–2015 and 2017–2018) under the instruction of Hannu Pohjannoro and Luca Francesconi. Damström’s music has been performed by the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Brodsky Quartet, among others Damström has won the first prize at the International Vocal Espoo Choral Composition Competition, the International Linköpings Studentsångare Composition Award and the International Josef Dorfman Composition Competition. List of works Orchestra * Extinctions (2023), sinfoniaorkesterille, 20 min * Wasteland (2022), symphony orchestra, 20 min * ICE (2021), symphony orchestra, 10 min * Fretus (2021), string orchestra, 10 min * Nixus (2020), symphony orchestra, 10 min * Lucrum (2018), symphony orchestra, 7 min * Tundo! (2016/2018), symphony orchestra, 10 min * Infirmus (2015), string orchestra, 7 min * Unborn (2012–2014), symphony orchestra, 10 min

Cem Adrian

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Cem Filiz (born 30 November 1980), better known by his stage name Cem Adrian, is a Turkish musician of Bosniak descent, singer-songwriter and record producer. Early life His father was a merchant, while his mother was a housewife. Adrian was born to a family from Bosnia in Edirne, as the second child of his parents. His real name is Cem Filiz. Adrian chose his stage name after Adrianople, the name of Edirne in ancient times. He later met Fazıl Say through Demet Sağıroğlu, and with Say’s invitation, he enrolled in Bilkent University’s Department of Performing Arts. Career Career beginnings In 2003, he worked as a soloist and dancer for the group Mystica. In February 2005, he released his first album, Ben Bu Şarkıyı Sana Yazdım. This album includes the songs which Adrian had recorded by himself between 1997 and 2003 in Edirne. In January 2006, he started working on his second self-produced album. Aşk Bu Gece Şehri Terk Etti, which contained 13 songs written by himself, was released in December 2006. Artists Umay Umay, Denizhan and Suicide were featured on three of the album’s songs. In 2008 he released two albums, Seçkiler (Essentials) and Emir, and produced the music for Abdullah Oğ

Chage

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, known professionally as Chage, is a Japanese musician and radio personality. He was born in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture. He dropped out from Japan University of Economics. He is also a singer-songwriter, and he is the main vocalist and lyricist-composer of Chage and Aska. Discography Albums Original albums Best albums Project albums Limited albums Live albums Singles As Yuko Ishikawa and Chage Original singles Limited singles Videography Books, photo collections Limited editions Fan clubs Filmography Radio Television Guest Advertisements References External links ; Official website * ; Record companies * * this deals with his released works until 2000 ; Blogs * (25 March 2009 –) * (8 October – 26 December 2008) ; Regular radio programmes * ; Related * *

Chañaral Ortega-Miranda

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Chañaral Ortega-Miranda (born 1973) is a Chilean composer of classical music. Born in Arica, Chile, in 1973, Ortega-Miranda was exiled in France for the first six years of his life. After studying musical theory and composition in Buenos Aires from 1989 to 1993, he attended Sergio Ortega’s composition classes at the École Normale de Musique de Paris until 2000. He then attended the Conservatoire de Strasbourg where he studied with Ivan Fedele. He participated in the annual Musiques à l’encre fraîche festivals from 1993 to 2000. He has also worked with Jonathan Harvey, Michael Jarrell, Zoltán Jeney and Péter Eötvös at the Acanthes Centre and participated in the composition session at the Fondation Royaumont: Voix Nouvelles with Brian Ferneyhough and Stefano Gervasoni. Ortega-Miranda is a cofounder of the Association Syntono, Boulogne-Billancourt, which supports the composition and promotion of contemporary music. Q’inti, his award-winning composition for orchestral ensemble, is inspired by an Inca legend. Works *Q’inti, orchestral ensemble (2004) *Oba ’loube oba ‘ye, guitar and live electronics (2002) *Kelleñutún, cello solo (2001) *Tzinin-oc, soprano, mezzo=soprano, tenor, baritone

Chancha Vía Circuito

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Pedro Pablo Canale, better known as his stage name Chancha Vía Circuito is a producer, DJ/remixer and composer, from Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fusion of electronic music and cumbia is key factor of Chancha Vía Circuito’s music. He explores the minimal side of digital cumbia with inspiration from Afro-dance, murgas, minimal dub, IDM, and downtempo. Computer bleeps share sonic space with folkloric chant. Candombe drums are accompanied by the sample of a machete splicing the air and a vocal line of indigenous bebop is layered over hints of dub. Canale launched an EP “Bienaventuranza remixes”, with collaborations from Nicola Cruz, El Búho, Rafael Aragon and Baiuca. He released an album in December 2018 with his project “Pino Europeo”, in collaboration with accordion player Chango Spasiuk. Since 2010 Chancha Vía Circuito is one of the favorite artists of NPR’s Alt.Latino. Discography Source: Albums * Rodante (2008) * Río Arriba (2010) * Los Pastores Mixtape (2010) * Amansara (2014) * Bienaventuranza (2018) * Pino Europeo (2018) * La Estrella (2022) Singles & EPs * Bersa Discos (2008) * Rodante (2008) * Bosques Via Temperley (2008) * Semillas EP (2012) * Coplita (2014) * Amansara

Chanyeol

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Park Chan-yeol (; born November 27, 1992), better known mononymously as Chanyeol, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group Exo, its sub-group Exo-K and sub-unit Exo-SC, and debuted as soloist on August 28, 2024, with his first extended play (EP) Black Out. Apart from his group’s activities, Chanyeol has also starred in various television dramas and movies such as So I Married an Anti-fan (2016), and Secret Queen Makers (2018). Early life Park Chan-yeol was born on November 27, 1992, in Yeokchon-dong, Eunpyeong District, Seoul, South Korea. He attended Hyundai High School in Apgujeong-dong, Seoul. He has an elder sister named Park Yoo-ra, who is a former announcer at South Korean broadcasting station YTN, and MBC. Chanyeol was admitted to a private acting institution when he was sixteen years old, where he became good friends with Block B’s P.O. After watching School of Rock in elementary school, Chanyeol became interested in music and soon began playing the drums. Chanyeol wanted to be a singer after listening to Unconditional Kismet by Yoo Young-jin. Chanyeol has cited Jason Mraz and Eminem as his bigge

Char (musician)

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, known professionally as Char, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is considered one of Japan’s greatest guitar players. In 2003, Char was ranked by HMV at number 38 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. Rolling Stone Japan ranked his album Psyche number 36 on their 2007 list of the greatest Japanese rock albums of all time. Char came in third in a 2011 goo poll on who the Japanese people thought was the best guitarist to represent the country. Char was named the greatest Japanese guitarist in a 2017 list by Guitar Magazine, as voted on by professional musicians, and in a 2019 public poll held by goo. His song “A Fair Wind” was named the 34th best guitar instrumental by Young Guitar Magazine in 2019. Char endorses Fender, with whom he has signature model guitars. He also has signature models with ESP. Career Char started learning piano in elementary school, and playing guitar at age eight. Although he listened to various guitarists, it was Eric Clapton who got him hooked on the instrument. At 17, Char formed the band Smoky Medicine in 1973 with Mari Kaneko. In 1976, Char made his solo debut on Canyon Records with the single “Navy

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

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Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick was an American soprano and presenter. A recipient of two bilateral (double) lung transplants, she spoke and performed frequently at concerts, conferences and events around the United States. Early life Tillemann-Dick was born in Denver, Colorado, the fifth of eleven children, including siblings diplomat and technologist Tomicah S. Tillemann, and author Levi Tillemann. She received a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Regis University and studied music at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where she was also a Fulbright scholar. Music A full lyric coloratura soprano, Tillemann-Dick performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia in venues as diverse as The Rose Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; Severance Hall in Cleveland, Ohio; The National Symphony Hall in Budapest, Hungary; the American Embassy in Beijing, China; and the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol. She collaborated or performed with noted conductors and musicians including Bruno Rigacci, Joella Jones, Marvin Hamlisch, Bono, Zoltán Kocsis, Joan Dorneman

Charles Deenen

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Charles Deenen (born 15 January 1970 in Holthees), is a Dutch video game audio director, composer, sound designer, and mixer. He wrote music created sound effects for many Commodore 64 and Amiga games, in addition to working for Interplay, Electronic Arts, and other video game developers. Video games In 1987, Deenen, Jeroen Tel, and others started the sound and music group Maniacs of Noise and composed game music for the Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari ST, being hired by Sega, U.S. Gold, and Probe Software. Initially he was a programmer for the group, while Tel was the composer, but after their first few games he began working on music as well. He composed music for the home computer versions of Double Dragon, Soldier of Light, and Jukka Tapanimäki’s game Zamzara. Maniacs of Noise composed the music for over 300 Commodore 64 and Amiga games. In 1990, he moved to the US and worked for Virgin Games for six months. In 1991, Interplay hired him where was a composer and sound designer on Fallout 1 and Fallout 2, Another World, Planescape: Torment, The Lost Vikings, and Descent 2. In 2002 he left Interplay and briefly worked for Shiny on Enter the Matrix. Other work Deenen also works on s

Charles Gavin

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Charles de Souza Gavin (born 9 July 1960) is a Brazilian drummer and music producer, perhaps best known for his 25-year tenure with rock band Titãs. Before Titãs, he had brief stints at Ira! and RPM. Early life and first works At age 8, his friends invited him to participate on 7 September (Brazil’s Independence Day) festival. The problem was the absence of decent percussion instruments. So, the school decided to improvise these with kitchen utensils. But there was still an instrument remaining, which would be quite difficult for a not so skillful drummer to play. Gavin, who was already used to beat the table at school, was chosen for the job. The band, commanded by Gavin, won the originality prize. In 1975, at the year of 15, living in Jabaquara, Gavin joined ten neighbors, and during the weeks that preceded the Carnaval, they promoted noisy beats around the streets. However, his ears were focused on the discs of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Once the drumming life was chosen, he built himself his first own drum kit, using pieces of his father’s Opala, his sofa, and two ash trays. In 1979, when he was 19, Gavin convinced his father to buy his first true d

Charlotte Bray

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Charlotte Bray (born 1982) is a British composer. Her work has been performed by The Royal Opera, London Sinfonietta, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Biography Charlotte Bray was born in 1982 and raised in High Wycombe. She then completed a Master of Music with Distinction in composition at the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Mark-Anthony Turnage. She participated in the Britten–Pears Contemporary Composition Course in 2007 with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews, and Magnus Lindberg and studied at Tanglewood Music Center in 2008. resulting in a piano quartet commission for Cheltenham Music Festival for which she wrote Replay. She was also winner of the 2014 Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Prize. Bray was appointed Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Sound and Music Apprentice Composer-in-Residence for 2009/10, during which time violinist Alexandra Wood and the BCMG premiered her violin concerto Caught in Treetops under conductor Oliver Knussen. Her orchestral work Beyond a Fallen Tree (a UBS Soundscapes: Pioneers commission)was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding on 23 May 2010. Her song cycle Verre de Venise (fo

Chaya Czernowin

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Chaya Czernowin (, ; born December 7, 1957) is an Israeli American composer and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is the lead composer at the Schloß Solitude Sommerakademie, a biannual international academy of composers and resident musicians at the landmark Schloß Solitude, in Stuttgart, Germany. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. Education and early career Czernowin was born in Haifa and raised in Israel. She studied in Israel, Germany, and the United States. She also received fellowships to compose in Japan and in Germany. Czernowin studied at the Rubin Academy of music at Tel-Aviv University, Bard College, and received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1993. At UCSD, she studied with Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds. Czernowin spent several years after her formal studies on residencies and fellowships in Japan, Europe, and the United States. She was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2003. From 1997 to 2006, she was professor of composition at UCSD, and between 2006 and 2009 she was professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Musical works Source: Early works *Dam Sheom Ha

Chelsea Chen

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Chelsea Chen (born December 30, 1983, in San Diego) is an internationally renowned American organist and composer. Chen has been successful in establishing a concert career in North America, Europe and Asia. She has composed several original compositions, and has adapted music ranging from major classical repertoire to video game soundtracks to Taiwanese folk songs for the organ and other instruments. Education and career Chen began piano studies at a young age, studying with Jane Smisor Bastien and Lori Bastien Vickers. At age 15, she began studying organ, first with Leslie Robb, and later with Monte Maxwell, Chapel Organist for the United States Naval Academy. After only two years of lessons, she was accepted into the Juilliard School, where she studied first with John Weaver and then with Paul Jacobs, completing her undergraduate degree in 2005 and her graduate degree in 2006. In 2006, she was accepted for a Fulbright Fellowship and spent the next year composing and performing in Taiwan, where she played an important role in increasing exposure to the pipe organ in that country. In 2007, she was accepted into the Artist Diploma program at Yale University, where she studied with

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

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Cheryl Ann Frances-Hoad (born 1980) is a British composer. Early life Frances-Hoad began composing at the age of eight while studying cello and piano at the Yehudi Menuhin School. She graduated from Gonville and Caius College (Cambridge University) with a Double 1st in 2001 and an MPhil (with Distinction) in Composition, also at Cambridge. Composer She has had two ballets choreographed by Lynn Seymour and Geoffrey Cauley; the second was performed by Scottish Ballet in the Britten Theatre, London. Her commissions include works for the BBC, the Surrey Philharmonic, the Manchester International Cello Festival, the Chard Festival of Women in Music, the Bass Club, Bass Fest and the Almeida Festival. In 2000 the Cambridge Music Festival commissioned a work to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death, which was performed by the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Nicholas Daniel. In November 2001 Frances-Hoad had her first chamber opera, broken lines: sonata for opera, premiered by the New Cambridge Opera Group, as part of the Britten@25 Festival, with generous funding from the R.V.W. Trust. June 2002 saw two premieres: the Spitalfields Festival commission (a

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee

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Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (, born 1970) is a composer of contemporary classical music. Lee is originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and is currently an invited professor of composition at Ewha Womans University, in Seoul, Korea, She received a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan, two master’s degrees from Ohio University, and a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan. Her teachers included William Albright, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Yen Lu, Mark Phillips, Yann-Jong Hwang and Loong-Hsing Wen. She has previously taught music at Johnson County Community College, Washburn University, Rhodes College, and the University of Michigan, and is currently on the faculty of the University of South Florida. She has received numerous honors; these include winning the 1st Brandenburg Biennial Composers Competition , the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harvard Fromm Music Fellowship, Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation commissions, Theodore Front Prize from International Alliance for Women in Music, ISCM/League of Composers Competition, International Festival of Women Composers Composition Prize, Florida Artist Enhancement Grant, Arts Council of Hillsborough County Individual

Chihiro Fujioka

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is a Japanese video game designer, composer, and rock drummer. He has worked at Xtalsoft, Square, and AlphaDream where he is primarily known for directing Super Mario RPG as well as his involvement in several Mario & Luigi games. He is currently a member of Earthbound Papas, a band led by Nobuo Uematsu. Career Fujioka began his career as a sound designer and composer at Xtalsoft in 1983 and quickly distinguished himself in a management capacity. He first collaborated with Ryuji Sasai on the soundtrack to Mugen no Shinzou III. When Xtalsoft was absorbed to become the Osaka branch of Technology and Entertainment Software in 1990, Fujioka became a director of the department. His first work with Square was as director of Final Fantasy Legend III on which he work with Sasai again on the soundtrack. Fujioka left Square in 2000 with a number of other employees to form AlphaDream, where he directed a number of their early games, including Tomato Adventure and a number of Hamtaro games, as well as helped design multiple Mario & Luigi games. In addition to his game development work, Fujioka served as a drummer for a progressive rock band called Mr. Sirius. He also joined Nobuo Uematsu’s band

Choi Hyun-suk

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Choi Hyun-suk (; born April 21, 1999) is a South Korean rapper, singer and dancer under YG Entertainment. As a member of boy band Treasure, Choi debuted on August 7, 2020, with the single album entitled The First Step: Chapter One. He is also known for his television appearance as a contestant on Mix Nine (2017–2018). Life and career 1999–2016: Early life Choi Hyun-suk was born on April 21, 1999, in South Korea. He is the eldest in his family and has a younger sister. 8-year-old Choi (Korean age) first discovered rap and hip hop in first grade through Big Bang’s documentary The Beginning (2006), In result, he solely fixated his eyes on the hip hop label, YG Entertainment. or alternatively become a footballer, stemmed by his interest in the sport in result of his stance as an avid fan of Real Madrid CF. Preceding his interest in hip hop, Choi also joined a choir in fifth grade, following a family tradition situated in elementary school, as a sopranist and won first place as its school representative in contests. In his adolescence, he enrolled at an academy for lessons and attended a private audition held by YG Entertainment through the facility; as a result, Choi was successfully r

Choi Si-won

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Choi Si-won (; born April 7, 1986 ), known mononymously as Siwon, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, model, and actor, known for his work as a member of South Korean boy group Super Junior. Choi was a special representative for UNICEF Korea from 2015 to 2019, before being chosen as a UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office ambassador in November 2019. Aside from being a member of Super Junior, Choi has also ventured into solo activities, mainly acting. He played lead roles in the Korean dramas Oh! My Lady (2010), Poseidon (2011), Revolutionary Love (2017), My Fellow Citizens! (2019), and Love Is for Suckers (2022) and had supporting roles in Athena: Goddess of War (2010), The King of Dramas (2012), She Was Pretty (2015), and Bloodhounds (2023). Choi has also participated in various Chinese language films such as Helios, To the Fore, and Dragon Blade. Early life Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea, on April 7, 1986. He has one younger sister, Ji-won. His father was the former CEO of Boryung Medicine, a pharmaceutical company. Choi graduated from Apgu Jeong High School in February 2006 and from Inha University in February 2012 alongside fellow member Kim Ryeowook. Career Choi

Chris Botti

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Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album Impressions. He was also nominated in 2008 for his album Italia and received three nominations in 2010 for the live album Chris Botti in Boston. Four of his albums have reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard jazz albums chart. Coming to prominence with the 2001 recording of his Night Sessions album, Botti established a reputation as a versatile musician in both jazz and pop music for his ability to fuse both styles together. Early life Botti was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Corvallis, although he also spent two years of his childhood in Italy. His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher. He started playing the trumpet at nine years old, and committed to the instrument at age 12 when he heard Miles Davis play “My Funny Valentine”. In 1981, he was selected as a member of McDonald’s All American High School Jazz Band, which marked his first Carnegie Hall performance. At the age of 17, he ended up at Mount Hood Community Colle

Chris Cummings

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Christopher Allen Thomas Cummings (born August 11, 1975) is a Canadian country music artist. In his career, he has released five studio albums, one compilation album, and one extended play. Several of his singles have charted on the Canadian country charts, including the Number One hits “Sure Enough” and “The Kind of Heart That Breaks”. Biography Chris Cummings began performing in 1980, at the age of five years. In 1990, Chris released an independent CD, which found its way to Reprise Records president Jim Ed Norman, who signed him on in 1992. At age 17, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed. His first single, “I Waited,” was released in Canada in the fall of 1995, and shot into the top 5. Produced by Jim Ed Norman and Rick Scott, Chris released his debut CD, Somewhere Inside, on June 18, 1996. The second single, “Sure Enough,” went straight to No. 1. Follow-up songs “Somewhere Inside” and “Almost Always” also reached the top 5 in Canada reaching No. 3 and No. 4 respectively, and the album was certified gold. Chris’ second CD, Chris Cummings, was released in both the United States and Canada on February 24, 1998. Since 7 of the songs were already on Chris’ Canadian debut,

Chris Hung (composer)

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Chris Hung (洪銘健; born 13 April 1977) is a Hong Kong composer and teacher. Early life and education Chris Hung was born on 13 April 1977 in Hong Kong. He pursued research in the field of composition. In 2009, Hung obtained the Doctor of Music degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the tutelage of professors Chan Wing Wah and Victor Chan. Music compositions Hung’s creative outputs amount to over 70 works, including orchestral and large-scale ensemble works. His works have appeared in over 20 countries in various contemporary music festivals, such as the 2015 ISCM World Music Days in Slovenia, the 2016 Beijing Modern Music Festival in China, and the 2017 Music Biennale Zagreb in Croatia. In 2015, Chris Hung was invited to compose “Variation of Chung Chi College Theme Song” to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2016, he composed “We Are All Jubileans”, a theme song celebrating the 55th Anniversary of his alma mater, Bishop Hall Jubilee School. Style and reception Hung’s music is often mixed with order but contains a palette of chaotic complexity. His compositions are inspired by a fusion of Western and Eastern

Chris Jones (American musician)

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Chris Jones (November 11, 1958 – September 13, 2005) was an American singer and guitarist who worked mainly in Europe, having moved to Germany after he joined the United States Army. He often recorded with the German audiophile label Stockfisch Records. Biography Christopher Paul Jones was born in Reno, Nevada. At the age of five, he began playing the guitar. A few years later, he decided to become a professional musician, and when he was 11 years old, he was admitted to a program at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. There he discovered Johann Sebastian Bach, to whom he dedicated his student composition “Sonata in D”, and for which Jones was awarded the conservatory’s “Young Composer of the Year” award. Shortly thereafter, he discovered the blues and started listening to Robert Johnson, James Taylor, and Little Feat. In 1976, Jones joined the U.S. Army and was stationed in Adenine’s, Germany. During this time, the foundation for his musical career in Europe was laid. Over the following decades, he played guitar on albums of artists such as Sara K., Allan Taylor, and Reinhard Mey. He toured and recorded solo and with the blues harmonica musician Steve Baker.

Chris Newman (artist)

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Chris Newman (born 1958 in London) is an English-born contemporary composer, painter, author and performance artist. He lives in Berlin. Biography Newman is an experimental interdisciplinary artist using the medium of music, painting, video, drawing and literature. From 1976 to 1979 he studied music at King’s College London, taking a Bachelor of Music. During this time he met the Russian poet Eugene Dubnov and started to translate Russian poets (Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov), this process of translating proving important for his later work (e.g. from one medium to another / from life to art). Started writing own poems in 1979. Moved to Cologne, Germany, in 1980 to study with Mauricio Kagel (New Music, Theatre / Video) at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. First public performance singing own songs in 1982. Founded chamber-punk rock band Janet Smith in 1983; met Morton Feldman in 1984. First concerts and video showings: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Theater am Turm, Frankfurt; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Cooper Union, New York. Started to paint in 1989, which led (from 1994) to the two medium installations; in recent years presented paintings in a more sculptural a

Chris Tilton

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Chris Tilton (born June 9, 1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American soundtrack composer and has helped compose several television, film and video game scores. He has collaborated with Michael Giacchino and J. J. Abrams on several of his projects. His projects include the video games Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Black, Fracture, SimCity, Assassin’s Creed Unity, and the television series Zoo and Fringefrom season 2 to season 6. He also collaborated with Giacchino and Andrea Datzman for J. J. Abrams’ series Undercovers,. He also composed the score for the serie “From” Video games References External links * Official web site *

Chriss Rune Olsen Angvik

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Chriss Rune Olsen Angvik (born 12 August 1988 in Molde, Norway) is a Norwegian musician (guitar and vocals) and composer, and known from the bands Red Hot and Envy and the current member of Point and the former member of backing band guitarist and composer for Nico & Vinz. Career Angvik started the R&B band Red Hot together with friends from Romsdal in 2006. In 2008 they were invited to play together with Vidar Busk at the international festival Moldejazz. He won the final of the Emergenza festival 2011, with the band Envy (Nico & Vinz). Residing in Oslo, Angvik led his own band Chemical Music. Honors *2011: Emergenza festival winner within the band Envy (Nico & Vinz) Discography ;With Red Hot *2008: Hotter Than Georgia Asphalt (Bluesnews Records) *2010: My Arrival EP (Bluesnews Records) ;With Envy alias Nico & Vinz *2012: The Magic Soup and the Bittersweet Faces (Universal Music Group) *2014: Black Star Elephant (Warner Bros. Records) Point *2021: Icon *2022 :Echo *2022 : “Hold Me Now " and “The Fire” *2023 Marionette References External links *Red Hot Website

Christian Biegai

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Christian Biegai (born 14 December 1974) is a film composer, sound designer and saxophonist. Education He studied music at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Royal College of Music in London and at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States. Career He has written film scores for feature films, documentaries, TV drama and animated films. Whistle (2002), directed by Duncan Jones, was shown at festivals around the world, including several broadcasts on Film Four. In 2004, he refined his audio-post production skills under the leadership of Frank Verderosa at Planet V, New York City. Working with digital artist and multimedia producer Helena Bulaja resulted in composing and recording the score for the fairytale Regoch (2006), which can be heard on the release of “Croatian Tales of Long Ago, Part Two” and collaborating in Helena Bulaja’s latest project about Nikola Tesla, which features Laurie Anderson and Terry Gilliam amongst other artists. Christian composed the score for director Marc Meyer’s film Sunday, in August, which was broadcast on France 3, and won the Minister of Art Promotion Prize at the Film Festival in Dresden in 2005. The same year he teamed up with New York-ba

Christian Dierstein

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Christian Dierstein (born 1965) is a German percussionist and academic teacher. He has performed internationally as a soloist and as a regular chamber music player with ensemble recherche and Trio Accanto, performing several world premieres. who commissioned several new compositions. In 2012, the pianist was succeeded by Nicolas Hodges. He also performed at the Wiener Festwochen, the Munich Biennale, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, and the Biennale di Venezia. He played Stockhausen’s Refrain in the Studio Neue Musik of the broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Dierstein participated in several world premieres of compositions by Manos Tsangaris, including in 1998 of Drei Orte with the Trio Accanto at the MusikBiennale Berlin, and in 2000 Initium in Rümlingen. In 2007, he played the world premiere of Beat Boxer, a composition for solo percussion and narrator by Manfred Stahnke. At the 2007 Donaueschinger Musiktage, Dierstein and the ensemble recherche played several world premieres, recorded by the SWR. Dierstein wrote compositions for radio plays and theatre productions. As a soloist and chamber musician, Dierstein participated in radio and CD recordings. He has recorded works by Wolfga

Christian Henson

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Christian Henson is a British composer, primarily working on television and film soundtracks. He has also soundtracked video games, and is the co-founder of Spitfire Audio with fellow composer Paul Thomson. Henson has been nominated for a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello Award for his music. Early life Henson is the eldest son of actors Una Stubbs and Nicky Henson. His half-brother Keaton Henson is also a composer. His uncle was the farmer and television presenter Joe Henson and Adam Henson is his cousin. His great-uncle was the cricketer Geoffrey Howard. His great-great-grandfather was Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement and the first garden cities Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City. His paternal grandfather was the English actor and comedian Leslie Henson, who was perhaps best known for founding the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) during the Second World War. As a child, Henson acted in the 1980 film Never Never Land. After attending Holland Park Comprehensive in the 1980s, Henson worked for three years as a baker, with a home studio that he used in his spare time. He suffered a brain haemorrhage at 25, gave up his bakery job and moved into music a

Christian Jost (composer)

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Christian Jost (born 17 October 1963) is a German composer and conductor. He has served as composer-in-residence for several German orchestras; in 2003, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. In 2009, Jost was described by Musical Opinion as “one of the most exciting young composers at work in Germany today.” Biography Born in Trier, Jost studied in Cologne from 1983 to 1988 and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1988 to 1989. Between 1996 and 1998, he frequently visited China, where he collaborated with a number of orchestras. He has been composer in residence of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Grafenegg Festival. His opera Hamlet, commissioned by the Komische Oper Berlin in 2008 and premiered there in 2009, was voted “World Premiere of the Year” by the German music magazine Opernwelt. In 2020, his opera Egmont was premiered at the Theater an der Wien as part of the theatre’s Beethoven Year. Family Jost was married to the German mezzo-soprano Stella Doufexis, who died in 201

Christian Lindberg

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Christian Lindberg (born 15 February 1958) is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer. Biography Early life and career Lindberg was born in Danderyd. As a youth, he learned to play the trumpet, and subsequently began to learn the trombone at age 16. He originally borrowed a trombone to join his friends’ Dixieland jazz group, inspired by records of Jack Teagarden. He attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, where his teachers included Sven-Erik Eriksson. By age 18, he had obtained a professional position in the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra. At age 20, he left his orchestral career behind to study to become a full-time soloist. He studied with John Iveson at the Royal College of Music (1979–1980) and with Ralph Sauer and Roger Bobo in Los Angeles (1983). Professional career In 1981, Lindberg won the Nordic Soloists’ Biennale competition. His concert debut was in 1984 with the Trombone Concerto by Henri Tomasi. That same year, he signed a 3-CD recording contract with BIS Records. His first solo recording was “The Virtuoso Trombone”. Lindberg has recorded over 60 albums, for BIS and several other labels. His musical collaborators in Sweden have included pianist Roland Pöntine

Christine Ott

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Christine Ott (born 10 August 1963) is a French pianist, vocalist, ondist, and composer. She was a member of Yann Tiersen’s band for eight years and played in classical orchestras for ten. She has collaborated with Tindersticks, Syd Matters, and Jean-Philippe Goude. Ott has released four solo albums: Solitude Nomade in 2009, Only Silence Remains in 2016, Chimères (pour Ondes Martenot) in 2020 and Time to Die in 2021. She also composed the soundtrack for F. W. Murnau’s Tabu in 2016. She has created several live soundtracks shows, including for Lotte Reiniger’s movies and Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North. Ott formed the duo Snowdrops with Mathieu Gabry in 2015. Together, they composed the original score for Manta Ray, by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, and in 2020, they released the album Volutes, on Injazero Records. The Guardian selected the release among its ten best contemporary discs of 2020, writing, “what’s remarkable is how radically different Christine Ott manages to make the ondes sound on each track: from a primeval, guttural sound on the 13-minute Odysseus to a chirruping boy soprano on Ultraviolet.” Discography Solo * Solitude Nomade (2009) * Only Silence Remains (2016)

Christine Southworth

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Christine Southworth (b. Boston, Massachusetts, January 2, 1978) is an American composer of postminimal music and works with combinations of Western ensembles, electronics, and world music ensembles including Balinese gamelan and bagpipes. She performs Balinese gamelan and gender wayang with Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Gamelan Galak Tika, as well as Galician Gaita and Great Highland Bagpipes. She co-founded Ensemble Robot, a cooperative of engineers, artists and musicians working together to invent robotic musical instruments. She was also the general manager of Gamelan Galak Tika from 2004 through 2013. Her own music incorporates her work with Balinese gamelan and with technology and electronics, as well as reaching beyond these influences with an expanded palette of contemporary classical, jazz and rock, and world music from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Southworth has released four albums on Airplane Ears Music: Zap! Music for Van de Graaff Generator, Tesla Coils, Instruments and Voices (2008), Gamelan Galak Tika: Bronze Age Space Age (2009), Christine Southworth: String Quartets (2013). and In My Mind and In My Car (2013). Southworth’s compositions have been performed thr

Christoph Brüx

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Christoph Brüx (born 13 December 1965) is a German sculptor, painter, composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger and music producer. He composed for artists such as No Angels, Matthias Reim, The Underdog Project (Summer Jam), Brooklyn Bounce etc., and he also composed film scores. Biography Brüx was born in Sonsbeck (North Rhine-Westphalia). Until 1985 he went to school (Städtisches Stiftsgymnasium Xanten). Following his talent in music, he early began taking piano lessons and later he graduated at a music conservatoire. Brüx was composing for several interpreters such as: *Bro’Sis: whose first album Never Forget (Where You Come From), which Brüx took part in, has been released to the public in January 2002, scored in Germany platinum. *No Angels: the album Pure where he took part in, rose to No. 1 in the German album charts and No. 3 and No. 9 in Austria and Switzerland. He wrote music for several films (also industry and corporate videos): *TKKG – Der Club der Detektive was nominated in 2007 for the attendance at the German children media festival Goldener Spatz. Already in the youth his sensitivity showed up in relation to its environment. His large respect for nature particularly

Christoph Silber

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Christoph Silber (born 26 April 1975, in Berlin) often credited as Chris Silber, is a German-American author, filmmaker and performer. Silber works and lives in the United States. Early life Silber spent most of his childhood and youth in Germany. Raised bilingual, he studied in London and Berlin. His mother Christa Schuenke is a philosopher and literary translator; his foster father Maik Hamburger was a Shakespeare scholar and dramaturge. Career In 1995 the Vienna Burgtheater asked him to adapt Puccini’s Tosca for a stage production. Silber’s screenwriting career began in European television in the mid-1990s. Silber worked as a writer of sitcoms as well as crime series. Silber has collaborated on numerous films, including the award-winning Good Bye, Lenin!, North Face, Arranged and My Last Day Without You, for which he also co-wrote several songs performed by Nicole Beharie. He also wrote scripts for the Enid Blyton-based Hanni & Nanni franchise. Several of his contributions to German television like Tatort “Schwanensee” have broken ratings records. Based in Los Angeles since 2012, Silber has been honoured by the Vilcek Foundation as “an immigrant filmmaker…whose creative spirit

Christoph Staude

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Christoph Staude (born 30 September 1965) is a German composer. Life Born in Munich, Staude studied 1984–86 at the University of the Arts with Witold Szalonek and in 1986–91 at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Rolf Riehm and Bernhard Kontarsky. Since 1995, he lives as a freelance composer at the near Neuss. There, he initiated the series Hombroich: New Music in 1997. He received commissions and radio productions from SWR Baden-Baden for the Donaueschinger Musiktage, WDR Cologne for the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, HR Frankfurt, SDR Stuttgart, BR Munich and the AUDI-AG-Kulturfond, Ingolstadt. Honours *1992 Stipendienaufenthalt im Deutschen Studienzentrum Venedig *1986/87 Preisträger beim Wettbewerb der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart für junge Komponisten *1987 1. Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb des International Center of New Music Sources (ICONS), Turin *1988 Preisträger beim Kompositionswettbewerb des Trio Basso Köln; 2. Preis beim Wettbewerb der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart *1999 2. Preis beim Kompositionswettbewerb der musik-theater-werkstatt am Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden *2003 Preisträger im internationalen Kompositionswettbewerb der Elisabe

Christoph Wigelbeyer

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Christoph Wigelbeyer (born 1973) is an Austrian choir director, conductor, singer and music educator. Life Born in Wels, Wigelbeyer completed singing school, piano and violin in his hometown and at the Linz Bruckner Conservatory within the framework of the Upper Austrian promotion of young talent. This was followed by teacher training in music education and instrumental music education with a focus on singing and choral conducting, as well as three years of solo singing training at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, in addition to which he completed master classes and private lessons. In 1998, in his diploma thesis, he portrayed Ernst Ludwig Leitner, also born in Wels. A year later, he also wrote an essay about Leitner in the Österreichische Musikzeitschrift. He sang, among others, in the Wiener Kammerchor and the Wiener Singverein (directed by ) and in the Vocal Ensemble Company of Music (conducted by ). On piano, he can be heard on Nancy Van de Vate’s 1998 album Vol. IV together with Elke Eckerstorfer and Sybille Bouda, among others, with the piece Contrasts for two Pianos, six Hands (1984). With Eckerstorfer, he also played the Little Suite for twenty fingers op

Christophe Bertrand

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Christophe Louis-Pascal Bertrand (24 April 1981 – 17 September 2010) was a French composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Bertrand, a French pianist and composer of mainly chamber works, was born in Wissembourg in 1981. After earning gold medals for piano and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, he performed and recorded with the Ensemble “Accroche-Note” and the Ensemble “In Extremis” of which he was a co-founder. He collaborated with composers such as Ivan Fedele and Pascal Dusapin. He studied composition since 1996, under the supervision of Ivan Fedele at the Strasbourg Conservatoire, obtaining with distinction his diploma in 2000. His compositions, conducted among others by Pierre Boulez, Jonathan Nott, Hannu Lintu, Marc Albrecht have been performed by several ensembles and soloists such as the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Arditti Quartet and the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. His compositions have been played internationally, amongst others in: * France: Festival Musica, IRCAM, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Festival Agora, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salle Olivier Messiaen de la Maison de Radio France, etc. * Germany: Beethovenfest Bonn, Ultraschall-

Christophe Julien

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Christophe Julien is a French composer of film and television music, largely classical, twice-nominated for César Award for best original film music. Background Christophe Julien was born on November 14, 1972, in Dijon Côte-d’Or, France. At the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris he studied under guitarist Alexandre Lagoya in harmony, counterpoint, 20th-century music, and chamber music. At the Sorbonne University 1, he studied Indian music and musicology. Career Julien’s first musical creations were for cinema: short films, documentaries, and commercials. The first commercial success came in 2008 with the comedic Vilaine (film), which began his collaboration with Albert Dupontel on Le Vilain, followed by 9 mois ferme (2013) and Au revoir là-haut (2017, with score nominated for the 43rd César Awards in 2018). He also composed music for Irena Salina’s documentary Flow: For Love of Water, which showed at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. In 2009, he began collaborating with film director Éric Bernard on the adventure film 600 kilos d’or pur. In 2011, he worked with director Emmanuelle Millet on the period piece La Brindille. In 2021, he was nominated twice, first for C

Christophe Looten

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Christophe Looten (born 5 April 1958) is a French composer. Born in Bergues, he was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in January 2000. Biography Looten has been composing since the age of seven, when he began to study music with the local organist. A student of the École du Louvre, he graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris. Having won numerous prizes, he began a career as teacher, and was appointed professor of musical analysis and history at the Regional Conservatoire of Limoges, as well as conducting a course in aesthetics at the city’s University. Made Pensionnaire de l’État in 1987, he spent two years in residence at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. After his stay in Spain, he was awarded the Bourse Lavoisier, a grant that enabled him to go to the United States, where he obtained several fellowships. As composer in residence at Wellesley University in 1991, he won both the Prix Alea and the Prize for Composition of Besançon for his Third String Quartet. Returning to France, he decided to devote himself entirely to composing, and went on to receive various prizes (SACEM, Jolivet, etc.). He was several times invited as composer in residence at the Round Top Festival Insti

Christophe Rezai

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Christophe Rezai (; born 1966 in Toulouse) is a French-Iranian composer living in Tehran since 1994. Career He was born from an Iranian Father and a French mother in 1966 in the city of Toulouse in France. He has studied music (piano, vocal and theory) along with engineering and marketing. Since 1987 he has recorded around 300 tracks for Iranian television advertisement. He has composed soundtracks for long film, short films as well as documentaries and has worked with director like Dariush Mehrjui, Mani Haghighi, Shahram Mokri, Safi Yazdanian, Rassoul Sadr Ameli and many others. He initiated a baroque music ensemble (Aria Music) in 1996, giving concerts in Iran & India. The group’s first album, ALBA was recorded in Firouzabad Palace. The group performance in Vahdat Hall (2007) has been considered as one of the best Iranian-Western fusion music works ever. References External links * Nour ensemble’s Official Website

Christopher Adler (musician)

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Christopher Adler (born 1972) is a musician, composer and music professor at University of San Diego. A virtuoso player of the khaen, a reed instrument native to Laos and Thailand, he has been composing works for the khaen both as a solo instrument and in combination with western instruments since 1996. His works for solo piano include the three-part Bear Woman Dances, commissioned to accompany a dance depicting a Korean creation myth and largely based the Korean musical system nongak. Four of his compositions have been broadcast internationally on WGBH’s Art of the States series. His composition for sheng, viola and percussion, Music for a Royal Palace, was commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project. An homage to Thailand’s Bang Pa-In Palace, the work incorporates traditional Thai melody and embellishments. It was performed at Zankel Hall in 2006 and recorded at the Tanglewood Music Center that same year. His Serpent of Five Tongues for sheng and guanzi (traditional Chinese instruments) premiered at the 2011 MATA Festival. Biography Adler was born in Mountain View, California and grew up in Falls Church, Virginia. He developed a connection with music at a young

Christopher Cerrone

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Christopher Cerrone (born March 5, 1984) is an American composer based in New York City. He was a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a 2014 Fromm Foundation commission recipient, a 2015 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition, two Grammy Awards nominations, and has received numerous awards from ASCAP. Biography Cerrone was born in Huntington, New York, United States. He studied music composition at the Manhattan School of Music with Nils Vigeland and Reiko Fueting, and then earned his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Yale studying with Martin Bresnick, David Lang, Christopher Theofanidis, Ingram Marshall, and Ezra Laderman. In 2014 Cerrone’s opera Invisible Cities based on Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities was produced by the Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry, the LA Dance Project, and Sennheiser. The production received glowing reviews and had a sold-out run of performances. Cerrone has received commissions from ensembles including eighth blackbird, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Present Music, and he has been the Composer-in-Residence with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and with Exploring the Metropolis/ConEdison. Cerrone was a founding member and co-Artistic Dire

Christopher Fox (composer)

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Christopher Fox (born 10 March 1955) is an English composer and writer on music. Biography He studied at the universities of Liverpool, Southampton and York, where his teachers included Hugh Wood and Jonathan Harvey. He received a PhD in composition from the University of York in 1984. From 1984 to 1994 he was a member of the composition staff at the Darmstadt New Music Summer School. He is currently Professor in Music at Brunel University, a post he took up in 2006. His music is widely performed, broadcast and recorded. He is also a prolific writer on music. In addition to concert works, Fox has collaborated with artists on gallery works, and with the poet Ian Duhig on a “musical box”. An important aspect of Fox’s music is its stylistic breadth—whilst his principal considerations may seem to be with systems music and adopting a systematic approach, his music also serves a political function, is deeply rooted in the post-war Darmstadt traditions of applying psychological and intellectual models to the structure and content of music and at the same time exists in a world of diverse musical attitudes, including references to the popular arts, to historical music and to cross-cultural

Christopher Gordon (composer)

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Christopher John Gordon (born 1956) is an English-born Australian composer and politician best known for his film scores, but has also received major classical commissions. His film scores include, Ladies in Black (2018), Mao’s Last Dancer (2009), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and On the Beach (2000). Political career In 2016, Gordon ran for the Arts Party in the City of Ryde based seat of Bennelong, achieving 1.08% of the vote. In 2017, he was elected as councillor on the East Ward of the City of Ryde for the Greens and was chosen as deputy mayor, serving a single term in 2017–2018. Gordon sought re-election for a second term on Council on 4 December 2021, but was unsuccessful. Awards and nominations Gordon has won national awards for composition, both in Australia and overseas. - 1998 Moby Dick (Christopher Gordon) APRA Awards: Best Television Theme - rowspan=“3” 2000 rowspan=“3” On the Beach (Gordon) Australian Screen Music Awards: Best Music for a Mini-Series or Telemovie - Australian Screen Music Awards: Best Original Title Theme for a Series, Serial or Mini-Series - Australian Screen Music Awards: Best Soundtrack Album - 2001 When Good Ghouls Go Bad (

Christopher Jessup (composer)

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Christopher Marshall (composer)

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Christopher Marshall (born 1956 in Paris, France) is a New Zealand classical music composer who resides in Orlando, Florida, United States. His works include choral works, works for chamber ensemble, orchestral music and works for concert band, specifically wind ensembles, for which he is most notable. His most notable composition to date is L’homme armé: Variations for Wind Ensemble. Works ;For orchestra *The Song of Gaia, chamber orchestra (1987) *Eastman Overture, orchestra (1996) *Chaconne, orchestra (1998) *Hikurangi Sunrise, orchestra (2000) *Te Rerenga, orchestra (1998–2003) *Symphonic Reflections, orchestra (2010) ;Band ensemble / Wind ensemble *Aue!, wind ensemble (2001) *L’homme armé: Variations, wind ensemble (2003) *U Trau, 2 wind ensembles and chorus (2004) *Okaoka, wind ensemble (2004) *Resonance, wind ensemble (2005) *Rondorlando, wind ensemble (2007) *You’ll Never Walk Alone, soprano and wind ensemble (2007) arrangement of Rodgers song *Dare To Hope, wind ensemble (2009) *An Emily Dickinson Suite (9 miniatures), wind ensemble (2009) *Light, 13 wind instruments/wind ensemble (2010) *Heat Shimmer, wind ensemble/brass (2011) ;For Chamber *Schumannesque, cello choir (19

Christopher Mayo

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Christopher Mayo (born 1980) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Toronto, Mayo studied at the University of Toronto where he was awarded the Glenn Gould Composition Prize and the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship and earned an Honours Bachelor of Music Degree. Mayo relocated to London in 2003, where he studied with Julian Anderson and in 2004 obtained a Master of Music in Composition from the Royal College of Music. In 2011 Mayo obtained a PhD in composition from the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Philip Cashian. Mayo has received numerous awards including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize in 2005 Mayo’s work has been commissioned and performed by numerous ensembles and organizations such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tête à Tête Opera), Ensemble contemporain de Montreal, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) and L’arsenale, Motion Ensemble, Handel House Museum, Michael Collins and the Dante Quartet, , and the MATA Festival. which won the 2009 Gramophone Contemporary Award. Mayo’s music has been performed at festivals such as B

Christopher North (composer)

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Christopher North Renquist (born February 6, 1969), known professionally as Christopher North, is an American composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, conductor, producer, and educator. Working most notably as a film composer, he has also composed and written for orchestra, theater, and dance, His songs are heard around the globe on children’s television, in films, on radio, and on streaming platforms. North has conducted at Carnegie Hall, sang at Lincoln Center and played in Broadway theater as a bassist and guitarist. Biography Sources: Born Christopher North Renquist in Austin, Texas, on February 6, 1969, Christopher North is a multi-instrumental composer and singer-songwriter based in New York City. As a composer his works have been performed at venues in Europe (London, Berlin and Edinburgh) and the US (Texas, California, Illinois, Ohio, Hawaii and New York) including collaborations with filmmakers (Tribeca, Big Apple and SXSW Film Festivals), theater companies (including Workshop Theater, NY and Edinburgh Fringe), choreographers (Wave Hill, Joyce SOHO) and concerts including the 92nd Street Y. His children’s songs can be heard on the Disney Channel and Noggin, wh

Christopher Slaski

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Christopher Slaski (born 3 September 1974) is a composer who has created music for films, television, theatre and live performance. He is a past recipient of the award for Best Young European Film Composer presented by the World Soundtrack Academy in Ghent and in 2017 his score for A Good American was nominated for best music by the Austrian Film Academy. He is a member of the European Film Academy. Early life and education Slaski holds a music degree from Cambridge University and a postgraduate in composition from London’s The Royal Academy of Music. He also attended master classes by Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy and studied conducting with Lawrence Leonard. Career Slaski has written scores for feature films, including Kevin Spacey’s Beyond The Sea, The Pianotuner Of Earthquakes, the Spanish romantic-comedy Semen, una historia de amor, The Asylum, and the thriller Proyecto Dos. In 2009 he scored the Goya-nominated The Shame, by Spanish writer-director David Planell and in 2011 Rue Huvelin. Slaski’s score for the Spanish-French film Cuadrilatero, performed by the Brodsky Quartet, won awards at four international film festivals. In 2011 he won the

Christopher Tambling

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Christopher Tambling (13 May 1964 – 3 October 2015) was a British composer, organist and choirmaster. From 1997 to 2015 he was Director of Music at Downside School and organist and Choirmaster of the Schola Cantorum at Downside Abbey, leading the choir to international success. Life He received his musical education from Malcolm McKelvey at Christ’s Hospital in Horsham, Sussex and at St Peter’s College, Oxford. He later became the city organist and conductor of the Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of Glenalmond College in Perth, Scotland. His organ pupils have gone on to continuing success, including scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge. Tambling died in Somerset in 2015 and was survived by his wife and two sons, both of whom are professional musicians. Works Tambling established himself as a composer and arranger of choral and organ works especially, well beyond the borders of his country. His compositions are often characterized by a romantic, expressive and an easy to get style. His main publisher in the UK was Kevin Mayhew and in German-speaking countries Dr. J. Butz. Tambling published books for students of various instruments, including a hugely successful 4 four-volume

Christopher Theofanidis

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Christopher Theofanidis (born December 18, 1967, in Dallas, Texas ) is an American composer whose works have been performed by leading orchestras from around the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the National, Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, and many others. He participated in the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program with Barry Jekowsky and the California Symphony from 1994 to 1996 and, more recently, served as Composer of the Year for the Pittsburgh Symphony during their 2006–2007 Season, for which he wrote a violin concerto for Sarah Chang. the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, six ASCAP Gould Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Tanglewood Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Fellowship. Theofanidis composed the ballet Artemis, which was premiered on May 20, 2003, by the American Ballet Theatre with choreography by Lar Lubovitch. He also wrote the orchestral work Muse for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (as part of their “New Brandenburg” series), which they premiered on December 1, 2007 at Carnegie Hall. His opera Heart of a Soldier, concerning 9/11, was prem

Christopher Tin

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Christopher Chiyan Tin (born May 21, 1976) is an American composer and conductor. His work is primarily orchestral and choral, often with a world music influence. He is a two-time Grammy Award winner, and has won various awards for his work in video game soundtracks and studio albums. Tin is best known for his work on title themes for the Civilization video game series, specifically the main theme “Baba Yetu” from the video game Civilization IV, which, at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011, became the first piece of video game music to win a Grammy Award. This Grammy win has been considered a significant milestone for the critical acceptance of music from video games, and following this win the Recording Academy retitled their visual media categories to become more inclusive of video game soundtracks, before eventually creating a dedicated Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media in 2022. Early life and education Tin was born May 21, 1976 in Palo Alto, California, to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. He attended Stanford University, and had a brief period as an exchange student at the University of Oxford. He double majored in music comp

Christopher Trapani

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Christopher Trapani (born 1980) is an American/Italian composer of contemporary classical music. In 2007 he won the Gaudeamus Award of the Dutch Gaudeamus Foundation. A CD of his music, Waterlines, was released in 2018. A second release of Waterlines by the Ictus Ensemble was named one of the top 5 classical releases of 2020 by De Standaard. In 2021–2022 he was a visiting assistant professor at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Reception In 2007 Trapani won the Gaudeamus Award for young contemporary composers for his composition Sparrow Episodes, for ensemble with solo electric guitar, which was performed in the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam by the Asko Ensemble under Étienne Siebens, with Trapani on guitar. In September 2008, his commissioned piece Üsküdar was performed in the same hall by the Nieuw Ensemble. His composition Rust and Stardust was performed during the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow in 2015; the Guardian reviewer found it “accomplished and dreary”, while The Scotsman spoke of “kaleidoscopic explosions that … gave structure and shape to its insistently concise material”. Also in 2015, Trapani was among the recipients of a C

Chu Ishikawa

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was a Japanese composer and musician, best known for creating the soundtracks of many films by Shinya Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike. He also founded industrial music groups Der Eisenrost and Zeitlich Vergelter. Soundtracks *Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) *Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) *Tokyo Fist (1995) *Fudoh: The New Generation (1996) *Bullet Ballet (1998) *Gemini (1999) *Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) *A Snake of June (2002) *Vital (2004) *Haze (2005) *Nightmare Detective (2006) *Nightmare Detective 2 (2008) *Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2010) *Kotoko (2011) * Fires on the Plain (2014) * Killing (2018) (posthumous) * Shadow Of Fire (2023) (posthumous) References External links * * * * *

Ciarán Farrell

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Ciarán Farrell (born 1969, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish composer who has been active in his field since graduating from Trinity College Dublin in 1997. He has composed works for orchestra, ensemble, choir, and solo instruments, as well as for TV and film productions. Early life and education Farrell was raised in a music-loving household and growing up he studied piano and clarinet at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. In his teens, he took up the guitar and later went on to study the classical guitar at the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama. He received his degree in music from Trinity College Dublin, and he also took classes with Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Composition career Farrell has received commissions from the BBC, RTÉ Performing Groups, RTÉ lyric fm (RTÉ Concert Orchestra with actor Barry McGovern), saxophonist Gerard McChrystal, the Smith Quartet, Katie McMahon, Concorde Contemporary Music Ensemble, and John Feeley, amongst others. He has also worked with Irish dance theatre companies, Cois Ceim and Irish Modern Dance Theatre. Farrell has also worked on numerous TV and film productions including the inte

Clare Loveday

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Clare Loveday (born 22 March 1967) is a South African contemporary classical music composer. She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and has worked as a professional pianist, a composer for the South African advertising industry, and co-ordinator for the National Research Foundation’s Travelling Institute for Music Research. Loveday has also worked as a lecturer in music theory and composition at the University of the Witwatersrand. She was composer in residence at the 2014 Johannesburg International Mozart Festival. Biography After having graduated from University of the Witwatersrand with a bachelor’s degree in Music, Loveday landed a career for a few advertising companies, two of which are Standard Bank and South African Broadcasting Corporation. She returned to school in the late 1990s, and became a part-time lecturer. Once she achieved her master’s degree in Music Composition, she started to collaborate with other artists and compose her own music and is most known for her saxophone pieces. Clare Loveday then became a full-time lecturer at Wits University, while working towards her doctorate in Music Composition. She has been commissioned by several

Clark Ross

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Clark Winslow Ross is a Canadian composer, guitarist, and music educator of Venezuelan birth. A composer of mainly works for orchestra and chamber music, he has won first prize in composition competitions held by the Hamilton Philharmonic (1993, for Passage 1), the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (1993, for Passage 3), Symphony Nova Scotia (2002, for Three Lorca Sketches), and the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters (2002). He has received grants from a number of notable organizations, including the Canada Council, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Bank of Canada among others. His compositions have been performed throughout North America and in Europe. Born in Maracaibo in 1957, Ross entered The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in 1980, earning an Associate diploma there in 1985. While there he studied music composition with Samuel Dolin. He continued with further studies in music composition at the University of Toronto where he was a pupil of John Beckwith. There he earned a Master of Music in 1986 and a Doctor of Music in 1992. In 1988 he was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and held the same

Claude Ledoux (composer)

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Claude Ledoux is a Belgian composer, born in 1960. For many years now, the composer has explored the idea of “musical crossing borders” as he attempts to reflect our fragmented world in his musical processes. As a result, his works has been marked by interactions between contemporary sounds and popular musics, non-European idioms and technology. His recent works, accordingly, demonstrate this interest in the “cultural porosity” in which emotion arises from geographical and historical encounters, linking spirituality to the most sensual aspects of our material existence. Biography - early years Passionated by science and art, Ledoux began at 17 y.o. his studies in painting and graphic Art at the Fine Arts School, coupled with music at the Conservatoire de Liège. There, he met Jean-Louis Robert, Philippe Boesmans, Frederic Rzewski, Henri Pousseur and decided for a musical career. He also carried out research into electronic music at the CRFMW studio (today Centre Pousseur) where he met Tristan Murail at the occasion of seminars. Afterwards, Ledoux pursued his education abroad, notably in Hungary (at Béla Bartók seminar), in Italy (in Bolzano and Venice) where he participated in semin

Claude Lenners

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Claude Lenners (born 1956) is a Luxembourgish composer of mainly chamber and vocal works. In 1999, he founded Pyramide, an association for electronic music. Since 2004, he has headed its successor, Institut de recherche musicale. Biography Born on 11 May 1956 in Luxembourg City, Lenners specialized in computer science before deciding to return to music when he was 23. He studied music and musicology with Alexander Mullenbach at the Luxembourg Conservatory and with François-Bernard Mâche in Strasbourg. He has composed for a number of ensembles including Alter Ego, Asko Ensemble, Cambridge New Music Players, Court-circuit, Ensemble Accroche Note, Ensemble 13 and Ensemble Intercontemporain. His compositions have also been played by the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. Soloists who have performed his works include violinist Irvine Arditti, percussionist Guy Frisch, saxophonists Pierre-Stéphane Meugé and Olivier Sliepen, pianists Oscar Pizzo and Béatrice Rauchs and flautist Manuel Zurria. *Lions Prize (Luxembourg section, 1997) Selected works *Der Turm (2011) *In a Wilderness of Mirrors (2007) *Odyssey Reloaded (2007) *HoMo XeRoX (2006) *Wi

Claudia Brant

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Claudia Alejandra Menkarski (born July 21, 1966), known as Claudia Brant, is an Argentine composer, producer and singer in diverse genres and multiple languages (Spanish, Portuguese and English). Approximately 1,200 of her songs have been recorded by different artists in diverse genres and multiple languages (Spanish, Portuguese, English, Korean and French). She was appointed senior vice president of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame Influenced by her parents, she grew up listening to a diverse range of music, and learned to play the guitar and other instruments. She signed with Warner Music at the age of 22 and released her first two albums with them. The first of them, “Claudia Brant” released it in 1991. It was in 1991 when she won the Festival OTI in Mexico with the song “¿Dónde estás ahora?” (‘Where are you now? )". In 2008, Claudia and Luis Fonsi (with whom she has worked since 2005) composed the song; “No me doy por vencido”, which he also recorded. The song reached # 1 in the United States’ Latin charts, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and most of Central and South America. “No me doy por vencido” was named Billboard Magazine’s “Son

Claudia Molitor

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Claudia Molitor (born 1974) is an English-German composer based in Brighton, East Sussex, England. Biography Born in Germany, Claudia Molitor studied Music and Media at University of Sussex. After an MA in Music at City University London, she completed her PhD in Composition at the University of Southampton in 2004 (her supervisor was Michael Finnissy). She currently lectures in music at City University London. Work Molitor can best be described as a conceptual composer. However, she has composed works for more traditional ensembles, such as Apartment House, and for orchestra (awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award). A fair number of her more recent ‘works’ are collaborations with composer-performers, such as Lemon Drizzle (a duo she formed with Sarah Nicholls) and site-specific works including Singing Bridge for a walk over Waterloo Bridge from Somerset House to the National Theatre in London, and Sonorama for the train journey between London’s St Pancras railway station and Margate. Molitor is inspired by a wide range of music and composers including Pauline Oliveros, to whom her piece Auricularis Superior (commissioned by Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival) is de

Claudia Montero

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Claudia Montero (25 June 1962 – 16 January 2021) was an Argentine composer resident in Spain. Biography Montero studied music at the Alberto Ginastera Conservatory in Buenos Aires. Following her relocation to Valencia, she studied at the University of Valencia. Montero won four Latin Grammy Awards over the years 2014, 2016, and 2018, and the award for best classical album in 2018. She was composer in residence with the Palau de Musica and the Valencia symphony Orchestra in Spain. The world première of Montero’s piano concerto, Concierto en Blanco y Negro, was held in 2017 at the Galway International Arts Festival, with Clare Hammond as soloist. Montero died of cancer on 16 January 2021, aged 58. References External links *

Claudio Capponi

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Claudio Capponi (born 20 May 1959, Rome) is an Italian film composer, music arranger, orchestrator, music producer and violist. Biography Capponi began his musical career at a young age and graduated from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, with high honours in piano, viola and composition. He then became First Solo Violist in the most important Italian orchestras, including the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, and Giuseppe Sinopoli. An accomplished classical musician, Capponi has also performed with chamber music ensembles such as I Musici, I Virtuosi di Roma, Complesso da camera di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra da camera di Santa Cecilia, and Quartetto Filarmonico di Roma, and has toured such music theatres as the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, with soloists such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Uto Ughi. In Italy he has also taught at the Conservatorio di Roma, Pescara and Terni. In the pop and rock world he has performed live with Angelo

Claudio Constantini

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Claudio Constantini is a multiinstrumentalist (pianist, bandoneonist) and composer born in Peru and currently living in Spain. Known for his eclectic nature, he feels at home in a variety of musical genres. He has garnered one of the widest followings on social media for a classical instrumentalist. Biography Claudio Constantini is a performer of two instruments, the piano and the bandoneón, as well as being a composer. Born and raised in Lima (Peru) into a musician’s family, Constantini’s unique style is defined by its solid classical roots paired with a passion for popular music genres, among which Latin American music and improvisation play a key role. He has performed worldwide in top venues, such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, The Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna’s Musikverein, The Los Angeles Opera house, among many others. He has released numerous albums as soloist or leader and has collaborated in dozens of productions for various artists. He was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2019 for his album AMERICA with piano music of George Gershwin and Astor Piazzolla in the “Best Classical Album” category. He initiated his piano studies with his father (Gerardo Constantini) and later rec

Claudio Maldonado (musician)

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Claudio Maldonado, also known as Xunorus (born in 1980), is an Argentine composer, guitarist and arranger, referent musician from the new generation of classical music contemporary composers from Patagonia . Career He is the author of Suite Patagonica, AH!, Colección ( based on Georg ’s paintings), Cantata Instrumental and Tierra del Viento ( based on Eliseo Miciú ’s homonymous book) among others. Since 2003, he has been the artistic director of Energia Sonora. Xunorus has been distinguished among the Top Ten World Composer Performers (Transatlantic Arts Consortium USA-Europe), National Fund for the Arts (FNArtes 2017), Young Creators Award (Department of Culture of the Argentine Nation), La Falda International Guitar Festival 2013, Cotija de la Paz Culture department (2005 Michoacán -Mexico), among others. He has appeared in both facets as a composer and performer in prestigious venues such as: REDCAT Walt Disney Concert Hall 2009 (LA-USA), Lake Theater (Frutillar-Chile 2012), Bariloche Musical Camping (Rio Negro), Colorado Springs Guitar Society (USA), International Guitar Academy Berlin 8th Festival (Germany), International Multimedia Festival (UNLa), 404 International Festival

Cláudio Venturini

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Luís Cláudio Venturini (born 14 August 1958) is a Brazilian guitarist, vocalist and composer. With his elder brother Flávio Venturini, he began his career taking part in the album A Via Láctea of the friend Lô Borges in 1978. One year later he was co-founder of the band 14 Bis, formerly besides his brother Flávio and where he persists nowadays. In 1987, when Flávio left the group, Cláudio became the main vocalist of the band. He composed some of the greatest hits of the band like: Mesmo de Brincadeira (with Vermelho and Mariozinho Rocha), Xadrês Chinês (with Vermelho and Chacal), Sonhando o Futuro (with Lô Borges), song that was recorded again by Beto Guedes and Canções de Guerra (with Sérgio Vasconcellos e Chico Amaral). See also * Clube da Esquina References External links *

Claus Kühnl

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Claus Kühnl (born in Arnstein, Lower Franconia, 17 November 1957) is a German composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher. Life Kühnl is the eldest child of Gudrun Kühnl (née Schmitt) from Lower Franconia and Wilhelm Kühnl who came from the Sudetenland. His musical training began in 1973, first as an external student during his last years of high school and later, as a student at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, studying with Bertold Hummel (composition), Julian von Károlyi (piano), Hanns Reinartz (conducting) and Zsolt Gárdonyi (theory). Important for him at this time were analysis courses in New Music with Klaus Hinrich Stahmer and, from 1978 to 1980, the Student Chamber Orchestra “Musici Allegri”, which he himself conducted. In 1980 he successfully finished his state exam in piano and then moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he continued his studies in composition with Hans Ulrich Engelmann at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. There he met the German composer Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, with whom he founded the Mutare Ensemble in 1981. This Frankfurt-based ensemble specialises in the performance of contemporary music and rarely performed classical music.

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

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Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (born 22 October 1962) is a German composer, editor and author. Career Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough, Klaus Huber and Emanuel Nunes and music theory at the music academy in Freiburg where he graduated in 1992. At the same time, he studied musicology, philosophy with Jürgen Habermas and sociology at university. Later he was influenced by Habermas’s antagonist Peter Sloterdijk and appropriated the idea of a philosophical explanation of the female orgasm (which lacks biological necessity in terms of procreative function) from an email novel Sloterdijk had published three years earlier. In 1993 Mahnkopf was awarded a doctorate in philosophy for his dissertation on Arnold Schoenberg. For his compositions Mahnkopf won numerous international prizes, among them the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1990, the composition prize of the city Stuttgart and the Composers Award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 1998. Mahnkopf went to Rome (Villa Massimo), Italy, Venice (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani), Italy, and Basel (Paul-Sacher-Stiftung), Switzerland, on scholarships. From 2001

Clayton Counts

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Clayton Counts (August 19, 1973 – November 22, 2016) was an American musician and composer, a former DJ, and one half of the experimental band Bull of Heaven. Early life Counts was born with detached retinas in both his eyes. A series of surgeries at a young age complicated this, leaving him blind in his right eye, and weakened in his left. Counts was initially located in Austin, Texas. In the 1990s, Counts became notorious with his prank phone calls to the Austin Community Access Center, in particular Alex Jones’s show. An incident occurred – though with varying claims from both sides – in which Counts was involved in the assault of Jones in a parking lot with three other individuals. As a follow-up, it was claimed that Jones used FBI connections to label Counts a terrorist and claimed he possessed child pornography. Federal agents raided the FringeWare Review bookstore, headquarters of an early cyberculture magazine that Counts wrote articles for. The case was later dropped. In 2000, Counts relocated to Chicago. While there, he met Neil Keener, who would later join Counts in the band Bull of Heaven. DJ work In the 2000s, Counts worked as a DJ to afford a living. He worked at vari

Clémence Quélennec

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Clémence Quélennec (born 6 March 1991, Quimper, France) is a French singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer. Quélennec was primary lead singer for the French “psychedelic-rock” band La Femme approximately 10 years, and became solo in 2019 under the stage name Aja. Clémence Quélennec’s vocals have been described as “dreamy and urgent” as well as “coquettish”. La Femme For the band La Femme, Clémence Quélennec was discovered by the originators, via MySpace, at age 17. Quélennec became part of La Femme’s small group of studio and conceptual singing leads. Band manager Stéphane Le Sciellour, however, specified that Quélennec “…is La Femme’s singer. She’s performing all of the live songs; she goes on tour with them. She is the singer of the band.” During Clémence Quélennec’s time with La Femme, band manager Marlon Magnée noted that Quélennec resembled “…a Vogue cover.” Aja In 2019, Clémence Quélennec chose to leave La Femme to produce her own work in Morocco, and isolate herself in the wilderness. Adopting the stage name Aja, Quélennec has since self-produced an assortment of original compositions, animated shorts, and vocal songs. Clémence Quélennec’s focus is ambient sound. Quél

Cliff Eidelman

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Clifford Glen Eidelman (born December 5, 1964) is an American composer and conductor who has scored films including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. Career Eidelman began his formal training in violin at the age of eight and continued with multi-instrument training ranging from piano and guitar in genres such as jazz to classic music in his youth. After studying music at Santa Monica College and the University of Southern California, he scored his first feature film Magdalene in 1989. His breakthrough composition was the 1991 score to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. In the years after, Eidelman continued to compose dramatic and epic scores such as Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. As Eidelman’s style of composing changed towards more sentimental and minimalistic scores, so did the films for which he scored. Eidelman currently resides in Santa Monica, California and continues to score movies. Notable scores (concert music) * Symphony No. 2 First recording performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conducted by Cliff Eidelman (2024) * Bridges: For solo Piano (2021) * The Five Tales for Solo

Colde

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Kim Hee-soo (; born May 10, 1994), better known as Colde (), is a South Korean singer-songwriter. He debuted in 2016 as a member of the indie duo Off On Off. As a solo artist he has released the extended plays Wave (2018), Love Part 1 (2019), Idealism (2021), and Love Part 2 (2023). Colde was part of the lineup for the Grand Mint Festival 2020 which took place from October 24-25, 2020 at Olympic Park in Seoul, South Korea. Discography Extended plays Single albums Singles Soundtrack appearances Other charted songs Awards and nominations Notes References External links *

Colin O'Malley

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Colin O’Malley (born December 9, 1973) is a composer, songwriter, and producer. He is a two-time Emmy nominee for Outstanding Music Composition from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (The Last Reunion/PBS, Woman In Motion/Paramount+). Colin has worked as an orchestrator and arranger for the recording artist Yanni, most notably on Inspirato, which featured performances by Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Russell Watson, Katherine Jenkins, and other world-renowned vocalists. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical chart. Colin has also collaborated with renowned tenor Nathan Pacheco, whom he first met while working on Yanni Voices. Colin’s soaring ballad “Prendi I Miei Sogni” was performed by Pacheco with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Pacheco subsequently performed the song in Carnegie Hall. Beyond his composition work, Colin is a longtime innovator in orchestral sampling and music technology. He has worked extensively with 8Dio.com, producing flagship virtual instruments including the Century Orchestra Project, Adagio/Agitato Strings, Claire Woodwinds, AGE, Studio Sopranos, CAGE, 8W, and more. These tools are used by composers worldwide and have been feat

Colin Self (composer)

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Colin Self (born 1987) is an American artist, composer, and choreographer. Their work centers around ideas of gender, communication, and consciousness, and their practice includes social relationships and digital technologies. They gained attention as a member of the avant-drag collective Chez Deep 2012–2014 performing in New York City, Miami, and Glasgow with members Alexis Penney, Bailey Stiles, Hari Nef, and Sam Banks. They are a member of the electronic music trio Holly Herndon, which supported Radiohead on their 2016 European tour. Biography Self was born in Aloha, Oregon. They studied puppetry and experimental writing at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington from 2006 to 2008. They transferred to the School of Art Institute of Chicago and completed their BFA in 2010. Soon after, Self relocated to New York where they began performing regularly as a solo artist and in groups like Chez Deep, 2 Pretty, and the #HDBoyz. Self started a monthly alternative queer party Clump, which raised money for a biannual microgrant the Radical Diva Grant and which featured DJs, performances, and readings, with artists like Umfang, Mykki Blanco, and Andrea Crespo. Since 2014, Self has pe

Conisch

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is a Japanese composer, arranger, music producer, pianist and keyboardist. His real name is Hiroaki Konishi (小西宏明, Konishi Hiroaki). Biography Conisch was born on April 19, 1981. He graduated from Waseda Jitsugyo High School, and attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music where he partially completed a program in composition. Discography Anime works Notes References External links * * *

Constancio Hernáez

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Constancio Hernáez Marco (born 1957) is a Spanish composer. Constancio Hernáez Marco was born in Madrid in 1957, and studied piano, harmony, counterpoint, composition and voice. In addition, he holds a degree in economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is an active participant in the development and promotion of contemporary music in Madrid, and is a member and co-founder of Ars Voluptas and the Tres Cantos International Contemporary Music Festival. He is also involved with the Madrid Contemporary Music Festival (COMA). Constancio Hernáez’s oeuvre ranges from solo works to chamber music, and his music for voice and strings has been premiered by prestigious musicians at the Juan March Foundation, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Ateneo de Madrid, the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the Gran Teatro in Havana, Cuba (2004), the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (2004), Il Novecento e la Voce Villorba, Italy (2007), the Cervantes Institute, Utrecht, Holland (2008), the 13th Classics Ribagorza Festival in Huesca, the 27th Religious Polyphonic Choir Festival, Segorbe, Valencia, the Palacio del Teatro Lírico Nacional in Cuba (2011), the Tres Cantos Auditorium and the Madr

Constantine Koukias

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Constantine Koukias (born 14 October 1965) is a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, where he is known by his Greek name of Konstantin Koukias. He is the co-founder and artistic director of IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, which was established in 1990 in Tasmania’s capital city, Hobart. Koukias’s works range from large-scale music theatre and opera to mobile installation art events. His atmospheric compositions are characterised by mesmerising temporal, spatial and production designs, while his recent works exhibit eastern influences. His avant-garde approach to the presentation of opera has resulted in hybrid productions such as Days and Nights with Christ, To Traverse Water, Mikrovion, The Divine Kiss, Tesla – Lightning in His Hand and The Barbarians. His music theatre works include ICON, Kimisis – Falling Asleep, Borders, Orfeo, Rapture – Sonic Taxi Performance, Schwa – The Neutral Vowel, Antigone and The Da Ponte Project. Koukias was commissioned in 1993 by the Sydney Opera House Trust to compose the large-scale music theatre piece ICON to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. His Incantation II for soprano and digital de

Corentin Henri Le Fur

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Corentin Henri Le Fur is a French film score composer and record producer from Beauvais, France, now based in London, United Kingdom. In 2016, Corentin joined the joint venture between British publishing company BMG Rights Management and DJ Fresh production team “The Fallen Angels”, then later founded his own company. Career In 2016, Le Fur took part in the writing and production of Digital Farm Animals’s breakout single Digital Love as part of DJ Fresh‘s production team “The Fallen Angels”. The success of this single gave him the opportunity to later collaborate with international Artists from Diplo, Fatman Scoop and Kylie Minogue to Bad Company UK and TV Noise. In 2017, Le Fur contributed to the production of Bad Company UK’s Ice Station Zero Album, co-writing and co-producing “Ruckus”, a tribute to Pendulum’s record : Tarantula. Later this year, Le Fur started collaborating with the British DJ AFISHAL, helping with the development of the musical part of his Visual DJ project, allowing the DJ to control audio and video assets using a MIDI controller called Tremor. In 2019, Le Fur’s works were featured in Michael Bay’s Motion Picture 6 Underground, as well as Netflix’s Next In Fas

Corey Dargel

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Corey Dargel (born October 19, 1977, in McAllen, Texas) is a composer, lyricist, and singer who makes a mix of contemporary classical and electronic pop music. Career Formally trained in music composition, Dargel studied with Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, and Brenda Hutchinson, and received a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin. Dargel writes and composes all of his songs. In his earlier compositions, he accompanied his own voice with prepared electronics. His debut album, Less Famous Than You, released in May 2006 with Use Your Teeth records, is in the singer-songwriter style and incorporates totalist rhythmic relationships. His next album, Other People’s Love Songs, released in 2008 with the contemporary classical label New Amsterdam Records, combines indie pop and postminimalist contemporary classical music. In May 2010, New Amsterdam released a two-CD set entitled Someone Will Take Care of Me, which combines two song cycles performed by Dargel and other musicians live. The instrumentation for these two cycles is in the classical song cycle tradition. Discography Studio albums * Less Famous Than You (Use Your Teeth, 2006) * Other People’s Love Songs (New Amsterdam Records, 200

Cosimo Damiano Lanza

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Cosimo Damiano Lanza (born 12 April 1962) is an Italian pianist, harpsichordist and composer. Biography Born in Leporano, Southern Italy, his artistic training was developed under the leadership of distinguished teachers, for the piano Michele Marvulli and Jorg Demus, for the harpsichord Christopher Steinbridge and Pierre Hantai. He has been invited to give concerts and master classes in the world’s major institutions. Some of his performances were recorded by RAI Italian Television. In addition to the interest in early music, he has followed with great perseverance the modern and contemporary repertoire (Luigi Dallapiccola, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage). He also works with young musicians. He served as chairman or member of the jury at international piano competitions Dinu Lipatti, Luciano Gante, Arcangelo Speranza, Premio Italia, the International Piano Competition of Barletta. Since 1996 he is the director of the Accademia Musicale Mediterranea di Taranto and art-director of the International Music Competition for Youth Dinu Lipatti at the Romanian Academy in Rome and Premio Italia Olimpo Pianistico in Taranto. Lanza has also recorded works by Frédéric Chopin,

Craig Armstrong (composer)

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Craig Mackenzie Armstrong (born 29 April 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981, and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Armstrong’s score for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby. His score for the former earned him the 2001 American Film Institute’s composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and a BAFTA. Armstrong was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the biopic Ray. His other feature film scoring credits include Love Actually, Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and The Incredible Hulk. Life and career Armstrong was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland. He was awarded the Charles Lucas prize and the Harvey Lohr scholarship for composition, the FTCL Fellowship in composition, and also won the GLAA Young Jazz Musician of the Year in 1982. Upon completing h

Craig Bohmler

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Craig Bohmler (born April 7, 1956) is an American composer who specializes in opera and musical theater. His musicals include Gunmetal Blues (1991), which has had well over 100 professional productions; Enter the Guardsman (1997), which won the international Musical of the Year award and received an Olivier Award nomination; and Mountain Days (2000), celebrating the life of John Muir. His operas include Riders of the Purple Sage (2017), an adaptation of Zane Grey’s book of the same title which was broadcast nationwide in November 2017 and internationally in 2018. Bohmler has also composed numerous song cycles and other works for solo voice, choral works, and instrumental music pieces, and he is also a musical-theater director, vocal coach, and pianist. Early life and education Bohmler was born in Houston in 1956. He started piano lessons at the age of six, and began composing music as a teenager. He attended the University of North Texas’s College of Music, graduating in 1978 with a Bachelor of Music degree. In 1980 he received a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the University of Houston, where he studied piano and composition with Carlisle Floyd, who became his com

Craig First

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C. P. First (Craig P. First, born March 16, 1960) is an American composer of the avant-garde. He was born in New York City where he currently resides. Recognized primarily for his chamber music, he has also composed opera, orchestral and electronic music. His music is characterized by its taut, often disturbing drama, and carefully calculated, discordant atonal language. Biography Whilst still in his early teens, C. P. First began composing works of an experimental nature. During his primary education, he studied in New York City with Pulitzer prize-winning composer John Corigliano. First then pursued composition studies in Chicago, Illinois, where he studied at the University of Chicago with Pulitzer prize-winning composer Shulamit Ran. He earned his Masters and Doctoral degree (1990) from Northwestern University. During his years as a graduate student, First became deeply entrenched in the electronic and computer media that often reside at the core of his compositional output. Whilst an undergraduate student, First was commissioned by Charles Moore and the ACM Chamber Opera of Chicago to write the one-act opera, The Soul of Rose Dede. His work caught the attention of influential

Craig Porteils

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Craig Porteils was an Australian music producer, mixer, audio engineer, composer, songwriter, and guitarist based in Sydney. Biography Career Porteils began his career in the decade of the 1980s, as the guitarist of his own band. However, Porteils excelled in behind-the-scenes production and started producing music in continuation. From 1989 to 1996, Porteils was based out of Los Angeles where he experienced great success writing for huge artists such as Cher, having helped produce her 3× platinum album Heart of Stone which peaked at number 10 on the US Billboard 200, by contributing to the song “If I Could Turn Back Time”, which went to number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. He also has produced Billy Idol’s top 10 hit “Cradle of Love” from the album Charmed Life, Tevin Campbell’s top 10 hit Back to the World, Guns N’ Roses’ number 1 hit “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, Terence Trent D’arby’s Symphony or Damn, Rod Stewart’s “Rhythm of My Heart”, Ozzy Osbourne’s No More Tears, and Richie Sambora’s “One Light Burning”. Porteils and Giles-Webb were competing against an up-and-coming Greek lyricist Alexandra Zakka, whose first works as a songwriter was her collaboration for the Eurovision. Al

Cralorboi CIC

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Maurice Tosh Gayflor (born 23 July 1994), who goes by the stage name Cralorboi CIC, is a Liberian Hipco and Kolopop singer-songwriter, as well as an actor and businessman. He was signed to SOG Records Empire between 2016 and 2021, and is known for the singles “Big Papa”, “Jon Buttay”, “Hello” featuring Joey B, and “Weekend” featuring Iyanya. He has been featured on BBC Radio 1Xtra and was part of One Africa Music Festival’s global foundation event for COVID-19 awareness. Early life and education Cralorboi CIC was born in the township of Brewerville, Montserrado County, and started making music in 2013. Cralorboi CIC graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in management at the African Methodist Episcopal University. Music career In 2018, CIC had his first successful international tour in Australia and become the first Liberian-based artist to sell out a show in Melbourne and the third African artist behind Flavour and Bracket to do so. He performed at the Ponobiom Concert, alongside Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Samini, and Edem. CIC has also performed with Mr P, Kcee, Iyanya, Kizz Daniel and Tekno. His debut studio album, titled 1994 The Throne, was released in 2019; it

Cristian Amigo

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Cristian Amigo (born 1963) is an American composer, improviser, guitarist, sound designer, and ethnomusicologist. His compositional and performing output includes blues and soul, music for the theater, chamber and orchestral music, opera, avant-jazz and rock music, and art/pop song. He has also recorded solo albums on the innova, Deep Ecology and BA labels. Amigo earned a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UCLA where he focused on the music of Chile, Peru, and Argentina, as well as anthropological theory, critical studies, and intercultural aesthetics. While in graduate school, he was second guitarist to the Peruvian Afro-Criollo guitarist Carlos Hayre, with whom he played in concerts and festivals including the World Festival of Sacred Music. He is currently composer-in-residence at INTAR Theater in New York City and Music/Design/Production Faculty @ CalArts School of Theater Department of Experience Design and Production in Valencia, California. His awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition, a Senior Fulbright Scholar/Teacher/Artist Award (Bolivia 2016–2019), and the Van Leir Fellowship from Meet the Composer. His work has also been supported and/or prod

Cristian Carrara

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Cristian Carrara (born January 28, 1977) is an Italian composer who is active in the Italian social and institutional scene. Early life Born in Pordenone, Carrara graduated in composition from the Conservatory “Jacopo Todini” in Udine under Renato Miani. He is the author of mainly symphonic and chamber music, but also pieces for the musical theatre and television. His compositions are regularly performed in prestigious concert halls, such as the National Academy of St Cecilia. in Rome, the Berliner Hall, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Binyanei Hauma Auditorium in Jerusalem. Carrara collaborates with several famous international artists, among them orchestra conductors such as Matthieu Mantanus, John Neschling, Flavio Emilio Scogna, Meir Wellber, Paolo Olmi, Michalis Economou, Jan Latham-Koenig, Lior Shambadal and soloists Alda Caiello, Roberto Abbondanza, Roberto Prosseda, Floraleda Sacchi, Francesco D’Orazio, Francesco Dego, and Stefano Montanari. the Philharmonic Orchestra of Fenice in Venice, the Filarmonica Toscanini in Parma, the Regional Tuscan Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Lyric Theatre in Cagliari, the Qatar Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Ra’anana

Cristina Spinei

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Cristina Spinei (born February 29, 1984) is a Nashville-based American composer. She is best known for her work with ballet; she has been commissioned by the Nashville ballet, the New York Choreographic Institute, and the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Biography Cristina Spinei was born in Connecticut and started playing piano by the age of 9. She graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School where she studied with Christopher Rouse. She has been called “one of the most talented young composers in America” by Grammy award-winning composer/conductor José Serebrier. Spinei is recipient of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Grant for Composition, the Composer Assistance Award from the American Music Center, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts composition grant, the New York State Council on the Arts composition grant, and the Composition Award from the Arts Recognition and Talent Search. Spinei’s ballets and other compositions have been performed throughout the United States and internationally. She also Performs her own music, most notably with the Nashville Ballet in 2017, 2018, and 2020. She is co-founder of Blind Ear Music, a New York-based gr

Cristobal Pazmino

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Cristobal Pazmino is an Ecuadorian guitarist and composer, recognized as one of the top guitarists in his country. Early life Pazmino was born in Riobamba, Ecuador, in 1957. His brother taught him to play guitar by ear. Both brothers were recognized for their musical talent. They often performed in their school and as part of a musical group. He learned electric guitar, bass guitar, ‘night guitar’ (known elsewhere as the classical guitar) all without sight reading. In 1976 he moved in Paris where he decided to study classical guitar in earnest, first at the Schola Cantorum in Paris for 3 years, then at the Conservatoire National de Musique de St Maur de Fossés, Val de Marne (CNRM) for 5 years where he was awarded the Gold medal (Médaille d’Or) in 1986. Career During his time in France, his guitar was how we stayed connected with his homeland. His music first aired in 1976 in France and later across the globe. He has performed in 32 countries and plays mainly Ecuadorian and Latin American music. Pazmino is the inspiration, founder, and artistic director of the International Festival of Guitar in Vendôme, one of the highlights of the French guitar music calendar. As a classical guita

Cynthia Morgan

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Cynthia Ikponmwenosa Morgan (born 23 September 1991), popularly known by her previous stage name Cynthia Morgan, now Madrina, is a Nigerian born songwriter and singer. Her music is a fusion of pop, hip hop, dancehall and rap. She gained popularity following the release of two singles titled “Don’t Break My Heart” and “Lead Me On”, which received massive airplay and positive reviews from critics. Cynthia made her acting debut in 2016 Nollywood movie “The Wrong Number” Directed by Saint Joseph Ovensehi, and Ay’s comedy movie ‘A trip to Jamaica’. Early life and education Cynthia Morgan was born in Benin City, Edo State where she completed her basic formal education. At the age of 3, she was a backup singer for her mother’s musical band. she calls herself “Killa Marshal” which is her Ego on stage. A few months later, she released two chart-topping singles “Don’t Break My Heart” and “Lead Me On” which got positive reviews from fans; the latter went on to be nominated for “Best Reggae/Dancehall Single” at The Headies 2014 On 23 May 2020, Cynthia Morgan who had not released songs for years revealed in an Instagram Live session that she lost her stage name, “Cynthia Morgan”, her VEVO accou

D. D. Jackson

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Robert Cleanth Kai-Nen “D. D.” Jackson (born January 25, 1967) is a Canadian–American jazz pianist and composer. His work as a leader or co-leader appears on 13 CDs. He won the Juno Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album – Instrumental in 2000 for his solo piano disc …So Far. Jackson has composed operas and has won two Emmy Awards for his work writing for television gaining 5 nominations in all. Early life and education Jackson was born on January 25, 1967, in Ottawa, Ontario. “D. D.” comes from the word for “little brother” in Mandarin Chinese, which was used by his family. He is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. He also recorded Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for Summit Records in 2002. Jackson has been one of three main composers on the children’s TV program Peg + Cat for many years, garnering him a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition in 2016 and a second Emmy in 2019 for Outstanding Original Song, “A World Made By Friends” (shared with lyricist, Billy Aronson). He has received a total of five Emmy nominations during his time on the show. - 1996? Rhythm-Dance Justin Time Trio, with John Geggie (bass), Jean Martin (drums) - 1996 Paired

Dado Moroni

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Edgardo “Dado” Moroni (born 20 October 1962) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer. Biography Dado was born in Genoa, Italy and started playing piano at age four. A self-taught musician, by his mid-teens he was playing professionally around Italy and by age 17 had recorded his first album. Throughout the 1980s Dado worked mostly in Europe playing at festivals and in clubs, including a long stint as part of former Duke Ellington bassist Jimmy Woode’s trio at Widder Bar in Zurich. Dado moved to the U.S. in 1991, becoming part of the New York jazz scene, and appearing regularly both as a leader and sideman, in some of the city’s most prestigious clubs, including Blue Note, Birdland, Village Vanguard as well as recording several CDs. During his 35-year career Dado has played with legends including Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Hank Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Alvin Queen. A highly respected musician, at age 25 he was granted the honor of serving as a juror at the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition in 1987. Based in Italy, Dado continues to perform worldwide. In

Dafina Zeqiri (composer)

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Dafina Zeqiri Nushi (born 1 April 1984) is a Kosovar composer of orchestral music, chamber music and choral music that has been performed in Europe and elsewhere. Biography Zeqiri studied at the Prenk Jakova Conservatory in Pristina from 1997 to 2002. She studied music composition with Mendi Mengjiqi at the University of Pristina, graduating in 2007. Her master’s-degree work was with Jana Andreevska at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje She completed the degree in 2011. In 2009 she founded the organization Kosovar Women in Music, NEO MUSICA, and became a member of the International Honour Committee of the Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica. Her works are predominantly instrumental, beginning with Quasi Variazione for piano (2000), Dialog for violin and piano (2001) and Atmospheres for flute and piano (2002). Vocal compositions include works for mixed chorus such as My Mother, on a text of Pashko Vasa (2001), Odisea (2008) and Atmospheres for chorus with orchestra (2005). Solo settings include When You Come for mezzo-soprano and piano (2002), on a text by Bajram Qerimi, and O Dismal Bird for tenor and piano (2009). Later compositions from her time at university in Sk

Dafnis Prieto

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Dafnis Prieto (born July 31, 1974) is a Cuban-American drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator. Career In his home town of Santa Clara, Cuba, Prieto studied percussion and guitar. During his teens, he moved to Havana to study at the National School of Music. He concentrated on classical music and Afro-Cuban music before paying more attention to jazz. In 1999, when he was twenty-five, Prieto moved to New York City, where he worked with Eddie Palmieri, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Arturo O’Farrill, Dave Samuels, and Michel Camilo, among many others. Prieto has conducted master classes, clinics, and workshops. From 2005 to 2015, he was a member of the music faculty at New York University. Since 2015, he has taught at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Awards and honors * 2007 Grammy nomination, Best Latin Jazz Album, Dafnis Prieto Absolute Quintet (Zoho Music) * 2007 Latin Grammy nomination, Best New Artist * 2011 MacArthur Fellow * 2018 Latin Grammy nomination, Best Latin Jazz Album, Back to the Sunset * 2018 Grammy Award, Best Latin Jazz Album, Back to the Sunset * 2021 Grammy nomination, Best Latin Jazz Album, Transparency Discography As leader * Ab

Dagfinn Koch

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Dagfinn Koch (born 24 July 1964, in Kristiansund, Norway) is a musician. Education He studied at the State Academy of music (Norges musikkhøgskole) (Lasse Thoresen, composition; Olav Anton Thommessen, orchestration; Bjørn Kruse, arranging; Mads Claesson, Arild Erikstad og Tore Simonsen, music technology; Otto Berg, viola), and at Hochschule (now Universität) der Künste Berlin (Witold Szalonek, composition). Music career He has been freelancing since 1994, and has written music for orchestra, chamber and theatre music, opera, ballet and fine art installations. Besides that has he worked as an arranger for amongst others Finn Coren and Lucifer Was. He has been a member of the Oslo Philharmonic program committee and a member of the board in the Composers society and in the evaluation committee of TONO (the Norwegian BIEM/ASCAP). In addition to composition, he has worked in a youth club, as a teacher in a music school in Oslo, Bærum and Bergen, as a music copyist and engraver, and as a sound engineer (Henie-Onstad Art center). He has received several scholarships from TONO and was granted a two-year scholarship from the Norwegian Ministry for Cultural Affairs in 2006. He was accepted a

Dai Fujikura

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Dai Fujikura ( Fujikura Dai; born 27 April 1977) is a Japanese-born composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Dai Fujikura was born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan. He moved to London when he was 15 to study at Dover College as a music scholar to complete his secondary education. His initial ambition was to compose music for cinema. Studying the music of Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti and Tōru Takemitsu at Trinity College of Music caused a gestalt shift: Dai became an aspiring contemporary composer whose extensive knowledge of cinematography gave his music a fresh, individual voice. Imagining sounds as images produced music with considerable dramatic structure and strength. By the end of his second year, he had already won the Serocki International Composers Competition. Before graduating, Dai’s music has been broadcast on many European radio stations, won several other prizes, and has been performed by a list of illustrious ensembles and soloists including the London Sinfonietta. Despite this fortuitous start, and the strength of early works such as Frozen Heat, Cari4nics and Eternal Escape, Dai wanted to develop his technique. A visit to Darmstadt, where he first heard Japanese t

Daiki Kasho

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, stylized as daiki kasho, is a Japanese video game composer best known for his contributions to the Gran Turismo series of racing games by Polyphony Digital. He has also previously worked on the F-Zero, Wangan Midnight, and King of Fighters series. Kasho first joined Sony Computer Entertainment after he got an invitation from a friend, but subsequently left the company prior to the release of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec. Despite leaving, he continued to collaborate with Polyphony Digital in the sound department. Works Credits in music Kasho is also credited as a producer in EXiNA’s 2022 album SHiENA. Credits in television References External links * Interview at RocketBaby * *

Daisuke Ishiwatari

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is a South African-born Japanese video game developer, illustrator, musician, composer, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the 2D fighting game series Guilty Gear. He designed the characters and storyline, and wrote the music. He is a former voice actor for the characters Sol Badguy, Order-Sol, and Freed Velez in Battle Fantasia. Ishiwatari was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Japan. He worked on the first original game for the series Guilty Gear at Arc System Works. Ishiwatari and Yoshihiro Kusano wrote the music for another game series BlazBlue, and painted the character selection portraits for the sequel, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. Ishiwatari is also a metal and rock composer, with music on each games. His compositions feature intricate guitar work. The albums Guilty Gear XX in LA and Guilty Gear XX in NY include his vocals, as do three albums in Japanese by the band Lapis Lazuli. He also composed for Hard Corps: Uprising. Productions *Virtual Open Tennis (assistant designer) *EXECTOR (designer) *Guilty Gear series (illustration, creation and BGM) *Sangokushi Taisen DS (original Ba Tai design) *Dimension Zero (card illustration) *BlazBlue (sound dire

Dale Barlow

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Dale Barlow (born Sydney, Australia, 25 December 1959) is a jazz saxophonist, flute player and composer. He has a Masters of Music degree begun at City College New York under Ron Carter and completed at ANU Canberra. He has received ARIA Awards, Album of the Year/ Jazz performer of the year/ International Artist of the Year/ Bicentennial Artist of the Year, four Mo Awards and grants. Career Barlow briefly studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s Barlow moved to New York, where he was a member of two groups, the Cedar Walton Quartet and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He studied saxophone with George Coleman and Dave Liebman, piano with Barry Harris, and Hal Galper, and won a BMI scholarship to study at the “Jazz composers workshop” with Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Album. Barlow has also toured and recorded with many other jazz greats including Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker, Gil Evans, Jackie McLean, Billy Cobham, Dizzy Gillespie, Curtis Fuller, Eddie Palmieri, Benny Golson, Lee Konitz, Helen Merrill, Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Barron, Ray Drummond, Dave Kikoski, Richie Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Higgins, Freddie Hubbard and Wynton Marsalis, Cindy Blackm

Damien Geter

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Damien Geter (born 1980) is an American composer, bass-baritone, and conductor. He is the Music Director of Portland Opera and the Composer-in-Residence for the Richmond Symphony. Geter is known for such large-scale classical works as An African American Requiem (2022) and the operas American Apollo (2024) and Loving v. Virginia (2025). Early life and education Geter was born in Petersburg, Virginia, and raised in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He grew up in a musical family; his mother and grandmother were active in church music, which influenced his early musical development. He subsequently earned a Master of Music in Conducting from Indiana State University in 2004. Career Composition Geter’s compositions have received acclaim for their fusion of classical forms with styles from the Black diaspora. His choral-orchestral work, An African American Requiem, premiered in May 2022. Commissioned by the Resonance Ensemble, the work is a setting of the traditional Latin Requiem mass integrated with spirituals and texts related to racial violence in the United States, including the last words of Eric Garner and a speech by Ida B. Wells. The Washington Post reviewed the East Coast premie

Damien Ricketson

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Damien Ricketson (born 9 May 1973) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. He is best known for his innovative compositional practice and in his capacity as the co-founder and co-artistic director of Ensemble Offspring. He is currently an academic at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney of which he is also an alumnus. He holds a PhD from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he also teaches. Ricketson is the co-founder and former co-artistic director of the Sydney-based Ensemble Offspring – an organisation dedicated to the performance of new music. Ricketson’s music is characterised by colourful sound-worlds, novel forms and is often multisensory in nature. An early interest in Spectral music can be seen in his frequent exploration of unusual timbres and microtonal pitch structures. Some Shade of Blue, for example, features a newly invented string instrument in a just intonation system. Recent stylistic tendencies have moved away from an earlier abstract style, exemplified in works such as Ptolemy’s Onion, towards what the composer terms a more “corporeal” approach embracing tangible references to existing music and a highly physical perfo

Damon Elliott

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Damon William Elliott (born March 21, 1973) is an American record producer, songwriter and composer. Throughout his career he has worked with various artists spanning across hip hop, R&B, pop, pop rock, gospel, reggae and country. He also produced the Academy Award-nominated song “Applause” from the 2022 film Tell It Like a Woman. Elliott is the son of Dionne Warwick and Bill Elliott. Career Elliott’s first production project credits include Bone Thugs-n-Harmony member Flesh-n-Bone (1996). Other credits include work with Mya, Destiny’s Child (including Beyonce’s, Kelly Rowland’s and Michelle Williams’s solo projects), P!nk, Jessica Simpson, Macy Gray, Athena Cage, Solange Knowles, Keyshia Cole, Kelis, Brooke Allison, Brooke Hogan, Yasmeen Sulieman, rappers Layzie Bone, Yukmouth, Sticky Fingaz, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, and former boxing champion Mike Tyson. He has written and produced theme songs for the television shows Holly’s World, Kendra on Top and The Lylas. As a singer, Elliott contributed to N-Tyce, Tina Harris and Beat Funktion. He co-wrote “Blow Me” and “Catwalk” for American entrepreneur Jeffree Star. Since 2014, with the support of Billy Ray Cyrus, Elliott began releasing hick

Damon Fox (writer)

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Damon Fox (born May 17, 1966) is an American writer and producer. His works as a screenwriter include Traces of Death (1993) and Traces of Death II (1994). Career During the 1990s, Fox formed Foxx Entertainment Enterprises Inc. With this production company, he created, scripted and narrated the shockumentary films Traces of Death I and II. In the 1980s, he formed the power-metal band Stormtrooper and only produced one EP, Armies of the Night. Selected filmography Self * Traces of Death (1993) – narrator, host * Traces of Death II (1994) – narrator * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) – narrator Producer * Traces of Death (1993) – co-executive producer * Traces of Death II (1994) – co-executive producer * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) – producer Writer * Traces of Death (1993) * Traces of Death II (1994) * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) Composer * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) * The Kid & I (2005) Director * The Coroner’s Camera (1997) References External links *

Dan Forrest

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Daniel Ernest Forrest Jr. (born January 7, 1978) is an American composer, pianist, educator, and music editor. Biography Dan Forrest was born in Breesport, New York, and began piano lessons with his elementary school music teacher at age 8. In high school Forrest won numerous piano awards, accompanied honors choirs, and performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Elmira Symphony. He majored in piano at Bob Jones University, earning a B.Mus. and an M.Mus. in Piano Performance, studying advanced theory and composition with Joan Pinkston and Dwight Gustafson. After teaching piano in South Carolina for three years, he moved to Kansas, where he earned a D.M.A. in composition from the University of Kansas, studying with wind band composer James Barnes. Forrest also studied with Alice Parker, whom he counts as a foremost influence. Forrest’s compositions include choral, instrumental, orchestral, and wind band works. His music appears in the catalogs of numerous publishers, primarily Beckenhorst Press (church music) and Hinshaw Music (concert music), but also Choristers Guild. In 2018, he began self-publishing his own concert music The Music of Dan Forrest, which is distributed by Beckenho

Dan Sundquist

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Thord Dan Rickard Sundqvist (born September 10, 1958) is a Swedish music producer, songwriter and composer. He is best known for Reeperbahn’s Venuspassagen, Jakob Hellman’s, “och stora havet”, Wilmer X’s #1 hit “Vem får nu se alla tårar”, Anne-Lie Rydé’s Stulna Kyssar, Uno Svenningsson’s “Under ytan”, Melody Club’s debut, and #1 hit “Electric”. His work as film composer includes the American film Whitney, and as a producer of musicals includes Livet Är En Schlager and I Love Musicals. Sundquist has produced over 70 albums with 15 #1 hits in Sweden, numerous top 10’s, and 18 Gold and 11 Platinum certifications. He has seven Swedish Grammy Awards, including Producer of The Year, and three nominations. Early life and education Dan Sundquist was born to Swedish parents in Stockholm, Sweden and grew up in Näsby Park, Rågsved, Vikarbyn, Hägersten and Vaxholm, Sweden as well as in Barcelona, Spain. Having other musicians in his family led to him developing an early interest in music and the arts. He started playing the guitar at age 7 and the piano at age 11. After a year in Nyckelviksskolan Art School in 1976, he decided to quit art studies and start his band, called “Reeperbahn” with co

Dana Al Fardan

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Dana Al Fardan (born 29 July 1985) is a Qatari composer and songwriter. She is known for being the first female Qatari contemporary composer, singer and songwriter, for being the first Qatari woman to sing in English, and for being the cultural ambassador for the Qatari Philharmonic Orchestra. Al Fardan’s style is a mixture of classical and contemporary music with strong Arabic influences. Her debut album, Paint, was released in 2013, with which Dana achieved nationwide recognition. Early life and education Al Fardan was born on July 29, 1985, in Doha, Qatar. She is the daughter of Ali Al Fardan and Shafiqa Habib. She is the eldest of 6 sisters: Noor, Jawaher, Hind, Najla, and Zuhoor. Al Fardan began to demonstrate musical talent at an early age. She spent hours playing the keyboard and performing musicals at home with her sisters. However, Al Fardan did not initially pursue music as a career. She studied international relations at the American University of Sharjah (UAE). After graduating, Al Fardan moved to London, England, where she obtained a second degree, this time in gemology from the Gemological Institute of America in London (GIA). Career In 2012 Al Fardan decided to chang

Dana Kletter

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Dana Kletter (born October 21, 1959) is an American musician and writer. Early life and education Kletter and her twin sister Karen were born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in New York. Dana began playing piano at age four. She attended American University in Washington, D.C. where she studied piano with Alan Mandel. She left music school and submerged herself in the DC Hardcore punk rock scene at its apex, in the early 1980s. There she met the friends who would become part of her professional musical life. Career blackgirls Dana moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 1985 and formed blackgirls, described by the Chicago Reader as a “dark art-folk trio,” with Eugenia Lee Johnson and Hollis Brown. The band performed for several years and released a single as part of the Evil I Do Not To Nod I Live boxset with four other North Carolina bands (including the early bands of Superchunk guitarist and Merge Records mastermind Mac McCaughan), and a five song EP, Speechless. In his Spin magazine review of Speechless, Tony Fletcher noted, “…hints of absolute greatness within, most noticeably on “Queen Anne,” a ballad in which Dana Kletter’s vocals lean towards the sultry peaks of Nico and Mari

Dance Man

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(born October 12, 1963) is a Japanese musician, better known by the stage name . Dance☆Man calls himself an alien from “Mirror Ball Planet”. He is always seen wearing a huge afro wig and sideburns, matched with sunglasses. He is very secretive about his identity to the public, and does not release any personal information in his CDs or his official website. Fujisawa is currently signed to independent record label In Da Groove, distributed by Nippon Columbia. Career Fujisawa went to Dokkyou University, a private college in Saitama prefecture, majoring in economics but eventually dropped out before he could graduate. During his stay in the university, he joined a band called JADOES. The band became official in 1986, when Kadomatsu Toshiki became their record producer. The band’s drummer, Yukio Shimamura, did some roadshows with band Casiopea, inspiring Fujisawa to do some roadshows himself. He started his own career in 1998, calling himself as a space alien from “Planet Mirrorball”. He re-arranged famous American/British dance songs from the 70’s and 80’s, often replacing the lyrics with humorous lines. One of them was Carl Carlton’s song “She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s St

Dang Ngoc Long

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Dang Ngoc Long is a Vietnamese concert guitarist, composer and actor. He studied classical guitar in Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin. Today he lives in Berlin and is the art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin and director of the music school Berlin Gesundbrunnen. Biography From 1985 to 1990 he completed his classical guitar studies with Inge Wilczok at the “Hanns Eisler” musical academy in Berlin. From 1990 to 1993 he received a scholarship for concert master studies. Dang Ngoc Long received a special award at the international guitar competition (1987-Esztergom-Hungary). He gave concerts in Hungary, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, France, Austria, among others. Dang Ngoc Long was awarded the title of an honorary professor of the University of Kirgysia. He is director of the music school Berlin Gesundbrunnen. He is also art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin. He composed many works for guitar solo, duo, trio, and quartet: “Tay Nguyen Gebirge”, Erinnerung, Prelude No. 1, Mienman, Beo dat may troi – Vietnam Folk Song, Fantasie in G-Dur, Kreislauf, Gian ma thuong, Prelude No. 4. Many pieces were chosen as test pi

Daniel Bernard Roumain

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Daniel Bernard Roumain (; known by his initials, DBR; born 1970 ) is a composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader, whose work combines classical music with jazz, hip-hop and rock. Composer In September 2010, Dancers, Dreamers, and Presidents — an orchestral tone poem inspired by Ellen DeGeneres and then-senator Barack Obama — premiered at the New World Symphony. DBR composed the opera, “We Shall Not Be Moved,” in collaboration with librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and director and choreographer Bill T. Jones. The opera premiered at Opera Philadelphia on September 16, 2017. Discography *Threads with David S. Ware (Thirsty Ear, 2003) *I, Composer (2004) *String Quartet (2004) *Pulsing (DBR Music, 2006) *Etudes4Violin&Electronix (Thirsty Ear, 2007) *The Need to Be with Ryuichi Sakamoto on the DJ Spooky album “Sound Unbound” (2008) *Woodbox Beats & Balladry (Thirsty Ear, 2010) References External links * *Guide to the Daniel Bernard Roumain Collection, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago *Collision: Bill T. Jones and Daniel Bernard Roumain *Interview on CBS News *Performing at Cusp Conference 2009 (video)

Daníel Bjarnason

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Daníel Bjarnason (born 26 February 1979) is an Icelandic composer and conductor. He has garnered widespread acclaim for his debut album, Processions (2010), with TimeOut NY writing he “create(s) a sound that comes eerily close to defining classical music’s undefinable brave new world”. Life and career Born on 26 February 1979, Daníel studied composition, piano and conducting in Reykjavik, before going on to further study orchestral conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He has had a number of works commissioned and debuted by Los Angeles Philharmonic. Daníel is currently composer-in-residence at the Muziekgebouw Frits Philips, Eindhoven, Netherlands and was artist-in-residence with Iceland Symphony Orchestra from 2015 to 2018. He has also collaborated with artists from many different genres, including Ben Frost, Sigur Rós and Brian Eno. Various conductors have also performed Daníel’s work, including Gustavo Dudamel, John Adams, André de Ridder, James Conlon, Louis Langrée and Ilan Volkov. Daníel’s recent work has included collaborations with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rambert Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, So Percussion and the Calder Q

Daniel Diaz (musician)

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for living artists, for dead –> birth_place = death_date = death_place = resting_place = resting_place_coordinates = education = alma_mater = known_for = notable_works = style = Jazz, World, Experimental, Soundtrack movement = spouse = awards = elected = patrons = memorials = website = module = Daniel Díaz Fernández is an Argentinian bass player multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer known for his work for films and television, along with his fusion of different styles and genres of Argentinian music, jazz and experimental music. Career Since moving to France he has collaborated with Juan Carlos Cáceres, on the single Tango Negro, and on the album Toca Tango. Cáceres mentions Diaz in his song “Los Muchachos de París” with the lyrics: “Daniel Diaz y el barba, los muchachos de París.” After the 2020-2021 pandemic he focused on his composer and studio work, producing collaborative albums with Argentine percussion player Minino Garay (fr), and Chamamé (es) music icon Raúl Barboza (es). His last collaboration with Barboza was on the album Souvenirs Panamericanos, which was released in March 2023. Solo career In 1993 he recorded his first album The Years Alone released by North A

Daniel Dorff

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Daniel Dorff (born March 7, 1956) is an American classical musician and classical composer. Biography and career Dorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Flower Hill, New York, graduating from Roslyn High School. Dorff graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his master’s degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, studying composition with George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick. Dorff served from 1996 through 2015 as composer-in-residence for Symphony in C (formerly The Haddonfield Symphony) in Camden, New Jersey (USA). His works have been commissioned by such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, and performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, flutists and clarinetists of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, pianist Marc-André Hamelin, and flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jasmine Choi, Denis Bouriakov, and frequent collaborator Cindy Anne Broz. He has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb. Dorff has written many frequently-perfo

Daniel Doura

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Daniel Doura (; born 9 August 1957) is an Argentine composer of classical music. Considered one of the Argentine composers who currently have international exposure, Doura is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Columbia University, and among his teachers were John Cage, Mario Davidovsky, Chou Wen-chung, Alberto Ginastera, Luciano Berio, Tōru Takemitsu, Milton Babbitt and John Adams, among others. into a family of music-loving industrialists. His father is one of the founders of the seaside resort town of Costa del Este, Buenos Aires Province. He began his musical studies in 1966, at the age of 9, taking guitar lessons with Clelia Sagreras. in addition to studying electronic music with Arthur Kreiger and other professors in New York between 1983 and 1986. Given the impossibility of recording the work in the country, Sinfonía argentina was recorded in Prague, Czech Republic in November 2015, performed by the Prague Metropolitan Orchestra and the Prague Chamber Choir and conducted by the Uruguayan Roberto Montenegro. The resulting CD was released in 2016 by the Uruguayan label Sondor. and later at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Bue

Daniel Dutton

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Daniel Dutton (born 1959 near Somerset, Kentucky) Daniel Dutton lives in Somerset, Kentucky. ;Other sources *Tagami, Ty, “MUSICAL AMBASSADOR - MAKER OF RARE JAPANESE LUTE WILL PLAY IN SOMERSET”, Lexington Herald, 20 February 1999. p. A1: “Ohashi came to Somerset to visit friends and to perform with local artist Daniel Dutton, whom he met in Japan two years ago. Dutton traveled to Japan in 1997 with a Japanese couple living in Somerset, playing old Appalachian ballads on dulcimer and guitar for a Japanese audience. Dutton, who is the artistic director and musical composer for the opera, invited Ohashi to come to Kentucky and open the show.” *Unk, “‘SECRET’ GETTING EASIER TO FIGURE OUT”, Lexington Herald, 14 February 1999, p. J3: “Daniel Dutton hopes people will leave the world premiere of Love & Time - the third in his series of four opera-modern dance productions called The Secret Commonwealth saying: “I kind of understand what was happening there.” The Somerset-based director/composer knows he has tested audiences with the first two chapters: The Changeling and the Bear and The Road. External links * * Rivera-Dutton Sculpture Studio * Art Appreciation and the Poetics of Space (Ken

Daniel Fardon

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Daniel Fardon (born 1991) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Fardon studied Music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where his composition teachers included Howard Skempton and Errollyn Wallen. He studied conducting under Edwin Roxburgh. Fardon went on to study for an MPhil in Composition at the University of Cambridge, where he was tutored by Professor Richard Causton. In 2018, he graduated with a PhD in Composition on the topic of tonality from the University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Professor Michael Zev Gordon. Fardon was the Rosie Johnson Apprentice Composer at the Wigmore Hall during 2018-19. In 2018 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, and in 2020 he received an Ivor Novello Award for his music. Fardon is the Artistic Director of Hackney Music Live, a charity which organises concerts in the London Borough of Hackney. He teaches at the Purcell School for Young Musicians. Music Fardon’s early commissions included Three Short Pieces for the Stratford-on-Avon music festival in 2012, and a piano work for Flatpack Film Festival in 2013. His piece Freundschaftsbeziehungen was commissioned by the King’s Lynn Festiv

Daniel Glaus

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Daniel Glaus (born 16 July 1957 in Bern) is a Swiss organist and composer. He is currently professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, the University of the Arts Bern and organist of the Bern Cathedral. Life Glaus studied in Bern, Freiburg im Breisgau and Paris. He studied music theory (Theo Hirsbrunner), composition Klaus Huber, Brian Ferneyhough), organ (Heinrich Gurtner, Gaston Litaize, Daniel Roth, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Harald Vogel, Gerd Zacher) and direction (Erich Schmid). So far he has worked as a composer, church musician (City Church of Biel, Berner Münster) and is professor at the Zurich University of the Arts for composition and instrumentation, and at the University of the Arts Bern for organ and composition. Glaus also performs internationally as an organist and is involved in organ building. For example, as part of his research project Innov-Organ-um, he and his team developed a wind-dynamic organ in which the dynamics, timbre and pitch can be influenced by simply controlling the keys. Co-initiator of the IV International Congress for Church Music Ittingen 1997 as a continuation of the three church music congresses in Bern 1952, 1962 and 1972. Glaus was in

Daniel Gortler

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Daniel Gortler (Hebrew: דניאל גורטלר; born April 12, 1965) is an Israeli pianist. Education and early life Born and raised in Israel, Gortler began studying classical music and piano with Naomi Hachohen. He graduated from the Rubin Music Academy in Tel-Aviv and continued his musical studies at the Musikhochschule Hannover, studying with Arie Vardi. Gortler was faculty member of the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel-Aviv University until 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was a guest artist in piano studies in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at New York University’s Steinhardt School. Career As a soloist, Gortler has performed with orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bochum Orchestra, the New World Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Huston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony as well as orchestras in Brazil and South Africa. He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev and Michael Tilson Thomas. Gortler has performed in festivals such as the Montpellier Festival, Lucer

Daniel Hart (musician)

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Daniel Frederick Hart is an American musician, composer and classically trained violinist. He has released music as a soloist and with his bands the Physics of Meaning and Dark Rooms. He has also toured and recorded with numerous bands, including St. Vincent, Other Lives, John Vanderslice, Swans, the Rosebuds, Annuals, Glasser, Broken Social Scene, Pattern Is Movement, Mount Moriah, the Polyphonic Spree and Sarah Jaffe. In 2012, he wrote and recorded the score for David Lowery’s film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2013. He wrote the scores for Pete’s Dragon (2016), A Ghost Story (2017) and The Green Knight (2021). He lives in Los Angeles. He began playing the violin at age three. Career Music Hart moved to North Carolina in 2002 and, along with David Karsten Daniels, John Ribo, Perry Wright and Alex Lazara, founded the Bu Hanan record label. He formed the band the Physics of Meaning, releasing two studio albums, Hart also performed and recorded with the group Project Mastana, playing violin on their record Backroads to Bollywood. Composing In 2009, director David Lowery asked Hart to write two compositions for his first feature film, St. Nick

Daniel Hensel

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Daniel Hensel (born 17 April 1978 in Büdingen) is a German composer, VJ, musicologist and music theorist. He is known as a composer of expressive works of all musical genres whose works can be dedicated to “a thread of a tradition leading from Schubert via Mahler to Hensel’s teacher Schedl in presence. … " His style contains all kinds of material, such as traditional tonal or harmonic as well as noise and electronic material. His works are published by Musikverlag Doblinger in Vienna. Life and work Hensel is a descendant of a family of musicians of light and rock music. His maternal family lives in the city of Buedingen since 1594. Hensel began his studies of composition in 1995 as a student of the Austrian composer Gerhard Schedl at Dr. Hoch’s Konservatorium. From 1999 on he studied composition with Heinz Winbeck in Würzburg, and later with Manfred Trojahn in Düsseldorf Hensel obtained his doctorate with “magna cum laude” on 13 July 2011. Hensel’s music was played by artists such as Carin Levine and Markus Bellheim, the Ensemble Modern, the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, and conductors such as Manfred Honeck. Several pieces were composed on behalf of festivals such as the A•DEvantga

Daniel Holdsworth (musician)

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Daniel Holdsworth is an Australian musician and composer. He is a co-creator of the music-theatre production, Tubular Bells for Two, releases music as a solo artist, and has performed in bands such as Darks Common Underground, The Maple Trail and The Saturns. He has also composed music for film, television, theatre and dance. Biography Daniel Holdsworth was born on 22 May 1981, in Penrith NSW, Australia, and has lived most of his life in the Blue Mountains. He began playing music at a young age and attended Blaxland High School where he was heavily involved in school productions and other music programs, performing several times at the Sydney Opera House. During this period he also began formal training as a classical guitarist. At the age of fifteen, Daniel began professional work within the music industry as a session musician, notably recording with Yothu Yindi for the closing ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta paralympics, and singing a duet for the same ceremony composed by Garry Hardman from Australian Screen Music. After high school, Holdsworth attended the University of Western Sydney where he studied with Bruce Crossman as a post-graduate in composition and music technology. Dur

Daniel Ingram (composer)

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Daniel Luke Ingram (born June 13, 1975) is a Canadian composer and lyricist, primarily for animated series soundtracks. He has written more than 200 songs for television, in genres ranging from pop and classic rock to large-scale Broadway-style musical theater. His music has been heard in 180 countries. He is mostly known for his work as the songwriter of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the films based on the series. He has written over 80 songs for My Little Pony during much of the franchise’s fourth generation. Ingram has received several awards for his music. Between 2012 and 2017, he has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Original Song in a Children’s or Animated Series. “Becoming Popular (The Pony Every Pony Should Know)” and “May The Best Pet Win” from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic were nominated in 2012, while “The Magic Inside” and “Legend of Everfree” were nominated in 2016 and 2017 and “If You’re A Guy” from Littlest Pet Shop was nominated in 2013. He received a 2010 Leo Award for Best Music in an Animated Series for Martha Speaks, the 2008 Leo Award for Best Music in a Variety Television Show for About a Girl, and the 2013 Leo Award

Daniel Izere

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Daniel Izere (born 1995) commonly known as Dany Beats, is a Rwandan record producer, sound engineer, songwriter, and entrepreneur in the music industry. He is best known for his work which includes Sabrina, Ni Wa Ne, Banana, Guma Mu Rugo, and Twifunze. INDUSTRY EP He is also the producer of the soundtracks for Urugwiro village events, a contract he signed in 2021. Artists Danny Beats has recorded with include Angel Mutoni, Weya Viatora, Kivumbi King, Rita Ange Kagaju, Amalon, Mike Kayihura, Sintex, Bushali, Rapper Racine Rwanda, Kevin Skaa and Gisa cy’Inganzo among others. Early life and career Dany Beats was born in Gasabo, and is part of a family of three children, including his twin brother Irimaso Samuel, also known as DJ TrapBoy, and his older brother Bwanakweli Pacifique (P.Lee). His parents are Bwanakweri Dominique and Mushongana Prudence. He attended several schools for his education, including Lycee De Kigali in 2009, London College of Saint Lawrence in Uganda in 2010, Lycee De La Colombiel in 2011, and SOS Technical High School in 2013. In 2014, he graduated from ADB Nyarutarama with a degree in Electricity Technology. Later, in 2016, Dany Beats joined the University of K

Daniel James Wolf

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Daniel James Wolf (born September 13, 1961) is an American composer. Studies He was born in Upland, California. Wolf studied composition with Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, and La Monte Young, as well as musical tunings with Erv Wilson and Douglas Leedy and ethnomusicology (M.A., Ph.D. 1990 Wesleyan University ). Important contacts with Lou Harrison, John Cage, Walter Zimmermann. Managing Editor of the journal Xenharmonikon, 1985-89. Based in Europe from 1989, he is known as a member of the “Material” group of composers, along with Hauke Harder and others. Compositions Wolf’s compositions apply an experimental approach to musical materials, with a special interest in intonation, yet often display a surface that playfully - if accidentally - recalls historical music. Works include The White Canoe, an opera seria for hand puppets to the libretto by Edward Gorey, six string quartets, Figure & Ground for string trio, Field Study for vn, tb, ban, gui, Decoherence for x orchestras of x players, Twoity fl,pf and A Beckett Gray Code for wind quintet. Much of his music is in just intonation, but his work with alternative tunings includes a collection of Etudes in all equal temperaments between

Daniel Kellogg (composer)

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Daniel Kellogg (born 1976 in Wilton, Connecticut) is an American composer. Kellogg is Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching music composition, counterpoint and orchestration. Life Kellogg received his Bachelor of Music in 1999 from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and Master of Music in 2001, Master of Musical Arts in 2003, and Doctor of Musical Arts in 2007 from the Yale School of Music. He also studied at Indiana University School of Music (1994-1996), the Aspen Music Festival and School (1995-1996), and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as a 1997 fellow. His teachers have included Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, Don Freund, Jennifer Higdon, Ezra Laderman, Ned Rorem, and Joseph Schwantner. Kellogg’s notable students include Lawrence Wilde. Career Kellogg’s music has been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Green Bay Symphony, the South Dakota Symphony, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Yale Philharmonic, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the President’s Own United States Marine Band

Daniel Kidane

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Daniel Kidane (born 1986) is a British composer. His piece “Woke” opened the last night of the 2019 Proms. In 2016 his “Sirens” was one of a group of five short works commissioned by the BBC Philharmonic to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and performed in the Bridgewater Hall. The Guardians reviewer described it as a “propulsive, eclectic piece” which “soaked up influences of jungle, dubstep and R&B sampled from a trawl through the city after dark. “His 2017 work “Zulu” was performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. His “Dream Song” was premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall by the Chineke! Orchestra on the re-opening of the hall in 2018 and the 50th anniversary of the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr., and includes words from his “I Have a Dream” speech. The concert was broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The orchestra later recorded the work on their album Spark Catchers. In 2020 he was commissioned by Huddersfield Choral Society to write “We’ll Sing”, with words by Simon Armitage, who worked from a list of words sent by choir members to reflect their experience of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was released on a music video in autumn 2020. In

Daniel Léo Simpson

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Daniel Léo Simpson (born 28 December 1959) is an American composer. Background Simpson first studied music theory with Wes Humphrey at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona and composed its Alma Mater which he conducted at the première performance there February 9, 2012. He studied as an undergraduate with Anna Mae Sharp and Henry Johnson at the University of Arizona, Tucson and continued his graduate work there with Robert McBride and Robert Muczynski to receive his master’s degree in composition. He won first place in the First Annual International Schillinger composition contest sponsored by The Schillinger School of Music for his composition The Art of Schillinger. He was also first-place winner of the 2010 Alabama Orchestra Association Festival competition contest for his composition Tuscaloosa Tango which received its world première at the University of Alabama, February 14, 2011, (A division of Alabama Music Educators Association). It has now also been performed by the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra conducted by maestro Mohammed Amin Ezzat as well as the Orquestra Sinfônica da Paraíba of Brazil conducted by maestro Luiz Carlos Durier. His “Ave Maria” for two sopranos

Daniel Ott

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Daniel Ott (born 6 September 1960) is a Swiss composer. Career Born in Grub AR, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Ott graduated in 1980. Afterwards he worked as a teacher in the regions of Basel and Graubünden and worked in independent theatre groups. From 1983 to 1985, he studied theatre in Paris and London. From 1985 to 1990, he studied composition with Nicolaus A. Huber at the Folkwang University of the Arts and with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Since 1990, Daniel Ott has been working as a freelance composer, pianist and performer with a focus on new music theatre and interdisciplinary and space and landscape-related works. In 1999/2000, Ott created the full-length music theatre cycle ojota I-IV. In 2000 he wrote klangkörperklang - music for the by Peter Zumthor. This was followed by landscape compositions for the harbour Sassnitz/Rügen (2002), the place of pilgrimage Heiligkreuz/Entlebuch (2003), the river Neisse between Görlitz and Zgorzelec (2005) and the Rhine port of Basel (2006). From 1995 to 2004, Ott held a teaching position for experimental music at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he founded the KlangKunstBühne summer academy in 2003. Since

Daniel Pemberton

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Daniel Pemberton (born 3 November 1977) is an English composer and songwriter. Primarily working in film, television, and video games, he is best known for composing the scores for the films Project Hail Mary and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as well as its sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the latter of which earned him a number of award nominations, including at the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards. He has received recognition for his work in films such as Steve Jobs, Motherless Brooklyn, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Being the Ricardos, The Rescue, Enola Holmes and its sequel Enola Holmes 2 (the latter of which also featured a cameo from Pemberton, portraying an orchestra conducter), as well as the first two entries in the LittleBigPlanet series of games and The Bad Guys film franchise (2022–present). For The Trial of the Chicago 7, Pemberton was nominated for the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score as well as an Academy Award for Best Original Song alongside Celeste for the song “Hear My Voice”. Early life Pemberton grew up in East Molesey and attended Hampton School. At the age of 12, he completed work experience for the video game magazine

Daniel Rojas (Australian musician)

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Daniel Rojas (born 23 June 1974) is a Chilean-born Australian pianist and composer. Rojas’ work as a composer and improviser draws upon indigenous, folk, popular and classical Latin American traditions. Early life and education Rojas received a Bachelor of Music – Composition with Honours (First Class and Medal) and a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Sydney. He later graduated with a PhD from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Career Since 2012, Rojas worked as a solo pianist, performing music by Latin American composers, including Astor Piazzolla and Alberto Ginastera, his own works, arrangements of traditional folksongs and free improvisation. He performed his own Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra under George Ellis, has performed solo recitals in Sydney and Townsville and performs with Latin jazz, tango and world music groups such as Latin Kaos; Sonora Galaxia; Orquesta Los Mambizes; Tango Paradiso; Chai Ensemble, Jacana, Drumbeats and Tigramuna. In 2012 Rojas released a solo album, Latin Piano Expressions, featuring his own works, Piazzolla’s Resureccion de Angel and Histoire du Tango as well as four free improvisations. Th

Daniel Rojas (Costa Rican composer)

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Daniel Rojas (born 1988) Rojas studied Jazz Arranging & Composition at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, on scholarship. After graduating in 2010, he moved full-time into session player work, primarily as a guitarist. His film and television work has included working as an assistant composer, arranger, and music team member for composers such as Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt, and Alan Menken. Rojas also performed as a member of Demi Lovato’s band, and Downsizing (2017), directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matt Damon. Television composition work has included scores for The Demon Files featuring Sean Astin (2015, Destination America), and True Nightmares featuring Tim Robbins (2015–2018, Investigation Discovery). Currently, Rojas is the series composer for Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, a DreamWorks Animation television series. He composes both score music and songs for the series, which stars the voices of Karen Fukuhara, Deon Cole, Coy Stewart, Sydney Mikayla, and Dee Bradley Baker. The first season of Kipo debuted on Netflix on January 14, 2020, with the Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Season 1 Mixtape) soundtrack album debuting a few days earlier on January 10

Daniel Schnyder

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Daniel Schnyder (born March 12, 1961) is a Swiss jazz reedist and composer of both jazz and classical music. Schnyder learned to play cello before saxophone. He attended Berklee College of Music and the Conservatory of Winterthur. He has recorded for Enja Records and composes pieces which meld jazz and classical music. His work has been published by Hal Leonard, Universal Edition, and Edition Kunzelmann; he has been commissioned by Vienna Art Orchestra, , Opera Philadelphia, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic. Sidemen on his albums include Michael Philip Mossman, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Kenny Drew Jr., Dave Taylor, Adam Taubitz, Michael Formanek, and Mark Feldman. He has also worked with Flavio Ambrosetti, Lee Konitz, and Abdullah Ibrahim. Discography * Secret Cosmos (Enja, 1988) * The City (Enja, 1989) * Decoding the Message (Enja, 1990) * Mythen (Koch, 1991) * Mythology (Enja 1991) * Granulat with Mossman (Red, 1991) * Nucleus (Enja, 1995) * Tarantula (Enja, 1996) * Words Within Music (Enja, 1999) * Jazz Meets Weill and Gershwin with Kurt Weill, David Taylor, Kenny Drew Jr. (Koch, 2000) * Songbook with Kenny Drew Jr., Kristjan Jaervi, Symphony Orchestra of Norrla

Daniel Slatkin

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Daniel Alexander Slatkin (born May 16, 1994) is an American composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and music producer known for his concert works, film scores, and television scores. At the age of 23, Slatkin’s feature film debut was premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and five months later had his symphony orchestra debut with a concert work commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Early life and education Daniel Slatkin was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to conductor and 7-time Grammy winner, Leonard Slatkin and Linda Hohenfeld, on May 16, 1994. The Slatkins are part of a Jewish musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His grandfather, violinist and conductor Felix Slatkin, was the founder of the Hollywood String Quartet and concertmaster of the Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra. His grandmother, Eleanor Aller, was the cellist of the quartet and principal cellist of the Warner Brothers Orchestra, becoming the first female to hold a principal chair in a Hollywood studio orchestra. Slatkin was educated in the concert hall. He traveled throughout his youth while training classically in piano, watching his father perform on stages all over

Daniel W. McCarthy

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Daniel William McCarthy (born 1955, Onekama, Michigan) is an American composer, author, conductor, professor, and black belt martial artist. He has been professor and chair of music composition and theory studies at The University of Akron: School of Music and held the Theodor Dreiser Distinguished Research/Creativity Award at Indiana State University School of Music. He is co-author of “Theory for Today’s Musician” with Ralph Turek, published by Routledge Francis & Taylor, NYC ? His career as a conductor included serving on the conducting staff of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, four seasons as music director of the Interlochen Festival Orchestra, Interlochen, Michigan, as well as conducting the University of Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Terre Haute Symphony Youth Orchestra. McCarthy, a dedicated martial artist, was promoted to 3rd Degree Black Belt in Chun Ma Tae Kwon Do in May 2012. A student of Grand Master Jeon Gyeong Ho, Akron, Ohio https://web.archive.org/web/20141008223026/http://www.wcmkicks.com/new/, he pursued additional studies in Asian Weapons, American Kenpo, and Chin Na Kung Fu with Grand Master Sifu James Adkins in Traverse City, Michigan Career Daniel McCarthy’

Daniel Wohl

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Daniel Wohl (born September 6, 1980) is a Paris, France born composer based in Los Angeles, California, known for his use of both electronic and acoustic instruments. Education Wohl holds degrees in composition from Bard College, University of Michigan and the Yale School of Music. His teachers include composers David Lang, Martin Bresnick, Joan Tower, Bright Sheng, Ingram Marshall, William Bolcom and Aaron Jay Kernis. Career His music has been programmed by contemporary classical ensembles such as So Percussion, the London Contemporary Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra the Calder Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and the American Symphony Orchestra in a variety of settings including Carnegie Hall, The Broad, the Hollywood Bowl, MoMA PS1, Le Poisson Rouge, the Dia Beacon, and Mass MoCA. He has also collaborated with electronic artists including Laurel Halo, Julia Holter, and Son Lux. In 2013, Wohl released his first full-length album, Corps Exquis, on New Amsterdam Records to broad critical acclaim. The New York Times praised it as a “boldly surreal aural experience” while Pitchfork gave it high marks calling Wohl “an original voice.” His second album

Danny Baranowsky

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Danny Baranowsky (born April 5, 1984), also known as Danny B or by the company name dB Soundworks, is an American electronic music composer, composing music mainly for indie films and indie games. He founded dB Soundworks to sell and promote his music. He is most known for providing the music for games such as Canabalt, Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, and Crypt of the NecroDancer. Baranowsky has also contributed to the soundtrack of the 2016 Amplitude remake. Career Baranowsky first came into contact with video game music in 2001, when he became a member of online game remix community OverClocked ReMix. At this time, Baranowsky was hoping to become a film composer. When Adam Saltsman, who would later develop Canabalt, sent Baranowsky an incomplete version of Gravity Hook, which Saltsman intended to keep free of music, Baranowsky decided to write a track for it anyway. When Baranowsky sent “Track A” back to Saltsman, he was really impressed by the music. After finishing the soundtrack of Gravity Hook, Saltsman introduced Baranowsky to Edmund McMillen, for whom he later composed the soundtrack of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac. He co-composed Desktop Dungeons with Gran

Danny L Harle

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Daniel Jack Eisner Harle, better known under the stage name Danny L Harle (born 25 September 1989), is a British music producer and composer. He was formerly signed to the London-based PC Music label and is a member of Dux Content with A. G. Cook. He has produced, composed, and remixed music for a number of artists; most prominently, he executive produced Caroline Polachek’s albums Pang (2019) and Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (2023) and co-produced the albums Radical Optimism by Dua Lipa and Polari by Olly Alexander. Harle released his debut album Harlecore in 2021, followed by Cerulean in 2026, which featured collaborations with Polachek, Lipa, and PinkPantheress. Early life Harle is the son of saxophonist John Harle. He played the cello as a child but did not have a strong interest in music until age 12, when he learned bass guitar after discovering bands like Slipknot and Madness. Harle is privately educated, having attended the £30,000 per annum King Alfred School in Hampstead. He later joined the Royal Academy of Music’s junior jazz group. In 2006, John Harle recorded Daniel’s song “Caesar Hath Wept” with the Duke Quartet. Harle went to Goldsmiths, University of London to s

Daria Kawashima

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, known before as Miki Kawashima, is a Japanese musical composer, singer-songwriter, lyricist under Being Inc. records. Biography In 1986, she debuted as Miki Kawashima with the single Silk no Kuchibiru under CBS Sony label. Three years, she debuted as Daria Kawashima with the single Shiny Day under the Zain Records label. Since joining the Being agency, Kawashima has composed and wrote several songs for artists like Zard and Deen. In 1992, she composed Moonlight Densetsu under the alias of Tetsuya Komuro, presumably inspired by the legendary songwriter of the same name. The song would later be used as an opening theme for the popular anime series Sailor Moon. Kawashima also became known as the vocalist and leader of the heavy metal band Feel So Bad. In 2003, she participated in the cover album The Hit Parade, covering Gedō’s Hyun Hyun. It was produced by Tak Matsumoto from B’z. In 2016, she made her return as a solo artist with the digital release of her album Life Now. Some of her music video clips are included in musicvideo DVD series 90s Being Rock Hits. Discography During her solo career as Daria Kawashima she released four singles, 2 studio, 1 digital and 1 compilation album.

Dario Buccino

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Dario Buccino (20 November 1968) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music theorist, and artist. He created the HN System and founded the ensemble Laboratorio Aperto Fatti Sonori. Biography In 1991, Buccino elaborated an original music system called “HN System”. The system integrates composition, notation and performance techniques based on the parameterization of physical actions. In 1993 the composer founded the “Laboratorio Aperto Fatti Sonori”, an ensemble devoted to the execution of his scores. In 1997 he extended his application of the HN System to include sheets of steel. His musical activity ranges over a wide variety of fields: beside his research as experimental composer and performer, Buccino also works for the cinema and the theatre as a composer, interpreter, musical consultant, as a rock, pop and jazz composer, arranger and guitarist, and as a singer-songwriter, busker and music journalist. Bibliography * Bob Baker Fish, Dario Buccino – Corpo Nostro (Extreme), in “Cyclic Defrost”, 2009. * Pietro Misuraca, Suono dei Soli e le lamiere di Dario Buccino, in CURVA MINORE. Contemporary sounds, musica nuova in Sicilia 1997–2007, a c. di Gaetano Pennino, Regione Sicili

Dario Marianelli

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Dario Marianelli is an Italian composer. Early life Marianelli was born in Pisa, Italy. He studied in Florence with David Kimball (himself a pupil of Rosario Scalero), and in 1990 he moved to London. After a year as a postgraduate composer at the Guildhall School of Music studying with Francis Shaw he took up a three-year postgraduate program at the National Film and Television School in London, from which he graduated in 1997. While there, he also undertook diverse projects, composing for concerts, contemporary ballet and theatre productions. Career Marianelli had already written scores for several films and TV projects, including movies such as Ailsa and Pandaemonium, when director Joe Wright contacted him about scoring his 2005 film Pride & Prejudice. He subsequently composed for Wright’s films Atonement, The Soloist, Anna Karenina and Darkest Hour. Awards and recognitions In 2008 Marianelli won the Academy Award for Original Music Score and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for Atonement. He has also been nominated for Academy Awards for Pride & Prejudice and Anna Karenina. In 2018 he composed the score for Bumblebee, the sixth installment in the Transformers film seri

Dario Martinelli

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Dario Martinelli (born Andria, Italy, March 1, 1974) is an Italian semiotician, musicologist and composer. Since 2012 he has been working at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, as Full Professor in history and theory of arts He was the director of the International Semiotics Institute, and he is also affiliated to the University of Helsinki and the University of Lapland (adjunct professor in both cases). His visiting professorships include the University of Torino (2015–2016), the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (2012–2014), the Finnish Network University of Semiotics (2004–2007) and the Fine Arts Academy of Bari (2005–2006). Martinelli graduated at Bologna University in 1999 and earned his PhD at Helsinki University in 2002. He performs research and publishes monographs and articles in the fields of musicology, popular music studies, film studies, semiotics, animal studies (he is possibly best known for his work in zoomusicology and zoosemiotics) and a research platform called “numanities”, devoted to the rethinking of the role and paradigm of the humanities in modern society. He founded the Springer book series Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress, Martine

Dario Palermo

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Dario Palermo (born 14 June 1970) is an Italian composer. Biography Born in Milan, Dario Palermo began his musical studies in classic guitar at the age of nine, subsequently following studies in percussion with Italo Savoia (Teatro alla Scala of Milan, La Scala), and shortly after at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano with David Searcy and Jonathan Scully (Teatro alla Scala of Milan). In the early years of his career as performer, he played all over Europe in several ensembles, chamber groups and orchestras with, amongst others, Václav Neumann, Christa Ludwig, Thomas Allen, and Claudio Abbado. During the same years at the Civica Scuola di Musica, Palermo enrolled in composition studies initially with Massimiliano Carraro, and then with Giorgio Taccani and Giovanni Verrando. Palermo attended also seminars and classes with Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, Emmanuel Nunes, Aldo Clementi, and particularly with Gérard Grisey. In 2003, he was selected by the Reading Panel of IRCAM, Institut de Recherché et Coordination Acoustique/Musique of Paris, Composition and Music Computer Technologies. Since 2003 he lived between France and United Kingdom where he completed a PhD in composition an

Darko Hajsek

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Darko Hajsek (born 22 September 1959) is a Croatian composer. He composed (and by itself orchestrated) a respectable opus of more than 650 musical works, concert and musical-stage forms, ranging from small, instrumental and chamber shape to big orchestral symphonic works and ten large music and music-theatrical works of contemporary forms and synthesis involving opera, musical theatre and ballet, stage music and other musical forms. His music has been performed in productions of companies such as Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, NT Varaždin, Croatian National Theatre in Split, Croatian National Theatre in Osijek, Gavella Drama Theatre, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Zagreb Theatre Komedija, City Theater Žar Ptica, Satirical Theatre Kerempuh Zagreb, Cankarjev Dom-Ljubljana, Maribor Slovene National Theatre, then Croatian Radiotelevision, Orpheus, Suzy, Zagreb Film, Maxima-movie, Inter-movie, Positive film, with numerous performances in Croatia and in a number of European and non-European countries. Early life Since the beginning of his involvement with music of classical foundation Hajsek showed tendencies towards a broader spectrum of musical expressions and has developed the ability to

Daron Hagen

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Daron Aric Hagen ( ; born November 4, 1961) is an American composer, writer, and filmmaker. Biography Early life Daron Hagen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in New Berlin, a suburb west of Milwaukee. Hagen was the youngest of the three sons of Gwen Hagen, a visual artist, writer and advertising executive who studied creative writing with Mari Sandoz and enjoyed a successful advertising career as creative director of Exclusively Yours Magazine and Earl Hagen (an attorney). Hagen began composing prolifically in 1974, when his older brother Kevin gave him a recording and score of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd. Two years later, at the age of fifteen, he conducted the premiere of his first orchestral work, a recording and score of which came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who enthusiastically urged Hagen to attend Juilliard to study with David Diamond. He studied piano with Adam Klescewski, and studied composition, piano, and conducting at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music (where his teachers included Duane Dishaw and Judy Kramer) while attending Brookfield Central High School. While a student of Rorem’s at Curtis, he studied piano with Marion Zarzeczna and also

Darryl Kubian

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Darryl Kubian (born February 19, 1966) is an American composer, thereminist, violinist, and audio/video engineer. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by North American orchestras, such as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Omaha Symphony, and he has written soundtrack scores for the Wildlife Conservation Society, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Pangolin Pictures, NHK, CBS, The Learning Channel, and others. Darryl performs and records as a thereminist, including chamber and solo works by Herb Deutsch, Martinu, and others, and has also been a featured soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia of New York, and the NJ Symphony on theremin. He was the featured theremin soloist for the Lincoln Center Festival production of Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton. Darryl Kubian is a member of the first violin section of the NJ Symphony, and was the principal second violinist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Indigo Fox Media, Kubian’s New Jersey–based audio/video production company, has recorded artists such as the Emerson String Quartet, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, members of the NY Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, and the Metro

Daryl McKenzie

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Daryl McKenzie (born 1962) is an Australian musical director, composer and trombonist. McKenzie has directed the Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra since 1992 playing with artists such as Bill Watrous, James Morrison (musician), He was musical director for the television show Hey Hey It’s Saturday (Nine Network) from 1992 to 1999 also returning for the 2010 reunion shows. He has directed the Australian Film Institute Awards for SBS television and episodes of Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series) and the Good Friday Appeal for the Seven Network and was musical director of Australia’s Got Talent Series 1. He has arranged for the television shows Australian Idol, Young Talent Time regularly adjudicates at the Melbourne School Bands Festival and has lectured in orchestration and arranging at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Defence Force School of Music (Australia). Discography Albums References External links *Daryl McKenzie at the Internet Movie Database *Daryl McKenzie at Jazz Australia *Daryl McKenzie at All About Jazz *Daryl McKenzie’s homepage *Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra on Myspace

Dave Black (composer)

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Dave Black (born 1959) is an American composer and co-author of numerous books, including Alfred’s Drum Method, Alfred’s Beginning Drumset Method, Alfred’s Kid’s Drum Course, Contemporary Brush Techniques, Drumset Independence and Syncopation, Living Praise, Cymals: A Crash Course, The Essential Dictionary of Orchestration, A Jazz Diary, and Sound Innovations for Concert Band. He has also written a number of articles, concert reviews, and book reviews for publications including The Instrumentalist, Down Beat, Modern Percussionist, Modern Drummer, Drums and Drumming, Drum Tracks, Jazz Educators Journal, Grammy Pulse, and Music Connection. More than 60 of his compositions and arrangements have been published by Alfred Music Publishing, CPP/Belwin, Highland/Etling, Barnhouse, TRN, and Warner Brothers, many of which have been recorded. He has written with, and for the bands of Louie Bellson, Sammy Nestico, Bill Watrous, Bobby Shew, Ed Shaughnessy, Gordon Brisker and the CSUN Jazz Ensemble. Black has received numerous awards and commissions, including 21 consecutive ASCAP Popular Composer Awards and two Grammy nomination certificate. Many of his compositions have been used as background

Dave Kerman

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David Kerman (born August 24, 1959) is an American experimental rock drummer and composer, best known as the founder and member of the Los Angeles avant-rock group 5uu’s. He is also a member of the Belgian progressive rock band Present and the Israeli avant-rock band Ahvak. Kerman has been a member of the United States bands U Totem and Thinking Plague, and the Dutch band Blast. He has collaborated with several musicians, including Bob Drake, Chris Cutler and Fred Frith. Kerman lived in Israel between 2000 and 2003 and holds dual American and Israeli citizenship. He established RēR USA in 2003, the North American distributor of the British independent record label, Recommended Records, and RēR USA’s own record label, AD Hoc Records in 2006. Biography Dave Kerman was born in Torrance, California, south of Los Angeles. At the age of six he started playing with the drum sticks, and at nine he auditioned for a percussionist in his school band. In spite of failing the audition, Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux, family friend and neighbor, recognised potential in Kerman and suggested to Kerman’s parents that they buy him a set of drums. Kerman’s first public performance was at th

Dave Pierce

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Dave Pierce (born July 10, 1972) is a Canadian songwriter, composer, producer, and arranger. He was the music director for the opening, closing, and victory ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.Pierce received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for his work on these ceremonies. He has also worked on arrangements for Broadway and Las Vegas productions. Pierce has collaborated with a variety of performers, including Michael Bublé, Loreena McKennitt, Petula Clark, Carrie Underwood, Paul Brandt, Ian Tyson, Jann Arden, Jorane, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Nelly Furtado and k.d. lang. In addition, he was commissioned to compose a symphonic work for Queen Elizabeth II. Career Pierce was born in Drayton Valley, Alberta. References External links * * * *

Dave Sardy

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David Stuart Sardy (born 1967), more commonly known as D. Sardy, is an American composer, musician, songwriter, and multiple Grammy winning record producer. He came to prominence as the leader of 1990s noise rock band Barkmarket before turning mostly to production work, often with alternative rock, hard rock, electronic related genres, and then to scoring feature films. Biography In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Sardy was active as a singer, songwriter and guitarist (most notably with his group Barkmarket), but since the mid-1990s, he has been more active as a producer, writer, composer and mixer. He has worked with an eclectic mix of rock, punk, alternative, electronic and industrial rock performers, and critics have called him a “Hardcore super-producer.” In 2006, Sardy won six ARIA Awards for his work with Jet and again in 2008, three more ARIA awards for Wolfmother; he has also received five Grammy Awards (for Toots and the Maytals, Rodrigo y Gabriela, OK Go, Wolfmother and Marilyn Manson) and multiple Brit Awards for Oasis, Marilyn Manson, Wolfmother and The Ting Tings. He was Grammy-nominated again in 2007 for LCD Soundsystem’s Sound of Silver and in 2010 for the Band of Ho

Dave Willey

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Dave Willey (born 1963)

David A. Jaffe

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David Aaron Jaffe (born April 29, 1955) is an American electronic music composer. His compositions include over 90 pieces for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, and electronic ensembles. He composed the computer music piece Silicon Valley Breakdown and published research on physical modeling of plucked and bowed strings. He also worked with Julius O. Smith to develop the Music Kit for NeXT Computers. Biography Jaffe attended Ithaca College, where he studied violin performance and music composition, completing his composition studies with Karel Husa. He then attended Bennington College to study composition, orchestration, and counterpoint with Henry Brant and electronic music with Joel Chadabe. He received a B.A. in Music and Mathematics in 1979. Jaffe received a doctorate in Musical Arts from Stanford in 1984, where he was part of the computer music group at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and, later, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In addition to his musical work, he researched physical modelling and ensemble timing. Composing career Jaffe has taught composition at Stanford, the University of California, San Diego, Princeton University,

David Arnold

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David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer whose credits include scoring five James Bond films (1997–2008), as well as Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), Shaft (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Four Brothers (2005), Hot Fuzz (2007), and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock. For Independence Day, he received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television, and for Sherlock, he and co-composer Michael Price won a Creative Arts Emmy for the score of “His Last Vow”, the final episode in the third series. Arnold scored the BBC / Amazon Prime series Good Omens (2019) adapted by Neil Gaiman from his book Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett. Arnold is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Career While attending a Sixth Form College in Luton, Arnold became friends with director Danny Cannon. Cannon initially created short films for which Arnold was asked to write the music. The two made their respective major film debuts with The Young Americans. “Play Dead”, a song from the film with singer Björk, charted No. 12 in the UK. The following year he scor

David Arnott

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David Arnott (born 1963) is an American actor, screenwriter, living in Southern California. Among his credits, Arnott co-wrote Last Action Hero, and starred in The Last Man with Jeri Ryan. David is a member of the legendary “Pad O’ Guys” screenwriting group, including Shane Black and Fred Dekker, and is the son of banjo player Peter R. Arnott. He also provided additional voices in Happy Feet Two and Finding Dory. Arnott also appeared as “Cal Evans” in the 1995 UPN sitcom Pig Sty. He also appeared in a 1992 television remake of the classic film, Christmas in Connecticut directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. This gives Arnott the probably unique distinction of both having written for, and having been directed by Schwarzenegger. David is also a board game enthusiast, and can be seen on GameNight!, a YouTube web series in which he and 2-4 other participants play different designer board games. Partial filmography * Amazing Stories (1986) (Umpire) (Magic Saturday) *You Again? (1986) (Dirk) (Sports Fantasy) *House II: The Second Story (1987) (Banana) * The Facts of Life (1987) (Nick Drexler) (Rumor Has It) *Three Fugitives (1989) (Bank teller) * Day by Day (1989) (Fantasy David Gannon) (The

David Bertok

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David Bertok (born 1981) is a German composer and pianist known for his work in film and television. In 2025, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special for his work on the Netflix series Chef’s Table (specifically the episode “José Andrés”). Early life and education Bertok was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). He studied classical piano and composition, later attending the University of Southern California (USC) where he graduated from the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television (SMPTV) program. Career Bertok’s career includes work as a composer for independent films and documentary series. His work on the Netflix series Chef’s Table earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in 2025. In addition to his film work, Bertok has contributed to the progressive rock and metal scenes. He was a member of the German band Subsignal, appearing on the albums Touchstones (2011), Paraíso (2013) and A Poetry of Rain (2023) which reached the German Media Control Charts. Discography With Subsignal: * Beautiful & Monstrous (2009) * Touchstones (2011) * Out There Must Be Something (2012, Live DVD) * Paraíso (2013) With Dreamscape: *

David Briggs (English musician)

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David John Briggs (born 1 November 1962) is an English organist and composer. He started his career as a cathedral organist as Assistant Organist at Hereford Cathedral before becoming the organist of Truro and Gloucester Cathedrals. Heavily influenced by Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau, Briggs is regarded as one of the world’s finest improvisors, and now works as a concert organist. He is also a composer of choral and organ music and has transcribed many orchestral works for solo organ, as well as many of Cochereau’s recorded improvisations. His daughter is the composer Kerensa Briggs. Early life and training Briggs was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, to John Briggs (d. 1979), an engineer (and cellist), and his wife Jane (a violinist), who had met in 1957 while playing in the Birmingham Hospitals Orchestra. Briggs began improvising on the piano and took lessons at an early age; he was invited to play hymns during assembly at his primary school in Moseley and Christmas carols during services at St Mary’s Church, Moseley. At the relatively early age of 17 Briggs was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO), having studied for the examination with Richard P

David Bruce (composer)

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David Bruce (born 1970) is a British composer and YouTuber. Early life Bruce was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1970, but grew up in England. He began his undergraduate music studies in 1988 at the University of Nottingham, where his composition tutors included Jim Fulkerson and Nicholas Sackman. He continued at the Royal College of Music from 1991 to 1993, where he obtained a master’s degree in composition, studying with Timothy Salter and George Benjamin. He received a PhD in composition at King’s College London between 1995 and 1999, under the supervision of Harrison Birtwistle. Career Bruce developed an international reputation as a composer. His work is performed by musicians from around the world, including soprano Dawn Upshaw, klezmer pioneer Giora Feidman and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Upshaw in particular played an important role in bringing Bruce’s music to wider attention. She instigated the commission for his opera A Bird in Your Ear and performed his Piosenki song-cycle at Carnegie Hall and elsewhere. Upshaw was the soloist in a new song-cycle with ensemble, The North Wind was a Woman, commissioned for the Gala opening of the 2009 season by the Chamber Music So

David Chalmin

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David Chalmin is a French composer, producer, sound engineer and musician. He’s a member of the trio Triple Sun. His collaborations extend from classical music to experimental rock: Katia and Marielle Labèque, Thom Yorke, The National, Madonna, Rufus Wainwright, Matt Elliott, Kalakan, Shannon Wright, and others. His work as a composer have been performed in places such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Salle Pleyel, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Kings Place in London, and Koerner Hall at the Toronto Royal Conservatory. Chalmin runs two recording studios, Studio K Paris and Studio LFO in the Basque Region. Discography * 2006 : Red Velvet (KML Recordings) * 2007 : Dimension X (with Massimo Pupillo ZU, and Chris Corsano) (KML Recordings) * 2008 : B For Bang - Across The Universe of Languages (KML Recordings) * 2011 : B For Bang - Rewires The Beatles (KML Recordings) * 2013 : Minimalist Dream House (KML Recordings) * 2014 : UBUNOIR (Debout!) * 2016 : Triple Sun - The City Lies In Ruins (Consouling Sounds) * 2017 : Katia & Marielle Labèque - Love Stories (KML Recordings/Deutsche Grammophon) * 2018 : Moondog (KML Recordings/Deutsche Grammophon) * 2019 : David Chalmin - La

David Chesky

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David Chesky is an American pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and co-founder of the independent, audiophile label Chesky Records. He is also co-founder and CEO of HDtracks, an online music store that sells high-resolution digital music. Chesky is considered a technological and musical innovator with eclectic interests. He has won Independent Music Awards and received Grammy Award nominations. He has written jazz tunes, orchestral and chamber music, opera, ballet, and a rap symphony. Beginnings At his mother’s insistence, Chesky started piano lessons at the age of 5. In his teens he had less interest in rock and roll music, with its verse-chorus structure, than in classical and jazz. He liked Oscar Peterson, the Buddy Rich Big Band, George Gershwin, and the Latin music he heard while growing up in Miami. In 1974, at the age of 17, he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a musician. He studied privately with classical composer David Del Tredici and jazz pianist John Lewis. Writing, recording, and performing In 1978, he formed a jazz fusion group called the David Chesky Big Band, which included Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, and Bob James, and released the album Rush Hou

David Chesworth

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David Chesworth (born 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom) is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, composer and sound designer. Known for his conceptual, and at times, minimalist music, he has worked solo, in post-punk groups (Essendon Airport, Whadya Want?), electronic music, contemporary ensembles and experimental performance. He has also created installation and video artworks with collaborator Sonia Leber, such as Zaum Tractor included in the 56th Venice Biennale (2015) and This Is Before We Disappear From View commissioned by Sydney Biennale (2014). Works Chesworth’s creative output includes music, sound art, video, installation and performance, often in collaboration with other artists. His compositions and installations have been exhibited and performed at Ars Electronica, Festival d’automne à Paris, Edinburgh Festival, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Bang on a Can Marathon, Sydney Biennale and the Venice Biennale. In 2012 he was artist in residence at the MONA Festival of Art and Music in Hobart which featured performances by the David Chesworth Ensemble and artworks made with collaborator Sonia Leber. Chesworth’s artworks and music often explore their own framing and context

David Ciente

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David Ciente (born 9 July 1989) is a Romanian composer and producer. In 2012 and 2013, he attempted to represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest with his band Electric Fence, finishing in second place on both occasions. Having signed a record deal with native label Global Records, he is best known for collaborating with artists such as Andra, Inna, Selena Gomez, Alicia Keys and Adam Lambert. Early life Born on 9 July 1989 in Oradea, Ciente discovered his musical passion and talent at a young age, taking classical piano lessons at the age of nine. He went on to study music and graduated from the National University of Music Bucharest. As a teenager, Ciente was the keyboard player in a local rock band, named Chrome, and later joined fellow local project Danger with which he had concerts in Romania and abroad. Upon leaving the group, Ciente revived Raza—later known as Electric Fence—with Elena Vasile. They submitted the entries “Șun-ta” and “Emilia” for the 2012 and 2013 Selecția Națională, an event organized to select Romania’s Eurovision Song Contest entries for the respective years, finishing second on both occasions. In the subsequent years, Ciente signed a record deal with

David Conte

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David Conte (born December 20, 1955) is an American composer who has written over 150 works published by E.C. Schirmer (a division of ECS Publishing), including six operas, a musical, works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber music, organ, piano, guitar, and harp. Conte has received commissions from Chanticleer, the Oakland Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Stockton Symphony, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Harvard University Chorus, the Men’s Glee Clubs of Cornell University and the University of Notre Dame, GALA Choruses from the cities of San Francisco, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., the American Guild of Organists (2004, 2009, 2014, 2024, 2025), Sonoma City Opera, and the Gerbode Foundation (for his opera America Tropical). He was honored with the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Brock Commission in 2007 for his work The Nine Muses, and in 2016 he won the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Art Song Composition Award for his work American Death Ballads. In 2024, he was named “Composer of the Year” by the American Guild of Organists. Education and career Conte attended public schools i

David del Puerto

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David del Puerto is a Spanish composer. Biography Born in 1964 in Madrid, musically trained in the guitar, disciple of Francisco Guerrero and Luis de Pablo in his native city, David del Puerto emerged very early as one of the most talented composers of his generation. At just 20 his name was on the bill at the Almeida Festival in London and shortly afterwards he was commissioned by Pierre Boulez to write a new work for the Ensemble InterContemporain. Since then, his music has been present at the most important concert festivals and seasons in Europe, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, United States, Canada and Latin America, where it has been performed by ensembles such as the London Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nieuw Ensemble, Wisconsin University Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, ONE, Orquesta RTVE, JONDE, ORCAM, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, OSPA, Plural Ensemble, Grup Instrumental de Valencia, Taller Sonoro, Cuarteto Casals… His works have been performed by soloists the likes of Ernest Rombout, Ananda Sukarlan, Miquel Bernat, Ángel Luis Castaño, Manuel Guillén, Evelyn Glennie and Sarah Leonard, and conducted by the likes of Ed Spanjaard, Sakari Or

David Downes (Irish composer)

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David Downes is a composer, pianist, producer, and music director who is known for both contemporary composition as well as work in the commercial field, particularly with Riverdance and as founder of Celtic Woman. Career David Downes was born in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin where he studied Music and Composition. He has performed at venues around the world, including Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall and Wembley Arena, appearing with soloists James Galway and Alan Stivell, the group Boyzone, and the Washington Symphony, Moravian Philharmonic, Hollywood Studio Symphony and National Symphony orchestras. He has made recordings with Moya Brennan, Clannad, Michael Crawford, Michael W. Smith and Bill Whelan. He has acted as orchestrator for Riverdance on Broadway and Secret Garden most notably. He joined Riverdance where he was Music Director on Broadway, as well as for the American and European touring companies. Later he and Sharon Browne formed ‘Celtic Woman’, which has toured across the world with platinum recordings in the US, Australia, Japan, South Africa, and major following in Asia, Europe and South America. He acted as musical director for Irish

David Fenech

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David Fenech (born 19 July 1969) is a French composer, guitarist and singer. His style has been described as ‘a kind of punk musique concrète’. He uses the studio as an instrument, using a large panel of recording techniques. He has played and recorded with musicians such as Nurse With Wound, Felix Kubin, Jad Fair, Tom Cora, Rhys Chatham, Pascal Comelade, Jac Berrocal, Ghédalia Tazartès, or with Jac Berrocal + Jason Willett (Christmas in March - Megaphone / Knock Em Dead) Selected discography Solo *2024 Mountains Of Night – LP, Jelodanti *2007 Polochon Battle – CD, Inpolysons *2000 Grand Huit – CD, Tout L’Univers / LP, Gagarin Records With Pierre Bastien * 2022, Suspicious Moon, CD, LP, Improved Sequence With Jac Berrocal and Ghédalia Tazartès * 2011, Superdisque, CD, LP, Sub Rosa With Jac Berrocal and Vincent Epplay * 2024, Broken Allures, LP, CD, Cold Spring - with Cosey Fanni Tutti and Jah Wobble * 2022, Zilveli Villa, Single, AcoustiArc * 2022, Transcodex, LP, Akuphone - CD, KlangGalerie * 2020, Exterior Lux, LP, Akuphone - CD, KlangGalerie * 2019, Ice Exposure, LP, Blackest Ever Black - CD, KlangGalerie * 2017, Why, Single, Blackest Ever Black * 2015, Antigravity, CD, LP, Blac

David Flynn (composer)

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David Flynn (also known as Dave Flynn, born 6 January 1977) is an Irish composer, musician, and the founder and artistic director of the Irish Memory Orchestra. Many of his works music merge the influence of traditional Irish music with contemporary classical music and jazz. He is also a multi-instrumentalist who works across many genres including classical, jazz, rock and traditional Irish music, with guitar being his main instrument. Early experiences Flynn was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. His early musical experiences included brief periods studying piano and tin whistle, but it was not until his early teens that Flynn really took to music, teaching himself how to play rock guitar. He developed an interest in classical guitar in his mid-teens and taught himself how to read music notation, he also learnt classical guitar by ear from recordings. He composed his first piece for classical guitar aged 16. Upon leaving school in 1995 he studied rock music at Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin. Around this time Flynn started composing songs and performed on the Dublin singer-songwriter scene, including at Dave Murphy’s “famous Tuesday night gigs” that helped then u

David Handler

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David Handler (born July 24, 1980) is an American composer, violinist/violist and entrepreneur. His acoustic and electronic compositions have been described by The New York Times as “eerie” and “superbly wrought”, “exploring polarities of light and dark, the sacred and the profane.” He is the owner and co-founder of the music venue Le Poisson Rouge, and the founder and co-artistic director of Ensemble LPR, for which he was described as “the Ian Schrager of the music scene” by The New Yorker. Early life and education David Handler was born in 1980, in Manhattan, New York, and raised in Fort Lee, New Jersey. His parents are Joan Cusack Handler, a poet and publisher, and Alan Handler, a psychologist. At the age of three, Handler began studying violin, and at seven, he expanded his musical interests to include drums, rock, jazz and folk music. His early attempts at composing followed soon after. His formative years included studies at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music. Handler attended the Professional Children’s School (PCS) in Manhattan and earned a bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, studying violin performance, viola performance, composition and conducting. Career

David Horne (composer)

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David Horne (born 12 December 1970) is a Scottish composer, pianist, and teacher. A resident composer with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for four years, he has been awarded several commissions. His works have been performed by international calibre artists. As an award-winning pianist, he has performed with leading British orchestras. Biography He was born in Tillicoultry, near Stirling, in 1970. His father played piano (non-professionally) and he started learning the piano at the age of seven. Early in his life his family moved to Norway, his mother’s native country. Aged eleven, he went to St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh to study piano with Audrey Innes and composition with Geoffrey King. In 1989 he moved to Philadelphia to study at the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Ned Rorem. He moved on to Harvard University, where he obtained a PhD in 1999 and became a visiting lecturer, still in his 20s. He has since returned to the United Kingdom and lives in Manchester, where he is Professor of Music and Head of Graduate School at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 2004 he led the New Music/New Media course for the Britten-Pears School. In 2006/07, he was visiting prof

David Jennings (composer)

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David Andrew Jennings is an English composer (born Sheffield, Yorkshire, 30 May 1972). He read music at the University of Durham, studying composition with John Casken (a pupil of Witold Lutosławski) and again at Postgraduate level with Casken at the University of Manchester. Jennings has additionally benefited from regular consultations with Arthur Butterworth (a pupil of Ralph Vaughan Williams). Jennings’ compositions employ a style that combines romanticism with more recent musical developments. His music is known to have been inspired by the works of poets and visual artists, especially English watercolourists from the early 1800s. In 2012, The Divine Art label released a recording of Jennings’ Piano Music performed by James Willshire, which was nominated as one of Music Web International’s Recordings of the Year 2013. Jennings has also composed orchestral, vocal and chamber music. In 2025, Jennings published a Gothic novel, “The Pleasures of Melancholy”. Recorded and published works * Piano Sonata, Op. 1 * Three Sonatinas, Op. 2 * Prelude and Fugue, Op. 6 (Divine Art recording James Willshire) * Three Lyrical Pieces, Op. 17 * Miniature Suite, Op. 18 * A Weardale Rhapsody (2018

David Kristian

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David Kristian (born November 5, 1967) is a Canadian musician, film score composer, and sound designer. David Kristian has been involved in audio for media since the early 1980s, when he first started work as an animation and experimental filmmaker at a New Brunswick television station. Upon relocating to Montreal, Kristian decided to abandon film-making in order to focus on a music career, first as a solo artist, then as the keyboardist and synthesist for the group Psyche, with whom he recorded “The Influence” in Germany. David Kristian left Psyche in late 1989 and he returned to Montreal to concentrate on more Ambient and instrumental music, citing Tangerine Dream, Robert Fripp and the film scores of Director John Carpenter as longtime influences. Based on his past experience as a filmmaker, it was clear that David Kristian’s path would lead to more soundtrack work. During the 1990s and 2000s, he released several albums on labels as diverse as Crème Organization, Minimal Rome, Ninja Tune, Lo Recordings, Schematic Records, Alien8 Recordings, and Apegenine recordings. Kristian has produced music under aliases, including Gentle Bakemono, Francesco Clemente, and DKMD, a disco duo he

David Laganella

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David Laganella (born 1974) is an American composer based in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Formative years and family Raised in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Laganella graduated from Haddonfield Memorial High School in 1992, studied Guitar and Jazz at Berklee College of Music then pursued music composition degrees from New York University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his PhD in music composition at the age of 27. He has resided in Woodbury, New Jersey with his wife and their son. Career His music has received awards from The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The American Composers Orchestra, The Meet the Composer Fund and The American Composers Forum. He currently holds the position of Professor of Music and Department Chair at Wesley College, Delaware. Laganella is the author of the book, The Composer’s Guide to the Electric Guitar (Mel Bay) which is a guide for composers who want to use the instrument in their music. References External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20100617083415/http://music.wesley.edu/faculty.php *https://web.archive.org/web/20110722133246

David Lang (composer)

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David Lang (born January 8, 1957) is an American composer living in New York City. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance by Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices. Lang was nominated for an Academy Award for “Simple Song #3” from the film Youth. Early life and education Lang was born in Los Angeles, California. Lang is of Jewish descent. In his youth he played trombone. After completing his undergraduate degree at Stanford University, he went to the University of Iowa; he says, “There was a teacher in composition at the University of Iowa named Martin Jenni, and he had come to Stanford as a leave replacement to teach for a semester. And I just thought he was amazing. He knew a lot of stuff that I’d never heard of before. So when I thought about grad school, I went to Iowa. I was happy I did. It was really a kind of golden age. I really loved it.” Lang went on to earn a Doctorate of Musical Arts at Yale University in 1989. In addition to Jenni, his teachers have included Henri Lazarof, Lou Harrison, Richard Hervig,

David Nicholls (musicologist)

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David Nicholls (born in 1955) is a British musicologist and composer. Biography Born in Small Heath, Birmingham, Nicholls was a pupil at St. Benedict’s Primary School in Small Heath and subsequently at the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys, in King’s Heath. He then read Music at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and graduated with a first. In 1986, he completed a Ph.D. at Cambridge, under the supervision of the distinguished British composer Hugh Wood, with a thesis on the compositional techniques of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, John Cage, and other experimental composers. Between 1984 and 1987, Nicholls was Keasbey Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1998, he spent an extended semester at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, United States, as Visiting Professor of Music. From 1987 to 2000, he was Professor of Music and sometime Research Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Keele University. From 2000 to 2013, he was Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. Subsequently he took early retirement due to disenchantment with the tertiary educational system in the UK; he was initially awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of Music, though

David P. Sartor

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David Sartor (rhymes with “Carter”) is an American composer, conductor, and educator, and is the founder and music director of the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra. Composing and Conducting Sartor is the composer of Synergistic Parable for symphonic band, which won the American Bandmasters Association’s Ostwald Award for Symphonic Band Music, and of Polygon, for brass quintet, which received the National Fine Arts Award. Other notable works include Metamorphic Fanfare, commissioned by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra; Thy Light Is Come for chorus, organ, brass and timpani, commissioned by Christ Episcopal Church in Nashville and showcased at the Washington National Cathedral by the Cathedral Choral Society; Black Ball Counts Double for string orchestra, which received a commendation in England’s Oare International Composing Competition; Reveries, for string orchestra, winner of the Burlington (Vermont) Chamber Orchestra’s 2009 Composer Competition as well as a finalist in the Fauxharmonic Orchestra’s Adagio Composition Contest; and Concerto for Orchestra, a finalist in the Columbia Symphony Orchestra’s American Composer Competition. A fourteen-time honoree in the American Prizes, nation

David Riebe

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David Riebe (born 1 May 1988, in Hällestad, Skåne, Sweden) is a Swedish composer who has won second prize in Uppsala Composition Competition (Swedish: Uppsala tonsättartävling) in Sweden and third prize in the All-Russian Open Composers’ Competition in Honor of Andrey Petrov (Russian: Всероссийский открытый конкурс композиторов им. А.П. Петрова) in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2015 he was elected a member of the Swedish Society of Composers (Föreningen svenska tonsättare). Riebe has a master’s degree in composition from the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden where he studied with Luca Francesconi, Rolf Martinsson, Staffan Storm and Kent Olofsson. He has also studied with Michele Tadini and Philippe Hurel at Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse (CNSMD) in Lyon, France. Awards and honours * 2012 – The Culture Grant of Lund Municipality * 2014 – Second prize in Uppsala Composition Competition (Swedish: Uppsala tonsättartävling) with the work Geopoliticus Child * 2016 – Third prize in “10th All-Russian composers’ open competition in honor of Andrey Petrov” with the work Magma Selected works * 2013 – Geopoliticus Child for sinfonietta * 2015 – Magma for symphonic orchestra *

David Rothenberg

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David Rothenberg (born 1962) is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. He is also a composer and jazz musician whose books and recordings reflect a longtime interest in understanding other species such as singing insects by making music with them. Life and work Rothenberg graduated from Harvard and took his PhD from Boston University. As an undergraduate at Harvard, Rothenberg created his own major to combine music with communication. He traveled in Europe after graduation, playing jazz clarinet. Listening to the recorded song of a hermit thrush, he heard structure that reminded him of a Miles Davis solo. Because of Rothenberg’s study of animal song and his experimental interactions with animal music, he is often called an “interspecies musician.” Rothenberg is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music. Publications Books Rothenberg’s book Why Birds Sing: A Journey into the Mystery of Bird Song (Basic Books, 2005) was inspired by an impromptu duet in March 2000 with a laughingthrush at the National Aviary i

David Sanford (composer)

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David William Sanford (born 1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American composer who is also a jazz bandleader. Biography Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963, into a musical family. His parents and one of his grandfathers were choir leaders, his other grandfather was a jazz trumpeter, and his great-grandmother Mozie Bass had composed songs, and music for church pageants; he also has a brother who is a music teacher and singer in Colorado, where the family moved. The young David Sanford acquired an enthusiasm for big band music early on, playing trombone from around the age of ten. He went on to major in music at the University of Northern Colorado, and earned master’s degrees in theory and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1991, supported partly by a Guggenheim Fellowship and partly by a job in the financial services industry, he undertook doctoral studies at Princeton, where he completed his dissertation on Miles Davis in 1998. That same year he joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College, where he teaches theory, composition, and various history courses, including one on music of the 1970s. In 2002, the Rome Prize took Sanford to Italy fo

David Sawer

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David Sawer (born 14 September 1961) is a British composer of opera and choral, orchestral and chamber music. Biography Sawer was born in Stockport, England. After attending Ipswich School, he studied music at the University of York where he began composing contemporary music-theatre pieces. He directed the UK premiere of Mauricio Kagel’s Kantrimiusik at the ICA, conducted the UK premieres of Mare Nostrum and Szenario, and appeared as solo performer in Phonophonie at the South Bank Centre, London, and in the world premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s Gawain at the Royal Opera House. In 1984 he won a DAAD scholarship to study with Mauricio Kagel in Cologne. Even from this point his career, Sawer’s music tends to define each piece within theatrical terms. Indeed, Sawer has described himself as a “theatre person”. His works often reference the visual arts, and in particular surrealist imagery. For example, his piano piece, The Melancholy of Departure was inspired by the shadowy and irrational perspectives of a De Chirico painting. In 1992 Sawer was awarded the Fulbright-Chester-Schirmer-Scholarship; he won a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 1993, an Arts Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and

David Squires (composer)

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David Squires (born 1957) is a Canadian composer and the dean of the School of the Arts, Media and Culture at Trinity Western University. Early life and education Squires received a bachelor’s degree in music (Performance) from University of Western Ontario in 1979, a masters in music (Composition) University of Toronto in 1981, and a doctorate in (Composition) State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993. Career From 1984 to 1987 Squires was the conductor of the Fraser Valley Symphony. Squires has been on the faculty at TWU music for 15 years and was a worship pastor there for 11 years. His scholarly interest is in Christian spirituality and new music, and he has also taught composition, music history, 20th-century composers and Christian spirituality, and Worship design and leadership. Squires’ composition “Ride” was performed in 1997 by the Lethbridge Community Band. “Where Angels Danced” was premiered in November 2007 by the Trinity Western Orchestra with violinist Brielle Goheen. Squires is the initiator of TWU’s Worship Studies Minor and has been instrumental in developing the program. Beginning in 2003, the program studies contemporary worship music, issues regarding wors

David Thomas Roberts

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David Thomas Roberts (born January 16, 1955) is an American composer and musician, known primarily as a modern ragtime composer. Roberts is also a painter in a primitivist style. Born in Moss Point, Mississippi, United States, his first recording, “Music For a Pretty Baby”, appeared in 1978. Pieces such as “The Early Life of Larry Hoffer”, “Roberto Clemente”, “Pinelands Memoir”, “Through the Bottomlands”, and the suite, “New Orleans Streets” have caused Roberts to be considered one of the leading contemporary ragtime-based composers. The New Orleans historian Al Rose called him “the most important composer of this half of the century in America.” Roberts coined the term “Terra Verde” (meaning “green earth”) as a label for compositions which can not be considered as conventional ragtime, mostly by contemporary ragtime writers such as himself, Frank French, Scott Kirby, Hal Isbitz and others. Roberts also works as a writer and visual artist. His mixed-media art appears in the magazine of visionary art, Raw Vision, and his poetry has been anthologized in Another South, a collection of experimental writing published in 2003 by the University of Alabama Press. Selected discography From

David Thulin

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David Morgan Thulin (born 17 June 1983) is a Swedish music producer and film composer. He is known for his Reconstruction album series, multiple chart-topping hits on US Christian and indie radio, and various film/TV credits. Early and personal life Thulin was born, David Morgan Thulin, on June 17, 1983, in Naverstad, Sweden, while the family would immigrate to Vero Beach, Florida, in 1991. He began to seriously hone his piano acumen, when he turned 12. Thulin is married to Racheal, where they reside in Nashville, Tennessee. The first album, Reconstruction, was released on 23 April 2013, from Dream Records. His subsequent album, Reconstruction, Vol. 2.1, was released on 7 January 2014, with Dream Records. He released, Reconstruction, Vol. 2.2, on 30 September 2014, from Dream Records. Discography Notable albums * Reconstruction (23 April 2013, Dream) * Reconstruction, Vol. 2.1 (7 January 2014, Dream) * Reconstruction, Vol. 2.2 (30 September 2014, Dream) Other notable works * Light in Me (Feat. Nicole Croteau) – The Remixes (6 May 2014, Dream) * Architecture (Jonathan Thulin) - The White Room (2013, Dream) Reached No. 1 on US Christian AC/CHR chart * Dead Come to Life (Jonathan Thul

David Vostell

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David Vostell (born 10 October 1960) is a German-Spanish composer and film director. Biography David Vostell was born in Cologne, the first child of Wolf Vostell and his Spanish wife Mercedes Guardado. His father and his father’s art have formed his view of the world from his earliest childhood onwards. The artistics movements of the 1960s and the early 1970s as well as his father’s circle with people as Nam June Paik and Allan Kaprow, with whom he often sat together as a teenager, marked him deeply. From 1977 until 1980 he made apprenticeships at the TV and radio station Sender Freies Berlin, as well as at the publicity agency TBWA in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as an assistant film editor, as a film projectionist, in a photolab, in a photostudio and as photographer. In 1979, together with some of his former school mates, he made 36574 Bilder (36574 Images), an experimental film in Super 8. In 1980 he shot the documentary Endogen Depression about the making of an Installation by Wolf Vostell. In 1982 he shot the short film Ginger Hel starring Mark Eins, founder of the band Din A Testbild, and with the actress Panterra Hamm. The film tells a bizarre love story set in the Berlin un

David Woodard

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David James Woodard (; born 1964) is an American conductor and writer known for his controversial performances. Through the 1990s and 2000s, Woodard constructed and sold replica Dreamachines, or stroboscopic light devices. He also coined the term prequiem, meaning preemptive requiem, to describe musical compositions that he made “for the soon-to-be-deceased”. He created prequiems for people such as baseball player Joe DiMaggio and terrorist Timothy McVeigh. He also wrote music for neo-Nazi activist William Luther Pierce and attempted to memorialize the 9/11 hijackers. Woodard is interested in Nueva Germania, a district in Paraguay founded by German settlers. He stated that he was drawn to the settlement as what he called “an Aryan vacuum in the middle of the jungle”, although he has denied being a white supremacist. Early life Woodard was born in Santa Barbara, California, Woodard claimed in 2001 that his interest in death stemmed from the fact that, when he was a teenager, his girlfriend was mysteriously found dead; in another instance he said that she had killed herself and her parents had blamed him. Woodard studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, before he moved to

David Yazbek

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David Norman Yazbek (born 1961) is an American writer, musician, composer, and lyricist. He wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals The Full Monty (2000), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2004), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), The Band’s Visit (2017), Tootsie (2019), and Dead Outlaw (2025). He won a Tony Award and a Grammy Award for The Band’s Visit. He also consulted on the musical Buena Vista Social Club, for which he won another Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Early life David Yazbek was born in New York City. His father is of Lebanese descent, and his mother was of half-Italian and half-Jewish ancestry. He began cello lessons in elementary school and took up the piano as a teenager. He attended Riverdale Country School. While attending Brown University as an undergraduate, he wrote an original musical with the production group Brownbrokers before graduating in 1982. He also directed a production of Hair with the student theatre group Production Workshop, for which he composed an original song to complement the classic score. Career After college Yazbek got a job writing for David Letterman’s late-night television show Late Night with David Le

Davide Petrella

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Davide Petrella (born 6 August 1985), also known as Tropico, is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and lyricist. Life and career Born in Naples, Petrella started his career as founder and frontman of the band Le Strisce, with whom he recorded three albums. In 2014, he collaborated with Cesare Cremonini on the album Logico, and since then he became one of the most requested songwriters in Italy. Artists with whom he collaborated include Gianna Nannini, Elisa, Marracash, Jovanotti, Elodie, Mahmood, Sophie and the Giants, Giusy Ferreri, Emma Marrone, Alessandra Amoroso, Fabri Fibra, Achille Lauro, The Kolors, Fedez, J-Ax, Fred De Palma and Anitta. At the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival two songs co-written by Petrella, Marco Mengoni’s “Due vite” and Lazza’s “Cenere”, took the lead in the final ranking, respectively in first and second place; together with Mogol, Alberto Testa, Franco Migliacci, Cristiano Minellono and Zucchero Fornaciari, he is one of the few songwriters to hold this record. Beyond his career as a songwriter for other artists, Petrella is also active as a singer-songwriter under the stage name Tropico. - ! rowspan=“1” Targa Tenco Best Song - !rowspan="

Davide Remigio

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Davide Remigio (born 1963) is an Australian-Italian contemporary composer known for founding the compositional technique known as Quaternary Music. He has worked as a composer, lecturer, and theorist, with a catalogue of works spanning orchestral, choral, chamber, opera, and electronic genres, and has been active internationally since the 1980s. Biography Remigio was born in Melbourne to Italian parents and returned to Italy in 1969, where he began his musical studies at an early age. He studied violin and music theory as a child and composed his first work, Giga for solo violin, at age 11. He later continued formal studies in composition, conducting, ensemble instrumentation, and electronic music at the Conservatorio di Musica “Luisa D’Annunzio” in Pescara and the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome , where he completed a Master of Music in composition in 1992 under the direction of Franco Donatoni. In 1991, he also studied music for film at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Ennio Morricone. Career Remigio has held teaching positions in music composition at several Italian conservatories, including those in Potenza, Bari, and L’Aquila, and currently teaches compo

Davis Daniel

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Robert Andrykowski (born March 1, 1961) is an American country music artist who records under the name Davis Daniel. Between 1991 and 1996, he recorded three studio albums on various divisions of Polygram Records: 1991’s Fighting Fire with Fire, 1994’s Davis Daniel, and 1995’s I Know a Place. In that same time span, seven of his singles entered the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including the Top 40 hits “Picture Me”, “For Crying Out Loud” and “Fighting Fire with Fire.” Biography Robert Andrykowski was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, on March 1, 1961. Over time, his family moved to Nebraska, and subsequently to Denver, Colorado. As a teenager, he found work singing at various nightclubs throughout Denver, Colorado. By the late 1980s, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, eventually adopting the stage name Davis Daniel and landing a record deal with Mercury/Polygram Records in 1991 with the help of his music producer Ron Haffkine. Fighting Fire with Fire was issued that year. It produced four singles on the country charts: “Picture Me” at number 28, followed by “For Crying Out Loud” at number 13, the title track at number 27 and “Still Got a

Dawn Vincent

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Dawn Vincent is an Indian music composer and sound designer. He is a graduate from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He is also an accomplished pianist certified from Trinity College London. He works predominantly in Malayalam cinema. Early life and education Dawn was born in Kochi, Kerala, to Vincent John and Sheena Nancy. He has a younger brother, Navin Vincent, who is a structural engineer and also an 8th grade solo guitarist certified from Trinity College London, London. He is married to Priscilla Vaddadi who is working as an animation director in Canada. Dawn studied in Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Girinagar, Kochi. He was active as a keyboard player and bass guitarist during his school life. He was part of a rock band and their genre of music included versions of singles from various bands such as Metallica, Dream Theater, Slipknot, Green Day, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. They also performed their own compositions and bagged prizes in many interschool competitions from 2004 to 2008. He graduated from Karunya University, Coimbatore in 2012 with an undergraduate Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Media Technology. He then joined Film and Television Institute o

Dean Burry

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Dean Burry (born 1972 in St. John’s, Newfoundland) is a Canadian composer, librettist, and educator. He is best known for his children’s opera “The Brothers Grimm” premiered in 2001 which is likely the most performed Canadian opera with over 600 performances, as well as his operatic adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Early life Burry began his passion in music at age 10. He was inspired by a teacher to compete in piano competitions. He was also interested in theater, writing plays and musicals for his school drama club. College Burry first attended college at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. While at Mount Allison, he produced and conducted The Resurrection, Joe and Mary Had a Baby, and Unto the Earth: Vignettes of a War. He later went to the University of Toronto and studied composition. Awards *In 2011, Burry was given the Louis Applebaum Composers Award. Music Operas *Unto the Earth: Vignettes of a War *The Brothers Grimm (for the Canadian Opera Company) *The Hobbit (for the Canadian Children’s Opera Company) *The Vinland Traveller *Isis and the Seven Scorpions (for the Canadian Opera Company) *Pandora’s Locker (for The Glenn Gould School at The Ro

Dean Rosenthal

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Dean Rosenthal is an American composer of instrumental and electronic music, sound installations, and field recordings. His pieces have included field recordings, text scores, digital pastiche, and instrumental works focussed on natural observations of properties in mathematics such as perfect tilings, combinations, graph theory, and permutations. He has conducted and performed internationally since 1996. He is the composer of the ongoing international community experimental music work Stones/Water/Time/Breath that is celebrated annually by Fête de la Musique in multiple cities across North America and Europe. He also serves as co-editor of The Open Space Web Magazine and is a contributing editor to The Open Space Magazine. He has worked closely with Guggenheim Fellow David Parker’s dance company The Bang Group on several works, including their collaboration Turing Tests. Most recently, he was commissioned by the Oral History of American Music at Yale to compose a new work on the life of Vivian Perlis. This piece, There Was Only One of Her (Vivian Perlis), was placed in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Hi

Deanna C. C. Peluso

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Deanna C. C. Peluso (born 1979) is a Canadian, educator in Counselling and School Counselling, musician, composer, music educator, author and researcher in Vancouver, British Columbia. Peluso’s work centers on arts-based, relational, and culturally responsive approaches to school counselling and education. She is a Principal Faculty Member and Graduate Supervisor in the Master of Education in School Counselling and Master of Arts in Counselling programs at City University in Canada. Academic and professional work Peluso earned bachelor’s degrees in Music and Psychology and a PhD in Education from Simon Fraser University. She also completed a Master of Education in Educational and Organizational Leadership at the University of Victoria. Since the mid-2010s, Peluso has been a faculty member at City University in Canada, where she serves as a Principal Faculty Member and Graduate Supervisor in the Master of Education in School Counselling and Master of Counselling programs. Her teaching and supervision focus on arts-based, multimodal, and culturally responsive approaches to counselling and education, emphasizing relational practice, student wellbeing, and inclusive pedagogies. Peluso

Deborah Drattell

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Deborah Drattell (born 1956) is an American composer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and started her career in music as a violinist. She has been lauded as “a remarkably original voice” by Opera News and is noted for her contributions to contemporary classical music. Her compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Tanglewood and Caramoor Music Festivals, and many other groups and venues. She rewrote the role of the villain in Nicholas and Alexandra, Rasputin, from baritone to tenor when Plácido Domingo expressed interest in singing the role. Early Life and Education Drattell was born in Brooklyn, New York. She developed her musical foundation as a violinist before shifting her focus to composition. She earned a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Chicago, where she studied under Ralph Shapey. Career Opera Her operas include: “Festival of Regrets" (1999): A one-act opera with a libretto by Wendy Wasserstein, premiered at the Glimmerglass Opera and later performed as part of the Central Park trilogy at the New York City Opera. “Lilith” (2001): A full-length opera exploring the biblical figure of Adam’s first wife, premiered

Deborah Lurie

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Deborah Ruth Lurie (born March 9, 1974) is an American composer, arranger, and music producer. She has scored several films such as Sleepover (2004), An Unfinished Life, Mozart and the Whale, (both 2005), Sydney White (2007), Dear John (2010), One for the Money (2012), Safe Haven (2013), and Poms (2019). She has been a string arranger for musicians such as Brandi Carlile, Kelly Clarkson, Allison Iraheta, Adam Lambert, and Katy Perry. Lurie has also been a string arranger for several rock bands such as 3 Doors Down, Bon Jovi, Creed, Halestorm, Papa Roach, Simple Plan, The All-American Rejects, and Three Days Grace, though her best known collaborations have been with Hoobastank and Theory of a Deadman. In 2015, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded Lurie the Shirley Walker Award for her contributions to the diversity of film and television music. She was one of the composers interviewed in Score: A Film Music Documentary. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences extended membership to Lurie in 2016 for her contributions to motion pictures. Filmography Composer Arranger/Producer *The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (song arranger) *Annie (additi

Deborah Mollison

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Deborah Mollison (born 29 May 1958) is a British composer and songwriter, Her work includes the score for the 1999 film East is East. Life and Education Mollison began composing at the age of seven, having received free music lessons at school. From the age of thirteen, she studied composition, piano and flute at the Royal Academy of Music where she won the Else Cross Prize for pianoforte. Whilst undertaking a Master’s degree at Lancaster University, she was inspired and mentored by the composer Elisabeth Lutyens. She then went to UCLA to study with Don Ray, Gerry Immel, Jerry Goldsmith after which she returned to UK to Middlesex University where she received her PhD in music. She has composed for commissions from the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia. * Earth Story (1998) TV documentary mini-series * Simon Magus (1999) * Secrets of the Ancients (1999) TV documentary mini-series * East Is East (1999) * The Thing About Vince (2000) TV mini-series * What the Romans Did for Us (2000) TV documentary series * The Boys of Sunset Ridge (2001) * Landscape Mysteries (2003) * Souli (2004) * Too Much Too Young (2005) * Violin concerto: Ocean Witness * Horn concerto: Globa

Deirdre Gribbin

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Deirdre Gribbin (born 14 May 1967) is a composer from Northern Ireland. Career Gribbin was born in Belfast. She studied at Queen’s University Belfast where, at the age of twenty, she began to compose. Further studies were in London (at the Guildhall School of Music with (Robert Saxton) and in Denmark (with Per Nørgård). Her first professional success came when her piano piece Per Speculum in Aenigmate won the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Composition Prize. Subsequent major works have included the piano quartet Jack B. (inspired by the work of the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats), the piano trio How to Make the Water Sound, the opera Hey Persephone!, the violin concerto Venus Blazing, which was directed by Lou Stein with lighting by Jeff Ravitz, and The Binding of The Years, for piano and orchestra. Celestial Pied Piper was published as part of Faber’s Millennium Series. She lived in New York where she was a Fulbright Fellow. Several of her works respond to the political climate of her homeland, such as the ensemble piece Tribe, the orchestral work Unity of Being, which was performed by the Ulster Orchestra as part of the UK WITH NY Festival in New York after 9/11, and her e

Dejan Orešković

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Dejan Orešković (born March 24, 1970), also known by his nickname Klo, is a Croatian record producer and guitarist. He is a current member of rock band Zabranjeno Pušenje and a former member of heavy metal band Divlje jagode. Life and career Orešković was born and raised in Slavonski Brod, SFR Yugoslavia (nowadays Croatia). At the age of six he went to his first music concert. It was the Bijelo Dugme concert, because his parents were their fans. Shortly thereafter, he had got an acoustic guitar and learned to play the first song “The House of the Rising Sun”. By the end of elementary education, he started playing in his first rock band with whom he plays songs of the Rolling Stones and similar rock bands. In the following period, he played in various local bands, and in 1988, he became a member of the most popular local band Casablanca, at that time in a contract with Jugoton. At the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence he relocated to Munich, Germany. He performed on their last four studio albums; Muzej revolucije (2009), Radovi na cesti (2013), Šok i nevjerica (2018), and Karamba! (2022). In 2025, he performed on the band’s two live albums, Pušenje ubija and Uživo u Lisi

Dem Jointz

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Dwayne Allen Abernathy Jr. (born July 17, 1976), known professionally as Dem Jointz, is an American record producer, songwriter and singer. He has been credited with production work for artists including Kanye West, Rihanna, Anderson .Paak, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Chris Brown, Jennie, NCT 127, Exo, Aespa, Itzy, and Nmixx, among others. He served as in-house talent for Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment in 2015, during which he produced four tracks on Dre’s third album, Compton (2015). That same year, he produced several tracks on Janet Jackson’s Billboard 200-number one album, Unbreakable (2015). Since 2020, Abernathy has contributed production or backing vocals to West’s albums Donda (2021) and Donda 2 (2022), as well as on his 2020 single “Nah Nah Nah”. His record label, U Made Us What We Are, was founded in 2015 and has signed artists including Maryland-based rapper K.A.A.N., gospel singer Keedron Bryant, and his spouse, singer Stalone. He formed the supergroup Read the PDF with fellow Aftermath producers, Mr. Porter and Focus… in 2022. He has won a Grammy Award from two nominations. Early life Dem Jointz was born on July 17, 1976, in Compton, California. He was inclined to music a

Dennis Tobenski

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Dennis Tobenski (born April 18, 1982, in Kankakee, Illinois) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and art song. Life Born on April 18, 1982, Dennis M. Tobenski grew up in Kankakee, IL. In 2004, he graduated from Illinois State University, where he studied Vocal Performance with baritone John M. Koch, and Music Theory & Composition with Stephen Andrew Taylor, David Feurzeig and Serra Hwang. After graduating from ISU in 2004, he was invited to move to New York City to study privately with composer Daron Hagen. Tobenski was commissioned by the ISU School of Theatre to compose music for Shakespeare’s The Tempest: the inaugural production of the newly constructed Center for the Performing Arts, which led him to write for several subsequent School of Theatre mainstage productions. These included Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Frank McGuinness’ adaptation of Sophocles’ Electra. The ISU College of Fine Arts commissioned the 2002 Elegy, a work for choir and chamber ensemble commemorating the events of September 11, 2001, and the 2004 Soliloquy for solo flute. Tobenski was commissioned in 2002 by baritone John M. Koch (whose 1996 performance of Il barbiere di

Denys Bouliane

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Denys Bouliane (born May 8, 1955) is a Canadian composer and conductor. He is a Professor of Composition at McGill University. Early life and education Bouliane was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec. He is a graduate of Laval University (B.Mus 1977 and M.Mus in 1979). He studied music composition in the Neue Musik Theater class of Mauricio Kagel in Cologne followed by studies with György Ligeti until 1985. Career In 1987 Bouliane was awarded the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for À propos… et le baron perché. In the 1990s he organized the festivals Montréal Nouvelles-Musiques and MusiMars. In 2003 Bouliane was composer-in residence at the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa; the orchestra performed his composition “Snow Is White, but Water Is Black” in November that year. Bouliane has received commissions from various ensembles including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Trio Fibonacci, Bozzini Quartet, Goethe Institute of San Francisco, and Pinchas Zukerman. In 2006 he was composer-in-residence for the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Works Denys Bouliane’s major works include: * Le Cactus rieur et la demoiselle qui souffrait d’une soif insatiable * Concerto for Orchestra (

Deon Lee

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Deon Lee (Hangul: 디온 리) is a South Korean born composer known for his works on films 1895 and Papa. Upon graduating from Berklee College of Music with a scholarship, he has worked with Velton Ray Bunch as an assistant composer for the television movie The Tenth Circle which premiered on Lifetime channel. In 2008, Lee was asked to score for the Taiwanese film Blue Brave: The Legend of Formosa in 1895 (a.k.a. 一八九五) which was released and distributed by 20th Century Fox Taiwan and has aired on Hakka TV stations. The movie won the Best Drama Series Award at the 14th Asian Television Awards and was chosen the best 10 films of the Chinese Film Critic Association that year. Filmography Films Awards and nominations Lee was the recipient of the Best Soundtrack Award and appeared as a special guest with Stephen McEveety at the 4th Pan Pacific Film Festival in 2011. His music was nominated at the 1st International Fashion Film Awards in La Jolla, California, where his original score to the dance film Lilith by Eric Chang won the Best Creative Concept Award at the La Jolla Fashion Film Festival. In 2014, Badbug, a South Korean drama thriller short film he had scored won the Best Comics-Oriente

Derek Bermel

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Derek Bermel (born 1967, in New York City) is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary. He is the recipient of various awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Academy in Rome’s Rome Prize awarded to artists for a year-long residency in Rome. Life Bermel earned his B.A. at Yale University and later studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with William Bolcom and William Albright. He also studied with Louis Andriessen in Amsterdam and Henri Dutilleux at Tanglewood. Later, his interest in a wide range of musical cultures sent him to Jerusalem to study ethnomusicology with André Hajdu, Bulgaria to investigate Thracian folk style with Nikola Iliev, Brazil to learn caxixi with Julio Góes, and to Ghana to study Lobi xylophone with Ngmen Baaru. Bermel’s output includes pieces for a variety of performing forces, including solo vocal songs, pieces for large and small chamber ensembles, and fourteen orchestral works. Though the ensembles he writes for are largely classical, his voice as a composer has been heavily influenced by both h

Derek Charke

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Derek Charke (; born 1974) is a Canadian classical composer and flutist. Career In 2012, Derek Charke won the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for his work, “Sepia Fragments.” The following year Charke’s work, “Between the Shore and the Ships” received an ECMA for Classical Composition of the Year. Derek’s compositions increasingly pair electroacoustic elements—many of which are derived from environmental sounds—with acoustic instruments. Ecological sound as an artistic statement on environmental issues has become an impetus for many works, and his interest in the Arctic has like-wise played a role in many of his compositions. His music bridges a divide between this play of pure sound, collecting natural and environmental sound, and a continuation of the Western “classical” tradition—albeit with contemporary and popular influences. Derek Charke earned his bachelor’s degree in composition at the University of North Texas, a master’s degree in composition from the Royal Academy of Music, a master’s degree in flute and a doctorate degree in composition from the University at Buffalo. While at Buffalo he studied composition with David Felder and flute with Cheryl Gobbet

Derek Keller

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Derek Lawrence Keller (born 1971) is an American composer, guitarist, vocalist, and teacher. Keller previously served as a visiting assistant professor of music composition at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and he currently curates the music series for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, focusing on highlighting original avant-garde and improvisational music. He also works as an adjunct professor at William Jessup University. Keller earned a B.Mus. in music composition and guitar as well as an M.M. in music composition at the University of Georgia. He holds a Ph.D. in music composition from University of California at San Diego, where he studied under the direction of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Roger Reynolds. He has also studied composition with Anthony Davis, Chaya Czernowin, Rand Steiger, George Crumb, Jean-Luc Hervé, Brian Ferneyhough, David Lang, and Charles Wuorinen. Keller has received many commissions, including from John Zorn, RedFishBlueFish, Groundworks Dance Theater, Cappella Gloriana, Athens Master Chorale, Truman State University, and MACRO Analysis Creative Research Organization. Keller was born in Philadelphia. He has lived in St. Louis, Atlanta, and La Jolla. He curr

Desmond Gaspar

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Desmond Gaspar is a Canadian organist, pianist, conductor, composer and songwriter who works as a freelance concert artist and ballet pianist who won the Associateship and Fellowship diplomas of the Royal Canadian College of Organists in consecutive years while under 30 years of age, thus being one of a very small number of Canadians under that age to achieve that distinction at the time. Gaspar studied under Earle Moss (piano), Molly Sclater (theory), Roman Toi (composition) and Heather Spry (organ and church music) from the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, during which time he received numerous performance and competition awards. His eclectic career in liturgical music, dance accompaniment, choir-directing and other disciplines has taken him to various venues in Canada, the United States and Europe. A Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists (winning the Associateship and Fellowship Diplomas in consecutive years as well as the Charles Peaker and the Healey Willan Prizes respectively with those attempts, scoring the highest mark in Canada for the latter), Gaspar was one of a very small number of Canadians who won that professional desi

Detlef Heusinger

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Detlef Heusinger (born 1956 in Frankfurt) is a German composer and conductor. Since October 2006 he is head of the and thus the successor of André Richard. For 1996/97, he was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2009, Heusinger founded the soloist Ensemble Experimental. Work Source. Until 1990 * Ent-Fremdung. For four guitars (1978/1995) * Todesfuge. For baritone, guitar and string quartet (1979–1980) * Aufstieg. For chamber ensemble (1982) * Materialermüdung. Played on two pianos for four hands (1982) * Spiel der Zeit. Three sonnets (Gryphius) with prelude, interlude and postlude for soprano, baritone and chamber orchestra (1983) * Stückwerk. For guitar solo (1983/1987) * Epiphora – Oxymora – Anaphora. Three pieces for piano (1984/1986) * Rhap-Time. For 19 instruments (1985) * Spuren-Elemente/Trace elements. For guitar (1985) * Von Insel zu Insel. For chamber ensemble (1985–1986) * Der Turm. Stage music for vocal soloists, dancers, orchestra and Live-electronic, after the play of the same name by Peter Weiss (1986/1988) * Noema. For flute and guitar (1987/1989) * Ellipsis. For small orchestra (1988) * Rossini a.D. Musical posse for three singers, five dancers an

Detlev Glanert

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Detlev Glanert (born 6 September 1960) is a German opera composer, who has also composed numerous works for chamber and full orchestra, including three symphonies. Biography Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960. He came to music late, learning his first instrument, the trumpet, at the age of eleven and not starting his formal composition studies until his twenties, when he studied under Diether de la Motte, Günther Friedrichs and Frank Michael Beyer, and then for four years under Hans Werner Henze in Cologne. Having seen his first operas in Hamburg in 1972, The Magic Flute, and then Die Soldaten, he has said that from the first moment he loved opera. It was at Henze’s invitation that Glanert produced his first sizeable piece of music-theatre, the opera Leyla und Medjun which opened the first Munich Biennale, established by Henze in 1988. Glanert then became involved in Henze’s other festival, the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano as assistant co-ordinator and head of the music school from 1989 to 1993 and as artistic director from 2009 to 2011. In 1992/93, he was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in Rome. He reached widespread attention with his 1995 opera Der S

Detlev Müller-Siemens

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Detlev Müller-Siemens (born 30 July 1957) is a German composer and conductor. Life and career Born in Hamburg, Müller-Siemens began with piano lessons at age six and began composing. * Carillon for orchestra, 1991 * Double Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra, 1992 * Phoenix 1,2,3 for ensemble, 1993–1995 * Maiastra for orchestra, 1995–1996 * Cuts for alto saxophone and ensemble, 1996/97 * Light blue, almost white for ensemble, 1998 * Bing, musical theatre, 1998–2000 * String Trio, 2002 * Die Aussicht for choir and ensemble, 2003/04 * the space of a step for orchestra, 2003/04 * distant traces (in memoriam György Ligeti) for violin, viola and piano, 2007 * lost traces for piano quartet, 2007 * …called dusk (in memoriam György Ligeti) for violoncello and piano, 2008 * Kommos for large ensemble, 2008/09 * Privacy (in memoriam László Polgár) for clarinet, violin and piano, 2010 * …called dusk II for string quartet, 2011 * Three piano pieces, 2012 * … called dusk IV for orchestra, 2012/13 * … called dusk III for ensemble, 2014 * … called dusk V for violin solo, 2014 * Subsong 1 for ensemble, 2015 References External links *

Devon Rose

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Devon Rose (formerly Lani Renaldo) known professionally by their stage name dev.m4a, is an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and blogger from Los Angeles, CA. Their music has been recommended by American Songwriter, Wonderland, The Line of Best Fit, Billboard, Wild Honey Pie and LADYGUNN. Early life Rose was born October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, CA. They graduated from Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in 2014. They graduated from the University of Southern California in 2018. Career In 2012, Rose was picked to go to the GRAMMY Foundation’s GRAMMY CAMP in New York to participate as a songwriter. They appeared in the Samsung Level Music Lab with Halsey. They later opened for her, along with the BadSuns at the Shrine Expo Hall on a date of the Badlands Tour. Rose has written for PopWrapped and was a Campus Editor-At-Large for the Huffington Post. In 2015, they appeared on the daytime talk show The Doctors, after having written an open letter complaining about clothes not fitting. In September 2021, Rose became the face of the color “GRAVEDIGGER,” for Good Dye Young’s campaign “METALHEADS.” Personal life Rose is as queer. They came out as nonbinary in October 2021, an

Diana Ringo

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Diana Ringo (born 8 March 1992) is a Finnish film director, composer and visual artist. She is best known for the films Quarantine (2021) and 1984 (2023). Biography Diana was born in the family of Finnish researcher Reijo Mononen and Russian-Finnish artist Elena Ringo. Her great-grandfathers are inventor Josef Ringo Her director debut is dystopian feature film drama Quarantine (2021) which was shortlisted for the 2022 Golden Globes as a foreign entry. She was also composer of the film and for the film’s score she wrote 26 original tracks. In November 2022 it was announced that her feature film based on George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four would be released in 2023. Her film 1984 was released on 15 November 2023. In February 2025, the trailer for The Curse of Modigliani was released. The film, starring Edward Pishiyski and based on an original screenplay by Diana Ringo, marks her first English-language feature. Shot in Helsinki, the film was released on 7 December 2025. Diana Ringo’s directorial style has been compared to the works of Andrei Tarkovsky, Terrence Malick and Aleksandr Sokurov. Her music for the film Million Loves in Me by Sampson Yuen won the award for

Diego Luzuriaga

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Diego Luzuriaga (born 1955, in Loja) is an Ecuadorian composer of classical music. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition in 1993. Luzuriaga composed Manuela y Bolívar, the first Ecuadorian opera, which relates the love and death of Manuela Sáenz and Simón Bolívar. It premiered in November 2006 at the Sucre National Theater (Teatro Nacional Sucre). He was awarded the Eugenio Espejo National Prize in 2006. This prize is the highest recognition given to an Ecuadorian artist and it is awarded biannually by the president of Ecuador. Andean folk and Latin American music are influences in Luzuriaga’s work. His “Responsorio” has been performed by several major American symphony orchestras as part of “Caminos del Inka”, a program championed by conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Education Luzuriaga earned an architecture degree from the Central University of Ecuador in Quito, before pursuing an education in musical composition at the École Normale in Paris, the Manhattan School of Music in New York, and Columbia University. References External links * Diego Luzuriaga’s website * Review of Manuela y Bolívar

Dieter Dolezel

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Dieter Dolezel (born 28 July 1977) is a German composer and electronic guitarist. Life Dolezel was born in Munich. After initially studying philosophy at LMU Munich, he first studied guitar at the . This was followed by composition studies with Wilfried Hiller and Louis Andriessen as well as various master classes with Tristan Murail, Alvin Curran and Richard Ayres, among others. In 2002, he founded the doArte Foundation, for which he is still active in an advisory capacity. Performances of his works have taken place at the Gaudeamus Foundation Music Week, the Hamburg Klangwerktage, novembermusic, at the Prinzregententheater in Munich and at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome. Among the performers of his music are the Ensemble Modern, the King’s Singers, Mike Svoboda, John Snijders, the Holland Symfonia, Fabrice Bollon, as well as the ensemble unitedberlin. In 2007, he was a scholarship holder at the Villa Massimo in Rome. Work ;Orchestra * aber vielleicht (2006) * aber vielleicht for 20 strings (2004) ;Chamber music * realtime fragments for string quartet (2006) * pLasTik for flute, bassoon, percussion (2), viola, cello and double bass (2005) * fanfare 2003 fo

Dietmar Bonnen

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Dietmar Bonnen (born 27 July 1958 in Cologne, Germany) is a German composer and pianist. Life Dietmar Bonnen studied music and fine arts in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1981 he founded the avantgarde-rock ensemble Fleisch, with whom he recorded several CDs with his own compositions. After two years of production he published a CD called “Bonnen spielt …” with organ music of the 20th century. This production was the first, which combined different organs and acoustics from different churches made possible by recording techniques taken from pop music. Beside works of György Ligeti, Paul Hindemith, Charles Ives and Max Reger, he also played compositions written especially for this project and that cannot be performed on conventional organs. It contains premieres of two works of John Cage; “Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the Subjects of the Solo” from 1933/34 and “Composition for Three Voices” from 1934. Later, Bonnen produced several CDs in several different musical genres, as for example the soundscape-composition “Bonnen in Beijing”, recorded 1993/94 for WDR in Beijing and Cologne. Other works present music of other composers in n

Dimitri Scarlato

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Dimitri Scarlato (born 21 April 1977) is an Italian composer and conductor, based in London. Early life and education He received his degree in Composition, Conducting and Score Reading in 2004 at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome while studying privately Jazz Piano and Classical Piano. After his studies in Rome, he studied conducting with Milen Nachev and Alexander Polyanichko in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, he moved to London in order to pursue a Master’s in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2014, he was awarded a Doctorate in Composition at the Royal College of Music, which in 2010 selected him as an RCM Rising Star. Film and theatre scoring In 2003, he composed the music for the musical Piaf…l’Hymne à l’Amour, directed by Carlo Lizzani. The musical was performed at several prestigious Italian theatres, including the Teatro Regio in Parma and the Teatro Argentina in Rome. In 2007, he worked on the music pre-production for the film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street directed by Tim Burton. While completing his Master’s in London, he began to collaborate with young directors from the London Film School and composed the music for several proje

Dimitri Voudouris

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Dimitri Voudouris (Greek: Δημήτριος Βουδούρης), is an electroacoustic, new music composer, scientific researcher and pharmacist living in South Africa who pioneered UNYAZI,the first electronic music festival and symposium on the African continent in 2005 that took place at University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He lectures part-time at Witwatersrand University in electronic music composition. He composes for acoustic instruments, electronic sound sources, multimedia, including dance and theatre. He bases his technical and theoretical compositional approach in scientific research e.g. Study of traffic flow patterns, biochemical dynamics of energy formation, flow / resistance of fluids travelling through various transport systems, cognitive psycho-acoustic behavioural patterns in humans and the behaviour of sound in relationship to continued environmental changes. His sociocultural interests have led him to research the survival of music in the 21st century and the impact that media and technology have on the composer. These theories help to create moments of isolation allowing for the morphological study of each individual sound source, a strategic necessity

Dirk Brossé

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Dirk, Knight Brossé (born 18 February 1960, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor and composer. He has composed over 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic works. Brossé has also composed extensively for stage, cinema, television. His score for the BBC/HBO series Parade’s End (2012) was nominated for an Emmy Award. Dirk Brossé is currently music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and of the Ghent Film Festival. John Williams chose him as Principal Conductor of the Star Wars in Concert World Tour. Brossé is also professor of composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent. Dirk Brossé has conducted international orchestras, both at home and abroad. Amongst them, the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic orchestra, Vancouver Opera, Opéra National de Lyon, BBC Concert Orchestra, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Brussels, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Basel, Madrid, Porto, Birmingham, Ulster, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Queensland, St Petersburg, Los Angeles and Boston. In 2008, he made his first appearance at the Royal Albert Hall in Lon

Dirk Kaftan

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Dirk Kaftan (born 1971) is a German opera and concert conductor. Career Born in Marburg, West Germany, Kaftan grew up in Wittlich and Canada. At the age of 18 he began employment as a repetiteur at the Theater Trier. Kaftan then studied sound engineering (Tonmeister) at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Kaftan was Erster Kapellmeister at the Graz Opera from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2014 he was Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) in Augsburg. His contract with the Theater Augsburg was to have run till 2016; however he vacated the Augsburg post early to return to Graz Opera as their GMD. His debut in June 2013 was a performance of Schönberg’s Gurre-Lieder with soloists, the expanded opera chorus, the Wiener Singverein and the Grazer Philharmonisches Orchester. In September 2025, the city of Bonn announced the approval of the most recent extension of Kaftan’s contract as GMD, through 31 July 2032. Recordings Kaftan’s recordings include the operas Der ferne Klang by Franz Schreker, recorded live in Augsburg in 2011, and Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček, recorded during staged performances in Graz in 2015. References External links * Dirk Kaftan homepage * Dirk Kaftan, Dirigent / Terminplan Operabase *

DK (singer)

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Lee Seok-min (; born February 18, 1997), known professionally as Dokyeom () or DK, is a South Korean singer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, its vocal team, and is the leader of its subunit BSS with Hoshi and Seungkwan. Outside of his group activities, In 2019, DK made his musical theatre debut with the lead role Arthur in XCalibur, the South Korean production of Artus-Excalibur. He then returned to play the role of Arthur in XCalibur 2021 run. DK has also released a number of OSTs that have been commercially successful in South Korea. Early life DK was born on February 18, 1997, in Mapo District, Seoul, South Korea. Name DK is the shortened version of his Korean stage name Dokyeom. In Korean, Do () refers to a path or road, while Kyeom () means “multitasker”, together representing a goal to be a multi-talented person who can take on many paths. Career 2011–2014: Pre-debut DK joined Pledis Entertainment in late 2011, having auditioned for the company after being inspired by South Korean singer Yoon Do-hyun’s career. He auditioned with three songs: YB Band’s “Peppermint Candy”, 2AM’s “This Song”, and the Korean version of “This

Dmitri Capyrin

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Dmitri Yuryevich Capyrin (born 1960 in Moscow) is a Russian composer of contemporary classical music. He graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1984. He lives in Moscow and works as a freelance composer. His music “successfully combines a variety of techniques, often using literary sources and motifs in his works.” He won the second prize in the 1994 ICONS competition in Turin and received a scholarship in 1995 from the Berlin Akademie der Künst. In 2010 he was the finalist of the YouTube Online Composers Competition. His compositions have been performed by “numerous prominent ensembles and soloists, and has also been featured in a variety of concert and festival venues, including the Moscow Autumn (1999), the Paris Presences (1993), Warsaw Autumn (2005) and the Music Biennale Zagreb (1993, 2011).” He has become “one of the most prominent composers of the younger generation of Russians.” His style combines modal scales procedures with new tonal and atonal idioms. He prefers polyphonic texture and dense stratification of flexible melodic voices. At the same time he widely uses isolated tones and brief solo phrases surrounded with silence which resembles quasi-Webernian pointillism. His

Dmitri Pavlov (composer)

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Dmitri Aleksandrovich Pavlov is a Russian composer and director based in Berlin. He is known for his work as a film composer and perhaps best known for his score for the film The Cuckoo (Кукушка in Russian) directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. Apart from music for film, Dmitri Pavlov has written for ballet, theatre and orchestra. He formed Pavlov Ballet in 1992, and also arranged for the “Spirit of Mozart’“concert in Vienna, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. One of his works is Concerto for piano, computer and orchestra, which breaks boundaries and successfully merges sampled computer generated sounds with classical. He composed the orchestral works for The Song of the Little Mermaid, a 2004 ballet in two acts choreographed by Kim Sun-hee. He used computer generated sounds in the recording of The Fall of Babylon, biblical Allegory for Choir and Orchestra, which is based on Old and New Testament Texts. Pavlov studied music theory at Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. Film music Dmitri Pavlov has written music for the following films: *1988 “Bells of the North”, director - M Micheev *1988 “Requiem”, director - K Artjuchov *1988 “Return”, director -

Dmitry Malikov

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Dmitry Yurievich Malikov (; born 29 January 1970) is a Russian singer, composer, occasional actor and a recent record producer. Early life Dmitry Malikov, who goes by his nickname Dima, was born in Moscow. His mother, Lyudmila Mikhailovna Vyunkova, was a dancer, and his father, Yuriy Fedorovich Malikov, was part of a band called Samotsvety (Самоцветы). This combination of parental talent had a large influence in his becoming a musician. In the early 70s, Samotsvety became one of the most popular groups in the USSR, selling several million records. His younger sister, Inna Malikova (Инна Маликова), is also a recording artist. As his father was often on tour, Malikov was brought up by his grandparents. Music In 1985 Malikov performed two songs at the Soundtrack Concert (звуковая дорожка / Zvukovaya Dorozhka) organized by the popular Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, which was his first major performance. In 1994 Malikov released his first album, Until Tomorrow (До завтра / Do Zavtra), which had been released twice previously, once in 1993 as With You (С тобой / S Toboy) and in 1992, as Searching Soul (Поиски Души / Poiski Dushi). This was a compilation of his early hits, and t

Dmytro Morykit

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Dmytro Morykit (born 3 December 1956) is a British composer and pianist. Early life and education Morykit was born in Northampton to a Ukrainian father and Italian mother, who were both displaced from their respective countries after World War II. He started playing the piano at five under the tuition of Christina Griffin and later, Graham Mayo. He won the prize for best original composition at the National Student Drama Festival in 1979 when Sebastian Graham Jones first recommended the prize. Clive Wolfe, Director of the NSDA later wrote in The Stage, “Mendelssohn and Co watch out! The new incidental music for the National Student Theatre Company’s Christmas production of Twelfth Night is by 1979 NSDF best music award winner Dmytro Morykit (Nene College). It is strongly melodic with baroque undertones, creating mood and scene.” Career After visiting Richard Demarco in Edinburgh, Morykit made his home there in 1988. He worked on compositions for numerous collaborations with dance and theatre companies. Morykit accompanied Demarco and other artists on a cultural expedition to communist Poland in 1989. Morykit was commissioned by Angus Calder and Amnesty International (Scotland) in 1

Dobrinka Tabakova

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Dobrinka Tabakova (Bulgarian: Добринка Табакова; born 1980, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-British composer. Early life and education Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to medical physicists Vassilka and Slavik Tabakov. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old. She studied at Alleyn’s School London and the Royal Academy of Music in London and graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) in London. Afterwards she was awarded a Ph.D. in composition from King’s College, London. She studied composition under Simon Bainbridge, Diana Burrell, Robert Keeley and Andrew Schultz. She has also attended master classes given by John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Alexander Goehr, Olav Anton Thommessen and Iannis Xenakis. Compositional career Dobrinka Tabakova’s “Praise” was sung at St. Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002. She won the GSMD Lutosławski Composition Prize in 1999 and the Adam Prize of King’s College London in 2007. In 2011 Dobrinka Tabakova was awarded first prize and medal of the Sorel Organization’s choral competition in New York. T

Dom Capuano

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Dom Capuano (born Domenico Capuano, 21 April 1975) is an Italian composer, record producer, and songwriter. He is known for his work in electronic dance music and pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. From the 2010s onward, his activities have expanded to include composing music for film, television, and video games. Capuano contributed to several internationally successful projects, including releases by Eiffel 65 and collaborations with artists such as Gabry Ponte and Karmah. Alongside his ongoing work in music production, he has increasingly focused on scoring independent and international screen productions. Early life and career Capuano studied music at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin, where he focused on double bass. He later expanded his training to include piano, composition, and conducting. During the early 1990s, he began working as a composer and record producer within the Italian dance music scene. In 1993, he composed “Let Me Be” for Da Blitz, which entered the Italian music charts. Additional releases followed throughout the decade, leading to further chart appearances in Italy and Europe. Worldwide recognition The album Europop by Eiffel 65 was released

Domenico Picciché

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Domenico Picciché (; born 18 July 1970), is an Italian pianist, composer and jurist. Biography Originary from Alcamo, in the Province of Trapani, he started the study of piano when aged only six and got his secondary school diploma, with honours, at the Liceo Scientifico Giuseppe Ferro in Alcamo. In 1988, when aged only eighteen, he earned his Academic Diploma in Piano from the Conservatory of Music Alessandro Scarlatti in Palermo, magna cum laude. He studied pianoforte with giants of world pianism, such as Jörg Demus, Maria Tipo, Franco Scala, Boris Petrushansky, Aldo Ciccolini; composition with Eliodoro Sollima; analysis with Piero Rattalino. 1st prize at “Città di Roma” Competition. 2nd prize (1st not assigned) at Enna “F. P. Neglia” International Competition. Specialized in piano transcription repertoire, he discovered and interpreted piano transcriptions by famous and unknown musicians (from Jan Sibelius to Antonio Scontrino). He also composed piano transcriptions, like La Valse by Maurice Ravel New York University; Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall; Französischer Dom, Berlin; Auditorium S. Cecilia, Rome; Eglise Saint-Merri and Centre Européen des Activités Artistiques, Paris; Tüb

Dominic Lewis

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Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis (born January 29, 1985) is an English film and television composer and singer. He first worked on various music departments for film projects before transitioning into more solo work starting with Free Birds. His other credits include The Man in the High Castle, DuckTales, Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, Monsters at Work, Bullet Train, My Adventures with Superman, The Fall Guy, Karate Kid: Legends, Nobody 2 and How to Rob a Bank. He also served as the singing voice for Lurch in The Addams Family 2 and for Donald Duck in the DuckTales reboot. Life and career Lewis was born and raised in London, England. Both his parents are musicians and he began learning the cello at age three. He also played the piano and guitar, sang in choirs, formed rock bands, and wrote songs while growing up. He cites his early influences as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was classically trained in cello and music composition. During his time there, he was under the mentorship of film composer, Rupert Gregson

Dominique Le Gendre

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Dominique Le Gendre (born 16 September 1960 in Trinidad and Tobago) is a music composer based in London, England. Le Gendre is a former associate of the Royal Opera House and received an opera commission. She has also provided music for the Shakespeare Globe Theatre, Talawa Theatre Company, and the Theatre of Black Women, among other places. She provided the music for an opera with words by Seamus Heaney. Early life and career Le Gendre was born and brought up in Trinidad and Tobago and her involvement in music began from an early age, playing the guitar for her local church choir from age 10. Le Gendre’s Bird of Night was her first full-length opera which premiered at Linbury Studio Theatre, London. She has composed music for theatre, dance, art installations, film, television and radio drama for BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. She has composed and produced music for all 38 Shakespeare plays recorded for the audio CD collection, The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare, directed by Clive Brill. In 2018 Le Gendre composed and directed music for the critically acclaimed Production of Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe. She has composed music for many films like Dreams in Transit, Sixth Happiness,

Don Spike

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Kim Min-su (; born January 24, 1977), better known by his stage name Don Spike () is a South Korean singer, composer and entertainer. Personal life Relationships In May 2022, it was reported that Don Spike would hold a wedding with his girlfriend on June 4, 2022. Drug use allegations On September 27, 2022, Don Spike was arrested due to test resulted in a positive test for narcotics of using methamphetamine. According to news reports, the Nowon Police Station in Seoul had arrested Don Spike at around 8 pm on the 26th at a hotel in Gangnam, Seoul. Discography Singles As producer Filmography Television Web shows References External links *

Donald Quan

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Donald Quan (born 1962) is a Canadian composer of film and world music, best known for writing the scores to television shows Relic Hunter and Mutant X. Career Born in Toronto, Ontario, and schooled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Quan was the recipient of the Joe Venuti scholarship for stringed instrument performance. After Quan left college, he ventured into pop/rock music with the Canadian rock band Lighthouse and played with them for three years. In 1988, Quan joined the Canadian rock group Eye Eye as a keyboardist and violist. He also performed as a multi-instrumentalist with the performance artist Meryn Cadell, the Celtic-rock band Enter the Haggis, alt-rock band Cliché Verre and Juno nominated Afro-Canadian pop ensemble Kaleefah. Quan has been a long-time band member of Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt and has assisted in the production of several studio albums and recordings including the acclaimed The Book of Secrets. Quan collapsed onstage on Saturday, August 8, 2009, playing keyboards with Derek Miller in Kitchener, Ontario, for the Kitchener Bluesfest. He has since fully recovered. Since 2007, Donald Quan’s music shop of musical instrument curiosities MUSIDE

Donnacha Dennehy

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Donnacha Dennehy (born 17 August 1970) is an Irish composer and leader of the Crash Ensemble specializing in contemporary classical music. According to musicologist Bob Gilmore, Dennehy’s “high profile of his compositions internationally, together with his work as artistic director of Dublin’s Crash Ensemble, has distinguished him as one of the best-known voices of his generation of Irish composers”. Career and works Dennehy was born in Dublin, where he read music at Trinity College where he studied composition with Hormoz Farhat. His post-doctoral musical period included a stint at IRCAM, with Gérard Grisey, and studies in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen. In 1997, Dennehy returned to Dublin and subsequently co-founded the Crash Ensemble, which focuses on the performance and recording of contemporary music. His works for the Crash Ensemble include Junk Box Fraud, Derailed, and For Herbert Brun. He later returned to Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer in music. His 2005 work for chorus and orchestra, Hive, displays his developing interest in microtones and harmonies based on harmonic spectra. His composition Grá Agus Bás, which was premiered in February 2007, incorporated mus

Dora Cojocaru

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Dora Cojocaru (born 20 August 1963 in Baia Mare) is a Romanian composer. Cojocaru studied at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca and obtained diplomas in composition, pedagogy and piano there in 1986. After studying with Johannes Fritsch at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, she was awarded a master’s degree in composition. In 1997, she obtained a Ph.D. in musicology with a thesis on György Ligeti. After publication in 1999, the work was awarded the prize of the Romanian Composers’ Union. From 1990 to 2002, Cojocaru taught at the Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca, and from 1993 to 1995 she worked for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk. She has been living in Montreal since 2002 and teaches at different music institutions. Work *Structuri for orchestra, 1985 *Luci, soare, luci, cantata for choir and orchestra, 1986 *Bocet pentru Manole, cantata for vocal soloists and chamber ensemble, 1987 *Cantos ll for mezzo-soprano and clarinet, 1991 *Vitalitate! for string orchestra, 1991 *Poarta Soarelui for flute and percussion, 1992 *A3 for clarinet, piano and percussion, 1992 (CD: Hungaroton, Budapest, 1998) *Trills, string trio, 1992 *String Quartet No. 1, 1994 *Riga Crypto si Lapona Enigel, Cham

Dorothy Hindman

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Dorothy Hindman (born March 13, 1966) is an American composer and music educator. Early life and studies Born in Miami, Florida on March 13, 1966, Hindman had intense early exposure to classical music from her mother, Dorothy Hindman Lyon, a gifted classical pianist and scientist, and her father, William Murphy Hindman, an actor and manager at that time of WTMI, Miami’s classical radio station. Formal music study began late for her, at age 16, when she entered Miami-Dade College as a piano major with the intention to study synthesis. This path led her to avant-garde electronic music and at 19 she began a composition major at the University of Miami, studying with composer Dennis Kam, and graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music in 1988. Her studies continued at Duke University with Stephen Jaffe and Thomas Oboe Lee, receiving her Master of Arts in the composition in 1989. In 1990, she became a University Fellow at the University of Miami, resuming her studies with Dennis Kam, with whom she shared deep interests in philosophy, musical meaning, individual perception, originality, and profundity. In November–December 1994, she completed additional studies at the Atlantic Ce

Dorothy Ker

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Dorothy Ker (born 1965) is a New Zealand-born composer of instrumental and vocal music who has lived in the UK since 1992. She is known for her inter-disciplinary collaborations and experimentation with live electronic music performances. Early life Ker was born in Carterton, in the North Island of New Zealand in 1965. Education Ker completed B.Mus and M.Mus degrees at the University of Auckland, where she studied composition and electronic music with John Rimmer and Douglas Mews. She emigrated to the UK in 1992, and completed a Ph.D in composition at the University of York in 1998. Career Following her graduation, Ker took up a position at the University of Reading. She later moved to the position of Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, before becoming a lecturer in Composition there, and most recently, a Senior Lecturer in Music. In 2008, a collaboration with the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy resulted in the creation and performance of a piece of experimental music, The 19th Step. The research with du Sautoy was later the basis for a mixed-media theatre piece produced in collaboration with the sculptor Kate Allen in 2010. In July 2013, Ker began a year-long position i

Douglas September

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Douglas September (born September 25, 1972, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian musician. He is known for his poetic lyrics, as well as his innovative musical style that blends folk and blues with a caustic modern commentary. As a composer, musician, producer and engineer, September’s passion for arranging music from the ordinary every day into a unique auditory experience has evolved into a singular style. His music has been likened to Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, and Tom Waits. Career September has collaborated with many talented musicians, such as Michael Shrieve (1998 release, Producer-Ten Bulls; Gold Circle/Samson Music), Bill Frisell (1998 release, Lead Guitar-Ten Bulls; Gold Circle/Samson Music), David Torn (2001 release, Producer-Oil Tan Bow; Lupins), Robby Aceto (2001 release, Oil Tan Bow; Lupins and 1999 release, IO; Gold Circle/Samson Music), Rich DePaolo; (1999 release, IO;Gold Circle/Samson Music), Wayne Horvitz (1998 release, Ten Bulls; Gold Circle/Samson Music), David Bearwald and Steve Lindsey (The Runner, 2000). He has four albums as a solo performer with two where he is involved in co-production, and composing music for The Runner and was signed previously with

Doyoung

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Kim Dong-young (; born February 1, 1996), known professionally as Doyoung (), is a South Korean singer, actor, and host. He is a member of the South Korean boy band NCT through the sub-units NCT 127 and NCT DoJaeJung. Doyoung was first introduced as a trainee through pre-debut team SM Rookies in January 2015. Doyoung was introduced as the first batch member of the boy band NCT and debuted through their rotational unit NCT U in April 2016. In January 2017, he was added as a new member of the Seoul-based sub-unit NCT 127. He later debuted in the trio sub-unit NCT DoJaeJung in April 2023. In April 2024, Doyoung began his solo debut with the release of his first studio album Youth. Doyoung has ventured into acting. Following his supporting role in the third season of the drama series Midnight Cafe – The Curious Stalker and the musical Marie Antoinette in 2021, he starred in the web series Dear X Who Doesn’t Love Me (2022). On television, Doyoung also appeared on the beauty show Lipstick Prince (2016–2017) and the variety show Law of the Jungle (2019) and hosted music show Show Champion (2015) and Inkigayo (2017–2018). He was previously a cast member of Master in the House from July 3,

Dragoljub Ilić

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Dragoljub “Dragan” Ilić (; born 1956) is a Serbian and Yugoslav musician, songwriter, and composer, best known as the leader of the rock band Generacija 5 and for his pivotal role in YU Rock Misija, the Yugoslav contribution to Live Aid campaign. In addition to his career as a rock musician and songwriter, Ilić is known for his work as composer of classical, popular and film music. He is the brother of late composer Aleksandar “Sanja” Ilić. Musical career Early career Ilić started his career in the mid-1970s. Prior to forming Generacija 5, he performed with the band Korak (Step). Generacija 5 Ilić formed Generacija in July 1977 with vocalist Jovan Rašić, guitarist Dragan “Krle” Jovanović, bass guitarist Dušan “Duda” Petrović and drummer Boban Đorđević. The song was recorded by a group of prominent musicians of the Yugoslav rock scene, Generacija 5 members reuniting for the song recording. In 2011, the same song was polled, by the listeners of Radio 202, one of 60 greatest songs released by PGP-RTB/PGP-RTS during the sixty years of the label’s existence. Awards and honors *Jury’s Award at the 1986 MESAM festival. *Jury’s Award at the 1987 MESAM festival. *Josip Slavenski Award *Vasi

Dražen Bošnjak

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Dražen Bošnjak is a composer and sound designer based in New York City. He founded Q Department, Mach1, and Department of Records. He has created soundtracks and sound design for a number of films, television shows, video games, advertisements, and more recently, virtual reality projects. In 2014, he composed a soundtrack for John Perry Barlow’s narrated version of A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, released through Bošnjak’s own label. The recording was featured in the 2016 BBC documentary HyperNormalisation by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. Bošnjak has worked on numerous projects with Marco Brambilla including Ghost starring Natasha Poly, Evolution (Megaplex) 3D, and Ferrari’s RPM. His collaborations with Brambilla have been shown at numerous festivals including the Sundance Film Festival and Art Basel, Miami. Bošnjak has won numerous awards for his work including a Webby Award, an Association of Music Producers Award, and several Clio Awards. He has worked on projects that have been shown at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the Tribeca Film Festival. Mach1 Mach1 is a sound technology company started in 2015 by Dražen Bošnjak and Jacqueline

Drew Louis

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Andrew Louis Klemm (born March 28, 2000), known professionally as Drew Louis (), is an American record producer, singer, and songwriter. He has written and produced songs for Jennifer Lopez, Trixie Mattel, Bonnie McKee, A Twink and a Redhead, Trisha Paytas, Yena, Vincint, Jillian Rossi, Matt Rogers, Bijou, Trinity the Tuck, The Gospellers, and more. Career Louis’s professional musical career began while studying at the Los Angeles College of Music, where he met K-pop and J-pop singer-songwriter Mayu Wakisaka. In 2021, Louis and Wakisaka co-wrote “Loving Out Loud” for The Gospellers. They then co-wrote “Vacay” & “Lxxk 2 U” for Yena’s debut mini-album Smiley, as well as the title track of her third mini-album Good Morning in 2024. In October 2023, Louis was awarded the Music Forward LGBTQ+ Emerging Artist Award by Live Nation. In May 2023, Drew produced the titular single for the Drag Isn’t Dangerous digital fundraiser. In November 2023, Louis executive produced and co-wrote Trinity Ruins Christmas: The Musical with Trinity the Tuck. He then produced “My Kitty” for Amanda Tori Meating, which premiered on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 in January 2024. “A Twink and a Redhead” was nomina

Dror Elimelech

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Dror Elimelech (Hebrew: דרור אלימלך; born 1956 in Israel) is an Israeli psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and poet, and a composer and performer of contemporary classical music. Elimelech studied composition with Sergiu Natra and piano with Bart Berman, Ruth Hilman, and Pnina Salzman. He has published eight books of his poetry. References External links *Biography in English with a picture *Biography in Hebrew with bibliography in the Lexicon of New Hebrew Literature

Dru Masters

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Dru Masters (born 29 July 1965) is a British composer, best known for composing television music. He has composed tracks for the British version of The Apprentice and The Unteachables, amongst others. He has also composed music for the television channel ITV4, and a number of advertisements (including PlayStation, Morrisons, Barclaycard and Martini). Early life Born in London, Dru trained at the Purcell School of Music between 1976 and 1983. He played Tenor Saxophone with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra from 1980 to 1982. Music composed for TV * Taskmaster (2015—present) Broadcaster: Dave/Channel 4 * Silk (TV series) (2011) Broadcaster: BBC1 (BBC) * Dispatches (TV series) Broadcaster: Channel 4 * Last Chance Kids Broadcaster: Channel 4 * The Restaurant (UK TV Series) Broadcaster: BBC2 (BBC) * The Apprentice (UK and some international versions, not US) (2005/2006) Broadcaster: BBC2/BBC1 (BBC) * The Unteachables (2005) Broadcaster: Channel 4 * Football Icon (2005) Broadcaster: Sky One (BSkyB) * Are You Younger Than You Think? (2005) Broadcaster: BBC1 (BBC) * Dispatches: MMR What They Didn’t Tell You (2005) Broadcaster: Channel 4 * The Body Of… (2004) Broadcaster: BBC3 (BBC) * Sta

Du Yun

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Du Yun (traditional Chinese: 杜韻, simplified Chinese: 杜韵) is a Chinese-born American composer, performer, musician and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel’s Bone, with libretto by Royce Vavrek. Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018, and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow. In its decade review, UK’s Classic FM listed Du Yun’s winning of the Pulitzer as No. 6 in “10 ways the 2010s changed classical music forever.” Rolling Stone Italia named her as one of the women composers who defined the 2010s. In 2024, Du Yun was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Early life and education Du Yun was born in Shanghai, China. She began studying piano at the age of four, attending the primary school Shanghai Conservatory of Music for piano. She studied composition at the middle school Shanghai Conservatory of Music with Deng Erbo. Du Yun later went to the United States for college and graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition, under Randolph Cole

Dudu Tassa

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David “Dudu” Tassa (; born February 10, 1977) is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Since 2011, Tassa has been the leader of Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis, which performs Iraqi and Kuwaiti songs by his deceased grandfather and great-uncle, Daoud and Salih Al-Kuwaity. He also has a solo career, and has collaborated on several occasions with the Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. Life and career Tassa was born and raised in Hatikva Quarter in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family who immigrated to Israel from Yemen, Iraq and Kuwait. He was active in the local community center during his childhood. He studied in the theater program at Ironi Alef High School, and at the age of 15 he released his debut album, “Ohev et Ha’Shirim” (Hebrew: אוהב את השירים, “Loving the Songs”), produced by Yishai Ben Tzur. In 2000, after finishing his military service, Tassa released the album Yoter Barur (יותר ברור, “Clearer”), which was critically acclaimed despite slim sales. in 2002 he joined the band of Israeli satirist Eli Yatzpan’s late night show as lead guitarist. In 2003, Tassa released his third album, Mitokh Behira (מתוך בחירה, “By Choice”), gaining larger exposure th

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

Dušan Bogdanović

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Dušan Bogdanović () (born 1955) is a Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist. He has explored musical languages which are reflected in his style today: a synthesis of classical, jazz, and ethnic music. As a soloist and in collaboration with other artists, he has toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, and the U.S. Milcho Leviev, Arto Tunçboyacıyan, and others. Notably, he is a co-author with Sting on “Prisms (Six Song by Sting)” published by Singidunum Music and Steerpike Overseas Limited. Dušan Bogdanović’s recording credits include close to twenty albums (on Intuition, Doberman, Ess.a.y, M.A. Recordings, GSP and other labels), ranging from Bach Trio Sonatas to contemporary works. Over two hundred of his compositions are published by Bèrben Editions (Italy), Doberman-Yppan (Canada) and Guitar Solo publications (San Francisco). His theoretical work includes polyrhythmic and polymetric studies, as well as a bilingual publication covering three-voice counterpoint and Renaissance improvisation for guitar (Bèrben) and Ex Ovo. (Doberman-Yppan). He has also collaborated on multi-disciplinary projects involving music, psychology, philosophy, and fine arts. Partial disc

Edith Alonso

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Edith Alonso Sánchez (born 1974 in Madrid) is a Spanish composer, improviser, pianist, sound artist and academic who has been involved in the creation of an experimental electronic style that incorporates spoken word, musical sound and visual imagery. She has received a number of awards for her work. Life and education Alonso was born in 1974 in Madrid. As a child, she studied classical music and learned to play the piano, and later the saxophone and guitar. Following her thesis defense, she was awarded the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) prize. She was also given grants from the French Ministry of Research and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She co-founded Campo de Interferencias, a Spanish non-profit dedicated to promoting sound art in Spain. Alonso, along with Anthony Maubert, developed the musical style Radical dB, a style of electronica that incorporated musical sound, spoken word and visual imagery in 2007. That year, the duo did extensive out outreach to teach others about electronica and Radical dB across Spain. Their outreach included organizing concerts with several musical styles, running interdisciplinary evens with other artist

Edith Crash

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Edith Crash (born 5 October 1983 in Perpignan, France) is a French singer-songwriter, musician, producer and one woman band. Career Edith Crash spent her teenage years in Spain before moving to Los Angeles. In 2015, she recorded her album Partir with producer Alain Johannes. The same year, her song “Casser” remixed by the Chilean musician Sokio was used in the movie Knock, Knock directed by Eli Roth and starring Keanu Reeves . In February 2016 the prominent French magazine Rock & Folk gave four stars to her record ‘Partir’. In 2016 Edith Crash performed at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. She was featured on NPR as one of the favorite discoveries of the festival. The article describes her style as bluesy, folky, dark and strange. The album, was co-produced by Edith and Jeff Berner (Psychic TV), it includes collaborations with Alain Johannes and was mastered by Bernie Grundman. A music video directed by Vice Cooler was released for the song “Running”. It was filmed in and around the venue The Smell in Downtown Los Angeles . Henry Rollins described “Frenzy” as a “Super cool album " and played several songs on his KCRW show. Live performances Edith Crash performed at the Primavera

Edmund Finnis

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Edmund Finnis (born 1984 ) is a British composer of classical and electronic music. His works have been commissioned and performed by orchestras and ensembles including the Britten Sinfonia, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Sinfonietta, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; the pianist Clare Hammond and the clarinettist Mark Simpson. He was recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 2012 and is currently a Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, where his notable students have included William Marsey and Robin Haigh. Early life Finnis was born in Oxford, where, as a child, he was a chorister at New College. He received a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to study at Tanglewood and completed a doctorate at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on the subject of distortion in acoustic instrumental music. Finnis also worked as an amanuensis for the composer Jonathan Harvey. They commissioned and premiered several of Finnis’ works, including Across White Air for solo cello with reverb, Between Rain for string orchestra, and the electronic piece Colour Field Painting. Finnis’ duo piece for violin and viola, Brother wa

Edmund Jolliffe

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Edmund Jolliffe is a British composer of contemporary classical, choral and commercial music. He has written for television and the concert hall. His music is published by Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Oxford University Press, Stainer and Bell and Banks Music. In 2007 his organ piece “Quiet Rush” was picked as one of the premieres of the year by Classical Music Magazine. It was also played at the Annual Festival of New Organ Music in 2009. In recent years choral composition has become his main focus: In 2019 he won the 40th Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition and the Freudig Singers Choral Composition. His piece ‘Dreaming Figurines’ was voted 3rd from 344 in the Progressive Classical Music Award 2019. Jolliffe graduated from Hertford College, Oxford in 1994 and the Royal College of Music under Academy Award-winner Dario Marianelli. He studied at Dartington International Summer School and completed residencies at Banff Center for the Arts, Canada and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico. Jolliffe writes music for television, sometimes with the composer Julian Hamlin. They have composed music for the BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are?, Sort You

Edson Zampronha

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Edson Zampronha (born June 2, 1963) is a Brazilian composer dedicated to contemporary experimental music. His works include pieces for orchestra, symphonic band, electroacoustic music, chamber music, sound installations, interactive works and music for films. His music makes an extensive use of rhetoric strategies to create new forms of musical tensions and musical discourses. His research focus on musical signification and it takes semiotics, music theory and technology as backgrounds. Biography Edson Zampronha was born in Rio de Janeiro into a family of musicians. He started out his musical training at a young age at home. His first lessons included musical composition, history of music, theory, harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis, besides piano playing. His family moved from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo in 1969. In 1978 he was introduced into electroacoustic music composition, and his first experiments were done in a four-channel Revox tape recorder. In 1983 he starts the course on Music Composition and Conducting at the São Paulo State University. In 1991 he concludes a Master Degree in Musical Composition at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and in 1992 he starts

Eduard Drach

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Eduard Valeriiovych Drach (, born 1965), is a composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is an active member of the Kyiv Kobzar Guild. The author of numerous songs in a variety of styles, Drach is noted in particular for his original psalms in the Ukrainian historical folk style. Drach was born in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine) and was educated as a physician and still works as a neurologist, his career in music notwithstanding. His first instrument was the violin. He went on to become a prize-winning singer-songwriter at numerous festivals, in particular the 1989 Chervona Ruta Festival. Drach’s musical styles include ballads, traditional folk songs, folk rock, folk jazz, and folk avant-garde. Apart from the violin, he also plays guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, kobza, bandura, husli, and lira. Several of his songs have been adapted for lute or torban by Roman Turovsky. Bibliography * Catharsis – song texts and poems (2007) Discography * Небо України (Nebo Ukrainy) (1994) * Двом Душам Дарується (Dvom dusham darujet’sia) (2005) * Про Славу І Багатство (Pro slavu y bahatstvo) (2011) Not

Eduardo Alonso-Crespo

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Eduardo Alonso-Crespo (also spelled Eduardo Alonso Crespo, without the hyphen) is an Argentine composer of classical music. Biography Argentine composer and conductor Eduardo Alonso-Crespo was born in San Miguel de Tucumán on March 18, 1956, and grew up in the neighboring city of Salta, in Northwestern Argentina. He received his early musical training from Elizabeth Ocaña de García in Salta, and his musical college education and degree at the School of Musical Arts of the National University of Tucumán. At this same university, he also received a Civil Engineer degree. He is also author of five symphonies, twelve concertos as well as chamber music and choral works. Alonso-Crespo served as music director of the Tucumán Symphony Orchestra in Argentina and music director of the Carnegie Mellon University Contemporary Ensemble in the US for the period 1989–2000. Past positions as a conductor also include Principal Guest Conductor and Composer in Residence of the Salta Symphony Orchestra (Argentina), music director of the Orquesta Estable de Tucumán, the orchestra of the Tucumán Opera and Ballet Theatre (Argentina), Resident Conductor at Carnegie Mellon University, Associate Conductor o

Eduardo Reck Miranda

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Eduardo Reck Miranda (born 1963) is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly in the field of human-machine interfaces where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands to permit the disabled to express themselves musically. Biography Early life Miranda was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. As one of the largest cities in Southern Brazil and a cultural, political and economical center, Porto Alegre had significant influence on Miranda’s music. In the mid-1990s, Miranda joined the Department of Music at the University of Glasgow, where he lectured music technology and electroacoustic music composition for a number of years. Then he moved to Paris, to take up a research position at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in the late 1990s. At Sony, Miranda conducted research aimed at gaining a better understanding of the fundamental cognitive mechanisms employed in sound-based communication systems. This research led Miranda to focus on the evolution of the human ability to speak and the role of our musical capacity in the development of spoken languages. While at S

Eduardo Soutullo

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Eduardo Soutullo is a Spanish composer and filmmaker. He was the recipient of the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s National Prize in Music (composition) in 2023. The jury awarded the prize to Soutullo for “the unanimous international recognition of his music especially his orchestral production, highlighting the premiere in Saint Petersburg of his antiwar cantata “The lament of sunflowers”. Life He began his musical education at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Vigo. Later, he moved to Madrid and to Paris completing his studies in Harmony and Composition with Isabelle Duha (Conservatoire d’Issy les Molineaux-Paris XIII) He has studied musical composition with David del Puerto, Jesús Rueda, (Köln Conservatory), Richard Steinitz (Huddersfield University) and with Cristobal Halffter and Tomás Marco (Villafranca del Bierzo, Spain). He has a master’s degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and has a Doctorat (PhD) from the Universidad de Vigo (thesis about Spanish contemporary music) He has been a professor at the Porto’s Superior School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE) He has been composer in residence at Spanish Academy in Rome in the course 2019-2020 In February 20

Edvin Marton

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Edvin Marton (born Lajos Edvin Csűry, 17 February 1974, Vylok, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-born Hungarian composer and violinist. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, Yuzuru Hanyu (as a tribute to Plushenko), and other famous skaters often skated to his music. Biography He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by ethnic Hungarians. He was born into a musical family and by the age of four was already learning the violin from his parents. He was eight years old when accepted into that alma mater for the most talented musicians of the Soviet Union, the Central Tchaikovsky Music School in Moscow to study under Leo Lundstrem. He continued his studies with Eugenia Tchougaeva. He gave his first important concert at the age of twelve, with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. At the age of seventeen, he became a student at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest, in the class of Géza Kapás. He took part in a masterclass given by Ruggiero Ricci, where he won the prize for the best participant. He was also the Grand Prize winner of the International Course Competition in Berlin, after having been invited by Ruggiero Ricci. Si

Edward Knight (composer)

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Edward Knight (born November 4, 1961) is an American composer. His work eschews easy classification, moving freely between jazz, theatrical and concert worlds. Background Knight was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was introduced to music by his grandmother, Kathryn Dyer Knight, a concert pianist who taught piano later in life. He excelled at trumpet; as a teenager, he toured three summers with Musical Youth International, performing in Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and several European capitals. Knight earned his undergraduate degree from Eastern Michigan University and his master’s and doctorate in composition from University of Texas at Austin. He spent a year studying privately with John Corigliano in New York, and won a Rotary Scholarship for post-doctoral study at London’s Royal College of Music, where he studied with John Lambert. At the Royal College, he became the first American to win the Arthur Bliss Memorial for outstanding postgraduate composer. Early orchestral works Knight came to national attention with four large-scale orchestral works in the late 1980s and early 1990s: Of Perpetual Solace, Total Eclipse, Granite Island, and Big Shoulders. Of Perpetual So

Edward Manukyan

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Edward Manukyan (born July 27, 1981) is a composer from Southern California, United States. His main works are orchestral and chamber compositions, which lean heavily upon elements of Armenian national folklore. Early life It was not until his last years in high school that Manukyan showed interest in composing music. In 1997, he won state scholarship to study languages and psychology at the Yerevan State Linguistic University. During his student years, he committed himself to studying music and immediately began concentrating on composition. He became a member of local chamber orchestras, writing material for their repertoires. He also formed his own jazz quartet and gave concerts at various venues in Yerevan. Career Upon moving to California in 2002, Manukyan shifted his interests towards contemporary classical music after studying the works of his compatriot Aram Khachaturian. A cover-story article in the Glendale News-Press, published on October 23, 2007, shed some light on the composer’s unusual start in classical music. In 2004, Manukyan took composition classes from Rowan Taylor and went on to further study with composers John Kennedy and James Newton. He earned his master’s

Edward Shearmur

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Edward Shearmur (also known as Ed Shearmur; born 28 February 1966) is a British film composer. Born in London, England, at age seven he sang in the boys’ choir at Westminster Cathedral. Educated at Eton College, he studied at the Royal College of Music and went on to a scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He worked as orchestration and conducting assistant to Michael Kamen on such films as Licence to Kill, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and the acclaimed Don Juan DeMarco before scoring his first full-length feature film The Cement Garden In 2023 he composed the soundtrack for the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s last novel Across the River and into the Trees. In addition to his film work, Shearmur has collaborated as keyboardist and arranger with a number of prominent rock musicians, including Eric Clapton, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Pink Floyd, Marianne Faithfull, Bryan Adams, Echo & the Bunnymen, and Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Ambient artist David Helpling has cited Shearmur’s compositional style as a major influence on his work. Shearmur was married to film producer Allison Shearmur (née Brecker) until her death from lung cancer in January 2018. They have two children.

Edward Top

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Siemon Edward Top (born 1 January 1972 in Ommen) is a Dutch composer. Top studied violin and composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans at the Rotterdam Conservatoire. He won the Dutch prize for composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Klaas de Vries. After his graduation he studied music theory and analysis at King’s College London. During the Dutch Music Days of 2004 he won the Henriëtte Bosmans Prize for his orchestra work Marble Sparks. He also won the 2003 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award at the University of Illinois for his String Quartet Nr. 1. Most of his music has been published by Donemus in Amsterdam. Selected works * Stillpoint (1995) * Overwhelming Blankness of the Ultimate Meaninglessness of Tragedy (1996) * String Quartet Nr. 1 (1998) * Sonate for violin and piano (2001) * Piano Trio “en weende hij bitter” (Dutch: And He Wept Bitterly) (2001) * String Quartet Nr. 2 “Das Lied der Schwermuth” (2002) * Most Beautiful Bird of Paradise (2003) * Marble Sparks (2004) *Concerto for violin and two orchestras (2007) Honors and awards * 1999 - Composition Prize, Rotterdam Conservatoire * 2003 - Martirano Award, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * 200

Edward-Rhys Harry

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Edward-Rhys Harry (born 22 November 1973) is a Welsh choral conductor and composer. He is the Musical Development and Wellbeing Manager for the Military Wives Choirs and the Musical Director of the London Welsh Male Voice Choir. He also serves as Composer-in-Residence for the “Music for Life” charity. Education Harry was educated at Gowerton School. He graduated with a BMus from Bangor University and an MMus in Composition from the London College of Music. He received an MA in Choral Conducting from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, where his studies were supported by the Glynne Jones and Laura Ashley Foundation scholarships. During this period, he also gained professional experience working with the British Sinfonietta. Career In 2012, Harry was appointed the Musical Director of the London Welsh Male Voice Choir, succeeding Haydn James. In this role, he has conducted various events, including the biennial festival at the Royal Albert Hall. In 2019, he conducted a festival performance featuring over 800 singers and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. He has also been involved in the development of choral competitions, including new categories for the Llangollen International Musical

Edwin van der Heide

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Edwin van der Heide (born 1970) is a Dutch sound artist and composer known for his immersive installations and performances, currently living in Rotterdam. Biography Van der Heide was born in Hilversum, Netherlands, and studied Music Technology in Utrecht and Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He has developed his academic activity in The Hague, where he was lecturer and later also co-director of the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Arts. Currently, in addition to pursuing his artistic career, he is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Science of Leiden University. Van der Heide began his artistic career as a composer and performer in the field of electronic music. Along with Zbigniew Karkowski and Atau Tanaka, he was a founding member of Sensorband. From giving stage based performances, he has developed his work in the fields of sound, interactive, and audiovisual installations. Van der Heide’s installations are characterized by the importance of sound, and by the use of other spatial media, such as light (including lasers), real fog or smoke, creating immersive and sensory experiences for the audience. His work has be

Edwin Wendler

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Edwin Wendler (born 11 April 1975) is an Austrian composer working in Los Angeles, California. Biography Born into a musical family (Wendler’s father, Prof. Dr. Anton Wendler, worked as a tenor and assistant director at the Vienna State Opera while his mother had a brief career as an operatic soprano before switching careers to work for the United Nations), Wendler attended the Vienna Choir Boys from 1985 until 1989, participating in four tours around the globe, singing in more than 500 concerts and opera performances, sharing stages with José Carreras, Agnes Baltsa, and Alfredo Kraus, and working with conductors such as Colin Davis and Horst Stein. After his voice changed, Wendler attended the Theresianische Akademie, from which he graduated with honors, in 1993. Wendler’s interest in film music started at around the age of 10, and by the time he graduated from high school, his collection of soundtrack CD’s exceeded 1500. From 1996 until 1998, Wendler wrote, directed, and scored several short films for the Austrian independent film company, Magellan-Film. His work was showcased at several independent, local and international film festivals, including the UNICA Festival. Wendler ea

Efraín Amaya

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Efraín Amaya (born 1959 Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan-born American composer. Biography Amaya studied piano and composition at Indiana University until 1985 and orchestral conducting at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University until 1988. He was a piano student of Shigeo Neriki, Zadel Skolovsky and Harriet Serr, a composition student of John Eaton, Juan Orrego-Salas, Frederick Fox, Ellsworth Milburn, Daniel Börtz and Ib Nørholm, and learned orchestral conducting from Samuel Jones, Uri Mayer and Benjamin Zander. During his studies, he directed the Campanile Orchestra at Rice University from 1985 to 1988. After his return to Venezuela, he was music director of the youth symphony orchestra Núcleo La Rinconada from 1989 to 1992 and conducted various other Venezuelan orchestras. From 1996 to 2002 he was music director and conductor of the Westmoreland Youth Symphony Orchestra and from 2000 to 2006 of the Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestra, and he also worked as a guest conductor with other orchestras. He teaches on the School Music faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, is music director and conductor of the Greensburg America Opera, and of The Point Chamber Orchestra, wh

Ehesuma

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Ehesuma (Chinese: 阿诃苏摩; E.宋歌; born 1974 in Changchun, China) is a Chinese Composer and founder of AMRTA, Player of He-drum. A new style called “rhythm of light and melody of dew” is her creation for Amrta. “Charming and unrivaled music!” - George Szirtes, Poet Laureate of United Kingdom and winner of T. S. Eliot Prize. Biography In 2002, she graduated with a master’s degree in Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2008, she founded AMRTA by uniting avant-garde musicians of unique styles and started the serial project of “AMRTA TIME”. 2009–2013, AMRTA has accomplished five serial works and held many special performances. In 2013, “Amrta on Water ”, the first music scene on Huangpu River. With its innovation and creation, Amrta has been pioneering the contemporary original music scene. AMRTA TIME for music scene series (2009-2013) *Amrta, series I (2009) *The Scene of Circle, series II (2010) *Amrta Song, series III (2011) *Dance in Meditation, series IV (2012) *Amrta on Water, series V (2013) References External links *Ehesuma: Amrta Song *Ehesuma: Amrta on Water *AMRTA TIME

Einar Selvik

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Einar Selvik (born 18 November 1979), also known by his stage name Kvitrafn (“white raven”), is a Norwegian musician known for being the drummer of black metal band Gorgoroth from 2000 to 2004, and for fronting the Nordic folk project Wardruna, founded in 2002. Selvik and Wardruna earned international prominence for contributing to the soundtrack and score of the television show Vikings. Selvik is a founder of By Norse, a platform to support Norse and Norse-related art, music, literature, film and culture. Musical career On 1 March 2016, A Piece for Mind & Mirror by Skuggsjá, a collaboration between Selvik and Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson, was announced and streamed. Commissioned by the Norwegian government for the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution, the album tells the history of Norway, and was released by Season of Mist on 11 March. Selvik has also recorded with other projects including Det Hedenske Folk, Bak de Syv Fjell, Jotunspor, Sahg, Dead to this World and Faun. He worked on the soundtrack for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and collaborated with Riot Games for the theme song of Volibear, a League of Legends character. Personal life Einar Selvik was born and grew up on

Eirik Glambek Bøe

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Eirik Glambek Bøe (born 25 October 1975) is a Norwegian musician, writer and vocalist, best known for being part of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience with Erlend Øye. He has a degree in psychology from the University of Bergen. Although his native language is Norwegian, many of his writings are in English. He formed the band Skog together with Øye in the 1990s. They formed Kings of Convenience in 1998 and released their first album Quiet Is The New Loud in 2001 (the same year Øye featured in Röyksopp’s critically acclaimed debut album Melody A.M.). The duo then went on to release the single Toxic Girl followed by their second album Riot on an Empty Street in 2004. In 2006 he featured in Øye’s band The Whitest Boy Alive, and at a lesser degree Kommode, largely made up of the members of Skog. In a rare guest appearance on NPR, Bøe sings on the track “How My Heart Behaves” on Feist’s 2007 The Reminder. In October 2009 Kings of Convenience released their third studio album Declaration of Dependence on Astralwerks. In 2017, Bøe led Kommode alongside Øystein Gjærder Bruvik and released Analog Dance Music, an album that “lets the band play on if the groove is good and the harmonies

Eisuke Mochizuki

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, birth name Mamoru Mochizuki, is a Japanese pianist, composer, npo director, producer and former member of the pop group B.B.Queens. Biography At the age of 4, he started learn to play on piano. During his high school days, he formed and was a member of a school band. In the beginning of the 1990, during the same time when he started going to college, he made solo major debut with the instrumental album Waitin’for You under BMG Victor label and became the member of the group B.B. Queens, whom they won 32nd Japan Record Award and appeared in the national new-year program Kōhaku Uta Gassen. In 1993, he graduated from the Keio University. From 1994, he started his activities as a composer for Zard, Yuiko Tsubokura, Hiromi Go, and many other artist. He remained active and released solo works in the Being Inc. until 1997, when he decided to leave music industry and focus to work for Dentsu company. In 2008, he has announced through his blog site complete resume of his music activities. In 2010, he established the nonprofit organization “Donation Music” in which they are doing social contribution activities through music. He is credited as director under his born name Mamoru. As of 2023

Eivind Buene

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Eivind Buene (born 7 September 1973 in Oslo) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Biography 1992 to 1998 saw Buene studying pedagogics and composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. In 1999 and 2000 he was contemporary music ensemble Oslo Sinfonietta’s composer in residence. From 2000 onwards, Buene has been active as a freelance composer, based in Oslo, writing for a number of ensembles and orchestras at home and abroad. His roster of received commissions includes works written for Ensemble Intercontemporain, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Fondation Royaumont and a variety of Scandinavian orchestras and ensembles. The main bulk of Buene’s list of works consists of compositions for soloists, ensembles and orchestras, but the composer has also focused on work with improvising musicians, developing music in the cross-section between classical notation and improv. Buene’s works have seen performances at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philharmonie and Centre Pompidou. His debut as a stage composer came in August 2006 with the one act chamber opera September, based on Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. 2012 saw Buene being bestowed with a Spellemannsprisen Award, the Norweg

Ela Orleans

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Ela Orleans (born 1971 in Oświęcim, commonly known by its German name of Auschwitz) is a Polish composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Personal Life and Musical Career Orleans lives and works between Paris, Glasgow, and Warsaw. Various independent labels around the world since 2008 have released her solo studio albums, as well as compilations, mixes and collaborations with artists such as Dirty Beaches, U.S. Girls and The Pastels. Orleans has scored music for TV, film, and opera. Discography Hassle Hound * Scaring the Grass in the Garden (2002, Pickled Egg) * Sun & Hassle Hound (2003, Textile; split with Sun) * “Appalachian Listening Post” (2004, Twisted Nerve; single) * Limelight Cordial (2006, Staubgold) * Born in a Night (2010, Staubgold) Ela Orleans solo * Low Sun, High Moon (2008, Setola di Maiale) * Ahata/Anahata (2009, La Station Radar; collaboration with Skitter) * Lost (2009, La Station Radar) * The Strongest Walls Open as I Pass (2010, La Station Radar; collaboration with Skitter) * Double Feature (2011, Night People, La Station Radar; split with Dirty Beaches) * Mars Is Heaven (2011, La Station Radar, Atelier Ciseaux) * NEO PI-R (2011, Clan Destine; compilation) * S

Elaine Fine

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Elaine Fine (born 30 April 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American musician and composer. Education Fine’s parents were both musicians; her mother played the flute and her father was a violist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She began taking violin lessons when she was 7 and switched to the flute at 14. After graduating high school, she moved from her hometown of Boston to New York to study at the Juilliard School. External links *List of arrangements at International Music Score Library Project *List of compositions at International Music Score Library Project

Elainie Lillios

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Elainie Lillios is a musician specializing in electronic and electroacoustic composition and performance. Lillios studied composition with Larry Austin, Jonty Harrison, Jon Christopher Nelson, Joseph Klein, and others. She has been a professor at Bowling Green State University since 2000. She was awarded First Prize in the 36th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art in Bourges in 2009. In 2012, she was awarded a commission from the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. Her works have been included in several festivals such as Electronic Music Midwest Vox Novus’s Fifteen Minutes of Fame, and 60x60 Education Works Source: Compositions * Oceanus IV (1986) * Eclectronic (1988) * Pieces of Partch (1988) * Cactus, Rock, Beaters (1991) * Textural Visions (1991), 10:00 * CELLAR for fixed media (1994–95), 5:02 * of a Single Mind? for alto saxophone and electronics (1995), 12:07 * Au deuxième étage for fixed media (1996), 3:00 * Supplications (1996) * Sounds from the second floor (1996–97), 7:00 * Arturo for fixed media (1998), 13:35 * Threads for fixed media (1998), 4:50 * Stumbling Dance for fixed media (1998–99), 14:45 * Earth Ascending for female voice and el

Eleanor Daley (composer)

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Eleanor Joanne Daley (born April 21, 1955) is a Canadian composer of choral and church music, a church choir director, choral clinician and accompanist. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Among her best-known works are The Rose Trilogy and Requiem. Early life and education Daley was born in Parry Sound, Ontario. She earned a bachelor’s degree in organ performance from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and attained diplomas in piano and organ, having studied in both Canada and England. Career As a composer, Daley has been commissioned by choral groups and arts organizations throughout North America and Europe. In Canada, she composed for the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Choir, the Bach Children’s Chorus, the Maryland State Boychoir, the Amabile Youth Singers, Toronto Children’s Chorus, the Cantabile Singers of Kingston, the Savridi Singers, the Vancouver Men’s Chorus and the Victoria Scholars. Daley worked under commission to a number of groups in the United States, including the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Texas Woman’s University, the Texas Choral Directors Association, and received the 2008 Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. Commis

Elena Kats-Chernin

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Elena Davidovna Kats-Chernin (born 4 November 1957) is an Australian composer and pianist, best known for her ballet Wild Swans. Early life and education Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR (now the capital of independent Uzbekistan) and is Jewish. Her early life was spent in the Russian SSR after she moved to Yaroslavl at age 4, where she grew up and studied composition at the Sobinov Conservatory. At age 14, she was admitted to the Gnessin State Musical College, and subsequently moved to Moscow for her studies. She later migrated to Australia in 1975, continuing her studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, under Richard Toop (composition) and Gordon Watson (piano). She graduated from the Conservatorium in 1980. She also participated in the Darlinghurst underground theatre scene, with groups such as Cabaret Conspiracy, Fifi Lamour, Boom Boom La Burn and others, often under the name Elena Kats. After graduating, Kats-Chernin moved to Germany to study under Helmut Lachenmann. She remained in Europe for thirteen years, and became active in theatre and ballet, composing for state theatres in Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg and Bochum. Career Since returning to Australia i

Elena Langer

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Elena Langer (born 1974 in Moscow) is a Russian-born British composer of opera and other contemporary classical music. Her work has been performed at the Royal Opera House, Zurich Opera, Carnegie Hall, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Wigmore Hall, Opera national du Rhin, Strasbourg, and Milton Court, Barbican Centre. She studied piano and composition at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow and composition at the Moscow Conservatoire; in 1999 she moved to London and studied composition at the Royal College of Music (1999–2000) with Julian Anderson and the Royal Academy of Music (2001–03) with Simon Bainbridge. Career In 2002 Langer became the first Jerwood Composer in Association at the Almeida Theatre in London, writing the short operas Ariadne (premiered at the Almeida Opera Festival in 2002) and The Girl of Sand (2003), both settings of librettos by poet Glyn Maxwell. Ariadne was further performed at the Tanglewood Festival and the Britten and Strauss Festival in Aldeburgh in 2009, as well as at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 2009 her song cycle Songs at the Well, base

Elena Ruehr

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Elena Ruehr (born 1963) is an American musician, music educator and composer. Life and career Elena Ruehr was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the daughter of a mathematician and an English professor. She grew up in Houghton, Michigan and began piano lessons at age four. She studied composition at the University of Michigan with William Bolcom and at The Juilliard School with Vincent Persichetti and Bernard Rands. She also studied dance and has performed with Javanese and West African ensembles. In 1992, Ruehr took a teaching position at MIT. Her compositions have been performed internationally and many have been recorded and are available on media. Many of Ruehr’s compositions involve setting poetry to music. Ruehr is married to Seward Rutkove and they have one daughter, Sophie. Selected works Ruehr has composed works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo instruments and vocals. *Ladder to the Moon (2003) for orchestra *Toussaint Before the Spirits (2003), opera *Cloud Atlas (2011), cello concerto *Song of the Silkie (2000) for baritone, string quartet, text by Laura Harrington *Sky Above Clouds (1993) for orchestra *Bel Canto for string quartet *Averno for choir *It’s About Time (

Elesky

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Elena Loredo (born 1995), known online as Elesky, is a Spanish pianist, composer, Twitch streamer and video gamer. Early life Elena Loredo was born in 1995 in Gijón, Asturias. In 2001, at the age of 5, she began playing the piano. She later learned the guitar, ukulele, melodica, and ocarina. Loredo mostly plays video game and anime soundtracks. She became known in 2017 on Twitter by playing the Digimon theme, and she also played Animal Crossing, Spyro, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pokémon Ruby and Ori and the Blind Forest themes, including other Nintendo soundtracks. Loredo decided to stream on Twitch to recreate a musical concert she could not do live. Viewers who watched it cheered her on to continue with more Twitch streaming, until NZXT asked to sponsor her. She sang Cocos film song. She has studied Dramatic Art and has worked as a choir singer at Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo for one year. She has made concert appearances at Cometcon in Asturias, Gamepolis and Freakcon in Malaga, Retro Sevilla, and Fun & Serious Games Festival in Bilbao. Career In 2021, she signed for Giants, a group of streamers and content creators created in 2020 and formed by Cabramaravilla, LittleRa

Elias Zazi

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Elias Zazi (born 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Swedish-Assyrian composer and a theorist in music. Zazi also teaches music and works as a music critic and writer to a daily newspaper in Södertälje, Sweden. History Elias began his journey as a discjockey in 1981 and two years later he won the title “Stockholm’s No 1 DJ 1983-1984” which was arranged by the in-spot place called Studion in St. Eriksplan in Stockholm. In 1985 his interest of Oriental music awakened. Elias Zazi who was raised in the sixties in Lebanon was already acquainted with the Arabic music and the Syriac Orthodox Church music. At the beginning of the eighties he began his studies of music and its essence. In 1994 he composed “Alfo Gabe D Howelan” (lyrics by Malfono Touma Nahroyo) which became a dance in the theatre group Ha Nison’s play called “Warm soup with politics”. In 1995-1996 he composed “The Dream Sonata”, the first Syriac musical operetta in two acts which played on the stage of Estrad, Södertälje in May 1996. After the Dream Sonata, Zazi began his studies of western music. He studied western music theories, harmonies, contra-point and more, and later he complemented his studies with sessions in composition

Elio Martusciello

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Elio Martusciello (born 23 November 1959) is an Italian experimental music composer and performer, principally on guitar and computer. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self-taught musician/composer and teaches “electronic music” at Conservatory of Music, Naples, Italy. His compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues, but in addition to acousmatic composition he composes for instruments and live electronics, sound installation, multi-media works, audiovisual art and computer music improvisation. He lives in Naples. Main collaborations He has worked with improvising musicians such as Ana-Maria Avram, Natasha Barrett, Eugene Chadbourne, Alvin Curran, Chris Cutler, Iancu Dumitrescu, Michel Godard, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Jerome Noetinger, Tony Oxley, Roberto Paci Dalo, Evan Parker, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Mario Schiano, Z’EV, and others. Bands Ossatura with Fabrizio Spera and Luca Venitucci Ka’e with Giorgio Bosso, Stefano Giampietro, Paolo Montella and Andrea Laudante Schismophonia with Mike Cooper Taxonomy with Graziano Lella and Roberto Fega Bindou

Elisabeth Le Guin

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Elisabeth Covel Le Guin She attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she obtained BMus in Cello in 1979. She later did graduate studies at University of California, Berkeley, where she obtained an MA in 1992 and PhD in music in 1997; her doctoral dissertation “As My Works Show Me To Be”: Physicality as Compositional Technique in the Instrumental Music of Luigi Boccherini was supervised by Daniel Heartz. In 1997, she joined the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2005, she published Boccherini’s Body, which focuses on the work of Classical-era composer Luigi Boccherini. She won the 2015 Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book The Tonadilla in Performance (2013), In 2022, she retired from UCLA and became professor emeritus. providing funding for Si Yo Fuera Una Canción, a bilingual podcast about the musical interests of people in Santa Ana, California. She was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. Bibliography *Boccherini’s Body (2005) *The Tonadilla in Performance (2013) References

Elizabeth Alexander (composer)

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Elizabeth Alexander (born August 6, 1962) is an American composer. Her works include orchestral, chamber, piano and vocal works. She is best known for her over 80 choral pieces, which have been performed internationally by thousands of choirs. Alexander is also known for her liturgical works, and themes centering on social justice. Biography Sarah Elizabeth Alexander was born in South Carolina in 1962. After several years in South and North Carolina, her family moved to the Ohio River city of Portsmouth, Ohio in 1972. Trained as a classical pianist, Alexander studied composition with Jack Gallagher and received her Bachelor of Music in Composition from The College of Wooster in 1984. She received her doctorate in Music Composition from Cornell University in 1987, where she studied with noted composers Steven Stucky, Karel Husa, and Yehudi Wyner. She currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is one of the most performed composers in the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network. Music Choral music makes up the core of Alexander’s works and performances, noted for her “accessible style that is well tailored to the requirements of both semi-pro and amateur choruses.” Her style comb

Elizabeth Ogonek

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Elizabeth Ogonek (born May 26, 1989) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Ogonek was born in Anoka, Minnesota and was raised in New York City. There she began her studies in the Preparatory Division at the Manhattan School of Music. Ogonek received her BM from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in 2009. After this, she went on to receive her MM from USC Thornton School of Music in 2012. Some of her notable compositions include the chamber violin concerto In Silence and the orchestral dance suite All These Lighted Things. Ogonek was assistant professor of composition at Oberlin College and Conservatory (Oberlin Conservatory of Music) from 2015 until 2021, when she joined the composition faculty at Cornell University. Musical style Ogonek’s music often is led by and has a strong connection with the words and poetry used. This has led her to work with several young writers, including Sophia Veltfort, Ghazal Mosadeq, Ralph Nazareth, and Jonathan Dubow. *Lightenings: A work commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival for Julianne Lee (violin), Romie de Guise-Langlois (clarinet), Alexis Corbin (percussion) and Juho Pohjonen (piano). Ref

Ellen Arkbro

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Ellen Arkbro (born 1990) is a Swedish composer, sound artist and musician working with precision-tuned harmony in frameworks such as just intonation and meantone temperament. Having primarily composed for and performed on pipe organ, Arkbro’s work has also included pieces for other acoustic instruments and sound synthesis. She has released several studio albums, beginning with For Organ and Brass (2017), in additional to several collaborative works. Early life Arkbro was born in Stockholm and grew up singing in choir school, playing in bands, and eventually studying jazz as a singer. As a 20 year old, Arkbro went on to study at Elektronmusikstudion, and later received a degree in composition of electronic music from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. As part of earning that degree, Arkbro spent time in Berlin studying composition with Marc Sabat in Berlin, studies which focused on the theory and practice of tuning. In 2014, Arkbro studied privately with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in New York. Recordings For Organ and Brass For her 2017 debut album For Organ and Brass, Arkbro uses the Sherer-Orgel organ at St. Stephen’s Church in Tangermünde, Germany, an instrument dati

Ellen C. Covito

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Ellen C. Covito (born 1974) is an Argentinian composer. She is known most for her Composed Improvisation and Improvised Composition series. Covito’s early works consisted in attempts to apply theoretical structures and ideas surrounding environmental problems to music. Her works since 2009 deal with the dichotomy between composition and improvisation. She does this by introducing distance between the performer and what is performed, while removing the distance between the act of composition and performance. In May 2012, the first concert of Covito’s music outside Buenos Aires was organized in Brooklyn by Panoply Performance Laboratory and No Collective. In September 2012, another concert of Covito’s music was organized in Tokyo by No Collective and the Ensemble for Experimental Theatre and Music. References Further reading *Ellen C. Covito: Works After Weather. Already Not Yet (2014). External links * *The Music of Ellen C. Covito in Tokyo

Ellen Fullman

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Ellen Fullman (born 1957) is an American composer, instrument builder, and performer. She is known for her 70-foot (21-meter) Long String instrument, tuned in just intonation and played with rosin-coated fingers. Biography and work Fullman studied sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute before moving to New York in the early 1980s. In Kansas City she created and performed in an amplified metal sound-producing skirt and wrote art songs which she recorded in New York for a small cassette label. In 1981, she began developing the Long String Instrument at her studio in Brooklyn, consisting of dozens of metallic strings played with rosin-coated fingers and producing a chorus of organ-like partials. This instrument has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. She has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has collaborated with such luminary figures as composer Pauline Oliveros, choreographer Deborah Hay, the Kronos Quartet, and Frances-Marie Uitti. In 1985, she was in residence at the Apollohuis in the Netherlands, where she recorded The Long String Instrument (LP) for Apollo Records. Recognition Fullman has been the recipient of numer

Ellen Reid (composer)

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Ellen Reid (born 1983) is an American composer originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee who lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles. Reid is a multi-genre composer whose work spans classical, opera, sound installations, film scores, avant-pop, ensemble and choral writing. She is known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning opera, p r i s m, Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK and her work with various orchestras, including the album isomonstrosity. Early life Reid grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. writing incidental music for plays and scoring films. Her inspiration began with the sounds of her environment. After college, she lived in Thailand for two and a half years, working and learning alongside Thai musicians writing operatic works that draw from both Western and Thai traditions. Career Classical Reid’s work has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, RTÉ, American Composers Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and other institutions around the world. Reid is the first person to have been commissioned by and have world premieres by all four of Los Angeles’s major classical music institution

Eloy Fritsch

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Eloy Fernando Fritsch (born 1968) is an electronic musician, keyboard player and main composer of Brazilian progressive rock band Apocalypse. As a solo artist he creates cosmic new-age music. History In 1983 Fritsch formed progressive rock band Apocalypse. They are considered pivotal in the development of progressive rock in Southern Brazil. In 1992, he moved to Porto Alegre and began his solo project composing electronic music. His first official solo album was Dreams, recorded in 1994 and 1995. During 1997, he released his second solo album, Behind the Walls of Imagination, which showcases his skills with various electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments. In the mid-1990s, Fritsch secured a recording contract with French label Musea. His third album for them, Space Music, was released in 1998. The composer reveals his sci-fi style with Cyberspace. In this album Fritsch offers 1970s-inspired keyboard symphonic/electronic progressive instrumental music. Fritsch performs electronic music that evolves between Vangelis’ ambient and impressionist electronic, and the synthesized progressive rock of masters such as Rick Wakeman. Nevertheless, Fritsch has found his own style within mel

Elwin Hendrijanto

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Elwin Hendrijanto (born 3 February 1986) is an Indonesian composer, pianist, music producer, and music director. Education In 2008, Elwin graduated cum laude on a scholarship for Bachelors of Music in Performance Classical Piano from Utrechts Conservatorium. Career The Piano Brothers During his studies at the Royal College of Music, Elwin teamed up with Dominic Ferris and created The Piano Brothers. Their international concert tours consists of live performances in which the duo plays their own arrangements. They have had collaborations with the London Symphony Orchestra and has made a performance on the Friday Night Is Music Night for BBC Radio 2 together with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Composition Known for his works in crossover and orchestral music, Elwin has made music for internationally known artists such as The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His notable commissions include the official soundtrack for the 2018 Asian Games ad campaign. In 2019, he won the Regional Award for Best Theme Song/Title Theme at the Asian Academy Creative Awards. In 2020, he joined the jury for the Citra Pariwara after winning a medal for Best Use of Sound the year prio

Émile Parisien

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Émile Parisien (born 12 October 1982) is a French soprano and alto saxophonist, jazz musician, and composer. Career Émile Parisien entered the fifth class at the age of 11 in the first class of Marciac’s College de jazz, where he studied music with established musicians such as Pierre Boussaguet, Guy Lafitte and Christian “Tonton” Salut. From 1996, he studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse, where he also studied classical and contemporary music. During these years, he has had the opportunity to perform alongside major jazz figures such as Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, Johnny Griffin and Bobby Hutcherson, during the Jazz in Marciac festival. Influences Parisien moved to Paris in 2000 and in 2004 founded his own quartet with Julien Touery (piano), Ivan Gélugne (double bass), and Sylvain Darrifourcq (drums). With compositions inspired by Hector Berlioz, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Wagner, as well as John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter, this quartet gives an expressionist character to his music, where improvisation takes precedence. Parisien performs in France and internationally with, among others, Michel Portal, Jacky Terrasson, Yaron Herman, Joachim Kühn, Stéphan

Emily Barker

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Emily Barker (born 2 December 1980) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and composer. Her music has featured as the theme to BBC dramas Wallander and The Shadow Line. With multi-instrumental trio the Red Clay Halo, she recorded four albums: Photos.Fires.Fables. (2006), Despite the Snow (2008), Almanac (2011), Dear River (2013), before commencing a solo career with The Toerag Sessions (2015), Sweet Kind of Blue (2017), A Dark Murmuration of Words (2020), and Flight Path Rhymes (2021). Other projects include Vena Portae (with Dom Coyote and Ruben Engzell), Applewood Road (with Amy Speace and Amber Rubarth), and Room 822 (2022) with Lukas Drinkwater. Career 2002–2005: The Low Country Emily travelled to the UK in 2002, and was first based in Cambridge where she collaborated with guitarist Rob Jackson. They formed a band called The Low Country which released two albums, Welcome to the-low-country (2003) and The Dark Road (2004), tracks from which enjoyed plays on John Peel’s BBC radio show. In 2005 Emily won Country Song of the Year and Regional Song of the Year awards at the annual West Australian Music Songwriting Awards. 2006–2013: Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo In 2006, B

Emma Nyra

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Emma Chukwugoziam Obi (born July 18, 1988), professionally known as Emma Nyra, is a Nigerian-American singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Her associate acts include Iyanya, Selebobo, Davido, Cynthia Morgan, Victoria Kimani, and Patoranking. Early life Emma Nyra was born and raised in Tyler, Texas, where she had her early education. She is of Igbo descent from Delta State, located in the south-southern region of Nigeria. In 2012, she left for Nigeria to pursue a career in music and modelling. Education She is an alumna of Texas Southern University, where she graduated with a degree in Health Care Administration. Career Music Emma Nyra released her debut singles titled “Do It” and “Everything I Do” in 2011 while in the U.S. Upon her return to Nigeria in 2012, she started working with D’Tunes and Iyanya who she had met in 2010 while in the U.S. In March 2012, she signed a recording contract with Made Men Music Group before she went on to make her first major debut in the Nigerian music industry. After that she made a vocal appearance in Iyanya’s “Ur Waist”. In 2013, Emma Nyra was voted the “Most Promising Act to Watch” at the 2013 edition of the Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Her d

Emmanuel Séjourné

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Emmanuel Séjourné (born 16 July 1961) is a French composer and percussionist, and head of percussion at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. His music is influenced by Western classical music and by popular music (rock, jazz, extra-European music). Education Séjourné was born in Limoges. After studying classical piano, violin, music history, acoustics and musical analysis at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, Séjourné continued his education there, and in 1976 entered the percussion class of , founder director of Les Percussions de Strasbourg. Under his guidance, Séjourné became interested in contemporary and improvised music. He won first prize (médaille d’or) in percussion in 1980, and then specialized in mallet percussion. Career In 1984 he became professor of mallet percussion at the conservatory and won the European Audio-visual Grand Prix for his 1981 CD Saxophone et Percussion. As a player, he is considered one of the most prominent mallet percussionists and expanded vibraphone and marimba performance by introducing six-stick playing and the vibra-midi. He is also co-author of 10 ans avec la percussion (2002). Performer In 1981 Séjourné and saxophonist Philippe Geiss founded the g

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

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Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (born 1979 in London, England) is an Emmy and Peabody award nominated filmmaker, a composer, an author, and a Naqshbandi Sufi teacher. Emmanuel is the authorized successor of his father Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. Biography Vaughan-Lee was trained from the age of 15 by his father in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston to pursue musical studies in acoustic bass, improvisation and composition. After graduating from Berklee in 2001, Vaughan-Lee performed and recorded with numerous jazz artists and released two albums under his own name – Previous Misconceptions (2001 – Emanjazz) and Borrowed Time (2005 – Fresh Sound New Talent). As a filmmaker he has directed and produced numerous award winning films including: The Nightingale’s Song, Aloha Aina, The Last Ice Age, Taste of the Land, Earthrise, Elemental, Yukon Kings, Isle de Jean Charles, Marie’s Dictionary, Soleá, Sanctuaries of Silence, The Atomic Tree, Laugh Clown Laugh and What Would it Look Like. His films have played at festivals including: New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Fe

Enno Poppe

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Enno Poppe (born 30 December 1969 in Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia) Since 1998 he has conducted the ensemble mosaik for contemporary music in Berlin. and won an Ernst von Siemens Composers’ Prize in 2004. His opera Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung (Work, Nourishment, Lodging) on a libretto of Marcel Beyer was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008. Since 2008 Poppe has been a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin, since 2009 of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste and, since 2010, of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. In 2023 Poppe was awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize from Italian Music Critics Association. Works Source: Stage works * IQ (2011–2012). Text: Marcel Beyer * Arbeit Nahrung Wohnung (2006–2007). Text: Marcel Beyer * Interzone (2003–2004) Text: Marcel Beyer Works for orchestra * HUNDERT. Hommage à Pierre Boulez VI (2024) * Strom (2023–2024) * Schnur (2019) for cello and orchestra * Fett (2018–2019) * Welt (2011–2012) * Markt (2008–2009) * Altbau (2007–2008) * Keilschrift (2006) * Obst (2006) Works for ensemble * Blumen (2022) for ensemble * Körper (2021) for ensemble * Hirn (2021) for ensemble * O Du (2020) for ensemble * Prozession (2015

Enrico Chapela

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Enrico Chapela (born January 29, 1974) is a Mexican contemporary classical composer, whose works have been played by multiple major orchestras and has been commissioned to compose for institutions such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing) and the Festival Internacional Cervantino. His work is influenced by modern popular musical styles such as rock and electronic, as well as Mexican popular culture. Background Chapela was born in Mexico City where he still lives. Chapela received his bachelor’s degree in composition from the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Musicales (CIEM) and studied classical guitar at the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music in England. In addition to his career as a composer, Chapela has also played guitar in a heavy metal band. Career The composer has been commissioned to create works for the Los Angeles Philharmonic (where he was an invited guest in 2008), Dresdner Sinfoniker, Carnegie Hall, Britten Sinfonia, Wigmore Hall, Berkeley Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, Orquestra Sinfônica de São Paulo, City of Birmingham Symphony, University of Cincinnati’s CCM Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Carlo

Enrico Melozzi

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Enrico Melozzi (born 22 June 1977), also known as Melox, is an Italian conductor, composer, arranger, cellist, and record producer. Life and career Born in Teramo, as a child Melozzi learned to play the piano by himself and at the age of eight he composed his first pieces. After his diploma in cello, he graduated in composition at the London College of Music. References External links * *

Enzo Camporeale

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Eoin O'Keeffe

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Eoin O’Keeffe is an Irish composer and arranger. Biography O’Keeffe grew up in Clonmel, Ireland. As a member of his local youth band, he played clarinet and later trumpet, before spending some time as conductor and arranger. He studied for a BA Music at Waterford Institute of Technology between 1997 and 2001, where he graduated with a First Class Honours Degree, majoring in composition having studied with Eric Sweeney, as well as composers such as Louis Andriessen. During his time in Waterford, he was awarded with the Good Shepherd Arts Award for his composition. He also conducted the college chamber choir between 2000 and 2001, giving the opportunity to develop his choral writing. He then graduated from University College Cork with a Higher Diploma in Education in 2002 and spent several years working in the education sector, initially in Ireland before moving to London, England. While teaching in London, he continued his studies in composition with composers such as Anna Meredith, Stephen Montague, and Howard Skempton. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London between 2005 and 2007, studying with Richard Baker and graduating with an MA Composition. He lived in

Eres Holz

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Eres Holz (born September 26, 1977 in Rehovot), is a German composer of Israeli origin. He has been living in Germany since 2003. Life Biography Holz studied composition with Ruben Seroussi in Tel Aviv. From 2003 to 2011 he studied composition with Hanspeter Kyburz and electronic music with Wolfgang Heiniger at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin, where since 2008 he has taught Algorithmic Composition with OpenMusic and Common Music. His works have been performed in Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Spain and Australia, by Ensemble Adapter, Ensemble Zafraan, Modern Art Sextet, Trio Nexus, Ensemble Risonanze Erranti, Israel Contemporary Players, Ensemble Meitar and others, as well as broadcast on the national German public broadcaster Deutschlandradio and on Hessischer Rundfunk. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Academy of German Composers (Akademie Deutscher Musikautoren) Grants & Awards The Hanns Eisler Prize in Composition, in the category “Competition for Composition and Performance of Contemporary Music”, 2005, 2008 and 2010. Nominated in 2012 for the German Music Authors’ Prize, in the category “Promotion of young composers”. In 2012 he received the half-year re

Eric Banks (composer)

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Eric Banks (born January 25, 1969) is a Seattle-based composer, choral conductor, and ethnomusicologist. Life Banks was born in Roscoe, New York, United States in 1969. He is the founding director of the vocal ensembles, The Esoterics and Ædonis. As a composer, Banks writes primarily for a cappella chorus. He is a polyglot and frequently sets texts in languages other than his native English, including dead languages such as Epic Greek and Avestan. Eric Banks earned his BA in composition (1990) at Yale University, and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Music Theory and Choral Studies at the University of Washington. In 1997, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Stockholm; there he performed with several groups, including the Swedish Radio Choir and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir. In 1992, while still in graduate school, Banks founded the professional-caliber chamber chorus, The Esoterics, which performs rarely heard compositions of contemporary music for unaccompanied voices. The Esoterics has performed over 300 concerts throughout the Pacific Northwest, has commissioned and premiered over 150 new works for a cappella voices in dozen

Eric Genuis

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Eric Genuis is a Canadian composer and musician who now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. He is noted for his Concerts for Hope. He performs his original compositions more than a hundred times a year. Genuis was born in Toronto, Canada on March 13, 1967. He earned a degree in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada. He also studied to become a math and physics teacher. He is known for playing in prisons, hospitals, rehab centres, nursing homes and inner-city schools. He started playing in prisons when he was invited to a maximum security prison. He feels music brings humanity and beauty to places lacking in these virtues. He has performed across the world in countries including the United States, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Peru, Poland and Slovakia. In February 2019 Genuis began his second tour of Australia playing in Corrimal, New South Wales and Windang, New South Wales. Discography Albums * Last in Line (1993) * No Greater Love (1995) * Truth Never Changes (1996) * Eternity (1997) * Never Alone (1999) * Fantasias for Violin and Piano (2003) * Legacy (2006) * The Winds Have Changed (2006) * Timeless (2009) * Redemption (2020) Reference

Éric Humbertclaude

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Éric Humbertclaude (born 5 May 1961) is a French musician, organist, contemporary composer, writer and essayist, musicologist, researcher specializing in contemporary music and pipe organ music. Biography Born in the Vosges département, Éric Humbertclaude spent his child youth in La Bresse in the same département. ;Tales * Federico Gualdi à Venise : Fragments retrouvés (1660-1678) : recherches sur un exploitant minier alchimiste, L’Harmattan, 2010, 368 p. read online; * Récréations de Hultazob, L’Harmattan, Écritures, 2010, 96 p. ; ;Poetry * Joue, je pense à toi, L’Harmattan, Accent tonique, Poésie, 2011, 60 p. ; * Bascule followed by Vulnus, L’Harmattan, Écritures, 2012, 90 p. ; ; Éditions L’Harmattan * Écrit la nuit. Rencontre avec les créateurs; * Échos en jachère; ;Musical transcriptions (sheet music) * Johannes Brahms, Trois Préludes posthumous opus 122 for Sextet (vents et cordes), transcription de chorals pour orgue, Aedam Musicae, 2010; * Jean-François Tapray, Cinq pièces inédites pour orgue, Delatour, 2015; * Jean-Claude Touche, Œuvres complètes ; Produit multimédia sur l’orgue * Le Grand-Orgue de la Basilique St-Pierre et St-Paul de Luxeuil-les-Bains, cointerpreter: Pierr

Eric Knechtges

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Eric Thomas Knechtges, DM (born April 16, 1978 in Lansing, MI) is an American composer. He has written works for a wide variety of performing mediums including: concert band, orchestra, a cappella choir, and chamber ensembles (including some works using computer music technology). Biography Eric Knechtges has studied at the Indiana University (Bloomington) Jacobs School of Music (DM), Bowling Green State University (MM) and Michigan State University (BMusEd); he has also taught music (band, chorus, and music appreciation) at Addison Community Schools in Michigan. He has been an active conductor of bands and orchestras, including the Pride of Indy Band and Color Guard. His composition, Broken Silents, was recognized for Special Distinction in the second annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Competition. He has also been recognized in the National Bandmasters Association Young Composers Mentor Project, the National Association of Composers, USA Young Composers Competition, and the San Francisco Choral Artists New Voices Composition Competition, and the “Juan Bautista Comes” Choral Competition. His works have been performed by ensem

Éric Lebrun

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Éric Maurice Lebrun (born 19 November 1967) is a French composer, organist, musicologist, and author. His wife, Marie-Ange Leurent, is also an organist. Biography Born in Talence (Gironde), he was a former student of Gaston Litaize and Michel Chapuis, Lebrun also benefited from the teaching of Anne-Marie Barat, a pupil of André Marchal, of organists Daniel Roth, Michel Bouvard, Olivier Latry and pianist Bruno Rigutto. Lebrun completed his training in the classes of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, musical analysis and history of music at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition to the first prize for organ, he won three first prizes and the music history diploma. After his in 1990, he was appointed to the Église Saint-Antoine-des-Quinze-Vingts in Paris. Since 1990, he was successively a lecturer at the Sorbonne, professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, director of the École nationale de musique et de danse of Cachan, then professor of organ at the and that of . In 2015, he inaugurated the organ class of the Pôle Sup 93. A renowned pedagogue (he founded the organ didactics course at the Conservatoire de Paris), he contributed to the training of many young generation interpreters

Eric Mandat

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Eric Paul Mandat (born 1957) is an American clarinetist and composer. Mandat began his clarinet studies under the tutelage of Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony. He later studied with Lee Gibson, Keith Wilson, D. Stanley Hasty, and Charles Neidich. He received his undergraduate education at the University of North Texas and graduate degrees from Yale School of Music and Eastman School of Music. He has performed in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s MusicNOW Series (including as principal clarinet for Pierre Boulez’s 80th Birthday Concert under Boulez’s baton and a performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ayre with Dawn Upshaw). He also performs with the Tone Road Ramblers, a band specializing in experimental and improvised music. His reviews of clarinet recordings have appeared in The Clarinet. Mandat’s recordings include The Extended Clarinet as well as recordings with the Tone Road Ramblers and the Transatlantic Trio. Mandat has taught at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Indiana University. His students from Carbondale include Sean Osborn of the Metropolitan Opera Michael Norsworthy, and Boja Kragulj. Mandat uses extended techniques such as multiphonics and microtones. In a N

Éric Morin

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Éric Morin (born 20 December 1969) is a Canadian composer. He has been awarded several prizes for his compositions, including the 2003 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music for his D’un Château l’autre and the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers which he won twice. His works have been performed by several notable musical ensembles, including the Esprit Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Quebec Contemporary Music Society, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra among others. He has been commissioned to write works by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Life and career Born in Montreal, Morin is a graduate of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal where he was a pupil of Gilles Tremblay, He pursued graduate studies at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 1998 where he earned a Master of Music in composition and was a student of Gérard Grisey. He then entered the doctoral music composition program at the University of Toronto in the Fall of 1998. After completing his degree, he studied at the IRCAM where he took courses in musicology and 20th-century music. In September 2000 he joined the faculty

Eric Stern

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Eric Stern is an American vocalist, accordionist, composer, arranger, and pianist based in Portland, Oregon, best known as the founder and artistic director of the band Vagabond Opera. He also performs as a soloist, as well as with the Eric Stern Trio. Stern, with Vagabond Opera, has appeared on NPR and performed at the Kennedy Center, the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Joe’s Pub in New York City. Career Stern was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and trained as a vocalist at the Delaware Valley Opera Company. At the age of 21, Stern decided to pursue writing and moved to Paris, returning to the U.S., and to music, a year and a half later. In 2002, Stern founded the group Vagabond Opera, known for their blend of eclectic musical styles, including German cabaret, Klezmer, and jazz. With the band, Stern also wrote, composed and performed the 2010 opera Queen of Knives, in collaboration with Wanderlust Circus. Stern has recorded and performed with a variety of musical acts including The Decemberists, Balkan Beat Box, Unwoman, Pink Martini, and DeVotchka. In 2011, Stern composed the score for the Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre’s production of Pinocchio. In March 2015, Stern'

Eric Watson (musician)

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Eric Watson (born July 5, 1955) is an American jazz pianist. Early life and education Watson was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He began playing piano as a child and performed in rock bands in Massachusetts. He studied classical music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. Career After graduating from college in 1978, Watson moved to Paris, where he performed jazz and classical music and worked as an accompanist for a dance group. is signed to a long-term recording contract with ACT Music. and Steve Lacy. Discography * Bulls Blood (1980) * Conspiracy (1982) * Child in the Sky (1985) * Piano One (1985) * Your Tonight Is My Tomorrow (1987) * Charles Ives (1991) * Palimpseste (1991) * Listen to the Night (1994) * Punk Circus (1994) * Silent Hearts (1999) * Full Metal Quartet (2000) * Sketches of Solitude (2002) * Road Movies (2004) * Midnight Torsion (2009) * Memories of Paris (2010) With Steve Lacy *Spirit of Mingus (Free Lance, 1992) *Clangs (hat ART, 1993) References External links and sources * http://nfo.net/calendar/jul05.htm * http://www.actmusic.com/artist_detail.php?bio=1&manufacturers_id=28

Eric Whitacre

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Eric Edward Whitacre (born January2, 1970) is an American composer, conductor, and speaker best known for his choral music. Early life Whitacre was born in Reno, Nevada, to Ross and Roxanne Whitacre. He studied piano intermittently as a child and joined a junior high marching band under band leader Jim Burnett. Later Whitacre played a synthesizer in a techno-pop band, dreaming of being a rock star. Though he was unable to read music at the time, Whitacre began his full musical training while he was an undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He eventually earned a bachelor’s degree in Music Composition. At the age of 23 he completed his first piece for wind orchestra, “Ghost Train”, which has now been recorded more than 40 times. Tom Leslie contributed to his interest in writing for wind ensembles. won a Grammy Award in 2012, and became the No.1 classical album on the US and UK charts within a week of release. Whitacre’s second album, Water Night, was released on Decca in April2012 and featured performances from his professional choir the Eric Whitacre Singers, the London Symphony Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber and Hila Plitmann. Around January 25, 2011, Whitacre began

Erica Muhl

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Erica Muhl (born October 26, 1961) is an American composer and conductor who was the president of Berklee College of Music until July 24, 2023. Early life Erica Muhl grew up in Los Angeles, where her father Edward Muhl was the head of Universal Pictures from 1953 to 1973, and her mother, Barbara, an author and opera singer. She trained as both a composer and a conductor, with much of her studies completed in Europe. At sixteen she was invited to take part in private composition studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. She returned to the United States from Europe, completing a Bachelor of Music in composition at California State University, Northridge, but upon completion, she once again traveled while undergoing graduate studies at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She studied conducting in Los Angeles with Fritz Zweig. This was followed by the completion of a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Southern California in 1991. Its premiere was at the Rykestrasse Synagogue in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, in November 2010. Another commission, Burn the Box, also premiered in 2010, at a private gala in celebration of the inauguration of USC

Erik Dæhlin

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Erik Schwensen Dæhlin (born 14 July 1976 in Oslo) is a Norwegian composer and performance artist. Dæhlin studied percussion at the University of Tromsø, at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts as well as composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music under the tutorship of Olav Anton Thommessen, Asbjørn Schaathun and Henrik Hellstenius. Dæhlin graduated in 2006 and has been active as a composer since 1997. As a percussionist, Dæhlin has been a member of a number of ensembles including NING and Puls as well as the performance project SPLOING. Throughout his career as a composer, Dæhlin has maintained a focus on instrumental and musical theatre genres, where the player’s performativity is played out in and beyond the musical material, and in the context of the performance mold used. Key Dæhlin works in this context include Our Picture is Continuous Fractions, Bildebeskrivelse, On Return to Scale, Desiring Machines, Absence is the Only Real and Forvandlinger. Dæhlin’s list of works includes solo- and chamber music works in addition to electro-acoustic pieces for performers, ensembles and orchestral institutions including Karin Hellqvist, Håkon Stene, Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, the Norwegian

Erik Deutsch

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Erik Deutsch is an American pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and educator. He leads his own band and was a founding member of Fat Mama. Deutsch is also known for his work with Charlie Hunter, Leftover Salmon, Dixie Chicks, Shooter Jennings, Citizen Cope and The Black Crowes. Early life Deutsch was born in Washington D.C. in 1976. Influenced at an early age by his grandfather (a professional musician), his father (a barroom pianist), and his opera-singing nanny. Deutsch began taking Suzuki piano lessons at Vanderbilt University. After his family relocated to Nashville he studied piano with Tom Koester. In 1985 Deutsch won a school song writing contest that led to his first gig at the Country Music Hall of Fame. While attending High School in Potomac, MD, Deutsch frequented the jazz clubs of Washington D.C. Upon arriving at the University of Colorado Boulder in the fall 1995 he began lessons with pianists Art Lande and joined Fat Mama, a modern jazz/rock/fusion ensemble. Career 2000s After completing his degree from CU in piano performance, Deutsch stayed in Boulder developing a busy career as a performer and teacher. County Road X, a cinematic Americana ensemble

Erik Friedlander

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Erik Friedlander (born July 1, 1960) A veteran of New York City’s experimental downtown scene, Friedlander has worked in many contexts, but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with saxophonist John Zorn. Friedlander grew up in a home filled with art and music: his father is photographer Lee Friedlander, noted for the cover photographs he took for Atlantic Records. He is of Jewish descent from his father and of Finnish descent through his paternal grandmother. His father’s fondness for R&B and jazz helped shape Friedlander’s taste in music. He graduated from Columbia University in 1982. Friedlander started playing guitar at age six and added cello two years later. Apart from his work with Zorn, Friedlander has worked with Laurie Anderson, Courtney Love, the Mountain Goats, and Alanis Morissette, and is a member of the jazz/fusion quartet Topaz. He created the original music for the historical documentary Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites. Discography * Chimera (with Chimera) (Avant, 1995) * The Watchman (with Chimera) (Tzadik, 1996) * Topaz (with Topaz) (SIAM, 1999) * Skin (with Topaz) (SIAM, 2000) also released on DVD * Grains of Paradise (Tzadik, 2002)

Erik Mongrain

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Erik Mongrain (born April 12, 1980) is a Canadian composer and guitarist. Biography Mongrain was inspired early on by the work of Metallica, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain. When he was 18, he heard the work of guitarist Don Ross and he thought: “This was a new revelation to me. I finally found my niche.” After that, he was heavily influenced by the work of Michael Hedges, and also began to experiment with a technique known as lap tapping. Mongrain plays live shows in the United States, Japan, Germany, Canada, and England. Erik was featured in Le Journal de Montréal and many other acoustic guitar magazines. His first full-length album, Fates, was released in December 2006 on his website as a series of individually buyable/downloadable songs. The physical CD was released in June 2007 (May for Japan). In 2007, Mongrain went on a tour around the world, particularly in Europe, Asia and America. He performed also at the famous Montreal International Jazz Festival and at the “Studio-théâtre” of the Place des Arts of Montreal where the live performance was recorded. Mongrain was invited for the premiere of the « World Music Heritage », a drive by Gontiti on the national Japanese network (NH

Erik van der Luijt

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Erik van der Luijt (born 22 August 1970 in The Hague) is a Dutch jazz pianist and keyboard player and composer. History Erik van der Luijt started playing the piano at the age of four. He studied jazz piano with Rob van Kreeveld and Rob van Bavel at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he participated in master classes with Michel Petrucciani and Barry Harris. Style Critics have praised Erik van der Luijt’s talent for melody and the classical influences on his work. His style is likened with the subtle cohesion of legendary Bill Evans with his trio of the late 1950s, also in its fresh chord voicings and harmonic phrasing. :Van Der Luijt reflects a bit of a Keith Jarrett influence, particularly when he reaches for some wide gospel chord voicings. Essentially, however, he’s his own man, with a muscular, surging swing and a powerful left hand. Van Der Luijt doesn’t quite sound like anyone else out there, which is certainly an asset. He’s also an engaging, witty composer. - Allaboutjazz.com Collaborations with other artists Erik has contributed as a pianist, arranger and producer to six albums by his wife, the jazz singer Ilse Huizinga. He regularly accompanies and supports singe

Ēriks Ešenvalds

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Ēriks Ešenvalds (born 26 January 1977) is a Latvian composer, mainly of choral music. The concert took place on April 13, 2024, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Performed by the University Singers in Old Cabell Hall and conducted by Michael Slon, the concert also featured two of Ešenvalds’s other works, “Stars” and “Only in Sleep.” Recordings Ešenvalds’s compositions appear on recordings released by labels such as Signum Records, Hyperion Records, Decca Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, Delphian Records, Pentatone and Ondine. The album Northern Lights & Other Choral Works was shortlisted for the Gramophone Awards 2015, selected as Gramophone Critics’ Choice 2015 and listed as ICI Radio-Canada Best Albums Selection in 2015. The albums At the Foot of the Sky (2013) and O Salutaris (2011) were awarded Best Classical Album of the Year in Latvia. References Further reading * * * External links * * Podium Music (Management) * Musica Baltica (Publisher) * Edition Peters (Publisher) * Ēriks Ešenvalds on Hyperion Records * Ēriks Ešenvalds on the Latvian Music Information Centre See also * List of Latvians * Lists of composers

Erin Gee (composer)

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Erin Elizabeth Gee (born 1974) (born San Luis Obispo, California) is an American composer and vocalist. Among the fellowships she has held are the Guggenheim and the Radcliffe Institute Fellowships, and among the awards she has won for her compositions are the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Rome Prize and the first prize of the International Rostrum of Composers. She was on the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana as Assistant Professor of Composition-Theory and is currently Associate Professor of Composition at Brandeis University. Education In 1997 Gee received her B.M. with honors and highest distinction in Piano Performance from the University of Iowa; there she also earned an M.A. in composition in 2002. In 2007, she earned her Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria where she studied musical composition with Beat Furrer. Career With her brother Colin Gee, she performed at the Whitney Museum of Art In 2015, she received the Charles Ives Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The puzzle video game app Blek contains excerpts of Erin Gee’s work. Gee is one of the Kronos Quartet 50 for the Future composers

Erke Duit

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Erke Duit (born 30 December 1957 in Bremen) is a German conductor, composer and director of several choirs and ensembles. Life After his Abitur, Duit studied church music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, specialising in choral conducting (with Hans Gillesberger, Erwin Ortner), composition (with Erich Romanovsky), media composition (with Paul Kont), conducting (with Karl Österreicher) and at Biola College, Los Angeles (scholarship; organ with Charles Shaffer). He is the father of a son and a daughter. Since 2005, he has been teaching Musical Interpretation and Role Designat the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Works * 1992 Cantata Hödlmoser, text: For the steirischer herbst * 1994 Setting of texts by H. C. Artmann for the NÖ. Donaufestival * 1995 The Library of Babel, together with Fritz Rainer and Wolfgang Huber * 1997 Celentano Arrangements, for La Cappella Vienna, performed at the * 1998 The Bremen Town Musicians, chamber orchestra work * 1999 Orchestral work KINDER, for Karl Friedrich Flic * 2000 Cantata adam.eva.aus with the * 2001 Waldviertler Suite for 34 wind instruments (performed with the GRENZBLÄSERN) * 2002 Hohes Haus Musik, setting

Erkki-Sven Tüür

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Erkki-Sven Tüür (; born 16 October 1959) is an Estonian composer. Life and career Tüür was born in Kärdla on the Estonian island of Hiiumaa. He studied flute and percussion at the Tallinn Music School from 1976 to 1980 and composition with Jaan Rääts at the Tallinn Academy of Music and privately with Lepo Sumera from 1980 to 1984. From 1979 to 1984 he headed the rock group In Spe, which quickly became one of the most popular in Estonia. The Helsinki Philharmonic, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra are among those who have commissioned works from him. His Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, entitled ‘“Illuminatio”’, was premiered by violist Lars Anders Tomter and South Jutland Symphony Orchestra in October 2008. Since 1985, Tüür is member of the Estonian Composers’ Union. Style Tüür’s early work is polystylistic. The first pure example is his opus Oxymoron. Tüür developed a vector based voice leading technique. The vectors are sequences of intervals, expressed as numbers. He compares this compositional method with a source code, a germ that grows, Starting point of the composition process is an abstract drawing, that vi

Erlend Øye

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Erlend Otre Øye (born 21 November 1975) is a Norwegian composer, musician, producer, singer and songwriter from Bergen, best known for being one half of the indie folk duo Kings of Convenience, along with Eirik Glambek Bøe. Among other musical projects he is front-man for the band The Whitest Boy Alive, and has contributed to tracks by electronic music artists such as Dntel and Norwegian duo Röyksopp. He is also the co-founder of the independent label Bubbles Records. Since 2012 he has lived in Sicily and played extensively with trio La Comitiva. In addition to his native Norwegian, he also speaks English and some Italian. Biography Bergen Erlend Øye was born on 21 November 1975 in Bergen, his parents met in 1974 in a demonstration in support of the victims of the 1973 Chilean coup d’état against Salvador Allende that took place in Bergen, at which time his father read a poem, which allowed him to meet Øye’s mother. Having grown up listening to Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Suzanne Vega and The Smiths, during high school in the early-mid 1990s, he and some of his friends formed the band Skog (“forest” in Norwegian), taking inspiration from the famous song “A Forest” by The Cure. In 19

Erling Wold

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Erling Wold (born January 30, 1958, in Burbank, California) is a San Francisco-based composer of opera and contemporary classical music. He is best known for his later chamber operas, and his early experiments as a microtonalist. Life Wold was born into a religious family, the son of Erling Henry Wold Sr, a Lutheran minister and Margaret Barth Wold, an author of inspirational books and plays. He was given piano lessons at an early age but showed little interest in music until his teen years, when he became infatuated, teaching himself to play a variety of instruments and embracing the music of many of the modernist composers. It was also at this point that he started to write music. He first studied composition at Occidental College with Robert Gross where he was awarded the Elinor Remick Warren Composition Award in 1978. Later teachers included Gerard Grisey, Andrew Imbrie and John Chowning at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, where he primarily studied computer music, gaining a facility with the mathematics of signal processing. While at Berkeley, he married Lynn Murdock, for whom he wrote a number of his early works. In 1985, they had a son, Duncan

Errollyn Wallen

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Errollyn Wallen (born 10 April 1958) is a Belize-born British composer and musician, who moved as a child with her family to London, England. Wallen was appointed Master of the King’s Music in 2024 by King Charles III, in his first appointment to the post. She is the first Black person to serve in the position, having in 1998 been the first Black woman to have a work featured in the Proms. Life Errollyn Wallen moved to London, England, from Belize with her family when she was two years old. While her parents moved to New York in the United States, she and her three siblings (one of whom is the trumpeter Byron Wallen) were brought up by an aunt and uncle and she was educated at a boarding school. She credits her interest in poetry and music to her uncle, whom she described in an interview as “Victorian” and responsible for her taking lessons in piano. Before studying music, she trained as a dancer at the Maureen Lyons School of Dance and the Urdang Academy, both in London. She moved to New York City to train further at the Dance Theatre of Harlem (1976–78) but later abandoned her training, turned to music composition and returned to the United Kingdom. Wallen has stated that she had

Erwann Kermorvant

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Erwann Kermorvant (born July 28, 1972, in Lorient) is a French film composer known for his musical score contributions to cinema. Biography Kermorvant gained popularity for his work on films such as “36 quai des Orfèvres,” directed by Olivier Marchal in 2004, and “Les Lyonnais”, released in 2011. Kermorvant also composed for the television series “Astrid et Raphaëlle”. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la Musique pour l’Image in 2021, and Best Music award at the La Rochelle TV Fiction Festival in 2015 for Borderline, a French TV series. Filmography * 2000 : Les vacances de Sam directed by Gilles Daubeuf * 2002 : Duelles (TV) directed by Samantha Mazeras * 2002 : Les frangines (TV) directed by Laurence Katrian * 2003 : Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ? directed by Éric Lartigau * 2004 : Bien agités ! (TV) directed by Patrick Chesnais * 2004 : A trois c’est mieux (TV) directed by Laurence Katrian * 2004 : La Danse du vent directed by Taïeb Louhichi * 2004 : 36 Quai des Orfèvres directed by Olivier Marchal * 2005 : Un ticket pour l’espace directed by Éric Lartigau * 2006 : Greco (TV) directed by Philippe Setbon * 2006 : R.I.S Police scientifique (TV) directed by Stéphane Kaminka * 2006 : Pr

Erwin Gutawa

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Erwin Gutawa Sumapraja (born 16 May 1962) is an Indonesian composer. In 1985, he started his professional music career by joining the jazz band Karimata, later becoming an independent composer in 1991. As a composer, he won the 1992 Midnight Sun Song Festival in Finland, together with Ruth Sahanaya. In 2001, he won the Anugerah Musik Indonesia award for best music arranger for his concert Rockestra. Biography Erwin Gutawa was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 16 May 1962. In the early 1980s Gutawa worked as sound arranger for the TVRI series Telerama. On 16 May 2002, Gutawa celebrated his 40th birthday by holding his first solo concert, Konser EG. It took place at the Plenary Hall of the Jakarta Convention Center and also featured Chrisye, Ruth Sahanaya, Krisdayanti, Sheila on 7, and Slank. and a farewell concert for his daughter Gita Gutawa entitled A Masterpiece of Erwin Gutawa (2011). In 2005, Gutawa went to London, England to work as a conductor at the London Symphony Orchestra in Royal Albert Hall. Personal life Gutawa is married to Lufti Adriani, also known as Lulu. Together, they have two children, Aluna Sagita and Aura Aria Gutawa. He enjoys cycling and home cooking, especiall

Esa Pietilä

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Esa Pietilä is a Finnish saxophonist and composer (b. 1964) who works diversely on the field of contemporary music. He studied saxophone and composition in Sibelius- Academy jazz department in Helsinki and privately in US with David Liebman. In his home country, the Yrjö Jazz award 2016 was given to him for his original, genre-defying work in the field of avant-garde jazz. Career Esa Pietilä started his career as a jazz musician and later on has expanded his expression to many different musical genres. He has performed with his jazz groups e.g. Liberty Ship, Esa Pietilä 3, with his duo collaborations with contemporary classical & new music chamber musicians, as soloist for chamber orchestras, other larger ensembles and performing totally free improvisations at his solo concerts. Pietilä has worked e.g. with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Ville Matvejeff, Tibor Boganyi, Hossein Piskar, Jan Söderblom and Erkki Lasonpalo, with Avanti! Chamber Orchestra. Pietilä has premiered the saxophone concerto of Kalevi Aho, Eero Hämeenniemi and Pietilä´s concerto “Graffiti Play” for chamber orchestra & contemporary jazz trio and Pulses, Waves & Dialoques for tenor saxophone

Esa-Pekka Salonen

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Esa-Pekka Salonen (; born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish conductor and composer. He is the principal conductor designate of Orchestre de Paris and creative director designate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is also conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the San Francisco Symphony from 2020 to 2025. Life and career Early work Born in Helsinki, Finland, Salonen graduated from Helsingin Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu (SYK), one of the top high schools in Finland, in 1977 and then went to study horn and composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, as well as conducting with Jorma Panula. His conducting classmates included Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Osmo Vänskä. Another classmate on the composition side was the composer Magnus Lindberg and together they formed the new-music appreciation group Korvat auki (“Ears open” in the Finnish language) and the experimental ensemble Toimii (lit. “It works”). Later, Salonen studied with the composers Franco Donatoni, Niccolò Castiglioni, and Einojuhani Rautavaara. His first experience with conducting came in 1979 with the Finnish Radio Symphony

Espen Selvik

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Espen Selvik is a Norwegian conductor, composer, music reviewer in , writer, advisor of the Reksten Foundation and director of Gulatinget. He is also honorary consul of the republic of Lithuania. Selvik has composed five symphonies and two oratorios. He composed and performed a special piece, for lur (a wooden shepherd’s horn), choir and orchestra, marking the visit of Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon to Orkney in April 2014. He played a lur originally given to Norway’s King Olav V and donated by his son Harold V, to raise funds for a community centre on Orkney. Compositions * * * * * * * * References External links * Kalevala’s gentle giants weekly.ahram.org 2003 * Uken14

Espinoza Paz

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Isidro Chávez Espinoza (born 29 October 1981), better known as Espinoza Paz, is a Latin Grammy nominated Mexican musician and songwriter of regional Mexican music. Early career Espinoza Paz (Isidro Chávez Espinoza) was born on 29 October 1981 in La Angostura, a small town in the north of the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. He was 11 years old when he wrote his first song, which was dedicated to a girl on whom he had a crush. By the time he was 13, he had already written 20 songs; however, it was not until his father sent him money from the United States that he decided to buy his first guitar and teach himself to play it. Success His big break came when he showed some of his creations to El Coyote—a popular Sinaloan banda singer—who recorded his songs “Besitos En El Cuello” (“Little Kisses On The Neck”); “Prohibido” (“Forbidden”); and “Para Impresionarte” (“To Impress You”). In December 2006, Paz met Martín Fabian, a well-known personality within the radio and music industry, who immediately foresaw the extraordinary talent within the young singer-songwriter. They soon began collaborating on his debut album “Paz En Tu Corazón” (literally, “Peace In Your Heart”—the title being a wordplay

Este Haim

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Este Arielle Haim (born March 14, 1986) is an American musician. She is the bassist and a vocalist of the pop-rock trio Haim, which she formed with her younger sisters Alana and Danielle in 2006. She co-writes all of Haim’s songs. Since 2021, Este has composed scores for film and television. She acted as a music consultant for the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus. Este was also the executive music producer for the mini-series A Small Light (2023). Early life Este grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California and studied at LA County’s High School For The Arts. Her family is Jewish. Este’s father, Mordechai “Moti” Haim, is an Israeli-born retired professional soccer player who moved to the United States in 1980. Her mother, Donna Rose, is a former elementary school art teacher from Philadelphia. Este’s paternal grandmother was originally from Bulgaria. The Haim sisters were taught to play instruments from an early age by their parents, with Este being encouraged to learn bass guitar by her father. She has described being influenced by bassist Tina Weymouth after her father showed her the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. Donna, Moti, and their children formed a fa

Esteban Benzecry

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Esteban Benzecry (born 1970) is an Argentine classical composer. Early years Benzecry was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1970 to Argentine parents. He grew up in Argentina where he studied musical composition with Sergio Hualpa and Haydee Gerardi. He moved to Paris in 1997, where he studied composition with Jacques Charpentier, Professor of the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris. He obtained the “Premier Prix a l’unanimitè” in composition in 1999. He also studied composition with Paul Méfano, and Electro acoustic music with Luis Naón and Laurent Cuniot. He became a French citizen in 2011. Career In 1992 he was named “The young revelation of the Season” by the Musical Critics Association of Argentina. The same association awarded him with the prize “The best Argentine work premiered in the Season 1994, 2006, 2009, 2017”. He has been a fellow of the Interamerican Music Friends of Washington (USA), Mozarteum Argentino, and Academie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut de France. In 1995 he was invited as Resident Composer at the Yehudi Menuhin Academy (Switzerland). The Academie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut de France awarded him the prize from the Foundation Delmas in 1999, the prize Tronchet in

Eugenia Manolidou

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Eugenia Karagiannidou (; born in Athens, Greece), better known as Eugenia Manolidou (Μανωλίδου) or Manolides, is a Greek classical composer, conductor and is married to politician and Minister for Health of Greece Adonis Georgiadis. Biography Eugenia Karagiannidou was born in Athens, Greece. Eugenia married painter Theodore Manolides, in 1995. They separated in 2002 but Theodore denied filing the divorce for quite a while. Afterward she lived with the editor, New Democracy party Vice President and former Minister Adonis Georgiades. She has given birth to 4 children, 2 of which with Theodore (Alexandros, 1996 and Olympia Theodora, 1998) and 2 with Adonis, called Perseus (2005) and Alcaeus (2014). Eventually Eugenia and Adonis got married on June 22, 2009. Education and career as conductor Eugenia Manolidou started piano lessons at the age of 5 and she kept practising all along, though her goal has always been composing. During her childhood, her father died. At some point, she paused her piano studies in Conservatory J.S. Bach, with Russian teacher Alla Halapsis. After graduation from high school, she began to study management but soon enough she pursued her dream overseas. In New Y

Eun Young Lee

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Eun Young Lee is a South Korean composer based in the United States. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and an associate professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Biography Eun Young Lee studied at Ewha Womans University where she obtained a BM and MM in music theory, and the Manhattan School of Music, where she obtained her MM in composition. She won the first-place prize at the 2006 Tsang-Houei Hsu International Music Composition Competition. In 2010, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, for work on her commissions for the Sejong Cultural Society and University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music, as well as a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship. David Schulenberg praised Antico Moderno’s 2016 performance of her piece Gil as “imaginative use of the ensemble’s distinctive sonorities”. One of her pieces, “Mool”, was performed in Liza Stepanova’s 2017 piano album E Pluribus Unum. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition in 2023 and another MacDowell Fellowship in 2024; References

Eunike Tanzil

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Eunike Tanzil (born August 17, 1998) is an Indonesian composer, pianist, and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. She has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including Laufey, TwoSet Violin, Anna Lapwood, Sophie Kauer, Ray Chen, Jeff Danna, Jhett Tolentino and Feby Putri. Tanzil has participated in scoring music for Asian Persuasion (2023), Be Somebody (2021), The Addams Family 2 (2021), I Wanna Dance With Somebody (2022), and Abominable and the Invisible City. Tanzil’s music has been performed by several orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the Juilliard Orchestra, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Early life and education Tanzil was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatra. She began learning piano and Electone at the age of 5. At 17, Tanzil relocated to the US after winning a full scholarship from Berklee College of Music She later earned a Master of Music degree in composition from the Juilliard School. While at Juilliard, she

Eva Noer Kondrup

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Eva Noer Kondrup (born 23 April 1964) is a Danish composer of classical music who has written piano pieces, chamber music, orchestral works and operas. As resident composer with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in the early 2000s, she wrote Ulvemælk (for viola and symphony orchestra) and Salt strøm salt (for soprano and orchestra). She is however associated above all with her operas, Neja (1999) and Den Rejsende or The Traveller (2018). Biography Born in 1964, Eva Noer Kondrup enjoyed listening to music and playing folk music as a child but it was first when she was 18 that she became seriously interested in classical music. Despite following an introductory course to music at Holsterbro Musikskole, it was not until her late twenties that she started to study composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, graduating in 1997. In addition, she attended master classes with Iannis Xenakis, George Crumb and Louis Andriessen and studied composition under Hans Gefors at the Malmö Academy of Music. Compositions Noer Kondrup’s compositions include: *3 Studies for Piano, 1993 *Wave piece, chamber music, 1993 *3 sange fra Det, mezzo-soprano solos with instrumental accompaniment, 1995 *Epilog

Eva-Maria Houben

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Eva-Maria Houben (born 15 January 1955) is a German composer, organist, pianist, musicologist and university lecturer. Life Born in Rheinberg, Houben grew up in Kamp-Lintfort. Her mother worked as a special education teacher, her father was a machine steiger and presbyter in the Protestant village church of . There, Houben provided the organ service during her secondary school time. After her Abitur she studied school music at the Folkwang University of the Arts (1974–78) Her teachers at the Folkwang Hochschule also included Mauricio Rosenmann Taub (music theory) and Ludger Maxsein (piano). From 1978 to 1982 Houben was organist at the Evangelische Stadtkirche Dinslaken and applied to German Studies and musicology at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Quote Publications * Violeta Dinescu. * Musikalische Praxis als Lebensform : Sinnfindung und Wirklichkeitserfahrung beim Musizieren. * Die Aufhebung der Zeit : zur Utopie unbegrenzter Gegenwart in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. * Gelb : neues Hören; Vinko Globokar, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Adriana Hölszky. * Jürg Frey : Werkbetrachtungen, Reflexionen, Gespräche. References Further reading * Burkhard Sauerwald: Eva-Maria Houben. In Komponis

Evan Call

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Evan Call (born June 29, 1988) is an American composer and arranger working in Japan. He has composed music for multiple anime series, such as Violet Evergarden, Muv-Luv Alternative and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. Call is affiliated with the Japanese agency Miracle Bus and was previously a member of the musical group Elements Garden. Biography Call was born in California, U.S., on June 29, 1988, and grew up in the city of Lincoln. As a teenager, Call was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and had to take a break from going to school. During that time, he learned to play bluegrass guitar from a local teacher. Call later made a friend in his hometown who taught him about Japanese anime and video games, which prompted him to start composing orchestral music. He joined the choir club when he entered high school. After graduating, Call enrolled at the Berklee College of Music, where he majored in film scoring. After graduating from college, he debated if he should pursue a career in film music in Hollywood. In the end, he decided to move to Japan on a tourist visa to work in the anime and game industry. Call would continue to compose soundtracks for other anime series and films such

Evan Hause

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Evan Hause (born 1967) is an American composer, percussionist and conductor. Hause has composed over one hundred works ranging from rock music to opera. Biography and career After growing up in Greenville, North Carolina, he earned the Doctor of Music Arts and Master of Music degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, and the Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory in composition and percussion, where he was awarded the Herbert Elwell Award. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts as a percussionist. He studied composition with Sherwood Shaffer, Randolph Coleman, Richard Hoffmann (at the Schoenberg Haus in Moedling, Austria, in an Oberlin abroad program), William Albright, William Bolcom and Leslie Bassett, among others. He has been commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Riverside Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Tales & Scales, Alarm Will Sound, University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance, and the Carolina Chamber Music Festival. He has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Aspen Music Festival, June in Buffalo and the Edward Albee “Barn” at Montauk, NY. Hau

Evan Ziporyn

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Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz. Ziporyn has composed for a wide range of ensembles, including symphony orchestras, wind ensembles, many types of chamber groups, and solo instruments, sometimes involving electronics. He has composed numerous works for Balinese gamelan. He is known for his solo performances on clarinet and bass clarinet; additionally, Ziporyn plays gender wayang and other Balinese instruments, saxophones, piano and keyboards, EWI, and Shona mbira. Ziporyn is the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as director of MIT’s Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). At MIT he directs Gamelan Galak Tika, an ensemble he founded in 1993, a group of 30 MIT students, staff and community members, devoted to the study and performance of new works for Balinese Gamelan. He is currently a member of the Eviyan Trio, with Czech violinist and vocalist Iva Bittová and American guitarist Gyan Riley. He has released albums on Can

Eve Beglarian

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Eve Beglarian (born Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., July 22, 1958) is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent. Her music is often characterized as postminimalist. Her chamber, choral, and orchestral music has been commissioned and widely performed by The Los Angeles Master Chorale, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The California EAR Unit, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Relâche, The Paul Dresher Ensemble, Sequitur, and The American Composers Orchestra, among many others. Discography Albums *Overstepping (1998) *Tell the Birds (2006) Collaborations *Dream Cum Go Down - Eve Beglarian and Juliana Luecking (1995) *Dancing in Place - Elizabeth Panzer (1999) *Play Nice - Twisted Tutu (1999) *Almost Human (Beiser) - Maya Beiser (2007) Compilations *Lesbian American Composers (1998) *Emergency Music (1998) *Messiah Remix (2004) *To Have and to Hold (2007) *60x60 (2004-2005) (2007) *Ceci n’est pas une guitare (Stradivarius, 2007) *Electric Creatures (Sussidiaria, 2018) References External links *Composer Finds a Muse in the Mississippi (The New York Times) *EVBVD Music: Eve Beglarian *Recommended composers: Eve Begl

Eve de Castro-Robinson

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Eve de Castro-Robinson (born 9 November 1956 in London, England ) is a New Zealand composer, professor and graphic designer. Her compositions include orchestral, vocal, chamber and electroacoustic works. She studied at the University of Auckland, where in 1991 she became the first person to receive a DMus from the University. She is Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Auckland. A “de Castro-Robinson Portrait” concert was held at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 2004 and a 50th birthday concert was held at the University of Auckland in 2006. Besides teaching and composing, she also reviews music, speaks and broadcasts on music. She has published a number of professional articles in Canzona and Music in New Zealand. She has been Secretary of the Composers Association of New Zealand, Convenor of the Nelson Composers’ Workshop, and currently directs the Karlheinz Company, the University of Auckland’s resident contemporary music ensemble. Honours and awards *Philip Neill Memorial Prize 1987 *Auckland Philharmonia Composer in Residence 1991 *Philip Neill Memorial Prize 1993 *a pink-lit phase for flute, viola and harp *Chaos of Deligh

Evelina Petrova

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Evelina Petrova (; born 27 May 1974, in Kingisepp, Russia) is a Russian composer and accordion player. Life and career At the Queen Elizabeth Hall, I found myself listening open-mouthed to a Russian woman playing the piano accordion while making wordless vocal sounds into a microphone. Her name was Evelina Petrova and the sounds varied from whoops and bird-like twitterings to a kind of demented lamentation. God knows what it was all about, but it had me transfixed. Dave Gelly, THE GUARDIAN Evelina Petrova graduated from the Saint Petersburg Musical College and after that studied at Theater Academy in a class by titled “The Theater of Musical Improvisation”. She actively participated in all academic activities provided by Gayvoronsky. She began with ensemble performances and eventually joined Gayvoronsky in a duo. In 2002, Evelina graduated from Saint Petersburg State Conservatory with a classical accordionist degree. Since 1997, Evelina has been performing in duo with Gayvoronsky (trumpet). In October 1998 at the Firth International Astor Piazzolla Competition in Castelfidardo, Italy, the duo was awarded the special prize for original music style. In 1999, by vote of Russian music

Evgueni Galperine

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Evgueni Galperine (born 1974) is a Russian-French composer. He moved to Paris, France, in 1990. Evgueni followed in the footsteps of his father Youli Galperine, a Russian composer, and is principally known for his film music, which he often creates in collaboration with his brother Sacha Galperine. More recently, he has started to focus more on his music outside of films, culminating in the album Theory of Becoming, released on ECM Records. Biography Evgueni Galperine was born in Chelyabinsk, in the Urals, where he spent his early childhood before moving to Kyiv with his parents and his brother Sacha, who was barely one year old at the time. Four years later, the family moved to Moscow where Evgueni continued his studies, first at a conservatory and then at the Gnessin State Musical College. At the age of 16, the whole family moved to France where Evgueni studied composition at the Boulogne Conservatory. He was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris in 2000, where he studied music theory and composition. He then went on to compose for concerts, theatre and advertising. Since 2003, he has devoted much of his work to film music, first as a solo artist, then as a duo (since 2009) with

Eyvind Kang

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Eyvindur Y. Kang (born 23 June 1971) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. His primary instrument is viola, but has also performed on violin, tuba, keyboards and others. In addition to his solo work, Kang has worked extensively with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. His wife and musical partner is vocalist Jessika Kenney. Biography Eyvindur Y. Kang was born 23 June 1971 in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. His mother is the Icelandic-Canadian scholar and writer Kristjana Gunnars. He was raised in Canada, Iceland, and the United States, and has since lived and worked in countries ranging from Italy to Iceland. He studied piano and violin as a child, and as a teen played bass guitar in a reggae band. In 2014 Kang visited Vossajazz in western Norway, for a gig with Bill Frisell’s trio Beautiful Dreamers, including drummer Rudy Royston, for the opening concert. During the concert Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen joined in for a tune. Discography Solo albums *1996: Sweetness of Sickness (RGI Industries) *1996: 7 NADEs (Tzadik) *1998: Theater of Mineral NADEs (Tzadik) *2000: The Story of Iceland (Tzadik) *2002: Live Low To The Earth, In The Iron Age (Abduction) *2003: Virginal C

Ezequiel Viñao

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Ezequiel Viñao (born July 21, 1960 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine-American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School. His compositions include La Noche de las Noches (1989) for string quartet and electronics, which won First Prize at UNESCO’s Latin-American Rostrum of Composers in 1993; six Études (1993) for piano solo, which were awarded a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award in 1995; a second string quartet The Loss and the Silence (2004), commissioned by the Juilliard String Quartet and titled with a quote from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen; The Wanderer (2005) for a cappella voices, commissioned by Chanticleer and Chicago a cappella, and titled for the Old English poem of the same name; and Sirocco Dust (2009), commissioned by the Library of Congress for the St. Lawrence String Quartet. He currently resides in New York City. References External links *Official Ezequiel Viñao website *Wnyc.org: Ezequiel Viñao: An Interview *BIS Records AB: Ezequiel Viñao *New York University.edu: Ezequiel Viñao

Ezio Bosso

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Ezio Bosso (; 13 September 1971 – 14 May 2020) was an Italian composer, pianist, double bass player, and conductor. He composed film scores such as Un amore and Gabriele Salvatores’ Io non ho paura, and ballets which were performed by The Royal Ballet and the San Francisco Ballet, among others. As a pianist, he released a solo album which entered the Italian charts. Life Born in Turin in 1971, Bosso learned to read and play music before he was four and started to have his first piano lessons with his aunt who was a pianist. He studied piano, double bass, and theory at Turin Conservatorium. He also collaborated with theatre directors such as James Thiérrée and choreographers such as Rafael Bonachela. Some of Bosso’s music for piano was compared to the work of Philip Glass. Awards Bosso won several awards for his compositions, including the Australian Green Room Award and the Syracuse NY Award, and was nominated for two David di Donatello Awards. Compositions Symphonies * Symphony No.1: “Oceans” * Symphony No.2: “Under the Trees” Voices * Symphony No.3: “Four Letters” for string quartet and orchestra * Symphony No.4: “Alma Mater” * Little Symphony for a Pair of Glasses for orchestra

Fabian Müller (composer)

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Fabian Müller (*12 February 1964 in Zurich) is a Swiss composer. Biography Fabian Müller is one of the leading Swiss composers of his generation. He originally comes from Lengau in the canton of Aargau and grew up in Zurich as the son of Peter and Hella Müller-Heuer (daughter of Walter Heuer), a central figure in the area of German orthography. He first studied the cello with Claude Starck at the Zurich Conservatory, but then increasingly dedicated his energies to composition. He studied composition with Josef Haselbach at the Zurich Conservatory. After completing his studies, he spent four summers at the courses of the Aspen Music Festival (Colorado). While there, he studied with Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands and George Tsontakis. He received decisive encouragement from David Zinman, who made a recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra, London, including “Nachtgesänge” with Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman, the Cello Concerto (1999), played by Müller’s wife, the Taiwanese cellist Pi-Chin Chien and two further orchestral works. Müller’s works are played internationally by well-known orchestras and ensembles and have been heard in halls such as the Carnegie Hall in New York, the

Fabián Panisello

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Fabián Panisello (born Fabián Andrés Panisello Cuevas; in Spain, in Argentina; 11 October 1963) is an Argentinian-Spanish composer, conductor, and educator. He is the founding director of the Madrid-based PluralEnsemble and Head of Composition at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid. His works are published by Edition Peters. Education Panisello was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied composition in Buenos Aires with Francisco Kröpfl and later at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Bogusław Schaeffer (earning a Magister Artium degree in 1993 with Diploma of Excellence and Special Prize of the Austrian Ministry of Culture). He further refined his compositional studies through contact with leading composers including Elliott Carter, Franco Donatoni, Brian Ferneyhough, and Luis de Pablo. In parallel, he pursued conducting studies with Peter Eötvös and Jorma Panula. Career Composer Panisello has received commissions from orchestras, ensembles, and festivals worldwide. His works have been performed by ensembles and orchestras including the SWR Symphonieorchester, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orche

Fabien Lévy

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Fabien Lévy (born 11 December 1968) is a French composer. Biography Lévy was born in Paris, France. After having been a jazz pianist, he studied composition with Gérard Grisey, orchestration with Marc–André Dalbavie and ethnomusicology with Gilles Leothaud at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 2000. Trained in mathematics and mathematical economics (Master from ENSAE and ENS Ulm Delta, adjunct in mathematics from 1989 to 1992 and researcher from 1992 to 1994), he definitively quit science for music in 1994. In 2001, he went to Berlin on the DAAD Artist program, and in 2002 to the Villa Medici / Academy of France in Rome. In 2004, he shared the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in composition with Johannes Maria Staud and Enno Poppe. A former pedagogical advisor at IRCAM in Paris and professor of orchestration at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, he was 2006–2012 assistant professor in composition at Columbia University in New York, was 2012–2017 senior professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany, and since October 2017 has been senior professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater ‘Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’ Leipzig

Fábio Caramuru

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Fábio Caramuru (São Paulo Brazil, September 14, 1956) is a Brazilian pianist, composer and musical producer. Biography Fábio Caramuru develops two main projects: EcoMúsica Project and Tom Jobim for Piano. The EcoMusica Project has been developed by Caramuru since 2013. It is a pioneering initiative, dedicated to the Brazilian nature, that mixes his music and sounds of nature in an inventive way, with the important mission of alerting for the preservation of the environment. Through this project Caramuru already released the albums EcoMusica Dialogues between a piano and the Brazilian fauna (2015) and EcoMusica Aves (Birds of Japan) (2018), many music videos such as Cicada, Tico-tico, Bem-te-vi, Harpy Eagle, Macaws, Hidorigamo and Quero-quero (all available on Caramuru’s YouTube Channel), as well as several EcoMusica Concerts in Brazil, Japan, and Canada. In September 2020, the pianist released the video Amazonia EcoMusica Uirapuru, a legend of the forest. The video was directed by Otavio Dias, Cecilia Lucchesi was in charge of the scene research and the script was written by Caramuru himself. It was produced entirely during the social distancing period, and this new work portraits

Fabio Costa (composer, conductor)

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Fabio Costa (Fábio Ciglioni Martins Costa, 4 December 1971) is a Brazilian-born composer, conductor and pianist. He is also active as a composer of microtonal music. Early life and musical education Fabio Costa was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to an engineer father and a psychologist mother, with family roots in Portugal and Italy (Costa is a dual Brazilian/Italian citizen). He was partly raised in Germany (1982–1984). His grandfather Waldemar Ciglioni was a popular radiophonic actor in his time, and great-grandfather Armando Ciglioni, a neapolitan-song composer/impresario and violinist at the São Paulo Opera House. Costa started out musically self-taught at age 9 (piano and composition) deciding by age 14 to become a professional musician; he learned the oboe at age 16 and was active for the next 8 years as an orchestral oboist, chamber musician and soloist. He earned a bachelor’s degree in oboe performance in 1995 and after a year of oboe studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest (1995–1996),he decided to pursue a career as a conductor. Between 1996 and 1999 Costa studied at the Vienna Music Academy (opera and orchestral conducting in the class Uros Lajovic) with a scholarship

Fabio Ilacqua

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Fabio Ilacqua (born 8 October 1975) is an Italian lyricist, composer, arranger, record producer and singer-songwriter. Life and career Born in Varese to a Sicilian father and a Calabrian mother, Ilacqua studied at the Brera Academy in Milan. He started his professional career as singer-songwriter in 2007, winning the Festival and releasing his only album Ballata del dopocena. Ilacqua had his breakout thanks to the collaboration as a lyricist with Francesco Gabbani, with the songs “Amen” and “Occidentali’s Karma” respectively winning the Sanremo Music Festival 2016 newcomers competition and the Sanremo Music Festival 2017 big artist competition. Ornella Vanoni Paola Turci, and Marco Mengoni. In 2022, he produced and arranged the Francesco Guccini album Canzoni da intorto. References External links * *

Fabio Mengozzi

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Fabio Mengozzi (born May 12, 1980) is an Italian composer and pianist. Biography Fabio Mengozzi was born on May 12, 1980, in Asti. studied piano with Aldo Ciccolini, orchestral conducting and composition, masterclasses with Azio Corghi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He won several awards including: 2nd prize at “11° Concorso Pianistico Nazionale Città di Genova” (1991); 1st prize at “3° Concorso Nazionale per Giovani Pianisti Comune di Terzo d’Acqui” (1991); 1st prize at “1° Concorso Nazionale Riviera dei fiori Città di Alassio” (1992); 1st prize at “XIII Concorso Pianistico Nazionale Città di Genova” (1992); 1st prize at “Concorso Musicale Europeo Città di Moncalieri” (1992); 1st prize at “2° Concorso Nazionale di Musica per borse di studio di Tortona” (1992); 1st prize at “7° Concorso Nazionale di Esecuzione Musicale Franz Schubert in Tagliolo Monferrato” (1992); 2nd prize at “3° Concorso Nazionale di Musica per giovani interpreti Città di Asti” (1992); 2nd prize at “1° Concorso Pianistico Italiano Premio Città di Cortemilia” (1993); 2nd prize at “4° Concorso Pianistico Nazionale Carlo Vidusso in Milano” (1994); 1st prize at “Concorso Pianistico Nazionale Lo

Fabrizio De Rossi Re

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Fabrizio De Rossi Re (born 1 August 1960) is an Italian composer and librettist. He composes operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music, and performs as a pianist. Biography De Rossi Re was born in Rome. He studied at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome under and Raffello Tega. He has had also the chance to meet and study with other important figures of the Italian music, such as Sylvano Bussotti, Salvatore Sciarrino, Luciano Berio, and the jazz pianist Umberto Cesari. He teaches Elements of composition for Music education at the Conservatory G. B. Pergolesi of Fermo, and has been involved in teaching Didactics of improvisation and composition for High school teachers (organized by the Ministry of Education. ) He has been a member of the artistic association of Nuova Consonanza in Rome since 1987. As a jazz pianist, he often participated in sessions with many other soloists, balancing the heritage of classic music and jazz with the continuous research of new creative paths and sounds. His works has been recorded by Adda Records, Agenda, BMG Ariola, CNI, Edipan, Fonit Cetra, I Move, QQD, Rai Trade, RCA, Semar, and Sonzogno. Selected works Stage *Biancaneve, ovvero il perfido

Fahir Atakoğlu

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Mustafa Fahir Atakoğlu (, born 28 January 1963) is a Turkish American pianist and composer who has worked with a wide range of artists across many genres of music, ranging in style from symphonic scoring to advertising jingles. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey. Early life From the age of 7, Atakoğlu was interested in music and began playing piano and drums. Though his family intended for him to continue in the family business, his mother fostered his interest in music and through his music teacher Muzaffer Uz he was introduced to Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkey’s famous composer, pianist, script writer, and conductor. Atakoğlu studied under Rey from 1977 to 1979. He attended the Istanbul State Conservatory from 1978 to 1980. In 1980 he moved to London and for five years studied at both the London School of Music and Croydon College. He earned a degree in marketing and advertising from Croydon College in 1983 and returned to Istanbul to work as a jingle composer in the advertising sector. Career From 1987 to present, Atakoğlu has created music for commercials, news segments, and documentaries via advertising agencies including Lintas, McCann Erickson, CDP Europe, Young & Rubicam, Saatchi & S

Falz

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Folarin Falana (; born 27 October 1990), better known by his stage name Falz, is a Nigerian rapper, songwriter, and actor. He began his career in secondary school after forming a group called “The School Boys” with a friend, before launching his professional music career in 2009. Falz gained wider recognition after releasing the song “Marry Me” featuring vocals from Poe and Yemi Alade. He currently owns an independent record label called “Bahd Guys Records”. He released his debut album Wazup Guy in 2014. His second album Stories That Touch was released in 2015. He released 27 in 2017, and his fourth studio album Moral Instruction in 2019. Early life and education Falz was born in the local government area of Mushin, Lagos State, to lawyers and human right activists Funmi and Femi Falana. He was called to the bar in 2012 after graduating from the Nigerian Law School in Abuja. Falz completed his basic and secondary school education at St. Leo’s Catholic Primary School, Ikeja and Olashore International School, Osun State respectively. He is an alumnus of the University of Reading England, having graduated with an LLB honors degree in Law. In 2011, Falz released a single titled “Wahz U

Fang Man (composer)

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Fang Man () is a Chinese-born American composer. Compositions Orchestral *That Raindrops have Hastened the Falling Flowers III (In memory of Steven Stucky) for Sheng, Cello and Chamber Orchestra (2019) *Feng (Wind) for Piano, Percussion and Wind Ensemble (2013) *Deluge 洪水 for Large Ensemble with Live Electronics (2008-9) *Resurrection 重生 for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra with Live Electronics (2008-9) *Sketch 素描 for Orchestra (2008) *Noir 黑 for Orchestra (2005) *Aqua 水蓝 In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu for Large Orchestra (2003-4) *Lavender 薰衣草 for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra (2004) *Who will bell the cat? 谁去系铃 for Children Band (1998) Chamber *Lament 悲歌 for Solo Bassoon (2017) *That Raindrops have Hastened the Falling Flowers II (In memory of Steven Stucky) for Flute and Piano (2017) *That Raindrops have Hastened the Falling Flowers I (In memory of Steven Stucky) for Solo Piano (2016) *A Folktale of the Four Dragons 四龙传说 II for Solo Flute (2013) *A Folktale of the Four Dragons 四龙传说 I for Flute and String Quartet (2012) *Earth: Song Cycle for Soprano, Bass-baritone and Sextet (2012) *Tao 道 for sheng and violoncello (2009–10) *Images of 7 Flowers ANNETTE Suite 花之印象 for Organ (2006) *Ma

Farangis Nurulla-Khoja

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Farangis Nurulla-Khoja (born 1972) is a Tajik-Canadian composer, who explores timbre within her contemporary compositions of symphonic, chamber, vocal, and electro-acoustic music. Among her many honors is a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Composition in 2018. Life Farangis Nurulla-Khoja currently resides in Montréal, Quebec, but was born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan and is related to the well-known Tajik composer, Ziyodullo Shahidi. She not only earned a Ph.D. of Fine Arts in Composition (2004) from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, but has also studied at the University of California in San Diego as well as at IRCAM in Paris. Her early education was in piano at the Ziyodullo Shahidi Special Music School (1979–1990). In addition, she was a researcher in ethnomusicology at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford (1992–1993) where she studied both Tajik and Chinese music traditions. Nurulla-Khoja has studied with an international array of composers from Ole Lützow-Holm (b. 1954) to Roger Reynolds (b. 1934) and from Brian Ferneyhough (b. 1943) to Philippe Leroux (b. 1953). She was composer in residence at Fondation Royaumont (2005–06), working on the project Maqam et Créations; at the Bellagio Cen

Fausto Romitelli

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Fausto Romitelli (1 February 1963 – 27 June 2004) was an Italian composer. Life and career Romitelli was born on 1 February 1963 in Gorizia, Italy. He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory and subsequently took part in courses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Franco Donatoni and at the Scuola Civica di Milano. In 1991, he moved to Paris, where he became a student of Hugues Dufourt and Gérard Grisey. From 1993 to 1995, he was compositeur en recherche at IRCAM. Romitelli achieved successes in numerous European competitions, and his music has been performed by ensembles such as Berg Orchestra and at festivals such as the , , Steirischer Herbst (Graz), the Venice Biennale, and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. His video opera An Index of Metals (2003) was awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize by the National Association of Music Critics in Italy in 2004. He died aged 41 in Milan on 27 June 2004, following a long battle with cancer. Works 1980s *Suite for chamber ensemble, 1982 (unpublished) *Dia Nykta for solo flute, 1982 *Versilia for soprano and orchestra, 1983 (unpublished) *Lustralis for wind quintet, 1983 (unpublished) *Solare for solo guitar, 1983 *Dimensioni for 16

Fazıl Say

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Fazıl Say (; born 14 January 1970) is a Turkish classical concert pianist and composer. He is known to often play his own compositions in his concerts, on top of a repertoire that includes Beethoven, Chopin, Bach and Mozart (with Say’s own cadenzas). Life and career Say was born in Ankara in 1970. His father, Ahmet Say, was an author and musicologist. His mother, Gürgün Say, was a pharmacist. His grandfather Fazıl Say, whose name he shares, was a member of the Spartakusbund. Say was a child prodigy, who was able to do basic arithmetic with 4-digit numbers at the age of two. His father, having found out that he was playing the melody of “Daha Dün Annemizin” (Turkish version of Ah! vous dirai-je, maman) on a makeshift flute with no prior training, enlisted the help of Ali Kemal Kaya, an oboist and family friend. At the age of three, Say started his piano lessons under the tutelage of pianist Mithat Fenmen. Say wrote his first piece, a piano sonata, in 1984, at the age of fourteen, when he was a student at the Ankara State Conservatory. It was followed, in this early phase of his development, by several chamber works without an opus number, including Schwarze Hymnen for violin and pia

Federico De Robertis

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Federico De Robertis (born 5 June 1962) is an Italian musician, composer and record producer. De Robertis was born in Lucca, Tuscany. He composed the soundtrack for many movies by the Italian director Gabriele Salvatores, Puerto Escondido (1992), Nirvana (1995) and Siberian Education (2013), also for the Vanzina’s Brothers. Career De Robertis started working on soundtracks in 1991 with the director Gabriele Salvatores, then with Carlo Vanzina, as well as others. In October 2011, he founded a music group, Fede & gli Infedeli, with which he performed several soundtracks and songs of his own composition. In 2018, he authored a theme for the film Volare (film) directed by Gabriele Salvatores, and the same year he worked on the composition of the music for a multimedia art project on La rondine by Giacomo Puccini. The following year, as part of an event organized by Lucca Film Festival, the arrangements of the original music for Blade Runner composed by Vangelis. In 2020, he composed the original music for Italia Lockdown, a collective film edited by Salvatores. Selected discography Solo and Collaboration *Puerto Escondido (1992, soundtrack) *S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago (1994,

Federico Favali

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Federico Favali (born 17 June 1981) is an Italian composer of classical music. Biography Born in Pietrasanta, and raised in Lucca, he began composing as a self-taught student. In 2004, he graduated in piano from Istituto superiore di studi musicali “L. Boccherini” of Lucca, and also graduated in DAMS (fine arts) from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the analysis of the first movement of the quartet op.3 by Alban Berg. He studied composition at King’s College London, University of Birmingham (PhD), at the Conservatorio “G. Puccini” of La Spezia, at New York University-Steinhardt School. His music has been performed all over the world (Germany, England, Argentina, Indonesia, Ireland, Australia, South Korea, United States and Japan). Among his various collaborations, the one with the double bass player Gabriele Ragghianti is worth mentioning. In 2014, the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca commissioned the opera The fall of the house of Usher, inspired by the tale of Edgar Allan Poe. It was staged at the Teatro San Girolamo of Lucca on 4 May 2014. In 2015, the Municipality of Lucca awarded him as “Lucca man of the year”. In the same year, he was invited to Daegu International Contem

Federico Vindver

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Luis Federico Vindver (born 18 August 1982) is an Argentine record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. Vindver has produced along with Timbaland and worked with artists such as Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Coldplay, Yung Tory, Beto Cuevas, Tee Grizzley, Nathy Peluso, Meghan Trainor, Pablo Alborán, Brockhampton, Ludacris, the Blossom, New City and Wisin among others. He has worked on records that have earned him Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, and he was named Top 5 producer and writer by Billboard. Early life Vindver was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a young man, he left the country during its financial crisis in 2002, visiting Spain and Mexico before receiving a full piano scholarship to the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Florida. While he studied jazz at college, he learned other musical genres elsewhere. He was playing in a practice room at UM when he was approached and asked if he would play in a local African-American church. There he learned about gospel, R&B and soul. He then became interested in technology and production. “I was living in a practically destitute situation, because my parents couldn’t

Ferdinando Arnò

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Ferdinando Arnò (born in Manduria, November 29, 1959) is an Italian composer, arranger, producer and the founder of Quiet, please!, a recording studio and production company active in the recording and advertising field. Ferdinando Arnò studied jazz improvisation at Berklee College of Music in Boston. His teachers were, among others, Gary Burton, John La Porta, Tom McKinley, Charlie Banacos and Phil Wilson. Arnò was involved in jam sessions in Boston with internationally renowned musicians such as Victor Bailey (Weather Report), Tommy Campbell, Bob Gullotti, Ed Schuller, Terri Lyne Carrington, Branford Marsalis and Jeff Watts. When he completed his studies, Arnò received his diploma from Quincy Jones at the graduation ceremony. On his return to Italy he worked as an arranger and composer for television, doing films, documentaries, program theme songs, variety shows and cartoons. In that same period he arranged and composed songs for Emi, Bmg, Warner (he wrote Il Tempo sung by Ornella Vanoni), and the theater, collaborating with Jerome Savary, Dario Fo and Fiorenzo Carpi. In the nineties Arnò began composing jingles for TV commercials, an activity that was consolidated in 2000 with

Fergus Johnston

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Fergus Johnston (born 21 May 1959) is an Irish composer and member of Aosdána. Life and career Johnston was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of the physicist and political activist Roy H. W. Johnston, and studied for both a degree in music and a master’s degree in Music and Media Technology at Trinity College Dublin (MusB 1982). He also has a PhD in composition from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Initially, he had also studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin (flute with Doris Keogh, clarinet with Tim Hanafin, and composition with James Wilson). In 1985, he was invited by the European Community Youth Orchestra to write an orchestral piece under the guidance of György Ligeti. From 1989 to 1991, he was Chairman of the Association of Irish Composers. He completed his education with the English composer Robert Hanson. Johnston’s output includes works for both orchestra and smaller ensembles, some works of which include electronics, and two operas. His music has been performed at many venues and festivals including the 1985 Asolo Musica Festival in Italy, the 1996 International Society for Contemporary Music Festival, the 2001 Sonorities Festival of Contemporar

Fernando De Luca

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Fernando De Luca (born 1961 in Rome) is an Italian harpsichordist, organist, teacher and composer. Biography Fernando De Luca began his musical studies at a very young age, devoting himself first to the organ, then to the piano, obtaining his diploma in 1987 under the direction of Velia De Vita. He also studied counterpoint and basso continuo with Mons.Domenico Bartolucci, Kapellmeister of the Sistine Chapel. In 1992 he obtained his diploma in harpsichord at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome under the direction of Paola Bernardi, with the best grades and honors. The same year, on the recommendation of the Director, he received the Marcello Intendente prize from ARAM as the best diploma of the academic year. He is interested in the problem of philological interpretation of the harpsichord repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, paying particular attention to the study and practice of historical tunings. In 1994, he won first prize in the Gambi harpsichord competition of the Gioacchino Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro From 1994 to 2003, both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, he was invited by numerous Italian and foreign concert institutions such as the Gonfalone (Rome)

Fifi Cooper

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Refilwe Boingotlo Moeketsi (born 24 October 1991), known professionally as Fifi Cooper is a South African recording artist. Fifi Cooper started her music career as an R&B singer before her musical versatility saw her release her breakthrough rap single “Chechela Morago” in 2010. In 2015, she released her award-winning debut studio album 20FIFI. Early life and education Fifi Cooper is the last of three children. She had her early education in Montshiwa, Mahikeng, South Africa, where she also harnessed her ability in singing and dancing. She completed her secondary school education at Batswana High School, Mahikeng and her higher education at Boston Media House where she studied Media. Career 2008–2014: Early beginnings Fifi Cooper began singing at the age of 8 while in primary school; participating in various social extra-curricula activities. She professionally started her music career in 2008 when she made a guest appearance on Mo’Molemi’s Motzamai: Rebel With a Pause album. Her breakthrough however came in 2010 following the release of her single titled “Chechela Morago”, a rap song that received massive airplay and did well to gain her new grounds in the South African music indu

Fifty Vinc

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Fifty Vinc (born June 9, 1994 in Datteln, real name Vincent Jewell) is a German record producer and composer. Biography Vinc grew up bilingual in Lüdinghausen, as his father is a native American from New Jersey. His father was a DJ in various clubs across the United States, playing genres like Hip-Hop, Funk, and RnB music. Vinc initially attended primary school but was transferred to a special school for children with behavioral issues after the second grade. He later moved to a secondary school and subsequently attended a vocational college. In 2015, he successfully completed his specialized higher education entrance qualification. From 2017 to 2020, Vinc completed an apprenticeship as a management assistant for forwarding and logistics services before starting his career as an independent music composer and producer. Music career Vinc’s early hobby was Breaking, which led him to initially produce music for this scene. Later, he focused on producing in genres like Hip-Hop and Rap. Inspired by his idol Hans Zimmer and his passion for epic, cinematic, orchestral and trailer music, Vinc started blending modern Hip-Hop sounds with elements of film music. This unique style is a definin

Finn Robertson

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Finn Buster Robertson (born 13 September 1981) is an Australian front-end web developer who was previously a composer and music producer. Before founding his independent front end development studio based in Melbourne, he grew up in country Victoria learning to play piano, guitar, and trumpet before discovering the sounds that were possible to make with a computer. From 2000 to 2002 he made early experiments in electronic and acoustic composition at RMIT University’s Media Arts under Philip Brophy and Philip Samartzis. His works integrate electronic music sounds with traditional orchestral arrangements. Career Robertson worked in-house as Audio Director and Lead Composer for three years at Torus Games in Melbourne over which time he created the soundtracks and oversaw the Sound Design of over 10 commercially released games including * Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment * Scooby-Doo! First Frights for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment * Zoo Hospital Wii for Majesco * Monster Jam: Urban Assault for Activision * Monster Jam for Activision * Shrek Smash n’ Crash Racing for Activision * Spider-Man: Battle for New York for Activision. Referen

Flonja Kodheli

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Flonja Kodheli is an Albanian-born Belgian actress, musician, pianist and composer. Early life Kodheli was born in Tirana, Albania to parents who were both artists, as her mother Justina Aliaj was a well-known singer and actress and her father Pjerin Kodheli was a famous actor. Her brother Rubin is also associated with music and cinema being a composer for film and orchestra. The Kodheli family fled Albania in 1993 and settled in Belgium. Having played the piano since the age of eight, she pursued her studies at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons, where she received a first prize for piano and for chamber music. After finishing her studies at the Conservatoire, she became increasingly interested in acting, and attended various acting workshops in Brussels run by different Belgian filmmakers, in particular Frédéric Dumont, Yves Hanchar and Stephan Carpiaux. She attended a theatre workshop run by Boris Rabey, a professor at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, which led her to devote herself to acting, and she soon moved to Paris, France to pursue an acting career. In 2010, Kodheli played the sister of Ilir (Guillaume Gouix) in the film Beyond the Walls (Hors les murs) by David Lambert,

Florence Baschet

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Florence Baschet (born 18 June 1955) is a French composer of contemporary music. Life Born in Paris, Baschet began her musical studies at the École normale de musique de Paris and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, then in musicology, in harmony and counterpoint in Paris. She entered the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon in 1988 (SONVS department) where she studied musical composition and sound transformations by electroacoustic means. In 1991, she won the First prize in composition and computer music. She then took advanced courses at the Acanthes Center with Luigi Nono and then with Elliott Carter. In 1992, she joined the IRCAM as part of the composition and computer music curriculum. She then received numerous commissions, including from the IRCAM, Radio France, the Ensemble 2e2m and the Groupe de recherches musicales, the Festival Manca, the Festival Why Note and the Ensemble l’Itinéraire whose artistic director and composer Michael Levinas actively supported her work. She was appointed composer in residence at the M.I.A. and the from 2003 to 2005, then in 2005 in Dijon with the Ensemble L’Itinéraire and in 2006 at the Grame in Lyon. In

Frances White (composer)

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Frances White (born August 30, 1960) is an American composer. A 2004 Guggenheim Fellow, she composes for the Japanese flute instrument shakuhachi and her work includes the album She Lost Her Voice, That’s How We Knew (2015). Biography White was born on August 30, 1960, to an electrical engineer father and teacher mother, and raised in Bowie, Maryland. White composes for shakuhachi, having become interested in the instrument due to its sound. In 1999, she composed the shakuhachi/tape piece Centre Bridge, inspired by the Centre Bridge–Stockton Bridge. Michelle Nagai of Organised Sound said that “White, through a process of deep immersion in an actual sounding place, and subsequently in her recordings of that place, is able to internalise her experiences as a listener” through that piece. Another piece inspired by the bridge, Center Bridge (Dark River), premiered in 2003 at the New Jersey Symphony. Susan Van Dongen of PrincetonInfo said that “her sensuous, atmospheric compositions … blend her writing with natural and ambient sounds”. In 2004, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. White composed the album She Lost Her Voice, That’s How We Knew, released in 2015 by Ravello Records.

Francesco Cilluffo

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Francesco Cilluffo (born in Turin, Italy, January 1979) is an Italian conductor and composer. Education He graduated in Composition and Conducting with Gilberto Bosco from the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Turin after having completed a Music Degree from the University of Turin with a thesis about Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd. In 2003 he moved to London, where he completed a PhD in Composition at the King’s College London, after having been awarded a Master in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also held the position of a Composition and Conducting fellow for the Academic Year 2004-2005. Particularly important for his development as a composer were the sessions with Alexander Goehr in Cambridge and meeting Tobias Picker. His works have been performed in Italy, England, Austria, Russia, United States and Hong Kong. He has worked as assistant conductor in the United States (Lyric Opera of Chicago and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra) and Europe (Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Opera House, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg, and Teatro La Fenice, Venice). He has also attended master classes with conductors such as Michael Til

Francesco Filidei

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Francesco Filidei (born 1973) is also a composer. Life Filidei graduated from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, where he won unanimously the first prizes in organ playing and music composition. He followed advanced courses of Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacomo Manzoni, Sylvano Bussotti, and studied further with Jean Guillou in Zürich. the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Ensemble orchestral contemporain and were recorded by Radio France and Rai Tre. His opera Giordano Bruno had its world premiere in 2015 in Porto. The libretto by is based on the eponymous short story by Yevgeny Zamyatin published in 1929. In 2023 Teatro alla Scala and the Opéra de Paris jointly commissioned Filidei to create a new opera Il Nome Della Rosa based on the book by Umberto Eco. References External links * Biography of Francesco Filidei, Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc). *

Francesco Libetta

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Francesco Libetta (born 16 October 1968) is an Italian pianist, composer, writer and conductor. Biography Born in Galatone, Southern Italy, Francesco Libetta studied music in Italy (piano with Vittoria De Donno; counterpoint with Cosimo Colazzo and Igino Ettorre; composition with Gino Marinuzzi; conducting with Alberto Maria Giuri) and in France (composition with Jacques Castérède). He moved to Lecce, where he has taught Chamber Music at the “T. Schipa” Conservatory. Described as a “poet-aristocrat of the keyboard with the profile and the carriage of a Renaissance prince” (M. Gurewitsch, New York Times), he first came to the attention of piano cognoscenti after his live performance of 53 Studies by Godowsky based on the 27 Studies by Chopin. Performances included: 1990 in Galatina; then 1994/95 in Milan; Naples, Florence; 2006 in Milan; 2010 one day in Brasília. Libetta’s repertoire now encompasses a very wide range, including all of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas (performed first in Italy, 1993/94), several Mozart and Beethoven concertos, the complete Handel and Chopin works, as well as major works by Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, and Ravel. He is active as a conductor (in symphonic

Francesco Piu

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Francesco Piu (born 12 June 1981) is an Italian composer, guitarist and singer. Biography Born and raised in Osilo, in Italy’s Sardinia region, Piu began learning the guitar when he was nine years old thanks to his father, who was a bassist. As an adult, he began playing with various rock-blues groups, and in 2003, he won the Blues for Sardinia contest at the Narcao Blues Festival with his first official group, Blujuice. The following year, he was the opening act for John Mayall at the festival and took up a solo career as a one-man band, playing the acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, banjo, weissenborn, washboard and harmonica. His first musical repertoire featured acoustic covers of blues classics, as well as blues reinterpretations of rock classics by artists such as Neil Young and Jimi Hendrix. His covers also included elements of soul, funk and rock. In 2007, he released his first album, Blues Journey, for the Groove Company. After the album came out, he participated in various Italian blues festivals, performing with Guy Davis, Roy Rogers, Kevin Welch, Andy J. Forest, Bob Stroger, Eugenio Finardi, Watermelon Slim and Eric Bibb. He was the opening act for Johnny Winter, Robben

Francesco Taskayali

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Francesco Taskayali (Rome, July 4, 1991) is an Italian pianist and composer. Biography Born in Rome to an Italian mother and a Turkish father, he spent his childhood in Istanbul’s Cihangir district until the age of five years. In 1996 his parents moved to Latina, a city near Rome, where Taskayali remained until 2008, then he returned to live in Istanbul to finish school. He currently lives in Milan. He began composing music in 2004 at age 13 with the song “È Sera”. In 2010 he released his first album Emre, a collection of all the songs composed up to 18 years old, including single “Addio al Terminal”. At the age of 20, Francesco enrolled at Luiss Guido Carli university, studying for a bachelor’s degree in political science. However, unable to successfully pass the sociology exam in the first term, he decided to drop out. He has represented Italy on various occasions. In 2012, he performed in Caracas with The Orchestra of El Sistema. On 2 June in Berlin, he participated in the celebrations of the Republic Day of Italy. In 2016, he performed in Los Angeles during the Day of the Music Festival. Furthermore, on December 28, 2016, he took part in a charity concert in Tbilisi alongside N

Francis Grier

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Francis John Roy Grier (born 29 July 1955 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia) is an English classical composer and psychoanalyst. Music Francis Grier’s musical journey began at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he served as a chorister. He later became the first music scholar at Eton College and went on to be an organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge. During this period he worked under Joseph Cooper, Fanny Waterman and Bernard Roberts, Sidney Campbell and Gillian Weir. Following his studies at Cambridge, where he worked under Sir David Willcocks and Philip Ledger at King’s, he joined Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, as Simon Preston’s assistant. In 1981, at the age of 25, he succeeded Preston as Organist and Tutor in Music. During this time, he recorded numerous pieces and performed on BBC TV and radio as both an organist and chamber music pianist. Additionally, Grier commissioned contemporary composers to create new works for the choir. Throughout his career, Grier has been commissioned to compose works for various cathedral and collegiate foundations. Notably, he created a setting of Psalm 150 as a birthday gift for Queen Elizabeth II in 1996, which was performed at St George

Francisco Coll García

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Francisco Coll (born in 1985 in Valencia) is a Spanish composer. Biography Francisco Coll studied trombone at the Joaquín Rodrigo Conservatoire of Music in Valencia and the Madrid Royal Conservatory, graduating with the Honour Prize. He studied composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Richard Baker with the support of the Instituto Valenciano de la Música (IVM) Scholarship and the Guildhall Trust, and privately with Thomas Adès. He completed a master’s degree in composition with distinction in 2010, winning the Ian Horsburgh Memorial Prize for the best postgraduate composition, and currently is a Fellow at Guildhall. His first commission, “…Whose name I don’t want to remember” (2005) for double brass quintet, was premiered in Avery Fisher Hall of the Lincoln Center of New York, by Canadian Brass and the brass section of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He won the Montserrat 2006 International Week of Chamber Music Prize with El juego lúgubre for two pianos and in the following year the National Award “Valencia Crea” with La Ciudad Paranoica for ensemble of 10 players. He won the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE)’s 2008 “Carmelo A. Bernaola” Priz

Francisco Lara

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Francisco Lara Tejero (born 1968) is a Spanish composer and conductor of classical music. Early life and education Born in Valladolid, in 1968, Lara studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory where he graduated in 1990. In 1991, he continued to study composition in London at the Royal College of Music and at King’s College where he received a PhD in 1999 under the supervision of Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Music composition Lara’s music has been widely played across Europe. In 2001, he was awarded the Spanish Symphony Orchestras Association Composition Prize for “Hopscotch” and this composition was performed from 2002 to 2004 by every orchestra in the Association. In 2003, he won first prize at the International Composition Competition in Luxembourg for his piece “Dust”. Also in 2003, his Fractures for Piano and Orchestra was runner-up in the prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. In 1999, he created a Contemporary Music Festival at the University of Valladolid which is now one of the most prominent in Spain. Francisco worked very hard to achieve his goals, and was determined to play music for a long time. Conductor Lara is also the artistic director and the

François Paris

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François Paris (born 28 October 1961 in Valenciennes) is a French composer and professor. He is known for his inclusion of microtonal elements in his music. Life He studied in the conservatoire of Versailles then in the Conservatoire de Paris with Ivo Malec, Betsy Jolas (analysis) and Gérard Grisey(composition and orchestration). Meanwhile, he studied orchestral direction. François Paris has received the award of the Concours International de Composition de Besançon. Compositional Techniques François uses different forms of equal temperament in his music. Where 12 tone equal temperament is based on semitones ascending by root 2, Paris uses other root values, such as 1.2, 1.6 and 2.4, in order to stretch and shrink the temperament of the composition. Selected works Vocal music * Les Champs de l’ombre blanche, 1991 * Les Confessions silencieuses, 1995–1996 * Murs, pour quatre voix et orchestre de chambre Concerto music * L’Empreinte du cygne, double concerto pour violoncelle, piano et orchestre 1997-1998 Orchestral music * La Chair de l’aube, pour orchestre 1992 Ensemble music * Sur la Nuque de la mer étoilée, pour sept instrumentistes 1993-1994 Chamber music * Douze préludes pour qu

François Sarhan

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François Sarhan (born 30 September 1972) is a French composer, installation artist, visual artist and writer. Biography Born in Rouen, Sarhan studied composition with Guy Reibel, Philippe Manoury, Brian Ferneyhough at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1996 to 2000. Sarhan is known for his mixed and ambiguous works, which cross the accepted artforms, often confronting stop-motion animation, performance, text that he realizes himself. He has achieved international recognition over recent years, thanks to his collaboration with William Kentridge, and his solo shows like Lâchez Tout!. His works have performed and broadcast in more than 20 countries and he has received commissions from, among others, Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France. His output ranges from instrumental music, which typically employs the voice of the performer and electronic elements, to video installations, movies and shows, like The Last Lighthouse Keepers (2013). Other works of particular note include l’Nfer (2005–2006), written a narrator and 8 musicians, based on an autobiographic narra

Frank Felice

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Frank Felice (born October 13, 1961, in Great Falls, Montana) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and associate professor of composition, theory, and electronic music in the Jordan College of Arts at Butler University. Background Felice grew up in Hamilton, Montana, playing piano, guitar, and double bass in a variety of settings, including several rock bands. He attended Concordia College (Moorhead), the University of Colorado Boulder, and Butler University. Felice received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1998. Felice has studied composition under Dominick Argento, Judith Lang Zaimont, Luiz Gonzalez, James Day, Michael Schelle, and Daniel Breedon. He describes himself as “an eclectic composer who writes with a postmodern mischievousness: pieces can be comedic/ironic, simple/complex, or humble/reverent.” He is member of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, The Society of Composers Inc., and the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers. Activities and collaborations Performances and commissions Felice’s music has been performed in the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, Japan, Gre

Frank Ticheli

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Frank Ticheli ( ; born January 21, 1958) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert band works. Ticheli is a Professor Emeritus of Composition at the University of Southern California and was formerly the Pacific Symphony’s composer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998, composing numerous works for that orchestra. A number of his works have become standards in concert band repertoire. Early life and education Frank Ticheli was born on January 21, 1958 in Monroe, Louisiana. He graduated from Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas and earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Music Education from Southern Methodist University, where he studied with Donald Erb and Jack Waldenmaier. He went on to receive his master’s and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, where he studied with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, George Wilson, and William Bolcom. Grants and commissions for Ticheli’s works have come from Chamber Music America, the American Music Center, Pacific Symphony, Pacific Chorale, Worldwide Concurrent Premieres, Inc., Prince George’s Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Symphony, City of San Antonio, Stephen F. Austin State

Frankie Mann (composer)

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Frankie Mann (born 1955) is an American electronic music composer and performance artist. Mann was a part of the New York City avant-garde music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Mann was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1955 and studied electronic music at Oberlin College and Mills College, where she studied with David Behrman and Robert Ashley. Mann’s work was released by the record label Lovely Music, Ltd. Mann’s music explores electroacoustic sound structures, cultural memory, and the interaction of technology and the body. Mann’s compositions have been featured on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California, where they also had a radio show called “Black Spot Punch.” The Whitney Museum of American Art, Mann has performed with other electronic music composers such as David Behrman. References External links *

Franklin Cox

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Franklin Cox (born Charleston, Illinois, 1961) is an American composer, scholar, and cellist. Life Cox studied with Brian Ferneyhough at the University of California, San Diego, and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He is currently (2020) associate professor of theory, composition, and cello at Wright State University. His ongoing concert series, The New Cello, features his work in addition to other composers that explore new possibilities on the instrument through extended techniques and microtonality.) Cox has also been co-editor of Search: Journal for New Music and Culture since its founding in 2007. 3 Music Franklin Cox’s work advances a range of features and concepts associated with “New Complexity; his performances range widely between new music to classical and common-practice chamber works. Works with considerable recognition include Chronopolis, for solo flute (1988–89), Di-remption, for solo percussionist (1993), If on a Winter’s Night …, for solo clarinet (1988) and a landmark series of solo string compositions: the Clairvoyance set for violin solo, with a version for cello (1989), and Recoil, for cello solo (1994), along with a range of cello etudes. Cox’s cycle Spiegel

Frans Bak

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Frans Bak (born 7 February 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish composer, choral conductor, saxophonist, and pianist. He is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music and has worked as a jazz performer and composer of film music. Bak has scored commercials, short films, and feature films, including three Academy Award-nominated shorts: Ernst & The Light, Sweethearts?, and Helmer & Son. In 2016 Bak released the album Sound of North which featured new compositions plus selections from The Killing. He went on to perform the album live in Beijing’s Danish Cultural Centre in March 2017. In 2020 Bak released the album PIANO. He discovered the piano he learned to play on as a child in a Copenhagen music shop window for sale, and bought it. Playing on this piano again, he revisited his childhood years and his love of creating simple and beautiful piano melodies. In March2025, alongside Laura Illeborg, released an album entitled . It was released posthumously following Illeborg’s death in 2024. Discography * Hymn to the Rainbow (L+R, 1992) * Live in Copenhagen (Olufsen, 1993) * Natsange (Stunt, 1999) * Bossa Nuts (Stunt, 2011) * The Killing (Decca, 2012) *Doctor Foster OST (Drama Repu

Franz Danksagmüller

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Franz Danksagmüller (born 1969) is an Austrian composer and organist. Life Born in Sankt Martin im Innkreis, Danksagmüller received his first musical instructions in piano, organ and theory from his father. 1980-1988 he was a pupil of Walther R. Schuster in Passau. This was followed by studies in church music and organ with Michael Radulescu and composition with and Erich Urbanner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Between 1993 and 1995 he studied organ with Daniel Roth in Saarbrücken and then electronic music and music technology at the Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology with Karlheinz Essl Jr. at the Anton Bruckner Private University. Danksagmüller was church musician at the Karlskirche from 1990 to 1994, organist at St. Elisabeth in Vienna IV from 1994 to 1999 and teacher at the Conservatory for Church Music in Linz from 1993 to 1999. From 1995 to 2003 he also taught organ and improvisation as a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. From 1999 to 2005 he was cathedral organist and composer at Sankt Pölten Cathedral. Since October 2005 he has been professor of organ and improvisation at the Lübeck Academy of Music. Work Hi

Franz Treichler

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Francisco José Conceição Leitão Treichler Music career The Young Gods Relocating to Geneva following the demise of Jof & the Ram, Treichler formed The Young Gods with Cesare Pizzi and Frank Bagnoud in 1985. The band originated from Treichler’s sound collage experiments with a 4-track recorder and eschewed guitars in favour of a sampler, composing music from distorted guitar and classical music loops. Working with Swans member and producer Roli Mosimann, the band released 1987’s The Young Gods and 1989 L’eau rouge to critical acclaim from publications such as Melody Maker. In 1993, the band released The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill, which featured covers of Kurt Weill compositions. Treichler relocated to the New York for the recording of the band’s English-language record T.V. Sky (1992) and Interscope-debut, Only Heaven (1995). He relocated to Switzerland following the departure of the band’s second drummer, Urs Hiestand. The band has released electronic-influenced record Second Nature and Super Ready/Fragmenté in 2000 and 2007, respectively. Treichler resumed playing guitar on 2008’s Knock on Wood, as well as on the band’s 2010 and 2019 studio albums, Everybody Knows and Data Mirage

Frédéric Acquaviva

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Frédéric Acquaviva (born 20 January 1967) is a French autodidact experimental composer and avant-garde sound artist living between Paris, Berlin and London who works with voices, instruments, electronics, film and body sounds. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Karl Sczuka Prize for his music “ANTIPODES”. In 2022, “Seminal” was presented “Hors Competition” at Phonurgia Nova for the Sound Artwork of the year. Acquaviva has been prolific on the underground/experimental music scene since 1990, working with major figures of the historical avant-garde including Isidore Isou, Marcel Hanoun, Pierre Guyotat, Bernard Heidsieck, Maurice Lemaître and Henri Chopin. as well as people from a more recent experimental scene like poets-artists Jean-Luc Parant, Joël Hubaut, lettrist Broutin, poet-film maker , choreograph Maria Faustino, Maîtresse Cindy, cello Anton Lukoszewieze, violin Chihiro Ono, trombone player Thierry Madiot, pianist Mark Knoop, harpist Helen Sharp, flutist Carin Levine, Bartosz Glowacki (accordion) and mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg. As the creator of “chronopolyphonic” installations, he works on the notion of “oxymoron” and in the intersection of instrumental or voice with

Frédéric Talgorn

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Frédéric Talgorn (born 2 July 1961 in Toulouse, France) is a French composer for film and television. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris where his teachers included Sabine Lacoraet and Yvonne Loriod, but he completed his studies on his own. In 1987 he moved to the United States where he began to compose film music. He also wrote the official music to accompany the Olympic flame for the 1992 Winter Olympic Games. Notable film scores include Edge of Sanity (1989), Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990), Robot Jox (1990), Fortress (1992) and The Temp (1993). He also has an extensive catalogue of concert music, and has often conducted his own works in concert and recording sessions. He has also conducted and recorded film scores of others with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Selected works Concert Scores *Petite suite dans les idées for orchestra (Radio France commission) *Mandala for solio violin and orchestra *Concerto for Trumpet (1990, published Editions Leduc) *Olympus, for brass and percussion ensemble *Elegy for solo double bass and strings *Vinum et Sanguinem (1993, cantata for choir, soloists, and small orchestra) * Concerto for Percussion (1997) * W

Frederik Magle

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Frederik Reesen Magle (; born 17 April 1977) is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He writes contemporary classical music as well as fusion of classical music and other genres. His compositions include orchestral works, cantatas, chamber music, and solo works (mainly for organ), including several compositions commissioned by the Danish royal family. Magle has gained a reputation as an organ virtuoso, and as a composer and performing artist who does not refrain from venturing into more experimental projects – often with improvisation – bordering jazz, electronica, and other non-classical genres. His best-known works include his concerto for organ and orchestra The Infinite Second, his brass quintet piece Lys på din vej (Light on your path), composed for the christening of Prince Nikolai, The Hope for brass band and choir, his symphonic suite Cantabile, a collection of improvisations for organ titled Like a Flame, and his fanfare for two trumpets and organ The Fairest of Roses. Life Frederik Magle was born in Stubbekøbing, the son of actress and writer Mimi Heinrich and organist, painter and sculptor Christian Reesen Magle (1925–96). He is the great-nephew of the compo

Fredrik Högberg

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Fredrik Karl Kristian Högberg, born 5 February 1971 in Vellinge, Sweden, is a Swedish composer and producer. He resides in the old courthouse in Nyland, Ångermanland (mid-Sweden). Fredrik Högberg grew up in Svedala, southern Sweden, and studied at the Folk High School of Framnäs, Piteå 1987–1991. Högberg has studied composition mainly with professor Jan Sandström at Piteå School of Music (a part of Luleå University of Technology). Life and career From the early 2000 Högberg has worked mainly with works that contains multimedia, like the music film Brassbones – a brass western (2001) and the concertos Ice Concerto (2012) and The Accordion King (2014). Högberg’s work is sometimes controversial; while working with the Ice Concerto Högberg shot burning pianos being dropped from 40 metres onto the ice of Ångermanälven. He was charged with environmental crimes, which were later dropped. 2016 he wrote the music (in collaboration with singer/songwriter Nicolai Dunger) for the critically acclaimed opera Stilla min eld, inspired by the circumstances of Eva Rausings death in Belgravia, London, 2012. Högberg can be said to have embraced the instrumental theatre of the 1960s in many of his work

Fredrik Sixten

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Sven Fredrik Johannes Sixten (born 21 October 1962) is a Swedish composer, cathedral organist and conductor. Sixten was born in Skövde, Sweden. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1986) at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. He studied composition with Professor Sven-David Sandström and is now recognized as one of Sweden’s best-known composers of church music. He is published at all major publishing houses in Sweden. He was the conductor of Gothenburg’s boys choir between 1997 and 2001. Today he is the cathedral organist of Härnösand’s Cathedral. His music is represented on several CD recordings and as a conductor one of his five CDs went gold. His music has been performed on Swedish Radio, e.g. his En svensk Markuspassion for two choirs, chamber orchestra and soloists (2004). The Jazz mass was performed 1999 on Swedish television. Music Sixten writes first and foremost church music, particularly liturgical music for choir and organ in a variety of combinations. In addition he has also written a number of chamber music compositions. His music is the product of an eclectic and comprehensive knowledge of musical history, with Johann Sebastian Bach and 20th-century French composers as

Fredrik Thomander

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Fredrik Thomander is a Swedish songwriter, bassist and producer. For many years he performed in Swedish pop bands. He has written and produced songs, mainly of pop music, for various singers and bands, and he operates a recording studio in Mallorca. Early life Thomander grew up in Tångaberg. As a teenager he played in a band called White Line. Career After playing together in local bands in the 1980s, Thomander and writer Anders Wilkström continued to write songs, sometimes under the name Epicenter. Many of the pair’s songs have been recorded by pop music bands, including ATC, Dream Street, A*Teens and LMNT. Thomander recorded with Rachel Platten on her album Be Here. Thomander sang and played bass in the band Vildsvin (Wild Boar) in the 1990s. He is the co-composer of Leaving Home by Nicke Borg which was in the finals of the Swedish preselection to the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest and spent 9 weeks on the Swedish charts, peaking at #9 He played bass in the band Treat beginning in 2013. In 2016 Thomander opened Palma Music Studios in Mallorca. References External links * Palma Music Studios * Epicentre *“Fredrik Thomander - Credits”. AllMusic

Freya Waley-Cohen

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Freya Waley-Cohen (born 20 February 1989) is a British-American composer based in London. Biography Waley-Cohen grew up in an arts-oriented family. Her mother is the American sculptor Josie Spencer and her father is English theatre manager and producer Stephen Waley-Cohen. Her sister is the violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen. She began playing the violin at the age of three, and at aged 11 enrolled for a composition course at The Walden School, New Hampshire. She studied with Giles Swayne whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, and then afterwards with Simon Bainbridge and Oliver Knussen at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2016 she was a Composition Fellow at the Tanglewood Festival. Music An early composition was Dark Hour, a piano quintet with clarinet, performed at the Sage Gateshead in May 2013. The choral piece Linea was written specifically for performance inside the Princess of Wales Conservatory glass house at Kew Gardens, an installation as much as a concert piece. It was performed there by the vocal ensemble Reverie in October 2014. Similarly Permutations (2017), for six recorded violins, is also site-specific. It was written to be performed inside a specially constructed building

Friedrich Heinrich Kern

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Friedrich Heinrich Kern (born March 19, 1980) is a German composer, pianist, and glass harmonica player. Kern began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim where he graduated with a Diplom in Music Composition and Piano. His principal teachers included Ulrich Leyendecker and Rudolf Meister. Additionally, he spent one year studying traditional Korean music at Seoul National University. In 2007, he was a visiting composer at Wesleyan University. From 2008, Kern studied in New York with Matthias Pintscher and Louis Karchin. He received a MacCracken Research Fellowship and now teaches at New York University. Over the past 20 years, Kern has composed and produced hundreds of new compositions and dozens of new works. He has made lauded appearances as performer and composer in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In addition to his work with electronic instruments and media, Kern has composed works for acoustic instrumentations, ranging from soloist to full orchestra. Friedrich Heinrich Kern published his dissertation, entitled An Exploration of Compositional Technique in the Operas of Kaaija Saariaho and Christian Jost , in 2016. He teaches

Friedrich Höricke

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Friedrich Höricke (born 1963) is a German pianist and composer. Life Born in Cologne, West Germany, Höricke played his first piano recital in Cologne at the age of eleven. At the age of thirteen he was already accepted as the youngest student in the master class of Günter Ludwig at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. At the same time he attended the Cologne . At the age of 18 he won first prize at the Tomassoni Competition of the Cologne Academy of Music, as well as a prize at the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. Further training followed at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he was taught by Jorge Bolet, Gary Graffman, Mieczysław Horszowski and Seymour Lipkin. First prize at the Philadelphia Young Artists Competition followed, as well as concert engagements in America, Asia, Western, Central and Eastern Europe. He subsequently released CDs, increasingly with his own compositions for piano, or for piano and orchestra. In 1985, Höricke married the sexologist Shere Hite in New York City, where they lived together in a flat on 5th Avenue. Later Höricke and Hite moved to Germany, where they took a flat in Cologne. In 1999 the couple divorced. Höricke is cu

Frode Alnæs

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Frode Alnæs (born 3 March 1959) is a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer, known from cooperation with international artists like Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen, Arild Andersen, Jon Balke, Ole Edvard Antonsen, Ketil Bjørnstad, Henning Sommerro, Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ian Hunter, Bjørn Alterhaug, Sissel Kyrkjebø, Gustav Lorentzen, and Jan Erik Vold, and appearances in bands like Dance with a Stranger, Masqualero, Jazzpønkensemblet, and Sidsel Endresen Quartet. Career Alnæs was born in Kristiansund. After completing high school in Kristiansund, he attended the Nordmøre Music Folk High School in Surnadal 1978–79, followed by studies in Trondheim (1979–82), together with Tore Brunborg and Nils Petter Molvær. He was among the first to graduate from the Jazz program at the Trondheim Musikkonservatorium in 1982, where he received top marks in guitar playing. In 1987 Alnæs composed the music to rock opera Klæppfesk. References External links * *Dance with a Stranger Official Website

Füsun Köksal

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Füsun Köksal (born 1973) is a Turkish composer of contemporary classical music. Köksal was born and grew up in Bursa, Turkey and attended Bilkent University’s Faculty of Music and Performing Arts in Ankara from 1989 to 1996, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in music theory and composition, studying under the supervision of Bujor Hoinic. From 1996 to 2002 she lived in Cologne, Germany, where she studied composition with Krzysztof Meyer and theory with Johannes Schild, earning a Diplom Musikerin from the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 2002 she returned to Bilkent University, where she taught composition for three years. In 2004, she matriculated into the doctoral program at the University of Chicago, where she has studied with Marta Ptaszynska and Shulamit Ran. For the 2010–11 academic year she was Visiting Professor of Theory and Composition at the University of Pittsburgh. Her compositions have been performed worldwide by notable ensembles including the Ensemble Modern Academy, Ensemble Calliopée, Penderecki String Quartet, Arditti String Quartet, Pacifica Quartet, Eighthblackbird and Hezarfen Ensemble of Istanbul. Her oeuvre ranges from solo to orchestral works and is informe

Gabriel Jenks

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Gabriel Jenks (born 1981) is an American composer of concert music who has taught at Yale School of Music, Mannes School of Music, and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Biography Gabriel Jenks was formerly known as Han/Hannah Lash. Some of his earlier music appears under those names. Gabriel Jenks was born in Alfred, New York, USA on November 22, 1981, under the name Hannah Lash. He began his studies in music during early childhood, and continued to pursue music throughout his education. Jenks obtained a bachelor’s degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music in 2004, a performance degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2008, a PhD from Harvard University in 2010, and an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music in 2012. His primary teachers include Martin Bresnick, Bernard Rands, Julian Anderson, Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, and Robert Morris. Jenks was appointed to the composition faculty of the Yale School of Music in 2013. During the 2013–14 season, Jenks served as Composer in Residence with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, as well as being the Sound Investment Composer with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 2016, Jenks composed new

Gabriel Palatchi

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Gabriel Palatchi (born August 3, 1982) is an Argentinian pianist, music composer, and musical arranger who blends genres that include Latin Jazz, Tango, Funk, and Klezmer. Biography Background Palatchi was born on August 3, 1982, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before he was ten years old, he began playing the piano. He studied classical music at the Conservatorio Superior de Música Manuel de Falla in Buenos Aires and obtained a high school degree in Musical Production. In 2008, he obtained a degree in Music from the Escuela de Música Contemporánea (EMC), affiliated with the Berklee College of Music, in genres including Blues, Tango, Jazz, and Latin Jazz. He then went to Cuba and studied with pianist Chucho Valdez, which he called an “encuentro spiritual (spiritual encounter).” He traveled and performed for the next year, mostly in Mexico and Canada. Latin Jazz Net noted how the album “works the idioms and metaphors of various not-so-disparate cultures into a fine homogenous mixture that is both delightful and also quite full of surprise… a fresh look at the popular musical motifs of Argentina, Perú, Colombia, Mexico, and Cuba… The real stand-out work on this album is how Palatchi

Gabriel Pareyon

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Gabriel Pareyon (born October 23, 1974, Zapopan, Jalisco) is a polymathic Mexican composer and musicologist, who has published literature on topics of philosophy and semiotics. He has a PhD in musicology from the University of Helsinki, where he studied with Solomon Marcus and Eero Tarasti (2006–2011). He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition at the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague (2000–2004), where he studied with Clarence Barlow. He previously studied at the Composers’ Workshop of the National Conservatoire of Music, Mexico City (1995–1998), led by Mario Lavista. Composer Pareyon’s output is specially known by Xochicuicatl cuecuechtli (2011), the first modern opera in the Americas that exclusively uses a Native American language (Nahuatl in this case) as well as music instruments native to Mexico. This work was awarded by the UNESCO and the International Theatre Institute, in 2015. More recently, his Eight Songs in Nahuatl (Chicueyicuicatl), for solo voice and percussion quartet, made themselves known simultaneously on an international live tour (awarded at the Classical:NEXT Festival Schauspiel Hannover, 2022) and a series of viewings in film version (best music

Gabriel Prokofiev

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Gabriel Prokofiev (born 6 January 1975) is a Russian-British composer, producer, DJ, and founder of the Nonclassical record label and nightclub. He has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and his works have been performed internationally by orchestras such as BBC Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, MDR Leipzig, Buenos Aires Philharmonic and Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra. Early life Gabriel Prokofiev was born in London on 6 January 1975 to an English mother and a Russian father, the artist Oleg Prokofiev, and is the grandson of the composer Sergei Prokofiev. His childhood was creative. He studied piano, horn, trumpet, and sang choral music. Resisting the pressure to embark on a classical career, he instead started writing songs and joined a pop band at age ten. Inspired by the electronic dance music of the 90s but also wanting to compose classical music, Prokofiev decided to focus on the sub-genre of electroacoustic music during his student years. Enticed by the impressive BEAST (Birmingham Electro Acoustic Sound Theatre), founded by the renowned composer Jonty Harrison, Prokofiev studied at the University of Birmingham. He then fo

Gabriela Lena Frank

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Gabriela Lena Frank (born September 26, 1972) is an American pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Gabriela Lena Frank was born in Berkeley, California, United States. Her father is of Lithuanian Jewish heritage and her mother is Peruvian, of Chinese descent. She grew up in Berkeley, California. Her parents met when her father was a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru in the 1960s. Frank received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rice University and a Doctorate in Music Composition from the University of Michigan in 2001. She has studied composition with Paul Cooper, William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, and Samuel Jones. Style Frank’s work often draws on her multicultural background, especially her mother’s Peruvian heritage. In many of her compositions, she elicits the sounds of Latin American instruments such as Peruvian pan flute or charango guitar, although the works are typically scored for Western classical instruments and ensembles such as the symphony orchestra or string quartet. She has said, “I think the music can be seen as a by-product of my always trying to figure out how Latina I am and how gringa I am.” Profe

Gabriela Ortiz

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Gabriela Ortiz Torres (born 20 December 1964) is a Mexican music educator and composer. She was Carnegie Hall’s composer in residence for the 2024-2025 season, and her music is being performed by ensembles in Berlin, Vienna, London, Los Angeles and New York. Her 2024 album “Revolución diamantina” featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, and María Dueñas was nominated for four awards at the 2025 Grammys, receiving three, including best contemporary classical composition. For her works ‘Yanga’ and ‘Dzonot’ she won 3 awards at the 2026 Grammys. Biography Gabriela Ortiz Torres was born in Mexico City. Her parents were founding members of the Mexican folk music ensemble . She learned folk music at home, and then studied in Paris at the École normale de musique. She returned to Mexico City due to the illness of her mother, and studied composition there with Mario Lavista at the National Conservatory of Music. She continued her studies at the Guildhall School with Robert Saxton, and with Simon Emmerson at the University of London where she received a PhD in 1996. After completing her studies, she took a position at the National School of Music at the National Autonomous Un

Gabriella Smith

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Gabriella Smith (born December 26, 1991) is an American composer from Berkeley, California. Life Gabriella Smith was born December 26, 1991, in Berkeley, California. As a teenager, she was very interested in biology, ecology, and conservation, and she spent five years volunteering on a songbird research project in Point Reyes, California. Smith began learning the violin at age seven and began composing soon thereafter. She received her Bachelors of Music in composition from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2013 where she studied with David Ludwig. She attended Princeton University for graduate school Oslo, Norway; and Seattle, USA. In January 2019, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by John Adams, performed the piece as part of its centennial season. In 2023, the piece was performed by Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Nobel Prize Concert. Her string quartet Carrot Revolution was written in 2015 for the Aizuri Quartet, having been commissioned by the Barnes Foundation for their exhibition The Order of Things. In November 2019, it was performed by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a part of their Green Umbrella concert

Gaël Liardon

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Gaël Liardon (18 December 1973 – 21 October 2018) was a Swiss classical keyboard player, composer and academic. Born in Lausanne, he studied harpsichord, organ and continuo playing with and , piano with , and improvisation with Rudolf Lutz. He has been organist of the church of Villamont, Lausanne, from 1995. and also participated in the creation of the research group on improvisation of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. in Geneva. References External links * * Festival de musique improvisée, Lausanne on RTS * Gaël Liardon France-orgue * Gaël Liardon IMSLP * Gaël Liardon: Les psaumes de Didier Poncet (1611). Etude d’un style polyphonique hors norme. (thesis) * Enquête sur la disparition de l’improvisation au XVIIIe siècle by Gaël Liardon on Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance * Gaël Liardon - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland YouTube * Gaël Liardon: Sonne der Gerechtigkeit IMLSP

Gael Rakotondrabe

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Gael Rakotondrabe (born 20 July 1984) is a French pianist, composer, and jazz musician. He achieved recognition by winning the First Prize in the piano competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2008. Biography Gael Rakotondrabe was raised on the island of Réunion in a musically inclined family (he is René Lacaille’s great nephew). At the age of 11, he took up the piano. He acquired his diploma from the Regional Conservatory at the age of 17, simultaneously securing the 3rd Prize in the “Pian’Austral Jazz” competition—a regional piano competition featuring participants from Indian Ocean countries. Alain Jean-Marie presided as head of the jury for the competition. In 2001, Gael Rakotondrabe enrolled in the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris, where he studied with Bernard Maury, the academy’s founder. In 2004, he graduated from both the Bill Evans Piano Academy and the jazz department of the Nadia and Lily Boulanger Conservatory. Concurrently, he pursued studies in classical composition and harmony under Isabelle Duha at the Issy-les-Moulineaux Conservatory. Rakotondrabe’s musical pursuits encompassed various jazz formations, including a quintet dedicated to the tribute of Horace Si

Galina Grigorjeva

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Galina Grigorjeva (, born 2 December 1962 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is an Estonian composer of Ukrainian origin. She studied at Odesa Conservatory, and in 1991 she graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatory. Grigorjeva has received a number of awards, including the Heino Eller Music Prize and the Lepo Sumera Composer Prize, and in 2015 her CD “In Paradisum” won the prize for best classical album at the Eesti Muusikaauhinnad (Estonian Music Prize). Musical Style Although a contemporary composer, Grigorjeva’s music uses the subtle and animated melodic styles reflecting influences from early European polyphony and Slavonic sacred music. Choral compositions are deeply rooted in the traditions of the Orthodox Church and ancient Russian and Slavonic folklore. Works * Poly-phonie for piano (1998) * Na ishod (1999) * Con misterio (2001) * Recitativo accompagnato (2003) * There Is a Time for Autumn for 6 percussionists (2004) * Hocetus (2004) * Valge prelüüd (White Prelude: Imitating Monsieur Couperin) for baroque viola (2006) * Aria (2007) * Ad infinitum (2008) * Schwarz-weiß Prelude for piano and cello (2009) * Nox vitae for mixed choir (2010) * In Paradisum References

Galy Galiano

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Carmelo Galiano Cotes, better known as Galy Galiano (Chiriguaná, Cesar, Colombia, 10 February 1958), is a Colombian composer and singer of romantic and tropical music. He was the first Colombian artist to appear in Billboard with three songs in a single listing. Biography He formed his first musical group Los Diamantes del Cesar with friends in the neighborhood where he played bass and composed songs. He currently resides in Chia, Cundinamarca. Discography * 1981: Frío De Ausencia - Coldness Of Absence * 1981: Galy Galiano * 1983: Alma Solitaria - Lonely soul * 1985: A Manos Llenas - Hand over fist * 1986: Brindemos - We offer * 1988: Celoso - Jealous * 1990: Dos Corazones - Two Hearts * 1991: Tu Amor Es Fuego - Your Love Is Fire * 1992: Solo Salsa - Just Salsa * 1993: Tres Palabras - Three Words * 1993: Sin Fronteras - Without Borders * 1994: Mi Son Latino - My Son Latino * 1994: Amor De Primavera - Spring Love * 1996: Me Bebí Tu Recuerdo - I Drink Your Memory * 1997: Deseos - Wishes * 1997: Bebiendo Para Olvidar - Drinking To Forget * 1998: No Volveré A Casarme - : I Will Not Get Married Again * 2000: Galy Galiano * 2001: El Sentimental De La Salsa - The Sentimental Of The Salsa

Gao Ping

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Gao Ping (; born Chengdu, 1970) is a Chinese composer and professor of composition at Chinese University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen School of Music. He taught composition at the Conservatory of Music at Capital Normal University in Beijing, the University of Canterbury, New Zealand School of Music (Wellington), and University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand. Early life He was born in Sichuan province where he grew up as a young pianist at Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, Gao Ping was affected by China’s concurrent transformation from a collective to a market economy. Career Gao gained his D.Music in composition from the University of Cincinnati. He is professor in composition at the Conservatory of Music at Capital Normal University in Beijing. He holds a guest professorship at the China Conservatory. From 2005 he taught composition at the School of Music at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand. His 1988 China Record Company album Jazz in China was one of the first domestic jazz-classical albums released in China. Beijing-based musicologist and professor Li Xi’an referred to Gao Ping as a member of the “sixth generation” of Chinese composers. His last chamber music rel

Gareth Williams (composer)

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Gareth Patrick Williams (born 1977) is an Irish composer based at Edinburgh College of Art. He was the first composer in residence for Scottish Opera from 2012 to 2015. His work spans from opera and music theatre to chamber music. Career Originally from Armagh, Williams moved to Glasgow after studying music at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 2008 he was awarded his doctorate from the University of St Andrews. He taught composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland until 2012, and since then he has worked as a freelance composer. His work has been featured in the Edinburgh Festival, St Magnus Festival, Tête à Tête (opera company), Opera to Go, and the York Late Music Festival. His music has been broadcast on BBC Scotland, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Ulster, RTÉ Television, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, and CBC Radio 2 in Canada. In 2009, he was on residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, where he wrote two large music theatre pieces -A Short Treatise on Love and Miracle for the Sound Festival in Aberdeen, and Gethsemane for the 2010 Plug Festival. In August 2009 and 2010, he took part in the LibLab at Tapestry New Opera Works in Toronto, to create short operas in coll

Garik Saribekyan

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Garik Saribekyan (born 26 April 1970 in Yerevan, Armenia) is a composer and musician, band lead and founder of Nuance Jazz Band. Garik is widely regarded as one of the most notable characters on the Armenian jazz stage, and has been named Honourable Culture Contributor of Yerevan in 2014. Early life Garik Saribekyan was born in a family of musicians and has become familiar to musical instruments since early age. His father, now Honoured Artist of Armenia, has noticed his outstanding feeling of rhythm when Garik used to tap rhythmic beat sequences on a chair, who, at that time was nearly as tall as the chair itself. Due to this, many predicted his musical career as a drummer. Luckily, his music teacher gave him freedom to express and develop in the direction that he felt most passionate about. Also, Garik used to listen to his father play on tar, which influenced his music in future to contain ethnic elements. Education 1977-1984 Garik attended Yerevan Musical Secondary School after Edward Mirzoyan - piano classroom and graduated with excellence. 1988-1993 attended Yerevan state conservatoire after Komitas piano composition department and earned Graduation diploma. Career Garik’s ta

Garnet Rogers

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Garnet Rogers (born May 1955) is a Canadian folk musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario with Maritime roots. Early life Rogers was born in Hamilton, Ontario to Nathan Allison Rogers and Valerie (née Bushell) Rogers, who had moved to Ontario from Nova Scotia to find work. Rogers, along with his elder brother Stan, was raised in Binbrook, Ontario, and spent summers in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. Career Rogers began his professional career working with his brother Stan, arranging Stan’s music. After Stan died in a plane crash on June 2, 1983 (just a few weeks before Stan, Garnet and bass player Jim Morison were to tour the US), Garnet began to pursue his own career. At first, Rogers had difficulty getting a permit from the U.S. Immigration Service, which only granted one after a campaign on his behalf was launched by Odetta, The Boston Globe, and a PBS TV station in New York. While his brother’s style of writing was more traditional and often based on Canadian Maritime styles, Rogers’ style is more modern, utilizing influences from blues, rock, country/bluegrass, and classical. Rogers’ instruments include the guitar, mandolin, violin, and flut

Garrett Byrnes

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Garrett Byrnes (born December 30, 1971) is an American composer. Byrnes was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany while his father was stationed at the U.S. Army Base there, and relocated to New Jersey in the United States. He studied music composition, receiving his bachelor’s degree from the Boston Conservatory, his master’s degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and his doctorate from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Since embarking on his professional career, Byrnes has worked with numerous performers both in the United States and abroad. His music has been read and performed by ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Chesapeake Youth Repertory Orchestra, Peabody Symphony and Concert orchestras, Indiana University New Music Ensemble, Cleveland Chamber Collective, Tarab Cello Ensemble, and Tonus Percussion Group. Byrnes’ orchestral music in particular is currently gaining wider recognition. In 2004 the Indiana University New Music Ensemble premiered his Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra. Later that same year his work “Red Moon”

Gary Lloyd

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Gary Lloyd (born 1965) is a Canadian-born British composer and producer. He has composed music for productions in theatre, contemporary dance, television drama and documentary, film, art installation, son et lumiere, narrative/music works, and orchestral concert performances. He also works as a record producer, and lectures on aspects of music. He is a graduate of the University of Chester where he studied mathematics, fine art and history of art, and psychology. He lives in Chester with his partner the dancer and choreographer Bettina Carpi. Past works Past works include the theatrical scores for Jean-Paul Sartre’s ‘Huis Clos’ (No Way Out) (2001) and Arthur Kopit’s Road To Nirvana (2006) both directed by actor and director Colin McFarlane, soundtracks for the Tshukudu series of wildlife documentaries by Marianne Wilding (1998–2005), music for the contemporary dance piece Nocturne choreographed by Marc Brew (2009 and onwards including a performance at Sadler’s Wells in 2014), music for installations with the artist Michelle Molyneux (2007), and music for the contemporary dance piece Track choreographed by Paula Hampson (1997–1998). Earlier works include the soundtrack for the stage

Gast Waltzing

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Gaston “Gast” Waltzing (born 1956) is a Luxembourgish trumpeter and composer. He has created several jazz bands, including Largo and the Luxembourg National Jazz Orchestra, and has even composed music for films and television programs as well as operas combining classical music with jazz and rock. He goes by the nickname of piu. Biography Gast Waltzing was born in the city of Luxembourg on 13 August 1956. He began his music studies at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg when he was just 7 years old. He continued his classical training at the Brussels Royal Conservatoire, completing his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1982, he became professor of trumpet at the Luxembourg Conservatoire and in 1986 founded the school’s Jazz Department, which he heads. He has recorded numerous albums covering classical, jazz and dance, with groups such as “Atmosphere”, “Life’s Circle” “Largo”, all of which he created himself. As a composer, he has recorded music for the Luxembourg film A Wop Bop A Lop Bop (1989), as well as for television. The TV film The Way to Dusty Death provided an opportunity for him to compose his first orchestral movie score. Since then, he has continued to write for orch

Geert Huinink

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Geert Huinink (; born 29 April 1971) His compositions have been released under many different aliases. There is little published about him, but his name has surfaced around some influential and respected leaders in the Trance music scene. He has released tracks under Tiësto’s name and has collaborated with artists like Cor Fijneman and Daniël Stewart. Geert has also produced for a Dutch television show called “Meiden van de Wit” in 2002. Game soundtrack composition is another forte of his. Dawnseekers The Dawnseekers is one of the aliases used by Geert, along with Alco Lammers, that produced melodic and uplifting trance tracks during the early 2000s. The trademark of their tracks were the use of lush strings very closely resembling violins and beautiful horns combined with other orchestrated instruments. There were just a few tracks, “euphoric” in nature, completed during the few years that the duo were active as the Dawnseekers. Their music was picked up by Black Hole Recordings and Platipus Records. The pair of Dutch artists presumably Geert and Alco Lammers? were active in remixing as well as original productions. A track originally by Art of Trance was redone by Dawnseekers. Ph

Gemma Peacocke

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Gemma Rachel Peacocke is a composer from New Zealand based in the United States. Biography Peacocke grew up in Hamilton, New Zealand. She studied at Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand School of Music, followed by a master’s degree in composition and theory at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. In 2015 she studied at the Institute for Music/Acoustic Research and Coordination (IRCAM) in Paris. Peacocke is a doctoral student in composition at Princeton University and holds the Mark Nelson Ph.D. Fellowship. Peacocke also collaborates with directors, filmmakers and choreographers to write music for theatre, film and dance performances. Awards In 2014 and 2015 Peacocke was awarded the Creative New Zealand Edwin Carr Scholarship. Recordings *Waves & Lines by Gemma Peacocke with soprano Eliza Bagg, released on New Amsterdam Records (2019) References

Geoff Hannan

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Geoff Hannan (born 1972 in London, England) is a British composer and musician born to Irish parents. Education Hanan studied composition privately with Michael Finnissy from 1987 to 1990 before reading Music at the University of Manchester. In 2006 he was awarded a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, where, with financial assistance from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, he studied composition with film composer Brian Lock. He has attended a number of composition classes in mainland Europe with composers such as Harrison Birtwistle and Helmut Lachenmann, and participated in Brian Ferneyhough’s composition course at Royaumont Abbey (Fondation Royaumont) in 1994 and 1995. In 1998 he was joint winner of the Gaudeamus International Composers Award; in 2007 he was the recipient of the 5th Marenco International Composition Prize. In 2019 he received an Ivor Novello Composer Award for Pocket Universe. Career In 2008, he won a scholarship to study film composition at the National Film & Television School. His teachers there included Annabelle Pangborn and Peter Howell. He has composed the music for the BAFTA-nominated Take Your Partners and the multi-award-winning Kahan

Geoff Smith (music composer)

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Geoff Smith (born 1966) is an English composer, academic and university Vice Chancellor. He has written and recorded four studio albums, performed internationally and been compared to such composers as Philip Glass and Steve Reich. In August 2019, he became the Vice Chancellor and CEO of Regent’s University London, having formerly served as the Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor of Falmouth University and Head of Music & Performing Arts at Bath Spa University. Education Smith earned his BA in music from the University of Nottingham before an MPhil in Electronic Music from the University of Oxford and a PhD in composition from the University of Huddersfield (where he was supervised by the composer Gavin Bryars). He also holds an MBA in Higher Education Management from the Institute of Education at University College London. Career Along with his wife, singer Nicola Walker Smith (born 1964), he has written and recorded numerous pieces of music and published American Originals (Faber & Faber, 1995); a book of interviews with American contemporary composers such as John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Terry Riley. Although strongly influenced by American composers, much of Smith’s m

Geoff Zanelli

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Geoffrey Zanelli (born September 28, 1974) is an American composer working primarily in the medium of film, television, and video game scores. His early career was notable for scoring additional music on roughly 30 film scores written by Hans Zimmer, Klaus Badelt, John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams, Ramin Djawadi, Danny Elfman, and Steve Jablonsky including several blockbuster films. He has since moved on to more solo work, winning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special for his score to the miniseries Into the West. Aside from film and television scores, Zanelli also works with recording artists, writing arrangements for Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, Robbie Williams, The Webb Sisters, Mest and Story of the Year. He is credited as a guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist on the song “I’m Not Dead” from recording artist Pink. Early life and education Zanelli was born on September 28, 1974, in Westminster, California. He graduated in 1996 from Berklee College of Music. Career In 1994, at 19 years old, Zanelli met Hans Zimmer, believing him to be a promising young talent, Zimmer invited him to Los Angeles to join his group of film

Georg Christoph Biller

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Georg Christoph Biller (20 September 1955 – 27 January 2022) was a German choral conductor. He conducted the Thomanerchor as the sixteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach from 1992 to 2015. He was also a baritone, an academic teacher, and a composer. Active as Thomaskantor after the German reunification, Biller returned the Thomanerchor to its original focus on church music. He was instrumental in the new buildings for the choir’s boarding school, the Forum Thomanum, and in the celebration of its 800th anniversary in 2012. Life and career Born in Nebra, the son of a pastor, Biller grew up with three siblings. In 2009, he began performances of the six cantatas of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in St. Thomas and St. Nicholas in services for the feast days of the Christmas season as Bach had intended 275 years earlier. In 2012, Biller celebrated the 800th anniversary of the Thomanerchor. He had depression and a serious neurological disease that increasingly limited his motion, * J. S. Bach: Johannes-Passion, Marcus Ullmann, Gotthold Schwarz, Ruth Holton, Matthias Rexroth, Henryk Böhm, Thomanerchor, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conductor Georg Christoph Biller, Rondeau 2007 Videos

Georg Hajdu

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Georg Hajdu (born 21 June 1960) is a German composer of Hungarian descent. His work is dedicated to the combination of music, science and computer technology. He is noted for his opera and the network music performance environment Quintet.net. Biography Hajdu was born in Göttingen to Hungarian parents who had fled their country in 1956. He grew up in Cologne where he obtained diplomas in molecular biology and musical composition from the University of Cologne and the Cologne Musikhochschule, resp. A stipend by the German Academic Exchange Service enabled him to enter the graduate program in composition at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, working closely with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) and eventually obtaining a Ph.D. in 1994. His teachers include Georg Kröll, Johannes Fritsch, Krzysztof Meyer, Clarence Barlow, Andrew Imbrie, Jorge Liderman and David Wessel. He also audited classes with György Ligeti in Hamburg. In 1996, following residencies at IRCAM and the ZKM, Karlsruhe, he co-founded the Ensemble WireWorks with his wife, pianist Jennifer Hymer—a group specializing in the performance of mixed-media composition. In 1999, he produced his

Georg Klein (composer)

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Georg Klein (born 1 March 1964) is a German artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany. He has lived in Rome, Los Angeles, and Istanbul. He has worked in the fields of sound, video, and media production. Klein is a professor of sound art and director of the master’s program of Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Early life Georg Klein was born in 1964 in Öhringen, Germany. Klein began his creative studies in sound engineering and communication at the Technical University of Munich before continuing his education at the Technische Universität Berlin. He continued his education by studying the philosophy of religion, psychoanalysis, and ethnomusicology at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1991 to 1994, Klein worked as a research assistant at the Technische Universität Berlin. He focused on visualizing sound for the deaf. In both 1999 and 2000, he lectured at the Freie Universität Berlin on the relationship of music and religion. Career Transition to Composition and Sound Art In 1996, he began working as a music composer (Berlin International Film Festival) and in the following years worked in the Electronic Studio of TU Berlin on electronic and comp

George Benjamin (composer)

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Sir George William John Benjamin, CBE (born 31 January 1960) is an English composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. Biography Benjamin was born in London and attended Westminster School. He studied piano privately with Marguerite Tury from 1967–1974. He wrote his first composition at the age of nine, and took piano and composition lessons with Peter Gellhorn until age 15, after which Gellhorn arranged for Benjamin to continue his lessons in Paris with Olivier Messiaen, whom he had known for many years. Messiaen was reported to have described Benjamin as his favourite pupil. He then read music at King’s College, Cambridge, studying under Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway. Benjamin’s orchestral piece Ringed by the Flat Horizon (written for the Cambridge University Musical Society and premiered in Cambridge under the baton of Mark Elder on 5 March 1980) was performed at The Proms that August, while he was still a student, making him the then-youngest living composer to have had music performed at the Proms. The London Sinfonietta and Sir Simon Rattle premiered At First Light two years later. Antara was commissioned by IRCAM for the 10th anniversary of the Pompidou Centre in 1987 and

George Ellis (composer)

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George Ellis (born 12 February 1964) is an Australian conductor, composer and orchestrator. He presents concerts for international events with a broad range of styles from classical to pop/rock and jazz as well as presenting orchestral concerts for young audiences. He also lectures in conducting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and is a regular presenter of Sonic Journey for ABC Radio Sydney’s program with Simon Marnie. Early years George Ellis was born in Penrith in Western Sydney to Greek-Australian parents. for which he wrote songs and played bass guitar. The band was signed to Deluxe Records and were stablemates of INXS. The band played support for groups including Cold Chisel, Mental As Anything, Moving Pictures, The Angels and The Church. Education Ellis completed the Higher School Certificate at Fort Street High School in Sydney’s inner west. After The Affections disbanded, he then pursued the study of classical music full-time at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (1984). Upon graduating with a Bachelor of Music Education as Student of the Year (1987), he travelled to the USA where he studied composition at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1988) and then conduc

George Stone (composer)

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George Stone (born January 19, 1965) is a musician and educator. He had composed and arranged music for instrumental and vocal ensembles, with the bulk of his material for the big band format. He is best known for his 1990 MIDI composition CANYON.MID (“Trip Through the Grand Canyon”), which was included in the MEDIA directory in Microsoft Windows versions 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions to 2000. Born and raised in Newhall, CA, George was a product of the local music programs and teachers of the Santa Clarita Valley. He graduated from Hart High School and received his degrees from Cal State University Northridge, where he was a member of the Jazz A-Band. According to his (now defunct) website, he has collaborated with “Maynard Ferguson, Clare Fischer, Dave Grusin, Tom Scott, the American Jazz Philharmonic (SJO) and the Tonight Show Orchestra with Doc Severinsen,” and “has composed for CBS, NBC, HBO, ABC and Disney.” After graduation from Cal State Northridge he taught music at William S. Hart High School. A move to Cambria, CA, brought him to the music faculty at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA, where he currently teaches Audio Technology and Music Theory/Composition. George Ston

George-Emmanuel Lazaridis

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George-Emmanuel Lazaridis (born 1978, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a Greek classical pianist, composer and mentor. Biography Early life Born in Greece, Lazaridis started composing at the age of four. At the age of six, he began to attract public attention, appearing in various TV art programs and a special 45-minute radio broadcast on the Greek National Radio. Mentored by Yonty Solomon at the Royal College of Music in London, Lazaridis also worked with Alfred Brendel, Ruth Nye, Domna Evnouhidou, Paul Badura-Skoda, Noretta Conci Leech and Douglas Finch. Since the age of eleven, he has received prizes, honorary awards like the Jeunes Solistes D’ Europe and the Steinway & Sons Grand Prix, scholarships from the Hattori, Onasis and Levendis Foundations, the RCM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother award and the Chappell Medal 2000. He has also received a TCM Fellowship, medals from the prestigious Academy of Athens, the Worshipful Company of Musicians and many more. Solo performance and composition career Lazaridis enjoys an international career that has taken him from the United States and Mexico to Europe, Russia, Egypt, and the Middle East. During the past 20 years he has performed in some o

Georges Lentz

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Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist born in Luxembourg in 1965 and that country’s internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney, Australia. Despite his relatively small output and his reclusiveness, he is also considered one of Australia’s leading composers on the world stage. His music is inspired by the starry night sky in the Australian Outback and by Aboriginal art. He is the creator of the Cobar Sound Chapel. Life Born in Luxembourg City on 22 October 1965, Lentz grew up in the Luxembourg town of Echternach. He studied at the Luxembourg Conservatoire and later at the Paris Conservatoire (1982–1986) and the Musikhochschule Hannover (1986–1990). In 1989, he began working on a cycle of compositions titled Caeli enarrant…. His music is being recognised increasingly around the world, with performances at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Carnegie Hall New York, Kennedy Center Washington, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Sydney Opera House. Many orchestras have performed his works, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Hal

Georgia Spiropoulos

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Georgia Spiropoulos () (born in Greece, 1965) is a composer. She is also an arranger, instrumentalist, Biography She was born in Athens in 1965. “Marseille-Provence Cultural Capital of Europe 2013”, Sacem, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Paris and by herself. Her music has been released by Eole Records, Subrosa, Collection QB, ArsPublica labels and Conservatoire de Paris - Cité de la Musique. Performances and multimedia work Her works are performed internationally at Centre Pompidou, Cité de la Musique, IRCAM, Louvre Auditorium (Paris), Symphony Space (New York), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Radial System V (Berlin), Gasteig München (Munich), ZKM (Karlsruhe), AOI Concert Hall (Shizuoka), Pollack Hall, Le Gesù, Le Vivier (Montreal), Felicja Blumenthal Music Center, Hateiva Hall (Tel Aviv), Concert Hall of the Academy of Music (Krakow), Onassis Stegi, French Institut, and the Goethe Institut (Athens). She participated at festivals such as Manifeste, Agora, Ars Musica, enso Days Berlin, Présences - Radio France, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, In Transit - International Festival of Performing Arts - Berlin, Seamus, Extension, Musiques Libres de Besançon, Gegenwelten Festi

Gerald Cohen (composer)

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Gerald Cohen (born 1960 in New York, NY) is an American composer and cantor. He is currently the cantor at Shaarei Tikvah in Scarsdale, New York and is based in Yonkers. Cohen serves on the faculties of Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College. Cohen’s compositions are published by Oxford University Press, G. Schirmer/AMP, and Transcontinental Music Publications. Cohen’s music has been commissioned by chamber ensembles including: the Cassatt String Quartet, Verdehr Trio, Franciscan String Quartet, Chesapeake Chamber Music, Grneta Ensemble, Wave Hill Trio, Bronx Arts Ensemble, and Brooklyn Philharmonic Brass Quintet; by choruses including the New York Virtuoso Singers, Canticum Novum Singers, Syracuse Children’s Chorus, Zamir Chorale of Boston, Usdan Center Chorus, the Cantors Assembly of America, and the Westchester Youth Symphony. Battery Dance Company commissioned his Songs of Tagore which accompanied dance performances on tours throughout India and Eastern Europe. Cohen’s music has been performed by the Borromeo String Quartet, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Music and style Cohen’s music reflects his embracing of both Western classical traditions

Gérard Berliner

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Gérard Berliner (1956–2010) was a French actor and composer. Biography He made his debut in show business at age 13, playing small roles in film and theater, before taking drama classes taught by Claude Viriot. At age fifteen, he left his family to live with a record company secretary. Singing was his other passion—he ran a record stall at the flea market—and he had his first hit in 1974 with his song “Pour toi je veux vivre,” released by Philips (single 6009 484). He went on his first tour with the Europe 1 Podium, where he shared the bill with the Martin Circus and Georgette Plana. At the same time, he worked as an extra on television, notably in variety shows produced by Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier, such as Les Top à…, which gave him the opportunity to meet many songwriters and composers. It was on these sets that he was spotted in 1978 by Serge Lama, who had him open for his concerts. Shortly thereafter, he opened for Marie-Paule Belle at the Olympia. Four years later, his collaboration with lyricist Frank Thomas propelled him into the spotlight with the song “Louise” (from the album Gerard Berliner), which sold over 400,000 copies in 1982. Gérard Berliner was then a guest

Gérard Pape

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Gérard Pape (born April 22, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is a composer of electronic music, author, and Lacanian psychologist. He is a former student of David Winkler, George Cacioppo, William Albright, and George Balch Wilson. He became the director of Les Ateliers UPIC (now CCMIX) in 1991 and in 2015 authored a French-English bi-lingual book Musipoesc: Writings About Music that was published by Éditions Michel de Maule. Pape has lived and worked in France since the early 1990s. Biography Gérard Pape studied clinical psychology and music simultaneously at the University of Michigan, and is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst as well as a composer. After moving to France at the beginning of the 1990s, his compositions came under the influence of the Mexican composer Julio Estrada. Estrada shares with Pape an interest in psychoanalysis and focuses on what he calls “sound fantasies”—fantasies that occur “inside the head of the composer and take the form of sequences of sounds”. Pape extended Estrada’s conception by treating chaos as a formal concept. For example, in his opera-in-progress, Weaveworld, Pape “employs sudden and unpredictable patterns in streams of sound in a plasma that

Gérard Pesson

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Gérard Pesson (born 17 January 1958 in Torteron) is a French composer. Pesson studied musicology at the Sorbonne and is the composer of a number of award-winning works. Works * Affûts pour 4 percussions (2001) * Aggravations et final pour orchestre (2002) * Berceuses à bas voltage (4) pour grand orchestre (1998) * Branle du Poitou pour piano et 8 instruments (1997) * Bruissant divisé pour violon et violoncelle (1998) * Butterfly le nom, scène lyrique pour soprano, chœur d’hommes et petit orchestre (1995) * Butterfly’s Note book pour piano (1995/98) * Cantate égale pays n°1 (Jachère aidant) pour voix, ensemble et électronique (2010) * Cantate égale pays n°2 (God’s Grandeur) pour voix, ensemble et électronique (2010) * Cantate égale pays n°3 (Gd Mmré) pour voix, ensemble et électronique (2010) * Cassation pour clarinette, trio à cordes et piano (2003) * Carmagnole pour ensemble (2015) * Chansons (5) pour mezzo-soprano et 5 instruments (1999) * Chants populaires pour chœur (2008) * Colophon (ritournelle à quatre voix sur une corde) pour violoncelle (2007) * Contra me (miserere) pour ensemble vocal et instrumental (2002) * De Loup & d’estoc (bergeries sur le fil) pour 2 violoncelles (2

Gerda Geertens

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Gerda Geertens (born 11 August 1955) is a Dutch composer. She was born in Wildervank, and studied music and philosophy in Groningen. In 1981 she began the study of composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatory. Her compositions include chamber music, choir and solo singing and pieces for symphony orchestras. *Sarka song cycle for soprano and piano, 1993: no. 1. Afrika (Michaël Arnoldus Slory), no. 2. Komoto te na Egypte (Michaël Arnoldus Slory), no. 3. Sarka (Michaël Arnoldus Slory) *Nocturnal for flute, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion, 1994 *She Weeps Over Rahoon for solo piano, 1985 *Amarillis for 4 bamboo flutes (or recorders 4), 1985 *Ash and lilac , for instrumental ensemble, 1988 *Slinger, for string trio, 1989 *Contrast, for saxophone quartet, 1990 *Mexitli, Opus 1 for mixed choir and instrumental ensemble, 1981–1982, text: Theun de Vries *Split country, for violin, bass clarinet and tape, 1992 *Leave it alone, audio clip, for 15 players, 1994 *Heartland, for orchestra, 1994 *Trope, for cello, 1987 *en SeringenI, for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, harp, and percussion, 1988 References

Gereon Krahforst

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Gereon Krahforst (born 1973) is a German composer, concert organist, pianist, harpsichordist, and church musician. Training Born in Bonn, Krahforst received his first piano lessons at the age of 5; his first organ teachers were John L. Birley (Himmerod Abbey) and Markus Karas from 1987/1990 (Bonn Minster). He studied composition during his school years from 1990 to 1993 (junior studies with Hans Werner Henze and Günter Fork), then after his Abitur (from 1993) composition, piano (instrumental pedagogy) and church music with Clemens Ganz, Henning Frederichs, Günter Ludwig, Johannes Schild and Phillip Langshaw at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. He passed his with a distinction for , after which he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main Organ (KA) with Daniel Roth. He complemented his training with master classes with Marie-Claire Alain, Tomasz Adam Nowak, Jon Laukvik, Wolfgang Seifen, Peter Planyavsky, Guy Bovet and Franz Lehrndorfer. Life and work In 1985, at the age of 12, Krahforst became an organist at St Martin, Kirchsahr (Ahrweiler district); from 1989, he regularly played organ substitutes at Bonn Minster and St Josef, Bonn-Beuel. I

Gerhard Daum

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Gerhard Daum is a German composer specialising in film scores, musician and music producer. Biography Gerhard Daum, born on September 30, 1956, in the southern German city of Freiburg im Breisgau, developed an interest in music early in his childhood. He began playing the trumpet in his youth and performed with several brass bands. As a teenager, he also learned to play the guitar and piano before starting his studies in music. Daum attended the University of Music in Karlsruhe, where he graduated with a music diploma, with classical guitar as his main instrument. His studies included a semester at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria, where he focused on jazz and improvisation. Following his studies, Daum worked as a guitar teacher at the renowned Jazz & Rock School Freiburg from 1985. During this time, he also toured through Europe with his own jazz and rock ensemble, the Gerhard Daum Quartett, performing in Germany, France.., Switzerland and Austria. He later founded the music publishing company Gerhard Daum Music Edition in 1993 and his label ToneWork Records in 1995. His focus switched to film music after the Bayerischer Rundfunk offered him a job in Muni

Gerhard Präsent

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Gerhard Präsent (born 21 June 1957) is an Austrian composer, conductor and academic teacher. Professional career Born in Graz, Präsent studied from 1976 at the Musikhochschule Graz, composition with Iván Erőd and conducting with Milan Horvat. He graduated in 1982 in composition and in 1985 in conducting, in both subjects with distinction. He then taught at the institute. Until 1999 he held a composers’ workshop, responsible for 48 concert programs. From 1986 to 1992 he was an assistant to Erőd, and also to Horvat for the orchestra. In 1992 he was appointed professor for music theory, musical form, analysis, conducting, and chamber music for strings. in 1988 Präsent founded the ALEA Ensemble, an ensemble for contemporary music, and has been its artistic director. He was vice president of the Steirischer Tonkünstlerbund (Styrian Tone Arts Association) from 2003 and has been its president since 2005. He is married to the violinist Sigrid Präsent, the first violinist of the ALEA Ensemble. Himmelslicht (Heavenly Light), a concerto for trumpet, brass and percussion (1986–1987), was premiered at the festival steirischer herbst in 1987. Marcia funebre for chamber ensemble (1992) was first

Gerhard Schedl

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Gerhard Schedl (5 August 1957 – 30 November 2000) was an Austrian composer. His works included chamber works, operas, theater pieces, symphonies, concertos, and sonatas. Early life and education Schedl was born in Vienna and began composing during his childhood. In 1976 he began his professional studies with Erich Urbanner at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He graduated with distinction in 1980. Career For nearly 20 years, Schedl taught at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. Schedl had early success with his music dramatic works including his oratorio Der Großinquisitor (The Grand Inquisitor) and his opera for children Der Schweinehirt (The Swineherd). Schedl also composed chamber music and symphonic works. His compositions were played by musicians, ensembles and orchestras such as David Geringas, Dennis Russell Davies, the ORF Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble Modern. Personal life and death After a long period of severe depression, Schedl shot himself in the woods near his home in Eppstein. He was buried in an honorary grave at the central cemetery of Vienna, group 40 No. 97. Gerhard Schedl Prize In 2009 the Neue Oper Wien created a composition competition

Ghenadie Ciobanu

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Ghenadie Ciobanu (born 6 April 1957) is a Moldovan composer and politician. He served as the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Moldova from 1997 to 2001 and later as a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in the Liberal Democratic Party faction from 2010 to 2014. Ciobanu has composed symphonies, works for chamber ensembles (instrumental), choral compositions, as well as music for theatre and film. Biography Ghenadie Ciobanu was born on 6 April 1957 in Brătușeni, Edineț, Moldavian SSR. He graduated from the “Gnesin” Musical-Pedagogical Institute in Moscow (now the Gnessin State Musical College), faculty of piano (1982), and later from the “Gavriil Muzicescu” Conservatory in Chișinău, Department of Composition (1986). He is the author of more than one hundred musical works across various genres, including opera, musical theatre, symphonic music, vocal-symphonic works, choral compositions, chamber music, and music for theatre and film. His works have been performed in numerous recitals and concerts in the Republic of Moldova, Romania, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Israel, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, the United States, China, Italy, Bulgaria, Austri

Gheorghi Arnaoudov

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Gheorghi Arnaoudov (, ; born 18 March 1957) is a Bulgarian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, film, vocal, and piano music. His work has roots in minimal music. Life Gheorghi Arnaoudov was born on 18 March 1957 in Sofia, and graduated in composition with Alexander Tanev and contemporary music with Bojidar Spassov from the State Academy of Music Pancho Vladigerov. At the same time, he attended summer courses working with Brian Ferneyhough and Ton de Leeuw. His artistic career started in the early 1980s. At the same time, he did research work in the fields of electronic music, music theory and musique concrète, as well as ancient far-Eastern and ancient Greek music. He has won many international and national awards, including the Grand Prix of the European Broadcasting Union (1985), the Golden Harp Prize from Jeunesses Musicales (1985), the Special Prize of the Union of Bulgarian Composers (1986), and the Carl Maria von Weber International Prize for Music (1989). He is the author of scientific and theoretical articles in music, as well as of reviews in musical and scientific periodicals, mainly in the spheres of the aesthetics of modernism and postmodernism, communications in th

Gianluca Cascioli

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Gianluca Cascioli (born 17 July 1979 in Turin) is an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer. He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and piano with Franco Scala. In 1994, Cascioli won the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition, whose jury included Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Charles Rosen, and Maurizio Pollini. The prize included a record contract with Deutsche Grammophon, for which he recorded three CDs in his late teens. He has appeared as a piano soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and numerous other orchestras worldwide. Conductors he has worked with include Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Roberto Carnevale, Mstislav Rostropovich, Neville Marriner, and many others. His chamber-music partners have included Maxim Vengerov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Stefano Mollo, the Berlin Philharmonic Octet, and many others. He has conducted the Deutsche Kammerorchester Frankfurt, and among compositions of his to be performed are a Sonatina

Gil Grand

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Gil Grand (born Gilles Lagrandeur, January 8, 1968) is a Canadian country music singer. Since 1998, he has released three studio albums: Famous First Words (1998), Burnin (2002) and Somebody’s Someone (2006). He has charted several singles on the Canadian country singles charts as well, including the RPM top ten single “Famous First Words” in 1998. Career In 1998, Grand signed a record deal with Monument Records’ Nashville division. His debut album, Famous First Words, helped him receive three Canadian Country Music Awards nominations including Male Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year and Wrangler Rising Star. Burnin was released in December 2002. “Cry A Little,” “Break It to Them Gently,” “Run” and the title track were all released as singles. Grand earned five CCMA nominations in 2003 including Single of the Year, SOCAN Song of the Year, Video of the Year, and Best Album Graphics, and won Independent Male Artist of the Year. He released his third album, Somebody’s Someone, in March 2006. In 2006, Grand and his younger brother Jake joined forces for Raise the Roof, a tour that took them from British Columbia to Ontario, raising awareness of Ronald McDonald House Charities. Gra

Gil Shohat

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Gil Shohat (; born 7 September 1973) is an Israeli classical music composer, conductor, pianist and lecturer. Biography Gil Shohat was born in Tel Aviv. His mother is Ha’aretz theatre critic Tzipora (Tzipi) Shohat. He grew up in Ramat Gan. As a child, he attended a music program for gifted children at Tel Aviv University. His father is an Iraqi Jew. He earned his BM and MM from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University in 1991-1995. In 1995-1997, he studied piano and composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the following year studied with Alexander Goehr of Cambridge University. Shohat lives in Jaffa with his life partner. Music career His first orchestral work was performed by the Israel Chamber Orchestra when he was 18. In the army, he served as commander of the Israel Defense Forces Chamber Orchestra. Shohat has composed numerous symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber and solo compositions. Awards and recognition Shohat was named Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters of France in 2009. Selected works :Shohat’s works are published by Casa Ricordi, Israel Music Institute, Israeli Music Center, OR-TAV Music Publications and Gil Shoh

Gilad Hochman

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Gilad Hochman (Hebrew: גילעד הוכמן; born 26 July 1982 in Herzliya) is an Israeli composer of contemporary classical music based in Berlin, Germany. * S&R Washington Award, Washington D.C., USA (2017) * Cambridge Chamber Singers Composition Competition, USA – 1st Prize (2018) * Mandolin Composition Competition by Edition 49, Germany – 2nd Prize (2023) * North Carolina NewMusic Initiative Orchestral Composition Competition, USA – 1st Prize (2024) * American Viola Society – Gardner Competition for Composers, USA – 2nd Prize (2026) Grants Hochman’s work has received support from the Goethe-Institut, Austrian Cultural Forum, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, the Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund, Yehoshua Rabinovich Arts Foundation, Zfunot Tarbut, and the Ronen Arts Fund. External links * Official website

Gilda Lyons

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Gilda Lyons (born January 11, 1975, Rhinebeck, New York) is an American composer, vocalist, and visual artist who writes music that “combines elements of renaissance, neo-baroque, spectral, agitprop Music Theater, and extended vocalism”. Education and early career Lyons attended Bard College, where she studied with Joan Tower and Daron Hagen, and in 1997 received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition, Vocal Performance, and Visual Arts. She then attended the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied with Eric Moe and Anne LeBaron, and received a Master of Arts degree in Music Composition and Theory in 2001. She studied with Daria Semegen and Peter Winkler at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2005. Lyons also studied voice, first at Bard with Arthur Burrows, then privately with heldentenor Barry Busse. American Opera Projects in New York City chose her doctoral dissertation, “The Walled Up Wife” (opera, libretto and music by Lyons, 2005), for development and concert premiere. Her critically successful 2015 opera, A New Kind of Fallout, commissioned and premiered by the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh with a libretto by

Giovanni Allevi

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Giovanni Allevi (; born 9 April 1969) is an Italian pianist and composer. His song “O Generosa” is the current theme tune of the top flight of Italian football, Serie A. Biography Education Allevi attained a first-class diploma both in piano at the “F. Morlacchi” conservatoire in Perugia and in composition at the Milan Conservatory. He graduated cum laude in philosophy with a thesis entitled “Il vuoto nella Fisica contemporanea” (The Void in Contemporary Physics) and he attended the Accademia Internazionale di Alto Perfezionamento in Arezzo, under maestro Carlo Alberto Neri. In 1991, he did military service in the Italian Army Music Band. The master of the band noticed his piano talent and decided to put the piano soloist in his “inventory.” He played the Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin and the Warsaw Concerto by Richard Addinsell in his capacity as the piano soloist of the Banda during a tour in numerous Italian theatres. At the end of his military service, Allevi started presenting in concert a repertory formed exclusively of his own compositions for pianoforte while at the same time attending courses of “Bio-music and music therapy” by professor Mario Corradini, in which he

Giovanni Sollima

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Giovanni Sollima (born 24 October 1962 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy) is an Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a family of musicians and studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and composition with his father, Eliodoro Sollima, at the Conservatorio di Palermo, where he graduated with highest honors. He later studied with Antonio Janigro and Milko Kelemen at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. As a composer, Sollima’s influences are wide ranging, taking in jazz and rock, as well as various ethnic traditions from the Mediterranean area. Sollima’s music is influenced by minimalism, with his compositions often featuring modal melodies and repetitive structures. Because his works are characterized by a more diverse and eclectic approach to material than the early American minimalist composers, the American critic Kyle Gann has called Sollima a postminimalist composer. Sollima teaches at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and plays a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (made in Cremona in 1679). He has collaborated with the American poet and musician Patti Smith, appearing on her records and performing with her in concert. He also collabora

Gisle Kverndokk

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Gisle Kverndokk (born 3 February 1967 in Trondheim, raised in Skien) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Education In his teens, Kverndokk studied composition with Ragnar Søderlind. After having completed high school, Kverndokk enrolled at the Norwegian Academy of Music from which he graduated with diploma in 1994, having studied under the tutorship of Olav Anton Thommessen, Lasse Thoresen and Alfred Janson. Kverndokk has also studied at the Juilliard School in New York with John Corigliano and David Diamond. Career 1992 saw Kverndokk being bestowed with one of the main prizes of the Juilliard Composers Competition with his orchestral work Selene. For his work Initiasjon for fiolin og orkester, Kverndokk received the 1993 First Prize in the category for composers under the age of 30 at the International Rostrum of Composers held in Paris. Kverndokk has composed two solo concertos, both premiered by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra; Concerto for oboe and orchestra (1996) and Concerto for flute and orchestra (1998). His Peer Gynt Fantasi was composed for violinist Arve Tellefsen and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra for a summer concert premiere at Oslo’s Holmenkollen in 2000. Durin

Gity Razaz

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Gity Razaz is an American composer of Iranian origin. She has written music for symphony orchestra, opera, ballet, chamber ensemble, and solo instrumentalist, as well as pieces with multimedia and electroacoustic elements. Life and career Gity Razaz began her classical training at the age of seven, and graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music composition from The Juilliard School where she studied with John Corigliano, Samuel Adler, and Robert Beaser. She was the composer-in-residence at the inaugural season of National Sawdust from 2016 to 2017. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano has called her a “unique composer whose ‘Middle-Eastern roots have merged with her Western sensibilities to produce music that is both original and startling. She is on her way to becoming a major force in contemporary music.’” Her music has been described by The New York Times as “ravishing and engulfing” and possessing “an uncompromising beauty” by BBC Music Magazine. Razaz’s music has been performed throughout the United States and internationally, including at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night of the 2021 BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, The Jerome L.

Giuliano Taviani

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Giuliano Taviani (born 1969) is an Italian composer. Life and career Born in Rome, Taviani is the son of the director and screenwriter Vittorio. He started studying jazz, singing, and guitar at the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, under Giovanna Marini, and after a brief experience as a guitarist and a vocalist in the band Defaillance he enrolled at the Conservatory of L’Aquila where he graduated in composition. After composing some incidental music, he debuted as a film score composer in 1999, for Gianni Zanasi’s See You. A longtime collaborator of Francesco Munzi, in 2015 he won two David di Donatello for Best Score and Best Song for Munzi’s Black Souls. Selected filmography * See You (1999) * Now or Never (2003) * Saimir (2004) * The Lark Farm (2007) * Love, Soccer and Other Catastrophes (2008) * The Ladies Get Their Say (2009) * Generation 1000 Euros (2009) * Oggi sposi (2009) * The Woman of My Dreams (2010) * Unlikely Revolutionaries (2010) * One Day More (2011) * Escort in Love (2011) * Ex 2: Still Friends? (2011) * Viva l’Italia (2012) * Caesar Must Die (2012) * Stay Away from Me (2013) * Black Souls (2014) * Sapore di te (2014) * Wondrous Boccaccio (2015) * Torno ind

Giulio Aldinucci

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Giulio Aldinucci (born 1981 in Siena) is an Italian composer working primarily in the field of experimental electroacoustic music. His practice encompasses composition, soundscape composition, and the use of archival materials, investigating the relationship between past and present. Through field recording as both method and medium, Aldinucci problematizes the distinction between the “natural” - conceived as the contingent and unregulated sonority of environmental phenomena - and the “artificial,” understood as the product of technologically mediated processes of capture, transformation, and recontextualization. He has released albums on labels including Karlrecords (Germany), 99chants (Germany), Home Normal (UK/Japan), Time Released Sound (USA), Dronarivm (Netherlands) and Nomadic Kids Republic (UK/Japan). He has also published EPs and collaborative albums with artists such as Enrico Coniglio, The Star Pillow, Ian Hawgood, Francis M. Gri, Francesco Giannico, and Pleq. In addition to his solo and collaborative works, Aldinucci has created installations, performances and composed music for theatre, video art, experimental radio and cinema. His music has appeared in various compilat

Giulio Castagnoli

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Giulio Castagnoli (born 22 November 1958) is an Italian composer. Life and career Giulio Castagnoli was born 22 November 1958 in Rome. Castagnoli, great-grandson of the Florentine composer and pianist Edgardo Del Valle de Paz, graduated in literature (Turin University), piano and composition (Turin Conservatory) before postgraduate degrees in composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Brian Ferneyhough (1986), and at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Franco Donatoni (1987). He is currently professor of composition at the Turin Conservatory. Castagnoli collaborates with RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana as a musicologist in programs on contemporary music, leads a concert series in Turin, and is the editor of the musical review “Quaderni di Musica Nuova”. He won several international composition contexts. His one act radio opera “To the Museum” (libretto by Ugo Nespolo) got a special mention of the Jury at 1991 Prix Italia. He was selected in many other events, like the World Music Days of the ISCM in Hong Kong in 1988. Luciano Berio conducted his music. Castagnoli has also received commissions from Radio France, RAI-Italian Radio, the City of Geneva, Stamford

Giuseppe Di Bianco

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Giuseppe Di Bianco (born 17 October 1969) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, mainly of choral music. Biography Education Giuseppe Di Bianco holds degrees in Piano, Composition, Choral conducting and Music Didactics from the Conservatories of Salerno and San Pietro a Majella of Naples, graduating Summa cum Laude and Honorable Mention in Foreign Languages and Modern Literature. Enrico Buondonno, direct heir of the didactic tradition of Licinio Refice, Raffaele Casimiri, Achille Longo, started him to study the composition. His training also includes advanced courses and workshops at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and Scuola di Musica of Fiesole (Florence) with Giacomo Manzoni, Salvatore Sciarrino, Louis Andriessen, Peter Maxwell Davies, Luis de Pablo; analysis seminars with Jean - Jacques Nattiez, Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University, MA). Artistic activity Active as a pianist, teacher, and composer, with the main interest in choral composition, published by Feniarco Ed. (IT), Federcoritrentino e «Композитор • Санкт-Петербург» Publishing House and performed in Italy, the Vatican City, Europe, Russia, Japan, the Philippines, he has received numerous awards in composition

Glenn Erik Haugland

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Glenn Erik Haugland (born 29 May 1961, in New York City) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Career Throughout his career, Haugland has primarily focused on works for music theatre and electro-acoustic compositions. Experimentation through performance art, music drama and music theatre for children have also been key components of Haugland’s compositional output. Haugland’s list of works encompasses more than 100 works, including ten operas. In partnership with Heidi Tronsmo and Ståle Tråsdahl, Haugland founded the music theatre ensemble Opera Omnia in 1990. Following more than 30 music theatre productions, Opera Omnia premiered operas PoY! and Hulda og Garborg in 2000/2001. The children’s opera PoY! has seen more than 130 performances throughout Europe, while his chamber opera Hulda og Garborg has been performed a number of times domestically. Haugland has composed commissioned works for ensembles and orchestras including the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Domkantori, Raschér Saxofon Quartet, SISU, Den Nationale Scene and Agder Theatre. 2004 saw Haugland being nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize for his chamber opera Hulda og Garborg. In 2007, Haugland was bestow

Go Sakabe

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is a Japanese composer and arranger. He has provided the music for several anime series, such as Date A Live and Digimon Adventure tri., as well as television dramas and movies—especially tokusatsu—, such as the Kamen Rider series. His works also include opening and ending theme songs for many series and video games. Biography Sakabe was born in Japan, in 1982. Sakabe’s musician career started in 2005, with him involved in writing songs for other artists. In 2007, he made his debut as a series composer with the opening theme song “I Say Yes” from the season 2 of the anime The Familiar of Zero. Works Anime Television dramas Movies Video games References External links * * Discography at VGMdb * *

Goran Vejvoda

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Goran Vejvoda (; born in 1956 ) is an English-born Serbian composer, sound and visual artist, performance artist, photographer, writer and actor based in France. Early life Son of the Yugoslav diplomat who had managed to parlay his prior communist revolutionary activity (including being a foreign volunteer fighter in the Spanish Civil War as well as prominent Partisan guerrilla fighter during World War II) into a post-war diplomatic career, Goran was born in London during the time his father was stationed there as FPR Yugoslavia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. The family relocated to Rome in 1960 when his father was reassigned to be the ambassador in Italy. In 1967, the family was on the move again, this time to Paris where his father was named as the Yugoslav ambassador to France. Finally, in 1971 his father took an advisory job at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, which meant that 15-year-old Goran came to Belgrade. Activity In the early 1980s Vejvoda briefly fronted Annoda Rouge band/project with then-girlfriend Bebi Dol on vocals, Slobodan Trbojevic on bass and Vd on drums. The band never released any official material for commercial exploitation. Later, Vejvoda collaborated o

Gordon Fitzell

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Gordon Fitzell (born 1968) is a composer, concert organizer, and professor of music. His catalog consists of solo, chamber, and electroacoustic music, including open and improvisatory works. Biography Born and raised in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, Gordon Fitzell earned a dual-emphasis PhD in Music Theory and Composition from the University of British Columbia (studies with Keith Hamel and John Roeder); a Master of Music degree from the University of Alberta (studies with Howard Bashaw and Malcolm Forsyth); and a Bachelor of Music degree from Brandon University (studies with Kenneth Nichols). As a student, he attended the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Music, the Yale Summer School, June in Buffalo, the Arraymusic Young Composers Workshop, and the Banff Centre. He has attended masterclasses and short-term instruction with Beat Furrer, Salvatore Sciarrino, Jukka Tiensuu, Aaron Jay Kernis, Roger Reynolds, Martin Bresnick, Joan Tower, Linda Bouchard, and Robert J. Rosen. Career Fitzell’s music has been performed at major international festivals including the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Germany), Festival Synthèse Bourges (France), the ISCM World New Music Days (Sw

Gordon Kampe

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Gordon Kampe (born 10 September 1976) In 2008, he finished his dissertation about fairy tale opera of the 20th century at the Folkwang University of the Arts. Kampe is notably interested in the opera. Since 2009 he has written a number of commissioned works, among other for the Stuttgart State Opera (Zivilcourage. Musik für einen Platz, world premiere 2009), the Oldenburg State Theatre (ANOIA, world premiere 2012) and the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Kannst du pfeifen, Johanna, world premiere 2013). The world premiere of PLÄTZE. DÄCHER. LEUTE. WEGE. Musiktheater für ein utopisches Bielefeld took place at Bielefeld Opera in 2015. Kampe’s opera Dogville, based on the film with the same name by Lars von Trier, premiered at the Aalto Theatre in Essen in 2023. Kampe has been a professor of composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg since 2017. He lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. Compositions (selection) * High Noon: Moskitos for orchestra (2003/06) * heavy metal for flute solo (2008) * Zehn Symphonien for saxophone quartet (2011) * Spione for orchestra (2017) * Fat Finger Error for orchestra (2018) * Schummellümmelleichen, an operette for countertenor and

Gordon Kerry

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Gordon Kerry (born 1961) is an Australian composer, music administrator, music writer and music critic. Career Kerry studied composition at the University of Melbourne under Barry Conyngham. He then worked for the Sydney Festival After the retirement of Fred Blanks, Kerry was invited to become a music critic for the Sydney Morning Herald. a post he held for 18 months but left as he had too little time to compose. He then became the organisation’s musical adviser. His Clarinet Concerto was commissioned by Symphony Australia and was premiered on 21 August 2002, with soloist Francesco Celata and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder. It includes a short quotation from Kerry’s “Fioritura”, a short solo piece written for Celata. In 2012 he was Musica Viva Australia’s Composer-in-Residence. On 16 May 2012, Kerry’s opera Midnight Son was premiered at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, by Victorian Opera. Its libretto was by Louis Nowra, and it was directed by Nicki Wendt. The opera was based on the 2005 murder of Maria Korp by her husband Joe Korp’s lover Tania Herman, and Joe Korp’s subsequent suicide (it was originally to be called Korp). Principal soloists were Antoinette H

Gordon McPherson

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Gordon McPherson (born 1965) is a Scottish composer. McPherson was born in Dundee. He studied at the University of York, England, returning there for his doctorate, continuing with post-doctoral research at the Royal Northern College of Music. McPherson has composed almost 100 pieces (as of 2006). His work has been performed and broadcast widely throughout the world. Recent works have included Kamperduin, a second work for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, commissioned to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the 1797 Battle of Camperdown; Friends in Strange Places, a new chamber work recorded for the inauguration of Dundee Contemporary Arts; a second study for guitar, Miami, premiered at the Wigmore Hall in 1998 and Detours, commissioned by the Hebrides Ensemble. The Baby Bear’s Bed for Icebreaker was premiered in Vienna in October 1999 and has subsequently received performances in Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. It has also been recorded by Icebreaker on their Extraction album. Other recent works include South for the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, a seventh movement for his Handguns, a suite for Psappha, a third string quartet for the Salisb

Gordon Monahan

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Gordon Monahan (born 1956 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian pianist and composer of experimental music. He has been active since at least 1978. Along with his own work, he has performed works by other composers such as John Cage, James Tenney, Udo Kasemets and Roberto Paci Dalò. He has also created site-specific sound installations. In 1992-93 he was artist-in-residence with the DAAD in Berlin where he lived until 2006. Life and career Gordon Monahan was born on June 1, 1956 in Kingston, Ontario. He originally was interested in a being a physicist and studied physics at the University of Ottawa from 1974-1976. He transferred to Mount Allison University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 1980 after four years of study. There his teachers included Janet Hammock (piano) and Michael R. Miller (composition). After graduating he lived in Toronto for seven years, and then moved to New York City in 1987. Awards Monahan won first prize at the 1984 CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers. He is one of six Laureates to receive Governor General’s Awards for Visual and Media Arts in 2013. * 2016: Sound Artist of the City of Bonn, Germany. Notable works *Piano Me

Grace-Evangeline Mason

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Grace-Evangeline Mason (born October 1994) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Mason studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, under Professor Emily Howard and Professor Gary Carpenter, where she held a scholarship and was awarded the Rosamond Prize (2016). She began her studies at the college as a member of their Junior Department, during which time she was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. She won the 2013 BBC Young Composer Competition, formerly known as the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composer Competition, for her piece Convergence, and subsequently became an ambassador for the competition and its workshops in the following years. Following her studies at the RNCM, where she was made an associate in 2021, she studied at Somerville College, Oxford under Professor Robert Saxton and completed her doctorate at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Career In 2017, whilst still an undergraduate at the RNCM, she was co-commissioned by BBC Radio 4’s Front Row programme and The Proms to compose her work entitled River, which was written to celebrate the 300th anniversary of George Frideric Hande

Graeme Koehne

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Graeme John Koehne (born 3 August 1956), is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of tertian harmony. His orchestral trilogy Unchained Melody, Powerhouse, and Elevator Music makes allusions to Hollywood film score traditions, cartoon music, popular Latin music and other dance forms. Life and career Koehne was born in Adelaide. He completed his undergraduate and post-graduate studies at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in that city, studying composition with Richard Meale – a pupil of Winifred Burston, who had been a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni. In 1982 he won the Young Composers Prize at that year’s Adelaide Festival, gaining him national attention for his orchestral work Rainforest. In 1984, Koehne was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to work at the School of Music, Yale University. Here he studied with Louis Andriessen and Jacob Druckman. For two years of the fellowship he also took private lessons with Virgil Thomson. Until recently he also chaired the Music Board of the Australia Council and was a board member of the council. Graeme is married to former mode

Graeme Revell

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Graeme Revell is a New Zealand musician and composer. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the leader of the industrial rock/electronic rock group SPK. Since the 1990s he has worked primarily as a film score composer. Some of Revell’s best known film scores include Dead Calm (1989), The Crow (1994), Street Fighter (1994), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), The Craft (1996), The Saint (1997), The Negotiator (1998), Bride of Chucky (1998), Titan A.E. (2000), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Daredevil (2003), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), and Sin City (2005). He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director David Twohy, having scored Below (2002) and the Riddick franchise. He is an eight-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award, including the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award, and an AACTA Award winner. Biography Early life Revell attended Auckland Grammar School, where he finished his final year in 7A. As an orderly in an insane asylum in Australia in the late 70’s, he and another psych nurse, Brett Guerin, formed one of industrial music’s first bands, SPK, as an outgrowth of interest in music therapy. He spent the next decade m

Graham Fitkin

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Graham Fitkin (born 19 April 1963) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. His compositions fall broadly into the minimalist and postminimalist genres. Described by The Independent in 1998 as “one of the most important of our younger composers”, he is particularly known for his works for solo and multiple pianos, as well as for music accompanying dance. Biography Fitkin was born at Crows-an-Wra in west Cornwall on 19 April 1963. His mother, a piano teacher, encouraged his early studies on that instrument. He participated in numerous local ensembles during his childhood, and recalls starting to compose at the piano aged around 8. He later went to the Netherlands to study with the minimalist composer and pianist Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. His partner is harpist Ruth Wall, with whom he collaborates in Fitkin Wall. Music Fitkin’s work is broadly classified as minimalist and postminimalist. His works are tonal and frequently complex. Much of his writing is for the piano, including solo and multiple player works. Several of his early works, including Log, Line and Loud, were composed for the six-piano ensemble, Piano Circus. A more recent work for elec

Graham Reilly

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Graham Reilly is a British composer, known for composing television music in the UK, Europe and US. Based in his HQ Studio, Reilly has scored the music to over 1000 hours of prime time TV and Film productions in the US, UK and Europe, for all the major networks including: BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, SKY UK, Paramount+, Apple TV+. Reilly was mentored by the late Peter Waygood ex-head of Production, Air Edel Associates Ltd (London/USA). Senior Lecturer at The Royal Academy of Music (London), and Chairman of PCAM (Producers & Composers of Applied Music). Reilly has composed music for the TV series Seconds From Disaster which has been shown in over 140 territories worldwide on the National Geographic network of channels. Reel History of Britain presented by broadcaster Lord Melvyn Bragg - performed by the BBC Philharmonic and recorded at BBC Studios Manchester. The Story of Britain - BBC animation series nominated for a BAFTA. Heaven Made - BBC One - wins Royal Television Society (RTS) award for Best Daytime Programme. Dragons’ Den - BAFTA nominated TV series - BBC One/TWO. Columbia’s Last Flight - Seconds From Disaster – National Geog

Graham Tardif

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Graham Tardif (born 1957) is an Australian screen music composer. He is the composer on ten feature films directed and written by Rolf de Heer. Their most acclaimed collaboration, The Tracker (2002), resulted in an APRA-AGSC Screen Music Award for “Far Away Home” as Best Original Song Composed for a Feature Film, Telemovie, TV Series or Mini-Series (shared with de Heer) in 2002. The Tracker also provided wins at Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards (Best Music Score) and IF Awards (Best Music) for the pair. History Graham Tardif was born in 1957. He attended Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Sydney. There he met Dutch-born writer, director and producer Rolf de Heer, for whom he composed screen music on ten feature films. They first worked on de Heer’s short film, The Audition (1979), for his AFTRS diploma. Fellow composer and musicologist Cat Hope analysed Tardif and de Heer’s works including The Tracker (2002) and Alexandra’s Project (2003). * The Sparks Obituary (short, 1978) * Tasmania’s South West: a Wilderness in Question (documentary, 1979) * The Audition (short, 1979) * Tail of a Tiger (1984) * Thank You Jack (TV film, 1986) * Incident at Raven’s Gate

Graham Waterhouse

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Graham Waterhouse (born 2 November 1962) is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music. He has composed a cello concerto, Three Pieces for Solo Cello and Variations for Cello Solo for his own instrument, and string quartets and compositions that juxtapose a quartet with a solo instrument, including Piccolo Quintet, Bassoon Quintet and the piano quintet Rhapsodie Macabre. He has set poetry for speaking voice and cello, such as Der Handschuh, and has written song cycles. His compositions reflect the individual capacity and character of players and instruments, from the piccolo to the contrabassoon. Since 1998, Waterhouse has organised a concert series at the Gasteig in Munich, often playing with members of the Munich Philharmonic. His works have been performed internationally and several have been recorded. He has been awarded prizes for several of his compositions, and has been composer in residence at institutions in European countries. He achieved a PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2018. From 2020, his compositions have been published by Schott. Career Graham Waterhouse was born in London, the son of the noted bassoonist and musicologist William Water

Gráinne Mulvey

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Gráinne Mulvey (born 10 March 1966) is an Irish composer. Biography Mulvey was born in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, and studied with Eric Sweeney at Waterford Regional Technical College, Hormoz Farhat at Trinity College Dublin and Agustín Fernández at Queen’s University, Belfast. In 1999 she gained a DPhil in Composition at the University of York under the supervision of Nicola LeFanu. She currently holds the position of Professor of Composition at Technological University Dublin (formerly Dublin Institute of Technology) Conservatory of Music and Drama. In April 2010, she was elected to membership of Aosdána, the State-recognised affiliation of creative artists in Ireland. A CD Akanos & Other Works, dedicated to her recent work, was released in February 2014 on the Navona label. Style Gráinne Mulvey’s music is timbrally and rhythmically complex—a legacy of her work in the electroacoustic field. Her microtonally-inflected language derives ultimately from the natural harmonic series, placing her somewhat in the spectral tradition. As she herself has written: My music is increasingly concerned with a sense of place – with the natural world and mankind’s relationship with tha

Grant Kirkhope

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Grant Kirkhope (born 10 July 1962) is a Scottish composer and voice actor for video games and film. Some of his notable works include GoldenEye 007, Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, and Perfect Dark, among many others. He has won an Ivor Novello Award for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and a World Soundtrack Award for The King’s Daughter, as well as being nominated for BAFTA, ASCAP, and IFMCA awards. He has also provided the voice for the character Donkey Kong in many of his game appearances. Early life and education Kirkhope was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his mother, Margaret Kirkhope, worked as a music hall dancer. Kirkhope’s father, Alexander Kirkhope, was works manager of Redpath Brown steel works and was an avid music fan and exposed him to early influences such as Frank Sinatra and Glenn Miller. Kirkhope taught himself to play guitar at age 11 and is classically trained in the trumpet. Kirkhope was brought up in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire from the age of five, and attended King James’s School. Kirkhope played in various bands after leaving the Royal Northern College of Music, including Zoot and the Roots along with the saxophonist Snake Davis. Kirkhope also spent ma

Graziella Concas

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Graziella Concas (born 7 January 1970) is an Italian pianist and composer. Biography and career She started studying piano at the age of five. Later she studied piano under Franca Zinghinì-Spinnicchia at the Catania Musical Institute ‘Vincenzo Bellini’, and composition under Angela Giuffrida. She later studied with Sergio Perticaroli, Agatella Catania, Aldo Ciccolini, Vera Gornostayeva and Boris Petrushansky. She is noted especially for her recordings of 20th century works and world premiere by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Olivier Messiaen, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Aldo Clementi, Giovanni Sollima, Francesco Pennisi, Alfredo Sangiorgi, Alexis Koustoulidis, Thomas Lawrence Toscano, Marco Betta, Roberto Carnevale, Alessandro Solbiati, Giovanni Ferrauto, Marina Leonardi, Sergio Pallante. She won several awards: first prize at the ‘Avagliano’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Ennio Porrino’ Piano Competition in Cagliari; first prize at the ‘A.M.A. Calabria’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Castello Normanno’ Piano Competition; first prize at the ‘Città di Barletta’ Piano Competition; second prize at the ‘Città di Valentino’ Piano Competition; second prize at the ‘Ci

Grażyna Auguścik

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Grażyna Auguścik (born 17 August 1955) is a Polish jazz vocalist, composer, and arranger. She frequently uses Polish folk music, In 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006 she was named Best Jazz Vocalist by the European magazine Jazz Forum. Auguścik has toured all over the world. Some of her albums have been highly acclaimed and popular with jazz audiences and have consistently been placed in Top 10 Charts (e.g. by the College Music Journal). Grażyna has recorded 15 albums, including two with Urszula Dudziak, her fellow top-ranking Polish female jazz vocalist. Discography * Sunrise Sunset (Polskie Nagrania Muza, 1988) * Don’t Let Me Go (GMA, 1996) * Koledy with Urszula Dudziak (Voice Magic, 1996) * Pastels with Bogdan Hołownia (GMA, 1997) * Fragile (GMA, 2000) * To I Hola (Selles, 2000) * River (GMA, 2001) * Past Forward (GMA, 2003) * Lulajze: The Lullaby for Jesus (GMA, 2005) * The Light (GMA, 2005) * Live Sounds Live (GMA, 2007) * Andanca with Paulinho Garcia (GMA, 2008) * The Beatles Nova with Paulinho Garcia (Agencja Artystyczna MTJ, 2011) * Man Behind the Sun (EMI, 2012) * Szeptem (Agencja Artystyczna MTJ, 2016) See also * List of jazz arrangers References External links *

Greg Morrison

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Greg Morrison is a Canadian composer and writer best known for his work on the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone, written with songwriting partner, Lisa Lambert. The Drowsy Chaperone was their first collaboration. In 1999 Lambert asked Morrison to work on a musical to perform at the wedding stag party of their friends, Bob Martin and Janet Van De Graaff. Also a part of this original writing team was filmmaker, Don McKellar. That was the first incarnation of The Drowsy Chaperone. This was followed by an expanded production of the show at the Toronto Fringe festival, where Martin joined as a co-writer and performer. Greg is a graduate of the Humber College Jazz program in Toronto. He began his theatre career as musical director for the touring company of The Second City in Toronto. As well as working for The Second City, Greg composed and performed scores and musical direction for a variety of Toronto artists, most notably, playwright Karen Hines, powerhouse horror clown duo, Mump and Smoot and Canadian theatre icon Linda Griffiths. He continues to write for theatre as well as writing songs for television and film. Theater credits Composer and lyricist *The Drowsy Chape

Gregers Brinch

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Gregers Brinch (born 2 June 1964) is a Danish composer. Biography Gregers Brinch was born in Esbjerg, Denmark. He was drawn to become a composer upon watching the film Amadeus by Miloš Forman and Peter Shaffer in 1984, at the age of 20. After an initial period of aided self-study in England with the singer and composer Cecil Cope, he studied piano with Louis Demetrius Alvanis in London before moving to Hamburg, Germany to study composition with Elmar Lampson and piano with Alan Newcome and later Ulrike Bauer. Brinch’s use of a number of styles with an authentic quality stems from his wide musical background. He feels equally at home with the blues, as with the music of Beethoven or Gregorian Chants. His consistent use and exploration of tonality is supported by his finding nuances in harmony and melody which is accessible to the listener without being easy listening. Nature and drama also feature as inspirations for Brinch’s work, but it is his study of intervals that has served to lend him his own unique voice as a composer. Central themes permeating a number of his works include Human Rights and the Holocaust. His work Lieder aus Leid was 18 years in preparation before receiving

Gregor Mayrhofer

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Gregor Amadeus Mayrhofer (born 1987) is a German conductor, pianist and composer. Life and career Mayrhofer was born in Munich in 1987 and grew up in Wolfratshausen; his parents were both musicians, and he was the second of their three sons. External links * * * YouTube channel of Gregor A. Mayrhofer *

Gregory Spears

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Gregory Spears is an American composer of instrumental and operatic works that blend aspects of romanticism, minimalism, and early music. Among his best known works are the operas Fellow Travelers and Paul’s Case, as well as his Requiem. Early life and education Spears grew up in Virginia. He attended Eastman School of Music, received a master’s degree at Yale University, and earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He studied with Hans Abrahamsen and Per Nørgård while a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Career His opera Fellow Travelers, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon with a libretto by Greg Pierce, premiered at Cincinnati Opera on June 17, 2016 and has since then been produced across the United States and has garnered many positive reviews. Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times wrote: “Originality in the arts is a vague and overhyped virtue. Few works are completely original. All creative artists borrow from others, both masters they revere and contemporaries they may be in competition with. Still, originality just comes through sometimes, as the composer Gregory Spears demonstrates in his personal, boldly quirky score for the wr

Gregory Vajda

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Gregory Vajda (born Gergely Vajda; August 13, 1973) is a Hungarian clarinetist, composer and conductor. Early life and education He was born in Budapest in 1973 to bassoonist József Vajda (1947-2016) and operatic soprano Veronika Kincses. Vajda studied conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music under Professor Ervin Lukács. He was also a conducting and composition pupil of well-known composer and conductor, Péter Eötvös. Career Conducting Following performances with the Montreal Symphony in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, Gregory Vajda gained international recognition. In 2011, he was appointed the sixth music director of the Huntsville Symphony. After completing his three-year tenure as Principal Conductor, he was named Principal Guest Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony (MR Symphony) in 2014. Vajda also serves as the Artistic Director of the International Armel Opera Festival. In addition to his duties with these organizations, upcoming guest-conducting engagements during 2015-16 season include the Danubia Symphony, the Hungarian State Opera, the Pannon Philharmonic, the Szeged Symphony, the Launaudiere Festival and the Portland Festival Symphony

Gregory Wanamaker

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Gregory Wanamaker (born 1968) is an American composer, musician, and professor of music composition and theory. Education He studied at Shenandoah University from 1987 to 1991, where he received a 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Achievement, and Florida State University from 1991 to 1996. His composition instructors included Anthony Branker, William Averitt, Thomas Albert, and Ladislav Kubík. Life and career Wanamaker was born in Livonia, Michigan, and spent most of his youth in Skaneateles, New York. He is currently Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam, where he has served since 1997. Wanamaker’s commissions include works for the Society for New Music, Timothy McAllister, Akropolis Reed Quintet, PRISM Quartet, Capitol Quartet, and independent consortiums of musicians. Works Wanamaker is best known for his works that feature the saxophone as a solo instrument or as part of a chamber ensemble. His Sonata deus sax machina was premiered at the 12th World Saxophone Congress by Timothy McAllister and David Heinick in July 2000, and has served as one of the required works for the semi-final

Grigor Palikarov

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Grigor Palikarov (born 1971) is a Bulgarian conductor, composer, pianist and music educator. Early life Grigor Palikarov was born in 1971 in Plovdiv. He graduated at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music (Bulgarian State Conservatoire) where he received four master’s degrees in orchestral conducting, choral conducting, piano and composition. He studied Orchestral Conducting with Vassil Kazandjiev and Ivan Voulpe, Composition with Dimitar Tapkoff, Piano with Krassimir Taskov and Choral Conducting with Stoyan Kralev. Later on he continued his composition study during two Summer Academies in Austria with Erich Urbanner. He succedfully defended his Doctor of Music Degree in June 2017. Career In the 1998–99 season, Grigor Palikarov made his first appearance on the stage of the National Opera and Ballet - Sofia, conducting a Gala-concert with the special participation of the Bulgarian opera singer Ghena Dimitrova upon her personal invitation. Later on he has made many concerts and performances with other world famous opera singers like Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Elena Obraztsova, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Kurt Rydl, Alexandrina Milcheva, Nadia Krasteva, Alexandrina P

Grzegorz Ciechowski

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Grzegorz Zbigniew Ciechowski (29 August 1957 – 22 December 2001) was a Polish rock musician and film music composer. Ciechowski was born in Tczew. He was the founder and frontman of the band Republika, which was one of Poland’s most popular rock groups. In the mid-1980s, Ciechowski took a break from the group and formed a new band called Obywatel GC (Citizen GC), again with considerable commercial success. At least a seven-song eponymous vinyl record, Obywatel G.C. exists, released by Tonpress KAW, copyright 1986. In 1991, Republika was revived, and Ciechowski was involved with a number of other ensembles. In 1996, as Grzegorz z Ciechowa, he recorded the album ojDADAna. His ashes were buried at Powązki Military Cemetery on 4 January 2002. References External links * Grzegorz Ciechowski at culture.pl

Grzegorz Turnau

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Grzegorz Jerzy Turnau (born 31 July 1967) is a Polish composer, pianist, poet and singer. He has released eleven albums to date, including one (Cafe Sułtan) made up of his own versions of songs by Jeremi Przybora and Jerzy Wasowski, and most have enjoyed considerable chart success. His characteristic style consists of strong, clear lyrics and music composed in special keys and harmonies, using instruments such as the piano (played by himself), saxophone, violin and various horns. Influenced by such artists as Marek Grechuta and Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, his music style falls within the broad genre of sung poetry. Biography He was born on 31 July 1967 in Kraków, Poland. At age seventeen he won First Prize (Grand Prix) at The Student Song Festival in Kraków in 1984. He went on to join the Piwnica pod Baranami Cabaret, composing such hits as “Znów wędrujemy”, and released his first album, Naprawdę nie dzieje się nic (“Really, nothing is happening”) in 1991. He did participate in the Aleksander Glondys’s “Ellington po krakowsku” (“Ellington, Kraków-Style”), a concert based upon idea of notable composers of Piwnica pod Baranami playing their interpretations of Duke’s music. Other partici

Guido Mancusi

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Guido Mancusi (born 14 June 1966) is an Austrian-Italian conductor and composer. Life Born in Portici near Naples, Mancusi was the son of the Neapolitan conductor Enrico Mancusi and the Viennese singing teacher Ines Mancusi and grew up in Naples and Padua. He received his first piano lessons from his father, who was a close friend of the composer Nino Rota. After his father’s early death, his mother decided to return to her hometown of Vienna with her two children. Mancusi became boy soprano with the Vienna Boys’ Choir. After the Matura at the , he began studies in bassoon and singing at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien. During his school years he became a member of the Catholic secondary school fraternity K. Ö. St. V. Frankonia zu Wien, to which he still belongs today. Studies followed at the Vienna Academy of Music in composition with Erich Urbanner and conducting with Karl Österreicher, he received diplomas with distinction. In 1992, he became magister artium with a thesis on Paul Hindemith and founded the Baroque Ensemble Vindobona. First engagements led the Kapellmeister to the Landestheater Niederösterreich in St. Pölten and Coburg, to the Raimundtheater and the Theater an d

Guido Morini

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Guido Morini (born in Milan in 1959) is an Italian pianist, organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer. In the ensemble Accordone he performs early baroque works with singer Marco Beasley. Beasley is also the librettist for his Una Odissea, composed in 2001. His cycle Vivifice Spiritus Vitae Vis 2005, is composed on texts from the Vulgate Latin Bible. Discography :Own compositions or arrangements * Improvisando - Il jazz del Cinquecento. Paolo Pandolfo, Guido Morini, Thomas Boysen et al. GCD P30409 (Glossa) * Una Odissea (Marco Beasley, Guido Morini - Accordone & Netherlands Wind Ensemble) (2002, NBELive) * Vivifice spiritus vitae vis (“Servabo”) (Marco Beasley, Guido Morini - Accordone) (2004, Cypres) * Una Iliade (Marco Beasley, Guido Morini - Netherlands Wind Ensemble & Hilliard Ensemble) (2009, NBELive) :Performance of early music * Accordone - “Via Toledo” – Tarantelle e Canzoni alla Napolitana. ORF * Accordone I Vox clamans ORF * Accordone II L’Amore Ostinato ORF * Accordone III Il sogno ORF * Accordone IV Surprise ORF * Trigonale 2003. Accordone (Alfio Antico, Marco Beasley, Guido Morini). ORF Edition Alte Musik, ORF-CD 364. * Il salotto Napolitane Accordone ORF * S

Guillaume Connesson

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Guillaume Connesson ( ) is a French composer born in 1970 in Boulogne-Billancourt. Biography Connesson studied the piano, music theory, music history and choir conducting at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt and composition with Marcel Landowski for six years from 1989. In the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris, he studied orchestral conducting with Dominique Rouits and orchestration with Alain Louvier. As a composer, he asserts influences as various as François Couperin, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen for the Turangalîla-Symphonie and Saint François d’Assise, Henri Dutilleux for his Métaboles, Steve Reich, and also John Adams but also movie composers such as Bernard Herrmann or John Williams or the funk style of James Brown. From 2001 to 2003, he was composer in residence at the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, for which he wrote the vocal symphony Liturgies de l’ombre and the symphonic poem L’appel au feu. He is currently composer in association with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; his music is played by American and English orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphon

Guo Wenjing

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Guo Wenjing (born 1 February 1956, in Chongqing) is a Chinese composer and educator. Guo Wenjing is a contemporary Chinese composer. Unlike many Chinese composers who have studied and lived in other countries, he has only studied in Beijing. He has lived and worked in his home country for nearly his entire life with the exception of a short period of time living in New York. However, over the years he has had many works commissioned around the world. He and his music have appeared at the Beijing Music Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Holland Music Festival, New York Lincoln Center Festival, Paris Autumn Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Almeida Theatre (London), Frankfurt Opera (Germany), Konzerthaus Berlin (Germany), Kennedy Center (Washington), as well as Turin, Warsaw, etc. In addition, he is contracted by CASA RICORDI-BMG and the first composer to be contracted by People’s Music Publishing House. His music has been given high praise both at home and abroad by The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian, People’s Music, etc. 1 Biography He began attending the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing in 1978, the year of that institution’s reopening,

Gustavo Díaz-Jerez

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Gustavo Díaz-Jerez (born 27 February 1970) is a Spanish pianist and composer. Biography Gustavo Díaz-Jerez was born on 27 February 1970 in Tenerife. Díaz-Jerez studied piano with J. A. Rodriguez at the Conservatorio Superior of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and subsequently with Solomon Mikowsky at Manhattan School of Music in New York City. He has performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia, South America, the UK and the US. He has collaborated with conductors such as Ivan Fischer, Victor Pablo, Gunther Herbig, Adrian Leaper, José R. Encinar, Festival de La Roque-d’Anthéron, Quincena Musical Donostiarra, Festival Internacional de Santander, among others. He studied composition with Giampaolo Bracali and Ludmila Ulehla at Manhattan School of Music. His compositional language may be defined as “algorithmic spectralism”, merging elements of the spectralist movement (Grisey, Murail, Radulescu, etc.), in which timbre plays a fundamental role, with processes derived from mathematical disciplines such as cellular automata, L-systems, fractals, genetic algorithms, number theory, spectrum analysis, additive synthesis, psychoacoustics, etc. Needless to say, the use of the computer is indispensa

Guto Puw

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Guto Pryderi Puw (born 1971) is a Welsh composer, university lecturer and conductor. He is considered to be one of the most prominent Welsh composers of his generation and a key figure in current Welsh music. Puw studied music composition at Bangor University with John Pickard, Andrew Lewis and Pwyll ap Siôn. Puw was awarded with a MMus degree in 1996 and a PhD degree in 2002. He was the founding member and conductor for , a Welsh-language choir based in Y Felinheli near Bangor. Puw has received commissions from (amongst others) BBC Radio 3, the Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams, the Bangor New Music Festival and the North Wales International Music Festival. He was a founding member and the artistic director of the Bangor Music Festival, a festival for new music in north Wales founded in 2000. He received the Tlws y Cerddor award from the Welsh Music Guild. Music Welsh links Puw’s music is rooted in the language and literature of Wales, with a particular affinity to the poetry of R. S. Thomas. Welsh titles and settings of poetry in Welsh, such as Mecanwaith, Dawns y Sêr, and … onyt agoraf y drws …, feature in his work. He has won the Composer’s Medal at the National Eisteddfod

Guy Michelmore

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Guy Alford Michelmore (born August 1957) is an English film and television composer and former television news presenter. Early life Guy Alford Michelmore was born in August 1957. Michelmore is the son of BBC presenters Cliff Michelmore and Jean Metcalfe. His mother Jean was the presenter of Family Favourites and Woman’s Hour. His father Cliff was best known for the BBC television programme Tonight. Cliff once interviewed himself, and asked whether either his son or daughter had shown any interest in television – Cliff answered by saying that ten-year-old Guy was “at that point where he is fascinated and interested in all things… even his father’s job!” Michelmore was educated at the independent St John’s School in Leatherhead, Surrey and Pembroke College, Oxford. News presenter Michelmore began reporting on Anglia TV’s About Anglia before joining the BBC programme Newsroom South East in 1993. He left the programme to be replaced by Tim Ewart from ITN. Michelmore famously spilt his drink all over himself and his desk before going into a live link on Newsroom South East. The incident was shown on the BBC’s Auntie’s Bloomers outtakes show. Composer Michelmore is a composer of music

Guy-Roger Duvert

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Guy-Roger Duvert is a French film composer, film director and author. Early life and education Born and raised in Paris, France, after studies of political sciences in Strasbourg, and at the ESSEC Business School he started a career as a film music composer. Career The first feature film he scored, Les Yeux Secs by Narjiss Nejjar, was nominated at the Cannes Festival, at the Quinzaine des Realisateurs. He is also a film director. He is mostly known for his Science fiction feature film Virtual Revolution, released internationally in 2016, starring Mike Dopud, Jane Badler, Jochen Hägele and Maximilien Poullein. Duvert made his debut as a novelist in 2019, with the release in France of Outsphere, which won one of the French Amazon awards that year, called Plumes Francophones. Bibliography *Outsphere (2019) *Outsphere 2 (2020) *Backup (2020) *Virtual Revolution 2046 (2020) References

Gwilym Simcock

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Gwilym Simcock (born 24 February 1981) is a Welsh pianist and composer working in both jazz and classical music. He was chosen as one of the 1000 Most Influential People in London by the Evening Standard in 2009. He was featured on the front cover of the August 2007 issue of the UK’s Jazzwise magazine. Early life Simcock was born in Bangor, Gwynedd. At the age of eleven he attained the highest marks in the country for his Associated Board on both piano and French horn. He studied classical piano, French horn, and composition at Chetham’s School, Manchester, where he was introduced to jazz by pianist and teacher Les Chisnall and bassist and teacher Steve Berry. He studied jazz piano at The Royal Academy of Music, London with John Taylor, Nikki Iles, Nick Weldon, and Geoff Keezer. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music and won the “Principal’s Prize” for outstanding achievement. At the Royal Academy of Music he studied with Milton Mermikides. Career In 2006, he was the first jazz musician to be selected for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, and this was extended to 2008. It involved broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 as solo performances, and his trio appearance at the Wigm

Gwyneth Herbert

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Gwyneth Herbert (born 26 August 1981) is a British singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Initially known for her interpretation of jazz and swing standards, she is now established as a writer of original compositions, including musical theatre. She has been described as “an exquisite wordsmith” with “a voice that can effortlessly render any emotion with commanding ease” and her songs as being “impressively crafted and engrossing vignette s of life’s more difficult moments”. to Mary and Brian Herbert, she was brought up in Surrey and Hampshire in the south of England. She began playing the piano at the age of three and was writing basic songs at the age of five. She also learned the French horn, achieving Grade 8 by the age of 15. and, for her sixth form studies, to Alton College in Hampshire, where her musical tastes moved more towards jazz. While she was studying at St Chad’s College, University of Durham, she met up with fellow student Will Rutter and together they began to write and perform in the cafés and bars of North East England as a jazz duo called Black Coffee. The Herbert/Rutter song “Sweet Insomnia” featured guest vocals from Jamie Cull

Gyuli Kambarova

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Gyuli Nizamievna Kambarova (Russian: Гюли Низамиевна Камбарова; 9 May 1982, Makhachkala, Russia) is a Dagestan and Russian composer who is a member of the Union of Composers of Russian Federation, member of the International Alliance for Women in Music, member of the Music Teachers National Association, and member of the Songwriters Guild of America. She authored the music for the documentaries “You Are Not Alone”, “Voice for the Voiceless” and Fine Line directed by Anna Barsukova. She lives and works in United States. Biography Gyuli Kambarova was born on May 9, 1982, in the city of Makhachkala in Republic of Dagestan, Russia. During her early music studies, she won several youth piano competitions, including I. S. Bach competition - II prize, G. Hasanov competition - II prize, and E. Grieg competition - III prize. In 1996, she started to study piano at the Makhachkala College of Music named after Gotfrid Hasanov with Svetlana Papayan. In 1999 she entered the Lyceum of Music at the Rostov State Conservatory named after Sergei Rachmaninoff. She graduated from the Rostov State Conservatory with degrees in piano performance (2005; Professor Natalia Simonova) and composition with hono

H-Wonder

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H-Wonder is a Japanese music arranger and composer. He debuted in 1995. In June 1998, he stopped being a solo artist and changed his name to H-Wonder and became a composer. One of his notable collaborations is with Maaya Sakamoto and BoA. Discography Singles * Subete Konomama Dakishimereba - 24 March 1995 * Ready Steady Go! - 23 August 1995 * Mystic Eyes - 24 April 1996 (Ending theme for the anime series The Vision of Escaflowne) * Sugita Koi no Ato - 7 November 1996 * Dawn - 21 February 1997 * Chocolate Parfait - 17 December 1997 * Kitto Daijobu - 1 April 1998 * Happy - 30 September 1998 (Only sold in Hokkaido) Albums * Dawn-bright - 24 April 1997 * Wonder Hero 2: Brand New Atlas - 21 June 1996 * Wonder Hero - 21 April 1995 Collaborations * On/Off - Arranger ** - Opening for Vampire Knight * Maaya Sakamoto - Composer and arranger ** - Ending for Tsubasa Chronicle ** ** “Action!” - Opening theme for Clamp in Wonderland 2 ** ** “That is to Say!” - Follow me Up Album * BoA - Composer and arranger for some songs ** “Every Heart (Minna no Kimochi)” - Arranger ** “Beside You (Boku o Yobu Koe)” - Arranger ** “Quincy” - Arranger ** “Key of Heart” - Composer and arranger ** “Beautiful Flow

Hafdís Bjarnadóttir

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Hafdís Bjarnadóttir (born 1977) is an Icelandic composer and electric guitarist who gained prominence in 2013 when she was inspired by a knitting pattern for a lace shawl to compose “Thordis’ Fichu”. She received wide acclaim in 2015 for her “Sounds of Iceland”, a journey through Iceland made up of a series of field recordings of the natural sounds of waterfalls, birds, lakes, the sea and geysers. Biography Born in Reykjavík on 17 August 1977, Hafdís Bjarnadóttir has played the electric guitar since she was 12, initially concentrating on rock and folk music. She qualified in jazz guitar playing at the Icelandic school of music, Tónlistarskóli FÍH, in 2002. In 2007, she earned a bachelor’s degree at the Iceland Academy of the Arts before completing a master’s degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2009. Hafdís’ music has drawn on a combination of jazz, rock and folk, as well as classical and modern music. She often composes items involving surprisingly different instruments. “Thordis’ Fichu” and “Sounds of Iceland” followed in 2013 and 2015. Hafdís Bjarnadóttir composed “A Northern Year” for Passepartout Duo in 2019, a piece that chronicles the sun’s position over Reykjavík

Haim Tukachinsky

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Haim Tukachinsky (Also Haim Zimra Tukachinsky ; November 10, 1987 – September 24, 2018) was an Israeli Jewish Orthodox pianist, composer, conductor and musical director. Biography Haim Tukachinsky was born in Haifa and raised in Kiryat Motzkin. He was the fourth child of a Jewish Orthodox family with nine brothers and sisters. has made contributions to charities and to the Association Against Animal Experiments, and he was a vegetarian for animal welfare reasons. Educated in Chabad educational institutions and continued his studied Talmud Torah in a small yeshiva in the Krayot Region. Tukachinsky was interested in music from his infancy, His first documented work was written when he was 9 years old. when he was 10.5 years old he first met a professional teacher of composition and showed him a work he had written called “Malkush” (the first rain). when he was 11 years old, by the recommendation of the same teacher, he began studying at the Kiryat Motzkin conservatory. he maintaining a Jewish orthodox lifestyle and sanctifying God through music. Upon graduation, Tukachinsky decided to pursue music studies at the academy, and after successfully passing the matriculation and psychometr

Hanan Ben Ari

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Hanan Ben Ari (; born 8 April 1988) is an Israeli singer, songwriter, and composer. His debut album, Izun (Balance), released 21 February 2016, was certified gold in Israel with 15,000 copies sold in three months and received heavy radio play on Galgalatz. He has been noted as one of relatively few religious artists, including Ishay Ribo and Nathan Goshen, who have found success in the secular Israeli mainstream. Early life Ben Ari grew up in Karnei Shomron, the fifth of six siblings; his father works in the financial sector of Bat Yam, while his mother works in special education. Hanan sang in choirs from the age of six, learned keyboard from age 12, and began composing music at age 13. In 2013, he collaborated with musicians Yaakov Asraf and Nir Rubin on an educational stage musical called Mitbagrim (“Growing Up”), which ran for over 100 performances. Ben-Ari’s debut single, Mimecha Ad Elay (“From You to Myself”), was announced by his uncle in November 2014. The song, whose lyrics reference Song of Songs and other Jewish scripture, was added to the Galgalatz daily playlist, Several of his subsequent singles were also placed in heavy rotation on Galgalatz, Ben-Ari’s debut album, I

Hanna Hartman

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Hanna Hartman (born 1961 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish composer, sound artist and performer. Biography From 1982 to 1988 Hanna Hartman studied literature and theatre history at the University of Stockholm, 1989–1991 she studied interactive media at the Dramatiska Institutet (national college of film, theatre, radio and interactive media) in Stockholm, and 1992 at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion In 2008/2009 Hanna Hartman was “Composer in Residence” at the Swedish radio. 2010 she got a scholarship at “Villa Aurora” in Los Angeles (US). Her compositions have been played at numerous festivals, such as the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (2006 ), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (2012, 2014 ), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018 ) and at ECLAT in Stuttgart (2017 ). In the field of electroacoustic music, Hanna Hartman has composed works for radio and ensembles, did sound installations and has given numerous performances all over the world. Discography Albums * Hanna Hartman (2003, Elektron) * Longitude/Cratere (2005, Komplott) * Ailanthus (2007, Komplott) * H^2 (2011, Komplott) Awards *Prix Europa (1998) * Karl-Sczuka-Preis (2005) * Phonurgia Nova Prize (2006, 2016)

Hanna Havrylets

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Hanna Oleksiivna Havrylets (11 April 195827 February 2022, ) was a Ukrainian composer. Biography She was born in , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR and received her early music education in her native village from Vasyl Kufliuk. She graduated from the Lviv Conservatory in 1958 where she studied with Volodymyr Flys. She continued her studies at the Kyiv Conservatory with Myroslav Skoryk, which she completed in 1984. In 1985, Havrylets became a member of the Composers’ Union of Ukraine. She worked as a reviewer, and then took a position teaching at the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in 1992. She was awarded the Ukrainian Shevchenko National Prize in 1999 and became a Merited Artist of Ukraine in 2005. Havrylets went on to obtain numerous prizes and win several competitions including the Ivanna and Marian Kots International Competition for Composers (1995), the “Spiritual Psalms of the Third Millennium” Competition (2001), the choral festival “The Gold-Domed Kyiv” (2001), the Vedelart prize “Kyiv” (2005), the Order of Princess Olga (2008), and the St. Volodymyr Order (2005). In 2017, Havrylets was elected as a corresponding member of the National Academy of A

Hanna Kulenty

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Hanna Kulenty (born March 18, 1961, in Białystok) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw (Poland) and in Arnhem (Netherlands). Musical education After studying piano at the Karol Szymanowski School of Music in Warsaw from 1976 to 1980, Kulenty studied composition with Włodzimierz Kotoński at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. From 1986 to 1988 she studied composition with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 1984 and 1988 she participated in Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. In 1983 and 1990 she was participant in the International Courses for Young Composers in Kazimierz, organised by the Polish section of the ISCM — where she attended lectures with Iannis Xenakis, Witold Lutosławski, Thomas Kessler and François-Bernard Mâche. Main activities From 1989 Kulenty worked as a free-lance composer, and received numerous commissions and scholarships. She has composed 2 operas and 12 works for large orchestra. She has written numerous works for solo instruments and chamber groups. Since 2007 she is also involved in writing music for television plays and for film. In 1990

Hannah Kendall

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Hannah Kendall (born May 1984 in London) is a British composer currently based in New York. Background and career Kendall grew up in Wembley, where her mother is the head teacher in a primary school. Her doctorate was completed at Columbia University in the City of New York with Georg Friedrich Haas and George E. Lewis. Her music is published by Ricordi (Berlin). In 2015, Kendall was noted as one of the “brilliant female composers under the age of 35”. She featured on BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week. All five composers of the week were women and this was part of Radio 3’s International Women’s Day celebrations, which were highlighted in The Guardian. Also in 2015 Kendall won a ‘Women of the Future Award’ in the Arts and Culture category. Her one-man chamber opera The Knife of Dawn, with a libretto by Tessa McWatt and based on the incarceration of political activist Martin Carter in the then British Guiana in 1953 was premiered in 2016 at the Roundhouse. Her piece The Spark Catchers premiered at the BBC Proms in August 2017 and is inspired by the work of poet Lemn Sissay. Kendall returned to the Proms for the delayed first night of live music (due to the pandemic) on 28 August 20

Hannes Löschel

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Hannes Löschel (born 1963 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer of avant-garde electronic music. Löschel began playing the piano when he was five years old. Following his music education at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, he initially performed contemporary music on stage. From c. 1990 onwards, he began developing works that spanned several styles as a composer, ensemble conductor and arranger. In 1995, he founded the Austrian trio Löschel Skrepek Zrost, with Paul Skrepek and Martin Zrost, who won the Hans Koller Preis for album of the year for their first CD While You Wait in 1997. He subsequently worked on a range of styles in formations including the electro-acoustic formation antasten together with Thomas Lehn and Josef Novotny, the free improvisation trio Kinds with David Tronzo as well as together with Phil Minton in Songs of Innocence ‘, the song cycle he composed in 2008. Other formations co-founded or led by Löschel were, among others, the duo Chroma with Elisabeth Flunger, Phls Trio with Peter Herbert and Paul Skrepek, the Velvet Lounge, Kratky Baschik, Kinds of Orchestra, Hannes Löschel Stadtkapelle and weana korn. He has performed concerts and tour dates at numerous fe

Hannes Taljaard

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Hannes Taljaard, born Daniël Johannes Taljaard (born 1971) is a South African classical music composer from Siloam, Venda. Taljaard’s compositions have been performed in South Africa and Europe and he won first prize in the Flores Iuventutis competition in Ghent, Belgium, in 1994–1995. He is senior lecturer in composition and composer-in-residence at the School of Music & Conservatory at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. He has taken masterclasses with American composer George Crumb and has taken private lessons with Belgian composer Wim Henderickx in Antwerp from 1996 to 2000. He has also attended the Darmstadt New Music Summer School. He is editor of academic publication The South African Music Teacher. His compositions are influenced by African and Arabic music. Orchestral works * Sarabande (1996, violin and symphony orchestra) Chamber music * (1992, clarinet, violoncello/bassoon, piano) *Impromptu (1993, cello solo) * (1993, clarinet, piano) *Metaphor I (1996–1998, any mixed ensemble with ten performers and conductor/composer) *Introverz (1996–1997, cello solo) *Movement for String Quartet (1998) * (1999–2001, piano trio) for the Erasmus Trio *Lullaby (2000–

Hans Peter Ströer

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Hans Peter Ströer (born 1956) in Munich is a German jazz musician and composer. Life and career At the age of seven, Ströer was already composing his own rock ’n’ roll pieces on the guitar, and at eleven he founded his first band. Ströer studied music theory and piano at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in the 1960s and then at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. At 17, he worked as a theatre musician. In the early 1970s, he became bass player in the Bobby Jones Trio, but he achieved greater fame from 1975 onwards as bassist in the Mild Maniac Orchestra of Volker Kriegel, to which he belonged until the mid-1980s, also to be heard on . At the same time, he became a sought-after studio musician and participated in recordings by Eberhard Schoener, Falco, Donna Summer, Amanda Lear, La Bionda and Gilbert Bécaud. Since 1984, Ströer has composed music for over 150 films, including films by Heinrich Breloer such as , Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman, Speer und Er and Buddenbrooks. In addition, he was active as a music producer (including for Udo Lindenberg’s albums between 1986 and 1998, which received several Goldene Schallplatten). The percussionist is his younger brother, with whom he p

Hans Thomalla

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Hans Thomalla (, born 1975) is a German-American composer, who has resided in the United States since 2002. Career Hans Thomalla was born in Bonn, and studied composition at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Germany, from 1994 to 1999. From 1999 until 2002 he was assistant dramaturg at the Staatsoper Stuttgart (production dramaturg for Helmut Lachenmann Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern et al.). This was followed by graduate studies at Stanford University (California) with Brian Ferneyhough from 2002 until 2007. Since 2007 he is Associate Professor of Composition at Northwestern University in Chicago, where he also directs the Institute for New Music. Thomalla’s compositions are featured at international festivals and institutions including Donaueschingen Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Eclat-Festival Stuttgart, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Festival d’Automne at Paris, Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. Ensembles performing his works include ensemble recherche, Trio Accanto, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble musikFabrik, Arditti Quartet, Spektral Quartet, Ensemble Modern and the Munich Philharmonic. His opera Fremd was p

Hans-Joachim Hessler

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Hans-Joachim Hessler (German: Heßler, born in Recklinghausen) is a German composer, musician and musicologist. Today, he lives in Duisburg and Diemelsee. As a contemporary composer, he attributes his work in writing and composition to the epoch of musical postmodernism. Life He studied music theory at the University of Münster and then, from 1990 to 1997, school music and German literature at today’s Technical University of Dortmund. He received his education in art from, among others, Werner Seiss and Bob Degen, in the organ from, among others, Karl Weyers and Thomas Gabriel, and in composition from, among others, Heribert Buchholz and Thomas Stanko. In 2008, he received the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz. Work Poly-stylistics and boundary crossings of all kinds are a fundamental attribute of Hessler’s work. Much of Hessler’s work appears to be influenced by the philosophical writings of the postmodern thinker Jean-François Lyotard; for instance his chamber music pieces "" compulsion for actualisation and "" system for sound regulation 189 , which deal in particular with the event philosophy of Lyotard, as well as the

Hans-Ola Ericsson

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Hans-Ola Ericsson (born 1958 in Stockholm) is a Swedish organist, composer, pedagogue, and visual artist. Career Ericsson studied church music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and continued his organ and composition studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany (with Zsigmond Szathmáry, Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Klaus Huber, and Brian Ferneyhough). He also studied privately with Luigi Nono and Olivier Messiaen. In 1988, Ericsson was appointed professor of organ performance at the Piteå School of Music, a department of the Luleå University of Technology in Piteå. In 1990, he was lecturer at the summer course for new music in Darmstadt and was awarded the prestigious Kranichsteiner Musikpreis. In 1996 Hans-Ola Ericsson was appointed permanent guest professor at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany. In the spring of 2000 he was named a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and he received the Swedish Society of Composers interpretation prize in 1999. He was Principal Guest Organist of the Lahti Organ Festival in Finland from 2002 until 2006. Since 2005, he is artistic consultant for the Bodø International Organ Festival in Norway. From 2011 until his re

Hanspeter Kyburz

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Hanspeter Kyburz (born 8 July 1960) is a contemporary Swiss composer of classical music, known for applying electronic music techniques to his productions. Career Kyburz was born in Lagos, Nigeria to Swiss parents. In 1980, he began studying music composition, first in Graz with A. Dobrowolsky and Gösta Neuwirth, then, from 1982–1990, with Gösta Neuwirth and Frank Michael Beyer at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, later with Hans Zender in Frankfurt. In 1990, he received the Boris Blacher Prize and won a Cité internationale des arts scholarship for 1990/91 in Paris. In 1991, Kyburz began collaborating with the Insel-Musik-Konzerte group in Berlin. His study of music theory as well as the philosophy and history of art assured him acquisition of the Magistertitels title. He was awarded the Schneider-Schott Music Prize in 1996, and the Förderpreis Prize from the Berlin Akademie der Künste in 1994. He has held lectures on electronic music production in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and in 1996 he participated as a guest lecturer on the subject of the Basler composer week. As a composer, he is by performances with the citizens of Berlin Biennale, Wiener Festwochen (Vienna’s week

Haraldur Vignir Sveinbjörnsson

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Haraldur Vignir Sveinbjörnsson (born 1975) is an Icelandic composer and arranger. Education He studied piano with Árni Harðarson at the Kopavogur Music School where he graduated in 1997. He finished his BA degree in composition at Reykjavik Music College 2001 with Hilmar Þórðarson, and MMus degree in composition at Lund University (Malmö Music University) where he studied with Kent Olofsson and Prof. Luca Francesconi. Haraldur also studied recording technique and Electroacoustic music through various courses in Iceland and Sweden. Compositions His orchestra piece, Seven Songs of the Insomniac (), won the Morgondagens tonsättare () prize in Helsingborg, Sweden 2003. A year later, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra premiered two pieces by Haraldur, 7 Songs of the Insomniac in February, and Hraun in May. 7 Songs of the Insomniac was also nominated as best contemporary music at the Icelandic Music Awards 2005. Other notable pieces include Memento Mei (2005) for mixed choir Piece & Harmony (2001) for string orchestra Duel (2003) for solo contrabass and electronics Dawn (2007) for percussion duo Hodie (2009) for women’s choir Forget-me-not (2016) for flute, violin and piano Painting (2016) f

Harold Meltzer

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Harold Meltzer (June 8, 1966 – August 12, 2024) was an American composer. Meltzer was inspired by a wide variety of stimuli, from architectural spaces to postmodern fairy tales and messages inscribed in fortune cookies. In Fanfare Magazine, Robert Carl commented that he “seems to write pieces of scrupulous craft and exceptional freshness, which makes each seem like an important contribution.” The first recording devoted to his music, released in 2010 by Naxos on its American Classics label, was named one of the CDs of the year in The New York Times and in Fanfare; new all-Meltzer recordings issued from Open G Records (2017), Bridge Records (2018), and BMOP/Sound (2019). A Pulitzer Prize Finalist in 2009 for his sextet Brion, Meltzer has been awarded the Rome Prize, the Barlow Prize; a Guggenheim Fellowship, and both the Arts and Letters Award in Music and the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his late works are Vision Machine (2016), commissioned by NewMusicUSA for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Bride of the Island (2016), a song cycle to poems of Ted Hughes commissioned by the Minnesota Commissioning Club for tenor Paul Appleby and pianis

Harry Escott

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Harry Escott (born 9 September 1976) is a British composer living in London. He has composed the scores to several films, including Shame (2011), Hard Candy (2005), A Mighty Heart (2007), and Ali & Ava (2021), for which he won a British Independent Film Award for best music. He is a frequent collaborator with Michael Winterbottom, (The Face of an Angel, The Road To Guantanamo, The Wedding Guest, & Greed), Paddy Considine (Journeyman), Steve McQueen (Shame & Uprising) and Clio Barnard (The Arbor, The Selfish Giant & Dark River). His score for Dark River included a song co-written with PJ Harvey, “An Acre of Land”, released on Cognitive Shift Recordings. He scored Eran Creevy’s action thriller Welcome to the Punch which was executive produced by Ridley Scott and had its cinematic release in 2013. This was the second time he had worked with Creevy, having scored the director’s debut feature, Shifty, for which he received a BIFA nomination in 2008. Escott’s recent television credits include BBC One drama series Roadkill, for which he received a BAFTA award and Steve McQueen’s Uprising for which he won the Royal Television Society award in 2021. He studied music at the Royal College of

Harry Stafylakis

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Haralabos “Harry” Stafylakis (born 1982) is a Canadian-American composer, guitarist, and educator based in New York City. He is the Composer-in-Residence of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and co-curator of its Winnipeg New Music Festival. He is the creator of the 2023 album Calibrating Friction, which was nominated at the 2024 JUNO Awards for Instrumental Album of the Year. Early life and education Born in Montréal, Québec, in 1982, Stafylakis began early training in classical piano. He later became a guitarist and vocalist in progressive metal bands. In 2010, he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from McGill University and in 2011 moved to New York City, where he completed graduate studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Career Stafylakis has been the Composer-in-Residence of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and co-curator of the Winnipeg New Music Festival since 2016. He has collaborated with soloists such as Evelyn Glennie, Rachel Barton Pine, Philippe Sly, Alexandre Da Costa, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, and others. His works have been performed by orchestras and ensembles such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

Harry Vetro

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Harry Vetro (born August 28, 1995) is a Canadian drummer and composer. He has recording credits with such Canadian jazz players as Mike Murley and Steve Wallace. Vetro has received multiple grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and FACTOR (The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings). Career Vetro’s band, Harry Vetro’s Northern Ranger has been noted by the Calgary Herald as “some of the top players in Canada, who are very dedicated to bringing jazz to different communities and really trying to expand the art form.” Northern Ranger’s influences range from Gordon Lightfoot, The Band, and Fleet Foxes to Bill Frisell, Kenny Wheeler and Brad Mehldau. The band released a self-titled album in 2018, which reached the National Jazz charts in Canada. In late 2019, Starbucks discovered Vetro’s song “Buffalo Jump” on Spotify. The song was added to the “Starbucks Jazz” Spotify playlist, and Vetro is the only contemporary Canadian Jazz musician featured on that playlist. Vetro is also a member of the Toronto-band Harrison² (pronounced Harrison Squared) with Harrison Argatoff, Mike Murley, and Steve Wallace. That group released the album Trout in Swimwear in 20

Harrysong

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Harrison Tare Okiri (born 30 March 1981) better known by his stage name Harrysong, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who rose to fame after his tribute song to Nelson Mandela won the “Most Downloaded Callertune Award” at The Headies 2013. Harrysong was born in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria to Ijaw parents but moved to Lagos in 2007 after spending some of his early life in Port Harcourt. Prior to signing to QuestionMark Entertainment, Harrysong used to perform at night clubs until he met Kcee who introduced him to top music personalities. In 2014, Harrysong was nominated in the “Best Pop/R&B Artist of the Year” category at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards after the release of his chart-topping song “Beta Pikin”. Early life Harrysong was born as the only child to Ijaw parents in Warri, Delta State. After the death of his mother, a strained relationship between him and his step-mother led to his drop-out from school and his involvement with music grew after moving to Port Harcourt. Career At age eleven, Harrysong’s music career started in the church his mother served as the music director before he went on to learn contemporary gospel music. In 2007, he moved to

Harvey J. Stokes

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Harvey J. Stokes (born 1957) is an American composer and oboist. As of 2020, he is Professor of Music at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he founded and directs a Computer Music Laboratory. Stokes earned his PhD from Michigan State University, where he studied with Jere Hutcheson and Charles Ruggerio, his MM from the University of Georgia, and his BM from East Carolina University. His previous teaching appointments include Miami University, Christopher Newport University, and the College of William and Mary. Stokes is a highly-prolific composer, whose output includes 11 piano sonatas, 8 string quartets, at least 4 symphonies, and many other works for ensembles large and small. His style could be described as neoclassical, with tonal centers and a focus on polyphony. His work has been programmed by numerous prominent organizations, including the Richmond Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, the Virginia Beach Symphony, the Oxford String Quartet, and the New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble. A respected educator, Stokes received the 2017-18 Edward L. Hamm Sr. Distinguished Teaching Award at Hampton University, and has been a consultant for The College Board, the

Hauke Harder

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Hauke Harder (born 1963 in Heide (Holstein), Germany) is a German composer and experimental physicist. Life Harder received a PhD in chemistry, and works at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany. In 1989, he studied with Wolfgang von Schweinitz, a New Simplicity composer. He is the founder, (with Rainer Grodnick) of the “Gesellschaft für Akustische Lebenshilfe”, (Society for Musical Living Assistance), Kiel, Germany. Since 1995, he has worked as an assistant to composer Alvin Lucier and is associated with the Material group of composers, along with Daniel James Wolf, and Markus Trunk. His compositional work is in an extreme minimal style, and is connected to the work of the composers Morton Feldman, Walter Zimmermann, and Alvin Lucier. His music has also been influenced by Monochrome Painting and the films of Robert Bresson. His work in sound installation, exhibitions and concerts include: the International New Music Festival Rümlingen, Switzerland, Evenings of New Music Bratislava, Flanders Music Festival Antwerp, Nové Expozice hudby Brno. Awards In 2001 he received a “Kulturnetz-Preis”, and 3,000 Mark, by Schl

Håvard Jørgensen

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Håvard Jørgensen (born 26 September 1975), also known as Haavard, Lemarchand, is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. He was the original guitarist of the Norwegian black metal bands Satyricon and Ulver. Career Satyricon One of the initiators of the band Eczema (which later on became Satyricon) which started up in 1991. Eczema won (as the first death metal-act) the Oslo Championship of Rock in 1992 – and changed thereafter the name to Satyricon. Jørgensen participated on the first demo The Forest Is My Throne, but quit the band to join the newly founded Ulver in 1993. Ulver Jørgensen was with Ulver from 1993 to 2000, and later as a session-guitarist. Snøhvitt Vocalist, guitarist and songwriter in Snøhvitt Discography Satyricon * Satyricon (demo, 1992) Ulver * Rehearsal 1993 (demo, 1993) * Vargnatt (demo, 1993) – acoustic guitar * Bergtatt – Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler (1994) – guitar * Kveldssanger (1995) – acoustic guitar, producer * Nattens Madrigal – Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden (1996) – guitar * The Trilogie – Three Journeyes Through the Norwegian Netherworlde (box set, 1997) – guitar * Themes from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1998) – electric guitar * Metam

Heitor Pereira

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Heitor Teixeira Pereira () (born 29 November 1960), or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian composer. In his career, Pereira has recorded with the band Simply Red and several famous musicians, such as Elton John, Rod Stewart, k.d. lang, Milton Nascimento, and Jack Johnson; and currently works as a film score composer, as well as a musician at Hans Zimmer’s studio, he is best known for being the composer of the Despicable Me franchise. Although primarily a guitarist, he also provided backing vocals live for the Simply Red song “Thrill Me”. He also collaborates with film directors Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda, Raja Gosnell, and Cal Brunker. In 1994, he released a solo album in the United Kingdom called Heitor TP, which featured guest appearance from Mick Hucknall on the track “Manchester”. Heitor left Simply Red to concentrate on his solo career. He played guitar and composed additional music for soundtracks like Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2, The Road to El Dorado, Pearl Harbor, I Am Sam, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Madagascar, The Simpsons Movie, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Rango, and Cowboys & Aliens. In 2003, Pereira contributed the song “Remember Me” for the soundtrack

Helen Parker-Jayne Isibor

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Helen Epega (née Isibor), also The Venus Bushfires (born 1981), is a Nigerian/British opera singer, songwriter, composer, visual and performance artist, who has written and composed the world’s first opera in Pidgin English. Inspired after seeing Wagner’s Parsifal, her Song Queen: A Pidgin Opera was presented in London in July 2015. Biography Born in Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria into a family with five children, Epega is the daughter of a medical consultant and a storybook writer, both of whom were interested in music. She lived in Benin City until moving to London in the 1980s at the age of seven. After attending an all-girls convent school, she graduated in Communications and Media at Brunel University London. She began her career as a rapper then found her voice after becoming interested in politically aware singers such as Fela Kuti and Miriam Makeba. When she was in Ibiza in 2007, she discovered the hang drum, which has since become her favourite instrument. Epega is known as The Venus Bushfires, “a creative collective of one and many”, and has explained the name by saying: “When I was in Benin City in 2008 visiting my grandmother, they’d burned the land. And I asked my moth

Helena Tulve

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Helena Tulve (born 28 April 1972) is an Estonian composer. Born in Tartu, she studied composition at the Tallinn Secondary Music School under Alo Põldmäe and from 1989 to 1992 at the Estonian Academy of Music with Erkki-Sven Tüür, being the latter’s sole student of composition thus far. In 1994 Tulve graduated with the Premier Prix from Jacques Charpentier’s composition class at the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris. Between 1993 and 1996 she furthered her knowledge of Gregorian chant. She has also attended György Ligeti’s and Marco Stroppa’s summer courses. She is married to composer Jaan-Eik Tulve. Selected works *Reyah hadas ´ala for male voices and ancient music instruments (2005, text by Shalom Shabazi) *Lendajad for amplified flutes (2005) fl.in C (fl. picc./ fl. basso) & fl. in C (fl. picc./ fl. in G) *ligne d´horizon for ensemble (2005) 1-1-1-0/ 0-0-0-0/ pno-arpa-mandolino-guit.-1batt./ 1-1-1-1 *lumineux/opaque new version for clarinet, cello, piano and 3 wine glasses (2004) *chamber-opera It Is Getting So Dark (2003/04, text by Sei Shōnagon) 14 female voices & ensemble: flauto-corno-vla-cb.-arpa-batt. *…il neige for harpsichord and kannel (2004) *nec ros, nec pluvia… fo

Hélène Breschand

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Hélène Breschand (born 18 March 1966) is a French harpist, composer and improviser. Breschand leads a career both as a solo artist as well as in ensemble work, playing both a contemporary repertoire and premiering new works as much as she plays improvised music and musical theater. She is a musician who plays on the verge of several genres ranging from contemporary music to jazz. She plays both written and improvised music. Family She was born to the painters Thérèse Boucraut and Maurice Breschand in Paris. Her brother is the director Jean Breschand. She is the niece of singers Jacqueline and Roger Leroy. Life and career Born in Paris into a family of artists, she discovered contemporary music during the heyday of the serial music movement, and discovered free jazz and the expansion of new technologies as early as the 1970s. She began learning harp with Martine Géliot, before deciding to continue with Brigitte Sylvestre. Sylvestre initiated Breschand into musical theater and contemporary music. She obtained the “Médaille d’or” and the “Prix d’Excellence” by unanimity at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional of Paris under the direction of Sylvestre and obtained the “Prize of Ana

Helge Burggrabe

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Helge Burggrabe (born 17 June 1973) in Magstadt is a German composer, recorder player, stage designer and seminar leader. Life As a child, Burggrabe lived for several years in Burma (Myanmar). Later he had lessons with Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen, among others, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Evi Pfefferle-Darmstadt and Peter Michael Hamel. His diploma thesis dealt with Die Proportionsverhältnisse und ihre Widerspiegelung in Musik und Architektur am Beispiel der Kathedrale von Chartres. (Proportional relationships and their reflection in music and architecture using the example of Chartres Cathedral). Since 1993, Burggrabe has performed throughout Europe with his own concert series, especially in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria. Burggrabe works in various ensembles, including “Duo3” with the pianist Christof Fankhauser and the duo “Resonatus” with the singer Victoria Walker. Since the mid-1990s, several projects have dealt with the symbol and cultural history of the labyrinth as well as with the Chartres Cathedral, where Burggrabe’s Marian oratorio Stella Maris was premiered in 2006. As a stage designer and landscape artist, Burggrabe built severa

Helmut Calabrese

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Helmut Christoferus Calabrese (born 1957) is a German-born composer and poet who immigrated to the U.S. in 1962. He trained at the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts and at New York University and is one of the founders of the music publishers Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC. His song, “The Most Beautiful Lady in the World: Statue of Liberty Anthem”, was the subject of two bills in the New Jersey Legislature and the United States House of Representatives calling on the United States Congress to designate it as the official anthem of the Statue of Liberty. The Philadelphia Inquirer said of it: “The music sounds like a love ballad, but the lyrics are a flag waving salute to America”. Compositions Instrumental music * Seeking for Solo Drumset, 2009, dedicated to Peter Jarvis, 5 minutes duration * Time for Solo Clarinet in B flat, 2008, 8 minutes in duration * Mudgrave for Marimba and Vibraphone, 2007, dedicated to Peter Jarvis, 5 minutes in duration * Love’s Tango for Orchestra, 2007, 3 minutes in duration * Tears of Love for Orchestra, 2007, 3 minutes in duration * A Little Night Music for Solo Timpani, 2005, dedicated to Peter Jarvis, 10 minutes duration * There Is Love for Solo

Helmut Oehring

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Helmut Oehring (born 1961 He is self-taught as guitarist and composer. From 1990 to 1992, Oehring studied with Friedrich Goldmann and Georg Katzer at the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Oering is honorary professor for Théatre musical at the University of the Arts Bern. * Schneider-Schott Music Prize (1998) * Arnold Schönberg Prize (2008) Autobiography * References Further reading * External links * * Helmut Oehring: Biography * Wayback Machine * Helmut Oehring in Profile on JSTOR * Kurt Weill Festival – Artist in Residence 2011

Hendrik Hofmeyr

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Hendrik Pienaar Hofmeyr (born 20 November 1957) is a South African composer. Born in Cape Town, he studied at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, obtaining a BMus in 1979 and an MMus in 1991. He furthered his studies in Italy during 10 years of self-imposed exile as a conscientious objector, obtaining State Diplomas in Piano (Florence), Composition (Bologna) and Conducting (Florence) While there, he was awarded the Zucchelli Prize for Composition at the Bologna Conservatorio two years running and also won the South African Opera Competition with The Fall of the House of Usher. He also received the annual Nederburg Prize for Opera for this work subsequent to its performance at the State Theatre in Pretoria in 1988. In the same year, he obtained first prize in an international competition in Italy with music for a short film by Wim Wenders. He returned to South Africa in 1992, taking up a post as lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. In 1997, he won two major international composition competitions, the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition of Belgium (with ‘Raptus’ for violin and orchestra) and the first edition of the Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition

Henning Lohner

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Henning Lohner (born 17 July 1961) is a German-American composer and filmmaker. He is best known for his film scores written as a long-standing member of Hans Zimmer’s music cooperative Remote Control Productions. Lohner has written scores to various international films, among them The Ring Two and Incident at Loch Ness. Additionally, he has authored documentaries and art films, and has gained international recognition as creator of the Active Images media art projects. Background and education Born to German emigrant parents, Henning Lohner was raised near Palo Alto, California, where his father Edgar Lohner taught Comparative Literature at Stanford University and his mother Marlene Lohner taught German Literature. Lohner has one brother, Peter, who is a lawyer turned writer-producer for film and television. Lohner returned to Germany to study musicology, art history, and Romanic languages at Frankfurt University, from which he graduated as Master of Arts in 1987. In 1982, he took a year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, studying Jazz Improvisation with Gary Burton and Film Scoring with Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin. In 1985, Lohner was awarded a grant for music compos

Henrik Åström

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Henrik Åström (born 11 January 1980) is a Swedish composer and music producer. He is the son of the Swedish archaeologist Paul Åström and owner of the record label and publishing company A-Stream Productions since 2002. Film, television and theatre Åström has written music for many feature films, such as the dramas Child of Grace and Cowboys and Indians by the award-winning director Ian McCrudden, Scammerhead by writer/director Dan Zukovic and Internment by writer/director Kast Hasa. One of his first film scores was for the drama Jake and Jasper – A Ferret Tale that was awarded with a 2012 Remi Award at the Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival. He has also composed the original score for two seasons of the Science Channel documentary series Secrets of the Viking Stone, directed by Peter Stormare. In 2022 Åström co-wrote the score for the documentary Ariel Phenomenon with Nate Walcott. In addition to his work in film and TV, Åström has written and performed experimental music for the Butoh dancer and choreographer Frauke. He composed the music and created the sound design for her theatre work Ama-No-Gawa that was performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South

Henrik Carlsen

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Henrik Carlsen (born 30 November 1959) is a Danish composer, record producer, singer, and keyboardist. Background Carlsen was born in Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and grew up in Brøndby. He was a founding member of Street Beat in 1982 and led it until it was disbanded in 1993. As a composer, he has written or co-written pop-songs like “Ring A Ling” (Tiggy), “Diddley-Dee” (Cartoons), “Easy Come Easy Go” (Los Umbrellos), and worked as producer or re-mixer with Barcode Brothers, E-Type, Blå Øjne and others. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001. He retired from the music business and worked as a school teacher until 2016. In 2016, he returned to music and released his first solo album, Street Beat Revisited. The album was a homage to his former band Street Beat, and he played all instruments himself, recording the entire album in his own bedroom. He is permanently in a wheelchair and has lost all walking ability. In November 2019, Carlsen released the instrumental album WXYZ, again composing, arranging, performing, and producing all music by himself in his home studio. Another instrumental jazz-rock fusion album was released in November 2022. This was a follow-up and named WXY

Henrik Hellstenius

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Henrik Hellstenius (born 28 April 1963) is a Norwegian composer and musicologist. Born in Bærum, Norway, Hellstenius studied musicology at the University of Oslo and composition with Lasse Thoresen, Olav Anton Thommessen and Bjørn Kruse at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. He studied in 1992–1993 with Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in Paris, and he also studied computer-supported composition at IRCAM. Hellstenius is currently professor in composition and music theory at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Hellstenius’ compositional output spans a wide stylistic field, including opera, chamber music, orchestral works, electro-acoustic music and scores for theatre, film and ballet. His works have seen performances throughout the Nordics, Russia, Australia, the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Greece, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Germany, France, Holland and Japan. His works have been featured at festivals such as the Bourges Festival for electro-acoustic music in France, the International Rostrum for Composers in Paris, the DUT-festival in Copenhagen, Nordic Music Days and the ULTIMA Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, per

Henry Jackman

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Henry Pryce Jackman (born 1 June 1974) is a British film and television score composer, conductor and arranger. He composed music for films such as Monsters vs. Aliens, Kick-Ass and its sequel, X-Men: First Class, Puss in Boots, Captain Phillips, Turbo, Freebirds, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Interview, Pixels, Captain America: Civil War, Kong: Skull Island, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and its sequel, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, Ron’s Gone Wrong, Red One, Smurfs and five Walt Disney Animation Studios films, including Wreck-It Ralph and Big Hero 6. Outside of film, he has also scored television series including The Man in the High Castle, The Comey Rule and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and video games including Battlefield 6, Disney Infinity, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and Just Cause 3. He is also known for collaborating with directors including the Russo brothers, Matthew Vaughn, Rich Moore, Don Hall, Chris Miller, Rob Letterman, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Edward Zwick, Jake Kasdan and Sam Hargrave; conductor Nick Glennie-Smith; scoring mixer Alan Meyerson; and violinist Eun-Mee Ahn. Life and career Jackman was born in Hillingdon, Lo

Henry Kawahara

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Henry Kawahara (Japanese: ヘンリー川原; 1961–2012), real name Yoshifumi Kawahara (Japanese: 川原義文), was a Japanese composer of avant-garde music. His music was an eclectic blend of experimental electronic, exotica and new age music. He referred to his music as “cyber-occult”. Biography According to the notes for Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm, Kawahara was born in Fukuoka. Kawahara was very active in the 1990s, releasing at least 23 albums. However, his work fell into obscurity because they were sold at occult book stores instead of music stores. Some of Kawahara’s albums had anonymous front and back covers, such as the Horoscope Sounds and Love Meditation series, with his involvement only noted within the liner notes; according to Cybernetic Defiance and Orgasm 2: Other Sides of Henry Kawaharas liner notes, there may be more of these uncredited Henry Kawahara albums lying undiscovered. He was closely tied to occult bookstore Hachiman (:ja:八幡書店). He also worked with the new age label Green Energy, where he would produce albums for others as well. His albums were produced to accompany the Stargazer, an LED device he helped invent The occult themes that Kawahara explored do not refer to the

Herman Vogt

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Herman Vogt (born 9 March 1976 in Drammen) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Vogt studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music under the tutorship of Lasse Thoresen, Olav Anton Thommessen, Henrik Hellstenius and Bjørn Kruse. He has also studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Martijn Padding and Louis Andriessen. In 2018 he took a Master’s degree in composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo under the tuition of Asbjørn Schaathun. From 1995 to 1997, Vogt studied violin at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Vogt has also completed individual mentoring sessions and masterclasses with composers such as Salvatore Sciarrino, Walter Zimmermann, Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Kaija Saariaho, Manos Tsangaris, Manfred Stahnke, Frédéric Durieux, Klas Thorstensson and Diana Burrell. Vogt’s works has seen performances by such ensembles, orchestras and performers as the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Sinfonietta, BIT20 Ensemble, Poing, Geir Inge Lotsberg, Ian Pace, Kristian Lindberg, Rolf Borch, Audun Sandvik, Sveinung Bjelland and Anders Eidsten Dahl, as well as conductors Vasily Petrenk

Herschel Garfein

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Herschel Garfein (born January 17, 1958) is an American composer, librettist, stage director, and faculty member of the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University, where he teaches Script Analysis. Garfein is widely known for his libretto written for Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry, which won two 2012 Grammy Awards including “Best Contemporary Classical Composition” won by Garfein and Aldridge. He also collaborated with Aldridge on the oratorio Parables. In his compositions for the musical Suenos he found an inspiration in Hispanic rhythms. Garfein also composed the music and libretto for an opera based on the Tom Stoppard play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Garfein’s parents are actress Carroll Baker and film director Jack Garfein, a Czechoslovak Jew, who survived the Holocaust. His sister is actress Blanche Baker. Awards and honors * 54th Annual Grammy Awards, 2011: Grammy Award, “Best Contemporary Classical Composition,” with Robert Aldridge, for “Elmer Gantry.” Herschel Garfein, Librettist. * 60th Annual Grammy Awards, 2017: Grammy Award, “Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” for “Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom,” by Ted Nash Big Band.

Hiba Kawas

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Hiba Al Kawas (; born 17 July 1972) is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer and academic. BIography Hiba Al Kawas was born on 17 July 1972 in Sidon, Lebanon, to a Sunni Muslim family. Career Composer Hiba Al Kawas has recorded 21 works of her own composition with the Dnipropetrovsk Symphony Orchestra-Ukraine under the direction of Vyacheslav Blinov, and 10 works with the Kraków Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wojciech Czepiel. She has recorded 13 works with The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and the National Choir of Kyiv conducted by Vladimir Sirenko. In 2000, participated as a composer in the Kraków Contemporary Composition Festival, where the Kraków chamber Orchestra played her Aspiration No.1 conducted by Wojceich Czepiel. At her second appearance at the festival, her composition Moments in Krakow was given its world premiere by the Kraków Academy of Music conducted Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Wojceich Czepiel. Her orchestral work, Pleusis 1, which was premiered in 2000 by the Lebanese National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harout Fazlian and by Wojciech Czepiel, has been played by the City of London Sinfonia, Cairo Symphony Orchestra

Hideyuki Fukasawa

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is a Japanese composer, best known for his work on the video game Street Fighter IV. Career Born in Tokyo, Fukasawa began learning piano when he was in elementary school. At the age of 10, he listened to the soundtrack of the anime film Swan Lake, which led him to be influenced by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. When in high school, Fukasawa began playing synthesizer, guitar, bass and drums. In 1991, he started his career as a synthesizer programmer. Since then, he has been involved in many works, mainly composing and arranging music for video game and anime. Fukasawa worked on the 2003 game Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny under lead composer Taro Iwashiro, sampling various traditional Japanese instruments for the soundtrack. His involvement in Onimusha 2 led to him being chosen as composer for Chaos Legion, which released the same year. Fukasawa would later serve as the in-game composer for Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams, which released in 2006, with Jamie Christopherson composing for the cutscenes. Fukasawa was influenced by Taro Iwashiro’s compositions for Onimusha 2, and sought to create strong and rich melodies. The arranging of old character themes put Fukasawa under p

Hijiri Kuwano

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is a Japanese violinist, composer and arranger. Hijiri began taking violin lessons at age 6 and studied under Yonosuke Ishii, Shizuko Ishii and Chikashi Tanaka. While attending Tokyo University of the Arts, he performed as a guest concert master at Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra and Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra. Before graduating from the university, he became interested in playing non-classical music and started performing with Toshihito Nakanishi, who inspired him in many ways. Hijiri also started his career as a composer when he produced an album published together with a photobook by Kenji Ishikawa, Moonlight Blue. Hijiri handled string arrangements for albums and movies for Kome Kome Club and started his career as an arranger as well. Hijiri worked on recordings, concerts with various artists, movies and video games as a soloist and with “Hijiri Kuwano strings group”. He is credited in Whisper of the Heart, Shall We Dance, Nobody Knows, Kind of Love, Melody of Oblivion, Good Luck Girl!, Final Fantasy XIII and numerous other productions as a performer, composer and arranger. He is also known as an original violin player for the battle theme “Blinded by Light” in Square Enix

Hikari Ōe

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is a Japanese composer. He is the son of Japanese author and Nobel Prize laureate Kenzaburō Ōe and Yukari Ikeuchi, and the nephew of director Juzo Itami. Biography Hikari Ōe was born autistic and developmentally disabled. Doctors tried to convince his parents to let their son die, but they refused to do so. Even after an operation, Ōe remained visually impaired, developmentally delayed, epileptic and with limited physical coordination. He does not speak much. Ōe’s parents report that his first response to a particular sound was when he was watching TV with his parents, and there was the sound of a bird singing, which he responded to. His parents were fascinated. They bought him a record with tracks of bird calls, in which a woman would say the name of each bird before the song of the bird would play. He listened to this record. Walking with his parents near their vacation home one day, they heard a bird singing, and he then imitated the voice of the woman who presented the bird songs in his child’s records. This was how they got the idea to recruit a music teacher for Ōe. His parents arranged a piano teacher, Kumiko Tamura, for him. Instead of speaking, Ōe began to express his feel

Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir

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Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir (born 1993) is an Icelandic artist, musician and composer whose practice spans performance, installation, and sound, and explores storytelling and immersive spatial experiences. Based between Amsterdam and Reykjavík, her work frequently engages relational aesthetics and institutional critique. Prizes Hildur Elísa received the 2026 Icelandic Arts Prize Motivational Award for her “exceptionally mature and complex work”. The Icelandic Arts Prize is overseen by the Visual Arts Council and hosted by the Icelandic Art Center. Early life and education Hildur Elísa completed a diploma in classical clarinet from the Reykjavík College of Music in 2015, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2019. In 2018, she also attended the Kunst und Vermittlung department at Hochschule Luzern through an exchange programme. In 2024, she completed the temporary programme Re:master Opera (MA-level) at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Career Hildur Elísa’s work has been described as reframing everyday gestures, within operatic performance or contemporary music, to reflect on presence, absence, surreality, grief, and listening dynamics. Later that sa

Hildur Guðnadóttir

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Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir (born 4 September 1982) is an Icelandic musician and composer. A classically trained cellist, she has played and recorded with the bands Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Múm, and Stórsveit Nix Noltes, and has toured with Animal Collective and Sunn O))). She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Grammy Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Hildur has gained international recognition for her film and television scores, including Journey’s End (2017), Mary Magdalene (2018), Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), Todd Field’s Tár and Sarah Polley’s Women Talking (both 2022). Her score for Todd Phillips’ Joker (2019), won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Original Music, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, making Hildur the first solo female composer to win in all three. She is also known for her work on the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), which won her a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA TV Award and a Grammy Award. Early life Hildur was born in 1982 in Reykjavík, Iceland, and was raised in Hafnarfjörður. She comes from a family of musicians — her father, Guðni Franzson, is a composer, c

Hinako Takagi

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Hinako Takagi (born 1989) is a Japanese composer and pianist. She is a lecturer in composition at the Osaka College of Music. In 2019, she became the second Japanese to win first prize in the composition category of the Geneva International Music Competition. Her award-winning work “L’instant” was selected as a task piece in the oboe section of the same competition held in 2021. Biography Takagi was born and raised in Hyogo, Japan. In junior high, she was asked to compose a song for her class for a school event. The experience inspired her to be interested in music composition. She majored in piano in high school, and enrolled in composition major in university. In her freshman year, she received an assignment from her teacher, Yoko Kubo, to compose “100 variations of the same piece in one year.” She later said that she learned the basics of composition from this assignment. She studied composition with Yoko Kubo and Allain Gaussin. In 2012 she was appointed as a lecturer at Osaka College of Music in Osaka, Japan. She has organized many small concerts with new musical arrangements to engage people’s interest in contemporary music. In 2019, she composed a pantonality song called “My

Hiroaki Tsutsumi

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is a Japanese musician and composer best known for his work on various anime television series. He started his musical career at the age of 14 when he first started playing the guitar. After winning a guitar contest three years later, he decided to become a professional musician and later graduated from Kunitachi College of Music. In 2013, he was given the role of lead composer for the first time with Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation. Since Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation, he has composed many series, including Dr. Stone, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Teasing Master Takagi-san. Biography Hiroaki Tsutsumi was born in Tokyo on June 5, 1985, and began his musical career when he first started playing the guitar at the age of 14 after many of his peers started playing the instrument themselves. After practicing under guidance from and graduating from high school, he attended and later graduated from Kunitachi College of Music. In 2021, Jujutsu Kaisen won Anime of the Year at the 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, which Tsutsumi also co-composed. Works TV series * Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation (2013) (composer with Kenji Kaneko and Masaru Yokoyama) * Lance N’ Masques (2015) (compo

Hiroaki Zakōji

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was a Japanese composer and pianist. Biography He was born in Tokyo on January 20, 1958. He was brought up in Asahikawa, Hokkaido from the age of 4 and lived there until he was 20 years old. He started learning to play the piano when he was 4 years old. From the age of 16, he studied composition under Masanobu Kimura. In 1978, he entered the Music Department of Nihon University in Tokyo. There he learned composition under Kiyohiko Kijima and piano under Midori Matsuya (1943-1994). At the same time, he also studied composition under Roh Ogura (1916-1990) in Kamakura. He graduated from university and entered the Music Institute of Nihon University in 1982. In the same year, he organised the Tokyo Shin-Wagaku Consort which regularly played his own and other contemporary composers’ music. In 1984, he performed Japanese contemporary works in Basel, Switzerland. In 1985, he was invited by the IGNM - Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik - and performed his “Piano Piece I” (Op.28) in Basel. In April 1986, he returned to Switzerland where he composed and performed his “Piano Piece III” (Op.36) in Arlesheim near Basel. Also he travelled to Spain and Denmark and wrote an essay for a mus

Hiroki Kikuta

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is a Japanese composer and game designer. His major works are Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, Soukaigi, and Koudelka, for which he also acted as producer and concept designer. He has composed music for seven other games, and worked as a concept designer in addition to composer for the unreleased MMORPG Chou Bukyo Taisen. He became interested in music at an early age, but earned a degree in Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology from Kansai University. He spent the next few years working first as a manga illustrator, then as a composer for anime series, before coming to work for Square in 1991. After composing the soundtracks for his first three best-known works, he formed his own video game production company, Sacnoth, for which he was the president and CEO. After producing and composing Koudelka in 1999, he left to become a freelance composer. Since his departure he has formed his own record label, Norstrilia, through which he produces albums of his own compositions and collaborations with other artists, as well as his previous scores. His music has been performed in concerts such as the Symphonic Fantasies concerts in Cologne, Germany in September 2009, and sele

Hiroshi Asai

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(born 26 April 1978) is a Japanese arranger, musician and composer for the Giza Studio label. He is a former member of band The★tambourines. Since 2012 he is a member of the instrumental band Sensation. He arranged music for artists such as Miho Komatsu, U-ka Saegusa in dB, Mai Kuraki, Shiori Takei and many others from the Giza Studio label. He did back vocals for Rina Aiuchi. He participated in live concerts for artist such as Zard’s since 1999, Koshi Inaba’s solo live tours, Marie Ueda and Garnet Crow Symphonic Concert 2010 ~~All Lovers~~. He is active as an arranger and player as of 2020. List of provided works as a composer Akane Sugazaki *Promises List of provided works as a lyricist Aya Kamiki *Sakura E Hayami Kishimoto *Yes or No? *from you from me List of provided works as an arranger Miho Komatsu *Camouflage *Kamisama wa Jitto Miteru U-ka Saegusa in dB *Smile & Tears *Ryuusei no Nostalgia Ai Takaoka *Nemurenai Yoru Marie Ueda *Hanamonage *Shihaisha *Tomoshibi *Journey *Romantika Shiori Takei *Yasashii Hizashi *Ano Umi ga Mietara *Futari no Sunny Day *Ryuusei *At Eighteen *Shiosai Letter Saasa *Saite Hiraite *Uso, *eyes to eyes *Over The Rainbow *Naturally Mai Kuraki *Love, N

Hiroshi Kawaguchi (composer)

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is a Japanese video game music composer and keyboardist who works for Sega. He is among the oldest of the Sega sound team members, and one of the few from the 1980s still active today. He joined Sega in 1984 as a programmer before transferring to the sound department the following year. He is also known as Hiro and Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内博史) (his pre-mukoyōshi name), and has been a part of both the S.S.T. Band and the sound unit H. , the latter of which he leads. He has also been a member of Chain Band, a hybrid between the groups H. and Sonic Adventure Music Experience. He worked closely with game designer Yu Suzuki and served as composer for some of the company’s most recognized series, such as Space Harrier, Out Run, and After Burner, and has contributed music to many others. He has often acted as a tutor to new Sega composers, such as Yasuhiro Takagi and Keitaro Hanada. Works References

Hiroyuki Yamamoto (composer)

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is a contemporary Japanese composer. Biography Hiroyuki Yamamoto was born in Yamagata Prefecture and grew up in Zushi, Kanagawa. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and graduated in 1990. He studied composition with Akira Kitamura, Jo Kondo, and Isao Matsushita. After graduating, he took a position at Iwate University in Morioka, Iwate. Yamamoto was invited to participate in the Forum 91 in 1991 at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His work was also performed at the International Gaudeamus Music Week in 1994. After he won the third prize of the Competition BMW Musica Viva in 1998, his selected work Canticum Tremulum I was premiered with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra of Munich in 2000. Yamamoto directed the Ensemble d’Ame in Tokyo from 1997–2000. Along with Haruyuki Suzuki, Yoshifumi Tanaka, Hiroshi Yokoshima and other Japanese composers, Yamamoto was a founding member of the composer’s group “Tempus Novum” in 1990. Awards *Third prize, The 58th Japan Music Competition in 1989 with the work Closed Figure *League of Practica Musica award in 1991 *Prize, 13th competition of the Japanese Group for Contemporary Music in 1996 for the piano work Fo

Hisham Kharma

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Hisham Kharma () is an Egyptian music producer and creative director. He is known for his live concerts in the Cairo Opera House, his 2012 album AlyaQeen, the soundtrack for The End, and his soundtrack for Egypt: Land of Civilization documentary, which premiered during the Pharaohs’ Golden Parade and starred Khaled El Nabawy. Early life and education Kharma was born and raised in Cairo. He started playing piano at the age of 9. He obtained his BS in computer science from the American University in Cairo and his postgraduate studies in art direction at Miami Ad School. Biography After graduation, Kharma started working in advertising as a creative director. His first work was an ad for Ahl Masr Hospital for Burns. He was granted the title of Humanity Burn FreeAambassador, for the initiative of the Ahl Masr for burns and for composing the music of Shoof B’albak. In 2010, Kharma released his first official album, The First Voyage, produced by Virgin Megastores. His second album was released by Sony Music Entertainment. He was chosen to represent Egypt on a CD of Sony’s series Arabesque with Yanni and Can Atilla. In November 2016, he released his third album, AlyaQeen, consisting of 13

Hitomi Kaneko

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Hitomi Kaneko (金子仁美) is a female Japanese classical music composer. Background Born in Japan in 1965, Ms. Kaneko graduated from the composition class at Toho Gakuen School of Music in 1988, and completed postgraduate studies in 1994. She went to study in France with a French Government scholarship in 1990. She then began to study at the Paris Conservatoire. She also attended the Summer Music Festivals in Avignon and Darmstadt with scholarships in 1992. In September 1997, she went to Paris to study at IRCAM. She is at present a full-time professor of Toho Gakuen School of Music. Awards and prizes * First Prize in the 6th Competition of French-Japanese Contemporary Composition (1988) * First Prize for Composition in the 59th Japan Music Competition (1990) * E. Nakamichi Prize (1990) * Awarded the 9th Muramatsu Prize (January 1997) Compositions Orchestral works * 悲しみの自乗 Tristesse (for orchestra)(1989)(First Prize and the E. Nakamichi Prize at the 59th Japan Music Competition, 1990): 8’ * ラ・ピエス La Piece (for 15 Players)(1993/94): 10’ * フルート協奏曲 Concerto (for Flute and Orchestra)(1995): 14’ * ル・プロセシュス Le Processus (for 15 Players)(1996): 15’ * 気配尺八とオーケストラのための Kehai (for Shakuhachi and

Holly Butler

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Holly Gaye Butler is an American actress, singer/songwriter, dancer and former aerobics instructor who appeared in the :20 Minute Workout Television Show’s first season (1983). Crime Story, Reasonable Doubts, In Living Color, Mike Hammer, Private Eye, Rags to Riches, Moloney and A Peaceable Kingdom. Holly had a starring role in the short lived teen soap opera Tribes which aired on the Fox network in 1990. Holly toured the U.S. throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s as Universal Studios Hollywood’s premier Marilyn Monroe impersonator and appeared in the film Netherworld appearing as Marilyn Monroe. As a songwriter, Holly had a country single, “What a Shame” recorded by Rebecca Lynn Howard in 2003. References

Homayoun Reza Atardi

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Homayoun Reza Atardi (25 July 1970 – 3 August 2020) was an Iranian musician, composer, and film and television producer. Biography He was born in Mashhad in 1970. In the field of cinema, he received his bachelor’s degree in editing and began his musical activities in 1987. Atardi also worked in the field of film and television production and received a special jury award at the 28th Fajr International Film Festival for his production of the film “Being Time” (Life). He died in Tehran at age 50 from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran. Work Among the works of Homayoun Reza Atardi, the following can be mentioned: Soundtracks Movies * “Philadelphia”, Director: Ismail Rahimzadeh, Seyed Mojtaba Asadipour (2011) * “Girls”, Director: Qasem Jafari (2009) * “Behind the Curtain of Fog”, Director: Parviz Sheikh Tadi (2004) * “Chori”, Director: Javad Ardakani (2000) * “The Last Battle”, Director: Hamid Bahmani (1997) * “That Man Came”, directed by Hamid Bahmani (1993) * “Ambassador Driver”, directed by Shafi Agham Mohammadian and Habibaullah Bahmani (1993) * “Reverse Effort”, directed by Ali Asgari (1993) * “One Night a Stranger”, directed by Hossein Ghasemi Jami (1992) TV series *

Honiball Joseph

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Honiball Joseph is an American composer, conductor, pianist, music educator, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to music and cultural preservation. He is also an advocate for preserving minority identities, particularly those of Assyrians, amidst political and cultural challenges. Joseph is the former director of the Beneil Music Academy and the founder of both the Messiah Ensemble and the Gilgamesh Arts & Culture Foundation. Early life and education Joseph was born on January 2, 1971, in Mashhad, Iran. In 1986, he entered the Tehran Conservatory of Music, where he studied violin under the guidance of Behrouz Vahidi Azar. He also studied composition with prominent Iranian masters such as Morteza Hannaneh and Sharif lotfi. After completing his military service, Joseph pursued higher education at Azad University of Art and Architecture in 1996, majoring in music. He studied piano as his principal instrument and received short-term training in composition with Thomas Christian David and Tengiz Shavlokhashvili. Career Joseph began teaching music in 1986 and focused on composing and arranging choral music for churches in Iran and abroad. In 1999, he founded the Messiah En

Horst Christill

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Horst Christill (born 1959) is a German church musician and composer of sacred music, especially hymns of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied (NGL). Life and career Born in Annweiler am Trifels, Christill first studied from 1976 music pedagogy, focused on piano, at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken, completing with the concert exam in 1983. He then studied Catholic church music at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, completing with the A exam in 1988. External links *

Hoshi (South Korean singer)

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Kwon Soon-young (; born June 15, 1996), known by his stage name Hoshi (), is a South Korean singer and dancer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, the leader of its performance team and part of its subunits BSS and Hoshi X Woozi. Hoshi made his solo debut with “Spider” on April 2, 2021. Early life Kwon Soon-young was born on June 15, 1996, in Namyangju, Gyeonggi, South Korea. Hoshi attended Maseok High School. Career 2011–2014: Pre-debut Hoshi joined Pledis Entertainment in late 2012, where he received training for the next four years. In 2013, he appeared on Seventeen TV, an online reality show that introduced Pledis’ trainees and showed potential members of the boy group Seventeen before their official debut. The show was broadcast periodically on Ustream, where the trainees showed themselves training, singing, creating choreographies, and playing games. The online show, titled Like Seventeen, also included participation in concerts. 2015–present: Seventeen and solo activities In 2015, Hoshi debuted as a member of the South Korean boy group Seventeen with the extended play 17 Carat on May 29. Alongside members Seungkwan and DK,

Houman Dehlavi

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Houman Dehlavi (; born 8 July 1971) is an Iranian musician and composer. Biography Houman Dehlavi was born in 1971 in Tehran. He learned to play the santur from his mother, Susan Aslani, when he was a child. At the age of ten, he practiced playing the piano for five years with Farman Behboud. Meanwhile, along with his sister Haleh Dehlavi, he also learned to play the violin with musicians such as Manouchehr Ansari, Partow Pourafar, Behrouz Vahidiyeh Azar, and Siavash Zahir al-Dini. He first learned the fundamentals of music from his father Hossein Dehlavi and later with musicians such as Parviz Mansouri and Ahmad Pejman. After he finished high school with a graphics diploma from Tehran School of Visual Arts in 1993 and with the establishment of classical music courses in Azad University he started his major in playing the piano and benefited from the training of Rafael Minaskanian and Chista Gharib. As he was studying at the university, he started teaching music as well as composing music for theaters, and also attended open music courses by musicians such as Emanuel Malik Aslanian and Mehran Rouhani. He also benefited from the training of Thomas Christian David by participating in

Howard Bashaw

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Howard Bashaw (born 1957 in White Rock, Canada) is a composer of acoustic music; and a professor of music at the University of Alberta. Bashaw graduated as a Master of Music in 1984 and a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1989 from the University of British Columbia. He also attended the Banff Centre for the Arts where he won the Banff Centre Concerto Competition in 1992. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, and CBC Radio Music Department have commissioned his work. Further reading *Steenhuisen, Paul (2009); “Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers”; Edmonton: University of Alberta Press *Couroux, Marc (1999); “Corpus Hermeticum - Howard Bashaw”; infinit.net *Poole, Elissa (2004); “Complex structures: Howard Bashaw’s music plays with the organization of time”; Words & Music *Steenhuisen, Paul; “Bashaw – various works” review; paulsteenhuisen.com References External links *“Walter Boudreau : Sax, Drums & Co.” www.scena.org; 2003-11-05 *Art Music Promotion website

Howard Frazin

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Howard Frazin (born 1962) is a composer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. His works are published by Edition Peters and he has served as president of Composers in Red Sneakers. He served on the faculty of the Longy School of Music and has taught at New England Conservatory, Northeastern University, and Roxbury Latin School. Life Howard Frazin was raised in Lincolnwood, Illinois, and graduated from Niles West High School. He received a bachelor of arts in English from the University of Michigan in 1985 before beginning his formal musical training at the New England Conservatory, where he studied between 1984 and 1989. In 1994, he earned a master of arts in music composition from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Dominick Argento. Frazin subsequently settled in Massachusetts, living in Cambridge and Somerville. Music Frazin’s music is for the most part recognizably tonal, described by New Music Connoisseur as inhabiting “a slightly clouded tonal world that ably weds aspects of Leonard Bernstein and Olivier Messiaen.” Among his most noted works is the oratorio, The Voice of Isaac, commissioned by PALS Children’s Chorus and published by Edition Peters. The piece is a

Howard Goodall

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Howard Lindsay Goodall ( ; born 26 May 1958) is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television. He also presents music-based programmes for television and radio, for which he has won many awards. In May 2008, he was named as a presenter and “Composer-in-Residence” with the UK radio channel Classic FM. In May 2009, he was named “Composer of the Year” at the Classic BRIT Awards. Early life Born in Bromley, Kent, Goodall was educated at New College School, where he was a chorister in the Choir of New College, Oxford. He then went on to Stowe School and Lord Williams’s School. He read music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a first-class degree. Works Popular music In the late 1970s, Goodall was a member of the band Half Brother with his friend Jonathan Kermode. They produced an eponymous LP album, Half Brother, in 1978. Musical theatre Goodall’s 1984 musical The Hired Man, an adaptation of the novel by Melvyn Bragg, won an Ivor Novello award (1985) and TMA Award (2006) award for Best Musical. Professional revivals of The Hired Man in recent years include a UK tour by the New Perspectives Theatre Company in 2008 and a production directed by David Thacker

Howard Stelzer

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Howard Stelzer is a composer of electronic music, whose work is made primarily from sounds generated by cassette tapes and tape players. From 1997 until 2012, he ran the independent record label Intransitive Recordings. Early years Stelzer began making music using cassette tapes and metal percussion while he was a teenager in Boca Raton, Florida. After attempting unsuccessfully to learn how to play conventional instruments, he decided instead to use cassette tapes as the source of his music. Beginning in 1996, all of Stelzer’s music would be made with manipulated cassette tapes. I think tapes are simply the language that I speak. When I think about music ideas, I only and always think of them in terms of how they’d be articulated via cassette tapes. – 2016 interview with Tabs Out Podcast Stelzer explained how he first became “fascinated with (cassette tapes) as sound-producing objects: “When I was in high school (1989–1992) and banging on trash cans in my parents’ garage with a boom box recording in the corner, I discovered how the sound captured on the cassette was different from the acoustic sound in the room while I was making the music. From then on, I experimented with making

Huang Ruo

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Huang Ruo (黃若, born 1976) is a Chinese-born composer, pianist and vocalist who now lives in the United States. In 2001, Huang was one of the founding members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, an orchestral group of some 30 musicians which often performs works by European, Latin American, and Asian composers. In 2005, he founded the performance company, Future in Reverse (FIRE), specializing in multimedia and cross-genre projects. In 2010, Huang’s composition “The Yellow Earth” won the Celebrate Asia! composition competition. It was performed by the Seattle Symphony at a concert in January 2011. The piece is a rearrangement of the third movement of his sheng concerto “The Color Yellow” which brings together music produced by a Chinese instrument accompanied by a Western orchestra. to create ANGEL ISLAND, an oratorio based on the Chinese poems carved in the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station detention barracks. The work premiered in 2021 at the Presidio Theatre and on Angel Island, with subsequent performances at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art with the US Air Force Singing Sergeants , the Singapore International Festival of Arts , and the Brooklyn A

Huang Zitao

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Huang Zitao (; born May 2, 1993), also known by his stage name Tao (), is a Chinese rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is a former member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo and its Chinese sub-unit, Exo-M. After leaving Exo, he made his solo debut in China in 2015 with the mini-album TAO, under the stage name Z.Tao. Huang made his acting debut in the romantic movie You Are My Sunshine, followed by TV series Negotiator and The Brightest Star in the Sky. Huang ranked 25th on Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2017, 35th in 2019, and 37th in 2020. Early life Huang Zitao was born in Qingdao, Shandong on May 2, 1993. As a child, he undertook Wushu training and became a student athlete. In late 2010 he was scouted by a representative from SM Entertainment at a talent show. Music career 2011–2015: Exo and lawsuit against SM Entertainment On December 27, 2011, Huang was formally introduced as the third member of Exo (with the stage name Tao). In late 2013, Huang took part in filming for MBC’s celebrity diving program Splash!, but withdrew due to injuries, and the show was cancelled due to injuries to multiple other contestants. He featured in two songs from Zho

Huck Hodge

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Huck Hodge (born July 14, 1977) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Hodge’s first musical training took place in Oregon. In 1999, he began a course of study in Germany at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart with funding from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Between 2002 and 2008, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at Columbia University where he studied composition under Tristan Murail and Fred Lerdahl. Hodge graduated with MA and DMA degrees from Columbia. Hodge is the winner of the Charles Ives Living, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018, a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010–11 Rome Prize, the 2008 Gaudeamus Prize, commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Music Foundations, and the Aaron Copland Residency Award from the Aaron Copland House. He is professor and chair of music composition at the University of Washington, Seattle. Compositional style Two salient elements in Hodge’s music are the incorporation of timbre as an integral form-bearing compositional device and an approach to musical structure that emphasizes gradual change over time. As such, his music bears traces o

Humblesmith

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Ekenedirichukwu Ijemba (born May 14, 1991), better known by his stage name Humblesmith, is a Nigerian afropop recording artist who achieved recognition upon the release of his hit single titled “Osinachi” in 2015 which later won a nomination spot at the 2016 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. He first ventured into the entertainment business as an actor, starring in a number of films including Hypertension (2010) with Sam Loco Efe. he made the list of “10 Artists To Watch in 2016” by notJustOk. Early life Originally from Uruala, a town in Ideato North local government area of Imo State, southeastern Nigeria, Ekene Ijemba was born on May 14, 1991, into a Catholic family in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. While in secondary school, he started dancing and was part of a group called American Boys before he left Ebonyi State for Asaba City, the capital of Delta State, South-Southern Nigeria in order to pursue a career in music. Career 2014–2017: Beginnings and rise to fame Upon arriving in Asaba City, Humblesmith had to take up menial jobs in order to earn a living. He later ventured into entertainment as an actor and appeared in various films including Hypertension with Sam Loco Efe. In 2

Huw Watkins

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Huw Thomas Watkins (born 13 July 1976 ) is a British composer and pianist. Born in South Wales, he studied piano and composition at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, where he received piano lessons from Peter Lawson. He then went on to read music at King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and Alexander Goehr, and completed an MMus in composition at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Julian Anderson. Huw Watkins was awarded the Constant and Kit Lambert Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music, where he used to teach composition. He is Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music. He is married to fellow composer Helen Grime. Career In 1999, the Nash Ensemble premiered Watkins’ Sonata for Cello and Eight Instruments, which had been commissioned by Faber Music. The review in The Times declared that “at 22, Huw Watkins is already a composer to be reckoned with”. The work has since been performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in London, Paris, Copenhagen and Aldeburgh under the direction of Sakari Oramo and Peter Rundel. In 2000, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales gave the first performance of Watki

Hwanhee

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Hwang Yoon-seok (, born January 17, 1982), better known as Hwanhee (), is a South Korean singer, actor and a member of South Korean R&B duo Fly to the Sky. Career Hwanhee graduated from before his debut. He was encouraged to audition by a staff member working for SM Entertainment at his high school festival. He also attended Kyunghee University, majoring in post-modern music. 1999: Fly to the Sky Officially debuting on November 21, 1999, he released the album Day by Day alongside fellow member Brian Joo. 2006-2011: Acting Hwanhee debuted as an actor in 2006, when he starred alongside Seo Ji-hye, Ji Hyun-woo and Kim Ok-vin in Korean drama Over the Rainbow as cocky rock star Rex. The rating of the show was mediocre throughout its airing, plummeting to 7% at one point. His performance received mixed reviews. (SBS) He continued to pursue his acting career by participating in a 2008 drama “사랑해” (“I Love You”) alongside actor Ahn Jae Wook. On 14 September 2008, Hwanhee appeared on the show We Got Married 우리 결혼했어요! together with Hwayobi, as one of the 3 new couples. They made their official exit from the show on January 18, 2009. In 2010, he acted in a drama called Stormy Lovers. However,

Hyo-Won Woo

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Hyo-Won Woo (also Hyowon Woo, , born 1974) is a South Korean composer, especially of choral music. She uses elements from both Korean music and Western contemporary composition techniques. Career Woo was born in Seoul in 1974. Her father was an artist, her mother a pianist. She graduated from Sungshin Women’s University. In 1995 she became composer in residence with the Seoul Ladies’ Singers, conducted by Hak-Won Yoon whom she had met singing as a student in the Yongrak Presbyterian Church Choir which he also conducted. She received a commission to compose a missa brevis for women’s choir to be performed on an Asia tour in 1996. From 1999 she composed for the Incheon City Chorale, also conducted by Yoon. In 2002 she composed Gloria for a concert tour of the Asian Youth Choir. She wrote an oratorio, Moses, in 2011. In several works, she combines influences from Western contemporary music and from Korean traditional music, creating new Korean choral music. The musicologist Yoonchung Chang analysed the combination specifically for Gloria in a 2012 thesis. Traditional elements include scales and rhythmic patterns. She also uses Sikimsea, Korean melodic ornaments with “subtle shading an

Iain Bell

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Iain Bell (born 1980) is an English composer whose output is predominantly of vocal works, namely opera, art song or orchestral song. Life and career Bell was born in London. His first opera, A Harlot’s Progress, to a libretto by Peter Ackroyd, premiered on 13 October 2013 at the in Vienna, conducted by Mikko Franck and directed by Jens-Daniel Herzog. The cast included Marie McLaughlin as Mother Needham and Nathan Gunn as James Dalton. The lead role of Moll Hackabout was created by German coloratura soprano Diana Damrau for whom the composer has written a great deal of music. Bell’s second opera is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s own one-man version of his novella A Christmas Carol commissioned by Houston Grand Opera where it received its world premiere in December 2014, directed by the British actor, director and writer Simon Callow, sung by the American tenor Jay Hunter Morris. It had its UK premiere at Welsh National Opera in a new production by Polly Graham in December 2015. Bell’s third opera is an adaptation of the 1937 First World War epic poem In Parenthesis by David Jones. It was commissioned by Welsh National Opera and received its world premiere in May 2016 at the Wal

Iain Grandage

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Iain Andrew Grandage is an Australian composer and music director, best known for his compositions for theatre, dance and concert. In May 2018, the Perth Festival appointed Grandage as artistic director. Early life Grandage initially lived in Brisbane, before moving to Perth when he was seven. Grandage studied at the UWA School of Music (now the UWA Conservatorium of Music) as a cellist, and also studied composition with Roger Smalley. Awards and honours He has received the Helpmann Award for Best Original Score multiple times, for play Cloudstreet in 2002, play The Secret River in 2013, dance work When Time Stops in 2014, opera The Rabbits (with Kate Miller-Heidke) in 2015, and concert work Satan Jawa (with Rahayu Supanggah) in 2017. Grandage received the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award for an individual in 2012. He delivered one of the 2024 Boyer Lectures. In the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Grandage was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, for significant service to the arts as a composer and artistic director. References

Ian Cusson

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Ian Cusson (born August 24, 1981) is a Canadian composer of Georgian Bay Métis and French Canadian descent. He is known for his operas, art songs, chamber works and orchestral music. Career Cusson came to prominence in 2017, when he was awarded one of two prestigious new Carrefour residencies for “culturally diverse or Indigenous composers” with the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada. Notable operatic works include Fantasma, with text by Colleen Murphy, and Of the Sea with text by Kanika Ambrose. In 2021, Cusson was the recipient of SOCAN’s Jan V. Matejcek Classical Music Award and the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize. The Canadian Opera Company and the National Arts Centre have announced that Cusson has been commissioned to compose an opera based on the novel Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline as part of their 2025 mainstage season. Cusson is a member of the Canadian Opera Company’s Circle of Artists, an advisory board of indigenous artists. In late November 2025, Edmonton Opera announced the cancellation of the premiere of Cusson’s forthcoming opera Indians on Vacation, after concerns were raised by local Indigenous representatives of Treaty 6 Nations about the indigene

Ian Livingstone (composer)

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Ian Paul Livingstone (born 4 July 1969, in London) is a British composer for television, films and video games. He jointly won an Ivor Novello Award in 2011 for a video game score for Napoleon: Total War. He is best known as the composer of the F1 video game series. He was classically trained from the age of five and has a background as a pop/dance music producer, band member and session musician. He is a graduate of Salford University. Work Video games Television and film He has composed for television for: * Big Fat Gypsy Weddings * The Great British Sewing Bee * The Repair Shop * Francesco’s Mediterranean Voyage The Expendabelles Other He has also produced songs, advertising jingles, movie scores and orchestrations. He also worked with Nokia during 2000 to 2004, creating polyphonic arrangements of monophonic ringtones, including the Nokia tune, References External links *Ian Livingstone’s web-site

Ian Mulder

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Ian Mulder () is a Dutch-born pianist and composer, who lives in Orlando, Florida. He performs in the United States and Europe, playing the piano and conducting an orchestra simultaneously, and has 20 solo albums to his name. His 7-album inspirational album series Love Divine, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and London Philharmonic Orchestra are popular in over 20 countries and have achieved gold and platinum status. Biography Mulder was born in Rotterdam; he studied piano, organ and composition at the Rotterdam and Utrecht conservatories. Since graduating in 1992, Ian Mulder composes music for his solo albums and concerts. His piano albums, recorded with symphony orchestras in London and Moscow, are frequently played on SiriusXM, Classic FM and other stations. In 2013, he recorded his second album with the London Symphony Orchestra, Love Divine, which reached platinum status 10 weeks from its release date. That same album was nominated for the 2014 GMA Dove Awards: Instrumental Album of the Year. His 2014 album with the London Symphony Orchestra, named Christmas, featured Andrea Bocelli singing “A choir of a thousand angels”. In 2021, his

Ian Munro (pianist)

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Ian Munro (born 1963) is an Australian pianist, composer, and music educator. His career has taken him to many countries in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australasia. Early life and education Ian Munro attended Scotch College in Melbourne for his high school education. He then attended the Victorian College of the Arts (1981–83). His early piano training was in Melbourne with Rodney Hurst, Marta Rostas (a pupil of Béla Bartók), Deirdre Vadas and Roy Shepherd (a pupil of Alfred Cortot) and he had further study in Vienna, London and Italy with Franz Zettl, Noretta Conci, Guido Agosti, and Michele Campanella. ) and he also has a special interest in new music. He has premiered or commissioned works by Peter Sculthorpe, Elena Kats-Chernin (her second piano concerto), Gordon Kerry, Ann Ghandar, Raffaele Marcellino, Ross Edwards and Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, from whom he commissioned the piano cycle Silhouettes. These pieces were dedicated to significant 20th-century composers such as Debussy, Gershwin, Ives, Ravel, Schnittke, Stravinsky – and John Cage, which in true Cage style consisted of 33 seconds of silence. During his time in Hobart he created and played a series of four recitals,

Ian Vine

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Ian Vine (born 3 January 1974 in Portsmouth, England) is a British composer. Vine grew up in Libya and Hong Kong. He studied composition at the Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert and privately with Simon Holt. There are traces Near and Far Eastern modalities as well as gestural and formal elements in his music. SIRI (1997), for solo percussion with electronics, uses a rhythmic and structural language found in the highly ritualised percussion music of Japan and Korea. writing on water (1999-), commissioned by Matthew Herbert and released on the Accidental label, is an expanding collection of short (sometimes only 20 seconds long) works using recorded acoustic instruments; and shadow grounds (1999), commissioned by the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the ensemble recherche as part of their In Nomine Broken Consort Book, a three-minute non-miniature of suspended sound. His three black moons (1999), commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, was described by The Guardian, ‘…the most striking piece takes its title from an Alexander Calder mobile - its magical floating sonorities had a Feldmanesque beauty.’ The Guardian has written of him that “Vine’s music,

Ian Wilson (composer)

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Ian Wilson (born 26 December 1964) is an Irish composer. Career Wilson was born in Belfast, studied violin and piano, and graduated with a DPhil in composition from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown in 1990, where he was a research fellow, 2000–3. He has been a composer-in-residence with Leitrim County Council and was music director of the Sligo New Music Festival from 2003 to 2011. He received the Macaulay Fellowship from the Arts Council of Ireland in 1992, and in 1998 he was elected to Aosdána, Ireland’s academy of creative artists. Since 2009, he has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Dundalk Institute of Technology, investigating aspects of traditional (ethnic) Irish performance practice as a basis for new works of art music. Wilson’s music has been performed at the BBC Proms, Venice Biennale, ISCM World Music Days and the Ultima Festival in Oslo and by such diverse groups as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the pianist Hugh Tinney and many others. He has recorded many albums, including two releases for Diatribe Records. Recordings Bibliography * Axel Klein: Die Musik Irlands im 20. Jahrhundert (Hildesheim:

Idan Raichel

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Idan Raichel (, ; b. 12 September 1977) is an Israeli singer-songwriter and musician known for his “Idan Raichel Project” (Hebrew: ), distinctive for its fusion of electronics, traditional Hebrew texts, and diverse musical influences. Prior to the project, Raichel was a keyboardist, collaborating with artists such as Ivri Lider. Biography Idan Raichel was born in Kfar Saba, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. He began to play the accordion at the age of nine. He was attracted to gypsy music and tango, and studied jazz piano in high school. As the musical director of the band, he learned to do arrangements and produce live shows. Following his military service, Raichel worked as a counselor at Hadassim, a boarding school for immigrants. There he met young Ethiopian Jews who took him to Ethiopian bars and clubs in Tel Aviv and introduced him to Ethiopian folk and pop music, including that of Mahmoud Ahmed, Aster Aweke, and Gigi. Music career After working as a backup musician and recording with some of Israel’s most popular singers, Raichel struck out on his own. He began working on a demo recording in Kfar Saba and invited other singers and musicians to collaborate with him to cr

Idin Samimi Mofakham

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Idin Samimi Mofakham (b. 1982; Persian: آیدین صمیمی مفخم) is an Iranian composer, born in 1982 to Hengameh Mofid and Kambiz Samimi Mofakham. He is married to Polish composer, Martyna Kosecka. Biography He studied contemporary composition at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan with Ashot Zohrabian as his professor. In 2009, his piece “Pastorale” for flute trio won the first prize at the Areon Flutes International Composition Competition. Samimi Mofakham’s compositions have been commissioned or selected and performed in different festivals by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, S.E.M Ensemble, Hermes Ensemble, Omnibus Ensemble, AuditivVokal Dresden, Momenta Quartet, IAMA Trio, National Symphonic Orchestra of Uzbekistan, Ostravská Banda, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Nivak Ensemble and Nilper Orchestra, and has been a participant of many interviews and lectures in his home country, covered by one of the most important Iranian music journals, Musice Ma, Music Report Monthly and Musice Iranian. Published by Tehran Records in 2017 album “Concertos” has been nominated in 2017 for the Musicema Awards in the category of the best album of the year. His chamber opera At the Waters of Leth

Igor Escudero

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Igor Escudero Morais (born Leon, Spain, 1977) is a Spanish musician, best known as a composer of classical music and opera. He is the author of eleven operas (including the trilogy based on “I, Claudius”, premiered with the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra), three musicals (“The Fall of the House of Usher”’ has also been considered chamber opera), three profane oratorios (“The mountain of souls”, “The glass Cathedral” and “Moonbeam” ), concerts, soundtracks for documentaries (four pieces for two documentaries for “The Time Tunnel” of “RTVE” ), OST for audiovisuals and short films, sacred and profane choral music, cantatas and a great variety of chamber pieces. Selected works Opera *Aquerra (2026) *The legend of Tamonante (2021) *The Commoners (2021) *I, Claudius & Claudius the God (2019) # Part One: Livia # Part Two: Caligula # Part Three: Claudius, the God *Peter I, the Evil (2009) *Oci, the Shaman (2006) Chamber opera *The metamorphosis (2023) *Borderland (2022) *Casina (2013) *The third king (2012) Secular oratorios *The mountain of souls (2020) *The glass Cathedral (2014) *Moonbeam (2011) Filmography and discography *The Time Tunnel (2018) *Adendro (2015) Musicals *The Fall

Igor Garnier

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Igor Garnier (16 February 1990 – 4 July 2021 ) was a Serbian DJ, composer, songwriter and music producer. Life and career Garnier was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His first creative encounter with music was at the age of 6 when he started attending music school for piano. As a very successful pianist with a vast array of international rewards he decided to take his music knowledge further to the next level. In Music High School, he majored in Music Production, Music Theory and Piano, providing him the general knowledge on music. After Music High School, he entered the European Music University majoring in Sound Engineering where he completed the essentials of music production and sound engineering. He was introduced to electronic music in 2005, enabling him to experiment with an endless amount of sounds that could not be created with traditional instruments and yet the compositions consisted of dozens of musical layers orchestrating simultaneously. In this complexity he found harmony and creative output that he could engage in, drawing him deeper and deeper into the world of electronic music. As time passed Igor Garnier’s talent and determination grew larger while his focus on wri

Igor Krutogolov

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Igor Krutogolov (; born 1976, Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is an Israeli musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, producer, graphic designer, artist, the founder and the leader of the bands Kruzenshtern & Parohod (KIP) and Igor Krutogolov’s Toy Orchestra. Biography Igor Krutogolov was born in 1976 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His love for music started at the age of 12, when he first listened to Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. In 1989, he played drums in a local punk band in Tashkent. After he finished school in 1992, he immigrated with his parents to Israel. Music career Early collaborations Igor Krutogolov started his music career soon after he immigrated to Israel. Beginning in 1997, he took an active part in the Israeli indie music scene under the nickname Igor18 as a composer, bass player, vocalist and an album cover designer. Krutogolov collaborated with a number of Israeli musicians including Ruslan Gross, Vadim Gusis, Vera Agnivolok, Slava Smelovsky, and Anton Weiss. He played bass guitar, drums and experimented with unconventional musical instruments (saw, bow, children’s toys etc.). Together with his friend Ruslan Gross, a clarinetist and bassist with Rabies Cas

Igor Lintz Maués

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Igor Lintz Maués; also spelled Igor Lintz-Maues; is a composer and sound artist born December 8, 1955, in São Paulo, Brazil, and since the end of the 1980s living in Vienna, Austria. Biography He studied composition, Electroacoustic and Computer Music in São Paulo (USP), The Hague (Royal Conservatory), Utrecht (Institute of Sonology) and Vienna (University of Music and Performing Arts) with Willy Correa de Oliveira, Gilberto Mendes, Louis Andriessen, Gottfried Michael Koenig and Wilhelm Zobl. His master’s thesis, “Música Eletroacústica no Brasil (1956-1981)”, is a reference work about the pioneering years of the Brazilian electroacoustic music. External links *Igor Lintz Maués on the website of the UNESCO. *Igor Lintz Maués on the website of the Kunstradio-Austrian Broadcasting. *Igor Lintz Maués on the data bank of The International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music.

Igor Matvienko

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Igor Igorevich Matvienko (; born February 6, 1960) is a Soviet and Russian producer, composer and founder of the bands Lyube, Ivanushki International, Korni, Fabrika, and KuBa. Compositions Igor Matvienko wrote many songs in collaboration with Alexander Shaganov. In 2016, the anthem of the Russian Ground Forces (“Forward, infantry!") was written by Matvienko. A number of songs were written in collaboration with the poet Mikhail Andreev. References External links * Продюсерский центр Игоря Матвиенко *

Igor Milić

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Igor Milić (born October 5, 1972 in Osijek) Croatian musician, instrumentalist, singer, record producer, arranger, composer and music teacher. Biography Musical beginnings Igor Milić was born on October 5, 1972, in Osijek, Croatia. His first contact with music was when, as a five-year-old boy, he started to play the guitar and tamburitza (a Croatian stringed folk instrument, similar to the guitar) for his family. When he was nine years old, he started to participate in Josip Kolaric’s tamburitza orchestra in which he played different kinds of tamburitza: brač, čelo, bugarija and berda. He continued with this orchestra for 5 years and performed in number of tamburitza reviews and festivals, in which the orchestra received many prestigious awards. While playing in Josip Kolaric’s orchestra, beginning in 1982, he also played bugarija in the folklore society “Biseri Slavonije”, led by Franjo Slavko Batorek. He played with this orchestra until 1987 when he moved to the folklore society “Srđan Petrov”, where he stayed until 1991, also playing bugarija, berda and brač in the national orchestra led by Miroslav Tanacković and in the tamburitza band led by Zvonko Murinji. During the period 1

Igor Nikolayev

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Biography Nikolayev was born in Kholmsk, Sakhalin Oblast, into the family of the Sakhalin marinist poet Yury Nikolayev. He graduated from the pop branch (class of the composer Igor Yakushenko) of the Moscow Institute of Culture. In the early 1980s, he worked in Alla Pugacheva’s ensemble “Recital” as a keyboardist and arranger. In 1983, Pugacheva and Nikolayev recorded the songs “Iceberg” and “Tell, Birds!”, which established him as a celebrated composer. He has a daughter, Yulia Igorevna Nikolaeva, from his first marriage. His second marriage was to the singer Natasha Koroleva. He has a further daughter, Veronika Igorevna Nikolaeva, from his second marriage to the singer Yulia Proskuryakova, who in 2021 attracted public attention after insulting a neighbour who had occupied her parking space. * “Ozero nadezhdy” (, Hope Lake) by Alla Pugacheva * “Ne obijay menya” () by Alla Pugacheva * “Paromshik” () by Alla Pugacheva * “Rasskazhite, ptitsy” () by Alla Pugacheva * “Parahody” () by Valery Leontiev * “Tri minuty” (, Three Minutes) by Valery Leontiev * “Komarovo” () by Igor Sklyar * “Strannik Moy” () by Irina Allegrova * “Zheltye Tyulpani” () by Natasha Koroleva * “Malenkaya strana” (,

Igor Raykhelson

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Igor Raykhelson (; born 24 April 1961 in Leningrad) is a Russian born American classical and jazz pianist and composer. He studied classical and jazz piano as a teenager at Leningrad Conservatory from 1976 then in 1979 his family moved to New York City where Igor continued his education at New York University under Alexander Edelman. His Jazz Suite and works for viola performed by Yuri Bashmet were well received by Gramophone Magazine in 2007. Works, editions and recordings * Igor Raykhelson: Jazz Suite and other works. Little Symphony for Strings in G minor. Reflections for Violin, Viola and Strings. Adagio for Viola and Strings. Jazz Suite for Viola, Saxophone and Orchestra. Elena Revich, violin, Igor Butman, saxophone. Igor Raykhelson, piano. Yuri Golubev, double-bass. Eduard Zizak, drums. Moscow-Soloists, ensemble. Yuri Bashmet, viola, conductor. * Igor Raykhelson: Violin Concerto in C minor. Viola Concerto in A minor. Yuri Bashmet, viola, Nikolay Sachenko, violin. Novaya Rossiya Orchestra, orchestra Claudio Vandelli, conductor Alexander Sladkovsky, conductor Legal issues Raykhelson is chairman of the Switzerland-based titanium company Interlink Metals and Chemicals, which has

Ihlara McIndoe

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Ihlara Jayne McIndoe (born 1997) is a New Zealand composer. Early life and education McIndoe was born in 1997. Growing up she learnt the piano and played in school orchestras and sang in choirs. She attended St Hilda’s Collegiate School in Dunedin and the University of Otago where she graduated with a BA (Hons), a BMus and LLB. Career In 2018, McIndoe led the Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institution delegation to the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. McIndoe visited Antarctica in 2020 as an Inspiring Explorer with the Antarctic Heritage Trust. Using sounds she recorded there as inspiration she composed five pieces: On Satin Waters, Wavering Horizon, On Whistling Sands, Ushuaia Sketches and Ephemeral Boundaries. All five works were performed in A Musical Journey to Antarctica a live-streamed concert in Christchurch in 2022. The work uses poetry by Hera Lindsay Bird. From 2021 to 2022 McIndoe spent almost two years working as a lawyer in Wellington. Awards In 2016, she won the Douglas Lilburn Student Composition Award. In 2022 she received an Arts Excellence Award from the Dame Malvina Major Foundation towards her study for a Masters at McGill University. Personal

Ikurō Fujiwara

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is a Japanese pianist, composer, conductor and musical producer signed under Being Inc. He is Pops Executive Producer in the Pacific Philharmonia Tokyo orchestra. Biography Ikurō started learning piano and composing from an early age. He studied composition under Yoshio Hasegawa, Akira Kitamura, Hajime Kaburagi, Kiyohiko Kishima, and Tsuyoshi Yanagisawa; piano under Shihoko Uno, Kazuko Yasukawa, Michiko Jackson; conducting under Shigenobu Yamaoka and Konstantin D. Crimets. In 1976, Ikurō graduated from “Nihon University College of Art”. In 1980s, his name appeared in the credit list of the various albums of the artist as arranger and keyboardist. At the beginning of 90’s, he would focus his career more into composing and arranging music for the video gameseries Wizardry. In 1996, he was member of the Japanese band W’s as keyboardist, composer and arranger. From 1998, he has been active as an orchestral conductor and arranger for symphonic live series started firstly for Akina Nakamori, in the recent years by public well known for Mai Kuraki, Aska and Luna Sea. Since the 2000s, he started to release his original albums under subtitles “Densetsu” and “Eternal Animation Healing” music

Ilan Eshkeri

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Ilan Eshkeri (born 7 April, 1977) is a British composer known for his concert music, film scores and artist collaborations. Early life Eshkeri was born in London. During his childhood, he learned to play the violin and guitar. Eshkeri attended Leeds University, where he studied music and English literature. During this time he also apprenticed with film composers Edward Shearmur, Michael Kamen and music producer Steve McLaughlin. Career His extensive catalogue of film and TV scores include Still Alice, Stardust, The Young Victoria, Layer Cake (film), Shaun The Sheep and David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive. Eshkeri has collaborated with artists David Gilmour, Annie Lennox, Take That, KT Tunstall, Tim Wheeler, Amon Tobin and Nick Hodgson (Kaiser Chiefs) among others. He recently worked with the European Space Agency on music for astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission. In addition, he has conducted his own works at The Louvre in Paris, the Rudolfinum in Prague and conducted a specially commissioned work called Reliquary for the Burberry 2016 Autumn fashion show in London. In 2012, Eshkeri was commissioned to write a composition for a photo exhibition at The Louvre in Pa

Ileana Perez Velazquez

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Ileana Perez Velazquez is a Cuban-American composer who has been professor of composition at Williams College since 2000. She was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and studied undergraduate piano and composition at the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA), Havana, Cuba before moving to the United States for graduate work in composition at Dartmouth College and Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, where she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Her work draws from a range of influences, which a New York Times review described as an “otherworldly quality mirrored in the accompaniment and sounding like a musical expression of the Latin American literary form magical realism.” She has been commissioned to compose works, including the 2015 Commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University and by performers and ensembles, including Continuum (New York City), Momenta String quartet (New York City), Miranda Cuckson and Nunc, Cassatt Quartet (New York City), Ensemble Dal Niente from Chicago, Talujon Percussion Ensemble, by the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, and by Mari Kimura, among others. Festival performances of her work includes venues such as the Sonidos de las Americ

Ilona Breģe

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Ilona Breģe (born 20 May 1959 in Riga, Soviet Union) is a composer, pianist and musicologist. Life Breģe was born in Riga. She graduated from the Latvian Music Academy (former State Conservatory) as a pianist in 1983 and as a composer in1986. She became a Doctor of Art in 1993. Breģe was the solo pianist in the Latvian Philharmonic (1983–92) until she became a researcher in the Latvian Science Academy in the Literature, Folklore and Art department in 1998. She was the General Manager of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 2006. In 2006, she became the Managing Director of the Riga Professional Symphonic Band. Her music has been played by Kremerata Baltica. Selected compositions *2008 Concert for Violin and Chamber Orchestra, dedicated to Baiba Skride. First performance 17 January 2009, Great Guild Concert Hall in Riga. Soloist Baiba Skride, chamber orchestra “Sinfonietta Riga”, conductor Normunds Sne. 20 minutes *2007 Otrais Rīgas koncerts (Riga Concerto No. 2) for violin, viola and chamber orchestra. First performance 17 February 2008, Latvian Music Academy Concert Hall. Soloists Darja Smirnova, Arigo Strals, orchestra “Sinfonia Concertante”, conductor Andris Vecu

Ilya Salmanzadeh

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Ilya Salmanzadeh (; ; born 19 September 1986), known mononymously as Ilya, is an Iranian-born Swedish songwriter, producer, and singer. He rose to prominence outside of Sweden after co-writing and producing Ariana Grande’s hit single “Problem” for her second studio album, My Everything (2014). He is a six-time Grammy Awards nominee, including three nominations for Album of the Year: Grande’s Thank U, Next (2020), Justin Bieber’s Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe) (2022), and Lizzo’s Special (2023). Career Ilya Salmanzadeh was born in Iran, raised in Denmark, and moved to Sweden at age 11. In 2005 at the age of 19, he sang with Warner/Chappell Music in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2009, he graduated from the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, California. “Miss Me”, Mohombi & Nelly’s song in 2010, was Ilya’s first internationally acclaimed production. In 2011, he produced “Mama” and “Reba” from The Lonely Island’s Grammy-nominated album, Turtleneck & Chain. In 2013, he produced Cher Lloyd’s song, “I Wish”, and Fifth Harmony’s award-winning song, “Me & My Girls”. Alongside Max Martin, he co-wrote and produced Ariana Grande’s “Problem” and Jennifer Lopez’s “First Love” in 2014. “Problem” went on t

Imee Ooi

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Imee Ooi FRSA ( ; ) is a Chinese-Malaysian record producer, composer, and singer who composes and arranges music for classic Buddhist chant, mantra, and dharani. She performs her compositions in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Mandarin. In 1997 she founded a record label, I.M.M. Musicworks, to publish her music. She has released more than 50 albums (55 between 1998 and 2020 ). Ooi also composed and directed three highly acclaimed stage musicals: Siddhartha, Above Full Moon, and Princess Wen Cheng (aka Jewel of Tibet). Biography Early life Ooi was born in Taiping, Malaysia to a musically inclined Hoklo family. Her grandfather, who was a writer and dramatist, emigrated to Malaysia from Guangdong, China. Ooi’s mother was a piano teacher; Imee and her four siblings all learned piano. Ooi continued her study of piano and trained as a classical pianist. Career In the early 1990s, after training as a classical pianist, she followed her mother’s example and in turn became a piano teacher, before moving into composition, creating film music for cinema or television series. Buddhist vegetarian, she decided to specialize in Buddhist music, some are translated into English. She also composes musi

Imre Czomba

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Imre Czomba (born September 9, 1972) is a Los Angeles-based Hungarian-American composer, film composer, orchestrator, conductor, arranger, music producer, and musician. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy (Grammy) and the Television Academy (Emmy). Active in the international music scene since 1993, he has worked across film, Tv, theatrical productions, international events, and dance theatre. He collaborated with ExperiDance, a Hungarian dance troupe, over an 18-year period, with productions performed in theaters across Europe and Asia. His credits include compositions for the 2008 Summer and 2014 Winter Olympic Games, the 2013 European Judo Championship, and the 2006 European Aquatic Championship. In 2008 and 2009, he composed music for the Hungarian National Day fireworks shows in Budapest, which drew audiences of over 3 million viewers. In 2024, he joined the ISINA Academy as a mentor, alongside Walter Afanasieff, Michael Bolton, Greg Phillinganes, Richard Marx, Robin Thicke, Humberto Gatica, Chris Lord-Alge, Paul Oakenfold, and Taika Waititi. Early life At an early point in his career, Imre was inspired by the blues, which can be clearly heard in his piano playing.

Inés Medina-Fernández

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Inés Medina-Fernández (born February 8, 1974) is a pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. She began playing piano at the age of 8, completing examinations at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. An experienced pianist and self-taught composer, her compositions draw upon many influences - from Baroque to John Cage, to film and documentary music, for example. She explores composition for a variety of instruments, and has composed not only for piano but also for horn and classical guitar. Her love of film music has led to collaborations with producers and directors. Medina-Fernández also enjoys working with musicians interested in premiering her pieces. Medina-Fernández’ music is difficult to define. It is multi-layered and uses tones and patterns in creative and original structures, hinting at medieval and baroque although clearly contemporary. Biography Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, she studied physics there until 1994, when she moved to Canterbury, England. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Kent in 1998 then lived in Ghent, Belgium, until 2000. Taking every opportunity to learn musical composition, she attended many Earl

Iraida Yusupova

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Iraida Yusupova (born February 20, 1962) is a Turkmenistani composer of half Russian half Tatar ethnicity who lives in Moscow, Russia. Iraida Yusupova was born in Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR, and graduated from Moscow Conservatory with a degree in composition in 1987. She has written and composed 3 operas, 2 symphonies, 6 cantatas, 3 instrumental concerts, and a great deal of chamber music, electro-acoustic music, and music for cinema and theater spanning over the late eighties to the present day. Her various styles include minimalism, serialism, and several progressive new age styles. Her music has been performed in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, United States, Switzerland, Turkey and Hungary. Festival participation Mrs. Yusupova has been a continual participant in numerous musical festivals such as Alternative, Moscow Autumn, Moscow forum, and has participated in the music festivals Bach - 2000, White Night’s Stars, Gent-Moscow-Gent, Klang och Rubel, Delphi’s Games, Austrian Cultural Forum, David Oistrakh’s Festival, and the Wean Hean festival. Works *Sonata for oboe and piano (1987) *Concerto for harp with orchestra “Arpa-amplificata” (1987) *Octet in memory of Igor

Iris Szeghy

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Iris Szeghy (born 1956) is a Slovak composer living in Switzerland. Biography Iris Szeghy was born in Prešov, Slovakia. She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in Košice and composition at the Music Academy in Bratislava, she ended it with a doctoral degree at the same school. Szeghy went through numerous composer residencies - at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, at the University of California at San Diego, at the STEIM Studio in Amsterdam, at the State Opera in Hamburg, at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, she was a scholar of the Landis & Gyr Foundation in London and Budapest etc. Iris Szeghy has won many international composition awards, her work has been performed and broadcast in Europe, America and Australia. Works Szeghy composes for orchestra, chamber ensembles and voice. Selected works include: *Hommage à Rodin - Touches with three Statues of the Master 1982 *Musica Dolorosa (String Quartet) 1985 *Minifanfare 1986 *Canto Triste Nocturne for Trombone (Violoncello) and Piano 1986 *Afforismi 1990 *Afforismi II 1992 *Midsummer Night’s Mystery 1992 *Midsummer Night’s Mystery II 1993 *Musica Folclorica - Hommage à Bartók 1996 *A Day in Manhatta

Iris ter Schiphorst

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Iris ter Schiphorst (born 22 May 1956) is a German composer and musician. Early life Iris ter Schiphorst was born in Hamburg into a middle-class family, her father a Dutch technician and her mother a German pianist. She describes music as her “second mother tongue” (“zweite Muttersprache”). She began taking piano lessons, initially from her mother, after her early hopes of becoming a dancer were thwarted by injury. She continued her piano studies at the Bremen Musikhochschule from 1973 to 1978, and embarked on a busy schedule of concert performances. She then spent two years (1978–1980) travelling in Europe and Africa, an experience that transformed her social and musical outlook. On returning to Germany she began playing in rock bands, including Bremen’s all-female Seven Kick the Can. She remained active in rock music from 1980 to 1986, as keyboardist, bassist, drummer, and sound engineer. ter Schiphorst moved to Berlin in 1984 and from 1986 studied humanities (theatre studies, cultural studies, and philosophy) at the Freie Universität Berlin, later transferring to Humboldt-Universität. She also attended seminars with composers Dieter Schnebel and Luigi Nono and musicologist Helga

Irma (singer)

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Irma Pany (born 15 July 1988), better known as Irma (), is a Cameroonian singer-songwriter living in France. Early life and education She was born in Douala in a family with a scientific background. Her father is a biologist and her mother is a pharmacist. As a child Irma was performing at masses too. At age 15, she went to a high school in Paris, France, to improve her school education. In 2008, Irma entered ESCP Europe (Top French Business School) and graduated in the Master in Management in 2012. Career By 2007, she had posted her first videos on YouTube. Those included her own compositions, including “Letter to the Lord” and a piano piece “Somehow”, as well as cover versions of songs including “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5, “Bubbly” by Colbie Caillat, and “New Soul” by Yael Naim. She released several home-made videos with acoustic covers on YouTube in collaboration with French and international musicians, including Tété (“Hey Ya!”), Matthieu Chédid (“Rolling in the Deep”), Gad Elmaleh (“Isn’t She Lovely?”), Tom Dice (“Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution”) from Belgium and Patrice (“The Times They Are a-Changin’”) from Germany. Together with will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, she p

Isa Melikov

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Isa Melikov (, born 21 October 1980, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a famous Azerbaijani composer and producer. He is the author of numerous musical projects, hit songs and soundtracks to movies. The list of celebrities singing his songs include leading stars of Azerbaijan as well as vocalists from CIS and Europe such as Dima Bilan, Eldar Gasimov, Nikki Jamal, Glenys Vargas, Kevin Etienne, Elli, Aysel, Gunesh, Zulfiyya Khanbabayeva, Aygün Kazımova, Elnara, Röya, Elşad Xose, Sevda Alekperzade, Manana, Faig Aghayev, Tunzala Agayeva, Zamig Huseynov, Malik Kalantarli, etc. Biography He was born in 1980, October 21 in Baku. The parents of the future composer taught him love for music from a very early years of his life. Even as a child Isa knew by heart the lyrics of many international hits and by the age of 6 he already was trying to perform them on the piano. In 1987, he went to the secondary school #189 in Baku. In 1990 he became a student of the Baku musical school #1 named after Vagif Mustafazade. In 1995 he entered the Musical College named after Asaf Zeynalli. Afterwards, in 1997 he entered the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts, and graduated with honors in the special

Isabel Mundry

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Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer. Life and work Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern, Hesse in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt with Hans Zender and later researched at the IRCAM in Paris. In addition to her teaching activities in Berlin, she held teaching appointments in Zürich and at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Mundry was the first resident composer of the Staatskapelle in Dresden. She previously held a similar position at the Tong Yong Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Mannheim National Theater. Mundry’s compositions are characterized by a highly individualized musical language, full of variants and nuances: “She hardly ever repeats herself; each time, sounds and sequences of sounds are articulated differently.” Isabel Mundry’s work is currently published by Breitkopf & Härtel. She was one of the top 10 performed composers on the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik between 1946 and 2014. Awards * Boris Blache

Isabel Soveral

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Isabel Soveral (born 1961) is a Portuguese composer of contemporary music. Life Isabel Soveral was born in 1961 in Porto, Portugal. She graduated from the where she studied with the composers Jorge Peixinho and Joly Braga Santos. In 1988, she attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied with Daria Semegen and Bulent Arel, having completed her master’s (1991) and PhD (1994) in Composition at that university. She was a Fellow of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Luso-American Foundation and Fulbright Program. She is part of an important group of Portuguese composers who appeared in the 1980s. Career Her music has been performed in Portugal, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Macao, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and the United States. She has had several works released on CD by the publishers Portugalsom and Strauss, EMI Classics, Nova Música, Capella, Deux-Elles, Numérica, ISCM-WMD, Miso Records, Plancton, IPCB and Musicamera, as well as scores published by Musicoteca, Fermata, Cecilia Honegger, IPCB and MIC. She has been Professor of Composition, Theory and Musical

Isidora Žebeljan

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Isidora Žebeljan (27 September 1967 – 29 September 2020) was a Serbian composer and conductor. She was a professor of composition at the Belgrade Music Academy and a Fellow of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She won many national awards for her music, among them the Stevan Mokranjac National Music Award in 2004. Biography Isidora Žebeljan studied composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Vlastimir Trajković (a student of Olivier Messiaen). She was Professor of Composition at the same Faculty from 2002. Her work as a composer earned her several significant awards in her country, including the Mokranjac Award in 2004. She won the New York Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship in 2005. In 2006 she was elected to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (becoming a full member in 2012) and in 2012 she was elected to the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). In 2014 she received a Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean Award for her achievement in art. She attracted international attention with her opera Zora D. which was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation in London. The opera, directed by David Pountney and Nicola Raab, was premiered in Amsterdam in 2

Isobel Waller-Bridge

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NOTOC Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge (born 23 April 1984) is an English composer who is known for her scores for film, television, and theatre, along with her works for electronic music and contemporary classical music. Early life and education Born Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge on 23 April 1984, she is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke), an employee of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint. She has two younger siblings: Jasper and Phoebe. The family from which Waller-Bridge descends were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex. On her father’s side, she is a descendant of the Revd Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, and a distant relative of politician and author Egerton Leigh; her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire. Waller-Bridge earned an bachelor’s degree in music from Edinburgh University, and a master’s degree from King’s College London. She was also awarded a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, where she received another diploma. Career Waller-Bridge composed the soundtrack for the BBC comedy-drama

Israel Sharon

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Israel Sharon (; born in Tel Aviv, 25 May 1966) is an Israeli composer, pianist, arranger, conductor and a teacher in Israel Arts and Science Academy. As a young man Israel Sharon studied piano with Alexander Volkov and composition with Abel Ehrlich. Later, he studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv, where he continued his composition studies with Leon Schidlowsky. Israel Sharon also studied at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Since 1992 he has been a leading member of the Israeli Kaprizma Ensemble as a composer, conductor and pianist. He has composed numerous works for the ensemble many of which were also recorded by the ensemble. He has done arrangements of other compositions including one of Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe for 16 instruments. His works have been performed by Kaprizma as well as by leading international artists such as Pierre Strauch, Alain Damiens, Julius Berger, Wolfgang Meyer, Cihat Askin, Sava Stoianov and members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to name but few. His composition were presented concerts and festivals in many countries including Germany, Austria, Russia, South Korea, USA, Cyprus, Hungary and Israel. Compositi

Issam Rafea

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Issam Rafea, also written Essam Rafea (, born 1971 in Kuwait), is a Syrian musician, music director and composer, noted for his compositions and performances on the Arabic oud, as former director of the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music and for his collaboration with jazz and world music bands. Since 2013, Rafea has lived in Chicago, touring in the US as well as internationally. Biography Born in Kuwait to Syrian parents in 1971, Rafea studied in Kuwait and Syria at the High Institute of Music in Damascus. He obtained his B.A. degree in oud and double bass in 1995. Following this, he was director of the department of Arabic Music at the same institute and was teaching both oud and Western harmony. At the same time, he was also active as composer and arranger for Syrian TV and theatre. Among other awards, he obtained the fourth prize at the Cairo Improvisation Competition 2000 and the second prize at the competition for traditional Arab ensembles in Cairo, Egypt, in 1997. Further to solo appearances on the oud with the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Solhi Al Wadi, Rafea has performed internationally in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and the United S

Iva Bittová

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Iva Bittová (born 22 July 1958) is a Czech avant-garde violinist, singer, and composer. She began her career as an actor in the mid-1970s, appearing in several Czech feature films, but switched to playing violin and singing in the early 1980s. She started recording in 1986 and by 1990 her unique vocal and instrumental technique gained her international recognition. Since then, she has performed regularly throughout Europe, the United States and Japan, and has released over eight solo albums. In addition to her musical career, Bittová has continued acting and still occasionally appears in feature films. In 2003 she played the part of Zena in Želary, a film nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Academy Awards. Biography Iva Bittová was born on 22 July 1958 in the town of Bruntál, Czech Silesia, in what was then Czechoslovakia. The second of three daughters, she grew up in a musical family where her father Koloman Bitto (), a famous musician of Hungarian–Romani origin from southern Slovakia, played guitar, trumpet and double bass in folk and classical ensembles, and her mother Lidmila Bittová (née Masařová) sang in professional vocal groups. As a child, Bittová took bal

Iva Lorens

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Iva Mišović (, born on 1 July 1996), better known under the stage name Iva Lorens, is a Serbian record producer and singer-songwriter. Biography Lorens started writing songs at the age of 9. Her mother is a model, host and journalist Irena Mišović. Lorens completed music management studies in Berlin at the British Institute of Modern Music and lives between Berlin and Belgrade. She was a presenter on MTV. The song Just Because was a hit in Germany. She first published songs in English, and from 2021 in Serbian, when she released the song Svitanje, which she wrote with the Pančevo-based band Buč Kesidi. As part of the music project Tuborg Open in Los Angeles, Lorens gets the opportunity to collaborate with Jason Derulo. The song qualified for the final. Discography Albums * I Guess it’s About You (2020) * Svitanje (2023) * Svitanje (Deluxe edition) (2023) Singles Guest appearances References

Ivan Beatz

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Ivan Beatz is a Ghanaian record producer, DJ, and composer from the Central part of Ghana. Afro-pop, Hip hop, Afrobeats, R&B, Rock, Hiplife, Fuji, and Highlife are some of his specialties. Ivan has produced songs for a diverse range of artists, including Kwame Eugene, Bisa Kdei, Medikal, Amerado, Flowking Stone, Kwaw Kese, Sista Afia, Kelvyn Boy, Strongman, Fameye, MzVee, LAX, Feli nuna, Deon Boakye, Ayesem, Eye Judah, Opanka, Kurl Songz, Kingskid, Ras Kuku, French kiss DJ, and Eazzy. In 2021, he was nominated for the Global Music Awards Africa in the “Producer of the Year” together with Mr Jassiq (South Africa), KillBeatz (Ghana), Scarfboy (Nigeria), MOG Beatz (Ghana), Dave Da Music Box (Ghana), Spon Key (Ghana) and Vinny Kay (Ghana). Early life and career He started deejaying when he was a youngster and had some success. His interest in music began when he was a child, and his excitement has grown since then. He taught himself to play the keyboard, drums, and mastered Fruity Loops and other music production software applications at an early age. In 2014, he began professional music production and rose to prominence after creating “Cassanova” by French kiss DJ, which featured MzVe

Ivan Božičević

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Ivan Božičević (born 27 May 1961 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a Croatian composer, organist, pianist, and jazz musician. Biography Božičević was born in Belgrade. After initial piano studies, he joined the composition class of A. Obradović at the Belgrade Faculty of Music. He graduated in 1984, earning a master’s degree in 1989. Until 2001 he occupied a teaching post for Harmony, Counterpoint and Analysis there and at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. In December 2001 he moved to Split, Croatia, where he started working as a freelance artist. As of 2018, he leads the composition class at the Split Academy of Arts. From 1984 to 1988 he studied organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt with the renowned professor Edgar Krapp. His work encompasses a broad repertoire, with special emphasis on baroque and modern music. Specializes early organ music in Salamanca (with Guy Bovet and Montserrat Torrent). Gives many successful concerts in Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. His creative output encompasses five symphonic works, orchestral, chamber, choir and soloistic works, as well as electronic compositions and jazz music. He received numerou

Ivan Iusco

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Ivan Iusco (born September 4, 1970) is an Italian American award-winning composer and record producer based in Los Angeles, California, United States. Background As a youth in the 1970s, Ivan was inspired by Ennio Morricone’s film scores, Japanese animation and science fiction film soundtracks. By age 7, Ivan began taking piano lessons. At 15 he bought his first synthesizer and started building a home studio. Career Music In 1987, he founded the pioneering Italian music label Minus Habens Records In 1987, Iusco also founded the dark ambient and industrial music group, , whose music was primarily released through Minus Habens. Film soundtracks and scoring He debuted in the film industry in 1999, having composed the music for the Apulian cult movie LaCapaGira directed by Alessandro Piva, and went on to win Best Soundtrack at the 2000 Valencia Film Festival (Spain). In 2003 he composed the music for Mio Cognato, a movie by the same director, for which he received the 2004 Nastro d’Argento nomination for Best Soundtrack. Iusco has partnered often with the well-known Italian director, Sergio Rubini, composing the main theme for the movie L’Anima Gemella (2002), the soundtrack of L’Amore

Ivan Moody (composer)

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Ivan Moody (11 June 1964 in London – 18 January 2024 in Lisbon) was a British composer and musicologist. Moody was active as a conductor, having directed ensembles such as Voces Angelicae, the Kastalsky Chamber Choir (United Kingdom), Capilla Peña Florida (Spain), Cappella Romana (United States), the Choir of the Cathedral of St George, Novi Sad (Serbia), the KotorArt Festival Choir (Montenegro), the Orthodox Choir of the University of Joensuu (Finland) and Ensemble Alpha (Portugal); and as a widely published musicologist. His research interests included the music of Eastern Europe, especially 20th century and contemporary music from Russia and the Balkans, the music of the Orthodox Church in the modern era, music and spirituality, music as theology, Serbian church music, the aesthetics of Modernism and Postmodernism and their intersection with Orthodox church music and the musical culture of the Mediterranean. Ivan Moody’s music is recorded on the Hyperion, ECM, Sony, Challenge, Telarc, Gothic, Oehms, Orange Mountain, Linn and Cappella Romana labels. Early life Ivan Moody was born in London on 11 June 1964. He studied composition at Royal Holloway College, in London and privately

Ivan Nebesnyy

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Ivan Vasylovych Nebesnyy (born July 15, 1971) is a Ukrainian composer and music producer. Graduated from Lviv Conservatory in 1995 (composer class under Myroslav Skoryk). In 1996 Ivan Nebesnyy founded an ensemble “Cluster” which performed music by modern composers from Ukraine and abroad. In 2006 – 2011 Ivan Nebesnyy was a music director of the “Kyiv Music Fest”. Selected works Works by Ivan Nebesny are considered as postmodern. *Mykhailo Verykivsky award (2011)), Notes References Links *Official page *

Ivan Vilela

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Ivan Vilela (born August 28, 1962 in Itajubá, Minas Gerais) is a Brazilian composer, arranger, researcher, teacher and viola caipira player. Ivan Vilela is currently a professor at the ECA - School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo. He is the director of the Orquestra Filarmônica de Violas, a Brazilian orchestra composed by Brazilian violas. Ivan Vilela is one of the main ten-string guitarists (viola) nowadays. With a special style and very developed technique, he has more than 15 albums recorded, solo or with different groups, and was nominated for and awarded several prestigious prizes in Brazil. Biography Ivan Vilela is the youngest of a family of eleven children. When he was 11 years old, Vilela received a guitar from his father. His first guitar teacher was Amaury Vieira, in 1973. He began his artistic career at age 18 playing with the “Pedra” Group and then the “Água doce” Group, who did research on the music roots from the state of Minas Gerais. Vilela studied History prior to studying Music Composition at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), where he earned a BA and an MA in Arts. In 1989, he moved to Campinas. In 1995, he started playing

Ivo Josipović

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Ivo Josipović (; born 28 August 1957) is a Croatian academic, jurist, composer, and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2010 to 2015. Josipović entered politics as a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ), and played a key role in the democratic transformation of the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH) into the Social Democratic Party (SDP) as the author of its first statute. He left politics in 1994, but returned in 2003, winning a seat in the Croatian Parliament running as an independent candidate on the SDP party list. He won re-election to parliament as a member of the SDP in 2007. Josipović was inaugurated on 18 February 2010, at St. Mark’s Square in Zagreb. His term officially began at midnight on 19 February. Josipović sought reelection in the 2014–15 presidential election held on 28 December 2014. He was supported by the centre-left four-party Kukuriku coalition, led by the SDP. Josipović won 38.46% of the vote in the first round, finishing narrowly ahead of conservative HDZ candidate Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. They entered a run-off, which took place on 11 January 2015 and which Josipović ultimately lost by a slim margin of around 32,500

Ivo van Emmerik

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Ivo van Emmerik (born 1961 in Amsterdam, North Holland) is a Dutch composer. Ivo van Emmerik lives and works in Zwolle, where he teaches twentieth-century music at the Arnhem/Zwolle School of Music (ArteZ Institute of the Arts). He studied composition with Robert Heppener at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and Brian Ferneyhough at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He attended summer courses in Middelburg given by Morton Feldman and John Cage that were of great importance to his musical development. In 1989 he completed, with honors, his studies in The Hague. Since then, his work has been performed regularly in the Netherlands as well as in other European countries (such as Germany, Russia, Italy). He wrote for such ensembles and soloists as the Nieuw Ensemble, orchestra ‘de ereprijs’, Percussiongroup The Hague, Trio Dolce, pianist Anthony de Mare and Ensemble Kontext Basel. His composition Thought for three soloists and orchestra (1990), written for the Residentie Orkest, was premiered during the 1991 Holland Festival by Het Trio (Harry Sparnaay, Harrie Starreveld and René Eckhardt) as soloists, Hans Vonk and Alexandru Lascae conducting. A close association with the Ives

J. Mark Scearce

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J. Mark Scearce (born October 9, 1960) is an American composer known for his musical settings of more than 200 texts by forty poets—from art songs to operas to works for chorus and orchestra. Early life J. Mark Scearce was born in Edina, Missouri and grew up in neighboring Kirksville. There he graduated high school in 1979, and attended Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State), graduating in 1983. At NMSU he triple-majored in music theory, horn performance, and philosophy & religion. During high school and college, Scearce established himself as a jazz trumpeter, winning outstanding soloist awards at regional jazz festivals (St. Charles, Wichita, Springfield). Despite acceptance at North Texas to pursue this trajectory, Scearce chose to become a contemporary classical composer after his undergraduate studies, attending Indiana University on the strength of his first composition, a brass quintet written for and recorded by the Chicago Brass Quintet. Scearce received his Masters and Doctorate in Music Composition from Indiana in 1986 and 1993 respectively. Career and influences Scearce’s catalogue of music compositions totals over a thousand performances of sixty works,

J. T. Buck

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J. T. Buck (born 6 June 1978) is a composer, and lyricist, and stage director, and project coordinator. Born and raised in Akron, Buck graduated from Central-Hower High School in 1996. He spent his first few years post high school working as a freelance musician, actor, director, and music director. Buck spent two summers as musical director for the National Children’s Theatre School summer workshops in Vail Colorado, and three summers as music director for the Columbia Gorge School of Theatre in White Salmon, Washington. Buck received his BA in Theatre Arts with a minor in music from the University of Akron in 2004. He was twice a student of Tony-Winning Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow’s New Musical Theatre Lab. In 2006, Buck accepted the position of Arts Director at First Grace UCC in Akron. His work there involved directing worship-related music and arts, as well as producing and directing grass-roots theatre, music, dance and visual art in collaboration with local artists. Buck has directed a variety of pieces for the stage, including Corpus Christi, The Gospel According to Tammy Faye Buck wrote the lyrics and music for the musical The Gospel According to Tammy Faye written wit

J.Y. Park

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Park Jin-young (; born December 13, 1971), also known by his stage names J.Y. Park and The Asiansoul or the initials JYP, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, record executive, and reality television show judge. Park rose to stardom as a singer following the release of his 1994 debut album, Blue City. In 1997, he founded JYP Entertainment, which went on to become one of the most profitable entertainment agencies in South Korea. As the head of JYP Entertainment from 1997 to 2011, Park has developed and managed successful K-pop artists including 2PM, Day6, Got7, Itzy, KickFlip, Miss A, Nmixx, Rain, Stray Kids, Twice, Xdinary Heroes and Wonder Girls, as well as Mandopop group Boy Story and J-pop groups Nexz and NiziU. Early life and education Park was born in Gwangjin District, Seoul, South Korea. He has an older sister. Career Park originally debuted as the trio boy group “Park Jin Young and the NG (New Generation)” (), with Kim Soo-chul as a producer, and members Cho Hye-sung and Yoon Tae-jin. Their first album ‘Floating time’ () was not successful. Park’s notability within the Korean music industry began in 1994 when he debuted as a solo artist with the song “Don’t

Jaakko Kuusisto

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Jaakko Ilkka Kuusisto (17 January 1974 – 23 February 2022) was a Finnish violinist, composer, and conductor. Kuusisto studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, majoring in violin, as well as at Indiana University under Miriam Fried. Career As a violinist, Kuusisto has appeared in 30 recordings, of which at least 17 credited as a primary artist, performing works from composers such as Sibelius, Prokofiev, Kalevi Aho and Armas Järnefelt; as a conductor, he has recorded a dozen times. After an early career as violinist, Kuusisto increasingly turned his attention to composing and conducting. He composed approximately 40 works in total, including several operas, film scores and stage music, 15 pieces of chamber music, and numerous other compositions, as well as various orchestrations and arrangements. Before these, he served as the concertmaster of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra for many years, where he was personally invited by the orchestra’s chief conductor Osmo Vänskä. Personal life Jaakko Kuusisto came from a musical family: his father was opera composer Ilkka Kuusisto, his brother musician Pekka Kuusisto, and his grandfather composer and choirmaster Taneli Kuusisto. Outside music

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

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Jaakko Mäntyjärvi () is a Finnish composer of classical music, and a professional translator. Early life Mäntyjärvi was born in Turku. He studied musicology, English language and literature and linguistics at the University of Helsinki, graduating with the equivalent of an MA degree in 1991. In 1987, he was accredited as an Authorized Translator from Finnish to English and English to Finnish. He also studied theory of music and choir conducting at the Sibelius Academy. Professional life Mäntyjärvi is a professional freelance translator and composer, and also an amateur and semi-professional choral singer and conductor. He is one of Finland’s internationally best known composers of choral music, with a catalog of some 150 works published to date. He has given talks on his works at various choral events in Europe, the USA and Australia, and has occasionally given a course on the history of choral music at the Sibelius Academy. Compositions As a composer, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi describes himself as an eclectic traditionalist: adopting influences from a number of styles and periods, and basing his musical idiom largely on traditionally oriented materials. Because he is himself active in mak

Jaan Patterson

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Jaan Patterson is a German composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel he founded in 2007. He is known for his various Dada- and Surrealist-inspired experimental-music and spoken-word projects, including Undress Béton, André Pissoir, Crawl Max, Dusk Euphoria, and Reve Steich. Additionally, together with Goran Ivkovic, he works as Surrism on improvised music projects. Patterson’s music has been played on numerous community radio stations and Internet radio stations, including Resonance FM, WFMU, Zoviet France, NTNS Radio by Mark Stolk and L’étranger, Radio Panik and In Memory of John Peel Radio. Since 2010, Patterson, has a role as curator for WFMU’s Free Music Archive. Later the same year, Patterson, started to curate, together with Anthony Donovan (Murmurists), the Classwar Karaoke netlabel, which releases quarterly compilations of experimental music and short-films by artists from around the world. Some of his musical collaborations include Anthony Donovan & Classwar Karaoke, AG Davis,< Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer, Hopek Quirin, Alessandra Celletti, William Davison (Recordism), Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten) & Vania Rovisco, Jeremy Gluck (The Barracudas)

Jack Cooper (American musician)

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Jack Cooper (born John Thomas Cooper Jr., May 14, 1963) is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, multireedist, and music educator. He has performed with, written music for and recorded by internationally known pop, jazz, and classical artists. Intro Cooper has performed with, written music for or recorded by internationally known pop, jazz, and classical artists including Sean Ardoin, Aaron Neville, Marc Secara, Jiggs Whigham, the Berlin Jazz Orchestra, Markus Burger, Lenny Pickett, Joyce Cobb, the BBB featuring Bernie Dresel, Duffy Jackson, Donald Brown, Young Voices Brandenburg, Jimi Tunnell, Christian McBride, the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, the U.S.A.F. Airmen of Note, the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors, the Dallas Winds, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Early life, musical education and influences Jack Cooper was born in Whittier, California on May 14, 1963; his given birth name passed down from his great-grandfather and father, John Thomas Cooper. He was raised in the nearby, northeastern section of La Habra (remote, Southeastern base of the Puente Hills). He is the younger brother of artist and stylist Cathy Cooper, grandson of H.V. Cooper and also the grandson (x4) o

Jack Wall (composer)

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Jack Wall is an American video game music composer. He has worked on video game music for over 20 games including the Myst franchise, Splinter Cell, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Call of Duty. Wall earned a degree in civil engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and, after a brief stint working in civil engineering, transitioned into music production. He worked with musicians such as John Cale, David Byrne, and Patti Smith, and, after performing increasingly complex production and sound engineering tasks, moved into music composition in 1995. Wall’s first video game composition was the soundtrack to Vigilance. Primarily composing in an orchestral style, by 2001 he composed the soundtrack to Myst III: Exile, which was the title he says put him on the map as a video game composer. In 2002, Wall became one of around 20 co-founders of the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) as well as senior director. In 2005, Wall, along with G.A.N.G. founder and fellow composer Tommy Tallarico, produced the Video Games Live concert series, having served as the conductor for the international concert tour. His soundtracks for Myst III: Exile, Myst IV: Revelation, Rise of the

Jack Woodbridge

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Jack Woodbridge (1956 - 2023) was an American-born pianist, singer and composer from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Woodbridge was known for his collaborations with independent film director Flavio Alves and award-winning guitarist/producer Dean Bailin as well as for his theatrical scores and two albums, Picture This and Jack of Hearts. Early life Woodbridge was born and raised in the West Side neighborhood of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was the son of John and Joan Kenney Woodbridge and was a 1974 graduate of West Scranton High School. He discovered his love for music at an early age and began playing the piano at age eight. He wrote his first song, “Debbie Dear,” at age 12 and began singing professionally following his graduation from high school. Woodbridge graduated with a B.A. in advertising from Pennsylvania State University in 1978. He self-designed his curriculum to include an emphasis on Music, Graphic Arts, Film and Photography. He had been a member of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) since 1996. Career Woodbridge worked for many years as a keyboardist and vocalist for several bands in Northeastern Pennsylvania; including OFAY (1974), The Stones Show

Jack Yarber

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Jack Yarber (born March 15, 1967), also known by his stage name Jack Oblivian, is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist based in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a founding member of the garage bands The Compulsive Gamblers, and The Oblivians and currently fronts Jack O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers. Yarber has also been a member, or contributed to: The End, Johnny Vomit & The Dry Heaves, Andre Williams, The Knaughty Knights, South Filthy, The Cool Jerks, The Limes, ‘68 Comeback, King Louie & His Loose Diamonds, Greg Oblivian & the Tip Tops, Jack Oblivian & The Cigarillos, The Natural Kicks and Tav Falco’s Panther Burns. Today, Yarber continues to write, record and tour as a solo artist. In January 2016, he released his seventh solo album, The Lone Ranger of Love. The record was released on his own label, Mony Records. Johnny Vomit and the Dry Heaves Jack Yarber began his professional music career in high school, appearing alongside high-school friend and future Squirrel Nut Zippers founder Jimbo Mathus in the Corinth, Mississippi, based Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves. Yarber played drums in the outfit, which credited him as Johnny Goopa. Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves would go on to

JackEL

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Jack Edward Lozeron (born September 9, 1996), known professionally as JackEL, is a Canadian DJ, record producer and songwriter. He is most notable for a collaboration with Skip Martin on an album titled EDM Lounge and his performance at EDC Las Vegas in 2019. He also briefly lived in New Orleans as a child, where he would frequently watch street performers at Bourbon Street. He was inspired to play EDM by listening to Deadmau5’s music. He began DJing in local venues such as the Starlite Room and the Chvrch of Joh in his hometown of Edmonton at the age of 14. At the age of 16, he moved to Las Vegas to pursue his music career. JackEL was the featured artist in Sparx Entertainment’s January 2015 “UNCENSORED” article series. In 2015, he also formed a duo with musician Nikki Phoenix, collaborating on tracks such as “Your Smile” and “Ballroom Zombie.” JackEL founded the record label FVYDID in 2016. JackEL and ZaZa Maree performed the song at the 350th Hunnypot Live event at The Mint music club in Los Angeles. In 2017, JackEL collaborated with RV3RS and General Jah Mikey on the track “Rootz “. RV3RS also teamed with JackEL and Zaddy Babby on the track “Do It Again,” which was released in

Jackson Wang

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Jackson Wang (; born Wang Ka-yee; 28 March 1994) is a Hong Kong rapper, singer, and songwriter. After a career as a competitive fencer, he joined the South Korean boy band Got7, which debuted under JYP Entertainment in 2014. He founded the Chinese record label Team Wang in 2017, serving as the creative director and lead designer for its subsidiary fashion brand Team Wang Design. Wang released his first solo album Mirrors in 2019, which peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard 200, followed by his second album Magic Man in 2022, which peaked at number 15. His third album Magic Man 2 (2025) reached number 13. Wang was ranked 40th on the Forbes China Celebrity 100 in 2019, 41st in 2020, and 10th in 2021. As of July 2025, Jackson Wang has 33.3 million followers on Instagram, ranking first among Chinese celebrities. He also has a large fan base on platforms such as YouTube and Spotify, and is the fastest Chinese artist to reach 10 million views on Vevo. Life and career 1994–2011: Early life and fencing career Wang was born in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, on 28 March 1994. He was raised into a family of athletes: his father Wang Ruiji was an Olympian fencer, his mother Zhou Ping was a gymnast

Jacob Cooper (composer)

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Jacob Mauney Cooper is an American composer living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biography After attending Amherst College for his bachelor’s degree in both geology and music, Cooper completed his graduate studies in composition at the Yale School of Music, and later formed the composers’ collective Sleeping Giant with several of his classmates. His works have been performed by the Calder Quartet, JACK Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble ACJW, NOW Ensemble, Dither Quartet, Living Earth Show, Carmina Slovenica, Mellissa Hughes, Timo Andres, Theo Bleckmann, Jodie Landau, Ashley Bathgate, and Vicky Chow. Cooper’s national awards include a Music Alive Residency Award from New Music USA, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Morton Gould Young Composer Award from ASCAP. He was also the winner of the 2011 Carsblad Music Festival Composers’ Competition and has been hailed by the New York Times as “richly talented” and by The New Yorker as a “maverick song composer.” Cooper is an associate professor at West Chester University and previously served on the faculty at Amherst College. Works Cooper’s lar

Jacob de Haan (composer)

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Jacob de Haan is a Dutch contemporary composer known for wind music. De Haan has also published various vocal works, including several masses for choir, wind band, and soloists. De Haan is regularly invited as a guest conductor for performances of his own work. He also gives master classes and acts as a jury member at international competitions. De Haan also published works under the pseudonyms Dizzy Stratford, Tony Jabovski, Larry Foster, and Ron Sebregts. He also conducts master classes and serves as a jury member at international music competitions. In Germany, De Haan collaborated with the Bayerische Musikakademie (Bavarian Music Academy) and the Bundesakademie für musikalische Jugendbildung (Federal Academy for Musical Youth Education) in Trossingen. Compositions De Haan draws inspiration from both contemporary and classical composers. His compositional process often begins with improvisation on his old Steinway piano, developing themes and melodies into completed works. . Earlier, in 2003, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Frisian regional broadcasting company Omrop Fryslân. Works for Choir and Concert Band * 2003 Missa Brevis – mixed choir with organ or wind

Jacob Mühlrad

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Jacob Benjamin Mühlrad (born 9 April 1991) is a Swedish composer who has worked with prominent choirs and orchestras across the world. He has also collaborated with pop music acts and produced film music. Mühlrad’s modern classical works have been performed at the Carnegie Hall in New York City, Victoria Hall in Singapore, the Orpheum in Vancouver, the Norwegian Opera, and the National Portrait Gallery in London. His piece Anim Zemirot (composed in 2013 and released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2021) is today a staple in the repertoire of European choirs. In 2015, Mühlrad as a 24-year-old became the youngest composer to have a piece performed at the Royal Swedish Opera. He has since been labeled a “rising star” by The Economist and garnered a top rating by BBC Music Magazine for his debut album Time. Mühlrad has partnered with musicians such as Pablo Heras-Casado, Olga Neuwirth, and Vancouver Chamber Choir, on the classical side. As a pop composer, he has done various collaborations with the Swedish House Mafia, including the One Symphony, a symphonic version of the electronic music super group’s hit song. Mühlrad is from a Jewish family and three of his grandparents were survivors of

Jacob Narverud

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Jacob Narverud (born 1986, in Meriden, Kansas) is an American composer and conductor best known for his choral music. He is often ranked among the top-selling and most widely-performed choral composers in the United States. Background Narverud is the editor of Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc. and a Signature Artist at Musicnotes, Inc. He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Tallgrass Chamber Choir, and was named Composer-in-Residence of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus in 2024. He currently is a visiting Professor at Kansas State University, where he teaches graduate courses in choral conducting. His music is published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc., Carl Fischer Music, Alfred Music, G. Schirmer, Hal Leonard, Shawnee Press, J. W. Pepper & Son, Alliance Music Publications, Inc., and Musicnotes, Inc. Narverud holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Performance from Emporia State University, a Master of Music Degree and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in conducting from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. List of compositions Choral, accompanied *Common Ground *Dona Nobis Pacem *Joy Joy *Lovely Chance *Songs for the People *A Patch of Light *Ad A

Jacobo Calderón

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Jacobo Calderón Fernández (born 18 May 1974 in Madrid) is a Spanish composer, producer and arranger. He has produced and composed 60 albums that have sold 9 million copies worldwide. His songs have been performed by Raphael, David Bisbal, Abraham Mateo, Sergio Dalma, Álex Ubago, Tamara, Pastora Soler, Manuel Mijares and other singers. As a producer he has worked with Luis Fonsi, Alejandro Sanz, Paul Anka, Charles Aznavour, Vicente Fernández, Joan Manuel Serrat, Joaquín Sabina, María Dolores Pradera, Francisco Céspedes, Laura Pausini, Ricardo Montaner, Miley Cyrus and Alejandro Fernández. He has been nominated for a Grammy Award and a Latin Grammy. His father Juan Carlos Calderón was composer and music producer. Career At the age of eight he began studying music theory and piano at the Katarina Gurska music academy in Madrid. He continued his studies with the Argentinian maestro Carlos Cítera and completed them by specialising in arranging and modern composition at the Escuela de Música Creativa in Madrid. At the age of 20 he moved to Miami where he studied music industry related studies at the University of Miami. His firs recording took place at the age of 18, when he composed the

Jacopo Ettorre

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Jacopo Ettorre (born in 1990), also known as Jacopo Èt, is an Italian lyricist, composer and singer-songwriter. Life and career Born in Forlì into a family of musicians, at young age Ettore studied classical music. In 2015, he wrote his first hit, “Lunedì”, for the duo . In 2019, he made his debut at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Senza farlo apposta”, performed by Shade and Federica Carta. In 2025, he released his second album, Sammy, Cabiria, etc. etc. Ettore’s songwriting collaborations include Mahmood, Laura Pausini, Elodie, Annalisa, Fedez, Giusy Ferreri, Emma Marrone, Alessandra Amoroso, Max Pezzali, Paola & Chiara, Baby K, Ghali, Boomdabash, Rkomi, Coma_Cose, Emis Killa, Madame, Gaia, Clara, Fred De Palma, Sarah Toscano. He has named the singer-songwriters Lucio Battisti, Vasco Rossi, and Rino Gaetano as his principal inspirations. Discography Album * Siamo sicuri di essere giovani? (2021) * Sammy, Cabiria, etc. etc. (2025) Songwriting credits References External links * * *

Jacques Burtin

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Jacques Burtin (born 10 November 1955) is a French composer, writer, producer and filmmaker. Biography After studying Literature and Art at La Sorbonne (Paris), he was introduced to the kora by brother Dominique Fournier at the Abbey of Bec Hellouin (Normandy, France) and by brother Dominique Catta, composer and choirmaster of the Keur Moussa Monastery (Senegal). He began to compose for the kora, solo pieces as well as duets with Western instruments. His works are inspired by poets like Grace Schulman and Christian Bobin, spiritual authors like St. John of the Cross or Etty Hillesum, writers like Georges Simenon or Hermann Hesse, painters like Henri Matisse or Jean-Michel Basquiat, or photographers like Nan Goldin or Diane Arbus. He collaborates with artists, dancers and poets and conceives interdisciplinary performances. Jacques Burtin is also involved in improvised music and has given concerts based on improvisation with harpist Susan Allen, French panflute player Jean-Claude Mara, Japanese koto player Damien Harada, and French saxophonist Tullia Morand. In 1997, Jacques Burtin meets Susan Allen, harpist, professor of harp and improvisation at CalArts (California Institute of the

Jaehyun

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Jeong Yun-o (; born Jeong Jae-hyun (), February 14, 1997), known professionally as Jaehyun, is a South Korean singer. He is a member of the South Korean boy band NCT and its sub-units NCT 127 and NCT DoJaeJung. He made his solo debut on August 26, 2024, with the studio album J. First introduced in December 2013 as a trainee under the pre-debut team SM Rookies, he debuted in April 2016 as a member of the rotational unit NCT U and as a member of Seoul-based fixed unit NCT 127 in July 2016. He later joined the fixed unit NCT DoJaeJung in April 2023. As of 2024, Jaehyun has released five solo singles: “Forever Only” and “Horizon”, both as part of the NCT Lab project, while “Roses”, “Dandelion”, and “Smoke” as part of his debut album J. Apart from music, he has also hosted the radio show NCT Night Night from March 2017 to January 2019 and the television program Inkigayo from October 2019 to February 2021. He later debuted as an actor with a leading role in the college romance television series Dear. M (2022), and he made his feature film debut in the mystery thriller film You Will Die In 6 Hours (2024). As of 2024, Jaehyun is a global ambassador for the Italian luxury brand Prada; he is

Jaemin

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Na Jae-min (; born August 13, 2000), known mononymously as Jaemin, is a South Korean rapper. After training for three years, Jaemin debuted in August 2016 as a member of South Korean boy group NCT through the sub-units NCT Dream and NCT JNJM, which has gone on to become one of the best-selling groups in South Korea. Jaemin debuted in the acting scene, starring in the web series Method to Hate You (2019). Early life Na Jae-min was born in Busan, South Korea on August 13, 2000. He grew up in Seoul and studied at Incheon Cheong-il Elementary School; he also attended at Incheon Haewon Middle School and went to School of Performing Arts Seoul (SOPA). During his childhood, Jaemin competed nationally in short-track speed skating. Jaemin became a trainee under SM Entertainment in 2013, at the age of 13, after being street-cast by staff while handing out posters and collecting trash as a volunteer with his mother at an event. Career 2014–2016: Pre-debut activities In 2014, Jaemin began featuring in several events with SM Entertainment’s pre-debut training team, SM Rookies. In August 2014, he participated in the SM Town Live World Tour IV with SM Rookies and appeared in several SM Rookies vi

Jagoda Szmytka

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Jagoda Marta Szmytka (born 15 January 1982, Legnica) is a Polish composer. She has attracted attention for her style of music, which uses elements not only of sound, but also of the sense of space and visual arts, and also for her opera, Dla głosów i rąk (For Voices and Hands). She is a well-known composer in Europe and has been recognized abroad, winning numerous juried scholarships, including the Staubach Honoraria for Composition. Biography Jagoda Szmytka studied history of art and philosophy at the University of Wrocław, Poland (2000-2005) as well as composition and music theory with Krystian Kiełb and Cezary Duchnowski at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. This was followed by postgraduate studies in composition with Pierluigi Billone and Beat Furrer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (2007-2008), with Beat Furrer at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (2008-2010), and with Wolfgang Rihm at the Karlsruhe University of Music (2010-2012). Szmytka has received numerous scholarships and grants from various foundations including Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (ÖAD) (2008), an artist grant funde

Jahdiel

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Grace Jahdiel Benjamin (maiden name ‘Okoduwa’) popularly known by her stage name Jahdiel, is a contemporary Nigerian gospel singer, songwriter and vocalist. She professionally began her music career in 2006, releasing her debut album Heritage in 2008. She is one of several gospel artists under Loveworld Records of Christ Embassy. Jahdiel is signed to Hammer House Records, a record label owned by her husband Eben. Early life and education Jahdiel was born in Ikoyi, Lagos State, Nigeria, where she had her primary and secondary school education at Aunty Ayo International School, Ikoyi before proceeding to further her education by obtaining a BSc degree in Chemistry. Career Jahdiel started singing at the age of five upon joining the choir of her local church before she began to play musical equipments like the piano and keyboard at the age of thirteen. After being part of various singing groups, she released her debut album Heritage in 2008 to massive reception, thereby gaining her new grounds in the industry and further earning her a nomination spot in the “Most Promising Artist or Group” category at the 2008 edition of Kora Awards. Her follow-up album Under Oath was released in 2010.

Jaime Cuadra

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Jaime Cuadra is a Peruvian singer, composer, music producer, and filmmaker who is known for a number of achievements, including: Music production: Cuadra produced three songs for the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace. He also released the Latin jazz album Latino in 2009, which won two gold and one platinum record. Cuadra have 12 albums. Filmmaking: Cuadra directed many video projects with his video production company and composed music for movies, short films and radio and TV advertising. Cultural ambassador: Cuadra is a Peruvian Cultural Ambassador (Marca Perú). CEO: Cuadra is the CEO of Quadra Audiovisuals in Florida. Awards: Cuadra received several awards for recognition of his music career like Independent Music Awards of NY, FIAP Awards,Grand APAP, APDAYC Awards, Gold Tumi Awards, U.S.A. Congressional recognition, etc. Background: Cuadra has a background as a rock musician, Electrónica and Jazz. In his early albums combined Latin-Pop with Afro-Peruvian music. Biography He went to school at Colegio San Agustín in Lima. He began his career very young in the music industry with his father’s recording studio in 1985 as an audio engineer. In 1986, he studied music with Victor

Jake Heggie

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Jake Heggie (born March 31, 1961) is an American composer of opera, vocal, orchestral, and chamber music. He is best known for his operas and art songs as well as for his collaborations with internationally renowned performers and writers. Biography Childhood John (“Jake”) Stephen Heggie was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Shortly thereafter, Heggie began writing music. A few years after his father’s death, the family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Heggie completed high school and continued his studies in piano. Education and musical training As a teenager, Heggie studied composition privately with Ernst Bacon from 1977 to 1979. After graduating from high school, he spent two years studying at the American University in Paris. He later continued his studies at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where his teachers included Roger Bourland, Paul Des Marais, David Raksin, and Paul Reale. He graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts in 1984 and returned for graduate school from 1986 to 1988, where he won the Henry Mancini Award in 1987. Heggie’s most significant teacher during his studies at UCLA was Johana Harris, widow of composer Roy Harris. “She was a magn

Jake Mathews

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Jake Mathews (born Jacques Lagrandeur born March 14, 1971, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian country music singer, songwriter and performer. Career Jake’s self-titled debut CD (Jake Mathews) garnered six nationally charted hits: “I’ll Do You One Better,” “Try Again Tomorrow,” “That’s How Long,” “Rush,” “I’m Gone” and “There Ain’t No Such Thing.” His second CD, Time After Time, released in 2004, was voted Best Album by Country Music News. Singles released from the album include the title track, “Signs of You Everywhere,” “Kings for a Day” and “Arizona on My Mind.” Although he is the younger brother of Gil Grand, he has established a music career in his own right. In 2006, Mathews and Grand joined forces for “Raise the Roof,” a tour that took them across Canada, raising awareness of Ronald McDonald House Charities. Discography Albums Singles Music videos Awards and achievements Western Country Music Awards *2005 – Nominated – Outstanding Country Recording for Time After Time *2003 – Nominated – Outstanding Country Recording for Jake Mathews Country Music News 2004 *Time After Time voted Best Album Canadian Country Music Awards *2005 – Nominated – Independent Male Artist of t

Jake Monaco

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Jake Monaco is an American film and TV composer. He currently scores Amazon Prime Video’s The Stinky & Dirty Show, Netflix’s Dinotrux, and Warner Bros. Animation’s Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!. He also provided scores for Disney+ originals, specifically Cars on the Road, and Toy Story specials Lamp Life and Forky Asks a Question. Career Monaco began playing guitar in high school, later touring with a group while attending the University of Richmond in Virginia. A few years after graduating, his bandmates opted to take up non-musical professional careers. At the suggestion of a friend, Monaco enrolled in a film scoring course at University of Southern California. He has stated that although he had never had interest in scoring as a child, it was these classes that piqued his interest, explaining that he was “sucked in” Monaco credits the time he spent assisting Beck as key to his success as a scorer, and has described assistant positions as “some of the best education and experience a young composer can receive”. After assisting Christophe Beck for eight years, Monaco made the decision to begin scoring on his own. Discography Feature films Short films References External links * * Interview

Jake Runestad

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Jake Runestad (born May 20, 1986) is an American composer and conductor of classical music based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has composed music for a wide variety of musical genres and ensembles, but has achieved greatest acclaim for his work in the genres of opera, orchestral music, choral music, and wind ensemble. One of his principal collaborators for musical texts has been Todd Boss. Biography Runestad was born in Rockford, Illinois. His post-secondary education in music began at Eastern Illinois University, which he attended in the years 2004 and 2005. He received his first degree in music (a B.S. in Music Education) from Winona State University, which he attended from 2005 until 2009, then pursued graduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University between 2009 and 2011 to earn a M.Mus. degree in music composition. In 2020, he was a recipient of an Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from these institutions. His teachers at the Peabody Conservatory included Kevin Puts. He studied with the composer Libby Larsen and worked with Bernard Rands, David Lang, Tania León, John Musto, Christopher Rouse, Jake Heggie, and John Duffy. He received a Distinguished

James Baker (composer)

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James Baker is an American electro-acoustic composer, percussionist and conductor. Life and career James Baker graduated with degrees in music from State University of New York at Purchase and Juilliard, where he studied percussion and conducting. He began a long time collaboration with choreographer Tere O’Connor and has composed numerous works for Tere O’Connor Dance, including Bessie Award winner Heaven Up North. He was also the composer for Like Two Kevins for the Lyon Opera Ballet. His works have been performed internationally. Baker works as Principal Percussionist for the New York City Ballet Orchestra and serves as director of the Percussion Ensemble at the New School, Mannes College of Music. He also serves as music director of the Composers’ Conference at Wellesley College. Baker often leads the New York New Music Ensemble and Speculum Musicae, and is resident conductor at the University at Buffalo’s Center for 21st Century Music. He also appears as guest conductor with the Cygnus and Talea Ensembles. Baker appears as director on recordings including the CD, David Felder: Boxman (2002). He appears as percussionist on recordings including Millennial Masters Vol. 1. Works S

James Clarke (composer)

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James Clarke (born in October 1957) is an English composer sometimes associated with the New Complexity school. According to fellow English composer and music scholar Christopher Fox, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, “After studying at Southampton University and City University, London, Clarke was awarded a Finnish Government Scholarship to study composition with Usko Meriläinen in Helsinki.” In 1979, with his colleague Richard Emsley, Clarke co-founded the new music ensemble, Suoraan, “a small band of outstanding specialist performers” based in London “which dedicatedly promoted the music of, centrally, Iannis Xenakis but also younger British and European composers such as Michael Finnissy and James Dillon.” Yet, as Christopher Fox points out, “for much of his career Clarke’s work has attracted most attention beyond the British Isles, including significant performances at the International Gaudeamus Music Week and the ISCM World Music Days.” In addition, he “has led composition courses at the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland, where he was featured composer in 2000, and at the Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth.” ;Collaboration with Harold Pinter comm

James Fei

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James Fei or Fei Cheng-ting (; born Taipei, Taiwan, 1974) is a contemporary classical music and electronic music composer and performer. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. He plays the soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet. Recordings of his music have been released by Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, and Organized Sound labels. He has worked with the composers Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier. Fei received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2014). Fei joined the faculty of Mills College in California in 2006. He graduated from Princeton University in 1996 and received his M.A. from Wesleyan University in 1999. He has collaborated with Harald Bode (posthumously). Discography ;With Anthony Braxton * Duet (Other Minds) 2021, (Other Minds Records OM 1033-2 ) * Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Vol. 1 (Leo, 1997 2002 ) * Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Vol. 2 (Leo, 1997 2003 ) * Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Vol. 3 (Leo, 1997 2005 ) * Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 Vol. 4 (Leo, 1997 2007 ) With Roscoe Mitchell *Bells for the South Side (ECM, 2017) References External links *James Fei official website

James Harley

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James Harley (born 1959) is a Canadian composer, author, and professor of music born in Vernon, British Columbia. His creative output consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, electroacoustic, and vocal music. Studies Harley studied at Western Washington University (B.Mus., magna cum laude, 1977–1982), Royal Academy of Music (1983–1985), Université de Paris (1986–1987), Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw (1987–1988), and McGill University (D.Mus., 1988–1994). Teaching He has taught at the Faculty of Music at McGill University (1989–1995), Wilfrid Laurier University (1995–1996), California Institute of the Arts (1997), University of Southern California (1997), and Minnesota State University Moorhead (1999–2004). In 2004, he took up a tenure-track position in music at University of Guelph, where he is associate professor. Harley is also the author of the book Xenakis: His Life in Music. His areas of expertise and specialization include digital music, composition, contemporary music analysis, and history of electronic/computer music. Music and research by James Harley is represented by Art Music Promotion. List of works Orchestra *Along the Riverrun (1983) 10 min. :Version I: 1111/

James L. Venable

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James Lewis Venable (born May 19, 1967) is an American composer, working primarily in American film and television. He is known for his scores to the animated television series The Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. The latter was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2005, the same score won a 2005 Annie Award—Venable’s third—for achievement in music for an animated series. Among Venable’s feature film scores are Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Scary Movie 3, 4, and 5 and EuroTrip. On August 3, 2004, Venable released an electronica album titled Holding Space with Screaming Fan Records. Filmography Film Television Video games References External links * * *

James Ledger

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James Ledger (born 1966) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music, and senior lecturer in composition at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Western Australia, where he is chair of orchestral composition. Biography Ledger first rose to prominence with his first orchestral composition Indian Pacific in 1996, which is still regularly performed in Australia. Ledger is also known for his compositions Devils in the Underground for solo trumpet, the violin concerto Golden Years, Chronicles for orchestra, War Music for choir and orchestra, and the song cycle Conversations with Ghosts in collaboration with the musician Paul Kelly, for which he won an ARIA award. From 2007 to 2009 he was the composer-in-residence for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. In 2011 he was named composer-in-residence for the Australian National Academy of Music. In 2020, he earned a Doctorate of Music from the University of Western Australia. His Viola Concerto, premiered by Brett Dean and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, won the APRA AMCOS Art Music award in the “Work of the Year – Large Ensemble” category. Awards and nominations ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is

James Lentini

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James Lentini (born February 7, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American composer, guitarist, and academic administrator. After completing undergraduate studies at Wayne State University in guitar performance and composition, he pursued a master‘s degree in composition at Michigan State University and a doctorate from the University of Southern California, where he studied composition with Robert Linn and Morten Lauridsen. In addition to composing, Lentini is a guitarist who has studied with William Kanengiser, Joe Fava, and Charles Postlewate. Compositions His music has been performed by solo artists such as guitarist William Kanengiser and by international ensembles including the Krakow Philharmonic (Poland) and the Bohuslav Martinů Orchestra (Czech Republic). In addition to many commissions, his honors include first prize in the 2004 Choral Composition Contest at Bluffton University for his composition “Peace I Leave With You,” the 2002 Andrés Segovia International Composition Prize for his solo guitar piece “Westward Voyage,” the Atwater-Kent Composition Award (first Prize), the McHugh Composition Prize, a grant from “Meet the Composer,” and several awards from ASCAP. In 2003

James M. Stephenson

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James M. Stephenson (born February 4, 1969), also known as Jim Stephenson, is an American composer known for his versatility in writing contemporary classical music. His catalog spans across ensembles, with a significant number of works written for large ensembles (orchestra, opera, ballet, brass band, wind ensemble, and chorus) as well as chamber music and solo works. In addition to his career as a composer, Stephenson is also active as an arranger and conductor. Biography James M. Stephenson was born in Joliet, Illinois, and began playing trumpet at the age of 9. He stayed in the Midwest and attended the Interlochen Arts Academy until college, where he attended the New England Conservatory of Music for a degree in trumpet performance. At NEC, his teachers were Charles Schlueter, Gilbert Johnson, and John Lindenau. Following graduation in 1990, Stephenson joined the trumpet section of the Naples Philharmonic, a position he held for 17 seasons. As a member of the Naples Philharmonic Brass Quintet, he volunteered his time to begin arranging works for the groups. The Naples Philharmonic pops conductor, Erich Kunzel, took notice of this and asked Stephenson to arrange a work for orche

James MacMillan

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Sir James Loy MacMillan (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor. Early life and education MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977. His father is James MacMillan, a carpenter, and his mother is Ellen MacMillan (née Loy). He studied musical composition at the University of Edinburgh with Rita McAllister and Kenneth Leighton, obtaining a BMus degree in 1981, and later at Durham University with John Casken, where he completed a PhD in Composition in 1987. At Durham he was a member of the College of St Hild and St Bede as an undergraduate student and the Graduate Society while studying for his doctorate. He was a lecturer in music at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1986 to 1988. After his studies, MacMillan returned to Scotland, composing prolifically, and becoming Associate Composer with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, often working on education projects. As a young man he was briefly a member of the Young Communist League. The work’s international acclaim spurred more high-profile commissions, including a percussion concerto for fellow Scot Evelyn Glennie: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel.

James Matheson (composer)

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James Matheson (born 1970 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American composer. His works have been commissioned and performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Borromeo String Quartet, Carnegie Hall and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. In December 2011, he received the Charles Ives Living from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award providing him with $100,000 for two years (2012-2014). Previously, he received the Academy’s Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in 2008 and Hinrichsen Award in 2002. He has also received awards from the Civitella Ranieri, Bogliasco and Sage Foundations, ASCAP, and the Robbins Prize. He was executive director of the MATA Festival of New Music in New York from 2005-2007 and has been a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. Since September 2009, he has been the director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer Fellowship Program. Works by James Matheson Unchained (2017) for orchestra without strings Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director. The premiere performances took place February 24, 25, and 26th with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, James Gaff

James Rolfe (composer)

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James Simon Rolfe (born 1961) is a Canadian composer of contemporary music. Early life and education Rolfe was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He studied composition with John Beckwith at the University of Toronto and Jo Kondo in Japan. Career Rolfe was the President of the Canadian League of Composers (2007–11) and has won awards for his music, most recently the 2006 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music and the 2009 SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek New Classical Music Award. Rolfe lives in Toronto with his wife Juliet Palmer, who is also a composer. Operas Although Rolfe’s chamber, vocal, orchestral, and piano works are widely performed, he has become most noted for his operas. Beatrice Chancy, an opera set in Nova Scotia during the 19th century (libretto by George Elliott Clarke), was produced in 1998 by Toronto’s Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company and was subsequently filmed for television by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2000. Rolfe has since composed the children’s opera Elijah’s Kite (libretto by Camyar Chai), which explores bullying among children, and was co-produced by Tapestry New Opera Works and the Manhattan School of Music in New York City in 2006; Rosa (libretto by C

James Romig

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James Romig (born August 5, 1971) is an American composer. He was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Biography James Romig was born August 5, 1971, in Long Beach, California. He earned BM and MA degrees in from the University of Iowa in percussion performance, and a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, where he studied with Charles Wuorinen. He studied additionally with Milton Babbitt, and both Babbitt and Wuorinen served on his dissertation committee. In 2001, after one-year visiting positions at Pittsburg State University and Bucknell University, Romig joined the faculty at Western Illinois University, where he heads the composition/theory area. He lives in Macomb, Illinois, with his wife Ashlee Mack (coordinator of piano instruction at Knox College). Career *2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music, finalist (Still, for solo piano) *2019 Copland House Award and Residency *2019 Petrified Forest National Park, Artist in Residence *2018 Guest Co-Editor of Perspectives of New Music issue celebrating Charles Wuorinen’s 80th year *2017 Everglades National Park, Artist in Residence *2012 Grand Canyon National Park, Artist in Residence *2011 Copland House Award and Residency *2

James Saunders (composer)

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James Saunders (born 1972) is a British composer and performer of experimental music. He is Professor of Music and Head of the Centre for Musical Research at Bath Spa University. Early life Born in Kingston upon Thames, England, Saunders studied at the University of Huddersfield (1991–94) and then with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music (1994–96). In 1998, he was a participant at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse where he was awarded a scholarship prize. He participated again in 2000 and 2002. Career In 2001, he was a selected composer at the Ostrava New Music Days. He held composition residencies at the Experimental Studio fur Akustische Künst in Freiburg in 2003 and 2007. His music has been played at international festivals, including Bludenz Tage fur zeitgemäßer Musik, Brighton Festival, BMIC Cutting Edge, Borealis, Darmstadt, Donaueschingen Festival, Gothenburg Arts Sounds, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Inventionen Berlin, The Kitchen, Music We’d Like to Hear, Ostrava New Music Days, Rainy Days, Rational Rec, Roaring Hooves, Spitalfields_Music, SPOR, Ultima, and Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik Saunders’ music has been performed internationally by en

Jan Erik Mikalsen

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Jan Erik Mikalsen (born 6 May 1979 in Kristiansund, Norway) is a Norwegian composer of contemporary music, living in Oslo. Biography Mikalsen studied at the Grieg Academy in Bergen and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and is a member of the Norwegian Society of Composers. He has composed a number of works performed and commissioned by orchestras like Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Kringkastingsorkesteret, Oslo Sinfonietta, Bodø Sinfonietta, Thomas Bloch, Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra, Quartet Artis Wien, Stavanger Samtidsensemble, Orchestre de Flutes Francais, Manger Musikklag, Ingrid Torvund, Tori Wrånes and Bård Ask. He has participated in festivals such as Présences Festival, Pablo Casals Festival, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Casa Da Musica, Performa 13, Young Nordic Music and Nordic Music Days. Mikalsen also won the award from the Kavlifondet, and the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra’s Nordic / Baltic Composers Workshop 2004–2005 with the work Ghouls & Moons premiered by the same orchestra under the main series, on October 20, 2005. His

Jan Martin Smørdal

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Jan Martin Smørdal (born 14 October 1978 in Horten) is a Norwegian composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. Smørdal holds a master’s degree in Jazz Performance, and composition from the Norwegian Academy of Music and has studied with Henrik Hellstenius and Lasse Thoresen. As a guitarist, Smørdal has contributed to a number of releases, both in band as well as solo settings, and has been a member of the live bands of Hanne Hukkelberg, Navyelectre and Rockettothesky (Jenny Hval). As a producer, Smørdal has worked with such performers and composers as Torgeir Vassvik, Rockettothesky, Nils Henrik Asheim and Siri Nilsen. Smørdal has contributed to a number of releases that have been bestowed with a Spellemannprisen Award. As a co-founder of Ensemble neoN, Smørdal has collaborated with performers and composers such as Oren Ambarchi, Marina Rosenfeld and Susanna Wallumrød. Smørdal has composed music for a variety of settings, ranging from solo to orchestra, installations and choir. His works have seen performances at the MATA Festival, the ISCM Festival in Vienna, the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival and Nordic Music Days. Production Selected works *Q.S. 1 (2003) *Ichi - clarine

Jan Müller-Wieland

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Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 March 1966 in Hamburg) is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas. Career Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen in the Tanglewood Music Center. Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1992/93. He was awarded the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2002. From 2003 he has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München since 2007. Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde. He is married to the Austrian author . Opera As of 2011, Müller-Wieland had composed 14 operas. His first opera Das Gastspiel, subtitled “Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists”, a chamber opera after Frank Wedekind’s Posse (farce) Der Kammersänger, was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992. The lib

Jan Pogány

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Jan Pogány born 23 June 1960) is a Polish classical composer, conductor and cellist. His music adopts the romantic style and is a symbiosis of the modern form of romantic harmony and lyrical melodic line. Biography Pogány was 23 June 1960 in Kołobrzeg. He is a graduate of cello and conducting studies in Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, Germany). He studied at the Music Academy in Wrocław, Poland. He works with numerous orchestras such as the ones Germany, Japan, South Korea, Greece, Poland as well as opera companies. He founded the Polish Chamber Orchestra Camerata-Wrocław. He was Director General of the International Brahms Festival Wrocław. Recognition *2008 – the II prize at the International Composers Competitions in Torrevie (Spain), *2009 – the III prize at the International Composers Competitions in Luxembourg. Works * 2002 – Film music for the German TV crime series Mit Herz und Handschellen * 2005 – Cantata of Kołobrzeg for two sopranos, tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra, the composition was written on the jubilee 750th anniversary of Kolobrzeg * 2006 – Fantasia in D minor for cello and orchestra * 2007 – Cantata “La Voce del Destino” for tenor, violin and orches

Jan Van der Roost

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Jan Van der Roost (born Duffel, 1956) is a Belgian composer. Van der Roost was educated at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, and followed further studies at the Royal Conservatory in Ghent and the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp. Since 1984 Van der Roost is a professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Lemmensinstituut. He is also a guest professor at the Shobi Institute of Music, the Nagoya University of Arts, and Senzoku Gakuen. Works * 1834 (Concert band) * A Highland Rhapsody (Concert band) * A Highland Rhapsody (Fanfare) * A Year Has Four Lives (Children’s choir) * Adagio for Brass (Brass band) * Adagio for Winds (Concert band) * Adagio for Winds (Fanfare) * Albion (Brass band) * Algona Overture (Concert band) * Amazonia (Concert band) * Apollo * Arghulesques (for Clarinet Quartet) * Arpád (part 2 from ‘Sinfonia Hungarica’) * Arsenal * Attila! (part 1 from ‘Sinfonia Hungarica’) * Autumn * Avalon * Balkanya * Ballad for Bass Trombone * Bassonnerie * Beata viscera * Brasiliana * By the River * Cantabile e Ritmico * Canterbury Chorale * Canzona gothica (for Trombone) * Castellum * Céad Míle Fáilte * Centennial Prelude * Ceremonial March * Chemical Suite (for Trombone quartet)

Jane Wang (composer and musician)

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Jane Wang is a composer, music improvisor, and plays the double bass, toy piano, piano, cello, and various other musical instruments. Wang participated in the ~chromatik d zabu.tmp vs. Vox Novus project and is a member of CDZ. She was selected for the 60x60 project multiple times. Jane Wang composed and performed music for Hanne Tierney’s How Wang-Fo Was Saved and Ms. Tierney’s Man, the Flower of All Flesh The design team, including Jane Wang, were nominated for the 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award. Jane Wang composed and performed solo bass pieces for Hanne Tierney including in 2019, 18 Stanzas Sung to a Tatar Whistle at FiveMyles Performances have been presented at the Wanas Exhibition in Sweden, the International Festival of Puppet Theatre, BAM Next Wave Festival, the Sculpture Center and FiveMyles Gallery in New York City, the Beograd International Theatre Festival in Yugoslavia, and Ms. Tierney’s Obie-award-winning Salome (with Sabir Mateen) at five myles and the International Festival of Puppet Theatre. She composed the music for Danny Swain’s 3000 Miles to Blue and Renita Martin’s Five Bottles In A Six Pack at The Theater Offensive (Boston), Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC) and Jump-S

Janet Owen Thomas

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For the Australian mathematician and educator, see Janet Thomas. Janet Owen Thomas (29 January 1961 – 5 June 2002) was a British composer and organist. Early life and education Owen Thomas was born on Merseyside to parents of Welsh and German heritage. and the composer Robert Saxton. She received a scholarship to travel to Hamburg, where she briefly studied with composer György Ligeti, whose organ music she later wrote an article about. The period in Hamburg led to Owen Thomas being commissioned by to write the solo organ piece Rosaces (1984), which was subsequently widely performed and published by Novello. It was during this time that she wrote a music theatre piece, The Condom Tester’s Lament, for speaker and electronics. She went on to take advanced composition studies with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1991, the BBC Proms presented the UK premiere of Rosaces. Owen Thomas was the youngest composer whose music was featured in that year’s festival, and the work went on to be played in over a dozen countries. Style In her obituary for Owen Thomas, fellow composer Nicola LeFanu described the former’s musical style as follows: The hallmark of her style i

Janika Vandervelde

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Janika Vandervelde (born 1955) is an American composer, pianist, and music educator. Her work, notable for its feminist and ecological themes, has won numerous awards. Known for her music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles and the stage, she also teaches composition. Biography Janika Vandervelde was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, and grew up in nearby Green Lake, playing horn and piano starting at age five. She began composing in her teens. After undergraduate studies in music education at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Compositions Vandervelde is known especially for her choral music, which has been commissioned and performed by groups such as Chanticleer, the Dale Warland Singers, and the Oregon Repertory Singers, and by conductors including Sir David Willcocks. She has composed more than 100 works for orchestra, choir, chamber ensembles, and soloists, as well as two operas, Hildegard (1989) and Seven Sevens (1993), and has written extensively for young audiences. Among the fruits of her three-year tenure as composer-in-residence for the Minnesota Chorale and two other Twin Cities organizations was Adventures of the Black Dot, a “choral storybook” for children, with sto

Janusz Frychel

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Janusz Frychel (born January 7, 1967) is a Polish musician, bassist, composer, and lyricist. His music combines styles such as blues, rock, pop, and folk. He is one of the founders of the band Gang Olsena. Since 1988, he has been performing on major stages and festivals in Poland and abroad. Musical biography In 1986, he formed his first band, Lean Back, together with Ireneusz Kucharczyk, Zbigniew Szczerbiński, and Tomasz Kupka. The group performed, among others, at Spodek in Katowice as the winner of the Rawa Blues Festival eliminations and at the Silesian Jazz Festival. In 1988, Janusz Frychel co-founded the band Gang Olsena, He has performed at festivals such as National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, FAMA in Świnoujście, Rawa Blues at Spodek in Katowice, Country Picnic in Mrągowo, the Jarocin Festival, and the Woodstock Festival Poland organized by Jurek Owsiak. Janusz Frychel has recorded six albums with Gang Olsena. The song Białe Myszy, Dzikie Koty from the album GO! was featured in the Anthology of Polish Blues released in 2008 under the patronage of Polish Radio Three and in the second edition of the Polish Top All-Time Hits Anthology published by Polish Radio in 2011.

Jared Emerson-Johnson

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Jared Nathaniel Emerson-Johnson (born October 13, 1981) is an American video game music composer, sound designer, voice director and voice actor. Emerson-Johnson is the Music Supervisor and lead composer at Bay Area Sound, an audio production company specializing in sound design, music and voiceover for video games. His work has been predominantly featured in games developed by Telltale. Career Jared began his career as an assistant to composer Clint Bajakian on the score for LucasArts’ Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb. Emerson-Johnson has also worked as a sound designer for projects, including James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Psychonauts, and Firewatch. Emerson-Johnson is perhaps best known as the composer behind multiple video games produced by Telltale Games, such as Bone, Sam & Max, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures, Poker Night at the Inventory, Back to the Future: The Game, Jurassic Park: The Game, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Batman: The Telltale Series, and Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series. In all three seasons of Sam & Max, he voices

Jared Miller (composer)

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Jared Miller (born October 31, 1988) is a Canadian-American composer of contemporary classical music. Named one of CBC’s “30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicans Under 30,” his work has been performed by many of the major orchestras in Canada and the United States, and has garnered him a Juno-nomination. Biography Jared Miller was born in Los Angeles, California, but soon moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he displayed an early interest in piano and composition. He attended the University of British Columbia (BM) and the Juilliard School (MM; DMA), studying composition with John Corigliano, Samuel Adler, Stephen Chatman, and Dorothy Chang, and piano with Sara Davis Buechner and Corey Hamm. Other mentors have included Aaron Jay Kernis and Steven Mackey. Miller was commissioned by the Vancouver Symphony to write 2010 Traffic Jam for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, subsequently becoming composer-in-residence with the Victoria Symphony at the age of 25. At this time, he was commuting between the United States and Canada while teaching at Dalhousie University, the Special Music School, Kaufman Music Center, and the Juilliard School’s prep division. Miller made his Carnegie Hall debut

Jasna Veličković

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Jasna Veličković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јасна Величковић) (born 1974) is a Serbian composer. Biography Jasna Veličković was born in Belgrade, 1974. She completed her Bachelors in composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade under Srdjan Hofman. She has been living and working as a composer in the Netherlands since 2001 where she completed a Masters in music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague under Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk and Clarence Barlow with distinction. Velickovic has written and been performed by various ensembles including Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Dutch Radio Kamerorkest conducted by Péter Eötvös, Robot orchestra by Godfried Willem Raes, David Kweksilber’s Big Band, Maarten Altena Ensemble, LOOS, ‘de Ereprijs’, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Ensemble Aleph, Piano Possibile, pianoduo Post & Mulder, Claron McFadden, Nada Kolundzija, Stephanie Pan, Gośka Isphording, Debora Richards as well by ensembles with specific instrumentation formed for the particular piece. Her works have been performed at festivals such as Holland Festival, Gaudeamus Music Week, Music Biennale Zagreb, Archipel Festival (Swiss), Time of Music (

Jason Brandt

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Jason Brandt (born 1973) is an American composer. Jason composed music for the films Camp Hideout (Christopher Lloyd, Corbin Bleu), Christmas Wonderland (Emily Osment) and F.R.E.D.I. (Kelly Hu, Harvey Guillén). Brandt won Best Original Score at the Burbank International Film Festival for his work on F.R.E.D.I. Other films include the Lifetime thrillers Mommy Be Mine and The Other Mother (Annie Wersching), A Christmas Reunion (Denise Richards, Patrick Muldoon), Night of the Living Dead 3D (Sid Haig) and the documentary That Guy Dick Miller premiered at SXSW 2014. Jason also co-executive produced and wrote music for Max Winslow and the House of Secrets, (starring Chad Michael Murray and Tanner Buchanan) which won Best Feature Film at the Burbank International Film Festival and Crystal Palace International Film Festival. Jason also creates original music for a wide range of national television programming, including Cartoon Network’s Teen Titans Go!, Mike Tyson Mysteries, Extra and TMZ. Other TV shows including American Idol, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette and many more. List of movies and series * The Passing (2005) * Inside (2006) * Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006) * TMZ (TV Show

Jason Eckardt

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Jason Eckardt (born 17 May 1971 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American composer. He began his musical life playing guitar in heavy metal and jazz bands and abruptly moved to composing after discovering the music of Anton Webern. Compositions Atonal and microtonal harmony, intricate rhythms, highly polyphonic textures and large-scale transformational processes are prevalent in Eckardt’s compositions. Allan Kozinn of The New York Times wrote that Eckardt’s music “celebrates harmonic prickliness, rhythmic complexity and a density of ideas”. Though Eckardt has been associated with the New Complexity movement, he is also influenced by American composers Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter. Major works include Passage (2018) for string quartet, After Serra (2000) for chamber ensemble, Tongues (2001) for soprano and chamber ensemble, Reul na Coille (2002) for percussion and orchestra, Trespass (2005) for piano and chamber orchestra and the Undersong cycle (2002–2008), a series of four chamber works (A way tracing , 16, Aperture, The Distance (This)) that, when played together without pause, form a concert-length supercomposition. Some of Eckardt’s compositions are inspired by extramusical

Jason Evigan

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Jason Gregory Evigan (born June 10, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the vocalist for the rock band After Midnight Project, which was formed in 2004 before disbanding in 2012. His songwriting or production credits include the singles “Girls Like You” and “What Lovers Do” by Maroon 5, “Physical” by Dua Lipa, “Ghosttown” by Madonna, “Heart Attack” by Demi Lovato, “Talk Dirty” by Jason Derulo, “Lovers on the Sun” by David Guetta, and “Shed a Light” by Robin Schulz. Early and personal life Evigan was born in Los Angeles, California, the only son of Pamela C. Serpe, a dancer, model, and actress, and actor Greg Evigan. He has Polish and Italian heritage. He is the middle of three siblings, with elder sister Vanessa and younger sister Briana, both of whom are actresses. In August 2011, he married Victoria Janzen, with whom he has two children. The couple began a music project called Elephant Heart, and released singles such as “Hiya” and “Warfare” in 2018. Career He has worked with numerous recording artists including Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Demi Lovato, Avicii, Madonna, Nick Jonas, Kiiara, Zedd, Rufus Du Sol, Bebe Rexha, Skylar Grey, Jon Bellio

Jason Frederick

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Jason Frederick (born November 29, 1970) is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer of music for films and television, based in Colchester, UK. Early life and education Frederick was born in Sudbury, Ontario. He was educated in Canada and the United States. He studied under composers Christopher Young, David Raksin, and Elmer Bernstein at the USC Thornton School of Music, as well as receiving private study with Leonard Rosenman and Joe Harnell. Career Frederick performed with the alternative rock band The Walk from 1987 to 1996, and continues to record under the name Lomax!. His film work includes Dawg, starring Denis Leary and Elizabeth Hurley, and 2BPerfectlyHonest, starring John Turturro and Robert Vaughn, as well as contributions to Richard Gibbs’ scores for the films Big Momma’s House, 28 Days, and Like Mike. He composed the music for the television show Darcy’s Wild Life, starring Sara Paxton. Other television credits include Disney’s The Replacements, and the ABC Family network’s Slacker Cats. Frederick also provided additional score for Disney’s 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure, which won the 2003 DVDX award for best musical score. He provided music for the

Jason Gleed

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Jason Gleed is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and producer. Originally from Toronto, Gleed graduated as an Ontario Scholar from Crescent School, studied briefly at McMaster University, but left to attend York Mills Collegiate Institute before later enrolling at the University of Toronto’s science program where he was accepted into Trinity College. He left the program in 1999 to work at the newly formed Grayson Matthews Audio. He has written music and performed vocals for national ad campaigns for Alltel, McDonald’s, Coke, Pepsi, ATT, Allel, KFC, Lexus, Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Sears, Daisy Sour Cream, and Hellmann’s. He has songs featured in many major motion pictures such as Jumper, Speed Racer, American Pie Beta House, What Happens in Vegas, Hotel For Dogs, Hamlet 2, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Hannah Montana, Sex Drive, Spring Breakdown, Cats and Dogs 2, Star Struck, Big Mommas House 3, Hop, Footloose, The Muppets, and The Adjustment Bureau. Gleed spent several years touring with multi-Juno award-winning Canadian House DJ/producer Hatiras as vocalist/performer, Jaxon. Together Hatiras and Jaxon were known as the Electro House duo, Hatjak. They released one full-length album. Gleed is

Jason Staczek

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Jason Staczek (born December 4, 1965) is an American composer, record producer and keyboardist. Life and career Staczek was born in Washington, D.C., attended high school in Miami and studied physics at the University of Michigan. He played the Hammond organ in Seattle bands and sessions beginning in the 1990s. From 2002 to 2008 Staczek co-owned Chroma Sound, a music and film post-production studio and record label in Seattle. Clients of Chroma Sound included Presidents of the United States of America and Robyn Hitchcock. In 2003 Staczek was hired as staff composer for The Film Company, a Seattle film production studio, through which he met and developed a working relationship with Canadian director Guy Maddin. Staczek has composed music for the soundtracks to the films Brand Upon the Brain! (2006), My Winnipeg (2008), Keyhole (2011), Jobriath A.D. (2012), The Roper (2013) and Song of the New Earth (2014). Brand Upon the Brain! premiered at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, where the silent film was accompanied by a live orchestra conducted by Staczek, narrated by Louis Negin, with sound provided by three live Foley artists and a castrato-style singer. Staczek went on t

Javier Álvarez (composer)

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Javier Álvarez Fuentes (8 May 1956 – 23 May 2023) was a Mexican composer known for compositions that combined a variety of international musical styles and traditions, and that often utilized unusual instruments and new music technologies. Many of his works combine music technology with diverse instruments and influences from around the world. He moved to the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where he achieved a master’s degree in music theory and composition in 1981. He composed the music for Guillermo del Toro’s 1993 horror film Cronos. Compositions The first electroacoustic music by Álvarez dates from his time as a student in London, such as Temazcal (1984). In this contemporary classic, Álvarez unexpectedly pitted a pair of maracas against a complex electroacoustic backdrop. Mannam (1992) takes its inspiration from an ancient Korean zither called a kayagum. Winner of a Prix Ars Electronica distinction, the piece blends and juxtaposes elements of Korean music with materials and performance techniques drawn from the Mexican folk harp. The work Offrande (2001) offers a mix of Caribbean steel pans and electronically processed rhythmic patterns. Alejandra Frausto, the federal Sec

Javier Navarrete

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Javier Navarrete (born May 9, 1956) is a Spanish film score composer. His best-known score, for which he received an Oscar nomination, was for Pan’s Labyrinth (2006; his second collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, the first being The Devil’s Backbone). He also produced in 2015 the soundtrack for the Hong Kong–based film Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal. Works 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Awards and nominations Won *Emmy Award 2012 Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special (Original Dramatic Score) – Hemingway & Gellhorn *BMI Film & TV Awards 2012 Film Music – Wrath of the Titans *Ariel Award 2007 Best Film Music – Pan’s Labyrinth Nominations *Academy Award 2007 Best Original Score – Pan’s Labyrinth *Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 2014 Best Score – Byzantium *Grammy Award 2008 Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – Pan’s Labyrinth *Goya Award 2007 Best Original Score – Pan’s Labyrinth *Online Film Critics Society Awards 2007 Best Original Score – Pan’s Labyrinth References External links *

Javier Torres Maldonado

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Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968) is a Mexican composer internationally recognized for, mostly, his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works. Biography Born in Chetumal (Mexico), José Javier Torres Maldonado studied violin and composition at the Mexico City Conservatory and later, invited by Franco Donatoni, composition at the “G. Verdi” Milan Conservatory, under the supervision of Sandro Gorli and Alessandro Solbiati; he completed his postgraduate studies under Franco Donatoni, Azio Corghi (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Accademia Musicale Chigiana) and Ivan Fedele (Conservatoire de Strasbourg). In 2003, he earned a diploma from the G. Verdi Conservatory for his work in electronic music, and in 2004 he was one of ten composers asked to participate in the Stage de Composition et Informatique Musicale at the Parisian center IRCAM. In most of his works, Torres Maldonado explores innovative ways of organizing time, timbre and space. For example, in his piece for ensemble and electro-acoustic support, De Ignoto Cantu (2004), the composer presents several melody lines which, despite their complexity, actually derive from a single simple source consisting in a few n

Jay Alan Yim

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Jay Alan Yim (born April 24, 1958) is an American composer of Chinese descent and recipient of a 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship. Early life and education Yim was born into a Chinese family in St. Louis, Missouri on April 24, 1958. He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies and graduated with a B.A. in 1980. He also received a M.Mus. in 1981 from the University of London and the Royal College of Music, with a Ph.D. from Harvard University earned in 1989. He currently serves as a professor of music at Northwestern University. Former students include composers Marcos Balter, Kirsten Broberg, Rodrigo Cadiz, Aaron Cassidy, and Mark Engebretson. Awards and honors Yim is a 1994 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition in the creative arts category. He also placed third for the 1994 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, tied with John Anthony Lennon. Personal life Yim is married to artist Marlena Novak. References External links * * Northwestern University biography

Jay Greenberg (composer)

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Jay “Bluejay” Greenberg (born December 13, 1991) is an American composer and former child prodigy who studied at the Juilliard School pre-college in 2002 at age 10. Life and work Greenberg was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He caught the attention of the American media through the sponsorship of Juilliard instructor Samuel Zyman during a CBS News 60 Minutes broadcast on November 28, 2004, when Greenberg was 12, and again in November 2006. Zyman told 60 Minutes, “We are talking about a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history, when it comes to composition. I am talking about the likes of Mozart, and Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns.” Greenberg’s primary composition instructor was Samuel Adler. He composes primarily on his computer using a music notation program. He is mostly known for his work Overture to 9-11 about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which was featured on PRI’s From the Top. On 9/11, he was living in Republic of Macedonia but has since returned to the United States. Neither his father, Robert Greenberg, a professor of Slavic languages at Yale University, nor his Israeli-born mother have musical backgrounds, but Greenberg found himself attracted

Jay Q

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Jeff Tennyson Quaye (born on December 24 in Osu), professionally known by his stage name Jay Q, is a Ghanaian musician, record producer, record executive, sound engineer, songwriter and keyboardist. He is the founder and current CEO of Q-Lex Entertainment and Jay-Qlex Recording Studio. He has produced albums for and overseen the careers of many musicians, including Buk Bak, VIP, Castro, Mzbel, Obrafour, Daddy Lumba, Nana Acheampong, Ofori Amponsah, Akosua Agyapong, Obuoba J. A. Adofo, Wulomei, and others. As a producer, Jay Q is credited as a key figure in the popularization of Hiplife, Highlife and Gospel. He introduced Jama (kpanlogo) into Hiplife, which became laudable and was accepted in Ghana, Africa and the rest of the world. In 2003, Jay Q won an award for Best Sound Engineer in Ghana. Early life Jay Q was born and raised in Accra, Ghana, by Jeff Tennyson Quaye (snr) and Miss Comfort Adjin-Tettey. His church, Emmanuel Assemblies Of God, sponsored his keyboard studies at the Oriental School Of Music (Adabraka, Accra). He later joined Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries and met Fred Kyei Mensah (Fredyma Studio), who taught him music programming and introduced him to

Jay Schwartz

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Jay Schwartz (born June 26, 1965) is an American composer based in Germany. Biography Schwartz was born in San Diego, California, in 1965. His father was a professional boxer who later worked in swimming pool maintenance, while his mother was a kindergarten teacher. Schwartz began playing the piano at a young age and was largely self-taught in composition. He studied music at Arizona State University, graduating in 1989 followed by graduate studies in musicology in Tübingen, Germany. Awards In 2000, Schwartz received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Prize for composition in Cologne, Germany. He is also a three-time recipient of the Strobel Fellowship for electronic music from the Südwestrundfunk. In 2014, Schwartz was awarded a residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and he also received the Rome Prize for a residency at the Villa Massimo in Rome in both 2017 and 2018. In 2019, he was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. In 2020 he was awarded wit the Mario Merz Prize. Music Jay Schwartz’s compositional approach is grounded in the physical properties of sound, incorporating elements such as the overtone series, microtonality, and glissandi. He explores t

Jay Semko

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John Peter “Jay” Semko is a singer/songwriter and bassist with Canadian band, The Northern Pikes. He is also a music composer for numerous film and television productions, most notably the successful Canadian television series Due South. Semko has been nominated for a Juno Award eight times as a member of the Northern Pikes, and also been nominated twice for a Gemini Award, and once for a Canadian Screen Award, and received two awards from the Canadian Music Publishers Association for his songwriting. His hometown is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Discography Albums Singles References External links *Jay Semko – Official Website *Innerviews interview with Jay Semko *Busted Flat Records – Record Label

Jayme Amatnecks

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Jayme Amatnecks (born 22 December 1966, in Ponta Grossa) is a Brazilian composer and conductor. He taught at Potiguar University from 2005 to 2011 and was twice elected to Ponta Grossa’s Municipal Council of Culture. Amatnecks studied under Gabriel de Paula Machado, Lucia Passos, Hans-Gerhard Rottmann, and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. He performed with the State University of Ponta Grossa Choir, the Unisinos Choir, and the Theatro Guaíra Choir. In 1999, he organised the Vox Pop Choir and the Ministry of Culture’s Camerata Ars Música, promoting Brazilian musical repertoire. From 2005 to 2011, he taught at Potiguar University, directing multiple choirs including the CEIC (Centro Educacional Imaculada Conceição) Choir, St. Cecilia Women’s Choir, and the Federal Court of Rio Grande do Norte Choir. He served two terms on Ponta Grossa’s Municipal Council of Culture and initiated a public school choral program that formed 83 choirs throughout the city. He led an Osvaldo Lacerda workshop during the 2014 Chorus Inside Festival in Chieti, Italy. In 2015, he conducted Duerme Negrito with Camerata Ars Música and Emiglio Solé; this performance was later included in the short film Paseo de los Mel

Jeajoon Ryu

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Jeajoon Ryu (born 1970) is a South Korean composer. His works have been by performed some of the world’s leading orchestras, such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), l’Orchestre régional de Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (ORCPACA), the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri), and the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was the artistic director of Seoul International Music Festival from 2009 to 2010 and a composer of Poland Gozow Philharmonic Orchestra from 2011 to 2012. Artists such as Arto Noras, Michel Lethiec, Ralf Gothoni, Li-Wei Qin, Shanghai Quartet, Juyung Baek, So-Ock Kim, Johannes Moser and Ilya Gringolts have performed his works. Education He studied composition under Krzysztof Penderecki at Kraków Music Academy as well as under Kang, Suk-hi at Seoul National University. Career His music has been given numerous critically acclaimed around the world and at the Cadogan Hall, Verdi Hall in Milan, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, and Helsinki Music Centre. He was invited to the Naantali Music Festival (Finland) and Mecklenburg Music Festival (Germany) as guest composer and jury member of international Violin Competition of Astana. His violin

Jean Ahn

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Jean Ahn (; born 1976) is a composer based in San Francisco, originally from Korea. Her music is inspired by Korean and Asian traditional music and instruments. She composes for a variety of different instruments and ensembles: orchestral works, choral works, solo works, duets, chamber music, and electronic music and computer music. Her accolades include First Prize at the Renée Fisher Competition and the Sejong Korean Music Competition, awards from the Korean National Music Composers Association, the De Lorenzo Prize in Music Composition, and the Isadora Duncan Award for her piece Saltdoll. and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also the Music director of CHIM Studios. Compositions Ahn’s works can be categorized in three groups: # Pieces only using Korean musical elements # Pieces written for Korean instruments, but playing non-Korean traditional styles/music Nil-lili was also chosen to be a required piece for the 2018 piano competition of the New England Piano Teacher’s Association. Ahn combined Nil-lili, Mongeumpo and Ongheya in a collection titled Folksong Revisited for solo piano in 2008. The piece includes five folksongs arranged for voice and piano.

Jean Derome

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Jean Derome (born June 29, 1955) is a French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist, and composer. A prominent figure in the Montreal musique actuelle (new music) scene, Derome has been a member of experimental, jazz, and rock groups, and has appeared on over 30 albums, including seven solo albums. He has written scores for over 30 films and co-founded Ambiances Magnétiques, a Canadian musical collective and independent record label. In 1992, Derome won the second annual Canadian Freddie Stone Award. Biography Jean Derome was born in Montreal, Quebec on 29 June 1955. He studied music theory in Montreal at Cégep de Saint-Laurent between 1972 and 1975, and flute at Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec between 1975 and 1979. He also taught music theory and flute in Montreal colleges between 1974 and 1983. During his studies, he formed his first band Nébu in 1973, one of Quebec’s first avant-garde jazz groups. A trio with Derome on flute, pianist Pierre St-Jacques and bassist Claude Simard, Nébu played “classically-informed contemporary jazz”. They toured extensively in Quebec, performed at the Festival de Musique Ouverte de Châteauvallon in France in 1977 and at the inaugural Montre

Jean Goldenbaum

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Jean Goldenbaum ( in São Paulo, Brazil) is a German composer and musicologist. He is a researcher at the European Centre for Jewish Music of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Life Jean Mordechai Arendt Goldenbaum was born in a Jewish family in São Paulo and grew up there. In 2005 he immigrated to Germany and in 2013 got his PhD in musicology at the University of Augsburg. Goldenbaum was the composer in residence of the Wasa Sinfonieta Music Festival in Finland in 2011 and 2013, in which his two double concerti Ode to Friendship (for flute, guitar and orchestra) and The Universes shall conspire to Love (for flute, percussion and orchestra) were premiered. In 2011 some of his chamber music pieces were performed at the event “Neue Musik International” in Salzburg. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil his music was presented at the 2012 event Neue Klänge aus Brasilien – im Portrait: Jean Goldenbaum, also in Salzburg. After its premiere in Brazil, it took place in this occasion the European premiere of his concerto May all Dictators fall (for guitar and guitar quartet), years later recorded in Hanover. In 2016 it took place in Berlin the concert New tones for t

Jean Ven Robert Hal

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Jean Ven Robert Hal (born 11 May 1970), known as his stage name Roberto D’Agostino Vendola, is an Italian musician and composer of krautrock, progressive rock, ambient, jazz, synthpop, electronic, space and orchestral music. Biography As a graduate of geometry, Hal also studied architecture and design. His first exposure to music was when he was given his first keyboard at the age of six. He then later started to compose music. Hal specializes on both the analog sound and digital electronic devices and the use of “vintage” synths with prestigious brands such as Moog, ARP Instruments Inc., EMS (Electronic Music Studios), Elka, Oberheim, Synclavier, Fairlight CMI, Mellotron, a precursor of today’s samplers, the legendary Theremin and many others, all musical instruments that have marked the history of modern music. Jean Ven Robert Hal is one of the few representatives in Italy and belongs to the current musical wave of the Kosmische Musik genre with many “cultural” pieces. Kosmische Musik (or krautrock) originated in Germany from various musical influences that are substantially known as the “minimalism”. The psychedelic music and cultured electronic music is a consequence of post-we

Jean Wiertz

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Jean Wiertz (; born 1958 or 1959) is a Dutch composer, music teacher, and school administrator. He has served as chairperson of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) since March 2024. Life Wiertz was born in Schaesberg, Limburg, and studied at Maastricht Academy of Music. He attended Utrecht and Leiden Universities before becoming a music teacher at the Rotterdam Sint-Laurenscollege high school in 1982. In addition to teaching, Wiertz worked as a composer and arranger for public broadcasters VARA, KRO, and NOS and contributed to the Rotterdam musicals Kaat Mossel (1992) and Mooi Katenderchet (1994). Wiertz declared he wanted to restore the party’s stability, honesty, and reliability following a loss of seats in the November 2023 general election. Personal life Wiertz has two children, and he resided in Dordrecht as of 2017. References

Jean-Baptiste Favory

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Jean-Baptiste Favory (born 1967) is a French sound artist and composer of musique concrète, electronic and instrumental music. Biography Jean-Baptiste Favory was born in Paris in 1967. His mother, Catherine Fournet (1945), is the daughter of conductor Jean Fournet. His father is actor Michel Favory (1940). After briefly studying piano in his early youth, he returned to music as a keyboardist for several rock bands in the 1980s. At the same time, he became interested in experimental music and, in 1990, he composed his first concrete pieces as an autodidact. He began composing in 1989 and his first works were broadcast on the national French radio France Culture in 1994. In 1995, he composed the first sound design for an Internet provider, Infogrames. The same year, he started working for theatre, composing sounds & musics for Victor Haïm. From 1996 to 1999, he worked in Luc Ferrari’s studios , and was assistant to Composers such as Gavin Bryars, Luc Ferrari and Brunhild Ferrari. In 1997, he obtained a two-month residency in Monterrey, Mexico, to compose Leyendas Urbanas, a composition with a 180° video projection by Pierre Jacob premiered the planetarium of the city. Two years later

Jean-François Zygel

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Jean-François Zygel (born 23 November 1960) is a French pianist, improviser, composer and improvisation teacher for piano at the Conservatoire de Paris. Born in Paris, he is also known for his work in introducing classical music on television and radio. Zygel’s music is nourished by synagogue cantillation. Two of his great-grandfathers were hazzanim in Poland. Awards * Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (2015). * Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. * Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite (2006). On France Inter At the beginning of 2015, France Inter entrusted him with a weekly programme entitled La Preuve par Z. The composer evokes and explains the great composers, with long excerpts from concerts in support. On France Télévisions On 31 August 2017, Zygel presented “Zygel Académie” on France 2, a show where celebrities discover classical music. It has 601,000 viewers, or 7.3% of the audience. Publications * Quand du stérile hiver a resplendi l’ennui … Conditions d’existence du langage musical, in Le Débat, issue 82, November–December 1994, . Bibliography * Interview by B. Dermoncourt, in Classica-Repertoire, February 2008, . * “Z comme Jean-François Zygel : la musiqu

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger

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Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (born 29 December 1986) is a French pianist, organist, and composer. His repertoire extends from Bach to Barraqué and the works of his own contemporaries. He was born in Paris on 29 December 1986. When he was eight years old he began studying piano at the Académie Maurice Ravel in Saint-Jean de Luz and then added studies in organ and composition. He entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in 2000, where he received highest honors in piano, accompaniment, improvisation at the piano and at the organ, and chamber music. He has won a number of prizes including First Prize at the 2002 Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists; Second Prize and the Beethoven Prize at the 2004 José Iturbi Piano Competition; Third Grand Prix, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Prize, the Audience Favorite Prize and the Sacem Prize at the 2004 Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris; and Second Prize at the 2005 London International Piano Competition. He won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where he was also awarded the John Browning Memorial Prize and the Rhoda Walker Teagle Prize, which in December 2006 sponsored his

Jean-Marc Volcy

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Jean-Marc Volcy (born January 29, 1966) is a Seychellois composer, performer and songwriter regarded as one of the pioneering musicians to propagate creole music in Seychelles. His repertoire of music is a fusion of modern creole pop with traditional folk music. His contributions to music in Seychelles has seen him win numerous awards including the Airtel Music Awards, Les Voix de l’Océan Indien and the Cable Tunes Awards. In February 2017, he was inducted into the Seychelles’ Musicians Wall of Fame. Discography Albums * Gou Kreol – (1994) * Leko Bake – (1997) * Bel Koud Kannon – (2002) * Bon Bon – (2005) * Sove Lavi – (2006) * Bon Bon Bon - (2007) * Lanmizik i Mazik – (2011) * Kapisien - (2022) References External links * *

Jean-Michel Bernard

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Jean-Michel Bernard (born 23 November 1961) is a French pianist, composer, educator, orchestrator, and music producer. He is well known for regularly writing, performing, and scoring for films, such as The Science of Sleep, Hugo, Paris-Manhattan, Ca$h, and Be Kind Rewind. Early life and career beginnings Bernard began playing the piano at the age of two. When he was 14, he was awarded first place at the Bordeaux Conservatory and later graduated from the École Normale de Musique de Paris. At 19, he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, whilst pursuing a career as a jazz musician and performing with prominent jazz artists including Wild Bill Davis, Jimmy Woode (Duke Ellington’s bassist) and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis. From 1987 to 1991, he worked as musical director and conductor of the successful radio show L’Oreille en Coin on National Public Radio France Inter. Between 2000 and 2003, he performed with the Ray Charles Quartet on the European and Australian tours as organist and conductor, “this guy is a genius” Ray used to say concerning Bernard. He also scored many documentaries and commercials during the 1990s. His career as a composer began with animated films, fo

Jean-Pascal Beintus

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Jean-Pascal Beintus (born 1966) is a French composer. Beintus was born in Toulouse. He studied double bass and composition at the conservatories of Nice, Lyon and Paris during the 1980s. When Sir John Eliot Gardiner created the Lyon Opéra Orchestra in 1983, he selected Beintus as a founding double bass player. His first work, Samskara, was for double bass and chamber orchestra. In 1996 Kent Nagano, then music director of the Opéra de Lyon, recognized Jean-Pascal Beintus’s talents as composer and began to commission works from him: a concerto for orchestra, a concerto for clarinet and orchestra. Since then, he has written music for nearly every type of ensemble, concert hall and film. He composed a stage music for Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Recent commissions have come from the Berlin Philharmonic (He’s Got Rhythm: Homage to George Gershwin), the Russian National Orchestra (Wolf Tracks and Peter and the Wolf), the Manchester Hallé Orchestra (Couleurs Cuivres), the Berkeley Symphony (Berkeley Images, Luna Tree and Bremen Town Musicians), the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (Kobe Symphony, which was featured on David Benoit’s 2005 release, Orchestral Stories, on Pe

Jean-Pascal Chaigne

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Jean-Pascal Chaigne (born 1977) is a French composer. Following initial studies at the Conservatoire National de Région de Tours and the University of Tours, he was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris where he obtained first prizes in analysis, harmony, orchestration, counterpoint, 20th century music writing and composition, studying with Emmanuel Nunes and Stefano Gervasoni. Jean-Pascal Chaigne is Professor of XX-XXI century musical writing at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP) and at the Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud Valais Fribourg (Lausanne Conservatory) in Switzerland. Works Solo instrument * De miroir, d’absence (2016) for viola da gamba * L’énigme et son sommeil (2011, after Kardia by Claude Royet-Journoud) for soprano * L’épaisseur d’un cri (2012) for traverso (baroque flute) * Hymne I (2010) for flute * Hymne II (2013) for percussion * Objets I (2007) for bass clarinet * Soit donc cela I (2013) for harpsichord * Soit donc cela II (2013) for organ * Trace (2014) for double bass * Vertical et blanc I (2006-revised 2009) for cello * Vertical et blanc II (2009) for viola * Vertical et blanc III (2009-revised 2011) for violin * Wie ein Toter (2013) for cello Chamber ensemble * ..

Jean-Paul Maunick

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Jean-Paul Edouard Maunick (born 19 February 1957, Mauritius), known by his stage name Bluey is a British guitarist, bandleader, composer and record producer. He has led the British acid jazz band Incognito since its formation in 1979. With Incognito, he has released fifteen studio albums as well as a number of live albums, remix albums and compilation albums. Prior to forming Incognito, Bluey was an original member of the group Light of the World. His record production credits include artists such as Paul Weller, George Benson, Maxi Priest and Terry Callier; he has also collaborated with Stevie Wonder. Maunick formed STR4TA with Gilles Peterson and released the album Aspects on Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings label in March 2021. Solo career He released his solo debut album Leap of Faith in March 2013. Neil Kelly of PopMatters said of the album, “An undoubtedly listenable creation, Bluey has blended the club-infused soul-jazz sounds that made him famous with the sensibility of an elder statesman, which he is.” Personal life He is the son of the Mauritian poet Edouard Maunick and Armande Mallet. He was born in Mauritius, and moved to the United Kingdom when he was nine years old. D

Jean-Yves Malmasson

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Jean-Yves Malmasson (born 1963) is a French composer and conductor. Malmasson was born in Saint-Cloud in the Paris suburbs. After studies in piano, ondes Martenot, and composition at the Conservatoire National de Région, Boulogne-Billancourt, he went on to study composition and conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he won a first prize in composition. His orchestral tone poem “Le chant de Dahut” for ondes Martenot and Orchestra won the SACEM prize at the 1988 Festival des tombées de la nuit, in Rennes (France). His principal teachers include Alain Louvier, Pierre Grouvel, Serge Nigg, Jacques Charpentier (musical writing technique and composition), and Jean-Claude Hartemann and Jean-Sébastien Bereau (conducting). Malmasson’s compositions are written in an expressive, extended-tonal style which uses a great deal of harmonic vocabulary borrowed from the style of Olivier Messiaen (notably in the early work “Un feu ardent dans un silence noir et froid” for pianoforte). Malmasson is often inspired by space and astronomy (“Mare Nostrum” for Orchestra, Coro). In addition to being the musical director of the city of Puteaux wind orchestra, a post he has held since 1988, Jean-Yves

Jeff Danna

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Jeff Danna is a Canadian film and television composer. He has composed or co-composed scores for a wide range of films and television, including The Boondock Saints (1999), Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Silent Hill (2006), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Storks (2016), The Breadwinner (2017), The Addams Family (2019), Onward (2020), Guillermo Del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia (2019-2021), My Father’s Dragon (2022), Julia (2022), Churchill at War (2024) and The Hunting Wives (2025). His older brother, composer Mychael Danna, is a frequent collaborator, and the two have received Emmy nominations for their work on Camelot (2011), Tyrant (2014-2016), and Alias Grace (2017). Additionally, Danna has been nominated for six Annie Awards, won five BMI Film & TV Awards, a Gemini Award, a Genie award, two Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and 15 SOCAN Awards. Career Danna’s first foray into film scoring occurred while recovering from his injury. Unable to play for extended periods of time, his brother, Mychael, suggested that he record the guitar parts on some of Mychael’s first scores, figuring that they could take breaks at intervals as necessitated by his

Jeff Fairbanks

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Jeff Fairbanks (born January 6, 1980) is an American composer, band leader, and multiinstrumentalist. Awards Music awards and honors include a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, US Air Force Sammy Nestico Award, the BMI Charlie Parker Award, ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award, three ASCAP Plus Awards and an IMA Independent Music Awards. He received grants from the Aaron Copland Fund, American Composers Forum, four grants each from the New Music USA and Queens Council on the Arts. He has been commissioned by the West Point Band Jazz Knights, BMI/NY Jazz Orchestra, USAF Airmen of Note, Chinese Music Ensemble of New York, National Gugak Center, Nangye Gugak Orchestra, Hora Decima and more. Bandleader Jeff’s Jazz ensemble, Project Hansori, appears on his debut recording as a leader, Mulberry Street (BJURecords). Documenting his compositions fusing East Asian traditional music and Jazz, this award-winning album was released on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label in 2011, to international critical praise. Produced by Darcy James Argue, the album includes as a guest the late Fred Ho, baritone saxophonist and pioneer in Asian-Jazz fusion. Notable ensemble members include Li

Jeff Hamburg

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Jeff Hamburg (born 1956) is an American composer. Born in Philadelphia, he studied acoustics and composition at the University of Illinois and moved to the Netherlands in 1978 to continue his studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Louis Andriessen. In 1986, he received the Conservatory Prize. He further studied French Horn at the Royal Conservatory and later conducted classes with David Porcelijn at the Conservatory of Utrecht. In 2002, Hamburg received the Visser-Neerlandia Music Prize for the outstanding quality of his oeuvre. From 2008 to 2015, Hamburg was chairman of the board of Geneco, the Dutch composer’s guild. His translation of The Apollonian Clockwork: On Stravinsky by Elmer Schönberger and Louis Andriessen is published by Oxford University Press. Together with flutist Eleonore Pameijer, Hamburg started the Dutch cd label FutureClassics. Selected works Orchestral * 2009 Podolian Dances – string orchestra * 2007 Hear O Heavens – Give Ear, O Earth – symphony orchestra * 2007 The Wild Waters that Roar – symphony orchestra * 2004 Ruach – Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra * 2003 Kumi, Ori – tenor and orchestra * 2001 Aychah – choir and orchestra * 2001 Zachor – sym

Jeff Miyahara

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Jeff Miyahara (born February 4, 1977) is a Japanese record producer and songwriter based in Tokyo, Japan. He is the chief creative officer for the Japanese branch of HYBE. Beginning his career in the music industry in 1999, he has worked with many Japanese artists such as JUJU, Kana Nishino, Namie Amuro, TVXQ, Weather Girls, as well as international artists like Boyz II Men, Girls’ Generation, and Timbaland. He has accrued many Oricon rated No. 1 Digital Download hits, including “Kimi No Subete Ni” by Spontania ft. JUJU and JASMINE’s “sad to say”. He was awarded several Gold Disc Awards by the Recording Industry Association of Japan in 2005, 2008, 2009, and was titled Nikkei Entertainment’s “Hitmaker of the Year” in 2010. He has sold over 40 million units to date. In 2009, Miyahara signed a deal with UM360, the management division of Universal Music Japan, after the success of his 2008 breakout hit “Kiminosubeteni”, a hip-pop track he produced for Spontania featuring JUJU, which sold over 5 million digital downloads. That same year he was involved in the release of over fifty CDs. He has also collaborated with performers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Australia. Miyahara has cited his

Jeff Myers (composer)

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Jeff Myers (born August 11, 1977) is an American composer. Early life Born and raised in Fremont, California, Myers attended San Jose University (earning a Bachelor of Music degree), the Eastman School of Music (earning a Master of Arts degree), and the University of Michigan (earning a Doctor of Musical Arts degree while studying composition under Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award-winning composer and pianist William Bolcom and Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty). Career In 2011, Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn invited composers to submit pieces for inclusion on her In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores Album. From more than 400 submissions, Hahn chose Myers’s “The Angry Birds of Kauai” to perform as the 27th and final track. The album was released in 2013. Myers’s work has been presented at Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Kimmel Center, Darmstadt, Het Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Bard College, the Institute for Advanced Study, and Poisson Rouge, amongst others. Noted collaborators and commissioners include the New York City Opera, Beth Morrison Projects, Orchestre national de Lorraine, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Univer

Jeff Toyne

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Jeffrey William Toyne (born January 7, 1975) is a Canadian film composer and recipient of Playback Magazine’s ‘Ten to Watch’ honour. Early life Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, Toyne earned a bachelor’s degree in music composition from the University of Western Ontario. He pursued graduate studies in composition at the University of British Columbia, graduating with a master’s degree in 1999. Immediately thereafter, he was selected to hold one of the coveted composer-participant positions at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles. There, while writing and conducting several new works, he had the opportunity to study with such jazz and film artists as Jerry Goldsmith, Jack Smalley, Manny Albam, Michael Abene, Bob Florence, Jim McNeely, John Clayton (bassist), Alf Clausen and Horace Silver. This experience was pivotal in broadening Toyne’s compositional scope to encompass not only a classical twentieth century idiom, but also jazz, blues and popular music. Toyne then enrolled in the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television post-graduate program at the University of Southern California in August 2000. Following his graduation from the program in May 2001, he began work

Jeff Tymoschuk

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Jeff Tymoschuk is a Canadian composer who writes music for film, television, video games and theatrical productions. His music is often fast-paced and intense to accompany lively action sequences. Early life Tymoschuk grew up in Souris, Manitoba. Career In 2002, Tymoschuk wrote the musical score for the video game James Bond 007: Nightfire from Electronic Arts. He later composed additional music on James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, supplementing composer Sean Callery’s score. Tymoschuk has also written music for Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice for BigBig Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness and DeathSpank from Hothead Games, and additional music on The Simpsons Hit and Run for Radical Entertainment/Vivendi Universal Games. In 2011, he composed the score for Sleeping Dogs from United Front Games, an open world game set in the Hong Kong underworld. In 2010, he composed the score for the supernatural thriller Altitude for director Kaare Andrews and Foundation Features, starring Jessica Lowndes and Julianna Guill. Other films include Below Zero, starring Edward Furlong and Michael Berryman, and the action/horror

Jeff Walls

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Jeffrey Kermit Walls (August 29, 1956 – May 29, 2019) was an American musician, songwriter, and producer. He gained prominence as the lead guitarist of the 1980s alternative rock band Guadalcanal Diary, which originated from Marietta, Georgia. Early life The son of an engineer, Jeff Walls was born in Marietta, Georgia. Walls went to Marietta High School with future Guadalcanal Diary members Rhett Crowe, Murray Attaway, and John Poe. Family In 1988, Jeff Walls and Rhett Crowe, bassist for Guadalcanal Diary, married. Their daughter, Lillian, was born the following year. Their son, Carson, was born in 1990. Walls and Crowe later divorced. In 1997, Jeff married Hillbilly Frankenstein bassist Phyllis (Bridges) Walls and welcomed stepdaughter Maggie. Grandchildren include Kaitlyn (2003), Eva (2015) and Ezra (2020). Career Guadalcanal Diary Guadalcanal Diary, originating from Marietta, Georgia, was established after Walls and Murray Attaway transitioned away from their high school punk band, Strictly American. The band formed in 1981 and initially released an EP titled “Watusi Rodeo” along with the full-length LP “Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man” under DB Records. In 1985, they signe

Jefferson Friedman

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Jefferson Friedman (born 1974) is an American composer. He has composed several orchestral pieces and television scores including Harley Quinn. Friedman was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts. He received an M.M. degree in music composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano, and a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied with David Rakowski and Jonathan Kramer. Friedman also studied with George Tsontakis and Christopher Rouse. He lives in Los Angeles. Career Friedman’s work has received positive reviews. His pieces have been performed throughout the United States and abroad, including at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and the American Academy in Rome. Friedman was commissioned by Leonard Slatkin to write three pieces for the National Symphony Orchestra: “March”, “The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly”, and “Sacred Heart: Explosion” “March” is a brief closing piece, commissioned by the orchestra as part of the Hechinger Encores series. “The Throne” and “Sac

Jeffrey Brooks

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Jeffrey Brooks (born 1956) is an American composer living in Minneapolis. Brooks composed the popular work Dreadnought (for wind ensemble) as well as several works for Bang on a Can. Brooks holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and Yale University. He studied with Louis Andriessen, Gilbert Amy, Allen Forte and Martin Bresnick. In the mid-1980s, at Yale and Tanglewood, he met Steve Martland, Art Jarvinen, Eleanor Hovda, Michael Gordon and David Lang, who have remained the most important influences in his musical life to this day. Brooks has composed, with few exceptions, instrumental works, from the very small (What Bird am I Thinking of, for piano trio) to the very large (Dreadnought, John Henry, Funeral Music, and Providence), all for forces of 60-plus musicians. Works * The Passion (2017) * Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother (2015) *After the Treewatcher, piano and chamber orchestra (2013) *The Starry Messenger, SSATB (2011) *John Henry Symphony, concert wind ensemble (2010) *Funeral Music, concert wind ensemble (2009) *What Bird am I Thinking of, piano trio (2008) *Providence, double concerto for trumpet and trombone in three movements (2007) *Skeleton Crew

Jeffrey Ching

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Jeffrey Ching (, born 4 November 1965) is a contemporary classical composer. He was born in the Philippines, to Chinese parents. He is married to the operatic soprano Andión Fernández and has two children. His opera was given in the Theater Erfurt in 2009. Selected works *Concerto da camera *Horologia sinica *Kunstkabinett *Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas *Terra Kytaorum *Symphony No. 1 in C major (prem. 1981) *Symphony No. 2, “The Imp of the Perverse” *Symphony No. 3, “Rituals” *Symphony No. 4, “Souvenir des Ming” *Symphony No. 5, “Kunstkammer” References Further reading * Hila, Antonio C. “Understanding the Early Music of Jeffrey Ching: An Erudite Composer”, Unitas, Vol. 75, No. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 454–75. ISSN 0041-7149 * Programme brochure for Weltblech concert, Berlin, 9 January 2001. * Programme brochure for the Kammerorchester Berlin IV. Abonnementkonzert, Berlin, 1 March 2006. * Xu, Jing (徐靜). “Zhuang Zuxin: Meilidi xuanlü rensheng” (庄祖欣: 美丽的旋律人生), Guangming ribao (光明日報), 15 September 2006. * Orosa, Rosalinda L. “Ching Amazes”, The Philippine Star, 28 October 2006. * Programme brochure for Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra concert, Shanghai International Arts Festival,

Jeffrey Mumford

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Jeffrey Mumford (born June 22, 1955) is a U.S. composer whose orchestral works have been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and American Composers Orchestra. His music has been especially praised by The New York Times as being “a philosophy of music making that embraced both raw passion and a gentle imagistic poetry.” Mumford’s compositions, though thoroughly modern, are evocative, exploring the sensuous and tactile nature of sound in subtle and sophisticated ways. Mumford was born in Washington, D.C., and holds degrees from the University of California, Irvine (B.A., 1977) and the University of California, San Diego (M.A., 1981). He was a student of Elliott Carter and Lawrence Moss. Mumford, along with poet Bruce Weigl, holds the rank of Distinguished Professor in the Division of Arts and Humanities at Lorain County Community College in Ohio. Formerly he taught at the Washington Conservatory of Music (1989–99), served as Artist-in-Residence at Bowling Green State University (1999-00), and served as assistant professor of composition and Compo

Jeffrey Ryan

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Jeffrey Ryan (born 1962) is a Canadian composer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. His compositional style ranges from opera, art song, and choral music to chamber ensemble and orchestral works. Ryan has been commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony, Esprit Orchestra, Tapestry New Opera Works, the Arditti Quartet, and Elektra Women’s Choir. Repeat performances have been presented by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony, the Canadian Chamber Choir, the Florida Orchestra, and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, as well as a number of art song teams and chamber ensembles. He is an Associate Composer with the Canadian Music Centre. Early life and education Ryan was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He graduated with an honours bachelor of music degree from the Wilfrid Laurier University and the gold medal in music. After earning a master’s degree in composition from the University of Toronto, he went on to receive his doctor of musical arts degree in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Donald Erb. Previous teachers include Alexina Louie, L

Jen Trynin

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Jennifer Trynin (born 1963), is an American singer-songwriter and author from Boston, Massachusetts. Career She recorded her debut album Cockamamie in 1994 while running her own desktop publishing business. The track “Better Than Nothing” received considerable airplay on alternative rock radio stations across the United States. She later released her second album, Gun Shy Trigger Happy, in 1997. Trynin would later release a book entitled Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be in 2006 about her experience in the music industry. Trynin played guitar for Dave Wanamaker’s band Loveless, who released an album, Gift to the World, in 2003. After Loveless broke up, she took a break from music to raise her daughter. In 2015, Trynin formed the band Cujo and began playing semi-regularly at small clubs in and around Boston. In 2018, Trynin joined Band of Their Own, an all-female supergroup formed to perform at Hot Stove Cool Music, the annual benefit show supporting the Foundation to be Named Later, the charity established by former Boston Red Sox and current Chicago Cubs executive Theo Epstein and his twin brother Paul Epstein. Band of Their Own also features among others Kay Hanley, Freda Love Smit

Jennifer Higdon

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Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962 ) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in 2018, and Harp Concerto in 2020. Elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019, she was a professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1994 to 2021. Biography Higdon was born in Brooklyn, New York. She spent the first ten years of her life in Atlanta, Georgia before moving to Seymour, Tennessee. Her father, Charles Higdon, was a painter and made efforts to expose his children to different types of art. He took them to various exhibitions of new and experimental art that gave her her earliest exposure to art and helped her to form an idea of what art was. She also developed an interest in photography and writing at an early age. Despite her early introduction to art, she received very little exposure to classical music in her home. Instead, her early musical education came from listening to rock and folk music from the 1960s. I

Jennifer Margaret Barker

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Jennifer Margaret Barker (born 6 May 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-American classical composer and pianist. Her compositional style is highly influenced by the landscape, culture and musical heritage of Scotland. She is Professor Emerita of Composition and Theory at the University of Delaware. Her music has been recorded on the Naxos Records, Composers Recordings Inc., New World Records, Albany Records, Meyer Media and PnOVA Recordings labels. She is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Theodore Presser Company, Vanderbeek & Imrie Ltd., Southern Percussion and McKenna-Keddie Publishing. Biography Raised in Blanefield, Stirlingshire, Barker studied composition with Scottish composer, John Maxwell Geddes at the University of Glasgow (B.Mus. Hons.), before crossing the Atlantic for graduate studies with American Pulitzer prize-winning composers Melinda Wagner and George Crumb at Syracuse University (M.M.) and the University of Pennsylvania (A.M., Ph.D.) respectively. She also worked with British composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Weir on the 1992 Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Young Composers Course in Orkney, and with American composers Daniel Strong Godfrey and Jay Reis

Jennifer Walshe

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Jennifer Walshe (born 1 June 1974) is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist. Biography Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) with a doctoral degree in composition in June 2002. Her chief teachers at Northwestern were Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. In 2003–04 Walshe was a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; during 2004–05 she lived in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Walshe’s work has been performed all over the world by ensembles such as Alter Ego, ensemble recherche, Ensemble Resonanz, Apartment House, ensemble Intégrales, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Schlagquartett Köln, Crash Ensemble, Con Tempo Quartet, Trio Scordatura, Ensemble Ascolta, Champ d’Action, ensemble laboratorium, ensemble surplus, the Rilke Ensemble, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, Bozzini Quartet, Callino Quartet, Ensemble 2000, Concorde, Kaleidoscop, Black Hair, Continuum, Musica Nova Consort, ensemble chronophonie, the Scott

Jens Joneleit

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Jens Gerd Joneleit (born 17 September 1968) is a German composer, known for his operas. Early life and education Joneleit was born in Offenbach am Main in Germany. His parents both played piano, and he learned music theory when he was only seven years old. In 1975 he started taking percussion lessons, and performed in a local marching band, and local rock and jazz groups. Around 1984 he taught himself piano and started composing his own music. He graduated from the Gymnasium in 1988, and for the next two years completed his community service. He moved to the United States in 1990 to study at the University of South Dakota, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with majoring in Art and a minor in Music in 1992. He then entered graduate school in painting at the University of Wisconsin, and completed his Master of Fine Arts in 1997. Musical career From 1991 Joneleit studied music with Bartók’s pupil Lewis Hamvas in Yankton, South Dakota, and in Vermillion, South Dakota with Robert Marek (1915–1995) and Stephen Yarbrough (born 1946). From 1994 he studied in Madison, Wisconsin with Joel Naumann, a pupil of Stefan Wolpe. In 2003 he hired Roscoe Mitchell of the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Jens Josef

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Jens Josef (born 5 August 1967) is a German composer of classical music, a flutist and academic teacher. Career Born in Solingen-Ohligs, Josef received flute instructions from Rita Eggenweiler and Klaus Grünow, principal flute of the Staatstheater Kassel, and took composition classes with Jörn Tegtmeyer, the director of church music of Hann. Münden. From 1989 to 1997 Josef studied at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt, flute with Peter Brock and Paul Dahme, and composition with Gerhard Müller-Hornbach. He finished his examinations in 1995, his concert examinations in 1997. He also studied flute with András Adorján and composition with Rainer Kunad. He was a member of the Norddeutsche Philharmonie in Rostock in 1992/93, and the flutist of the orchestra Saitensprünge in 1994/95. He has worked as a freelance artist, flutist, composer, teacher, and conductor. in 1997 he founded the ensemble Gruppe Kontraste together with Christian Ridil. In 1998 he was principal flute of the Junge Philharmonie Hessen-Thüringen. He has collaborated with the Mutare Ensemble in Frankfurt. He has participated in the educational project Ohrwurm-Projekt, a music project aiming at elementary school children. His o

Jeremy Adelman (composer)

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Jeremy Adelman (born 1973) is an American composer for film and television, trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist, and major-label music producer and arranger in genres including funk, indie and jazz. He is primarily known as the composer and songwriter for prime-time CW TV series Hart of Dixie starring Rachel Bilson. Biography Early life and career Adelman was born in Amityville, New York. He performed as an orchestral trumpeter and moved to NY in 1989 to study at the Juilliard School of Music. During this period he cultivated an interest in Jazz and studied further in Manhattan School of Music’s world-renowned jazz program. Jeremy played in local blues, funk and R&B bands amidst the thriving NYC music scene of the early 90s. He then joined the Mercury Record’s funk band Milo Z, managed by David Sonenberg, and played shows with legendary artists like Bon Jovi, Al Green, Maceo Parker, The Neville Brothers, The Meters, Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers & Toots and the Maytals. He would return to Juilliard in 2001 to study composition with Stanley Wolfe. Composing In 1996, Adelman composed for the 3rd season of Comedy Central’s Viva Variety created by Michael Ian Black, Ben Garant

Jeremy Beck

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Jeremy Beck (born 1960) is an American composer who “knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way.” The critic Mark Sebastian Jordan has said that “Beck was committed to tonality and a recognizable musical vernacular long before that became the hip bandwagon it is today. Indeed, he is … an original voice celebrating music.” Early life Jeremy Joseph Beck was born January 15, 1960, in Painesville, Ohio. His father, Albert William Beck (b. April 4, 1931, in Scranton, Pennsylvania; d. May 16, 2018 in Quincy, Illinois), known as “Al”, was a visual artist and poet who taught for many years at Culver–Stockton College in Canton, Missouri. His mother, Mila Katrine Aho (b. June 24, 1935, Painesville, Ohio; d. March 26, 2018 in Memphis, Tennessee), known as “Katrine”, was a pianist and organist who taught music privately. Beck’s parents married in 1958, but not without some controversy: the Beck family was Jewish and the Aho family was Lutheran. Albert’s parents agreed to support the wedding as long as the Ahos knew they were Jewish. Katrine’s parents agreed to support the wedding only if Katrine’s father – Gustav Axel Aho, also known as “G.A. Aho”, a Lutheran min

Jeremy Filsell

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Jeremy Daniel Filsell (born 10 April 1964) is a British pianist, organist and composer who has served as director of music at Christ Episcopal Church in Bradenton, Florida since September 2025. He previously held similar positions in the United Kingdom and the United States, including at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, in New York City from 2019 to 2025. Biography Having played piano and organ from a young age, Filsell was a student at Stivichall Primary School and Blue Coat Church of England School in Coventry. He was a Limpus prize winner for the Royal College of Organists examination, which he took when he was 19, and a silver medalist of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He studied music at Oxford University, where he was an organ scholar at Keble College, studying with Nicolas Kynaston and Daniel Roth. He went on to study piano with David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music and Martin Hughes at the University of Surrey. He won second prize in the 1993 St Albans International Organ Competition. He has particular interest in English piano music and French organ music. He plays in a piano trio with Oliver Lewis, violin, and Neil Heyde, cello, and a p

Jeremy Soule

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Jeremy Soule ( ) is an American composer of soundtracks for film, television, and video games. He has composed soundtracks for over 60 games and over a dozen other works during his career, including The Elder Scrolls, Guild Wars, Total Annihilation, and the Harry Potter series. He became an employee of Square in 1994 after several years of private composition studies. After finishing the soundtrack to Secret of Evermore in 1995, he left to join Humongous Entertainment, where he composed for several children’s games as well as Total Annihilation, his first award-winning score. In 2000, he left to form his own music production company, Soule Media, later called Artistry Entertainment. In 2005, he founded DirectSong, a record label that published digital versions of his soundtracks as well as those of classical composers. DirectSong remained active until 2019. Soule’s works have been played in several live concerts such as the Symphonic Game Music Concert in Germany and the international Play! A Video Game Symphony concert series. While many of his works are orchestral, he considers himself someone who creates more than just one type of music. Several of Soule’s soundtracks were creat

Jeremy Turner (composer)

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Jeremy Turner (born June 18, 1975 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist living in California. Biography Jeremy Turner began playing the piano and the cello as a young child. After his family moved to Michigan where his father was Director of Admissions at Michigan State University, Turner attended East Lansing High School. He then furthered his musical studies at The Juilliard School as a pupil of Harvey Shapiro. In 1997, before graduating Juilliard, Turner joined The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at just 21 years old, becoming one of the youngest members ever to join the ensemble. At the end of his first season Turner was invited to join the Met Chamber Ensemble in its inaugural year. In 2005 he took a leave of absence from the Met to be the interim Principal Cellist of The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand. After returning to the Met in 2006, Turner played his final season in 2011 before leaving the orchestra to pursue composition. Composer/performer Turner has recorded with musicians such as Paul McCartney, David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, and The National, has performed with various artists that include Renee Fleming, Joshua Bell,

Jeren Kurbanklycheva

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Jeren Gurbangylyjova (; ; also written as Jeren Kurbanklycheva; born 3 June 1955) is a Turkmen composer who holds the official title of The First Woman Composer of Turkmenistan. Early life and education Jeren was born in Ashkhabad, Turkmen SSR, USSR to a family of the actors Sofya Gurbangylyjova and Muhammetnur Gurbangylyjov. Her debut with her first composition was when she was eight years old; she wrote a song to her father’s new stage play and performed it as a surprise to her dad, in their house in front of their family friends and Muhammetnur’s colleagues. Jeren Kurbanklycheva started her musical studies as a pianist. In her early age, she went to the Special Boarding Music School at Turkmen National Conservatory. Upon graduation she was accepted to Specialized Music School named after Danatar Ovezov where she spent 4 years and received an Undergraduate degree in Piano Performance. After that Kurbanklycheva was accepted to Turkmen National Conservatory to the Composition Department and studied composition under the People’s Artist of Turkmenistan, professor Chary Nurymov. Upon graduation she started working at the conservatory as theory and composition teacher and then later i

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate

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Jerod Impichch a achaaha’ Tate (, ), born July 25, 1968) is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist. His compositions are inspired by North American Indian history, culture and ethos. He has had several commissioned works, which have been performed by major orchestras in Washington, DC; San Francisco, Detroit, and Minneapolis, among others. When the San Francisco Symphony Chorus performed and recorded his work Iholba’ in 2008, it was the first time the chorus had sung any work in Chickasaw or any American Indian language. He is founder and artistic director of the Chickasaw Chamber Music Festival. He was Co-Founder and Composition Instructor for the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy. Biography Jerod Impichch a achaaha’ Tate was born in 1968 in Norman, Oklahoma, is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, and is dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition. His middle name, Impichchaachaaha, means “his high corncrib” and is his inherited traditional Chickasaw house name. A corncrib is a small hut used for the storage of corn and other vegetables. In traditional Chickasaw culture, the corncrib was built high off the ground on stilts to keep its contents

Jerome Kitzke

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Jerome Kitzke (born 1955) is a composer who grew up along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. History He received his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and moved to New York City in 1984. In 1992 Kitzke formed his performing group Mad Coyote. His music has also been performed by the Milwaukee Symphony, the New Juilliard Ensemble, Essential Music, Present Music, Earplay, Zeitgeist, Guy Klucevsek, Margaret Leng Tan, ETHEL and Kathleen Supové. Kitzke has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Music Center, Meet the Composer, ASCAP, and BMI. In 2004 and 2006 he visited the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, New York to compose music for their shows. He even put music to Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Green Automobile”, which was included on his most recent album The Paha Sapa Give-Back (Innova Recordings, 2014). He is a quarter Persian. Music Chamber works *A Keening Wish, narrator and ensemble *Alone On A Hill in Grandfather Night, mixed trio *Breath and Bone, accordion solo *Haunted America, mixed quartet *In Bone Colored Light, mixed sextet *Mad Coyote Madly Sings, large mixed ensemble *Present Music, large mi

Jérôme Leroy (composer)

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Jérôme Leroy is a French composer and orchestrator based in Los Angeles. Early life and family Born in Paris, Leroy was first introduced to music as a young child playing the piano. He started serious study and practice at the age of five and at the age of fourteen he turned to composition. Leroy attended high school at Lycée Claude Monet, where he studied under composer Annick Chartreux and performed in numerous concerts as a pianist and singer. After having written various chamber pieces in his teens (his minimalist duology, 2017, was premiered at the Conservatoire Municipal de Paris Maurice Ravel and at Lycée Claude Monet in 1999), he applied in 2001 for the Berklee College of Music in Boston, for which he was awarded a scholarship. Berklee College of Music At Berklee, where Leroy studied Film Scoring, he founded the school’s first student-run classical orchestra, which produced its first recording in April 2004 and a string of concerts in the following years. While in Boston, he also joined a community theater company, the Longwood Players. In the spring of 2004, he was Orchestra Manager and Arranger on their production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, and was appointed conductor

Jerry Calliste Jr.

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Gerald C. Calliste Jr. (born November 26, 1965), also known as Hashim, is an American entrepreneur, producer, songwriter, publisher, and former DJ who is best known for the hip hop, electro, and dance music song “Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)” (1983). Education Calliste attends the Ross School of Management & Leadership at Franklin University, where he is a double major student studying for a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Sciences. History In 1983, Calliste co-founded the New York Independent record label Cutting Records Inc. with two partners and recorded under the name Hashim. At the age of 16, Calliste used a $50 Casio keyboard (combo calculator) to teach himself how to play keyboards by ear. One year later, he went on to write and produce “Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)”. During the early 1980s, he “made it to #43 in the Billboards Dance Disco Charts”. Since 2001, Calliste Jr. is president and CEO of both Bassmint Music and Caldella Music. According to Kellman in 2007, Hashim was the work of Jerry Calliste Jr. He became involved with music as a teenager; he started DJ at the age of 12, and in the early 1980s, he promoted part

Jesper Nordin (Swedish composer)

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Jesper Nordin (born 6 July 1971 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer. His music mixes traditional Swedish folk music, rock music, electroacoustics and improvisation. In 2002 his composition Calm Like a Bomb won second prize in Category B: electroacoustic music with voice or instruments in the 24th Russolo Composers Competition, and this piece was released on a CD together with music by the other prizewinners. The following year he was a finalist in Category A: electroacoustic music, of the same competition. He was Composer in Residence at SR P2, Swedish Radio’s serious music channel, from 2004 to 2006. “Residues”, released in 2006 by Swedish Radio, has been hailed as a “milestone for contemporary music lovers” in France and as “a central album of the Swedish music from the first decade of the 21st century” in Swedish press. Nordin was given a recommendation at UNESCO’s Rostrum 2005 and his music has been played at several ISCM festivals. He received the Saltö Foundation Award in 2014 for his work ‘Pendants’. Performances of his orchestral music have been given throughout the world by such orchestras as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Ra

Jess Langston Turner

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Jess Langston Turner (born 1983) is an American composer, who is known primarily for his concert band and choir music. Biography Jess Langston Turner was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1983, the son of Dan and Jamie Langston Turner, professors at Bob Jones University. He took piano lessons at age 8, and trumpet at age 11. He attended Bob Jones University, where he took bachelor’s and master’s degrees in trumpet performance. He then moved on to the University of Hartford, where he earned a master’s in musical composition. In 2015 he completed a doctorate in composition from Indiana University. Recordings Jess Langston Turner’s music has been recorded on five occasions, all by concert bands. Rumplestilzchen was recorded by the North Texas Wind Symphony and the Hartt School Wind Ensemble, the latter of which was released by Naxos; the West Chester University Wind Ensemble recorded him twice: Through the Looking Glass, on their album “Borrowed Inspirations” (2013), and Reanimations on their album “Reanimations” (2015); and the University of Louisville Wind Symphony, which also recorded Through the Looking Glass in 2017 for the American Bandmasters Association National Convention

Jessi (musician)

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Jessica Hyunju Ho (; born December 17, 1988), better known by the stage name Jessi (), is an American rapper and singer based in South Korea. She was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. She moved to Seoul, South Korea, at the age of 15. Jessi originally debuted in South Korea in 2005 and briefly joined the Korean hip-hop group Uptown in 2006. After a hiatus, she returned to music as part of the hip-hop trio Lucky J and as a soloist under YMC Entertainment, until the group’s disbandment in 2016. She then signed with Psy’s record label P Nation in 2019 as its first artist, where she continued her solo career until her departure from the label in 2022. Several of her solo and collaborative singles have been commercially successful, with five Top 10 entries in the Gaon Digital Chart, including her highest-charting solo single “Nunu Nana” and the chart-topping single “Don’t Touch Me” as part of the Refund Sisters. Jessi is a prominent presence in Korean variety programs. She achieved mainstream popularity as part of the first season of Mnet hip hop competition show Unpretty Rapstar, where she placed second. She also served as a judge in competition shows High School Rapper a

Jessica Jung

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Jessica Jung (born April 18, 1989) is an American and South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, author, and businesswoman. She is best known for her work as a former member of the South Korean girl group Girls’ Generation. As an actress, Jung portrayed Elle Woods in the Korean version of the musical Legally Blonde in 2010 and played a role in the television drama Wild Romance in 2012. In August 2014, Jung established a fashion brand, Blanc & Eclare. The next month, she was dismissed from Girls’ Generation, and in 2015, she ended her contract with SM Entertainment. In 2016, Jung signed with Coridel Entertainment in 2016, prior to the release of her debut solo album With Love, J. In May 2018, she signed a contract with United Talent Agency. Her debut novel Shine was released in September 2020. Early life Jessica Jung was born on April 18, 1989, in San Francisco. While on vacation in South Korea, she and her sister, Krystal, were spotted in a shopping mall by a member of SM Entertainment; she later joined the company in 2000. She spent seven years as a trainee before debuting as part of the Korean girl group Girls’ Generation. Jung attended Korea Kent Foreign School during her teenage

Jessie Montgomery

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Jessie Montgomery (born December 8, 1981, New York City) is an American violinist, composer, chamber musician, and music educator. Her compositions focus on the vernacular, improvisation, language, and social justice. She is the 2025 Classical Woman of the Year, awarded by the radio program Performance Today. Early life and education Jessie Montgomery, who is of African American heritage, was raised in Manhattan’s Lower East Side by playwright and performer Robbie McCauley and composer Ed Montgomery. She began her violin studies at the Third Street Music School Settlement. She holds a bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the Juilliard School, and completed a master’s degree in Composition for Film and Multimedia at New York University in 2012. Starting in 1999, Montgomery became involved with the Sphinx Organization, a Detroit-based nonprofit that supports young African American and Latino string players. After receiving multiple Sphinx awards and grants as a young performer and composer, she now serves as composer-in-residence for the Sphinx Virtuosi, the organization’s professional touring ensemble. Career Montgomery devoted her early career to performance and to teaching

Jiji Guitar

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Jiyeon Kim (; born 1993), known professionally as Jiji Guitar, is a South Korean guitarist, composer, and DJ. She is known for being a member of the Grammy-nominated musical collective Wild Up and winning First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild’s 2016 competition. Early life Jiji was born in Seoul, South Korea. She began playing classical guitar when she was 9 years old. before eventually moving to the United States at the age of 15 when she was accepted into the Cleveland Institute of Music. She studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music for two years before becoming one of the first two guitarists to study at the Curtis Institute of Music. Career In February 2011, Jiji performed on the NPR radio show From the Top. In March 2014, Jiji made her orchestral concert debut in a Kansas City Orchestra performance conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto. In 2015, she performed on the Hong Kong program RTHK’s The Works as part of Duo RenJi with viola player Ren Martin-Doike. When the guitar residency returned to the Banff Centre’s recital programs, Jiji was one of the first guitarists to perform a recital at the Centre in July 2015. In February 2016, Jiji’s graduation recital was aired on PBS

Jim Johnston (composer)

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James Alan Johnston (born June 19, 1952 ) is an American music composer and musician best known for his time with professional wrestling promotion, WWE. Over the course of 3 decades, he composed and recorded entrance theme music for the promotion’s wrestlers, and compilations of his music released by WWE charted highly in several countries. Writing and recording mostly by himself, he wrote over 10,000 pieces of music, many of which are as highly regarded as the wrestlers themselves. In later years, he regularly collaborated with mainstream hip hop & rock musicians such as Motörhead, Disturbed, Kid Rock, Ice-T, Run-DMC, Mariah Carey, and Our Lady Peace for new music and different takes on existing entrance music. Johnston was released from WWE in 2017, replaced in the role by CFO$. Career Johnston studied music and design at Hampshire College. His career began composing soundtracks for animated and industrial films, which led to working for the television networks HBO and Showtime. While living in Connecticut in the mid-1980’s, Johnston met Brian Penry, art director for professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Although not a fan of professional wrestling, W

Jimmie LeBlanc

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Jimmie LeBlanc (born 1977) is a Canadian composer specializing in instrumental and mixed music. His music has been performed throughout his native country and internationally, including by the Ensemble Contrechamps, Hwaum Chamber Ensemble, Kore Ensemble, Les Enfants Terribles, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Pentaèdre, Quatuor Bozzini, and the Trio Fibonacci, and many soloists. Early life and education LeBlanc was born in Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Quebec. His initial musical training was as a pop and jazz guitarist. He then pursued studies in classical guitar and music composition at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. He completed a Doctor of Music degree at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. LeBlanc is the author of Luigi Nono et les chemins de l’écoute (L’Harmattan, 2010), and of “Xenakis’ Æsthetic Project: the Paradoxes of a Formalist Intuition” (Xenakis Matters, Pendragon Press, 2012), and has contributed two chapters to La création musicale au Québec (PUM, 2014). He is member of the Circuit – musiques contemporaines editorial board, responsible of the cahiers d’analyse section, and regular member of the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de

Jimmy Thörnfeldt

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Paul Jimmy Thörnfeldt (born 14 March 1976), also known professionally as Jimmy Joker or simply Joker, is a Swedish songwriter and record producer. As a songwriter, he has taken part in Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest several times. Biography Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt is an established name on the international songwriting scene. He has worked with artists such as One Direction, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias. In 2016, Pitbull’s album Dale, on which Thörnfeldt contributed as a songwriter and producer, won a Grammy in the Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album category. Since 2021, Thörnfeldt has been involved as a songwriter in several contributions to the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, Melodifestivalen. He has also taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest numerous times as a songwriter. Songwriting discography Eurovision Song Contest entries Notable productions * 2010: Usher: “More” * 2011: Jennifer Lopez: “Papi” * 2011: Jennifer Lopez: “Invading My Mind” * 2011: Jennifer Lopez: “Hypnotico” * 2011: Jennifer Lopez: “Charge Me Up” * 2011: Nicole Scherzinger: “Poison” * 2011: Nicole Scherzinger: “Say Yes” * 2011: Nic

Jimmy Vivino

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Jimmy Vivino (born January 10, 1955) is an American guitarist, keyboard player, singer, producer, and music director. He is best known as the leader of Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band, the house band for the TBS late night program Conan. He was also a member of the Tonight Show Band, the house band on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and its predecessor, Late Night with Conan O’Brien on NBC. Vivino has also played with many rock bands, including being a member of Beatles tribute band The Fab Faux. He is the younger brother of TV and stage performer “Uncle” Floyd Vivino and Basic Cable Band bandmate Jerry Vivino. Biography Born in Paterson, New Jersey, on January 10, 1955, Vivino grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey. He attended Glen Rock High School where he played Tevye in a production of Fiddler on the Roof. He had an interest in music from a young age. He began working in New York clubs in the early 1980s and in 1984 was musical director of the play Leader of the Pack. Later he led “Jimmy Vivino and the Black Italians” and worked with Al Kooper. Kooper considered Vivino to be one of his “discoveries” and had him as musical director for fifteen years. Vivino served as the mu

Jiří Gemrot

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Jiří Gemrot (born 15 April 1957 in Prague) is a Czech composer, radio executive, and a record producer. Since 1990 he has been director in chief of Czech Radio in Prague. As a composer, his music has been performed by all of the Czech Republic’s major orchestras. Gemrot studied at the Prague Conservatory from 1972 to 1976 where he was a pupil of Ema Doležalová and Jan Zdeněk Bartoš. He then entered the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague where he studied under Jiří Pauer through 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was a music director for Czech Radio and since 1986 he has been a record producer for Panton Records. He has also worked as a music director for Czechoslovak Television. His best known composition internationally is his work for chorus and orchestra Psalm 146 (1992). Selected works ;Orchestra * Pocty (Hommages) (1983) * Tance a reflexe (Dances and Reflections) (1987) * Sentence (Maxims) for 15 stringed instruments (1986) * Tři adagia (Three Adagios) (1989) * Americká předehra (American Overture) (1996) * Sympohony No. 1 for chamber orchestra (2007) * Sympohony No. 2 for symphonic orchestra (2012-13) ;Concertante * Concerto for cello and orchestra (1984) * Concerto for violin and

Jo Blankenburg

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Jo Blankenburg is a German composer based in Los Angeles. He writes music for film and motion picture advertising. His primary musical instrument is the piano. He was trained to play organ. Personal life Blankenburg resides in Los Angeles, but has also resided in New York City and Auckland, New Zealand. Albums Floatovations Jo Blankenburg’s debut album, Floatovations, published by Zero Latency, was released on January 9, 2007. The album comprised five meditative compositions with an ocean/sea theme. Vendetta An album composed by Jo Blankenburg for Position Music, released on March 21, 2011. Its songs were used for major motion advertising campaigns for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, X-Men: First Class and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn among many others. Elysium Elysium was released on July 31, 2012 by Position Music, following the success of Vendetta. Trailer music * 2009 – The Wolfman * 2009 – How To Train Your Dragon * 2009 – FlashForward * 2011 – “Dystopic” for featurette X-Men: First Class * 2011 – “Satorius” for TV Spot Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows * 2011 – “Conquest of Antaria” for Featurette Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows * 2011 – “Juggernaut” and “Sa

Jo Yeong-wook

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Jo Yeong-wook (, occasionally romanized as Cho Young-wuk; born January 1, 1962) is a South Korean film score composer and music director. He is most widely known for his collaborations with director Park Chan-wook. Filmography Film Television *The Little Drummer Girl (2018) *Narco-Saints (2022) *The Sympathizer (2024) *Nine Puzzles (2025) * Queen Mantis (2025) * Made in Korea (2025) Awards and nominations Notes References External links * Jo Yeong-wook on Last.fm * * *

Joachim Raabe

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Joachim Raabe (born 1974) is a German church musician and a composer of sacred music, especially of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied. Career Born in Haiger, Raabe studied church music from 1997 to 2002 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. He was then the church musician of the parish St. Peter und Paul in Villmar, and the leader of Tonspuren, a band of young people in Villmar. From 2005 to 2012, he was church musician of the Westerwälder Dom in Wirges. He was also until 2013 Geschäftsführer of the commission Arbeitskreis Kirchenmusik und Jugendseelsorge im Bistum Limburg of the Diocese of Limburg. Raabe joined in 2013 the ecumenical association inTAKT for the support of Neues Geistliches Lied, art, culture and education, for which he has composed new songs and conducted events of continued education. External links * Neues Geistliche Lied inTakt

Joan Magrané Figuera

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Joan Magrané Figuera (born in 1988, Reus) is a Spanish composer. Biography Joan Magrané Figuera started to study composition with Ramon Humet. Subsequently, he studied at Esmuc in Barcelona with Agustín Charles, at the Graz Kunts Universität with Beat Furrer and then moved to Paris, where he attended lessons by Stefano Gervasoni at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse . His music has been performed around Europe by orchestras, groups and soloists such as Ensemble Intercontemporain , BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Quatuor Diotima, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Neue Vocalsolisten , Quartet Gerhard , and many others. The year 2016 he was lauréat of the Villa Medici in Rome. He has been awarded several composition prizes among them the XXXI Queen Sofia Composition Prize in 2014. Since 2017 he has been president of the Federació Joventuts Musicals de Catalunya. Works (selection) *Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina (2018/2019), chamber opera *Tombeau, violoncello (2018) *Fantasiestück, piano (2018) *Oració, 8 voices (2018) *Era, 3rd string quartet (2018) *Faula, ensemble (2017) *Estris de llum, sax quartet (2017) * Marines i boscatges, ensembl

Joan Szymko

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Joan Szymko (born 1957) is an American choral conductor, music educator and composer. She was born in Chicago and studied choral conducting and music education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1978. She settled in Seattle, Washington, and worked as a music teacher, composer and choral conductor. In 1993 Szymko took a position directing the Aurora Chorus in Portland, Oregon. She founded the women’s choir Viriditas Vocal Ensemble in 1994. Szymko composed the music for the Broadway musical Do Jump! at the New Victory Theater and Jan Maher’s play Most Dangerous Women. Works Szymko composes mainly for theater and choral ensembles. Selected works include: *All Works of Love for the Brock Commission 2010 *Nothing But Mud (text: “The Church, Zillebeke, October 1918” by William Orpen from his An Onlooker in France, 1917–1919 (1921)) *The Call *Carpe Diem *Ein grosser Gesang (text: poems by Rainer Maria Rilke) *Entro en la vida (text: by Teresa of Ávila) *The Freshness (text: Rumi) *Hear Me! We Are One *Herbst (text: Rainer Maria Rilke) *How Did the Rose (text: Hafez) *I Lift My Eyes *I Dream a World (text: poem by Langston Hughes) *Illumina la tenebre (text: St

Joanna Marsh

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Joanna Marsh (born 1970) is a British composer of choral and orchestral works, who has lived in Dubai since 2007. Life and career Marsh studied composition with Richard Blackford and Judith Bingham. She was a student at the Royal Academy of Music between 1998 and 1999; Organ Scholar at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, between 1989 and 1992; and the School Organist at Christ’s Hospital between 1997 and 2000. Marsh was later appointed Composer in Residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 2015 for five years. During this time she wrote five works for the college choir and the college organ all of which feature on her album Sanctifica Nos: Choral and Instrumental Music by Joanna Marsh performed by the choir of Sidney Sussex College, Fretwork and Martin Baker, organ. Her earlier solo album, Flare released on Friday 18 September 2020, features music performed by the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London and the London Mozart Players. Marsh’s life in the Middle East offered many musical opportunities including writing an orchestral work to celebrate the building of the Burj Khalifa, a commission for the BBC Symphony Orchestra for t

Joanne Metcalf

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Joanne Metcalf (born 1958) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Best known for her choral music, she has worked closely with the Hilliard Ensemble and Singer Pur, among other vocal ensembles. Life and career Joanne Metcalf was born in 1958 and studied music composition (BA, 1982) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was awarded first prize for the 1993 Search for New Music award from the International Alliance for Women in Music. While studying at Duke University with Stephen Jaffe and Scott Lindroth (MM, 1993), she met Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, then a guest at Duke. Inspired by “whatever it was that made Andriessen’s music so fresh and energizing”, Metcalf later studied with him for at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague through a Fulbright scholarship. Recordings References Citations :Primary :Secondary Sources * * * External links * *

João Guilherme Ripper

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João Guilherme Ripper (born 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian composer and conductor. João Guilherme Ripper is a composer, conductor, cultural manager and professor at the School of Music of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He studied with Henrique Morelenbaum and Ronaldo Miranda. In 1997, Ripper obtained his D.M.A. in Composition at The Catholic University of America, in Washington D.C., under the guidance of German composer Helmut Braunlich and Argentine musicologist Emma Garmendia. He pursued further studies in Orchestral Conducting with Maestro Guillermo Scarabino in Argentina, and attended the class of “Économie et Financement de la Culture” at the Université Paris-Dauphine, in France. Ripper served as Director of the School of Music of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro between 1999 and 2003. In 2004, he accepted the invitation of the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro to direct Sala Cecília Meireles, a leading chamber music hall, where he remained for 11 years and undertook a comprehensive renovation. In 2015, he was appointed President of the Municipal Theater Foundation of Rio de Janeiro, the city’s opera house, a position he held until 2017. Rip

João MacDowell

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João MacDowell (born 1965) is a Brazilian composer known for fusing contemporary and popular styles with classical music. His work includes opera, symphonic, chamber music, and early albums of Brazilian pop. On the occasion of the concert premiere of his fifth opera The Seventh Seal, Swedish journalist Johanna Paulsson of noted the composer as “a new thinker in the genre” . The band Tonton Macoute left a mark on a generation of artists in the capital of Brazil and further. They had a track record of independent radio hits. The songs “Electric Light” and "" became instant radio hits, starting at Fluminense FM, and then at Rádio Cidade and Transamerica FM. This radio exposure led to a consistent following on their performances. They also made hits on radio stations across the country, many of these stations, such as Rádio Cidade and Transamérica, would normally refuse to play independent bands, which made their achievement quite a unique feat for the time. João Mac Dowell went on to work as a record producer and composer, working with such as Claudia Otero, Fabio Lobo, Little Quail and The Md Birds, Funk Fuckers and Rubao Sabino. He wrote soundtracks for films by Mauro Giuntinni, Kat

Joby Talbot

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Joby Talbot (born 25 August 1971) is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes, with a broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and television scores, pop arrangements and works for dance. He is known, to sometimes disparate audiences, for quite different works. Prominent compositions include the a cappella choral works The Wishing Tree (2002) and Path of Miracles (2005); orchestral works Sneaker Wave (2004), Tide Harmonic (2009), Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity (2012) and Meniscus (2012); the theme and score for the popular BBC Two comedy series The League of Gentlemen (1999–2002); silent film scores The Lodger (1999) and The Dying Swan (2002) for the British Film Institute; film scores The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Son of Rambow (2007) and Penelope (2008). Works for dance include shorter works Chroma (2006), Genus (2007), Fool’s Paradise (2007), and Chamber Symphony (2012); and four full-length narrative ballet scores, commissioned by The Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada and The Australian Ballet, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2011, revived 2012 and 2013), The Winter’s Tale (2014), Like Wate

Jocelyn Morlock

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Jocelyn Morlock (14 December 1969 – 27 March 2023) was a Canadian composer and music educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her piece My Name is Amanda Todd won the 2018 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year. Early life and education Morlock was born in Saint Boniface, Manitoba on 14 December 1969. She studied piano with Robert Richardson, Sr. and completed a Bachelor of Music in piano performance at Brandon University (B.Mus. 1994), where her teachers included Gerhard Ginader (electroacoustic music) and T. Patrick Carrabré (composition). She received both a master’s degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of British Columbia (M.Mus. 1996, DMA 2002) where her composition teachers included Stephen Chatman, Keith Hamel, and the late Russian-Canadian composer Nikolai Korndorf. Career Morlock was composer-in-residence with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (2014-2019), after completing her term (2012-2014) as inaugural composer-in-residence for Vancouver’s Music on Main, and co-host of ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Her international career was launched at the 1999 International Society for Contemporary Music’s World Music Days with Romanian perfor

Joe Cutler

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Joe Cutler (born London, 17 December 1968) is a British composer who grew up in Neasden and studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before receiving a Polish Government Scholarship to study at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland. He has taught composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire since 2000, and since 2005 he has been the Head of Composition there. In 2015 he was made Professor of Composition. He is also the co-founder of the instrumental ensemble Noszferatu. Influence During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cutler, like many of his generation, including Americans composers Michael Gordon and David Lang, and British composer Steve Martland, was influenced by the minimalist music of Louis Andriessen. Like Andriessen, Cutler rejected the atonal inheritance of Arnold Schoenberg in favour of the more rhythmically driving music of Igor Stravinsky. In these early works, Cutler showed influences ranging from Minimalism and Andriessen to 1980s avant-garde modernism and even the rhythmic aspects of the New Complexity movement. This is seen in such works as Epitaph for Nebula (1989) and Blast! (1992), where atonality and complicated driving rhythms

Joe Kraemer (composer)

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Joe Kraemer (born June 21, 1971) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has worked with director Christopher McQuarrie several times – The Way of the Gun (2000), Jack Reacher (2012), and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015). Biography Kraemer was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Albany, New York. His father and uncle were both musicians, and Kraemer began taking piano lessons at an early age. In high school he befriended an older boy named Scott Storm, who became a professional filmmaker. Kraemer’s first film score was for a Super-8 film written and directed by Storm, called Chiming Hour. Kraemer, who also acted in the film, was 15 at the time. Storm later introduced Kraemer to filmmakers Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie. His credits also include the 2014 film Dawn Patrol, starring Scott Eastwood. Kraemer worked with McQuarrie and Cruise again when he scored the fifth film in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015). Since 2015, Kraemer has been providing music and sound design to a number of audio plays released by Big Finish Productions. These include spin-offs for Doctor Who characters such a

Joel Fausto

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Joel Ferreira Figueiredo (born 9 May 1988), better known by Joel Fausto, is a Portuguese musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is known as the frontman of Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra, formed in 2008. Also he is associated with his side acts Cajado, Gesso, Manos, Omitir and Forgotten Winter. Fausto’s music is generally characterised by a frightening emotions through obsessions, fear, death, love, paranoia and surrealistic scenarios. Fausto has also worked as a composer for some short films, Déjà Vécu(2015) directed by André Leite e Péu Barbosa from Brazil and Berlin Hustle (2016) directed by Laurent Daniels from Germany. In 2015, one associated website of the famous TV Series Twin Peaks with the name “Welcome To Twin Peaks” compiled an Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks character) inspired playlist called “Isn’t It Too Dreamy?” including Joel Fausto & Illusion Orchestra with names like Aphex Twin, Fleetwood Mac, Leonard Cohen, and others. Joel Fausto and Illusion Orchestra (2008–present) Fausto formed his ghost band calling them “Illusion Orchestra” in 2008. Before that, the band had the name of “Vácuo do Outono”. Their sound tends to change considerably from one album t

Joel Puckett

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Joel Puckett (born in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American composer. Joel completed his academic work at the University of Michigan, earning both a Masters of Music and a Doctorate of Musical Arts. His teachers include Michael Daugherty, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Will Averitt, and Thomas Albert. The September 11th tribute This Mourning—one of his most notable works—was commissioned by the Washington Chorus and is scored for 250 singers, full orchestra and a consort of 40 crystal glasses. This premiere took place at the main stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. in late November 2006. Among his other notable pieces is his concerto for flute, flute choir, and wind ensemble The Shadow of Sirius, which was written to commemorate the loss of his child through miscarriage. Puckett is a Professor of Music Theory and Composition and serves as Chair of Music Theory, Ear Training and Piano Skills at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. Previously he taught at Shenandoah University and Towson University. Puckett also served a term as the composer-in-residence for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. His first opera, The Fix, was premiered by Minnesota Opera

Joelle Khoury

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Joelle Khoury is a Lebanese-American pianist and composer of jazz and contemporary classical music. Background Born in Beirut, Joelle Khoury left Lebanon for the United States after the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War. She obtained a degree in Economics and Musicology at George Mason University in Virginia. Returning to Lebanon several years later, she received a master’s degree in philosophy from Saint Joseph University and a piano diploma from the Lebanese Higher Conservatory of Music. She has been invited on Extra-muros residencies in France (2002 and 2004), the Czech Republic (2006), Switzerland (2011, through Pro Helvetia) and the United States (2013) as a MacDowell Colony fellow, where she worked on her multimedia performance Palais de femmes. For almost two decades, she has composed contemporary classical music pieces and concertos for chamber and philharmonic orchestras, as well as pieces for her own jazz quintet. Her idea of composition, not restricted to specific standard styles, eras, geographical spaces or music categories stricto sensu, led her toward contemporary music within complex jazz forms and non-traditional classical music structures. Rather than “orientali

Joep Beving

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Joep Beving (born 9 January 1976 in Doetinchem) is a Dutch composer and pianist. Life and work Music has been a passion of Beving’s since childhood. The son of a schoolteacher, he formed his first band at the age of 14. He later won a place at a conservatoire, but repetitive strain injury to his wrist forced him to abandon his piano studies after a year. Instead, he studied public policy and administration. He then went to work in the advertising business, where he was mainly responsible for the music of numerous commercials. He also composed soundtracks for the short films Hortum (2010) and Het cadeau (2015). In 2015 Beving released his first album - Solipsism, with modern classical atmospheric piano pieces. He himself describes his compositions as “accessible music for complex emotions”. In 2017 his second album, Prehension, appeared in a similar style to his debut album. * Prehension (2017) * Conatus (2018) * Henosis (2019) *Trilogy (2021) * Hermetism (2022) * vision of contentment (2024) * Liminal (2026) List of released singles: * For Mark (2022) * Nocturnal (2022) * Sinfonia (After Bach, BVW 248) (2021) * Antoinette (From “Mijn vader is een vliegtuig”) (2021) * Sinfonia (2021

Joey Roukens

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Joey Roukens (born 28 March 1982) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music. Roukens was born in Schiedam, and studied composition with Klaas de Vries at Codarts University for the Arts and psychology at Leiden University. Roukens also studied piano privately with Ton Hartsuiker. His works have been performed by, among others, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Asko/Schönberg, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, Colin Currie and Lucas and Arthur Jussen. His output includes orchestral works, ensemble works, chamber music, solo instrumental works and opera and ballet music. Notable works include the double piano concerto In Unison (2017), the Fourth String Quartet What Remains (2019), the ballet Dorian (2020, rev. 2022), the Symphony No.1 ‘Kaleidoscopic (2021) and a Requiem for mixed choir, percussion and strings (2022). In his music Roukens strives to move away from modernist dogmas in search for a more direct and eclectic idiom in which present and past, tonality and atonality, classical and non-classical influences can coexist in a natural way. In doing so, he tries to be op

Johan Lindström (musician)

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Johan Lindström is a musician, composer, arranger and record-producer based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has worked professionally, since 1991, as a musician, playing guitar, piano and pedal steel. He has performed and collaborated with artists including Tonbruket, Rebecka Thörnqvist, Ane Brun, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Nils Petter Molvaer, Sly & Robbie, Loney Dear, Graveyard, Susanne Sundføer, Anna Ternheim, Freddie Wadling, Ebbot Lundberg, Edda Magnason, Christian Kjellvander, and Goran Kajfes. History Lindstrom is also a string/orchestral arranger. As a composer, he writes instrumental music for the progressive jazz group Tonbruket and Johan Lindström Septett and other recording artists, including Rebecka Törnqvist (Home Secretary album) and Ane Brun (outro of the song “Last Breath”). He also started producing albums in the late 1990s. In 1998, he joined Per “Texas” Johansson’s band as a pedal steel player, where he met bass player Dan Berglund. They formed the band Tonbruket in 2009 along with piano player Martin Hederos and drummer Andreas Weerlin. Tonbruket have released six albums . Four of these albums received a Swedish Grammy Award in the Jazz category. In 2017 he formed J

Johan Söderqvist

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Johan Söderqvist (born 11 February 1966) is a Swedish film score composer. He has twice been nominated for the European Film Award for Best Composer for his film scores. Personal life Johan Söderqvist was born in Täby, outside Stockholm in Sweden, he attended the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, studying composition and arranging. Career Söderqvist was a keyboard player in many different jazz bands and folk music groups and has toured extensively around the world before concentrating his activities on composition for film, television, radio and theatre. He wrote his first film score for Agnes Cecilia in 1991 and since then he has written numerous scores for film and television, including nine scores for films directed by the acclaimed Danish director Susanne Bier. Among those titles are the award-winning score for Brothers (2004), After the Wedding (2006) and Things We Lost in the Fire (2007), where he collaborated with Academy Award-winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla, and most recently the Best Foreign Language Oscar-winning In a Better World (2010). He composed an award-winning score for Tomas Alfredson’s film Let the Right One In (2008) and the music to the Oscar-nominated

Johan Testad

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Johan Testad (born 1973) is a Swedish composer. He won Guldbagge Award for Best Original Score for his work on (2018). Life and career He studied music in Gävle, before being introduced to film score composition through , then a filmmaking student at the Dramatiska Institutet. He wrote the music for the 2007 film adaptation of Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s novel . In 2012, Testad formed the band Tibble Transsibiriska. The group’s work is inspired by Romani folk music; they released their first album in 2015. Testad has collaborated numerous times with filmmaker Peter Grönlund, including on (2018), for which Testad won Guldbagge Award for Best Original Score. For the original score of Beartown (2020), Testad nominated for a 2022 HARPA Nordic Film Composer Award. He composed the music for (2022) and the Spotify audio drama De fria. He also composed the score for the Netflix series Land of Sin, a 2026 crime drama series created by Grönlund. References Citations Sources * * * * * * * * * External links * *

Jóhann Jóhannsson

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Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson (; 19 September 1969 – 9 February 2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television, and film. His work is stylised by its blending of traditional orchestration with contemporary electronic elements. Jóhann released solo albums from 2002 onward. In 2016, he signed with Deutsche Grammophon, through which he released his last solo album, Orphée. Some of his works in film include the original scores for Denis Villeneuve’s Prisoners, Sicario, and Arrival, and James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything. Jóhannsson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for both The Theory of Everything and Sicario, and won a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for the former. He earned a second Golden Globe nomination for Arrival. He was a music and sound consultant on Mother!, directed by Darren Aronofsky in 2017. His scores for Mary Magdalene and Mandy were released posthumously. His only directorial work, Last and First Men, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in 2017, where he also performed the score live with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Early life and career Jóhann was born on

Johanna Doderer

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Johanna Doderer (born 18 September 1969 in Bregenz) is an Austrian composer. Biography Doderer was born in 1969 in Bregenz, Austria. She is the great-niece of the Austrian novelist Heimito von Doderer and a great-granddaughter of the architect Carl Wilhelm von Doderer. Doderer learned her trade in Graz with Beat Furrer (composition), then later in Vienna with Klaus Peter Sattler (film and media composition) and Erich Urbanner (composition). Her current work ranges broadly from chamber music to orchestral work and to opera. In the immediate future she intends to concentrate her work in the field of opera. An important aspect of her artistic career is her frequent collaborations with musicians such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sylvia Khittl-Muhr, Marlis Petersen and Edua Zadory, and with the conductor Ulf Schirmer. Her work was performed at the Embassy of Austria, Washington, D.C. by violinist Édua Zádory and the Momenta Quartet. In December 2012 the University of Arts Graz (Austria) devoted an entire day to performances of Johanna Doderer’s works. Prizes and residencies *Composer in Residence 2004/2005, Wiener Concertverein *SKE Publicity Preis 2004 *Österreichisches Staatsstipendium

Johannes Kalitzke

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Johannes Kalitzke (born 12 February 1959) is a German composer and conductor. After studying in Cologne and at the IRCAM in Paris, he was chief conductor at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen for several years, then led the ensemble musikFabrik and composed operas on commissions in Germany and Austria. He has been Professor of Conducting (Contemporary Music) at the Salzburg Mozarteum from 2015. Early life Born in Cologne, Kalitzke trained on the piano from 1967 to 1977 with Jeanette Chéro and studied church music in Cologne from 1974 to 1976. He studied further at the Musikhochschule Köln from 1978 to 1981, studying piano with Aloys Kontarsky, conducting with Wolfgang von der Nahmer, and composition with York Höller, and later electronic music with Ulrich Humpert. He focused on electronic music at the IRCAM in Paris with Vinko Globokar in 1982–83, on a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Career From 1984 to 1990, Kalitze was first Kapellmeister and then chief conductor at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen. From 1986, he was also the leader of the Forum für Neue Musik there, succeeding Carla Henius. From 1991, he was artistic director of the e

Johannes Kreidler

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Johannes Kreidler (born 1980) is a German composer, performer, conceptual and media artist. Kreidler came to prominence with a series of politically charged pieces of musical performance art, beginning with 2008’s product placements: a 33-second recording containing 70,200 samples of other recordings, which the composer then attempted to register individually with the German copyright authorities. Later in 2009, Kreidler realised the controversial work Fremdarbeit (Outsourcing), in which he ‘outsourced’ his commission from Klangwerkstatt Berlin to a Chinese composer and an Indian computer programmer to write the piece on his behalf, imitating his style, for a fraction of the commission fee. These three compositions came to encapsulate the composer’s approach to ‘conceptual music’, as theorised by Kreidler himself and by the philosopher Harry Lehmann in subsequent lectures, essays and publications. Since 2010, the composer’s catalogue has included many more ‘conceptual pieces’ — often video works for gallery or online display — in addition to large-scale music theatre works like the seven-hour Audioguide (2014), the opera My State as Friend and Beloved (2018), and Selbstauslöser (Se

Johannes Maria Staud

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Johannes Maria Staud (born 17 August 1974) is an Austrian composer. His works have been performed internationally by major orchestras, ensembles, and soloists, and he has received several composition prizes. Biography Staud was born on 17 August 1974 in Innsbruck. He studied musicology and philosophy in Vienna before continuing his composition studies with Brian Ferneyhough and Michael Jarrell at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and later with Hanspeter Kyburz at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. He is also a co-founder of the Vienna-based composers’ group Gegenklang. Career Early major works Staud achieved early international recognition with Apeiron (2005), commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic and premiered under Sir Simon Rattle and Segue (2006), for violoncello and orchestra, written for Heinrich Schiff and the Vienna Philharmonic under Daniel Barenboim at the Salzburg Festival. Later career In 2010–2011, Staud served as Capell-Compositeur of the Staatskapelle Dresden. Other significant works of the 2010s include Auf die Stimme der weißen Kreide (Specter I–III) (2015), premiered at Festival Musica in Strasbourg, and the diptych Par ici ! – Par

Johannes Möller (guitarist)

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Johannes Möller (born November 29, 1981) is a Swedish classical guitarist and composer. Early life Johannes Möller was born on 29 November 1981 to Swedish parents. His father Mats Möller is a professional flautist and his grandfather was a viola player. As a young child, Möller would play on the piano in his home creating melodies and would use Blu Tack to put numbers on the keys to indicate the order they should be played. At age 10, he began taking guitar lessons as part of the public music education programme that offered music lessons to all school children in Sweden. When he was 12, Möller began studying counterpoint, harmony and the art of composition in earnest through textbooks. This resulted in a large quantity of mainly chamber music works for various instruments. A selection of these works was recorded on a CD with some of the top instrumentalists in his Sweden when he was 14 years old. A critic from the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten wrote about these compositions, “What is to become of Johannes Möller? A Swedish Mozart – in our time?” Education & Competitions Johannes Möller has earned a Bachelor of Music with Honors from the Royal College of Music in London and he

Johannes Winkler (composer)

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Johannes Winkler is a film music composer, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer based in Vienna, Austria. Since 2016, he has frequently collaborated with Canadian musician Edo Van Breemen. Early life and education Johannes Winkler started his musical education at the age of eight, when he started studying flute, piano, percussion, violin, and later electronic music and analog synthesisers. For their work on the film Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew, Van Breemen and Winkler received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Music in a Documentary at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. He worked with Slovak-Austrian filmmaker Alexandra Makárová, along with Rusanda Panfili, to compose the music for Makárová’s 2025 film Perla. They started working on the music two years before filming began. Personal life Winkler lives in Vienna, Austria. References External links * *

John Abram

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John Abram (born 1959) is an Anglo-Canadian composer best known for his work with electroacoustic music. Born in England, Abram became interested in music when he was six; he began composing in his teenage years. He took composition lessons with Roger Marsh and Peter Dickinson at Keele University, also studying the recorder with Alan Davis; since that time he has also studied composition with Vic Hoyland, Bernard Rands, and Boguslav Schäffer. Abram graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree, earning his master’s in composition in 1982. Upon leaving school, he moved to London, where he helped found the new music ensemble George W. Welch. In 1984 Abram was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship. This allowed him to travel to the University of Victoria in Canada, where he studied composition with Rudolf Komorous and electroacoustic music with Doug Collinge. For his PhD, he composed an anti-opera based on The Aeneid. In addition, he directed the music school’s Collegium Musicum for two years and taught composition for one. He was granted awards from the college in 1985 and 1987. From 1986 to 1988 he served as the associate director and conductor of the Open Space Gallery’s Open Sp

John Adams

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John Coolidge Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1947. As an adolescent, he lived in Woodstock, Vermont, for five years before moving to East Concord, New Hampshire, and his family spent summers on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, where his grandfather ran a dance hall. Adams’s family did not own a television, and did not have a record player until he was ten. But both his parents were musicians, his mother a singer with big bands, and his father a clarinetist. He grew up with jazz, Americana, and Broadway musicals, once meeting Duke Ellington at his grandfather’s dance hall. Adams also played baseball as a boy. In the third grade, Adams took up the clarinet, initially taking lessons from his father, Carl Adams, and later with Boston Symphony Orchestra bass clarinetist Felix Viscuglia. He also played in various local orchestras, concert bands, and marching bands while a student. Adams began composing at age ten and first heard his music performed as a teenager. He graduated from Concord High School in 1965. Adams next enrolled in Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor of arts, magna cum laude, in 1969 and a master of arts in 1971, studying composition with Leon Kirchner, Roger Sessions, Earl Kim, Harold Shapero, and David Del Tredici. Adams also became engrossed by the strict modernism of the 20th century (such as that of Boulez) while at Harvard, and believed that music had to continue progressing, to the extent that he once wrote a letter to Leonard Bernstein criticizing the supposed stylistic reactionism of Chichester Psalms. But by night, Adams enjoyed listening to The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Bob Dylan, and has said he once stood in line at eight in the morning to purchase a copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. For his thesis, he wrote The Electric Wake for “electric” (i.e., amplified) soprano accompanied by an ensemble of “electric” strings, keyboards, harp, and percussion. A performance could not be put together at the time, and Adams has never heard the piece performed. He also wrote American Standard, comprising three movements, a march, a hymn, and a jazz ballad, which was recorded and released on Obscure Records in 1975.

John Burge

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John David Bryson Burge (born 2 January 1961) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist. He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award (1982), the William Erving Fairclough Scholarship (1983), second prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and Festival (1984), and five PROCAN Young Composers’ Competition prizes between 1985 and 1988 among others. In 2009 he won the Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for his Flanders Fields Reflections. Some music critics have likened his compositional style to that of Benjamin Britten and Maxwell Davies. Born in Dryden, Ontario, Burge earned an associate degree from The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1979. He remained at the school, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1983 and a master’s degree in 1984. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1989. Among his teachers in music composition were John Beckwith, Stephen Chatman, Walter Buczynski, John Hawkins, and Derek Holman. In 1987 Burge joined the music faculty at Queen’s University where he taught music theory, analysis and composition. He formerly served as the director of the Queen’s

John Eacott

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John Eacott (born 19 December 1960) is a British jazz trumpeter and composer. Life Beginnings, early influences John Eacott was born in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. His father Kenneth Eacott was a pianist, arranger and composer. His mother Joy Pocock was a dancer and drummer in the family band, in which John started playing trumpet aged seven. In the mid 1970s the family moved to Hayling Island where a lifelong love for the sea, sailing and navigation took hold. It was here where he was introduced to free jazz, leading him to meet Mark Lockheart. In the 1980s John Eacott got a ‘Psion Organiser’ and started to experiment with computer programming. Working Life (1982 – present) On graduating from Sussex University, England, in 1982 BA Music, Eacott’s career as a musician started with anarchic jazzers Loose Tubes (trumpet, composer), post-industrial metal bashers Test Dept (trumpet, arranger, composer), Roman Holliday, acid jazz group Vibraphonic, and as a trumpeter with a diverse array of artists including Damon Albarn, Goldie, Stereo MCs, The The, Georgie Fame, Terry Edwards and the Scapegoats. He performed with Loose Tube (30 Years Anniversary concerts), and regularly plays

John Eriksson (musician)

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John Eriksson (born 8 January 1974, Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden) is a Swedish musician and composer best known as a founding member of Peter Bjorn and John. Career He was born in 1974 and raised in Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden. In 1994, he founded the percussion quartet Peaux, for which he was also a musician and composer. From 1995 to 1999, he was a musician in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing in concerts and recordings with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Myung-Whun Chung, Herbert Blomstedt and Evgeny Svetlanov. He was also in a percussion/trumpet duo with Tora Thorslund, and in 1998 he was a marimba soloist during the Stockholm International Percussion Event. From 1999 to 2008, he was a musician, arranger and composer in the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble. From 1999, he was one of the founding members, musician, composer, arranger and producer of the band Peter Bjorn and John. More recently, he has recorded as dance music act Hortlax Cobra, who produced 3 vinyl EPs. Another side project is “disco-kraut” act Holiday For Strings. He was also composer for projects with Teenage Engineering. In 2012 he was one of the founding members of the artist collective INGRID, and Hortlax Cobra contrib

John Estacio

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John Estacio (born April 8, 1966) is a contemporary Canadian composer of opera, orchestral and choral music. TOC Life and career Estacio was born in Newmarket, Ontario. Raised in the farming community of the Holland Marsh, Ontario, Estacio took piano and accordion lessons, and played church organ every Sunday. As a teenager, he created soundtracks for short student films, played trumpet, and performed in high school productions of Broadway musicals. He majored in composition at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario studying with Glenn Buhr and Peter Hatch. He earned his post-graduate degree at the University of British Columbia where he studied composition with Stephen Chatman. In 1992, his first major orchestral work, Visoes da Noite, won second-prize in the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s Canadian Composers Competition. Saudades for orchestra was premiered at the WSO’s New Music Festival in 1993. From 1992 to 2000, Estacio was Composer in Residence of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. During his residency, Estacio created several orchestral works, participated in novel audience outreach programs, and created the Young Composers Project. A Farmer’s Symphony (1994), Bore

John Frandsen (composer)

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John Frandsen (born 13 March 1956) is a Danish composer, organist and choral conductor, whose work includes operas, chamber music, and religious music. His 1999 Now Flashes the White Light of the Spirit commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church was performed simultaneously in over 100 Danish churches on the day of the anniversary. Biography Frandsen was born in Aalborg and studied at Aarhus University and the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus with Hans Abrahamsen and Karl Aage Rasmussen. From 1993 to 1995 he was chairman of the music committee of the Danish National Arts Foundation, and since 1999 he has been chairman of the Danish Composers’ Association. His opera trilogy, Tugt og Utugt I Mellemtiden (Virtue and Vice in the Meantime), based on the novel of the same name by Svend Aage Madsen premiered in 1998 at the Aarhus Summer Opera. His other operas include Amalie (premiered 1995 at the Musikteateret Undergrunden in Aarhus), Dronning Boudicca (Queen Boudica) (premiered in 1997 at Anden Opera in Copenhagen) and I-K-O-N (premiered in 2002 at the Royal Danish Theatre. Religious music John Frandsen’s commissions fo

John Hardy (composer)

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John Hardy (born 1957) is an English-born composer who has been commissioned by the Arts Council/National Lottery, the BBC, Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, among others. His work includes opera, choral and orchestral pieces, site-specific theatre events and film. Hardy studied at Hereford Cathedral School, Oxford University and Guildhall School of Music & Drama before directing music at Cardiff Laboratory Theatre, Edington Festival then Welsh performance group Brith Gof, whose 1988 production Gododdin was performed with percussion group Test Dept and described by The Independent as “elemental, wild and exhilarating… an exceptional achievement.” In 1994 Hardy won the first of his five BAFTA Cymru awards for the soundtrack to Hedd Wyn, an Oscar-nominated film about the Welsh poet. At this time he began collaborating with playwright Ed Thomas, composing music for Song From A Forgotten City (1995), House of America (1996), Gas Station Angel (1998) and Stone City Blue (2004). Music Theatre Wales commissioned and in 1994 premiered Flowers, a chamber opera described as “rich and evocative” by Opera, “communicating… the whole gamut of human emotions” by The

John Jansson (composer)

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John Jansson (born 15 January 1958) is a British conductor, composer, arranger and pianist. Biography John Denis Ingvar Jansson was born in Torquay, Devon, the son of a Swedish musician and an English singer. He was educated at University College School in Hampstead, and then trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music, where his tutors included Alexander Kelly, Alfred Kitchin, Bernard Keefe and Paul Patterson. Career John Jansson has conducted several productions at the Royal National Theatre, among them Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George (Olivier Award) and Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (with Antony Sher). At the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre he conducted the London premiere of John Adams’s I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (also at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), and he was the conductor for Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Barber’s A Hand of Bridge (Southwark Playhouse), Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock (Battersea Arts Centre) and Mel Smith’s The Gambler (Jermyn Street Theatre). As composer, he composed the scores for the York Mystery Plays, productions at the Donmar Warehouse and Kin

John Kenny (trombonist)

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John Kenny (born 1957) is a British trombonist, carnyxplayer and composer. Career Kenny is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He received the Gaudeamus International Interpreters Award in 1983 and the International Trombone Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. Kenny was part of the team which created the modern reconstruction of the Carnyx horn and has subsequently performed and recorded on the instrument. References External links *Carnyx & Co. *Warwick Music - John’s Publisher *Thank you, John Kenny …for an open-ended life-long collaboration. *

John Landry

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John Landry (born December 22, 1969) is a Canadian country music artist. Landry’s debut album, Forever Took Too Long, was released in 1999 by Spin Records. Its first two singles, “There You Were” and “Bit by Bit,” both reached the Top 10 of the Canadian Country Singles chart. Landry was nominated for a 2000 Juno Award for Best Country Male Artist. Landry entertained on the country stage at the 2003 Palmer Rapids Twin Festival in Ontario. Discography Studio albums Singles Guest singles Music videos References External links *Official Site

John Lely

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John Lely (born Norwich, England, in 1976) is a British experimental composer, improvising musician and curator based in London, UK. His music has been commissioned and performed by musicians including Apartment House, Quatour Bozzini, the violinist Mira Benjamin, the harpist Rhodri Davies and the pianist John Tilbury, and has been broadcast on BBC Four, BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. He is co-curator, with the composer Tim Parkinson, of the concert series Music We’d Like to Hear, which has run since 2005 and co-author with fellow composer James Saunders of the book Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation, a study of text scores, which was published by Continuum/Bloomsbury in 2012. Education Lely studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, with Roger Redgate, Dave Smith and John Tilbury, and privately with Michael Parsons. In 2007, he was a resident student at Ostrava Days and from 2008 to 2010 he was a researcher at Bath Spa University. From 2003 to 2008, he taught composition and creative strategies at Goldsmiths, and experimental sound at Chelsea College of Arts. Style Lely’s music is influenced by an older generation of British experimental composers, such as John White an

John Link (composer)

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John Link is a New York composer and is one of the founders of Friends and Enemies of New Music. Link received a Ph.D. in music from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a master’s degree from The Ohio State University, and B.M. and B.A. degrees from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He studied composition with David Olan, Thomas Wells, and Randall Snyder. In 1989 he and a group of composers – Tom Cipullo, Nancy Gunn, Cynthia Miller, Gregory W. Pinney, and Ben Yarmolinsky — formed Friends & Enemies of New Music, a composers group that put on a series of contemporary music concerts in New York City and sponsored an annual competition. In 2007 his composition For Irving Lippel, performed by Jeffrey Irving and Daniel Lippel appeared on the album Sustenance (New Focus Recordings) and in 2008 an excerpt of his work Life Studies was included on the compilation album Crosstalk: American Speech Music (Bridge Records) produced by Mendi + Keith Obadike. In 2009 his composition Around the Bend appeared on the album FM by Flexible Music (New Focus Recordings). He is currently a Professor of Music at William Paterson University directing the Center for Electroacoustic Music

John Lunn

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John Lunn (born 13 May 1956) is a Scottish composer, known for the music from the series Downton Abbey and for many other television and movie soundtracks. Early life and education Lunn was born in May 1956. His father was a saxophonist in a jazz band. Lunn graduated from Glasgow University, where he studied 12-tone techniques. He has cited among his musical influences John Cage, Milton Babbitt, and György Ligeti, as well as Miles Davis. Lunn was also a member of “systems music” band Man Jumping, an early 1980s “jazz-pop-worldbeat fusion ensemble”, where he played bass and keyboard.". He took a short course in computer music at MIT, and assembled his own computerised compositional system, using Cubase software. Career Television He began composing for BBC Scotland in the late 1980s, with Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter (1990) and The Gift (1991). His work also includes music for the television series Hamish Macbeth (1995–1997), Lorna Doone (2000), North Square (2000), Madame Bovary (2000), Cambridge Spies (2003), Bleak House (2005), Hotel Babylon (2006), Little Dorrit (2008), Downton Abbey (2010–2015), Waking the Dead (2011), The White Queen (2013), Shetland (2013), Grant

John Mackey (composer)

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John Mackey (born October 1, 1973) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music for wind band, as well as orchestra. For several years, he focused on music for modern dance and ballet. Biography John Mackey was born in New Philadelphia, Ohio and grew up in Westerville, Ohio, where he attended Westerville South High School. Though musicians themselves, Mackey’s parents did not provide him with music lessons, and he never formally studied an instrument. His grandfather, however, taught him to read music and introduced him to digital music notation. Through experimentation with programs intended for entertainment rather than education, Mackey began to compose his own music. He wrote his first piece, Lacrimosa, at age 11, after being inspired by the film Amadeus. As a young composer, he took some lessons from one of his mother’s friends, who had a Ph.D. in music. Mackey received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1995 from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Donald Erb. He then studied with John Corigliano at Juilliard, receiving a Master of Music degree in 1997. Mackey has stated his support for these institutions’ policies of n

John McCarthy (composer)

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John McCarthy (born June 27, 1961) is a Canadian composer for film and television. His music has been described as a hybrid of acoustical and electronic elements. McCarthy’s background includes extensive experience in classical, jazz, rock, and world music. Life and career McCarthy studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music and Humber College. He has recorded and toured with many bands including Ian Hunter (Mott The Hoople) and Frozen Ghost. McCarthy’s first film, Love and Human Remains, was directed by Academy Award winner Denys Arcand. The film is a dark comedy about a group of GenX twenty-somethings (one of whom is a serial killer) who are looking for love and meaning in a big city during the 1990s. McCarthy scored a pair of episodes of the 2015 David Shore/Vince Gilligan show Battle Creek (CBS). His other work in television includes scoring the CBS series Due South (created by Academy Award winner Paul Haggis) and the NBC series My Own Worst Enemy, starring Christian Slater. In 2010, McCarthy scored the short film Local Change, Global Impact. The film was produced by the International Peace Institute, a division of the United Nations, and narrated by Patrick Stewart. McCarthy i

John McLachlan (composer)

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John McLachlan (born 5 March 1964) is an Irish composer. Life McLachlan was born in Dublin, son of the writer Leland Bardwell, and studied at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama (1982–6), the Royal Irish Academy of Music (1989–97), and Trinity College Dublin (BA 1988), where he received a Ph.D. in musicology in 1999 for a study of the relationship between analysis and compositional technique in the post-war avant-garde. He has also studied privately with Robert Hanson (1989–90) and Kevin Volans (1994–5). He now lives in Inishowen, County Donegal. He has written numerous articles for The Journal of Music in Ireland (2000–10; now the online Journal of Music). He was executive director of the Association of Irish Composers (AIC; 1998–2012), and in 2007 he was elected to Aosdána. McLachlan was the featured composer in the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s “Horizons” series in 2003 and 2008. He has also represented Ireland at international festivals, including the ISCM World Music Days in Slovenia in 2003 Croatia in 2005 and New Zealand in 2022. In 2006, his work Grand Action was commissioned as a test piece for the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition. Music McLachlan’s music

John Metcalfe (composer)

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John Metcalfe (born 6 August 1964 ) is a British-based composer, arranger and violist, member of the Duke Quartet and a former member of the band The Durutti Column. Biography Metcalfe was born in New Zealand and moved to the United Kingdom as a child. Metcalfe’s unique style is a result of his extensive experience in classical, pop and electronica. As violist with the Duke Quartet he released many CDs and toured worldwide. Metcalfe’s string arrangements played by the Dukes feature on many albums by pop artists including Morrissey, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, Coldplay and Blur. Metcalfe was instrumental in the formation of the record label Factory Classical, an offshoot of Tony Wilson’s Factory Records. He released an album of his own, The Inner Line, to positive reviews. In 2004, another album, Scorching Bay, was released, followed by A Darker Sunset in 2008. The Appearance of Colour was released in April 2013 as part of Bowers and Wilkins Society of Sound subscription series. Commissions include a set of pieces for the guitarist Tom Kerstens and an album of electronic/acoustic music for ‘cellist Matthew Barley. His music has also been used by various contemporary dance companie

John Moran (composer)

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John Moran (born 1965) is an American composer, choreographer, and theater artist. and his works are variously described as “unconventional”, His works bring together a variety of mediums, including recorded music, spoken word, choreography and dance, mime, lip syncing, and video. Early life and education John Moran was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1965. He lacks a formal education in composition and in fact never graduated from high school. He unsuccessfully attempted to study informally at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where his father was the assistant dean of arts and sciences. He moved to New York City in 1988 at age 23, Career Early career: 1988–2000 Moran’s first opera, Jack Benny!, was created in 1988, and composed entirely of snippets of sound from The Jack Benny Program television series. The piece was staged at New York’s La Mama Experimental Theater Club, where it was presented by performance troupe Ridge Theater, and received strong praise in publications such as The New York Times. Although the work was considered a benchmark for modern composition at the time, the work itself was reportedly stolen in a Lower East Side apartment robbery, and has not been presen

John Oliver (composer)

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John Oliver (born 21 September 1959) is a Canadian composer, guitarist, and conductor. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, his music has been performed throughout North America, Europe, and China. In a 1989 article in The Music Scene, Oliver stated that he intended his music “to make sense without falling back on traditional models”. Early life and education Born Edward John Clavering Oliver in Vancouver, Oliver is the son of Vancouver artist Edward Oliver and playwright Thelma Oliver ( Melissa Cameron). He studied the guitar privately with Robert C. Jordan from 1972 to 1977. He attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1977 to 1979 where he studied guitar with George Sakellariou and composition with John Adams. He transferred to the University of British Columbia in 1979 where he earned a Bachelor of Music in 1982 and was a pupil of Stephen Chatman. He went on to pursue graduate studies in music composition at McGill University where he earned a Master of Music in 1984 and a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1992. His teachers at McGill included Bruce Mather and John Rea. From 1988 to 1989 he studied in Brussels wit

John Paesano

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John Paesano (born July 2, 1977) is an American composer working primarily in film, television, and video games. He is known for collaborating with director Wes Ball on the Maze Runner film trilogy and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, as well as composing for the Marvel Television series Daredevil and The Defenders. As a video game composer, he has contributed music to the acclaimed titles Detroit: Become Human and the three installments in the Marvel’s Spider-Man series. Paesano won the BAFTA Games Award for Music (Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales), as well as the D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition (Marvel’s Spider-Man 2). Biography Paesano was born in Birmingham, Michigan. He first studied classical music at Conservatoire de Paris located in Parc de la Villette, France before continuing his studies at Berklee College of Music pursuing a major in musical composition and film scoring. John knew from the age of nine years old, he wanted to become a music composer. He then worked under composers Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams providing additional music for the former, and orchestrating for the latter. Paesano cites Steven Spielberg’s 1987

John Palmer (composer)

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John Palmer (born 1959) is a British composer, pianist, musicologist and university professor. His compositions are published by Composers Edition. Life John Palmer began his music career as a pianist in the mid-seventies. In the 1980s he continued his piano studies with Grazia Wendling and Eva Serman at the Lucerne School of Music (Musikhochschule Luzern), where he also studied composition with Edison Denisov and Vinko Globokar. He continued his composition studies in London at Trinity College of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London and at City University London where he obtained a PhD titled “Formal Strategies in Composition” in 1994. Further studies include composition with Vinko Globokar at the Dartington Summer School and privately with Jonathan Harvey, Analysis with Jonathan Cross at the University of Bristol, and Conducting with Alan Hazeldine at the Guildhall School of Music And Drama in London. Since 1987 Palmer has written more than 130 compositions for opera, music theatre, orchestral, instrumental, vocal, chamber music, and electroacoustic music. Several of Palmer’s early compositions have been archived in the British Music Collection, a national database of Brit

John Pickard (composer)

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John Pickard (born 11 September 1963) is a British classical composer. Biography Pickard was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England. He studied music and composition at the University of Wales, with Welsh composer William Mathias, and later in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen and in 1989 was awarded a PhD in composition from the University of Wales. Since 1993 he has taught at the University of Bristol, where he is Professor of Composition and Applied Musicology, and was Head of Music between 2009 and 2013, and again between 2017 and 2018. Pickard is also conductor of the University of Bristol Symphony Orchestra and Choral Society. Pickard has composed a number of critically well-received orchestral and instrumental works, among them six symphonies and a number of symphonic works, including perhaps his best-known piece, The Flight of Icarus, which the San Francisco Chronicle called “a translucent and achingly lovely memorial to the fallen Icarus … a serious contender for the most exciting musical premiere of 2006”. His orchestral writing has been highly praised: in March 2008 The Times commented that “his orchestral mastery is total”, while, in April 2008 The Guardian describe

John Powell (film composer)

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John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English music composer and music conductor. Based in Los Angeles, California since 1997, Powell has composed music for over 70 feature films, including Face/Off, the Bourne franchise, Happy Feet and its sequel Happy Feet Two, United 93, X-Men: The Last Stand, Wicked and its sequel Wicked: For Good, Evolution, Drumline, Hancock, The Call of the Wild, Bolt, That Christmas, Thelma the Unicorn, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, ten DreamWorks Animation films, eight Blue Sky Studios films and three Illumination films. Powell’s work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Wicked, and the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon have earned him six Grammy Award nominations. Additionally, he earned two Academy Award for Best Original Score nominations for the original How to Train Your Dragon and Wicked. Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer’s music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams on Antz, Chicken Run, and Shrek, and Zimmer himself on Chill Factor, The Road to El Dorado, and the first two Kung Fu Panda films. He has also collaborat

John Psathas

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John Psathas, (born Ioannis Psathas, ; 1966) is a New Zealand Greek composer. He has works in the repertoire of such high-profile musicians as Evelyn Glennie, Michael Houstoun, Michael Brecker, Joshua Redman and the New Juilliard Ensemble, and is one of New Zealand’s most frequently performed composers. He has established an international profile and receives regular commissions from organisations in New Zealand and overseas. Early life and education The son of Greek immigrant parents, Psathas grew up in Taumarunui and then Napier. He attended Napier Boys’ High School and left early to study composition and piano at Victoria University of Wellington. This work and Drum Dances have become part of the standard repertoire for percussionists around the world. Psathas’ collaboration with Evelyn Glennie has been long-standing and produced many commissioned works, including the 2001 double concerto for piano and percussion View From Olympus. Glennie has also released recordings of many of his works. A retrospective concert of Psathas’ chamber music was given in the 2000 New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, culminating with the premiere of the specially commissioned Piano Quinte

John Rae (musician)

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John Rae (born 8 June 1966) is a Scottish jazz drummer, composer, and band leader. Early life and career John Rae was born in Edinburgh on 8 June 1966 to Scottish parents Margaret and Ronnie Rae. Rae was brought up in the Sighthill area of the city before moving to Livingston as a teenager. He attended St. Kentigern’s Academy, Blackburn in West Lothian. John and his other five siblings were encouraged by their father and mother, both jazz musicians and educators, to pursue a career in music from an early age. When he was fourteen he attended a weekly jazz workshop under the drumming tutelage of Bill Kyle and Mike Travis. There he met saxophonist Tommy Smith. Under Smith, they won the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival Best Group award in 1981 and a year later Rae won Best Group under his own name. Rae was soon performing around Edinburgh and Scotland in a quartet with Tommy Smith. In 1982 he recorded for the first time on Smith’s debut recording Giant Strides in a trio format featuring Rae, Smith and bassist Alan Taylor. Rae then went on to tour and perform around Europe with a group under the musical direction of Johnny Keating and spent the next three years living and playing

John Van Tongeren

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John Van Tongeren is an American keyboardist and composer for films and television. Biography Van Tongeren’s career in the entertainment business began as a keyboardist, with one of his earliest projects being the band Q, featuring Jon St. James and Stacey Swain (a.k.a. Stacey Q). Q then became SSQ, which released one album, Playback, on EMI records with John contributing four songs, most notably Anonymous. After leaving SSQ in the early ’80s, Van Tongeren became an in-demand session musician and began composing music for movies. As a musician, he has worked with Chicago, Roger Daltrey, Robbie Nevil, John Parr, The Chantoozies, Starship, Jeff Beck, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, The Pointer Sisters, Living in a Box, Stryper, and others. He currently works out of The Blue Room, a recording studio in Los Angeles. Van Tongeren began his film scoring career as one of the original members of Media Ventures (now Remote Control Productions). During his time at Media Ventures Van Tongeren worked on films such as Thelma & Louise, True Romance and Drop Zone with Hans Zimmer. He also collaborated with Mark Mancina on Speed, Moll Flanders, Fair Game, Assassins and Twister. Van Tongeren then began t

John Webb (composer)

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John Webb (born 1969) is an English composer. Biography He was educated in Essex where he started playing the piano and viola. He began to compose at 14, and two years later attended Colchester Institute. Here he studied piano with Frank Wibaut and composition with John Joubert at the Birmingham Conservatoire. As a founding member of the Thallein Ensemble, he performed works by Berio, Messiaen, Finnissy, Ives and Schnittke. In his final year he completed a dissertation on Schnittke’s polystylism and was the soloist in his piano concerto. After graduating from Birmingham Conservatoire with a first class degree, he studied for three years at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Brown. In his last year he was Leverhulme Composition Fellow and won the major composition prizes; he graduated with MMus and DipRAM. He went on to develop contacts with period instrument performers and has written works for ‘old’ instruments which have recently been revived, including viols, harpsichord (commissions by Gary Cooper and Trevor Pinnock), and baroque orchestra. He lectures at Birmingham Conservatoire and runs education projects for English National Opera, The Stables, Milton Keynes and the

John Welsman

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John Joseph Welsman (born 1955) is a Canadian composer known for his work in film and television. He has written film and television scores for production companies in both Canada and the United States. Some of the films he has worked on are The Peace Tree, A Winter Tale, and Nurse.Fighter.Boy and Lantern Hill. He has been nominated for the Gemini Award ten times, winning four times for his work on the television series Road to Avonlea, and once for the short film ‘The Bellringer’. Early life and education Welsman was born in Toronto. He is the grandson of conductor Frank Welsman and the brother of jazz singer Carol Welsman. He studied piano and theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, and attended the University of Western Ontario in 1974 and 1975. He studied music composition with Samuel Dolin and Milan Kymlicka. Career In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Welsman was a member of the folk and roots band Available Space with Cherie Camp and Jeff Kahnert. Welsman conducted and created arrangements for the string orchestra which recorded on Loreena McKennitt’s 1994 album The Mask and Mirror. Also in the 1990s Welsman composed and arranged extensively for the television seri

Johnny Yim

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Johnny Yim Lai-hang (born 12 August 1977) is a Hong Kong pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. Life and career Yim was born in Hong Kong, coming from a family with a musical background, with one parent a musician and the other a dance choreographer. He has a sister named Alice. Yim’s journey in music began at the age of six when he started learning the piano. While growing up in Canada, he pursued a major in Mathematics at York University and didn’t consider a formal music degree due to concerns about making a living. However, his passion for music remained strong, leading him to embark on a self-study path. Upon returning to Hong Kong, Yim achieved his first milestone by winning the 16th C.A.S.H. Songwriting Quest in 2004, which served as a catalyst for his music career. Since then, Yim has worked with numerous artists, including Alan Tam, Hins Cheung, Gigi Leung, Hacken Lee, AGA, Joyce Cheng, Alfred Hui. In 2017, Yim founded the Gsus Music Ministry, an initiative dedicated to promoting Cantonese Christian music. In 2021, Yim took on the role of music director for TVB’s singing competition Stars Academy (2021–2022). Throughout his career, he has crafted over hundreds of arran

Jon Opstad

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Jon Opstad (born 1983) is a British composer. His work spans music for film and television, contemporary dance, concert music and album projects. He has collaborated with other artists, such as Max Richter. Opstad is classically trained, having studied music at Cambridge University, before graduating with an MA in film composition from the National Film and Television School. In television, Opstad is best known for his scores for dark dramas such as Netflix’s Bodies and Black Mirror. His score with Max Richter for Elisabeth Moss thriller The Veil was acclaimed by IndieWire as one of “The Best TV Scores of 2024”. Opstad’s 2014 contemporary dance score Ignis was nominated for a British Composer Award (since rebranded as Ivors Classical Awards) for “Best Stage Work”. Tracks from Ignis have been used extensively in other productions, with the composition “Ignis IV” featuring in the trailer for Hollywood feature film Ad Astra, a trailer for Amazon Prime series The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, and the drama series The Veil. The track “Ignis I” was featured in the opening episode of Paramount drama series The Man Who Fell To Earth. In 2021, Opstad was featured as an answer to a ques

Jonas Kullhammar

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Jonas Kullhammar (2 September 1978 in Nacka, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz composer, saxophonist and is one of Sweden’s most established jazz musicians. Career Since 1998 his main group has been Jonas Kullhammar Quartet, and he has participated on over 150 records as a sideman. In year 2000 he released his debut recording, the self-produced “Salut”. It won him Sweden Radio’s Jazz Cat award as the newcomer of the year. He also received the Django D’or award and received the price Sweden Radio’s Jazz Cat as Jazz Musician of The Year in Sweden two years in a row. The group also received the award for jazz group of the year. Since then the band has toured around the world and released more CDs. Jonas is also a founding member of the groups Kullrusk and Nacka Forum. Since 2000 he runs the record label Moserobie, that releases mainly Swedish and Norwegian jazz groups. *2017: Jan Johansson-award Swedish jazz critics “Jazzkatten” awards *2000: Newcomer of the year *2002: Jazz Artist of The Year *2002: Jazz Group Of The Year (Jonas Kullhammar Quartet) *2003: Jazz Artist of The Year Nominations for the Swedish grammy *2002: with Nacka Forum *2003: with JKQ for Plays Loud for The People *2004: wi

Jonatan Sersam

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Jonatan Sersam (born 2 June 1986) is a Swedish composer and pianist. His music has been performed by Malmö Symfoniorkester, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, ensemble ICTUS, Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble Zeitfluss, Ensemble FontanaMix, Norrköpings Symfoniorkester, Swedish Wind Ensemble, Marco Fusi, Ruído Vermelho, Musica Vitae and the Kreutzer Quartet among others. Sersam was awarded Saltöstftelsens Tonsättarstipendium (The Järnåker Prize) 2023 for his piece Presencia de Sombra for bass viol, cello and soprano Biography Jonatan Sersam was born 1986 in Lövestad, Skåne län. Jonatan Sersam studied composition with Luca Francesconi at the Malmö Academy of Music. Works * Rain Heart Hammer for clarinet quartet, 2024 * l’architettura dell’alveare for harpsichord, 2024 * Kollit - en opera om ett abjekt, opera, 2024. Libretto by Niklas Hansson * …jamais assez tôt… for string quartet and mezzo-soprano, 2023. Text by Molière. * Blue Notes, for alto flute, clarinet and violin, 2023 * Five piano miniatures, for piano, 2023 * Konstruktionen, chamber opera, 2023. Libretto by Niklas Hansson * Beyond Lust, for string trio, narrator, electronics and video, 2022. Video by Anna-Karin Rasmusson * Prese

Jonathan Bar Giora

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Jonathan Bar Giora (; born 8 July 1962) is an Israeli composer and pianist. Since 2000, Bar Giora has composed scores and soundtracks for over 150 Israeli films such as Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi, Time of Favor, A Quiet Heart and Aviva, My Love. He also worked as a composer and music arranger and producer with Israeli artists such as Yossi Banai, Shalom Hanoch, Riki Gal, Miri Mesika and many others. From 2011 until 2015, Bar Giora served as the head of the film music and sound design department at the School of Audio & Visual Arts at Sapir Academic College, where he is now the head of the BFA program. He also teaches at Beit Berl College. His composition style presents diverse influences, from Mizrahi music, Jazz, Classical music, Rock music to Electronic music. He has collaborated with various Israeli musicians, such as Meir Banai, Riki Gal, Haïm Ulliel, Miri Mesika, Yehonatan Geffen, Ninet Tayeb and Ester Rada. Biography Jonathan Bar Giora was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1962. When he was 16, he left high school and started playing in local piano bars. All through the 1980s he played jazz and wrote music-related articles for the local press. In 1990 he staged a one-man show I’d be

Jonathan Dove

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Jonathan Dove (born 18 July 1959) is an English composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmingham Opera Company), including in 1990 an 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen for CBTO. He was Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival from 2001 to 2006. Dove was born in London; both his parents were architects. He studied music at the University of Cambridge, under Robin Holloway, and afterwards worked as a freelance arranger and accompanist until 1987, when he was employed by Glyndebourne Opera. In 1998 Dove was joint winner of the Christopher Whelen Award for his work in the fields of theatre music and opera. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to music. In 2024 Dove’s opera Itch received an Ivor Novello Award nomination for Best Stage Work Composition at The Ivors Classical Awards. In November 2025 Dove won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Community and Participation Composition for his opera Uprising. Productions Productions of

Jonathan Goldstein (composer)

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Jonathan Goldstein (27 September 1968 – 25 August 2019) was an English music composer for film, television, advertising, theatre, and live events. His work encompassed a range of contemporary classical styles with orchestral, jazz, electro-acoustic, and world influences. Early life and education Goldstein’s father was an orchestra conductor and composer in London’s West End. Following in his father’s footsteps, Goldstein began composing in school and studied music at the University of Birmingham. In 2013, his Magical Moments reached No.1 in the Official UK Classical Charts, where it stayed for three weeks over Christmas, ahead of J. S. Bach. Film music In his early career, Goldstein assisted the film music orchestrator Christopher Palmer, on the soundtrack orchestrations for Cape Fear, directed by Martin Scorsese and re-recordings of classic film scores including Bernard Herrmann’s music for Scorsese’s Taxi Driver performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Elmer Bernstein. He subsequently scored several short films including the BAFTA-nominated Candy Bar Kid which was screened at more than 100 festivals worldwide, and the BAFTA-nominated Sunny Spells, winner of an

Jonathan Leshnoff

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Jonathan Leshnoff (born September 8, 1973) is an American classical music composer. Early life and education Jonathan Leshnoff was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Susan and Steven Leshnoff; his mother was an artist, and his father an engineer. For his undergraduate studies, Leshnoff attended Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory concurrently, earning bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology and Music Composition, respectively. He went on to receive a Master’s of Music from Peabody, then received his Doctorate of Music from the University of Maryland. Leshnoff was raised observing Conservative Judaism. During his student years at Johns Hopkins, he delved deeper into his beliefs and began to practice Orthodox Judaism. Career Leshnoff lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he composes and is a professor of music at Towson University. He has composed scores of works, including four string quartets, four oratorios, twelve concerti, and four symphonies. His compositions have been performed by more than eighty orchestras worldwide including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, P

Jonathan Little (composer)

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Jonathan David Little FCLM, FISM, FRSA (born 1965 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian contemporary classical composer, arts educator and author on cultural history based in the UK and Australia. In 2008, his first CD was voted one of the top recordings of the year by US Fanfare magazine (“The Want List 2008”). He was subsequently featured in a news article in Musical Opinion in early 2009. As a composer, he first came to prominence in America in 2006 when The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) ran an article on him having five of his works accepted for recording (2004–07) by the US-headquartered French contemporary music label ERM (Editions de la Rue Margot), aimed at showcasing international contemporary composers. He was awarded the Collard Fellowship of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 2011, and in 2012 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed inaugural Professor of Composition and Music History at the University of Chichester in 2017, and Emeritus Professor from 2019. Music and background He studied composition, Performance and Musicology with Peter Dennison at the University of Melbourne, where he won the Lady T

Jonathan Manalo

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Jonathan Suarez Manalo (born November 26, 1978) is a Filipino songwriter and record producer. He is currently the creative director of ABS-CBN Music, having composed numerous compositions for ABS-CBN programs. His compositions for various artists have earned him 75 multi-platinum and 100 gold certifications At age 13, he finished his first full composition entitled Aming Panginoon (Our Lord). This song was chosen as one of the ten finalists in a songfest and was included in the compilation album Ikapitong Salmo (The Seventh Psalm). He was also mentored by Jungee Marcelo, a gospel songwriter who competed in songwriting festivals. Mainstream breakthrough Manalo made his first significant break in the Philippine music industry with ABS-CBN’s Himig Handog sa Makabagong Kabataan contest, which was open to amateurs and professionals alike. He won the grand prize with the winning composition, “Tara Tena”, a song that centered around inspiring the youth to do more for their country, and was interpreted by Kyla, Kaya, and V3. Dubbed then as the “anthem of the youth” by the Filipino politician Loren Legarda, it was used as a theme song for an eponymous TV series that catered to a younger aud

Jonathan Mills (composer)

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Sir Jonathan Mills (born 21 March 1963) is an Australian composer and festival director. He was born and raised in Sydney and has dual Australian and UK citizenship. His work includes operas, an oratorio, a ballet, song cycles, concertos, and chamber music. He has directed a number of arts festivals in Australia, and from 2006 to 2014 he was director of the Edinburgh International Festival. Biography Jonathan Edward Harland Mills was born in Sydney on 21 March 1963. He has Scottish roots, his maternal grandfather having been a Scot from Partick. His father Frank Harland Mills was a heart surgeon. He studied under Peter Sculthorpe. Mills was a research fellow and composer-in-residence at RMIT University, Melbourne, between 1992 and 1997. He graduated as Master of Architecture at RMIT in 1999, focusing on acoustic design and the role of sound in the built environment. In 2001 he wrote Sandakan Threnody, an oratorio for tenor, choir, and orchestra. It is based on the real-life story of the 2,345 Australian and British prisoners of war who in 1945 were sent on a series of death marches from the Japanese camp in Sandakan, Borneo – only six would survive. It was revised and premiered as

Jonathan Pitkin

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Jonathan Pitkin (born 1978) is a contemporary classical composer and lecturer. Pitkin was born in Dublin but grew up in Edinburgh. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music under Christopher Brown, where he was the recipient of several prizes and awards. His music has been commissioned and performed internationally. In 1998 he attended Karlheinz Stockhausen’s inaugural composition course in Kürten, Germany, and in 2000 spent three months at the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Guy Reibel as well as following courses in orchestration and electro-acoustic composition. In 2001 he was awarded the Temple Church Composition Prize for his anthem Hark! a herald voice is calling and was shortlisted by the Society for the Promotion of New Music. Three of his works were broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2004, including the orchestral piece Borrowed Time. Pitkin was awarded a DMus in composition by the Royal College of Music in 2009, having received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has written for the proceedings of NIME and the ICICI Bank, and contributed to The Encyclopedia of Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2014) and The

Jonathan Russell (composer)

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Jonathan Russell (born 1979) is an American composer of classical music, clarinetist, and bass clarinetist. Russell was the founder of the Switchboard Music Festival, which will hold its 10th anniversary in the summer of 2018. His primary teachers have included Paul Lansky, Barbara White, Steve Mackey, Elinor Armer, and Eric Ewazen. Career Composer Russell has been commissioned by, worked with, and written for ensembles including the San Francisco Symphony, Prism Quartet, Symphony Number One, Empyrian Ensemble, Wild Rumpus, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, and the JACK Quartet. The Imani Winds has a long-term relationship with Mr. Russell through the wind quintets Legacy Commissioning Project, which has led to three large scale arrangements of orchestral works for woodwind quintet. Clarinet and bass clarinet Soloist Russell frequently solos as a bass clarinetist, performing his own and other works. Among his own works, he premiered his Sonata for Bass Clarinet and Piano with pianist Kate Campbell which Campbell herself commissioned. Russell’s performance of Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsody was noted for giving, “increasing energy, leading to a smashingly tangy conclusion from a lurking open

JonFX

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John Alexander Crawford (born May 31, 1983), professionally known as JonFX, is a music producer from St. Andrews, Jamaica. He has worked with dancehall and reggae artists Shabba Ranks, I Wayne, Vybz Kartel, Gyptian and Akon, as well as late rapper XXXTentacion. In June 2018, he was appointed as a governor on the board of the Florida Grammy Chapter. In November 2018, Arms Around You, a song produced by JonFX, entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 28; Streaming Songs Chart at number 18; R&B Streaming Songs Chart at number one; and Digital Sales Chart at number 18. He produced Sizzla Kalonji’s I’m Yours, which made to the Billboard Reggae chart and Billboard Heatseeker’s chart at No. 3 and No. 4. Career JonFX produced Gyptian’s Hold Yuh and an album of the same name in 2010. In 2017, he produced Sizzla’s I’m Yours, which entered both the Billboard Reggae chart and Billboard Heatseeker’s chart at No. 3 and No. 4. He currently serves as a governor on the board of the Florida Grammy Chapter. * Genre: Reggae 186 34 6 2 - 2014 Germination – Sade Serena * Released: May 3, 2014 * Label: Uprize Music * Genre: R&B / Pop / Dance – – 2 – - 1997–present See also * List of Jamaican record produc

Jordan Woods-Robinson

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Jordan Woods-Robinson is an American actor, musician and composer, He is best known for his portrayal of Eric Raleigh in The Walking Dead series. He has also appeared in Magic City and Drop Dead Diva. Early life and education Woods-Robinson was born and raised in the city of Bybee, Tennessee on an animal rescue farm. He moved to New York City and graduated from the NYU’s Tisch School of Arts. Career A few weeks after graduation, Jordan auditioned for and was cast in Blue Man Group as a Blue Man. He spent 13 years performing as a Blue Man in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Orlando, Boston, and on the Norwegian Epic cruise ship traveling between the Eastern and Western Caribbean ports and even a Mediterranean cruise. While in Orlando, Jordan began his Film and TV career and has appeared in popular productions such as The Walking Dead, Homeland, Nashville, The Hunger Games, Army Wives, and many other on-screen roles opposite some of Hollywood’s A-Listers including Sir Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farell. Jordan now lives just outside Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and 2 children. Filmography Film Television Discography *2015 - Red Haired Boy *2016 - Anthem References External links *

Jörg Duda

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Jörg Duda (born 17 December 1968) is a German composer of classical music. Life and career Born in Munich, Duda was influenced by the church music of Scheyern Abbey. He took lessons in organ and improvisation with Harald Feller, in theory and composition with Dieter Acker. From 1988 to 1992 he studied church music at the Musikhochschule München. He studied choral conducting with Roderich Kreile and was a member in his choir Junge Kantorei München. He played organ concerts and worked as a Korrepetitor for the choir of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Philharmonischer Chor München. From 1992 Duda studied composition with Peter Kiesewetter at the Musikhochschule Hannover and continued with Dieter Acker in Munich, completing the “Meisterklasse” in 1997. From 1998 to 2022 Duda was Kantor of St Emmeram in Geisenfeld. He taught at times music theory at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. Duda co-founded the and the piano quintet . In 2007 he was awarded the (culture award) of Geisenfeld. His motet Friede über Israel was commissioned and recorded in 2000 by Roderich Kreile and the Dresdner Kreuzchor. Duda composed four Finnish Quartets, each for a woodwind instrument and a string trio. T

Jörg Widmann

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Jörg Widmann (; born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2023, Widmann was the third most performed living contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the University of Music Freiburg, he holds a composition professorship at the Barenboim–Said Akademie Berlin. His most important compositions are the concert overture Con brio, the opera Babylon, an oratorio Arche, Viola Concerto, Friedenskantate and the trumpet concerto Towards Paradise. Widmann has written musical tributes to Classical and Romantic composers. He was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 2018 and the Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 2023. He was Gewandhaus composer of the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig and composer in residence for the Berlin Philharmonic. Early life and education Widmann was born on 19 June 1973 in Munich, the son of a physicist and a teacher. His sister is the German classical violinist Carolin Widmann. He first took clarinet lessons in 1980. Four years later he became a composition student of Kay Westermann. Widmann attended the secondary school in Munich. He later studied compositio

Jorge Liderman

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Jorge Mario Liderman (November 16, 1957 – February 3, 2008) was an Argentine and American composer. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 to partially fund a new work for Duo46 titled Aires de Sefarad: 46 Spanish Songs for Violin and Guitar. Jorge went on to compose a second set of 46 songs for Duo46 titled Aires de Sefarad II shortly before his death in 2008. He taught composition at the University of California, Berkeley. Life Jorge Liderman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1957. He studied at the Rubin School of Music in Jerusalem and earned a doctorate in composition from the University of Chicago in 1988. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989. He died February 3, 2008, in an apparent suicide, struck by an incoming train at the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in El Cerrito. Selected works Orchestral *Shir Eres (1984) *Song of Songs (2001), cantata for soprano, tenor, female chorus & chamber orchestra *Open Strings for guitar orchestra & electric bass Operatic *Antigona Furiosa (1991), libretto by the composer after the drama by Griselda Gambaro, performed at the third Munich Biennale Chamber *Aires de Sefarad (2004) - 4

Jorge Martín (composer)

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Jorge Martín (born 1959) is an American composer. Early life and studies Jorge Martín was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, and established his residence in the United States at an early age. He studied at Yale University and at Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Music and a Doctor of Music in composition. The Fort Worth Opera released a recording of the opera on Albany Records. Albany also released another recording of Martin’s compositions entitled Cello Music in 2012. Other compositions include “Beast and Superbeast”, a set of four one-act operas based on short stories by Saki; a Saxophone Quartet and Four Dances for Bassoon and String Quartet, which had its world premiere in Finland in July 1997. Awards In 2005, Martín received a fellowship award from the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa. He is also the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Academy Award in Music, an ASCAP Standard Music Award, an artist’s residency at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs in 1993, Cintas for music in 1999 and a CINTAS Foundation “Brandon Fradd Fellowship in music composition” in 2011. His one-act opera Tobermory won first prize in 1993 in the National Opera Association’s Fifth Bie

Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann

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Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (1973) is a Peruvian composer, naturalized Brazilian, who currently resides in the United States. Biography Born in Lima, he began musical studies at the age of six, continuing to study the violin with Luis Fiestas and Veronique Daverio. In 1989, he and his family fled Peru for Brazil during the rise of the Maoist Shining Path. In Brazil, he continued musical studies at Faculdade Santa Marcelina with Alberto Jaffe (a student of Max Rostal) and Ayrton Pinto (a former member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). In 1998, he moved to the USA where he obtained a master’s degree at Florida International University as a student of Fredrick Kaufman and, in 2004 he graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University as a student of John Harbison and Lukas Foss His music has been performed world-wide by ensembles such as the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Peruvian National Symphony, New England Philharmonic, Aspen Sinfonia, Orquesta Uninorte (Paraguay), Kyiv Camerata, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Klangforum Wien, Boston Musica Viva, Da Capo Chamber Players, Seattle Chamber Players, Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien, Ta

Jörgen Dafgård

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Jörgen Dafgård (born 27 November 1964 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish composer. He gained international repute in connection with the 2003 Masterprize competition, in which his orchestral work Veils reached the top ten. His compositions have been broadcast on NPR and Classic FM (UK) as well as Scandinavian radio stations such as NRK and Sveriges Radio P2. Dafgård studied composition with Anders Nilsson and Johan Hammerth and later at the Malmö Music Academy with Hans Gefors, Javier Alvarez, Hans Abrahamsen and Kent Olofsson. * Veils for orchestra (1995/2005) * For the Sleeping – Dream Sonata (1997–1998), for viola and tape. * String Quartet I (1993–1998) * Mosaïque Vibrante for orchestra (1999–2000) * Den gömda musiken for choir, organ and percussion (1999–2000, text: Östen Sjöstrand) * Wind Quintet (2001–2002) * Sinfonia No. 1 for orchestra (2003–2004) * Mosaïque Vibrante (2010) * Eclipse (Concerto, Violin) (2018) References External links * Jörgen Dafgård’s homepage * Jörgen Dafgård on Soundcloud

Joris Vanvinckenroye

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Joris Vanvinckenroye (born 1977), also known by his solo moniker BASta!, is a Flemish avant-rock and experimental double bass musician and composer. He is best known for Aranis, a neo-classical chamber rock group he founded and leads, and for his double bass solo project, BASta!. Vanvinckenroye has performed in Europe and the United States, and recorded seven albums with Aranis. As BASta!, he released a solo album, Cycles, which a review at AllMusic described as “a fabulous showcase for the talents of Joris Vanvinckenroye”. Biography Joris Vanvinckenroye began studying contrabass when he was 16 at the Music Academy of Lier in Belgium. He won Belgium’s Axion Classics award in 2000, and continued his studies at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire in Antwerp, where he obtained a master’s degree in double bass in 2005. Vanvinckenroye also obtained a secondary school teacher diploma in 2000 in physics, geography and mathematics. In 1994, while still studying, Vanvinckenroye co-founded Troissoeur, an electronic group, who toured Europe into the early 2000s, and released two CDs. In 2002 Vanvinckenroye founded and led Aranis, an acoustic avant-rock, experimental and neo-classical chamber musi

Jörn Arnecke

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Jörn Arnecke (born 1973, in Hameln) is a German composer. Arnecke is the professor of music theory, aural training, and historical music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Life Arnecke studied composition and musical theory in Hamburg, Germany, at the Academy for Music and Theatre (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg) under Volkhardt Preuß and Peter Michael Hamel. In 1997/98, during his study, he was a student of Gérard Grisey at the Conservatoire National Superieur in Paris. Arnecke graduated in 2000 and since 2001 he has been part-time professor at the music academy in Hamburg. 2004 he was given a scholarship by the Bundeskünstlerförderung (federal artist support) for the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice and in 2007 one for Casa Baldi near Rome. During his studies and later on he has won many prizes, for example the Preis des Landesverbandes Sachen des Deutschen Tonträgerverbandes in 1999. Major works Opera * Ariadne (1999) : opera scene, recited poems: Paul Heyse, Adelbert von Chamisso & Joseph von Eichendorff, written for the Munich Biennale, dedicated to Peter Michael Hamel * Le Nozze di Figaro (1999) : Opera by W. A. Mozart, arrangement for 12 inst

José Abraham

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José Abraham (born 18 March 1974 in Seville) is a Spanish writer, composer and music producer. His songs have been published in more than 40 countries. He has collaborated with multiple producers, musicians and orchestras around the world. His works have been performed at Madison Square Garden in New York, the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles and the Royal Albert Hall in London. Biography José Abraham has a degree in law from the University of Seville, is an expert lawyer in Intellectual Law from the Inesem Business School, founder of the School of Artists of Andalusia, and CEO of the record label “Kalma Music” and his own music publishing house “José Abraham Publishing”. In 2014, he was recognized by the International Songwriting Competition (United States) as the Best Latin Songwriter, also receiving an honorable mention from the organization. In 2021, he placed among the Top 3 finalists at the New Wave Musical Festival held in Russia, one of the leading music festivals in Eastern Europe. Throughout his career, he has written, produced, or collaborated on studio albums with artists such as Roberto Carlos, Cristian Castro, Jennifer Lopez, Alejandro Sanz, David Bisbal, Marc Antho

José María Cano

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José María Cano Andrés (born 21 February 1959) is a Spanish visual artist, musician, composer, and record producer. From 1982 to 1998, he was a member and principal composer of the Spanish pop-rock band Mecano. Since 1998, he works primarily in the visual arts. Musician José María Cano was born in Madrid, and gave his first concerts as a university student there. There he met Ana Torroja, who would become the lead singer in their pop band Mecano. Their first album, also called Mecano (1981) and produced with the financial backing of his father, included the hit “Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar”. Both José and his brother Nacho composed songs for all their albums. In 1984, José began to play piano and changed his method of composition. He began to compose for other singers, such as La Mafia, Chayanne, Ana Belén, Amaya Uranga, Sara Montiel, Julio Iglesias, Miguel Bosé, Alaska, Françoise Hardy, Sarah Brightman, Simone, Mario Frangoulis etc. He composed songs that would become well known in the Spanish-speaking world, such as Hijo de la Luna, Lia, Mujer contra mujer, Me cuesta tanto olvidarte, Aire, Tiempo de vals, Cruz de navajas, Naturaleza muerta, Una rosa es una rosa and several others, w

Josefine Opsahl

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Josefine Opsahl (born 18 January 1992) is a Danish composer and cellist based in Copenhagen and Berlin. She writes classical music as a composer and also performs as solo artist with cello and live electronics and live sound design. Biography Born in Denmark on 18 January 1992. She studied both classical and contemporary music at the Royal Danish Conservatory and Northwestern University (IL, US) where she completed a Master’s degree in cello and later she received a degree as a composer in Contemporary Creative Art at South Danish Conservatory. As a cellist and performer she has played and released classical music with the groups Kottos and We Like We and as a solo artist the album, Atrium, in 2022. As a composer she has written operas, The 2021 Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation’s Prize of Honor 2020. In 2024, her opera “Hjem” was nominated for “Opera of the year 2023” by the Reumert Award. Selected works * A Mass of Stars Block the View commissioned by Berlin Academy of American Music, world premiere in Elbphilharmonie, June 2024, * Passengers of Passing Moments (Koreorama) ballet commissioned by The Royal Danish Ballet, The Royal Danish Theatre, March-A

Joseph Bertolozzi

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Joseph Bertolozzi (born 1959) is an American composer and musician with works ranging from full symphony orchestra and solo songs to immense sound-art installations. With increasingly numerous performances across Europe and the United States to his credit, his music is performed by groups ranging from the Grammy-winning Chestnut Brass Company to the Eastman School of Music, and he himself has played at such diverse venues as the Vatican and The US Tennis Open. Works and performances His most well known project is Tower Music: a musical composition using only sounds sampled from the surfaces of the Eiffel Tower itself, with no added digital manipulation or alteration of the sounds. The resulting 2016 album “Tower Music” (on the innova label #933), reached #11 on the iTunes Classical charts and #16 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Music chart. Tower Music is a sister project to Bridge Music. Like Tower Music, Bridge Music allows listeners to hear the sounds of New York’s Mid-Hudson Bridge played like a musical instrument. The work was created for New York’s 400th anniversary observance of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River. Originally intended to be a live performance piec

Joseph Curiale

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Joseph Curiale (born July 1, 1955) is an American composer, producer, songwriter, arranger and conductor. Education Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Curiale attended the University of Bridgeport and earned a Degree in Music Education in 1976, studying jazz arranging with Neil Slater. In 2009, Curiale completed his Master of Music Composition at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He completed a PhD in Music Composition from the University of Minnesota in 2015. Career Television From 1982 to 1992, Curiale worked as an arranger and composer for the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and his song “Sick of the Blues” was used as one of closing the themes. Curiale composed the opening and closing theme for Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. Film In 1983, Curiale was hired as the first staff songwriter at Columbia Pictures. Classical Curiale wrote two symphonic compositions: Awakening and The Music of Life. Awakening was recorded in 1997 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The Music of Life, in 2001 by the London Symphony Orchestra. The Music of Life premiered in the United States in April, 2002 and was performed by the Akron Symphony Orchestra. Curiale has also composed separate pieces

Joseph Hallman

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Joseph Hallman (born Nov. 20, 1979) is an American composer. A functional orphan, Hallman was born and raised in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Girard College from first to twelfth grades. Based in Philadelphia, Hallman’s works have been performed internationally. His music has been described as eclectic, merging classical, Renaissance, and contemporary popular styles. Hallman also teaches composition at Drexel University. Early life Hallman began composing at the age of 12. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Margaret Brouwer. He continued his studies with masterclasses by George Crumb. Christopher Rouse, John Corigliano, Steven Mackey, John Harbison and others. Career Hallman is composer-in-residence at the Rosenbach Museum & Library of Philadelphia and the Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival. He has collaborated with leading performers and ensembles. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein performed his concerto for cello and chamber ensemble with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic in Russia. A series of concerti grossi, inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, was performed by members of the P

Joseph Phibbs

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Joseph Phibbs (born 25 April 1974) is an English composer of orchestral, choral and chamber music. He has also composed for theatre, both in the UK and Japan. Since 1998 he has written regularly to commissions for Festivals (including for Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Presteigne, and Three Choirs), for private sponsors, and for the BBC, which has broadcast premieres of his orchestral and chamber works from the Proms and elsewhere. His works have been given premieres in Europe, the United States and the Far East, and he has received awards, including a British Composer Award (for Rivers to the Sea), and a Library of Congress Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award. Musicians performing his work include Evelyn Glennie, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Sakari Oramo, Vasily Petrenko, Gianandrea Noseda, and the Belcea Quartet. Musical training Joseph Phibbs was born in London, the son of actors Giles Phibbs and Mary Gillingham. A pianist and cellist, he started composing at the age of ten, and from 1988 to 1992 attended the Purcell School for Young Musicians with the assistance of a scholarship from Suffolk County Council. During this time he received tuition in composition from Param Vir

Joseph Trapanese

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Joseph Trapanese (born August 7, 1984) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, and music producer. He works in the production of music for films, television, records, theater, concerts, and interactive media. Early life and education Raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, Trapanese attended Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School before moving on to the Manhattan School of Music. Film and television music Early career Trapanese began his composing career by collaborating with Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) on the soundtrack for the Walt Disney Pictures film Tron: Legacy. His arrangements for the soundtrack have been described as “resolutely grand” and “stirring… ominous, hypnotic”. The BBC described the work as “a sophisticated integration of acoustic and electronic instrumentation… majestic… rich, solemn tones… saturnine orchestration and a muscular rhythm”. 2011–present Trapanese has composed for numerous projects, including Disney XD’s animated series Tron: Uprising, Sony Pictures Classics’ The Raid: Redemption (cocomposed with Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park), Sony Pictures Television’s original web series The Bannen Way, the independent featur

Josephine Stephenson

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Josephine Stephenson (born 1990) is a French-British composer, arranger, singer and instrumentalist who works across a variety of musical genres. Early life and education Stephenson learned cello and piano as a child, and as a teenager attended the Maîtrise de Radio France (the choir school of Radio France). After briefly studying philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris, she moved to the UK where she attended Clare College, University of Cambridge as a choral scholar and received a Bachelor of Music degree. She later obtained a master’s degree in composition from the Royal College of Music, having studied under Kenneth Hesketh. In 2017-2019 she was a ‘Writing The Future’ composer with the London Sinfonietta. Career During her master’s studies, Stephenson’s orchestration was likened to Claude Vivier, and her first short opera On False Perspective was staged in the Britten Theatre, co-produced by Tête à Tête and the Royal College of Music. In 2015 she collaborated with FellSwoop Theatre on a devised piece of musical theatre, Ghost Opera, first performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and developed with The Lowry. In the same year she won ‘Best Composer’ at Underwire Film Fest

Joshua (American singer)

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Joshua Hong (born December 30, 1995), known mononymously as Joshua (), is an American singer based in South Korea. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its vocal team. Early life Joshua Hong was born in Los Angeles on December 30, 1995. He attended Downtown Magnets High School and graduated in 2013. Growing up, he attended church in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. Career 2013–2014: Pre-debut Joshua was scouted by an agent from Pledis during a visit to Koreatown, Los Angeles in 2013. He then moved to Seoul, South Korea, where he began training in singing and dancing. As a trainee, he joined from the second season onwards of Seventeen TV, an online reality show that introduced Pledis’ trainees and showed potential members of the boy group Seventeen before their official debut. The show was broadcast periodically on Ustream, where the trainees showed themselves training, singing, creating choreographies and playing games. The online show also included participation in concerts, titled Like Seventeen. 2015–present: Seventeen and solo activities In 2015, Joshua debuted as a member of the South Korean boy group Seventeen with the extended pla

Joshua Fineberg

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Joshua Fineberg (born July 26, 1969) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Joshua Fineberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his musical studies at the age of five. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Morris Cotel where he won first prize in the bi-annual Virginia Carty de Lillo Composition Competition. Music career He has worked with many leading composers in the United States and France, including: George Crumb, Jacob Druckman, Robert Hall Lewis, Philippe Manoury, and André Boucourechliev. In 1991, he moved to Paris and studied with Tristan Murail. The following year he was selected by the Ensemble InterContemporain reading panel for the course in composition and musical technologies. In the fall of 1997, he returned to the US to pursue a doctorate in musical composition at Columbia University, which he completed in May 1999. After teaching at Columbia for a year, he went to Harvard University where he served as the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities until 2007. In 2007 he joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Music and became the director of their electronic music studio. I

Joshua Rosenblum

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Joshua Rosenblum (born May 10, 1963) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, arranger, music journalist, and author. He has composed extensively for the concert hall as well as for musical theater, and currently teaches musical theater composition at Yale University, his alma mater, as well as both conducting and orchestration at New York University. As a pianist, he has performed frequently in the New York City area as soloist and accompanist, as well as in Broadway pit orchestras, and with the New York City Center Encores! Orchestra. He has conducted numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Wonderful Town, Falsettos, Miss Saigon, and Anything Goes. He served as pianist and associate conductor for the hit 2022 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods, and can be heard playing on the Grammy-winning original cast recording. Education Rosenblum attended Marietta High School in his hometown of Marietta, Ohio, and spent summers at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1983 at the age of 20, and proceeded directly to graduate school at the Yale S

Joško Ćaleta

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Joško Ćaleta (2 October 1964) is a Croatian ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, conductor, composer, record producer and klapa singer. He is a member of the Croatian Composers’ Society He received the Master of Arts title in 1994 with the thesis Social and musical structure of the klapa singing style, Dalmatia and Vancouver at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, under the mentorship of prof. Alan Thrasher. Career He started singing in 1979 in Klapa Trogir. Ćaleta described his beginnings with klapa in article from 1997: After he received further music education at the Music academy in Split, he became conductor of the klapa (1985–1989). Ćaleta also directed klapas “Radovan” and “Kairos”, as well as “Zvonimir” (1989–1997), composed of Croatian Canadians in Vancouver. Under his guidance, “Zvonimir” was winner of the best ethnic choir award in Canada in 1994 and 1996. Following his return to Croatia, he conducted klapas “Omiš”, “Nostalgija”, “Jelsa”, “Sagena” and “Dišpet”. He is record producer of around twenty music albums dedicated to klapa and other types of traditional singing in Croatia, six of which earned Croatian discographic award Porin (recorded by klapas “Nosta

Jouni Kaipainen

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Jouni Ilari Kaipainen (24 November 1956 – 23 November 2015) was a Finnish composer. Kaipainen was born in Helsinki to the physician and politician Osmo Kaipainen, and his wife, the author Anu Kaipainen. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki under Aulis Sallinen and Paavo Heininen. He died on 23 November 2015, the eve of his 59th birthday. Compositions Stage *Konstanzin ihme (The Miracle at Constance), opera in two acts, Op. 30 *Hämäränmaassa, music play for children, Op. 69 (2004) *Taikakivet, musical fantasy for actors, dancers and orchestra (2013) Orchestral *Symphonies **Symphony No. 1 Op. 20 (1985) **Symphony No. 2 Op. 44 (1994) **Symphony No. 3 Op. 72 (2004) **Symphony No. 4 Commedia, Op. 93 (2012), with TTBB choir, baritone and soprano soloists *Apotheosis Op. 7 (1975), for chamber orchestra *Sisyphus Dreams Op. 47 (1994) *Accende lumen sensibus, concerto for small orchestra, Op. 52 (1996) *Millennium Fanfare, Op. 60 (1999) *North by North-East, Op. 63 (2001) *Erik (…jag hör det ständigt…) Op. 78 (2006) *Notkea Keaton - The Ghost of Buster Op. 86 (2008–09) *Aubade beninoise (2009) Concertante *Concerto for two pianos Ladders to Fire, Op. 14 (1979) *Clarinet Conce

Joxe Mendizabal

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Jose Javier Mendizabal Aldalur (born 1970), known as Joxe Mendizabal, is a Spanish musician, composer, music producer and record producer. He has worked and created music for various music groups, TV shows and movies, such as Betizu Taldea, Egin kantu! (ETB 1), ¡Menuda decisión! (Cuatro), Vaya Semanita (ETB 2), Oh Happy Day (ETB 1), Goenkale, Bago!az or Hoy quiero confesar. Early life Joxe Mendizabal was born in 1970, in Amasa-Villabona, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain). Career In 1986, together with others, he created the Gipuzkoan folk music group Xaximiku with which he released two albums, one in 1986 and a second in 1989. Later he joined the rock group Egan, together with Xabier Saldias, with whom he gave several concerts and recorded three discs. Medizabal plays the accordion and he defines himself as an accordionist (soinujole, in Basque). In 2012 he released his first solo album called Soinujolea naiz (I am an accordionist, in Basque), in which he claimed himself above all as an accordionist. In the year 2000 he began working for EITB Media as a musician, composer, arranger and music producer. In 2001 he was the music producer for Betizu and later for the music group Betizu

Joy Guidry

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Joy Guidry is an American bassoonist and composer. Early life Guidry was born in Houston and first became interested in music through her exposure to gospel music at church. Career Guidry graduated from the Peabody Institute in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in bassoon performance, after which she participated in a fellowship at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She earned a diploma from Mannes School of Music the following year. In 2021, Guidry was awarded the Berlin Prize for Young Artists for her Radical Self-Love program. Her debut album, Radical Acceptance, was released in February 2022. That year, she served on a panel of curators to select projects from new artists to be recorded on the American Composers Forum innova Recordings label. Guidry is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in music at University of California, San Diego. After touring with her dissertation project, AMEN, a recording of the work will be released in May 2024. Compositions Y’all don’t wanna listen In 2020, the National Sawdust Ensemble commissioned and premiered Y’all don’t wanna listen, a work by Guidry for cello, alto flute, and violin. A Prayer for Protection A Prayer for Protection, a work f

Joy Ngiaw

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Joy Ngiaw (born November 23, 1994) is an Emmy Award-winning composer film and television composer. She won the Children’s and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for an Animated Program for her work on WondLa , becoming the first Malaysian to win an Emmy Award. She collaborated closely with John Lasseter on the series, and the score was featured in IndieWire’s ‘Best TV Scores of the Year, According to Our Composers Survey ‘, alongside The White Lotus and Severance. Her score for Apple TV+ and Skydance’s debut animation Blush has won Best Music Award from Hollywood Music in Media and was nominated for an Annie. She also scored Skydance Animation’s inaugural studio logo, and Angel Studios theatrical romantic comedy Solo Mio, starring Kevin James. Among her other projects include Monkeypaw Productions’ The Pigs Underneath, Netflix and CBS’s TV show Glamorous starring Kim Cattrall, Mattel and Netflix’s Barbie Mysteries, Walt Disney Animation Studio’s Short Circuit: Jing Hua, and Netflix’s Rescued by Ruby. Joy was named a BAFTA Breakthrough USA honoree in 2024. She was also featured on Apple ‘Here’s to the Dreamers’ campaign, spotlighting ambitious creative

Juan Carlos Tolosa

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Juan Carlos Tolosa (born in Córdoba, 2 October 1966) is an Argentinian composer, pianist, and conductor. Studies Juan Carlos Tolosa began his musical studies in 1972 at Instituto Domingo Zípoli in Córdoba, where he received a degree as choir master. After dropping law, he entered the National University of Córdoba to pursue a career as a composer from 1986 to 1989. In 1989, he left for Europe and settled in Brussels. He studied at the Brussels Conservatory, where he received composition prizes in the classes of Paul-Baudouin Michel and Daniel Capelletti for orchestration, forms, harmony, and musical theory. At the same time, between 1990 and 1998, he regularly attended the Ars musica contemporary music festival composition seminars and workshops, with the participation of Luciano Berio, Witold Lutosławski, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Ferneyhough, Pascal Dusapin, Iannis Xenakis, Magnus Lindberg, Luca Francesconi, and Wolfgang Rihm. European career Tolosa created Black Jackets Company in 1995 together with Pierre Kolp, Francis Ubertelli, and David Nuñezañez, and later the Black Jackets Ensemble in 1996. His music has been performed in several countries,

Juan Manuel Abras

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Juan Manuel Abras Contel (in Swedish and Polish, Jan Emanuel Abras; born 1 February 1975) is a classical music composer, conductor, musicologist and historian from Sweden. Born in Stockholm to a European family (French, Italian, etc.) that moved around the world, Abras became a cosmopolitan artist and scientist. Background and education Juan Manuel Abras was born in Stockholm, Sweden, spent his childhood in Geneva, Paris and Madrid, his adolescence in Venice, Buenos Aires, and Bilbao, and his youth in Vienna and Kraków. His education, which includes two PhD doctorates and a dozen of academic degrees, As composer, Abras was a student of Krzysztof Penderecki, Kurt Schwertsik and Roberto García Morillo, he also studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Alexander Müllenbach, etc. and attended the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Mozarteum University Salzburg, the Academy of Music in Kraków, the IRCAM of Paris, the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, etc., taking part in courses, workshops and completing graduate and postgraduate studies. As conductor, Abras was a student of Leopold Hager, Ervin Acél, Guillermo Scarabino,

Juan Manuel Cañizares

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Juan Manuel Cañizares (born 1966) is a Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer. He is a winner of the “Premio Nacional de Música” (1982) and “Premio de la Música” (2008) awards. Biography In 1966 Juan Manuel Cañizares was born in Sabadell, Catalonia, and at age 6 started to play guitar with his brother Rafael Cañizares. In 1982, he won the “Premio Nacional de Guitarra de la Peña Los Cernícalos” in Jerez de la Frontera, and then started to collaborate with flamenco and jazz musicians such as: Enrique Morente, Camarón de la Isla, María Pagés, Pepe de Lucía, Joan Manuel Serrat, Alejandro Sanz, Rocío Jurado, Peter Gabriel, Al Di Meola, Mike Stern, Peter Erskine, Vince Mendoza, Michael Brecker, Marc Almond, La Fura dels Baus, The Chieftains, etc. In 1989 he started to collaborate with Paco de Lucía and during next 10 years, he has performed in “Solo, Duo, Trío” and “Paco de Lucía Septet”. In 2011, Cañizares was invited by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to their European Concert at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain, and played Concierto de Aranjuez with the Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Since 2003, Cañizares is a professor of flamenco guitar at the Escola Superior de Música de C

Juan María Solare

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Juan María Solare (born August 11, 1966) is an Argentine composer and pianist. Education Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Solare studied and received his diploma in piano (María Teresa Criscuolo), composition (Fermina Casanova, Juan Carlos Zorzi) and conducting (Mario Benzecry) at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo. He also studied privately with Francisco Kröpfl. Between 1993 and 1996 he undertook postgraduate studies on Composition at the Musikhochschule in Cologne (Germany) under the guidance of Johannes Fritsch, Clarence Barlow, and Mauricio Kagel, in the frame of a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Between October 1997 and February 1999, he did postgraduate studies with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. (Between July 1998 and June 1999 he held a scholarship from the Heinrich-Strobel Foundation (Baden-Baden).) Between 1999 and 2001 studied electronic music with in Cologne, with diploma. From June 2001 until May 2002 he was composer in residence at the , Germany. In April 2005 he obtained the title “Licenciado en Composición” (Master’s degree) from the Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte (IUNA) in Buenos Aires. Since 1993 he

Juan Pampin

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Juan Pampin (born January 23, 1967) is an Argentine composer and sound artist who lives and works in Seattle. Biography Since 2002, Pampin has been a professor of composition at the University of Washington and a founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS). He received an MA in Composition from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon, France and a DMA in Composition from Stanford University, where he studied with composer Jonathan Harvey. Juan Pampin’s works explore the territory articulated by the concept of space, memory, and material, using mostly algorithmic composition and signal processing tools of his own development. His compositions, including works for instrumental, digital, and mixed media, have been performed around the world by world-class soloists and ensembles such as Susana Kasakoff, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Arditti String Quartet, and Sinfonia 21. Selected works * Apocalypse was Postponed due to lack of interest (1994) for computer generated sound. * Metal Hurlant (1996) for solo percussion and electronic sounds. * Toco Madera (1997) for percussion duo and electronic sounds. * Interstices (1997) for s

Juan Trigos

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Juan Trigos (born 1965) is a Mexican-American composer and conductor. He is currently a Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts. Biography Trigos was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1965. He started his studies in music with his father Juan Trigos S., composer and dramaturgist. After he started to study formally at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico City, 1977 – 1983) with main teachers Guillermo Noriega, harmony and analysis, José Suárez, counterpoint, Miguel Agustín López, piano. In 1983 he continued his studies at Instituto de Liturgia, Música y Arte Cardenal Miranda in Mexico City where he studied Gregorian Chant, Chorus and Orchestra Conducting, Composition and Piano. After completing these studies moved to Italy in 1986 to deepen his studies on Gregorian Chant, Music Composition, Ancient Polyphony Conducting, Basso Continuo and piano at the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra di Roma where he had the opportunity to work in particular with Domenico Bartolucci (conducting and Bass Continuo), Giovanni Bucci (composition) and Enzo Stanzani (piano). In 1987 he was admitted to the Conservatorio G.Verdi di Milano for two

Judy Dunaway

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Judy Dunaway (born 1964, in Mississippi) is a conceptual sound artist, avant-garde composer, free improvisor and creator of sound installations who is primarily known for her sound works for latex balloons. Since 1990 she has created over thirty works for balloons as sound conduits and has also made this her main instrument for improvisation. Background Judy Dunaway has presented her compositions, improvisations and installations for balloons throughout North America and Europe at many venues including Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, REDCAT, the SoHo Arts Festival, the Alternative Museum, the Knitting Factory, Performance Space 122, Roulette, Experimental Intermedia, Soundlab, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Bang on a Can Festival, the Guelph Jazz Festival, Podewil, Diapason, Galerie Rachel Haferkamp and ZKM. She has performed as a balloon player in compositions by John Zorn and Roscoe Mitchell, and in improvisations and/or collaborations with the FLUX Quartet, performance artist Annie Sprinkle, Fluxus artist Yasunao Tone, video artist Zev Robinson, visual artists Nancy Davidson and Ken Butler, percussionists John Hollenbeck and Matt Moran, the Illuminati big band, DJ Singe (B

Jukka Immonen

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Jukka Immonen (born 14 April 1978) is a Finnish musician, record producer and composer. Career beginnings Immonen started to develop an interest in music as a teenager when his parents bought him a computer. Although his family was not especially musical, his father knew some people from music industry, and Immonen got advice to get him started. In the late 1990s, he started to work mostly on hip hop music, and soon Immonen and Jan Zapasnik founded a record company Fried Music Oy. The first album produced entirely by Immonen was Punainen tiili by a rapper Asa in 2001. Current work During his career, Jukka Immonen has worked with a number of domestic and foreign artists, such as Jenni Vartiainen, Anna Abreu, Anssi Kela, Mariska & Pahat Sudet and Margaret Berger. Immonen has also composed music for Finnish films and television. He received a Jussi Award for Best Score in a Dome Karukoski film Tyttö sinä olet tähti (2005), and later worked with Karukoski again for his television series Veljet (2010). As a music producer, he received an Emma Award in 2010 for his work with Jenni Vartiainen, Mariska & Pahat Sudet, Anna Puu and Lemonator. Immonen is the co-writer of the Roberto Bellarosa

Jules Buckley

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Julian “Jules” Buckley (born 8 January 1980) is an English conductor, composer, and arranger. Career In 2004, Buckley and producer/manager Chris Wheeler co-founded the Heritage Orchestra, with the intention of featuring an orchestra in a music club setting. In 2008, Buckley became principal guest conductor of the Metropole Orkest, a jazz and eclectic music orchestra based in Hilversum, in the Netherlands, and chief conductor from 2013. In 2020, he became Creative Artist-in-Residence with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and stood in as presenter of the BBC Radio 3 programme Classical Fix, in place of Clemency Burton-Hill, who suffered a brain haemorrhage in January 2020. Collaborations Buckley has worked with the WDR Big Band; José James and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Patrick Watson and the Orchestre National d’Île de France; and arranged and conducted Caro Emerald’s album The Shocking Miss Emerald and Jacob Collier’s album Djesse Vol. 1. Other collaborations have included projects with Gregory Porter; Tori Amos; Markus Stockhausen; Emilie-Claire Barlow; Michael Kiwanuka; Louis Cole; Jonathan Jeremiah; Basement Jaxx; Massive Attack; Arctic Monkeys; John Cale; Paul Weller; Emeli S

Julia Adolphe

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Julia Adolphe (born May 16, 1988 in New York City) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Her works include choral, orchestral, operatic, chamber and art song pieces. Her initial mainstream recognition was in November 2016 at the New York premiere of her viola concerto Unearth, Release, which was co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and the League of American Orchestras. Adolphe has a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and a Master of Music degree in music composition from USC and is pursuing her doctoral degree from the USC Thornton School of Music. She is the niece of composer Bruce Adolphe. Awards, prizes and grants List of compositions Opera Orchestral Choral Chamber Art song References External links *Official website

Julia Gomelskaya

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Julia Gomelskaya (, ; 11 March 19644 December 2016) was a Ukrainian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Gomelskaya graduated from the Simpheropol Tchaikovsky Musical College as a pianist and studied composition under Oleksandr Krasotov at the Odessa National A.V.Nezhdanova Music Academy (Ukraine), where she went on to become a professor of composition. In 1994 Gomelskaya participated at the Gaudeamus Foundation workshop (Amsterdam) with Ton de Leeuw and Nigel Osborne. Later she was awarded a fellowship by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) for postgraduate study under Robert Saxton. In 1996 she received the MMus Degree in Composition with distinction validated from City University of London. She held a PhD in Music Art and composed symphonic, ballet, chamber and vocal music. She was a member of the National Ukrainian Composers’ Union (Національна Спілка Композиторів України) and of the Ukraine section of ISCM. Gomelskaya participated in international festivals in Ukraine and abroad including ISCM World Music Days (Zagreb 2011, Sweden 2009, Switzerland 2004, Hong Kong 2002, Luxembourg 2000), XXVI Festival “Trieste Prima” (Italy, 2012), Festival UNICUM i

Julia Newman

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Julia Newman is an American composer best known for her television scores and her collaborations with her father, film composer Thomas Newman, and television showrunner Ryan Murphy. Early Life and Education Newman was born and raised in Los Angeles, one of three children of film composer Thomas Newman and Ann Marie Zirbes. Newman comes from a family of film composers, including her father, Thomas Newman; her grandfather, Alfred Newman; and uncles Randy Newman and David Newman. Julia Newman was exposed to film composing at an early age, and visited the recording studio named after her grandfather as a child. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, and a Masters Degree from Screen Scoring program at the USC Thornton School of Music in 2020. While at USC, Newman begin scoring short films, before transitioning to feature films and television work. With her father, Thomas Newman, she composed the score for Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, the first of her collaborations with showrunner Ryan Murphy. Newman again collaborated with her father and Ryan Murphy in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award fo

Julia Wolfe

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Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to The Wall Street Journal, Wolfe’s music has “long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are recharged by the repetitive patterns of minimalism and the driving energy of rock”. Her work Anthracite Fields, an oratorio for chorus and instruments, was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. She has also received the Herb Alpert Award (2015) and was named a MacArthur Fellow (2016). Life Born in Philadelphia, Wolfe has a twin brother and an older brother. As a teenager, she learned piano but she only began to study music seriously after taking a musicianship class at the University of Michigan, where she received a BA in music and theater as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. In her early twenties, Wolfe wrote music for an all-female theatre troupe. On a trip to New York, she became friends with composition students Michael Gordon and David Lang, both of whom had recently attended the Yale School of Music and who encouraged her to apply. She went to Yale in 1984 and studied primarily with Martin Bresnick, and she married Michael Gordon the sa

Julian Anderson

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Julian Anderson (born 6 April 1967) is a British composer and teacher of composition. Biography Anderson was born in London. He studied at Westminster School, then with John Lambert at the Royal College of Music, with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge University, privately with Tristan Murail in Paris, and on courses given by Olivier Messiaen, Per Nørgård and György Ligeti. From 2000 to 2004 he was Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music, and from 2004 to 2007, Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is currently Professor of Composition and Composer in Residence at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was Composer-in-Association with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2005 and Daniel R. Lewis Fellowship Composer with the Cleveland Orchestra from 2005 to 2007. From 2002 to the end of the 2010–11 concert season, he was artistic director of the ‘Music of Today’ concert series run by the Philharmonia Orchestra in London. From 2013 to 2016 he was Composer in Residence with Wigmore Hall. Anderson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to music. Music Anderson’s former

Julian Berntzen

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Julian Berntzen (born 2 February 1981) is a Norwegian vocalist, pianist, violinist and composer known for his Magnetic North Orchestra. He is the son of artist and guitarist Lasse Berntzen, and the grandson of actor Rolf Berntzen. Career Berntzen was born in Bergen, and began playing several instruments at an early age. At 17, several of his compositions for string quartet, was performed by members of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He toured in 2001 with musicians from Steiner schools in South Africa and Norway, and was the driving force behind the release of an album with concert recordings from this project. Lately Berntzen has composed music for The Snow Queen, a play by Hans Christian Andersen, put up on Den Nationale Scene, Bergen, in October 2012. Album list ranking * 2003 VG-lista: 4 weeks, No. 12 as best: Waffy Town * 2004 VG-lista: 1 week, No. 22 as best: Pictures (In The House Where She Lives) * 2008 VG-lista: 2 weeks, No. 14 as best: Rocketship Love Honors *Spellemannprisen 2003 for Waffy Town (2003), as this year’s Newcomer Discography *Waffy Town (New Records, 2003) *Pictures (In The House Where She Lives) (Universal Music, 2004) *Rocket Ship Love (Vertigo/Universa

Julian Cochran

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Julian Cochran (born 1974) is an English-born Australian composer. Cochran’s earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by Classical music and folk music of Eastern Europe. The piano works include nineteen preludes, seven large Fantasia works (including Sarmatian Dances, Dagda’s Harp, Scherzo da Fiaba, The Wind Sylph and the Dryad and the three movement work Sul Settimo), five mazurkas, two scherzi, six Romanian Dances, Animation Suite (comprising Tin Sentinel, Clockwork Doll, Wooden Dolls (Matreshki) and Flydian Galop), Animal Scenes (comprising Butterfly Dance, Hedgehog, Goat’s Dance and Tail-chasing Kitten), Toccata & Fire Dance, the impressionistic work Maelstrom, three waltzes titled Valses, a cycle of five works titled Pegasus’ Travels and Dances of Noble Sentiment (comprising Minuet, Courante, Rondeau and Forlana). Related to the piano works are seven pieces published for concert harp. Cochran also wrote orchestral and chamber music including the four-part work for soprano and piano Night Scenes, the trio for violin, cor anglais and concert harp or piano Artemis, the trio for violin, cello and piano Peg

Julián De La Chica

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Julián De La Chica is a Colombian composer, pianist, and record producer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a founding member of the independent record label Irreverence Group Music. He is known for his directed and written film Agatha, which made its debut as official selection for the 37 edition of the Bogota festival Bogotá Film Festival. Early life De La Chica began his musical career in the classical tradition, studying piano at the age of five in his hometown, Manizales. He completed his high school in Manizales and then moved to Europe. He began studies of humanities in Salamanca (Spain), and he also studied philosophy and metaphysics in Madrid. He undertook self-guided studies, in Bad Münstereifel, German Reading classical literature, composition, and the study of dead languages. He has been a Baldwin Piano Company artist since 2009. Career De La Chica was invited by the former President de Colombia and Secretary of the Organization of American States, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo to offer a concert at the Headquarters of the OAS in Washington. In March 2016, De La Chica debuted at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall. Dominican Tenor José Heredia premiered his cycle “Four Short stories

Julian Philips

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Julian Philips is a British composer. Philips’ works have been performed at major music festivals, including The Proms, Tanglewood, Three Choirs Festival, at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre and Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Music Hall and by international artists such as Gerald Finley, Dawn Upshaw, Sir Thomas Allen, the Vertavo String Quartet, the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, the BBC orchestras and the Aurora Orchestra. He has had a number of broadcasts and was the subject of a BBC Wales TV documentary In 2007, Philips was presented with an Honorary Fellowship from the Guildhall School, and subsequently conferred with a Professorship. Early life Philips was born in Wales in 1969, brought up in Warwickshire, studied Music at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, completing his doctorate at Sussex University. Career Philips took up the post of Head of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2004 transforming the Guildhall Composition Department while also establishing a series of flag-ship projects, most notably a Doctoral Composer-in-Residence scheme, and an MA in Opera-Making & Writing, both in association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. For over a decade, P

Julian Wachner

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Julian Wagstaff

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Julian Wagstaff (born 1970) is a Scottish composer of classical music, musical theatre and opera. Born in Edinburgh, Wagstaff originally studied German language and politics, and graduated from the University of Reading in 1993. Wagstaff worked as a translator and interpreter in the German language before turning to music as a profession in the late 1990s. His interest in language and political history continues to be reflected in much of his music and in his theatre libretti. He came to public attention with the musical John Paul Jones (2001), based on the life of the Scots-born sailor and hero of the American Revolution. Premiered in Edinburgh in 2001, this was the first of the composer’s works to reach a significant audience. In it, Wagstaff’s eclectic compositional style (which frequently involves the integration of several different styles within one work) began to emerge. John Paul Jones was revived as a concert version in 2010 in association with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The composer began to study musical composition at the University of Edinburgh with Professor Nigel Osborne in 2001, earning a master’s degree in music in 2002 and a PhD in 2008. Wagstaff’s specific i

Julian Yu

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Julian Jing-Jun Yu (born 2 September 1957) is a Chinese-Australian composer. Biography Julian Yu was born in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, where he later worked. In 1984 he married an Australian and the following year he moved to Australia where he taught at the Queensland Conservatorium. He then moved to Melbourne and studied at La Trobe University for a Master’s degree with Keith Humble. * Reclaimed Prefu (1989-90) * The White Snake (1990), a puppet opera * Reclaimed Prefix II (1991) Recordings of Yu’s work * Classical Allusion: Selected Works by Julian Yu (2000, Move Records, MD 3207, ) * China Wind: Robert Schubert plays the clarinet music of Julian Yu (2012, Move Records, MD 3351, ) * For our Natural World: Julian Yu Works (2012, Nippon Acoustic Records, NARD-5039, ) * 126 Variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (2015, Move Records, MD 3404, ) * Old and Yu: The Clarinet Music of Julian Yu, Volume 2 (2018, Move Records, MD 3424, ) References External links * Julian Yu’s profile at Universal Edition * A film about Julian Yu by Brenton Broadstock

Juliana Hall

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Juliana Hall (born 1958) is an American composer of art songs, monodramas, and vocal chamber music. She has been described by the National Association of Teachers of Singing’s (NATS) Journal of Singing as “one of our country’s most able and prolific art song composers for almost three decades” and, in discussing her 1989 song cycle Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush, the journal went on to assert that “Even at this very early stage in her life and career, Hall knew something about crafting music whose beauty could enhance the text at hand without drawing attention away from that text. This is masterful writing in every respect.” Early life Juliana Hall was born in Huntington, West Virginia, in 1958 and grew up across the river in Chesapeake, Ohio. Her mother was a pianist and began teaching Juliana piano when she was six years old. She was active in the family church, where she played, sang, and wrote her first composition. Her grandparents also provided inspiration, exposing Juliana to folk music and poetry. Hall began her professional studies at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a piano major (studying with Jeanne Kirstein). Still, her work in a composition for

Juliane Klein

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Juliane Klein (born 3 November 1966) is a German composer and publishing director . Life Born in Berlin, Klein began studying clarinet, piano, musical composition and improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin as a young student in 1978 and was a lecturer for composition at the same university from 1989 to 1992. Together with Thomas Bruns, she founded the “Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin” in 1987, which she directed until 1991. From 1993 to 1997 she continued her postgraduate studies with Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. In 1999 she founded the music publishing house “Edition Juliane Klein”. As a composer, she received residency scholarships at the Pushkinskaya Desyat St. Petersburg (1995), the Cité internationale des arts (1997), in (2001), in the artists’ courtyard “Die Höge” (2002), and at the Rheinsberg Music Academy (2003) and the Villa Massimo (“Casa Baldi”), Rome (2004). In 2006 she was awarded the Förderungspreis Musik of the Kunstpreis Berlin. In 2010 Klein opened her own Christian Science practice in Berlin. Compositional work Klein’s catalogue includes works for music theatre, solo pieces, songs, and chamber and orchestral music, but also composit

Julien Jabre

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Julien Jabre (born November 1976) is a French-Lebanese electronic music composer, producer, and audio engineer. Specializing in house music, he is associated with the French house. Biography During the mid-’90s, three French house music pioneers, DJ Deep, DJ Gregory, and Alex from Tokyo, hosted a radio show dedicated to electronic music on the Parisian station FG. A fan of the show A Deep Groove, Julien Jabre met them in 1994 through a friend who was interning at the radio. He made his DJ debut during a guest appearance by DJ Gregory, who entrusted him with the decks for the first time. Over the next two years, he frequently appeared on the radio. The success of Fantom was soon followed by “The Deep,” another collaboration, this time with DJ Deep, and then Soha, a New York continuation of his partnership with Gregory. Simultaneously, he began releasing solo tracks on Basic Recordings, starting with “Jungle” In the early 2000s, Julien Jabre started gaining recognition with tracks like “Voodance” and “Yalopa”. At the time, he distanced himself from the scene and DJing. His first full-length release, released in 2003, was a compilation The Disco-Tech of Julien Jabre. This selection wa

Juliet Palmer

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Juliet Palmer is a contemporary composer living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Career Juliet Kiri Palmer was born in New Zealand in 1967, where she completed a Masters of Music in performance, composition, and time-based art at the University of Auckland. She moved to New York City in 1990 to work with interdisciplinary pioneer Meredith Monk and obtained her PhD at Princeton University in 1999. Now living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she is an active composer and interdisciplinary artist. Her compositions cover a wide range from chamber music and dance theatre to orchestral and opera. Palmer’s music has been featured in festivals in US, UK, New Zealand, Netherlands, Japan, Italy, France, Austria and Canada. Her work has been broadcast widely, including radio networks in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, US, Canada and Japan. A detailed catalogue of her work, including streaming audio and video samples may be found at both the Centre for New Zealand Music and the Canadian Music Centre websites. Further reading *Steenhuisen, Paul. “Interview with Juliet Palmer”. In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2009. References External links * SOUNZ

Julius Dobos

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Gyula Julius Dobos (born in Budapest, Hungary) is a composer, synthesist and music producer, best known for his electronic and orchestral music releases worldwide, and for his film scores and music used in major motion pictures and television programs in Europe and in the United States. With Mountain Flying, his most popular album up to date, Dobos became the first Hungarian composer of a large-scale orchestral-choral-electronic music project to receive international attention. With eleven album releases, including a platinum album, countless film- and television scores, Dobos is one of the prominent living electronic music composers with a Central European origin. Dobos’ distinct musical style is characterized by emotionally deep, haunting melodies and monumental instrumentation, unique sound textures and the extensive use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments. Although classically trained, the composer generally disregards the formal rules of music composition. After winning several district piano competitions, his interest turned towards composition. It was in these pre-teen years, when his father introduced him to the 70’s and 80’s electronic music. The young

Juls Scherle

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Juls Scherle is a German-raised composer based in Los Angeles. Early life Scherle grew up in a musical family. They have been classically trained since age six. Their father is a lute and guitar builder. Their earliest memories are them hammering away at their family’s home piano. The film The Fifth Element opened up their imagination to writing music for film. Career Scherle started writing music for the TV series, Mr. Robot, and later furthered to other productions like American Horror Story and Scream Queens (2015). They have also been credited for the drama series Pause and Princess of the Row, which The Independent Critic praised their score as “capturing all the right moments of grit and wonder, truth and love.” They have also worked in many films including Heart of Champions, Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche, Missing (2023), and Luden. Awards *SoCal Film Award: Best Score for Missing (2024) *Los Angeles Film Award: Best Score for Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2023) *Oniros Film Award: Best Original Soundtrack for Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2023) *Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival Award: Best Score for Princess of the Row (2022) *D

Jun Ishikawa (composer)

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, sometimes known as Mushio Funazawa, is a Japanese composer. Along with Hirokazu Ando, Ishikawa is best known for composing for the Kirby video game series. He left series studio HAL Laboratory in 2023 but has continued to compose for Kirby games. Early life Ishikawa started taking piano lessons aged 3-4, but felt he could never become good at it despite practice. Later, he discovered artists such as Paul Mauriat, Isao Tomita, Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Brian Eno. He also purchased a Roland SH-2, as he wanted fellow students to get into Tomita’s music, but the synth was the cheapest he could afford. Later he attended Nihon University’s College of Art, studying film music. As a student, he gained experience with recording and mixing for a theater, while occasionally writing what he considered to be poor pieces of music. HAL Laboratory Ishikawa worked at two companies prior to joining HAL Laboratory. He eventually found an advertisement for a sound creator job at HAL; although he had not previously heard of this profession before, he decided to apply for it, which led to him joining in 1990. His first work was composing one track and sound effects for Uchuu Keibitai SDF,

Jun Miyake

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Jun Miyake (Japanese: Hepburn: , January 7, 1958, in Kyoto) is a Japanese composer. His music (e.g., the songs “Lilies in the Valley” and “The Here and After”) was used in the film Pina, nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature in January 2012. He has also been awarded by the German critic’s award, Der Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, as Best Album of the Year for his last three albums, Stolen from Strangers, Lost Memory Theatre act-1, and Lost Memory Theatre act-2. Miyake has now released 17 solo albums, and has worked on films, documentaries, dances, advertisement, and theatre pieces. His main instruments include the trumpet, flugelhorn, melodica, piano, keyboard, fender rhodes, and programming. Career Miyake was discovered by Japanese jazz trumpeter Terumasa Hino. He studied at Berklee College of Music from 1976 to 1981; in 1981, he won the prize at the Massachusetts Artist Foundation award for his composition. After returning to Tokyo, he became a working musician, composer, and producer. In 1983, he released his first album “June Night Love”, which includes two tracks used in the TDK TV commercial starring Andy Warhol. He would work on over 3,000 T

Jun Yamaguchi

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is a Japanese composer ISCM World Music Days 2001 Yokohama (2001, selection) and the 72nd Japan Music Competition (2003, finalist). In July 2001, he came to the United States under a grant from the Asian Cultural Council and remained in New York City until June 2002. In April 2006 he matriculated in the Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University (science of sound culture studies in acoustic design program) and studied with Shigenobu Nakamura. He received a M.A. in Design, Kyushu University in March 2008. Main works *Incarnation No.2 for Organ (1992) *Density of the breezing air No.1 for Flute, Clarinet, Trombone, Vibraphone and Piano (1995) *Incarnation No.4 for Piano (1996) *Incarnation No.5 for Trumpet player (1996) *SACRIFICE for 2 Violins (1996) *Density of the breezing air No.2 for Tenor Saxophone, Violin, Percussion, and Piano (1996) *A Garden with Turning Breezes No.1 for Shō and 6 players (1997) *String quartet No.1 (1997) *Morphogenesis No.1 (Dance(s) No.1) for Soprano and Sampling Sound (1998) *Dance(s) No.2 for Trombone and Contrabass (1998) *Dance(s) No.3 foe Soprano and Strings ensemble (1998–1999) *Interlude / the prayer and fetal movement - rest on the basis of Req

Jung Jae-hyung

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Jung Jae-hyung (; born January 12, 1970) is a South Korean pop singer-songwriter, pianist and film music composer. Currently, his agency is the Antenna. Career 1995–2007: Debut with band Basis and early solo activities Jung Jae-hyung was born in Seoul and graduated from Hanyang University’s College of Music, with a major in composition. Before his debut, he was not affected by any kind of pop music and was immersed only in classical music. In 1996, the two female members of Basis left the group after releasing their second album to study abroad. Jung continued alone as Basis and released the third album in 1997. Jung went to France to attend École Normale de Musique de Paris. During his stay in Paris, he specialized in film music and composition and participated in four film productions in South Korea. On October 18, 2002, Jung released an OST album containing 12 soundtracks he composed for the film ‘Addicted’. In the same year, Jung released his second solo album, ‘Second Sound’ while studying in France. Jung also participated as a musician for Lee So-ra’s 6th album, Eyebrow Moon. In 2005, Jung composed the OSTs for the film Princess Aurora. On June 21, 2006, Jung was invited by t

Jung Jae-il

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Jung Jae-il (,; born May 7, 1982) is a South Korean composer known for writing the scores of the 2019 Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the Netflix television series Squid Game, which earned him a nomination for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music at the 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Biography Jung Jae-il was three years old when he first played piano, and he picked up the guitar at nine. When he was 13, he posted an ad in the magazine Hot Music, “to find bass drums and vocals to do a style of music that is similar to the British heavy metal band Carcass”. Jung graduated from . He released his first solo album, Tear Flower (눈물꽃), in 2003. Jung performed on the piano during the April 2018 inter-Korean summit. In 2021, he won the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for Best Score in a TV Show for Squid Game. Partial discography Studio albums * Tear Flower (눈물꽃) (2003) Film Television Video games Awards and nominations References External links * *

Junpei Fujita

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is a Japanese arranger and composer, and a founding member of Elements Garden. His work includes composition and arrangement of some tracks of singles and albums of Nana Mizuki He also arranged music from the PC version of the visual novel Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka. He married singer Suara in 2009. Filmography Anime Video games References External links *Junpei Fujita profile at Elements Garden / Aria Music * * *Junpei Fujita profile at Oricon *Junpei Fujita at Video Game Music Database

Juraj Filas

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Juraj Filas (5 March 1955 – 31 December 2021) was a Slovak composer. His work included more than 100 compositions: symphonies, cantatas, numerous compositions for chamber ensemble, as well as the prize-winning TV opera Memento Mori; a concerto grosso Copernicus; the opera Jane Eyre (2010); The Wisdom of the Wise Man, a cantata for choir, cello and organ; The Song of Solomon, a cantata for soli, choir and orchestra; and the requiem Oratio Spei, which was dedicated to the victims of terrorism. Education Filas graduated from the Prague Conservatory in 1976 in voice and composition, and received a diploma in composition in 1981 from professors Jan Zdeněk Bartoš and Jiří Pauer. Career His compositions have been performed by well known soloists including Joseph Alessi, principal trombone in the New York Philharmonic, Otto Sauter, international piccolo trumpet soloist, and ensembles and orchestras in Europe and in the U.S. – including the Beethovenfest in Bonn, Germany, at the Prague Spring Festival, by the ORF, Vienna, in the Tonhalle of Zurich, as well as in London, Glasgow, St. Gallen, Geneva, Fulda, Paris, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Mexico City, and at Carnegie Hall, New York, and by t

Jürg Hanselmann

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Jürg Hanselmann (born 23 September 1960) is a Swiss-Liechtensteiner pianist, composer and music educator. He teaches piano and composition at the Sargans Cantonal School. Life Born in Grabs, Hanselmann grew up in Schaan (Principality of Liechtenstein) and received his first piano lessons from Regina Enzenhofer at the Liechtenstein Music School in Vaduz. His first compositions date back to his early youth. At the age of 17, he was a student of Albert Schneeberger and Kristina Steinegger at the Bern Conservatory, today’s University of Music and Performing Arts. There, he obtained the soloist diploma “with distinction”. His further education led him to London to the Hungarian pianist Louis Kentner and to Frankfurt to the Russian pianist Irina Lein-Edelstein. From 1983, he completed a three-year course in composition and analysis in Berne with Sándor Veress, who was a student of Zoltán Kodály and had studied piano with Béla Bartók. He also attended master classes with Mieczysław Horszowski and the Beaux Arts Trio. His pianistic concert activities have taken Hanselmann to Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Holland, Italy and several times to the USA. In his concert activ

Jüri Reinvere

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Jüri Reinvere (born December 2, 1971, in Tallinn) is an Estonian composer, poet and essayist who has been living in Germany since 2005. Jüri Reinvere’s polystylistic art does not follow any dogmas of material nor technique. It is often devoted to existential themes of history, nature, politics and the poetics of human perception. His poetry and music theatre works are based on precise psychological observation and are often accompanied by subtle theological allusions. His essays in Postimees and in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung take part in debates on current cultural and political affairs and have been awarded with prizes for journalism in Estonia. His music has received international attention through conductors such as Andris Nelsons, Paavo Järvi, Franz Welser-Möst, Pablo Heras-Casado, Juraj Valcuha or Pietari Inkinen and through orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Life Jüri Reinvere grew up in Tallinn during the Soviet occupation. He attended the Tallinn Music High School from 1979 to 1990. His first composition teacher was Lepo Sumera. The pianistic training he receive

Juri Seo

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Juri Seo (; born December 31, 1981) is a South Korean composer. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, she has released several albums, two of which were with Innova Recordings. She is also Professor at the Princeton University Department of Music. Biography Juri Seo was born on December 31, 1981 in South Korea. She studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Ivan Fedele, and obtained her bachelor of arts degree at Yonsei University and her master of music and doctor of musical arts degrees at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is Professor of Music at the Princeton University Department of Music. She was awarded an American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in 2014. She released two albums with Innova Recordings: Mostly Piano (2017) and Respiri (2019). Andrew Stock of I Care If You Listen said that the latter “illuminates some of her core aesthetic preoccupations through a trio of key works”. In 2021, she was awarded an Andrew Imbrie Award in Music in 2021. She released another album Toy Store, a collaboration with violinist Jinjoo Cho, through Carrier Records on May 5, 2024. She performed the main titular piece for Wonkak Kim and Eunhye Grace Cho

Jussifer

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Jussi Ilmari Karvinen (born 1984), better known as Jussifer, is a Finnish-American record producer, songwriter and musician. He has worked with Kelly Clarkson, Bebe Rexha, JoJo, Alma and Dinah Jane. He also penned a track for the Spanish animated film Klaus titled “Invisible”, which earned him a nomination at the 34th Goya Awards. Production discography References

Justin Dello Joio

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Justin Dello Joio (born October 18, 1955) is an American composer and the fifth-generation composer in the Dello Joio family. Early life and education Dello Joio completed his formal education at the Juilliard School, earning a Bachelor’s, Master’s, and a Doctoral degree in composition where he studied with Vincent Persichetti, Roger Sessions, and David Diamond. During his years at Juilliard, he was honored with an annual composition award. Life and career Dello Joio has worked as a composer throughout his adult life. He was honored with the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Music in 2004, and the American Academy’s Virgil Thompson Award for his opera Blue Mountain. His music, although not part of the American Neo Romantic style, is noted for its communicative emotional content, structural clarity and colorful orchestration, and his early influences include music of composers Jacob Druckman and Witold Lutosławski. Dello Joio recent Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Oceans Apart was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Garrick Ohlsson, and premiered with Ohlsson and Alan Gilbert conducting the Boston Symphony in Symphony Hall in January 2023. His music has be

Justin Prabhakaran

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Justin Prabhakaran (born 10 June 1986) is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer. He has scored music mostly for Tamil films and also a few Malayalam and Telugu films besides two Hindi films. He made his debut as a film composer in the 2014 Tamil film Pannaiyarum Padminiyum. Early and personal life Prabhakaran was born in Madurai. From childhood, he was interested in music. He was introduced to church music at an early age and groomed to become a keyboard player. He participated in a TV show and won the award for his own composition. He is proficient in playing keyboard and guitar. During a film shoot at the American College, Madurai in 2003–2006, where he studied B.Sc. Zoology, he happened to meet cinematographer Gopi Krishna, who advised him to study sound engineering from M.G.R. Government Film and Television Training Institute, Tharamani, Chennai. Prabhakaran married Caroline Susannah on 5 October 2022. Career Prabhakaran joined music composer Harris Jayaraj as an assistant sound engineer and worked for him for years. He debuted in film with Pannaiyarum Padminiyum (2014). - Gatta Kusthi Tamil - rowspan=“5” 2023 Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakkum Malayalam - Raavana Kottam rowspan

Justina Lee Brown

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Justina Ogunlolu (born 23 July 1984), known professionally as Justina Lee Brown, is a Nigerian Afro, funk, soul, blues, rock and jazz singer-songwriter. She was the first runner-up in the Nokia First Chance reality singing competition in 2006. Brown won the Swiss Blues Challenge in 2019, made it to the semi-finals of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee (U.S.) in 2020, and won second place for Switzerland at the European Blues Challenge in Malmö, Sweden, in 2022. She was nominated for the Swiss Blues Awards 2022 and was the opening act for Zucchero at the Sierre Blues Festival in Sierre, Switzerland, the same year. In 2024, she won the Swiss Blues Awards, making history as the first African to do so. Early life Justina Lee Brown was born in the streets of Ajegunle neighborhood of , Lagos, Nigeria, to a Yoruba father and an Igbo mother. Her mother had Justina at age seventeen and Justina lived with her mother on the streets of Lagos where her mother sold water sachets in the market. She had a tough start to life and discovered music as a result of being bored. She attended Unity primary school in Ajegunla. While growing up, she was heavily influenced by Anita Bake

Kan (musician)

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, known by his stage name Kan (commonly stylized as KAN), was a Japanese singer-songwriter. In 1983, he joined his first band, which was called Annette, before going solo in 1984. Kan wrote the background music for a 1986 film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, and started his major recording career the following year. He is best known for the chart-topping hit “Ai wa Katsu”, released as a single in 1990. It sold over 2 million copies and won the 33rd Japan Record Award, bringing the artist into prominence. Subsequently, he spawned five top-ten singles and four top-ten albums on the Japanese record chart during the first half of the 1990s. As of 2010, Kan had released 33 singles and 15 studio albums. According to the Oricon, he sold over 4.6 million copies of albums and singles in his home country. Kan died of Meckel’s diverticulum cancer on November 12, 2023, at the age of 61. Discography Singles Albums ;Studio albums ;Live albums ;Compilation albums References External links *

Kanako Abe

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Kanako Abe (; born 23 March 1973 in Ōsaka, Ōsaka prefecture) is a Japanese conductor, composer and pianist. Based in The Hague, Netherlands, she has performed works by contemporary composers, including Tōru Takemitsu, Michaël Levinas, Régis Campo and Bushra El-Turk. Life and career Abe was born in Osaka in 1973 and received piano lessons from her mother from an early age. She attended music classes at Sōai University in Osaka, attended a high school affiliated with the music faculty of the Tokyo University of the Arts, and eventually studied composition at that university. This was followed by studies at the Paris Conservatory, which she completed in the seven subjects of harmony and harmony theory, counterpoint, fugue, instrumentation, composition analysis, instrumental accompaniment and conducting. Abe studied with renowned musicians, including composition with Masayuki Nagatomi, piano with Jean Körner, instrumentation with Marc-André Dalbavie, and conducting with János Fürst and Péter Eötvös. In 2005 she founded the music ensemble Multilatérale in Paris and worked as the ensemble’s musical director. In 2006 she attended the 50th Venice Biennale, where she conducted a performance

Kareem Roustom

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Kareem Roustom () is a Syrian-American composer, music director, and university teacher, noted mainly for his compositions of contemporary classical music, film scores and his collaboration with pop music artists. Among other musical ensembles, his compositions have been performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and at festivals in the U.S., the Middle East and in Europe. Biography Roustom was born in 1971 in Damascus to an American mother and a Syrian father and moved with his family to the U.S. as a teenager. He first attended the Northeastern University program in electrical engineering in 1989 and later earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music Business and Music Performance from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in 1993. From 2004 to 2006, Roustom continued with an M.A. in Ethnomusicology and Composition at Tufts University. His thesis dealt with oud improvisations of notable Egyptian composer and musician Riad Al Sunbati. Since September 2017, Roustom is Professor of the Practice at the music department of Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches orchestration, music notation, Music of t

Karel van Steenhoven

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Karel van Steenhoven (born November 1958 in Voorburg) is a Dutch recorder player and composer. Biography Starting with a green plastic instrument when he was four years old, Steenhoven began to study recorder with a guitar and mandolin teacher. Later, he studied recorder with Kees Boeke at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. After completing his graduate recital in 1983, he studied composition with Robert Heppener and Tristan Keuris. Career He was a founding member of the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet in 1978, along with Daniël Brüggen, Bertho Driever and Paul Leenhouts. Steenhoven has also worked with the Musica Antiqua Köln, The Academy of Ancient Music, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Steenhoven was appointed professor of recorder at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe in 1995, Visiting International Professor at the Guildhall School in 2013, and a visiting professor at other schools. He was a jury member at the International Moeck Recorder Competition in 1997, the American Recorder Society Composition Contest in 2006, and the European Recorder Teachers’ Association (ERTA) Composition Competition in 2011. He is currently working with Mo

Karen P. Thomas

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Karen P. Thomas (born 1957), composer and conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Seattle Pro Musica and Director of Music at University Unitarian Church. With Seattle Pro Musica she has produced six CD recordings, and has received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the ASCAP-Chorus America Award for Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music. Ms. Thomas has guest conducted at international festivals in Europe and North America, and has served on the boards of the American Choral Director’s Association for Washington State, the Conductor’s Guild, the League-ISCM and the International Alliance for Women in Music. Ms. Thomas is a recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and ASCAP, among others. Her compositions have been awarded prizes in various competitions, and her commissions include works for the Grand Jubilee 2000 in Rome, the American Guild of Organists, and the Goodwill Arts Festival. Her compositions are regularly performed internationally, by groups such as The Hilliard Ensemble, and have been praised as “superb work of the utmost sensitivity and beauty.” H

Karen Tanaka

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Karen Tanaka (born April 7, 1961) is a Japanese composer. Biography Karen Tanaka was born in Tokyo where she started piano and composition lessons as a child. After studying composition with Akira Miyoshi and piano with Nobuko Amada at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, she moved to Paris in 1986 with the aid of a French Government Scholarship to study with Tristan Murail and work at IRCAM as an intern. In 1987, she was awarded the Gaudeamus International Composers Award at the International Music Week in Amsterdam. She studied with Luciano Berio in Florence in 1990–91 with funds from the Nadia Boulanger Foundation and a Japanese Government Scholarship. In 1996, she received the Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center. In 1998, she was appointed as Co-Artistic Director of the Yatsugatake Kogen Music Festival, previously directed by Toru Takemitsu. In 2005, she was awarded the Bekku Prize. In 2024, Karen Tanaka was appointed Composer-in-Association at Malmö Live Concert Hall & Malmö Symphony Orchestra for the 2025–27 seasons. In 2012, Tanaka was selected as a fellow of the Sundance Institute’s Composers Lab for Feature Film where she was mentored by Hollywoo

Karin Leitner

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Karin Leitner (born 1972) is an Austrian flautist and composer. She has played flute and piccolo with the orchestras of the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Leitner studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Wolfgang Schulz and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Robert Aitken. She tours internationally with solo concerts as well as chamber music concerts. Leitner gives chamber music workshops in Ireland, Northern Ireland, China, Iran, and South Africa. In 2013, she toured South Africa playing the Suite for solo flute, Op. 57, by Egon Wellesz. Virtuosity on flute Leitner has been described by one reviewer as having “mastery of clarity and consistency” and “a strong clear tone through all three octaves of the instrument … flute players … should marvel at her breath control”. and “beautiful tone and sensitive phrasing” (“schönem Ton und einfuhlsamer Phrasierung”). Her “breath control was exemplary, intonation secure, and finger work as agile as anything the composer could have demanded”. Instruments Leitner plays a wooden flute. She also composes music for flute, harp and orchestra. * 2009 Earthmagic (flute, harp and orchestra

Karin Rehnqvist

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Karin Rehnqvist (born 21 August 1957) is a Swedish composer and conductor of classical music. She composes chamber music, orchestral works, music for the stage, and particularly vocal music, incorporating elements of folk music such as the vocal technique of Kulning. In 2009 she was appointed the first female professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Career Rehnqvist was born in Stockholm and grew up in Nybro. It was performed in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam by the Dutch Radio Choir and the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gijs Leenaars. References External links * Karin Rehnqvist Official Website * Karin Rehnqvist chor.com * Music of Today: Karin Rehnqvist Philharmonia Orchestra 27 February 2014 * * Karin Rehnqvist Föreningen svenska tonsättare * Karin Rehnqvist / Swedish Composer Columbia University World Leaders Forum * Karin Rehnqvist Furore-Verlag

Karl Gottfried Brunotte

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Karl Gottfried Brunotte (born 2 June 1958 in Frankfurt) is a German composer and music philosopher, particularly noted for his contributions to church music. Life Brunotte studied music sociology, music psychology, ancient languages, aesthetics, piano, organ, harpsichord, violin, viola, recorder, singing, conducting, and musical composition, as well as electronic music, with (amongst others) Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, Hans Peter Haller, Gottfried Michael Koenig, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1974 to 1977 he held the position of Cantor at the Christuskirche in Bad Homburg, where he later was a lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst (1982–1985). From 1980 to 1986 he was Senior Lecturer at the International Vacation Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, and a member of the Darmstadt Institute for Music and Musical Education. In the 1984–85 year he was Rapporteur für Ernste Musik at the Landsmusikrat Hessen. Once a Jesuit novice, in 1987 he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since 1993 he has worked at the University of Frankfurt in the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik, as well as at the Fachhochschule F

Karlheinz Essl Jr.

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Karlheinz Essl Jr. (born is an Austrian composer, sound artist, electronic performer, music curator, and composition professor. He is the eldest son of , an entrepreneur and art collector. Biography Essl was born in Vienna. His studies at the University of Music in Vienna included composition under Friedrich Cerha, electroacoustic music under Dieter Kaufmann, and double bass. At the University of Vienna he studied musicology and wrote his doctoral thesis on (1989). Essl’s formative years were marked by an early exposure to classical music theory, as well as an academic engagement with serialism and modern music technologies. His interest in blending traditional musical practices with new technologies led him to the field of electronic music, where he would develop a reputation for innovation and experimentation. From 1992 to 2016, he was the music curator of the in Klosterneuburg, near Vienna. Between 1995 and 2006, he taught algorithmic composition at the Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology for the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance in Linz, Austria. Music Essl’s work with computers (with emphases on algorithmic composition and generative music)

Kārlis Lācis

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Kārlis Lācis (born September 21, 1977) is a Latvian contemporary composer. Along with the scores for theatre productions, movies, and musical arrangements, a large part of his work is dedicated to vocal and choral music, symphonic, and instrumental compositions, including “Te Deum” (2014) with the State Choir Latvija, and double concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra “42.195” (2014) with Liepaja symphony orchestra. “Rorate coeli” (2014) for soprano, saxophone and organ and the first symphony “Via Crucis” premiered on April 3, 2015 with Latvian National symphony orchestra. Kārlis was one of the jury members for 2014 World choir games while Latvian capital Riga was the European capital of culture. His creative contribution includes musicals staged in Liepāja theatre and Dailes theatre “Pūt vējiņi” (2011) and “Oņēgins” (2013), both rewarded with the highest annual theater award for the best music author. Upcoming premieres will include “Waltz for double-bass and string quartet” (2017) - collaboration with famous Latvian musicians Vineta Sareika (violin), Gunārs Upatnieks (double - bass) and their colleagues from Berlin Philharmonic orchestra during the festival “Sensus " in Liepāja on

Karmella Tsepkolenko

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Karmella Tsepkolenko (; born 20 February 1955) is a Ukrainian author and composer. Biography Karmella Tsepkolenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She studied composition from 1973-79 at the Pyotr Stoliarsky Special Music School in Odessa under Aleksandr Kogan and piano under Grigory Buchynsky and Yelena Pannikova. She continued her studies at the Odessa State A.V. Nezhdanova Music Academy with Aleksandr Krasotov for composition and Lyudmyla Ginzburg for piano. After completing her studies, she took a position teaching composition at the Odessa State A.V. Nezhdanova Music Academy in 1980. She entered the PhD program at Moscow Pedagogic University, where she studied under Gennady Tsypin and graduated in 1990. Tsepkolenko’s music has been performed in Europe, Japan and the United States. She has served as artistic director of the Two Days and Two Nights of New Music festival in Odessa, which she founded in 1995, and also served terms as president of the Association New Music in Odessa and the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) in Ukraine. Tsepkolenko has written professional articles on music and methods of teaching music. In 1990 she co-authored the book Artistic Games

Karol Beffa

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Karol Beffa, born on in Paris, is a French composer and pianist. Biography Beffa is the son of French-Swiss linguist and ethnologist Marie-Lise Beffa and French linguist , and the nephew of industrialist Jean-Louis Beffa. He studied at École normale supérieure, then economics at ENSAE Paris and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Beffa studied harmony, counterpoint, fugue, music theory, improvisation and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris, France’s premier higher musical education institution, where he won eight first prizes. He taught at Paris-Sorbonne University and at École polytechnique. He wrote his PhD (2003) on György Ligeti’s Etudes for piano. Since 2004, he has been an associate professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. As a composer, his catalogue consists of several hundred works which have been performed in countries including China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States by ensembles that include the Maîtrise de Radio France, , Cambridge Voices, Ensemble Notabu, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, and Deutsche Ka

Karola Obermueller

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Karola Obermueller (born 21 March 1977, Darmstadt) is a German composer and teacher. Life Obermueller began her training at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. She studied composition with of the Meistersinger-Konservatorium and the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, Theo Brandmüller of the Hochschule für Musik Saar, and Adriana Hölszky of the Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2010, she completed a doctorate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she studied with Mario Davidovsky, Bernard Rands, Julian Anderson, Chaya Czernowin, Magnus Lindberg, and Harrison Birtwistle. She has taught at Wellesley College and the Young Composers Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Since 2010, Obermueller has been one of the directors of the composition program at the University of New Mexico. A portrait CD of hers was released as part of the WERGO Contemporary Music Edition by the German Music Council. as well as awards and commissions from the Fromm Foundation commission, the ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and the Bohemians New York Musicians Club. She did a residency at the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venedig. Obermueller frequently collaborates with her husband, American composer, Pe

Kasia Glowicka

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Kasia Glowicka (born Katarzyna Głowicka, October 12, 1979), also known as Katarina Glowicka, is a Polish composer and lecturer of computer music at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. Her body of musical work encompasses compositions for opera, theater, ballet and film. As a playwright, she focuses her work on current social issues. As a composer, her work spans a range of styles in experimental, minimalism, Avant-garde, art music and contemporary classical music genres, written for orchestra, small ensembles, or solos and often accompanied by electronic music. In 2004 she married composer Henry Vega and they reside in the Netherlands. They are founding directors of the Artek Foundation and its recording label, ARTEKsounds. Glowicka’s collaborations include works with the Dutch symphony orchestra Het Balletorkest, an affiliate of Het Nationale Ballet, plus Ensemble Recherche and Ties Mellema. Her scores are published by the Dutch institute Donemus. Early life and education Glowicka was born in Oleśnica. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Wrocław in 2001 after studying with the composer Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil. During 2000 she held an internship with Italian composer Iv

Kate Gentile

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Kate Gentile is an American drummer, composer, and record label executive. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, her albums include Mannequins (2017), Biomei.i, and Find Letter X (both 2023). She also collaborates with pianist Matt Mitchell, with whom she co-founded Obliquity Records. Biography Gentile came from Buffalo, New York, where she recalls that during high school, she did not have a lot of exposure to music because she “was busy cramming for my music school auditions”. After moving to Toronto after her marriage to a Canadian, she had to work with rock and metal bands because she could not legally work in the country, before moving to Brooklyn. it was ranked #50 in the 2017 National Public Radio Music Jazz Critics Poll. In 2023, she released another album, Biomei.i. Will Layman of PopMatters characterized Gentile as “a power drummer, though she is always thinking orchestrally, arguably a modern Elvin Jones or Tony Williams”. Layman called their partnership is “central to the chemistry” of their duo. She also leads the band Find Letter X, She is also leader of jazz/noise rock trio Secret People. Discography References

Kate Moore (composer)

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Kate Moore (born 1979) is an Australian composer currently based in the Netherlands. Moore was born in Oxfordshire, England, and has studied with Australian composers Larry Sitsky, Jim Cotter, and Michael Smetanin; Dutch composers Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding, Diderik Wagenaar and Gilius van Bergeijk; and attended summer schools including Bang on a Can hosted by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon and Tanglewood hosted by John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi and Helen Grime. In 2022 Moore was awarded the Gieskes-Strijbis Podiumprijs. In June 2017, Moore became the first woman to win the Matthijs Vermeulen Award from the Netherlands Funds for the Performing Arts FPK for her work The Dam, in its version for British ensemble Icebreaker. List of works Major works * Frieda’s Reis, Cello Concerto (2023) Commissioned by the Amsterdam Cello Biennale * Piano Concerto (2019) Commissioned by Willoughby Symphony Orchestra for soloist Vivian Choi * Space Junk (2019) Commissioned by ASKO Schoenberg for the World Minimal Music Festival * Bosch Requiem: Lux Aeterna (2015–2018) Commissioned by November Music, Bach Festival Dordrecht, Temko * Cassini Suite (2015–2017) Commissioned and perform

Kate Soper (composer)

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Kate Soper (born 1981) is a composer and vocalist. She was a recent American Academy in Rome fellow and Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012–13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her chamber opera, Ipsa Dixit. Style In addition to composing, Soper performs frequently as a new music soprano in her own works and the works of others, and many of her vocal works were developed with herself in mind as performer. Her compositional style has been deemed “exquisitely quirky” with “seamless commingling of not only lines but of actual instrumentation and fingering with another player.” Commissions Recent commissions for work as a performer/composer include a 2012 Guggenheim fellowship for a one-act opera with original libretto, Here Be Sirens; a Koussevitsky Commission for a music theatre work performed with Alarm Will Sound; and now is forever for soprano and orchestra from the American Composers Orchestra. Wet Ink Since 2006, Soper has served as a co-director and vocalist for Wet Ink, a New York-based new music ensemble founded in 1998 and dedicated to the presentation of programs of new music, with a focus on cr

Kate Whitley

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Kate Whitley (born 1989) is an English composer, comedian and pianist. Career She is classically trained and studied music at King’s College, Cambridge. Her music is recorded by NMC Recordings and her debut release, I am, I say was released in 2017. It was described as “unpretentious and appealingly vigorous music” and “an excellent introduction to her sonic world”. She won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Special Award in 2014. Her music has been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and performed as part of the BBC Proms. In 2017, Whitley was commissioned by Radio 3 to compose a piece for International Women’s Day, setting the words of Malala Yousafzai’s 2013 speech to the UN. The piece, called Speak Out, was premiered on 8 March 2017 in the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Chorus of Wales alongside the children’s choir Cor y Cwm, conducted by Xian Zhang. In July 2022 a new oratorio, Our Future In Your Hands was performed at the Buxton Festival, with an orchestra of young musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music and a choir drawn from local schools. The text, by Laura Attridge, voices climate change concerns from the point of view of young people.

Katherine Balch

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Katherine Elise Balch and she won an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. She was the California Symphony Young American Composer-in-Residence from 2017 to 2020 (the first woman to hold the position), as well as Young Concert Artists’ William B. Butz Composition Chair from 2017 to 2019. In May 2019, she debuted her concerto Artifacts at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California; San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman said of the concerto that “she’s like some kind of musical Thomas Edison—you can just hear her tinkering around in her workshop, putting together new sounds and textural ideas”. Balch won the American Academy in Rome’s 2020 Elliott Carter Rome Prize. She composed “Apartment Sounds” for Yvonne Lam’s 2023 album Watch Over Us; American Record Guide called Balch “welcome purveyor of timbral variety in Apartment Sounds, as the recorded materials included in this short piece are relatively refreshing. Her piece Forgetting was performed at the Song Company’s March 2024 Superbloom production at the Sydney Opera House; Peter McCallum of WAtoday said it “began with stopped utterances and sounds in a state of almost silent inarticulateness and hes

Katherine Dienes

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Katherine Dienes also known as Katherine Dienes-Williams (born in Wellington, 10 January 1970) is a New Zealand-born organist, conductor and composer. In January 2026 it was announced that she was stepping down from her role as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral, having been appointed Director of Music at Winchester Cathedral with effect from September. At Guildford she was the first woman to hold the most senior musical post in a Church of England cathedral. Early career and education Dienes was born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, and studied for a BA in Modern Languages and a BMus at Victoria University, Wellington. She was organ scholar at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington from 1988 to 1991 when she was appointed Assistant Organist there. She also acted as Assistant Conductor of the Wellington Youth Choir and appeared as a soloist with Wellington Youth Orchestra. Dienes came to England in 1991 to take up the post of organ scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College. Appointments Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick Dienes was appointed Director of Music St Mary’s, Warwick, in 2001 where she directed and train

Kathryn Alexander

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Kathryn Alexander (born 1955) is a Guggenheim Award-winning American composer and a professor of composition at Yale University. Early life and education Alexander was born in Texas and was involved with music from an early age. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Baylor University studying flute with Helen Ann Shanley, and went on to the Cleveland Institute of Music to study with Maurice Sharp. While at Cleveland, she began to compose. She sought guidance from Cleveland faculty Donald Erb and Eugene O’Brien, and went on to earn a DMA in composition at the Eastman School of Music, working with Samuel Adler, Barbara Kolb, Allan Schindler, and Joseph Schwantner. While at Eastman, she became one of the first women to teach in the Eastman Computer Music Center (now the Eastman Audio Research Studio). She pursued additional study with Leon Kirchner at the Tanglewood Music Center. Career Alexander serves on the faculty of the Department of Music at Yale University, where she has taught composition and music technology since 1996. She is the founding director of the Yale Music and Technology Lab (YaleMusT). She previously taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Dartmouth College, and t

Kati Agócs

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Kati Ilona Agócs (born January 20, 1975) is a Canadian-American composer and a member of the composition faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Education Agócs attended the Juilliard School in New York where she earned a Master’s and Doctoral degrees under the guidance of Milton Babbitt. She was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she held the ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Composer Fellowship in 2007. She was a voice student of Adele Addison. Career From 2005 to 2006, she lived in Budapest and wrote on the new-music scene in Hungary for the journal The Musical Times. She had previously organized an exchange program between the Juilliard School and the Liszt Academy. The Hungarian-language weekly, Bécsi Napló (Vienna Journal) acknowledged her contribution to the visibility of Hungarian composers abroad. She served as Composer in Residence for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2010. Agócs was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. In 2014 the American Academy of Arts and Letters named her as recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in Music. She maintains a work studio in Flatrock, N

Katia Beaugeais

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Katia Beaugeais is an Australian-French contemporary classical composer based in Sydney. Career After learning piano and saxophone from the ages six and twelve respectively, Katia Beaugeais completed a Bachelor of Music Education degree to become a classroom music teacher. She then completed a postgraduate saxophone degree at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and began to compose and perform her own work for the first time. She was awarded a Ph.D. in composition in 2021, and released Breath by Breath, her debut solo album performing her own saxophone compositions. She has collaborated with Australian composers Katy Abbott, Anne Boyd, Bruce Crossman, Rosalind Page, and William Barton. In 2010 she won the ISCM-IAMIC International Young Composer Award for her 2008 work Sound Box. References

Katy Abbott

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Katy Abbott (born 1971) is an Australian composer. Abbott writes music for orchestra, chamber ensemble and voice. Her work reflects her interests in contemporary Australian cultures and often explores notions of home, place, humour and connection. Biography Abbott’s compositions have been broadcast and performed in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US and featured in Australian and International music festivals including the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) conference in Beijing the International Rostrum of Composers in Wroclaw, Poland, and the Melbourne, Perth and Canberra International Festivals. Abbott studied with Stuart Greenbaum, Brenton Broadstock and Linda Kouvaras at University of Melbourne, where she completed her PhD in 2007. Several of Abbott’s compositions have appeared on the syllabus of Australian Music Examinations Board and ANZCA. Promethean Editions (NZ), the Australian Music Centre Abbott has released five solo albums; Sunburnt Aftertones: The Chamber Music of Katy Abbott (Move Records), The Domestic Sublime: The Vocal Music of Katy Abbott (ABC Classics), Famous (ABC Classics), Punch: The Brass Music of Katy Abbott (ABC Classics) and The Peasant Prince

Kees Wieringa

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Kees Wieringa is a Dutch pianist, composer, writer and cultural entrepreneur. His mission is to inspire and connect people through art and culture. He came to prominence for his performances of the Dutch composers Jakob van Domselaer, Daniel Ruyneman and Simeon ten Holt. Biography Kees Wieringa graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory in Amsterdam in 1986. He has built an international career over the years with his piano recitals and compositions. He is known as an ambassador for the work of the Bergen composer Simeon ten Holt, and for supporting the music of Jakob van Domselaer Wieringa is someone looking for an adventure: “If there is a review over ‘Wieringa reliable pianist’ he feels terrible.” Wieringa has received the award for original repertoire during the Berlage Competition for Proeven van Stijlkunst (1913–1917) by Jakob van Domselaer. This work consists of nine compositions performed by Van Domselaer and Nelly van Doesburg during meetings of members the Bauhaus and DaDa art movements. The pieces represent the music written according to the ideas of the artistic movement called De Stijl (The Style). Composer In 2010, Kees Wieringa premiered the opera Drebbel. The main ch

Keiji Inai

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is a Japanese composer, arranger and orchestrator best known for his work in anime and video games. He is affiliated with the music production company Imagine. Biography Inai was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He studied at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, but dropped out to pursue studio work. In 1999, while he was a college student, he served as assistant musical director to violinist Toshihiro Nakanishi on the Akira Shirai production Falstaff. In 2001 and 2002 he participated as a pianist, manipulator, and arranger on the soundtracks for the Fuji TV dramas Fighting Girl and Hatsu Taiken. After this, he began working as a composer for television programs, commercials, movies, games, radio programs, fashion shows and other areas. Discography Anime works Game works Movie works TV works References External links * Keiji Inai’s Imagine Profile * Keiji Inai discography at VGMdb *

Keiko Fujiie

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Keiko Fujiie (), born in 1963 in Kyoto, is a composer whose music is frequently performed both in Japan and internationally. She is best known for guitar compositions, many of them for the distinguished Japanese guitarist (also her husband) Kazuhito Yamashita, and organizes the guitar quintet that bears his name. She has twice won the Otaka Prize. Career After graduating at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, she completed her postgraduate studies at the same institution. Support from the Asian Cultural Council resulted in a residency in New York for several months in 1992/93, where she returned in 1998 to premiere In Their Shoes, a music and dance collaboration. From 1998/1999 she served as composer-in-residence for Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa. Her commissions include Academic Festival Overture for the hundredth anniversary of Kyoto University, the double concerto Kyoto: Reverberation for the Kyoto Protocol Treaty in 1997, and Piano Concerto No. 1 “Memories of January” composed for the seventieth anniversary of the Japan Music Competition in 2001. Fujiie was asked to write the compulsory piece for participants in the Fifth Musashino-Tokyo International Organ Comp

Keith Burstein

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Keith Burstein born 1957 as Keith Burston (the anglicised form adopted by his father of the surname, which Burstein later dropped) is an English composer, conductor and music theorist with Jewish family origins. He is noted for his fervent championing of tonal music as a valid contemporary composing style. Musical approach and philosophy (including theory of “Super Tonality”) Keith Burstein’s early musical approach was informed by the culture of atonalism in which he was educated at the Royal College of Music, and his early compositions were written in the atonal style. Burstein made a dramatic shift towards composing tonally during the late 1980s. In a 2002 interview with The Independent newspaper, he reflected “What had happened to me was a sort of Damascene conversion, I suppose. I suddenly saw that atonalism was a dead end. Once you accept that melody is everywhere, and always has been, in folk music and pop and rock, you see that it’s not reactionary to write a tune.”. He began pursuing tonal composition and reinvestigating more traditional forms such as requiems, church chorales and brass band music. Although both Burstein (and various critics) have sometimes dubbed his style

Keith Hamel

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Keith Hamel (born 1956 in Morden, Manitoba, Canada) is a composer, software designer, and professor of music. His music consists of orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal music, often focussing on live electronics and interactivity between acoustic instruments and the computer. Education Keith Hamel studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, 1981), and A.M. and PhD degrees from Harvard University (1984, 1985). Between 1981 and 1984, he also studied Computer Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Barry Vercoe. Hamel also received composition instruction from Istvan Anhalt, Donald Martino, Peter Maxwell Davies, Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner. He was a finalist in the 1986 CBC Young Composers Competition (percussion category), and also received four awards in the P.R.O. Canada Young Composers Competition. Career Hamel has been on the faculty at the UBC School of Music since 1987, and has been a full professor since 1997. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS), a Researcher at the Media Graphic

Keith Patchel

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Keith Patchel (July 23, 1955 – August 7, 2021) was an American musician and composer. Patchel studied at the Juilliard School in New York City with among other teachers Samuel Adler. His Pluto Symphony created for the Hayden Planetarium was an official selection for nomination for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music. Patchel composed the opera Plain of Jars about the U.S. bombings of Laos which premiered at the Medicine Show Theater in New York City on December 10, 2016. He was the recipient of the 2017 Acker award for music. Patchel played guitar and sang backing vocals on the track “Losin’ Anna” on Richard Lloyd formerly of Television’s 1987 album Field of Fire. Patchel created the original music for the 2008 film Shoot First and Pray You Live starring Jim Gaffigan. Patchel wrote and performed the accompanying music for Anthony Haden-Guest’s 2017 spoken word album, The Further Chronicles of Now. References External links *

Keivan Saket

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Keivan Saket () (born 1961 in Mashhad) is an Iranian composer and university professor and Tar and Setar Player, and author of 12 books for Tar and Setar. Early life Keivan Saket was born in 1961 to a family in Mashhad. He began music and painting from childhood with the support of his parents. He was a pupil of painting masters such as Sadegh Pour in drawing, Master Pirasteh in coloration and Master Davvalo in watercolor. His first music lessons came from his uncle, Manochehr Zamanian, in Children and Teenagers’ Music Workshop founded in Mashhad by National Broadcasting Organization under the management of Morteza Delshab. After a short time Manochehr Zamanian left Mashhad in order to pursue his education. Some time later, his townsman and his uncle’s friend Hamid Motabassem, came to Mashhad and started teaching in the same workshop. He had taught music in Arts Academy of Tehran, and for two successive summers before the Islamic Revolution he continued teaching there. After the Islamic Revolution Motabassem moved to Mashhad and became friends with Saket. After some time he returned to Tehran and then went overseas. Career Keivan Saket founded the Vaziri Band in 1996 and performed

Kekko Fornarelli

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Kekko Fornarelli, pseudonym of Francesco Fornarelli (born 10 January 1978 in Bari, Italy) is an Italian jazz pianist and composer of crossover jazz music and soundtracks. Biography Kekko Fornarelli began playing the piano at just three years old. He has recorded eight albums as leader, Circular Thought in 2005, A French Man in New York (2008), inspired by French pianist Michel Petrucciani in the three years he spent in France, Room of Mirrors (2011), Outrush (2014), Abaton (2018), Anthropocene (2021), and Naked (2023). He also recorded 3 albums as co-author, Mar Endins (2013, with Catalan singer-songwriter Ruso Sala), Matter of Time (2018, with Roberto Cherillo and their band Shine), L’Ospite - The Original Soundtrack (2022, with Giuseppe Bassi). Kekko Fornarelli has performed in numerous international jazz festivals and clubs, playing in more than 60 countries. In addition to his work as a musician, Kekko Fornarelli is also a composer of film soundtracks. Other notes: Room of mirrors was released in 2011 by Auand Records. Alison Bentley writes “I can’t stop listening to the CD: a fusion of Romantic classical music, modern jazz and 21st century dance rhythms, played with Italian br

Kelly Tang

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Kelly Tang (born 1961) is a Singaporean composer known internationally for his wind band, chamber and orchestral works. For his contributions to the local music scene, Tang was conferred the Cultural Medallion in 2011. Early life Tang’s love for music began at an early age. He started piano lessons at age six, and later played the tuba in his secondary school band. The young Tang did not find the tuba particularly interesting to play as there were not usually many parts in a musical composition that involved the instrument. However, this lack of activity turned out to be a blessing in disguise as it gave him the opportunity to observe what the other musicians in the band were doing and how all the parts fit together in a musical composition. Tang began writing music even as a student. His interest in music grew and he went on to helm a Christian gospel pop group. He also played bass guitar while in Anglo-Chinese Junior College and later on in the army band. Education Tang enrolled at York University in Toronto, Canada with the support of his parents. In 1982, during his first year as an undergraduate at York, Tang met and was greatly influenced by Srul Irving Glick, his first music

Ken Ueno

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Ken Ueno (born January 11, 1970, in Bronxville, New York) is an American composer. Career Ueno pursued initial studies in music at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY, but soon transferred to Berklee College of Music, where he earned a B.M. in Film Scoring/Composition Summa Cum Laude (1992); his graduate studies at Boston University and Yale School of Music earned him master’s degrees; he later completed a doctorate at Harvard University. Ueno has taught at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as co-director of Minimum Security Composers Collective, and has earned the distinction of having earned the American Academy prizes for both the Berlin and Rome fellowships, and has worked with premier ensembles internationally to considerable critical acclaim. Works Ken Ueno has composed for modern orchestra, jazz ‘big band’, chamber ensembles including woodwind quintet, choreographed dance pieces, and in a variety of other genres. As a performer, Ueno has performed at the Flea, New York City, collaborated with violist Kim Kashkashian and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky on the works Hypnomelodiam

Kenichi Maeyamada

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, also known as , is a Japanese composer, lyricist, and musician. His primary work is composing anime theme songs and for J-pop musicians. He contracts through Supalove, a Japanese record label. He has released a number of anime and video game music remixes, as well as original songs. These remixes have received over 20 million hits on YouTube and Nico Nico Douga. Musical style Maeyamada began playing the piano at age four and first composed with a synthesizer in middle school. In December 2007, he posted his first work under the name “Hyadain” on Nico Nico Douga, a remix of Crash Man’s theme from Mega Man 2 with added lyrics. In May 2010, Maeyamada revealed that Hyadain was his pseudonym. In 2023, Maeyamada was invited to arrange a version of “Battle With the Four Fiends” for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, with lyrics by Takashi Tokita. The track, “Forged in Crimson”, plays during the boss fight with Rubicante, the Fiend of Flame. Maeyamada cites Yasuharu Konishi of the Pizzicato Five as a major musical influence, as well as Shoichiro Hirata and Yusuke Itagaki. Influence on his video game music stems from Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy), Koichi Sugiyama (Dragon Quest), and Kenji Ito

Kenichiro Fukui

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is a Japanese video game composer and electronic rock musician. Before working at Square Enix, he was employed at Konami. He was also an arranger and a keyboardist in the band The Black Mages. Additionally, Fukui arranged Angela Aki’s “Kiss Me Good-Bye” from Final Fantasy XII. In October 2007, he left Square Enix to become a lecturer, although he continued to work with The Black Mages until the band dissolved in 2010, and continued to do freelance work with video games. His Konami Kukeiha Club nickname was “Funiki Fukui”. He lives in Yokohama, Japan. Biography Fukui was born on March 4, 1970, in Hyōgo Prefecture. He joined the video game company Konami in 1991. While there, he contributed to the soundtracks of Lethal Enforcers, G.I. Joe and Violent Storm. He was also one of the keyboardists for the Kukeiha Club, and played in the live event at the Budokan in Tokyo. In 2000, Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito formed an experimental partnership to compose music for the video game All Star Pro-Wrestling in a rock style. After the game’s success, the two continued to compose in the same style. In 2002, Fukui and Sekito decided to arrange some of the compositions of Nobuo Uematsu, the primary co

Kenji Bunch

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Kenji Bunch (born July 27, 1973) is an American composer and violist based in Portland, Oregon. Bunch currently serves as the artistic director of Fear No Music and teaches at Portland State University, Reed College, and for the Portland Youth Philharmonic. He is also the director of MYSfits, the most advanced string ensemble of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony. Known for “amalgamating traditional American musical forms… and European-based classical music,” Bunch’s work for chamber ensemble, orchestra and ballet often incorporates elements of hip hop, jazz, bluegrass and funk to critical acclaim. Over sixty American orchestras have performed his music. His film credits include The Bellman Equation and The Argentum Prophecies. His discography includes recordings on Sony/BMG, EMI Classics, Koch, Kleos Classics, RCA, Naxos, Pony Canyon, GENUIN, Capstone, MSR Classics, Innova, ARS, and Crystal labels. Education Bunch graduated from Wilson High School (Portland, Oregon) in 1991 having performed in the Portland Youth Philharmonic for five years (1986–1991). He attended The Juilliard School, where he was the first student ever to receive dual Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in viola

Kenji Ito

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, also known by the nickname , - !scope=row 1997 SaGa Frontier Music - Culdcept Saga Music - !scope=rowgroup rowspan=“3” 2009 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Adventure Team Music with several others - SaGa 2: Goddess of Destiny Arrangements - Culdcept (3DS) Music - Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory Music with Kenji Kaneko and Nobuo Uematsu - Demons’ Score “Requiem from Lilith” - !scope=rowgroup rowspan=“3” 2013 Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas Music with Kalle Ylitalo and Nobuo Uematsu - Getsuei Gakuen Music with Daisuke Ishiwatari - !scope=rowgroup rowspan=“4” 2014 Rise of Mana “Fear the Messenger” - Puzzle & Dragons Battle Tournament Music - Chunithm: Seelisch Tact “Gustav Battle” - Shinyaku Arcana Slayer Music - !scope=rowgroup rowspan=“5” 2016 Hero Must Die. Again Music - Culdcept Revolt Music - Adventures of Mana Music - !scope=rowgroup rowspan=“2” 2018 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Arrangements - Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe Music - !scope=row 2019 Rakugaki Kingdom “Indomitable Soul” - !scope=row 2022 Sin Chronicle “Last Determination” - !scope=rowgroup rowspan=“2” 2024 SaGa: Emerald Beyond Music - Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven Music Other ;Composition *Kokoro no Takarabako (1

Kenji Kawai

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is a Japanese music composer and arranger. Known as one of the biggest names in the soundtrack world, he has worked on a wide range of mixed media productions, including anime, TV shows, films, video games and ice shows. After leaving Muse, Kawai began composing music for commercials in his home studio. While recording music for radio actor and voice actor Yūji Mitsuya, he met music director Naoko Asari, who advised him to compose anime soundtracks. Some of his work for anime soundtracks can be found in Ranma ½ and Ghost in the Shell. According to Kawai, he is not good at creating music from nothing, as he draws sounds from the visuals of the works. In the majority of cases, the images of the anime are not yet created, so he creates music when referencing storyboard visuals. Following his success as an anime movies music composer, he became involved in live action movies. He contributed music to horror films: Ring, Ring 2, Dark Water, Japanese-Polish science-fiction film Avalon, the Hong Kong film Seven Swords and in the 2006 live action film Death Note. Kawai has worked on several projects with director Mamoru Oshii (both Headgear members) and has written scores for all of Hideo N

Kenji Yamamoto (composer, born 1964)

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is a Japanese video game musician working for Nintendo, notable for composing music in many titles of the Metroid series, mainly Super Metroid and the Metroid Prime trilogy. Yamamoto also plays a role as a music director at Nintendo, overseeing audio for several of their games. He frequently collaborates with fellow composers Minako Hamano and Masaru Tajima. Yamamoto’s music utilizes heavy drums, piano, voiced chants, clangs of pipes, and electric guitar. In development of Super Metroid, Yamamoto came up with some of the game’s themes by humming them to himself while riding his motorcycle home from work. Developers from Retro Studios noted how the process of fitting all the sound effects for a world in Metroid Prime into 6 MB of space was crucial in producing a quality aural experience, as each sound had to be of very high quality. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption took advantage of the increase in the amount of RAM that took place when the series switched from the GameCube to the Wii; this allowed for higher quality audio samples to be used and thus a better overall audio quality. - ! scope=“row” rowspan=“1” 1995 Galactic Pinball Music with Masaru Tajima - !1997 BS Tantei Club: Yuki ni

Kenneth Fuchs

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Kenneth Daniel Fuchs (born July 1, 1956) is a Grammy Award-winning American composer. He currently serves as Professor of Music Composition at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut. Music Kenneth Fuchs is the first living American composer recorded by the Sinfonia of London and its conductor, John Wilson (conductor). In June 2024, Chandos Records released Light Year, Orchestral Works, Volume 2, which includes two works for full orchestra and two concerti, one for alto saxophone performed by Timothy McAllister and the other for bass trombone performed by James Buckle. In July 2023, Chandos Records released Cloud Slant, Orchestral Works, Volume 1, which includes two works for full orchestra, a composition for strings, and a concerto for C and alto flute, performed by Adam Walker (flautist). Fuchs recorded for Naxos five albums with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta, the last of which won the 2018 Grammy Award in the category Best Classical Compendium. The Recording Academy announced the accolade in the Classical category at the 61st annual awards ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, February 10, 2019. Fuchs has composed music for orche

Kenneth Hesketh

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Kenneth Hesketh (born 20 July 1968) He studied at the Royal College of Music, London, with Edwin Roxburgh, Joseph Horovitz and Simon Bainbridge between 1987 and 1992 and attended Tanglewood in 1995 as the Leonard Bernstein Fellow where he studied with Henri Dutilleux. After completing a master’s degree in composition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, a series of awards followed: the Shakespeare Prize scholarship from the Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg at the behest of Sir Simon Rattle, an award from the Liverpool Foundation for Sport and the Arts, and on his return to London in 1999, Hesketh was awarded the Constant and Kit Lambert Fellowship at the Royal College of Music, with support from the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Musical style Hesketh’s work is notable for its colourful orchestration, dense harmony and a highly mobile rhythmic style. His early work found its stimuli in extra-musical ideas. Several early works have their origins in medieval symbolism and iconography, notably three pieces for chamber ensemble: Theatrum (1996), Torturous Instruments (1997-8, after Hieronymous Bosch’s depiction of Hell from The Garden of Earthly Delights), and The Circling Canop

Kenneth Lampl

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Kenneth Lampl (born November 7, 1964) is an American composer and lecturer known for his film, television and choral music. He is the former head of the Australian National University School of Music. Biography Born in the Bronx, New York, Lampl studied saxophone with Paul Jeffrey and Sahib Shihab at Rutgers University and was a member of the Rutgers University Jazz Ensemble. After college, Lampl performed as part of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton’s sextet, the Young Altos, performing at the Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, and the JVC Jazz Festival. Lampl began his first classical composition studies with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Charles Wuorinen in the graduate program at Rutgers University. Lampl’s first international recognition came with the winning of the “Prix Ravel” in composition from the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France and his first orchestral piece “Parallax” won the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Young Composers Award, the ASCAP Awards for Young Composers. and the Joseph H. Bearns Prize in Composition from Columbia University. In 1996 Lampl received his DMA in Composition from the Juilliard School studying with Milton Babbitt and John Corigliano, an

Kenta Hamano

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is a Japanese musician, composer, and actor who is represented by the talent agency Kakubarhythm. He played the trombone in the band Sakerock. Filmography TV dramas Film Video games Dubbing *Soul, Joe Gardner References

Kentaro Sato

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, aka Ken-P, is a composer/conductor/orchestrator/clinician of media music (Film/TV/Game) and concert music (Symphonic and Choral). He is also an accomplished lyricist and voice-over artist. His works have been broadcast, performed, and recorded in North and South America, Asia, and Europe by well-known groups including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 2005, he was appointed a resident composer/assistant conductor of the Torrance Symphony. He is also a frequent guest conductor and lecturer for various workshops and reading sessions on choral music and composition/orchestration around the world. Sato was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, known as the city of music and instruments. He holds a Master of Music in Conducting (choral emphasis) with Distinction and a Bachelor of Music in Media and Commercial Writing from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). In addition to his degree in Music, he also holds degree in Cinema from Santa Monica College. Musical style His choral works, especially a cappella works, are full of rich and colorful harmony with sense of movement provided by individually moving vocal lines within cl

Kenzie (songwriter)

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Kim Yeon-jung (; born February 3, 1976), known professionally as Kenzie (), is a South Korean songwriter and record producer signed under SM Entertainment. She has written and produced songs for SM artists such as BoA, Isak N Jiyeon, Super Junior, The Grace, TVXQ, Girls’ Generation, Shinee, f(x), Exo, Red Velvet, SuperM, Aespa, NCT, Riize and Hearts2Hearts, as well as non-SM artists such as Twice, CIX, BAE173, The Boyz, Zerobaseone and TWS. Biography Kim is a 1999 Alumna of Berklee College of Music, having majored in music production and engineering (MP&E). She moved to the US to further her studies, though her goal was still to be a music producer and composer in her native country of South Korea. Although she had been trained in classical music and knew how to play the piano and trumpet, she acquainted herself with the pop scene, and through the knowledge of the success of S.M. Entertainment groups like S.E.S. and H.O.T., she set herself a goal to work with S.M., which she accomplished after graduating and meeting the CEO Lee Soo-man himself. Her favourite songs amongst her own work include BoA’s “My Name”, Girls’ Generation’s debut song “Into The New World”, and “Oh!” by the sam

Kerensa Briggs

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Kerensa Rosie Joanne Briggs (born 1991) is a British composer, primarily of choral and organ music. In 2022 she began a three-year term as composer-in-residence with the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus in Missouri, USA. Family and education Briggs was born in Truro, Cornwall, in 1991, while her father, David, was organist and master of the choristers at Truro Cathedral. After her father moved to Gloucester Cathedral, she sang in the youth choir there. She attended The King’s School in Gloucester from 1995 to 2002 and later studied music at the University of Bristol. Afterwards she sang with the Choir of King’s College London, where she held a choral scholarship and was awarded a Master of Music degree in composition. She became composer-in-residence at Godolphin and Latymer School. Briggs’s music, which is inspired by the Anglican choral tradition, Gregorian chant, early music and jazz, has been performed at St Paul’s Cathedral and the Sistine Chapel and has been broadcast on BBC Radio and Classic FM by ensembles such as the Tallis Scholars and the BBC Singers. and by the choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, under the direction of Anna Lapwood. Briggs has been described as writing in a

Kermit Poling

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Kermit Poling (born 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States) is an American conductor, violinist, and composer. Kermit Poling is Music Director of both the South Arkansas Symphony and the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet. He has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad, including concerts in Mexico, England, Ireland, France, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. His many guest conducting appearances have included the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, the Riverside (NJ) Symphonia, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Moscow Ballet, Filharmonia Veneta, Ballet South, Opera Lewanee!, the Adrian Symphony, the Mayormente Mozart Festival of Puerto Rico, and the Inter-American Festival of Contemporary Music. A virtuoso violinist, he performed 27 seasons as concertmaster of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, having also performed many solo works with the orchestra. He remains the Shreveport Symphony’s Associate Conductor, having previously served as Interim Music Director. Also a composer and arranger, Poling’s has composed a dozen ballets including Snow White, Wizard of Oz, Aladdin, Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast. In 2003, he also arranged and conducted a new

Kerry Muzzey

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Kerry Muzzey (born 1970) is an American classical composer. Early life Muzzey was born and raised in Joliet, Illinois. Muzzey graduated from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, with a degree in piano performance. Career In 2007, he was commissioned by director Bill Purple and Iron Ocean Films’ executive producers Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple to create the score for Iron Ocean Films’ first film, Hole in the Paper Sky. In that same year he also lent several instrumental compositions to the Robert Redford– and Terrence Malick–produced documentary, The Unforeseen. Muzzey also scored the film Amexicano. In 2009, Kerry Muzzey was approached by the music supervisor of Glee about using Muzzey’s composition “Looking Back” as a love theme in the first two episodes of the series. The music was well received and was used in multiple episodes of the series. In 2011, Muzzey was commissioned to score the Wendie Malick film What Happens Next, followed by Holiday Engagement. Kerry Muzzey’s contemporary classical music has been featured on So You Think You Can Dance, for which Muzzey created a custom version of his composition “Bernini’s Angels” In 2012, choreographer Christopher Scott use

Kevin Brady (musician)

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Kevin Brady (born 23 January 1974) is an Irish jazz drummer, composer and music educator. Early life and education Brady was born in Dublin. He studied classical piano and trumpet in childhood, later turning to drums. He trained at the Newpark Academy of Music and the Drummers Collective in New York. He holds a master’s degree from the Cork School of Music and a performance diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Career Brady co-founded the Hammond organ trio Organics in 1997, which received the Young Musicwide Award. He later formed the Kevin Brady Trio with pianist Bill Carrothers and bassist Dave Redmond. In 2019, the ensemble expanded into the Kevin Brady Electric Quartet, which released the album Plan B in 2021. He has performed with musicians such as Seamus Blake, Peter Bernstein, Norma Winstone, Van Morrison, and Larry Coryell. His appearances include international festivals and venues such as the Sydney Opera House and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. Discography * Common Ground (LPR, 2011) * Ensam (LPR, 2016) * Zeitgeist (LPR, 2019) * Plan B (Ubuntu Music, 2021) Reception Plan B received four-star reviews from The Irish Times and DownBeat magazine, with 4.5 stars in

Kevin James Maher

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Kevin James Maher (born April 20, 1988), better known as Kevvy Mental, is a Canadian musician, producer, film composer and remix artist most notable for his work in Fake Shark as lead vocalist and programmer. Early life Maher was born an only child in Edmonton, Alberta, and raised in Langley, British Columbia, by a single mother. Maher attended Langley Fine Arts School majoring in visual art. Maher was kicked out of Langley Fine Arts in his grade 12 year. Maher attended Walnut Grove Secondary to finish his high school education. Musical career Maher is primarily a vocalist in the band Fake Shark, but also plays guitar, piano and programs electronics. He has done a variety of remixes, listed below. He has also programmed electronics and contributed vocals to Jakalope, as well as working alongside Dave Ogilvie coproducing the debut album by former Lillix bass player Louise Burns. The record was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. In 2008, Maher teamed up with writer/director CJ Wallis to score the Sarah Slean short film Last Flowers. The film received a pair of Leo Awards nominations in 2009. In 2012, co-wrote and produced part of Carly Rae Jepsen’s new record, Kiss, and wrote the

Kevin Keller (composer)

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Kevin Keller (born April 27, 1967) is an American composer and recording artist known primarily for “ambient chamber music”, a style that combines live instruments with electronic effects. Biography Starting out as a guitarist in his teen years, Keller turned to the piano while attending Jesuit High School, inspired by the music of Claude Debussy, Brian Eno, and Harold Budd. As a composition student, Keller composed ballet scores and chamber music, including a string quartet premiered by the Kronos Quartet at the 1986 Festival of New American Music. Keller later studied Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music under the tutelage of Pinar Toprak. Keller’s first solo recording “The Mask of Memory” (1994) came to the attention of radio producer Stephen Hill, who included several tracks on a Hearts of Space program titled “Digital Planet” in 1995. This was followed by a Living Room Concert and feature on Echoes, whose host John Diliberto named Keller’s second CD “Intermezzo” as one of the Top 25 records of 1996. In total, Keller has released 15 full-length recordings and several EPs and compilations, working with musicians such as cellist David Darling, guitarist Jeff Pearce and Keller

Kevin MacNeil

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Kevin MacNeil (born 20th century) is a Scottish novelist, poet, screenwriter, lyricist, playwright and educator. Early life and education MacNeil was born and raised on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Career Artistic collaborations MacNeil has collaborated with Hebridean musician Willie Campbell. In 2011, they released the album Visible From Space together. Teaching and fellowships MacNeil has undertaken teaching posts and writing residencies in Sweden (Uppsala University), Bavaria (Villa Concordia), Shetland, the University of Edinburgh, and Kingston University. He has held the Hawthornden Fellowship and was Inaugural Recipient of the Iain Crichton Smith Bilingual Writing Fellowship. He has been a judge for the Highland Book Prize, the Wigtown Poetry Prize and the Scottish Book Trust New Writers’ Award. He is a remote mentor and on-site residential short-course tutor for the Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre. In 2017, he began a post at the University of Stirling, where he works as a tutor and supervisor for both undergraduate and postgraduate creative-writing–degree programs. Awards * Tivoli Europa Giovani International Poetry Prize Works As author * Poetry collection: Love a

Kevin Penkin

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Kevin Penkin (born 22 May 1992) is a British-born Australian composer, primarily for video games and anime. He is best known for composing the score of the anime Made in Abyss, which won Best Score at the 2nd Crunchyroll Anime Awards, and the score for the Tower of God anime adaptation, also won the same category at the fifth edition. Biography Penkin was born on 22 May 1992 in the United Kingdom, and grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Penkin’s interest in video game music started from when he first heard the “Phendrana Drifts” theme from Metroid Prime; In 2013, Penkin received a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Music Technology at Edith Cowan University’s Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. In 2015, Penkin graduated from the Royal College of Music with a Master of Composition degree in Composition for Screen. His studies were supported by a grant from the Tait Memorial Trust as the inaugural Tait Scholar at the Royal College of Music. In 2016, Penkin collaborated with Kinema Citrus on the Norn9 anime and the Under the Dog original video animation soundtracks. Penkin composed the music for Kinema Citrus’ anime adaptation of The Rising of the Shield Hero and NetEase

Kevin Puts

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Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for his opera The Hours and for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera, Silent Night, He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman School of Music. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and, in piano, Nelita True. He also studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival with William Bolcom and Bernard Rands. Career He is composer-in-residence at the Fort Worth Symphony and has received a commission from the Aspen Music Festival. His Cello Concerto was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma. Puts’ works have been performed by the St. Louis Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Utah Symphony (with Evelyn Glennie as percussion soloist), the Miró Quartet, and Concertante. He is a frequent composer in residence at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, which commissioned his fourth symphony and his flute concerto. His alma mater commented: :For several years, Kevin Puts received reviews describing him as a “promising composer” and “a young co

Keyla Orozco

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Keyla María Orozco Alemán (born 22 September 1969) is a Cuban composer based in the Netherlands and the United States. A 2000 Guggenheim Fellow, her music has drawn inspiration from Cuban music. Biography Keyla María Orozco Alemán was born on 22 September 1969 in Santiago de Cuba. She studied at the Conservatorio Esteban Salas de Santiago de Cuba and National Art Schools, before studying composition at Instituto Superior de Arte with Harold Gramatges. She later studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the Sweelinck Conservatorium, the former under Theo Loevendie, who encouraged incorporation of Cuban elements towards her work. In July 1999, her piece Perpetuum was performed at the Uncommon Voices: A New Presence in Music event at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. In 2007, her piece Para Ti Nengon, inspired by the Cuban genre , appeared at a Merkin Hall concert on Cuban music. In May 2018, she appeared at the Kennedy Center. In November 2021, her piece Viajeros was the finale at Zofo’s Zofomama show in Saint Paul, Minnesota; Sheila Regan said that Orozco “offered a richly theatrical piece of music” with a transition from Russian to Cuban music, noting that the bac

Keyna Wilkins

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Keyna Wilkins is an Australian/British composer-musician. Her compositions are published and distributed by Wiripang Music. Wilkins was a finalist in the Australian Music Centre and APRA AMCOS 2021 Art Music Awards in the category Award for Excellence in Experimental Music, for “recording and developing new projects in 2020”. She was also a finalist in the 2018 Art Music Awards, in the category Award for Excellence by an Individual, for her “activities in original art music throughout 2017 as a composer-musician including releasing three original albums”. Wilkins is passionate about supporting refugees being detained in Immigration Detention. In 2021 she collaborated with visual artist and poet Jalal Mahamede, who is currently being held in Brisbane’s immigration detention centre. They have released an album, featuring original music by Wilkins and poetry by Mahamede. Education Wilkins holds a Master of Music Composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her thesis is titled Astronomical Phenomena in Music Composition and explores “the astronomical phenomena in music composition”. Prior to moving to Australia, Wilkins studied at Bristol University (UK) where is obtained a MA

Khaled Al Kammar

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Khaled Al Kammar (born May 14, 1990) is an Egyptian composer noted for his scores for film and TV. He is considered one of the most prominent composers of his generation in Egypt, having won several local and international awards for his work on projects such as Qabeel, Sahib El Maqam, and Netflix’s first Egyptian production, the series Paranormal. Early life Khaled showed a significant interest in music from a young age, despite being raised in an academic family with no artistic background. He taught himself the basics of music and studied mechatronics engineering at the German University in Cairo to satisfy his family’s wishes. After graduating, he began his career in film scoring, working at Hany Adel’s studio from 2012 to 2015. During this period, he composed music for films like Assem and Décor, among others. He also gained experience by assisting leading Egyptian composers such as Hesham Nazih on The Originals and Layali Eugenie, as well as Khaled Hammad on Awalem Khafeya. Education In 2015, Khaled received a scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in Composition for the Screen at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. He graduated with distinction in 2016, ranki

Kid Vinil

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Kid Vinil, stage name of Antônio Carlos Senefonte (Cedral, 10 March 1955 – São Paulo, 19 May 2017), was a Brazilian singer, radio broadcaster, composer and journalist. He became famous in the Brazilian rock of the 1980s. Biography Kid Vinil was the vocalist of the Brazilian band Magazine, that used to execute the songs Tic Tic Nervoso (composed by Marcos Serra and Antonio Luiz), A Gata Comeu, Sou Boy and Glub Glub No Clube, all three composed by Kid himself. In the beginning of the 1980s, he had been member of Verminose, a band of the genres punk rock and rockabilly. He were too member of the São Paulo Punk Rock Movement in its beginning, organizing shows and playing songs of bands of punk rock and post-punk in his radio program. In TV, he has taken place as artist of the television program Boca Livre in 1987 in TV Cultura. In Bandeirantes TV, he has presented the program Mocidade Independente and after he became VJ (video performance artist) of MTV, taking place in programs like Lado B in which he used to present videoclips. He returned to the scene in Magazine in 2000, with the second work by the label Trama, the CD Na Honestidade in 2002. Closed the Magazine, he made a new band,

Kike Santander

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Flavio Enrique “Kike” Santander Lora is a Colombian-American composer, record producer, arranger and entrepreneur. Santander has composed more than 710 songs and has sold over 25 million albums worldwide. His work as songwriter and producer includes themes such as Let’s Get Loud by Jennifer Lopez, Abriendo puertas by Gloria Estefan, Me Estoy Enamorando by Alejandro Fernández, Mi Vida Sin Tu Amor by Cristian Castro, and Premonición by David Bisbal, as well as many songs recorded by artists such as Thalía, Natalia Oreiro, Gisselle, Edith Márquez, Luis Miguel, Soledad Pastorutti and the Spanish song for Eurovision Song Contest 2004, amongst others. More than 25 of his songs have been in the coveted Top Ten, as reflected in the Latin Billboard charts since 1999. More than 15 of his songs are featured within the top 100 played songs by the BMI Association of Authors and Composers. His songs and productions have surpassed 25 million albums worldwide His earliest musical influences came from a wide mix of genres that include indigenous artists of his native country. His main influences were bolero, rock and roll, Anglo-American pop, classical music and jazz. He studied music at the Cali C

Killertunes

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Otaniyen-Uwa Daniel professionally known as Killertunes is a Nigerian record producer and songwriter who has produced “Manya” by Wizkid, “Motigbana” by Olamide, “Baba” by DJ Spinall featuring Kizz daniel and “Bobo” by Mayorkun featuring Davido. Killertunes won the Headies award producer of the year in 2019 for the song “Fake Love” by Duncan Mighty and Wizkid and he was nominated for Afro hip-hop producer of the year at the Beatz awards 2022 for the song “big energy” by Ladipoe. He also has nominations for producer of the year at the Nigeria Entertainment award and City people music awards and a nomination for best music at the Top Naija Music Award. Background and career In 2020, Killertunes was listed among the Top beat makers in Nigeria. In 2019 Killertunes released his debut Extended play titled “Gbedu & things” he featured Dj tunez in the five-song EP. Discography Awards and nominations References

Kim André Arnesen

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Kim André Arnesen (born 28 November 1980) is a Norwegian composer. He grew up in Trondheim, Norway and was educated at the Music Conservatory of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is mostly known for his choral compositions, both a cappella, accompanied by piano or organ, or large-scale works for chorus and orchestra. His first CD album “Magnificat” was nominated for Grammy Awards 2016 in the category Best Surround Sound Album. Biography Kim André Arnesen was educated at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim, Norway. He had composition lessons with composers like Henning Sommerro, Terje Bjørklund and Odd Johan Overøye. As a composer he had his first performance in 1999 with Nidaros Cathedral Boys’ Choir. Since then he has written music that has been performed by several choirs. Arnesen is an elected member of the Norwegian Society of Composers. In 2010, his first large-scale work was performed in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. This was a Magnificat commissioned by the Nidaros Cathedral’s Girls Choir. This performance received overwhelming feedback, leading directly to several new commissions. The work was released on 2L in 2014 and the album was nominated for GRA

Kim Dong-hyun (singer, born 1998)

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Kim Dong-hyun (, born September 17, 1998), known mononymously as Donghyun, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He is known for his participation in the reality competition show Produce 101 Season 2. He later debuted as a part of the musical duo, MXM. He is a member of South Korean boy group AB6IX. Early life Kim Dong-hyun was born on September 17, 1998, in Daejeon, South Korea. He has an older brother, an older sister, and an older fraternal twin brother, making him the youngest person in his family. Prior to appearing on Produce 101 Season 2, Kim has trained for eleven months. He was a trainee at JYP Entertainment before he passed Brand New Music’s audition and joined them as a trainee on late 2016. Kim was a student at Namdaejeon High School. Career 2017–2018: Produce 101 and MXM In mid-2017, Kim participated in the Produce 101 Season 2, a reality competition show designed to form a temporary boy group consisting of 11 members chosen by the public from 101 contestants. He represented Brand New Music along with three other trainees. He was eventually eliminated from the show, finishing in 28th place overall on episode 10. On July 12, 2017, Brand New Music announced that

Kim Jin-hi

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Kim Jin-hi (; born February 6, 1957) is a composer and performer of komungo and electric komungo, and a Korean music specialist. Kim is known as a pioneer for introducing geomungo (거문고, a Korean fretted board zither, also spelled komungo) to American contemporary classical music scene through her own cross-cultural chamber and orchestral compositions and her extensive solo work in avant-garde, as well as cross-cultural free improvisation. She is a Guggenheim fellow in composition and her recent works include the development of komungobot (algorithmic robotic instrument) and solo performances of the world’s only electric komungo with live interactive MIDI computer system in her large-scale multimedia performance pieces. Kim has received commissions from the American Composers Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, and Tan Dun’s New Generation of East for Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among others. During the last three decades Kim has performed as a komungo soloist in her own compositions at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asia Society (NYC), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Be

Kim Planert

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Kim Planert is a German film and television composer based in Los Angeles. He has composed music for over 230 episodes of prime-time television shows and feature films. His collection of TV credits include: eight seasons on the score for ABC’s television show, Castle, Timeless (NBC), Missing (ABC), The Whispers (ABC series produced by Steven Spielberg), The McKenna Files (Mark Gordon, ABC Pilot), The Unit (CBS), Lie To Me (FOX), The Gates (ABC), The Chicago Code (FOX), Last Resort (ABC) and Rush (USA Network) His film credits include I Into The Blue 2: The Reef. A Reason and Chasing Grace. Feature documentary film credits include Skid Row Marathon, and The Game: Gambling Between Life and Death, which had its theatrical premiere at the Hof International Film Festival in 2021, followed by the television premiere on the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Planert has also written music for video games such as Final Fantasy’s Agni’s Philosophy E3 Trailer and the spatial audio score for Oculus’ virtual reality (VR) game DAVID. In 2022, Studio Babelsberg launched their new image trailer for which Planert contributed the music. The film and music can also be seen and heard in an exhibition in one of Ge

Kim Woojin

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Kim Woojin (; born April 8, 1997) is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a former member of the boy group Stray Kids, formed by JYP Entertainment in 2017. After leaving the group in late 2019, Kim debuted as a soloist in 2021 with the release of his first extended play (EP) The Moment: A Minor. Kim has since released two additional EPs. Outside of music, Kim has ventured into acting, most notably with a starring role in HBO Max’s Brazilian TV series Além do Guarda-Roupa (). Originally signed to 10x Entertainment for solo activities, Kim has been under contract to Kustomade since the label’s acquisition by SM Entertainment in 2024. Early life Kim Woojin was born on April 8, 1997, in Bucheon, South Korea. He graduated from the School of Performing Arts Seoul. He was a trainee under SM Entertainment for one year, where he practiced with fellow apprentices that would go on to debut as part of NCT. On October 11, 2017, Kim was unveiled as a JYP Entertainment trainee. Career 2017–2019: Stray Kids In 2017, Kim competed in Mnet’s reality survival show Stray Kids to become a member of the record label’s forthcoming boy group of the same name. In midst of the competition, the group made t

Kimya Dawson

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Kimya Dawson (born November 17, 1972) is an American folk singer-songwriter, one half of the anti-folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Dawson’s work with the Moldy Peaches earned them a cult following and critical acclaim, with their 2001 song “Anyone Else but You” landing a spot in multiple acclaimed indie film soundtracks. “Anyone Else but You” as performed by Michael Cera and Elliot Page charted on the Billboard Hot 100 after its prominent inclusion in the 2007 film Juno, the soundtrack of which includes several songs by Dawson and her associated musical acts. The song remains Dawson’s highest charting single to date. In addition to her work with the Moldy Peaches, Dawson has released seven solo studio albums and collaborated with various other artists from a diverse range of genres, including Aesop Rock, They Might Be Giants, The Mountain Goats, and Third Eye Blind. Career Dawson became well known as co-founder of the Moldy Peaches alongside Adam Green. Since the Moldy Peaches went on hiatus in 2004 Dawson has released a string of lo-fi homemade albums and toured widely in North America and Europe. Dawson’s children’s album, Alphabutt, was released on September 10, 2008. Song titles inc

Kinan Azmeh

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Kinan Azmeh (, born June 10, 1976, in Damascus), is a Syrian clarinet player and composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. Performing with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, or the Syrian Symphony Orchestra, he has played as a soloist of classical works as well as of contemporary compositions. Life and career Born in Damascus, Syria in 1976, Azmeh began to play the clarinet at age six. Originally taking lessons on the violin, he switched to an even-handed instrument that left-handed players did not play too differently from right-handed players. Azmeh studied at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus. At the University of Damascus, he majored in electrical engineering, at the same time pursuing his studies at the conservatory. Azmeh received his master’s degree and graduate diploma in music from the Juilliard School in New York City. In 1997, he was the first Arab musician to win the first prize in the Nicolai Rubinstein International Youth competition in Moscow, Russia. From there, he regularly traveled to Damascus, where he played in a Syrian chamber

Kinuyo Yamashita

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is a Japanese composer and musician known for her contributions in video games. Her best known soundtrack is Konami’s Castlevania, which was also her debut work. She was co-credited with Satoe Terashima under the pseudonym James Banana for her work on the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game. This pseudonym was a pun of the name James Bernard, the composer of the 1958 film Dracula. Life Yamashita was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo, Japan. She began playing the piano at the age of four and took piano lessons as a child. After studying electronic engineering at the two-year college Osaka Electro-Communication University, she graduated in 1986 and went to work for Konami. After leaving Konami, Yamashita established a career as an independent composer. She moved to the United States in 2010, and currently resides with her husband in Montague, New Jersey. Career In 1986, Yamashita and Satoe Terashima composed the music to the video game Castlevania, which was her first composition. The composition of the music was made under strict hardware constraints of the Famicom hardware. Yamashita established the format for much of the music in Castlevania games, which are fast beats as wel

Kiran Leonard

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Kiran Leonard is an English musician, composer and singer-songwriter from Saddleworth, Greater Manchester. Career Leonard was born into a musical family in the countryside of Greater Manchester. He first learned to play mandolin and guitar and then, inspired by his older brother’s diverse music collection, began to experiment with composing electronic music. receiving notable endorsement from DJ Marc Riley of BBC Radio 6 Music. His subsequent LP Grapefruit (2016), released on Moshi Moshi Records, likewise received critical acclaim. Leonard’s music notably references a wide variety of literature, historical figures and geographical locations: his 2017 LP Derevaun Seraun documented a collection of pieces commissioned by Manchester Central Library inspired by works by James Joyce, Albert Camus, Henry Miller, Clarice Lispector and Manuel Bandeira, while Grapefruit makes reference to Ondör Gongor, Caiaphas, the Bilderberg Group, Lagavulin and Werner Herzog, Bowler Hat Soup to Friedrich Nietzsche, Brunswick Street, Port Ainé and Bora Bora, Thread Colours (2015) to Franz Kafka and Windermere, and Garden in Bermuda (2016) to Annie Edson Taylor and Coyoacán. He has cited musicians such as F

Kiril Lambov

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Kiril Minkov Lambov (born July 4, 1955, died in October in Sofia 2019) in Lyaskovets) is a composer, pianist, and conductor. Lambov graduated from the State Academy of music in 1980 majoring in Piano under Professor Dora Lazarova and Composition under Professor Alexander Tanev. Later he also graduated from the Academy of Music and Dance Art in Plovdiv majoring in Conducting under Professor Emil Yanev(1995). He taught at the music high school in Stara Zagora from 1980 to 1983. He also taught Harmony at the State Academy of Music (1991) and Piano at the university in Veliko Tarnovo (1994) He was appointed accompanist at Sofia University (1999 - 2000) and the Ballet School(1999 - 2001), expert at the ministry of Culture. He worked as guest conductor with Bulgarian symphony and chamber orchestras premiering Bulgarian works. He authored over 1,000 arrangements and over 80 works including an opera and a one-act ballet, works for symphony orchestra, chamber instrumental pieces, and songs for soprano and piano. His works were performed in France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Russia, the US, Ecuador, and Japan. Part of his music was released on CD and printed in Bulgaria and Japan. He

Kirk MacDonald (musician)

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Kirk MacDonald (born 1959) is a Canadian jazz musician and composer. He has been nominated for four Juno Awards, with his album The Atlantic Sessions winning the 1999 Juno Award for Best Mainstream Jazz Album. He has performed on over forty albums as leader and sideman and has participated in national broadcast recordings for CBC Radio. In addition to performing extensively throughout Canada, he has performed in the U.S., France, Spain, Italy, Holland, Monaco, Australia, Korea, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. He has worked with Walter Bishop Jr., John Clayton, Rosemary Clooney, Brian Dickinson, Glenn Ferris, Sonny Greenwich, Eddie Henderson, Pat LaBarbera, Lorne Lofsky, Harold Mabern, Ron McClure, Jim McNeely, Vince Mendoza, James Moody, Bob Mover, Phil Nimmons, Sam Noto, Chris Potter, Bernie Senensky, Mike Stern, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, André White, and the Humber College Faculty Ensemble. As a composer, he has recorded over fifty of his own compositions. His compositions have been arranged for large ensembles by Canadian and American arrangers. He has been active as an educator for almost 25 years at the college and university levels. Awards and nominations As leader or soloist * 2

Kjell Habbestad

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Kjell Habbestad (born 13 April 1955 in Bømlo Municipality) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Career Habbestad studied church music at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 1976 to 1979 and graduated with a diploma from the composition course at the same institution in 1981, having studied with Olav Anton Thommessen, Finn Mortensen and Lasse Thoresen. Habbestad was active as an organist from 1974 to 1987 and, from 2013, is a professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Habbestad’s list of works comprises more than 60 works, including orchestra and chamber works, church music, cantatas, works for organ and piano as well as a number of choir works. His work Mostraspelet – a historic play depicting the Christianization of Norway – has seen annual performances in Bømlo since 1983. As a composer, Habbestad debuted with a first prize for his choir work Magnificat in TONO’s 1978 composition competition. Habbestad’s most central works to date includes the oratory Ei natt på jorda and the operas Hans Egedes natt as well as The Maid of Norway, both featuring librettos by Paal-Helge Haugen. Other key works include the string quartet Quattro Stazioni, the major piano work Hammerklavie’r, Munc

Kjetil Bjerkestrand

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Kjetil Bjerkestrand (born 18 May 1955) is a Norwegian keyboardist, composer, arranger and record producer known as music arranger for artists like Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Keith Emerson, Ian Hunter, Jon Lord, Ute Lemper and a-ha. As a musician, he has participated in recordings with a-ha, Ray Charles, Ute Lemper, Ian Hunter, Dance with a Stranger, DumDum Boys, Jonas Fjeld Band, Marius Müller, TNT, Arve Tellefsen, Bobbysocks, Bjørn Eidsvåg, Carola Häggkvist and Dee Dee Bridgewater. Career As the son and grandson of organists, playing the organ came naturally to Bjerkestrand and he started early to compose music as well. He composed music for several films and television series, many of them in collaboration with Magne Furuholmen under the name Timbersound. He received Gammleng-prisen in 1988 in the class facility, and for the music to the TV series Hotel Oslo he received Edvard Prize 1998 in the class Other form of art, together with Magne Furuholmen. He has produced albums for Anne Grete Preus, a-ha, Lynni Treekrem and Herborg Kråkevik. Along with the saxophonist Tore Brunborg, he has released two albums with Christmas music and hymns. He arranged the music for concerts by

Klaudia Pasternak

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Klaudia Pasternak (born 1980) is a Polish contemporary composer and opera conductor, who has twice been nominated for the prestigious Paszport Polityki (Policy Passport). Life Pasternak was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a musical family. At the age of 12, she began composing her own music, her first piece being a Suite for piano. At the age of 11, she started playing percussion and studied with Bogdan Lauks, in the Music High School of Józef Elsner. She also began to conduct at that time. At the age of 17, she received her first composer award. In 2000 she began studies at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. She studied composition with Stanisław Moryto and symphony – opera with Tomasz Bugaj. Pasternak lives and works in Warsaw. She is also involved in supporting democratic values and woman rights in Poland and abroad. Events In 2000 and 2005 Pasternak received a scholarship from The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. In 2000 and 2005 she was nominated to Policy Passport in the Music category. In 2000, she participated in the 20th International Composers Course in Radziejowice, organized by the Society for Contemporary Music, where she met Christina Asher

Klaus Lang

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Klaus Lang (born 26 April 1971 in Graz) is an Austrian composer, concert organist, improviser, and academic teacher. His opera Die Architektur des Regens (The Architecture of Rain) after the Noh play Shiga by Zeami was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008. In 2006, Lang was appointed Professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz. In 2010 he was awarded the Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Preis of the Steiermark. He was commissioned by Katharina Wagner to write an opera, The Vanished Wedding, to be premiered at Bayreuth, although not at the Festspielhaus and not part of the Bayreuth Festival. It is claimed to be the first world premiere at Bayreuth since the premiere of Wagner’s Parsifal in 1882. The Vanished Wedding was premiered at the Reichshof, a disused Bayreuth cinema, on 23 July 2018, the day before the start of the 2018 Bayreuth Festival. References External links * *Klaus Lang - recordings on Kairos *Klaus Lang - Wendy Network *Klaus Lang - bandcamp *Klaus Lang - music austria

Klaus Schedl

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Klaus Schedl (born 4 January 1966, in Stuttgart) is a German composer. Klaus Schedl studied from 1991 to 1996 composition with Hans-Jürgen von Bose at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. In 1993 he founded the piano possibile ensemble for contemporary music. From 1998 he taught at the conservatory of Coimbra. In 2001 he studied on a scholarship of Bavaria at the IRCAM. In 2005 he received a project scholarship from the city of Munich for City Scan München, which was premiered in 2006 as part of the Munich Biennale. In 2010 his opera Tilt, on a libretto by Roland Quitt after the diary of Sir Walter Raleigh, was performed as part of the triple bill entitled Amazonas (with Der Einsturz des Himmels and In Erwartung) at the Munich Biennale, also in São Paulo and Rotterdam. In 2011 his song cycle Les Fleurs du Mal after Charles Baudelaire was premiered. Klaus Schedl is a member of the festival A•DEvantgarde. References External links * * Klaus Schedl Komponist A•DEvantgarde * Klaus Schedl piano possibile * Recent and future performances of Schedl’s operas from Operabase

Klaus Wallrath

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Klaus Wallrath (born 13 May 1959) is a German church musician and composer. He has been responsible for church music at the Basilika St. Margareta in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim from 1987. He has composed especially song motets (Liedmotetten) on Christian hymns, and musicals on Biblical themes for children’s choirs. Compositions have been commissioned for Cologne Cathedral and the Katholikentag. Life Born in Korschenbroich, near Mönchengladbach, as a schoolboy Wallrath was given piano and organ lessons by Franzjosef Franzen (1927–1997). After his Abitur at the , Wallrath studied church music at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf from 1977 to 1982: he was trained in Catholic church music and choral conducting by Heinz Odenthal, and conducting by Hans Kast. He graduated with the post of Kantor. He went on to study piano with Leonore Auerswald, achieving a performing certificate in 1985. * Herr, du bist mein Leben (2018), on “Herr, du bist mein Leben”, for mixed choir, congregation, organ and brass, for Pueri Cantores * Ich sing dir mein Lied (2020), for mixed choir, children’s choir and piano, or organ, or brass, for Stephanie Borkenfeld-Müllers and the choir of * Es führt drei Köni

Kohta Yamamoto

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(stylized in all caps) is a Japanese composer, arranger, and lyricist who has worked on the soundtrack of many anime series. He is best known for composing the soundtrack for Attack on Titan: The Final Season, for which he won the Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Score. Biography Yamamoto was born in Tokyo, in 1987. His musician career started in 2015, with him writing songs for other artists. In 2017, alongside Hiroyuki Sawano, Yamamoto made his debut as a composer in the anime Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga, the sequel of the popular series Blue Exorcist. Since then, he has been involved in many soundtrack works, several of which with composer Hiroyuki Sawano. In February 2022, Yamamoto and Sawano were awarded at the Anime Trending Awards for their role on the soundtrack of the anime 86. On November 13, 2022, Yamamoto attended an orchestral concert event for the concluding season of Attack on Titan. The event was held at Tokyo’s Tachikawa Stage Garden, with him performing tracks from the Attack on Titans score. Yamamoto also attended the 7th Crunchyroll Anime Awards on March 4, 2023, performing the track “Ashes on the Fire” from Attack on Titan: The Final Season; he and Sawano won the

Koichi Domoto

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is a Japanese idol, singer, actor, singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, television personality, voice actor. Along with Tsuyoshi Domoto (with whom he has no blood-relation), he is a member of the duo Domoto, who holds the Guinness World Records for having the most consecutive No.1 singles since debut and the most consecutive years with a Japanese No.1 single, and with whom is one of the top 25 best-selling artists of all time in Japan. Although Domoto also actively works as a television actor and host, he is most famous for his musical SHOCK series, which he participates as the lead actor and director at the same time. SHOCK series started at the Tokyo Imperial Theatre in 2000, making him the youngest Zachō (chairman and lead role) and the first idol to perform at Imperial Theatre. With over 2000 performances, SHOCK series is now the most-performed musical and the second most-performed theatre with a single-lead in Japan. In 2018, he starred in the musical Knights’ Tale directed by John Caird as well. Career Born in Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan, Domoto joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates at the age of 12 after his sister sent in his application without his knowledge. Do

Koji Kondo

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is a Japanese composer and senior executive at the video game company Nintendo. He is best known for his contributions for the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series, with his Super Mario Bros. theme being the first piece of music from a video game included in the American National Recording Registry. Kondo was hired by Nintendo in 1984 as its first dedicated composer and is currently a Senior Officer at its Entertainment Planning & Development division. Early life Kondo was born in Nagoya, Japan, on August 13, 1961. Kondo began taking Yamaha Music classes from kindergarten, where he learned to play the electronic organ from the age of five. Kondo also played the marimba in his elementary school band. He later improved his skills with the electronic organ in a cover band that played jazz and rock music. Kondo studied at the Art Planning Department of Osaka University of Arts, but was never classically trained or academically dedicated to music. With a love of arcade video games such as Space Invaders and the early Donkey Kong series, he said video games were the only place where he could find the kind of sound creation that he was looking for. He gained experience in composing,

Koncept

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Keith Michael Whitehead (born October 10, 1985, in Queens, New York City, United States), popularly known by his stage name Koncept, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. A former employee at Fat Beats, Koncept started out drawing graffiti and also had a short stint as a DJ before he went on to start writing songs and doing freestyles until he released his first EP in 2010 titled Playing Life. In 2012, he had his first break with his debut solo album titled Awaken which featured guest appearances from Soul Khan, Homeboy Sandman, Royce da 5'9" and Sene with production credits from J57 and Marco Polo. In 2015, he collaborated with J57 to release an EP titled The Fuel which had its fair share of positive review from notable magazines including Respect Magazine, DJ Booth, HipHopDX and The Source. Early life Koncept was born and raised in Queens, New York City. He went to high school in Warwick, New York, and attended Community College in Burlington, Vermont, where he used to DJ at nights. Koncept majored in Graphic Design. In 2007, he started working at Fat Beats, a New York City-based hip hop records store where he met producer and music partner J57 as well as the group called

Konstantia Gourzi

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Konstantía Gourzí (Greek Κωνσταντία Γουρζή, born 31 March 1962 in Athens) is a Greek composer and conductor. She is professor of ensemble conducting and new music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Life and studies Born in Athens, Konstantia Gourzi received her first piano lessons at the age of seven. At thirteen, she joined the conservatorium in Athens, where she studied composition and conducting as well as piano. From 1987 to 1992, she continued her studies at Hochschule der Künste Berlin. There, she founded her first ensemble attaca berlin. During her studies in Berlin, Konstantia Gourzi completed masterclasses with composers such as Péter Eötvös, Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Walter Zimmermann; and with conductors like Michael Gielen, Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Günter Wand. An important mentor was Diether de la Motte. From 1988 to 1992, Gourzi assisted Claudio Abbado with the Berliner Philharmoniker. From 1993 to 1996, she worked closely with György Kurtág. In 1992 and 1994 she was a laureate of Deutscher Musikrat and in 1995, she won second prize at the International Competition for Conductors of

Konstantin Meladze

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Konstantin Shotayevich Meladze (; ; born 11 May 1963) is a Georgian-born Ukrainian and Russian composer and producer. He is the older brother of singer Valery Meladze and co-founder and co-producer of the Ukrainian girl group Nu Virgos (). Biography Early life Meladze was born on 11 May 1963 in Batumi to Shota and Nelly Meladze, who were engineers. He has a brother, Valery (1965) and a sister, Liana (1968). Career He has composed and produced songs for artists such as Valery Meladze, Nu Virgos, Yin-Yang, Vera Brezhneva, Albina Dzhanabaeva, Sofia Rotaru (“Ya zhe yego lyubila” and “Odin na svete”) and Polina Gagarina. He has also composed songs for a number of films, including Lilya 4-ever and a Russian 2003 version of Cinderella () and Hipsters. In 2016 and 2017 he was a judge at Vidbir, Ukraine’s National Selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. Music video appearances Personal life Konstantin was married to Jana Meladze in 1994; they have three children: Alice (2000), Liya (2004) and Valery (2005). He married Ukrainian singer Vera Brezhneva in 2015. The couple divorced in 2023. The alleged reason for the split was their disagreement over Meladze continuing to own real estate in

Konstantin Vassiliev

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Konstantin Vassiliev ( (born 1970)) is a German composer and guitarist. Life Born in Novoaltaysk, Vasilyev studied guitar at the Novosibirsk Conservatory with Arkadi Burchanow and composition with Sergei Tossin. After graduation he moved to Germany, where he continued his guitar studies with Reinbert Evers at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Münster, and his composition studies with Georg Haidu. In 1991, he organised the Chamber Ensemble Vassiliev for a combination of traditional European and Russian folk instruments, for which he wrote many compositions and arrangements. Together with the singer and reciter Günter Gall, he is also dedicated to the rediscovery of the Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko, who was expelled by the Nazis. Vasiliev is the winner of the composition competition at the Osnabrück guitar festival “Open Strings”. Work * Mountain rhapsody for guitar, A raphsody after a motif by Alban Berg. * “Den Wolken nach …”. * Konstantin Vassiliev: Sonata-Fantasy “Smoke of Love” after Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” und Sonata° auf der CD Sonatas von Roman Viazoskiy, CLCL 102 * Three Lyric Pieces * Swan Princess * Wanderer in Time * Two Russian Pieces (Guitar duet) * Due immagini

Koo Jun-hoe

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Koo Jun-hoe (, born March 31, 1997), also known by the stage name Ju-ne, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of boy group iKon under 143 Entertainment. He has made appearances on survival programs WIN: Who Is Next and Mix & Match in 2013 and 2014 respectively. Early life Koo Jun-hoe was born on March 31, 1997, in Seoul, South Korea. In March 2009, he made his first television appearance on SBS’ Star King as “13 year old Michael Jackson”. In 2011, Jun-hoe appeared on the first season of SBS’ K-pop Star. Following elimination from the show, in April 2012, he was scouted by YG Entertainment and joined the company as a trainee. Career 2013–2020: WIN: Who Is Next, Mix & Match and iKon In 2013 Jun-hoe joined Mnet reality survival program WIN: Who Is Next as a member of Team B. The show ended with Team A winning and going on to debut as Winner, and Team B returning to train under the YG label. Soon after, in 2014, YG Entertainment announced the members of Team B would be competing again in a second reality survival show, Mix & Match. The show resulted in the debut of all Team B members alongside Jung Chan-woo under the name iKon. On September 15, 2015, iKon debuted the pre-

Korede Bello

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Korede Bello ( ; born 29 February 1996) is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He signed a record deal with Mavin Records in 2014. Bello is best known for his hit single “Godwin”, a semi-gospel and pop song which became a national anthem and topped many music charts across Nigeria. Early life Korede (English:“Bring Fortune”) was born in Lagos State, where he completed his primary and secondary school education. He is of the Yoruba ethnicity. He started performing at the age of 7 and went by the stage name African Prince. Career While in primary school, Korede Bello went on to write his first song after forming a music group with a friend. He started music professionally by recording songs in the studio while in secondary school, and eventually released his first single “Forever”. Korede released his debut album titled “Belloved” in 2017. In 2016 his hit song “Do Like That” was certified gold in Canada. He studied Mass Communication at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism and holds a Higher National Diploma certificate. Korede Bello is an Associate Member of the Institute of Information Management. Mavin Records deal After the release of his first single which received relatively posi

Kostya Leontovich

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Kostyantyn Kostyantynovych Leontovich (born October 13, 1985), better known as Kostya Leontovich, is a Ukrainian film score composer, record producer, musician, mixer, singer-songwriter, founder of the label Musicball Records and Musicball Rock School. Personal life Kostya Leontovich was born and raised in Kyiv, the son of Marianna and Kostyantin Leontovich. He has one older sister, Alexandra, and one younger brother, David. His father, Kostyantyn Pavlovych Leontovich was skilled at singing and playing guitar. Kostya received his first musical lessons from him. His mother, Marianna Olegovna Leontovich is also a singer and a music teacher. As a child Kostya, tried almost all kinds of arts and activities – dances, singing in choir, piano, acrobatics, basketball, and even the circus arts. But from the age of 15 years decided to become a musician. Kostya Leontovich married Anna Leontovich in 2012, and the couple had a son in 2015. Career Although he had been performing since he was five, when he was singing on the stage of art school and even was a part of a tour to France at nine, Kostya Leontovich didn’t start playing the guitar until he was fourteen. He received his first guitar les

Kota Hoshino

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(born April 23, 1975) is a Japanese composer and sound designer. As part of FromSoftware’s sound team, Hoshino is best known for composing multiple games in the Armored Core series and as the bassist and vocalist of FreQuency. Career Kota Hoshino was born in Tokyo, Japan on April 23, 1975, and studied at Surugadai University. Hoshino began working at FromSoftware in spring of 1998, feeling that his music would complement the games’ visuals. His first role was composing music for Shadow Tower for the PlayStation. As the game uses very little music, many of Hoshino’s contributions were unused, though some unused tracks were later used in Evergrace. The same year, he contributed music for Echo Night. Hoshino stated that he cannot read music, so he usually does not compose orchestral scores. Hoshino was the composer and sound designer for Evergrace, which released in 2000 for the PlayStation 2. For the soundtrack, Hoshino used voices as the primary instrument, editing samples of his own with Sound Forge to create an “ethnic” sound, in addition to instruments including shakuhachi, shamisen, and synthesized percussion. Following the game’s release, Hoshino worked mainly on sound design,

Kramer (musician)

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Mark Kramer (born November 30, 1958, in New York City, United States), known professionally as Kramer, is a musician, composer, record producer and founder of the New York City record label Shimmy-Disc. He was a full-time member of the bands New York Gong, Shockabilly, B.A.L.L. and Bongwater; has played on tour (usually on bass guitar) with bands such as Butthole Surfers, Ween, Half Japanese and The Fugs (1984 reunion tour); and has performed regularly with John Zorn and other improvising musicians of New York City’s “downtown scene” of the 1980s. Kramer’s work as a producer has been with bands such as Galaxie 500 (whose entire oeuvre he produced), Low (whom he discovered and produced), Half Japanese, White Zombie, Gwar, King Missile, Danielson Familie, Will Oldham, Daniel Johnston, and Urge Overkill, including their hit cover of “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon”. Early music career Kramer’s first experience in the New York music scene came when he played in the band New York Gong, led by Daevid Allen, in 1979 and 1980. Kramer played organ on one song on their 1979 album About Time. In 1980, Kramer joined the band The Chadbournes, led by Eugene Chadbourne, which also included David Li

Kris Defoort

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Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. He is the brother of the famous Wim “Dj Willie”, “the living pop encyclopedia” Defoort, Belgian saxophonist Bart Defoort and Koen Defoort. Early life Kris Defoort was born in Bruges, Belgium. His brother is saxophonist and composer Bart Defoort. In 1978, he entered the conservatory in Antwerp to study early music and recorder. He graduated four years later, and then decided to study contemporary music and jazz at the Liège conservatory. Frederic Rzewski, Henri Pousseur and Garrett List were among his teachers. He also teaches at the Brussels conservatory. Opera and music-theatre In 1998, Defoort became a composer-in-residence at LOD, a production company specialising in contemporary music theatre in Ghent. His first work for them was the dance piece Passages with Fatou Traoré, premiered in 2001. His first opera, created in collaboration with director Guy Cassiers was The Woman Who Walked into Doors, after the novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle. It premiered in November 2001 at deSingel in Ghent, before a very successful tour of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the Festival d’Automne in Paris, the Musica fe

Krishna Levy

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Krishna Levy (born on May 27, 1964, in New Delhi, India) is a French film score composer. He studied music in USA but lives and works in Paris (France). Filmography (selection) *1995 : Fast directed by Dante Desarthe. *1996 : Comment je me suis disputé… (ma vie sexuelle) directed by Arnaud Desplechin. *1999 : Karnaval directed by Thomas Vincent. *2000 : Cours toujours directed by Dante Desarthe. *2001 : Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue directed by Nabil Ayouch. *2001 : Quand on sera grand directed by Renaud Cohen *2002 : 8 Women (8 Femmes) directed by François Ozon. *2004 : Je suis un assassin directed by Thomas Vincent. *2004 : Le Dernier Trappeur directed by Nicolas Vanier. *2006 : Je me fais rare directed by Dante Desarthe. *2006 : The Fall directed by Tarsem Singh. *2007 : Contre-enquête directed by Franck Mancuso. *2008 : Whatever Lola Wants directed by Nabil Ayouch. *2008 : Le Nouveau Protocole directed by Thomas Vincent. *2009 : Je l’aimais directed by Zabou Breitman *2009 : directed by Nicolas Vanier. *2011 : 1, 2, 3, voleurs directed by Gilles Mimouni (TV) *2012 : Je fais feu de tout bois directed by Dante Desarthe. *2013 : Dancing in Jaffa directed by Hilla Medalia. Awards *

Krister Dreyer

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Krister Dreyer (born 11 September 1974 in Sandefjord, Norway), commonly known as Morfeus, is a Norwegian musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Morfeus is noted for his work in several bands in Norway, including Mayhem, Limbonic Art, Dimension F3H and Viper Solfa. Discography With Limbonic Art * Promo Rehearsal ‘95 (Demo) (1995) * Promo 1996 (Demo) (1996) * Moon in the Scorpio (1996) *In Abhorrence Dementia (1997) * Epitome of Illusions (1998) *Ad Noctum - Dynasty of Death (1999) * The Ultimate Death Worship (2002) *Legacy of Evil (2007) With Dimension F3H (as Mr. Morfeus): * The 3rd Generation Armageddon (Demo) (2000) * A Presentation of Armageddon (EP) (2002) * Reaping the World Winds (2003) * Does the Pain Excite You? (2007) With Viper Solfa (as Morfeus): *Carving an Icon (2015) As a guest or session musician * Ad Inferna. In Opus 7: Elevation (2014), song “InVisible” * Ad Inferna. In L’Empire des Sens (2001), song “The Vampyrik Supremacy” * Aeon Winds. In And Night Shall Have Dominion (EP) (2014) * Dark Fortress. In Profane Genocidal Creations (2003) * Finnugor: In Darkness Needs Us (2004) * Immemoreal. In Towards 1347 (Demo) (1999) * Immemoreal: In Temple of R

Kristin Kuster

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Kristin P. Kuster (born 1973) is an American composer of symphonic, vocal and chamber music. Biography Kuster was born Kristin Peterson in Raleigh, North Carolina and grew up in Boulder, Colorado. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied with William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, Evan Chambers, and William Albright. She was awarded the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Underwood Emerging Composer Commission from American Composers Orchestra. Kuster is an Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was married to Andrew Kuster from 1997 to 2011. Style Kuster “writes commandingly for the orchestra,” and her music “has an invitingly tart edge” (The New York Times). Kuster’s colorfully enthralling compositions take inspiration from architectural space, the weather, and mythology. Her orchestral music “unquestionably demonstrates her expertise in crafting unique timbres” (Steve Smith, Night after Night). Works Orchestra and orchestra with voices * Iron Diamond (2005) * Myrrha (2006) * Beneath This S

Kristin Mellem

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Kristin Mellem (born 21 March 1965) is a Norwegian musician (violin), composer and conductor known for her involvement in Northern Norway’s musical scene. She was educated at and Bergen Music Conservatory (1984–1990) and has worked as a violin teacher in Balsfjord, Bergen, Hadsel, and Tromsø. Furthermore, she has been named regional musician and conductor of the Vesterålen Symphony Orchestra, part of the (1987–1997), Tromsø Symphony Orchestra (1993–present), associated with Hålogaland Teater (, 2002) and Rikskonsertene (1997–2000). Mellem has contributed to the Eventyr festival in Tromsø since 1998, toured with Boknakaran (2001–2002), and contributed to releases with Moya på Tvoya. With the Tromsø Symphony Orchestra she composed the performance (Travels through time, 2002). In 2004, she composed (Meeting of voices) with Solveig Kringlebotn and Ingor Ánte Áilo Gaup (joik) for Nordlysfestivalen; together with Gaup, Jeđđehus was released the following year and nominated for the 2005 Edvardprisen. In cooperation with she composed and performed fiddle music with the Tromsø Symphony Orchestra for the production – (2004). The other musicians involved were Finn Sletten (percussion) and (vi

Kristjan Kõrver

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Kristjan Kõrver (born 1 October 1976, in Tallinn) is an Estonian composer. In 1997, Kristjan Kõrver graduated in music theory from the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School where he also studied composition with Alo Põldmäe. His music has been performed in various ensembles such as the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, as well as by conductors Risto Joost and Lauri Sirp, mezzo soprano Iris Oja, Estonian zither (kannel) player Kristi Mühling, flutist Tarmo Johannes, cellist Leho Karin, Ensemble Resonabilis, pianists Kai Ratassepp and Irina Zahharenkova, Quartet SaxEst and many others. He studied composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, graduating in 2003. - 2007 Gratis dictum Ensemble work For instrumental ensemble - 2009 Symphonism 12 Orchestral work For symphony orchestra - 2013 The Iron-Ants (Raud-Ants) Chamber opera Opera for small ensemble and voices - 2016 Schizzo concertato Orchestral work For string orchestra References

Kristoffer Tømmerbakke

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Kristoffer Chaka Bwanausi Tømmerbakke (born 23 June 1983). better known by his stage name Kriss, is a Norwegian producer, songwriter and rapper. He got his break as half of the rap duo Erik & Kriss in 2007, one of the most successful Norwegian artists over the past decade. Tømmerbakke has since written and produced eight Top10 singles in Norway as part of the group. Kriss took his first steps internationally with a Swedish Spotify #1 with the artist Kamferdrops in 2017, and saw his international stock rise with his work on Robin Schulz feat Alida “In Your Eyes” that hit #1 on Billboard Dance. The track was also at the Global 100 on Spotify (peaking at #86th), and reaching Top10 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Tømmerbakke has also worked with K-pop group Twice, on their EP Taste of Love (EP), which reached #6 on the Billboard Top 200, and #2 in the Korean Album Charts. References

Kristoffer Zegers

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Kristoffer Zegers (born 27 December 1973) is a Dutch composer. Life Zegers was born in Breda, and was taught by Gilius van Bergeijk, Jan Boerman, Martijn Padding, Clarence Barlow, Diderik Wagenaar at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Career In Zegers’ music microtonal clusters are the main object. His music is about slow developments in clusters via glissandi. Because of that: his motto “Glissandéz mes enfants, Glissandéz toujours!” after César Franck: “Moduléz mes enfants, Moduléz toujours!”. Zegers most important work is Pianophasing, composition for 20 to 60 pianos. This work is played in the United Kingdom, Australia and several places in The Netherlands. Important works *Pianophasing (2004) (Novembermusic the Netherlands) *Pianophasing II (2009) (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, England) *Pianophasing III (2012) (the Soundstream Festival in Adelaide Australia) External links *Kristoffer Zegers *Pianophasing Shortlisted: Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards *Documentary film Pianophasing II Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield England *Pianophasing II Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield England *Novembermusic in the Netherland

Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak

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Krzysztof Aleksander Janczak (born 1 May 1983) is a Polish composer of film, classical and TV music, sound designer and musicologist. Biography Janczak was born on 1 May 1983 in Warsaw, Poland. From 2002 to 2006 he studied in Institute of Musicology at University of Warsaw. In 2007, he got his Diploma of Musicology and received the Artistic Scholarship of the French Government. He continued his studies in composition and orchestration classes in École Normale de Musique de Paris and Maurice Ravel Conservatory in Paris with Michel Merlet, the winner of the Grand Prix de Rome and former student of Olivier Messiaen and Igor Stravinsky. In 2008 he got his Diplomas of musical composition and Orchestration with a special mention and in 2009 he got Advanced Diploma of Orchestration. Janczak is the award-winning composer of film, classical and television music. He received the prizes and distinctions at numerous festivals and competitions, among other: International Film Festival Camerimage in Łódź (2004 and 2008); Silver Cross of Merit form President of Poland in Warsaw (2006); 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize at the International Composers Competition “Garden Music” in Kraków (2007, 2009 and 2011)

Kuba Badach

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Kuba Badach ( Polish pronunciation : ; born 24 August 1976) is a Polish singer, composer, arranger, music producer, music journalist and television personality. He’s a co-founder and member of the band Poluzjanci and member of the band The Globetrotters. In 2024, Badach became a coach on the fifteenth season of The Voice of Poland. Badach was the winning coach when his artist Anna Iwanek won the season. Discography With Poluzjanci * Tak po prostu (2000) *Druga płyta (2010) With The Globetrotters * The Globetrotters (2000) * Fairy Tales of the Trees (2003) Solo * Gwiazdkowe cuda (1988) * Tribute to Andrzej Zaucha. Obecny (2009) * Oldschool (2017) References

Kumiko Omura

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is a Japanese composer in the field of contemporary instrumental and electronic music. Career Omura studied with Isao Matsushita, Kenjirō Urata and Jo Kondo at the Tokyo University of the Arts. She then took music composition with Prof. Nicolaus A. Huber and electronic music with Ludger Brümmer and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. She further studied electronic music at IRCAM in Paris, and Intermedia Art (master’s degree) with Kiyoshi Furukawa in Tokyo. Her music has been performed in Japan, Korea, USA, and Europe (Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, musica viva in Munich, Festival AGORA, Festival Acanthe in France, Gaudeamus Music Week in the Netherlands, Emufest in Italy, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik in Austria and Music from Japan in New York) by such orchestras and ensembles as the New Japan Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern, musikFabrik, Ensemble recherche, Ensemble resonanz and Nieuw Ensemble. Between 2006 and 2010, she was a guest artist at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany, and from 2010–2011 she was a composer-in-residence at Künstlerhof Schreyahn. Recognition * 1994: Irino Prize in Japan * 1998: Gaudeamus Inte

Kurt Stallmann

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Kurt Stallmann (born 1964) is an American composer who lives and works in Houston, Texas. Education Kurt Stallmann was born in Rockford, Illinois. In 1987, he received a bachelor’s degree in music from Northern Illinois University. That year, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he composed, improvised, and collaborated with modern dance choreographers. In 1990, Yasuko Tokunaga invited Stallmann to join the Dance Division faculty at The Boston Conservatory to design a course for dancers that developed listening and analysis skills for the purpose of creating new choreography. In 1992, after several years of working with dance, he returned to a concentrated musical environment by entering the PhD program in music composition at Harvard University, where his primary teachers were Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky. As a student, he also assisted composer Ivan Tcherepnin with electronic music courses for several years. Teaching In 1999, after graduating, Stallmann joined the Harvard Music Department faculty, as Assistant Professor of Music. During this time, he combined the two studios then at Harvard (HEMS, created by Tcherepnin, and HCMC, created by Davidovsky) into one entity,

Kyle Gann

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Kyle Eugene Gann (born November 21, 1955, in Dallas, Texas) is an American composer, professor of music, critic, analyst, and musicologist who has worked primarily in the New York City area. As a music critic for The Village Voice (from 1986 to 2005) and other publications, he has supported progressive music, including such “downtown” movements as postminimalism and totalism. Biography Gann was born in 1955 and raised in a musical family. He began composing at the age of 13. After graduating in 1973 from Dallas’s Skyline High School, he attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he obtained a B.Mus. in 1977, and Northwestern University, where he received his M.Mus. and D.Mus. in 1981 and 1983, respectively. As well as studying composition with Randolph Coleman at Oberlin, he also studied Renaissance counterpoint with Greg Proctor at the University of Texas at Austin. which was written for solo piano in 1959 and later revised. The creation of November was inspired by Johnson’s UCLA college friend La Monte Young’s Trio for Strings, written in 1958. Johnson recorded part of it in 1962 on audio cassette. November was in turn an inspiration for Young’s 1964 The Well-Tuned Piano. Youn

Kyoungyoon

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Lee Kyoung-yoon (, born February 21, 2000), also known by the mononym Kyoungyoon, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a former member of the boy group DKZ. He received his first main role as a television actor in a June 2021 EBS’ international co-production drama, Beasts of Asia. He also starred in musical productions such as Equal and The Three Musketeers. Early life and education Lee Kyoung-yoon was born on February 21, 2000, in Yeongdeok County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Kyoungyoon first dreamed of becoming a singer when he was in middle school after he heard Park Hyo-shin’s “Beautiful Tomorrow”. Before debuting as an idol, he had been training as an athlete and even formed a band where he was active as a guitarist and vocalist. After graduating from high school, Kyoungyoon entered the Department of Broadcasting and Entertainment at Global Cyber University. Career DKZ As a Dongyo trainee, Kyoungyoon was already part of group activities before his official debut. He officially debuted on April 24, 2019, as part of the 5-member boy group, Dongkiz. Although the group has no assigned positions, Kyoungyoon has been in charge of the vocals in the group. During the

L.A.X (musician)

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Damilola Afolabi (born April 10, 1993), known professionally as L.A.X is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and rapper. L.A.X started out as a rapper and was part of a three-man group called Flyboiz while he was still in high school. On August 20, 2013, L.A.X signed a major-label deal with Starboy Entertainment Life and career Damilola Afolabi was born in Lagos State, Nigeria. He had his secondary school education at Nigerian Turkish International College, Lagos where he formed a music group called Flyboiz, releasing a single titled “Busy Body”. With the view of furthering his education, L.A.X left the group to study in the United Kingdom where he started recording songs and shot few videos. In 2012, L.A.X released his first major single “Jaye” which featured vocal appearance from Ice Prince. Upon his return to Nigeria, he met Wizkid through his stylist and went on to sign his first professional recording contract with Starboy Entertainment in 2013. “Caro” gained massive airplay and was critically accepted among music critics. The song was nominated in the “Hottest Single of The Year” category at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Following the success of “Caro”, L.A.X featured Wizki

Lane Tietgen

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Lane Tietgen (born Topeka, Kansas ) was an American poet, composer and musician who sang and played guitar and bass. Tietgen lived in the Bay Area in California. He died on 14 July 2020, as reported in the Sonoma News A number of Tietgen’s songs have been covered by famous musicians, including “Captain Bobby Stout” and “Martha’s Madman” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, “Early Bird Cafe” by John Mellencamp, “It Can’t Make Any Difference to Me” by Dave Mason, and “Red and Black Blues” by Ringo Starr. In 2006 Ice Cube used a melody by Tietgen for his song, “Click, Clack – Get Back!,” on the album Laugh Now, Cry Later. Tietgen began his musical career as the guitarist and primary songwriter for The Serfs, who achieved some fame in and around the band’s home state of Kansas. In 1970, the blues-jazz-rock band, The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, recorded seven Tietgen compositions, including “Captain Bobby Stout”, “Early Bird Cafe”, and “Martha’s Madman”. The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood featured Hahn, Mike Finnigan, Clyde Graves and George Marsh. In 2009 The Serfs were inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame. That same year, Tietgen released a solo album, Wheels of Fortune, featuring all original so

Lansing McLoskey

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Lansing McLoskey (born 1964) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His Zealot Canticles: An Oratorio for Tolerance was a winner of the 61st Annual Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance by the ensemble The Crossing. McLoskey serves as a Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music in Miami, Florida. He has been commissioned by Guerilla Opera, Copland House, The Fromm Foundation, The Barlow Endowment, N.E.A., The Crossing, ensemberlino vocale, New Spectrum Foundation, Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion, Passepartout Duo, the Boston Choral Ensemble, and Kammerkoret NOVA. Early life McLoskey was born to Robert and JoAnn McLoskey in 1964. His grandfather, Heinrich “Henry” L. Hansen was born in Denmark. Growing up in Cupertino, California, Lansing came from a musical family. His mother minored in piano performance at Cal State Fresno, his father played saxophone, and his grandfather, Illinois congressman Robert T. McLoskey, played violin in a regional orchestra. As a teenager, McLoskey learned to play piano, guitar, and saxophone. He started writing rock songs at 14 after buying an electric guitar at a flea market. After high school, McLoskey studied abroad as a stu

Larry Goves

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Larry Goves (born 1980 in Cardiff, Wales) is a British composer. A PhD student at the University of Southampton, his tutor is Michael Finnissy. In addition to Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, he has studied privately with Richard Barrett and Simon Holt. He has received commissions from the Nash Ensemble, the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Philharmonic and many others. He is a founder and performer with the ensemble the House of Bedlam. His music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The chamber piece walking underground (2000) was recorded by the London Sinfonietta on the NMC label, as has his solo oboe piece the tentacles of memory (2003), released on Dutton Epoch. Goves has been serving as Head of School of Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music since 2023. In 2011, Goves’ work Virtual Airport was nominated for the Chamber-Scale Composition Prize at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. In 2023 Goves received an Ivor Novello Award nomination at The Ivors Classical Awards 2023. Crow Rotations for soprano, flute/alto flute, alto saxophone, cello and electronics was nominated for Best Small Chamber Composition. References Ex

Larry Mullins (musician)

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Lawrence Edward Mullins, also known as Toby Dammit, (born 13 December 1966 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American musician, record producer, and composer. A multi-instrumentalist (primarily drums, percussion, and keyboards), Mullins is best known as a member of the bands Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Swans, as well as a former member of The Stooges and other incarnations of Iggy Pop’s bands. He has also worked extensively in music for films and television, and had a performance role in the German cable series Babylon Berlin. Music career Mullins played drums in Iggy Pop’s band from 1990 to 1999, recording three albums and additional works created specifically for films. In 2011, he joined Iggy and The Stooges in England, and remained their live drummer until their final performance in 2013. Mullins joined Swans in 1995 and continued working with Swans frontman Michael Gira in Angels of Light into 2003. He rejoined Swans in 2019 for the recording of their album Leaving Meaning, and remains a member as of 2026. Mullins’s percussion work appeared throughout the score for Johnny Depp’s 1997 film The Brave, where he is credited as “Lawrence Mullins.” His original composition for the

Lars Petter Hagen

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Lars Petter Hagen (born 2 August 1975) is a Norwegian contemporary composer, former director of the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival and currently an adviser for the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Biography Hagen studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and has written instrumental works, electro-acoustic pieces as well as music for film and theatre. 2003 saw Hagen bestowed with the Arne Nordheim’s Composer Prize and in 2004 he received the Edvard Prize in the contemporary music category. He received a 2013 Spellemannprisen Award in the Composer category for a release with the Oslo Philharmonic, Rolf Gupta and Gjermund Larsen featuring his works. Hagen has also served as artistic director for Ny Musikk (the Norwegian section of the ISCM) and festivals Happy Days, Nordic Music Days and the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival. Hagen was appointed as permanent artistic director for the Ultima Festival in 2012, after having held the position on a temporary basis in 2009 and 2010. 2010 saw Hagen being nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his music composed for NYC-based theatre production company Wakka Wakka Productions’ show Baby Universe. 2012 saw Hagen releasing the album

Lars Taylor

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Lars Rainer Rüetschi (born March 24, 1977), professional known as Lars Taylor, is a Swiss fusion guitarist, composer, and producer. He has collaborated with many notable musicians and Grammy Award winners, including Donny McCaslin, Mark Soskin, Paul Brown, and Bob Glaub. Early life Lars Taylor was born in Switzerland, but spent a portion of his childhood in Brazil, where music such as Bossa Nova influenced him. He played the piano for seven years before discovering the guitar at the age of 14. At the age of 15, Lars bought a 4-track recorder, recording, arranging and producing his own compositions, having already his first professional studio job as a session player for a single recording when he was 17. Career From 1998 to 2002, Lars Taylor studied jazz guitar in the Basel Music Academy’s After being discovered in 2008 by the Angolan rapper Diamondog, he became part of his band playing in legendary places and festivals like Kunsthaus Tacheles, Fête de la Musique and old DDR place Kaffee Burger. In 2009 Taylor was also a session guitar player for the New German Wave band 1. Futurologischer Congress, contributed tracks for the album Küssmichdoch from German pop singer Christin Henke

Larysa Kuzmenko

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Larysa Kuzmenko (born 1956) is a Juno Awards-nominated Canadian composer and pianist based in Toronto, Ontario. She currently teaches on the music faculties of The Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto. Early life Kuzmenko was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, to Ukrainian parents. She studied music at the University of Toronto, earning a master’s degree in composition. Career Kuzmenko has been commissioned to write pieces by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, the International Women’s Brass Conference, the Laidlaw Foundation, the Oberlin Choristers, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Royal Canadian College of Organists. In 2003 her work “Impromptu and Toccata” was premiered in Toronto. Kuzmenko’s oratorio “Golden Harvest” was first performed by the Winnipeg Symphony in 2016. For Canada’s 150th Anniversary, she collaborated with Newfoundland playwright Robert Chafe to create a choral adaptation of Brahms Intermezzo. The work was performed by the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Shallaway Youth Choir of St. John’s, Newfoundland. Many of Kuzmenko’s works have been published by Boosey and Hawkes. Her composition “My

László Tihanyi

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László Tihanyi (born 21 March 1956) is a Hungarian composer and conductor. Biography László Tihanyi was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 21 March 1956, and pursued musical studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, where he studied composition with Rezső Sugár and conducting with András Kórodi. Since 1979, Tihanyi serves as a devoted professor at the Academy of Music, where he acted also as vice-rector between 2000 and 2005. He regularly conducts at home and abroad, typically 20th century classical and contemporary programmes. He appeared with all major Hungarian orchestras and significant European contemporary music ensembles, as Ensemble Modern, Contrechamps and MusikFabrik. In 1991, he participated in the production of Maderna’s Hyperion at the Festival D’Automne à Paris and the subsequent European tour. In 2002, Péter Eötvös asked him to be second conductor of his opera Three Sisters for the 2002 production for the Wiener Festwochen (besides Eötvös being first conductor himself). In 1985, founded his own instrumental ensemble, the Intermodulation, dedicated to 20th and 21st Century music, and has been the artistic director since then. Tihanyi is the winner of prestigio

Laura Andel

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Laura Andel (born 1968) is an Argentinian musician, conductor and composer. Biography Laura Andel was born in Argentina and has Moldovan descent. She began music lessons in Buenos Aires at the age of five. She played woodwind as a child and began to compose at an early age. She graduated from Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda in Buenos Aires with a degree in Tango performance, and in January 1993, she began the study of jazz composition and music for film at Berklee College of Music in Boston. After completing her studies, Andel moved to New York City in 2000 where she has worked as a composer and conductor. She is the leader of the Laura Andel Orchestra and has conducted her music in cities including New York, Boston, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Berlin. She is an associate professor at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York in the Bronx. Awards and honors *BMI Foundation-Jerry Harrington Jazz Composers Award *Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the Bellagio Study Center in Italy *Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program Grant from the American Music Center *Music Composition Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council *Artist-in-residence at the M

Laura Canoura

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Laura Canoura Sande (born 2 January 1957) is a singer and composer of popular Uruguayan music. She is considered one of the most renowned female solo artists in Uruguay. Biography Early career Canoura was born in Montevideo to José Coco Canoura, the son of a Galician immigrant, and his wife Carmen Pocha Sande. In 1978 she finished her studies in theater at the school of actors Roberto Fontana and Nelly Goitiño. Shortly afterward, her participation in the Conservatorio del Núcleo de Estudios Musicales gave her the opportunity to meet several musicians with whom she would form the group Rumbo. Rumbo Beginnings In early 1979, her connection began with musicians Mauricio Ubal, Gonzalo Moreira, Gustavo Ripa, Miguel López, and Carlos Vicente, which led to the founding of the musical group Rumbo. They offered their first performance in the Teatro Astral in June 1979. Their first full-length recording, entitled “Para abrir la noche,” was edited by the label Ayuí / Tacuabé in 1980. In the following years, they edited the two other albums that would make up their discography: “Sosteniendo la pared” in 1982 and “Otro tiempo” in 1985 and offered concerts around Uruguay, performing on several o

Laura Kaminsky

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Laura Kaminsky (born September 28, 1956) is an American composer, producer of musical and multi-disciplinary cultural events, and educator. She was born in New York City, graduated from the High School of Music and Art, and studied with Joseph Wood at Oberlin College and Mario Davidovsky at City College of New York. She graduated from City College/CUNY with a Master of Arts degree in composition in 1980. Career Kaminsky has maintained an active composing studio and has had her music performed internationally. She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowships. In addition, her music has been extensively recorded. She has received national recognition for her innovative cultural programming and has held posts at a number of important institutions including New York City’s 92nd Street Y, Town Hall, and Symphony Space, where she is currently artistic director. In 1984 she co-founded and remains the artistic director of the new music collective, Musicians Accord, which is in residence at City College of New York, where the ensemble members work with Professor David Del Tredici and his graduate composition students. From 1992-93 Kaminsky lived and worked in Ghana, where

Laura Rossi

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Laura Rossi is a British composer of film and concert works. Originally from Devon, she graduated with a master’s degree from the London College of Music, having previously studied at the University of Liverpool. Work Her credits include scores for films including Paul Andrew Williams’s London to Brighton and The Cottage, Song for Marion and The Eichmann Show. Rossi has scored music for many silent films such as Silent Shakespeare and Jane Shore for the British Film Institute. She was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum in 2006 to write an orchestral score to accompany the digitally restored 1916 film The Battle of the Somme. In the centenary year, 100 live orchestral screenings of the film with Rossi’s score took place worldwide to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle. In 2014, Rossi’s work Voices of Remembrance, inspired by ten of World War I’s most famous poems, was recorded with the Chamber Orchestra of London with readings by Vanessa Redgrave and Ralph Fiennes. Rossi is working as a lecturer in Film Music at the London Film Academy. Filmography * Hurricane (2018) *The Eichmann Show (2015) * Unfinished Song (2013) * The Battle of the Ancre (2012) * Song for Marion (2012

Laura Schwendinger

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Laura Elise Schwendinger (born January 26, 1962) was the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin’s Berlin Prize. Biography Schwendinger was the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin Prize, and her opera Artemisia, is the winner of the 2023, American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Opera Award, the largest such award for vocal music in the US. Additionally, she is a recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships from the Yaddo Colony, MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Center. She is a Professor of Composition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also the Artistic Director of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and Head of Composition. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, where she studied with Andrew Imbrie and Olly Wilson. Schwendinger has been invited to present her music to seminars at Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Juilliard School, the University of California at Berkeley Davis, University of California Los Angeles, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Royal Irish Academy o

Lauren Bernofsky

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Lauren Bernofsky is an American composer of solo, chamber and choral music as well as larger-scale works for orchestra, film, musical, opera, and ballet. Trained as a violinist, she is particularly known for her writing for brass and winds. Her Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra is frequently performed as audition and recital repertoire and has been featured in the journal of the International Trumpet Guild; it was also the subject of a doctoral dissertation. Her piece “Sonatine” for flute and piano won the National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Competition. She has taught at the Peabody Institute. Bernofsky studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), The Hartt School, where she was a student of Eric Rosenblith, New England Conservatory of Music, and at Boston University, where she studied under Lukas Foss. While at NOCCA, she met and took lessons from Ellis Marsalis. Bernofsky’s music is generally tonal/modal, showing influences of Shostakovich, Ravel, Prokofiev, klezmer, and other Eastern European folk music, and often features soaring melodic lines set over syncopation-fueled rhythms and contemporary/experimental approaches to chord structure. Her Tr

Laurence Crane

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Laurence Crane (born 1961 in Oxford) is a British composer of contemporary classical music. Career Laurence Crane is closely associated with the ensemble Apartment House, who have given over 40 performances of his works. Some performances they have given include Riis (1996) and John White in Berlin (2003). He has written a considerable amount of piano music. Pianists who have performed his work include Michael Finnissy, Thalia Myers and John Tilbury. His piece Octet was shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in the Chamber-Scale Composition category, along with works by Harrison Birtwistle and Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 2017, he won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2017. In the same year, his piece Omloop Het Ives for bass flute and string quartet was nominated for the British Composer Awards. In 2021, Juliet Fraser, in association with Oxford Lieder Festival and Musica Sacra Maastricht, commissioned Crane to write a new piece that responds to the work of marine biologist Rachel Carson. The commission, Natural World for soprano and piano/sampler keyboard, won the Small Chamber Ivor Novello Award in 2022. Commenting on the piece, the jury added

Laurence Owen (composer)

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Laurence Owen is a British composer, musician, comedian and actor. Early career Laurence Owen’s career began in the 1990s as a child actor. He had notable credits in the feature film Wilde (playing Vyvyan Wilde opposite Stephen Fry) and the BBC period drama Berkeley Square, in which he had a recurring role. Composer Owen attended Brighton University from which he graduated with First Class Honours in Digital Music and Sound Arts. Since 2011 he has written music for a number of stage and film projects, including several short pieces for film festivals. In 2013, he won the Früh Kölsch Audience Award for Best Music in a Short Film for his score for the animated short White Morning. In the Autumn of the same year he provided sound design for 1927 Productions’ Golem, which was first performed at the Salzburg Festival before transferring to the Young Vic, London, and the Théâtre de la Ville, Paris. For his work on Golem, he was nominated for Best Theatre Sound at the Pro Sound Awards 2015. Owen was composer and musical director of the live music and cartoon theatre show Cat & Mouse, a 1927 and Village Underground co-production which was also part of the 2017 Latitude Festival. In 2019, h

Laurence Traiger

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Laurence Traiger (October 16, 1956 – October 18, 2024) was an American composer. Originally from Bellmore, Long Island, New York, he studied and worked in Europe since 1976. Life and career At age 11 he composed duos for violin; at age 14 he took lessons in harmony, counterpoint and composition from his violin instructor, William Cosgriff, and at 16 had a work performed at the Hartt School of Music. In 1974 he graduated from John F. Kennedy High School (Bellmore, New York) where he studied under Barry A. Beeber and performed with the Long Island Youth Orchestra and the Long Island Holiday Festival Orchestra under Martin C. Dreiwitz. He received a scholarship from the University of Kansas, studying composition under Prof. John Pozdro. Leaving Kansas after his sophomore year, he moved to Europe. He first studied with Prof. Cesar Bresgen at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, graduating in 1980. From 1980 to 1982 Traiger studied at the Conservatoire National in Paris with Ivo Malec. In 1982 he became a student in the master class of Wilhelm Killmayer at the Munich College of Music. His list of works include chamber music, choral music, orchestral music, film music as well as composi

Laurent Ferlet

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Laurent Ferlet (born 5 October 1961) in Paris is a French classical pianist, arranger and composer with a focus on film music. Filmography Film Ferlet composed music for film including: *Le seigneur des aigles (1991) * Hanuman (1998) *Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins (2008) * (On the Way to School) (2013) * Bären (2014) * Peru – Eine Jugend zwischen Urwald und Großstadt (2018) * A Child’s Smile (2018) * Gogo (2019) Television *Une femme d’honneur (1996-2008) References External links * * * * Laurent Ferlet (in German) filmstarts.de * Musiques de campagne : quand les candidats veulent se faire entendre (in French) francetvinfo.fr

Laurent Lefrançois

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Laurent Lefrançois (born in 1974 in Caen) is a French composer. Life Winner of the Claude Arrieu Prize of the Sacem in 2016 and public prize at the international competition for young composers in Boulogne in 2006 (with Philippe Hersant as president of the jury), Lefrançois graduated from the École normale de musique de Paris in orchestration and musical composition in Michel Merlet’s class. He studied harmony and counterpoint with Stéphane Delplace and composition with Guillaume Connesson. Lefrançois received commissions from the in 2004, from for the Alternance Ensemble, from ProQuartet in 2006, for the Modigliani Quartet and Lise Berthaud, from Alla breve at Radio France, from the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier in 2007, for the pianist Cyril Guillotin, from the in 2009, for Ria Ideta and Paul Meyer, from the orchestra in 2014 under the baton of Frédéric Lodéon and from in 2016 for clarinetist Paul Meyer and the Rouen Orchestra. Works * Sextuor, commission from Radio France for the Festival Présences 2004 * Erinnerung, sextet for string instruments, commission from Proquartet * Padouk Phantasticus for strings, commission from the Festival international de musique de Salo

Lawnie Wallace

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Lawnie Wallace (born April 15, 1977) is a Canadian country singer. Wallace recorded one studio album for MCA Canada, Thought I Was Dreaming, in 1996. Four singles from the album charted on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada, including the number 8-peaking title track. Biography Wallace was born in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada. At age seven she began performing and writing songs. At the age of fifteen Wallace signed a publishing deal with TMP Publishing, and an artist development deal with Warner Chappell. After relocating to Nashville she began co-writing songs. Before the age of seventeen Wallace had signed a major record deal with MCA Records and began touring to promote her first album Thought I was Dreaming. Following this tour she took a break from the stage, working with students wanting to get into the Radio and TV business. In 2015 Wallace released her second album, The Lost Years, and has returned to performing live with her band The Chosen Ones. Discography Albums Singles Music videos References

Lawrence Chandler

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Lawrence Dean Chandler (born 27 November 1961) is a British American composer, musician, producer and sound artist based in London. Best known as a founding member of seminal New York duo Bowery Electric, he works in ambient, contemporary classical, electronic and experimental styles. Life and career Chandler studied English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences before pursuing formal training in music composition. Following Bowery Electric’s final tour in 2000, he took a hiatus during which he studied composition privately with La Monte Young and Pauline Oliveros, with Conrad Cummings at The Juilliard School, worked for Philip Glass and completed a Master of Music in Composition from Goldsmiths College in London. He returned in 2009 with Everybody Here Is Fine, commissioned for Make Music New York and premiered at The Bell House, Brooklyn on 21 June 2009. Subsequent works include: Music for Rock Ensemble, commissioned for 50 Years of Minimalism, premiered by Chandler, Katia and Marielle Labèque and ensemble at Kings Place, London on 26 November 2011;The Tuning of the World, a realisation of his evolving 24-hour, 24 part, sustained

Lawrence Dillon

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Lawrence Dillon (born July 3, 1959) is an American composer, and Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His music has a wide range of expression, generally within a tonal idiom notable both for its rhythmic propulsiveness and a strong lyrical element. Acclaimed particularly for his chamber music, he has also written extensively for voice and large ensembles. Early life and education Dillon was born in Summit, New Jersey to James and Jeanne Beaumont Dillon. He was the youngest of eight children. His father died of a brain tumor when Lawrence was two; his mother lived well into her nineties. He lost 50% of his hearing in an early childhood bout with chicken pox. Intrigued by his siblings’ piano lessons, he began his own at age seven, and soon developed a habit of composing a new work for his lesson each week. After undergraduate studies at the Hartt School of Music, he became the youngest composer to earn a doctorate at The Juilliard School, winning the Gretchaninoff Prize upon graduation (1985). He studied privately with Vincent Persichetti, and in classes with Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, David Diamond, Leon Kirchner and Roger Sessions. Oth

Laxio Beats

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Bernard Antwi-Darko, better known as Laxio Beats, is a Ghanaian record producer and composer. He is best known for the production of Ghanaian rapper Guru’s hit single akayida in 2013. Early life, music career Laxio Beats, the youngest of seven siblings, was born February 28, 1987, at Kumasi. He started his music career as the entertainment prefect for his high school. In 2013 he produce “akayida”, which won the 2014 Ghana music awards for hiplife song of the year. Production credits * Geesus – “Kisses for Breakfast” ft Stonebwoy *Phootprintz – “Forgetti” ft Laxio Beats *TicTac – “Don’t Let Go” *Revy – “Prepaid” *Guru – “Akayida” *Criss Waddle – “Girls Abr3” *Just-Ice – “Hold It” *Echo – “Akuaba” *Rebbel Ashes and Ajoejoe – “Mene Woa” *Akoo Nana – “Nahna Nahna” *Preachers – “Meyi W’aye” *Keche – “Body Lotion” *Bisa Kdeix Sarkodiex phootprintz – “Jackie Appiah” *Iyanya – “Don’t Fear” *Jeff Spain – “Higher” References

Layale Chaker

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Layale Chaker (; born 1990) is a French-Lebanese violinist and composer whose music integrates elements of classical, contemporary, jazz, Arabic music and improvisation. Music career She was born in Paris and moved to Lebanon at the age of 6. In 2005, Chaker began her musical studies at the National Higher Conservatory of Beirut. She later studied at the Conservatoire Régional de Paris beginning in 2010 and the Royal Academy of Music in London starting in 2017 with professors including Mohamed Hashem, Carmen Scripcariu, Jeanne-Marie Conquer and Nicholas Miller. She currently performs with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. Chaker has performed at a variety of festivals and concert halls. Festival highlights include La Biennale di Venezia, Spoleto Festival, London Jazz Festival, Alderburgh Festival, Morgenland Festival Osnabrueck, Junger Kunstler Festival Bayreuth, Lucerne Festival for Contemporary Music, Impuls’ Festival, Beethoven Festival Bonn and Avignon Festival. She has performed at concert halls such as Berlin Philharmonie, Abbaye de Royaumont, Hancher Auditorium, Stone, National Sawdust, Banff Centre, Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall. Her album Radio

Layla Angulo

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Layla Angulo, and known mononymously as Layla, is an American saxophonist, composer, singer, band director, and recording artist specializing in Latin music. Layla was born to a Greek mother and an Irish-American father. Her grandfather’s upright bass playing inspired her to learn the saxophone at an early age. Layla’s first released album, Live at The Triple Door, was recorded at the noted Seattle theater and released in 2005. The album’s first single Que Te Vaya Bien was Top 10 for three months on OurStage and reached semi-finalist position in the International Songwriting Competition (ISC). “La Rumbera”—also from Live at the Triple Door—received ISC Honorable Mention in 2006. The album received warm reviews from Seattle Times and Chip Boaz’s Latin Jazz Corner. Mientras was Layla’s second album, recorded in New York with Arturo O’Farrill, Oscar Estagnaro, Tony Escapa, and Dario Escanazi. Released in 2008, Mientras was Editors Pick at Descarga.com and was lauded by critics such as Michael G. Nastos at AllMusic. Layla moved to New York City in 2009, subsequently spending a year on tour with reggaeton artist Don Omar. Her third album TriAngulo yielded a single, “No Se Como Olvidarte

Le Tuan Hung

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Lê Tuấn Hùng (born 1960 in Vietnam) is an Australian-Vietnamese composer, performer, and musicologist. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music. Known as a skilled performer of the đàn tranh, a Vietnamese zither, he plays traditional Vietnamese music as well as cross-cultural and experimental music. His compositions have been created for a wide range of instruments, ensembles and media. A number of his compositions combine Vietnamese instruments with Indonesian and European Renaissance and Medieval instruments. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne and a Ph.D. in Music from Monash University. He is married to Dang Kim Hien (Ðặng Kim Hiền). Bibliography * Le, Tuan Hung. “Mindfulness of hearing : hearing places from a non-western perspective” in Hearing Places : Sound, Place, Time and Culture. Edited by Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy and Dolly MacKinnon. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. * Le, Tuan Hung. Dan Tranh Music of Vietnam : Traditions and Innovations. Melbourne, Tokyo : Australia Asia Foundation, 1998. (hard back); (paperback) * Le, Tuan Hung. “Vietnamese Traditi

Leah (musician)

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Leah McHenry, mononymously known as Leah (pronounced ) (born November 4, 1984), is a Canadian heavy metal musician who records both as a solo artist and, since around 2015, as a member of Dragonlord. Sometimes called the “Enya of heavy metal”, she performs a mixture of symphonic and Celtic metal with folk and world music. As a solo artist, she has released five full-length albums Of Earth & Angels in 2012, Kings & Queens in 2015, The Quest in 2018, Ancient Winter in 2019, and The Glory and the Fallen in 2024; two EPs, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence in 2012 and Otherworld in 2013; and twenty singles, both as part of album releases and as stand-alone recordings. She is a frequent artistic collaborator with Eric Peterson of Testament and Dragonlord, Timo Somers from Delain and Vengeance, Sander Zoer from Delain, Barend Courbois from Blind Guardian and Vengeance, and Troy Donockley of Nightwish. McHenry and Peterson released a collaborative single, “Winter Sun”, in 2015. She joined Dragonlord for its 2018 studio album Dominion. She also has participated in the charity group Project Aegis. Biography McHenry is from the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada, and has English, Iris

Leah Reid

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Leah Christinne Reid After attending Walnut Hill School as a composition and vocal performance major, In 2016, her piece Single Fish was performed at MicroFest by Accordant Commons in Los Angeles; Elizabeth Hambleton of New Classic LA called it “a great celebration of the sounds three humans can make together”. In 2017, she was appointed a MacDowell Fellow. Her experimental piece “Sk(etch)”, where she would record herself writing words, was featured on NPR Morning Edition in January 2022, and it won the Tesselat Electronic Music Competition. and she was the first-place winner of the 2022 Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest with her acousmatic piece Reverie. In 2023, she was awarded a second MacDowell fellowship. She works at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of composition. She has also served in Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States as vice-president for programs and projects, as well as vice-president of the International Alliance for Women in Music. As of 2022, she lived in Woburn, Massachusetts. She is married to James DeMuth. References

Lebo M

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Lebohang Morake (born 11 July 1964), known as Lebo M, is a South African producer and composer, known for his songwriting and vocal work on the soundtracks to films such as The Lion King, The Power of One and Outbreak and numerous stage productions. He was recommended to Disney by Hans Zimmer, the composer of both adaptations of The Lion King, and formed and conducted the African choir that sang for the films. Early life Lebohang Morake was born on 11 July 1964 in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. With no formal training in music, he left school at the age of nine to perform music in night clubs. Morake recorded his first single, “Celebration”, when he was 13 years old, receiving only $20 for recording the record. When he was 13 years old, Morake became the youngest performer to sing at the nightclub Club Pelican, when he filled in for a backup singer who could not attend. Career Early career In 1979, Morake sought to broaden his horizons, so he left by bus for Maseru, Lesotho, after hearing that a new club was going to be opening there. Morake lived at first in New York, again playing in restaurants and bars, and was supported by Black churches to attend music school. for which

Lee Chan-hyuk

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Lee Chan-hyuk (; born September 12, 1996), is a South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and author. He debuted as a member of the sibling duo AKMU in April 2014, under YG Entertainment. Life and career 1996–2013: Early life Lee Chan-hyuk was born on September 12, 1996, in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Both Chan-hyuk and his younger sister, Lee Su-hyun, moved to Mongolia with their missionary parents for five years, while being home-schooled by their mother, before returning to South Korea. In August 2012, the siblings auditioned for the second installment of SBS reality survival program K-pop Star as Akdong Musician. The sibling duo finished in first place, later choosing to sign under YG Entertainment as they were the only label from the three to provide them the creative freedom they wished for throughout the show, believing their artistry would not be restricted or altered. 2014–2022: AKMU and military enlistment On April 7, 2014, Lee and Lee Su-hyun officially debuted as AKMU (Akdong Musician) with their studio album Play, instantly becoming a commercial success. The sibling duo has since released two more studio albums, two extended plays, one single album and ten singles i

Lee Dong-june

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Lee Dong-june (Hangul: , born 5 February 1967) is a music composer from South Korea. Career Lee’s career as a composer mostly focused on film score. Lee composed AFC Anthem in 2014 Filmography Film * 1996 The Gingko Bed - music composer * 1997 Green Fish - music composer * 2002 2009: Lost Memories - music composer * 2003 Save the Green Planet! - music composer * 2004 Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War - music composer * 2013 Miracle in Cell No. 7 - music composer * 2023 Road to Boston - music composer Awards * Grand Bell Awards in Best Music for Green Fish (and nominated for 5 other times) * Blue Dragon Film Awards - Nominated for Best Music for Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War References External links * Official website * Lee Dong-jun at KMDb.or.kr *

Lee Donghae

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Lee Donghae (born October 15, 1986), known mononymously as Donghae, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actor. He became a trainee under SM Entertainment after winning a prize at SM’s Youth Best Contest in 2001. Career 1986–2011: Early life and career beginnings Lee Donghae was born in Mokpo, South Korea. His grandmother helped his mother to deliver him. He has an elder brother named Lee Dong-hwa. When he was young, he wanted to become a football player. However, his father wanted him to be a singer since he gave up on his dream to become one himself. In 2001, Donghae signed with SM Entertainment after winning a prize at SM’s Youth Best Contest. Under SM Entertainment, Donghae was put in singing, dancing, and acting lessons, and was then recruited into a five-member boy band Smile, with future bandmate Leeteuk, but the idea was soon dropped. In 2004, Donghae, along with Leeteuk, was put into a twelve-member boy band named Super Junior 05. Donghae officially debuted as part of 12-member project group Super Junior 05 on November 6, 2005. He made his acting debut in Super Junior’s horror documentary Mystery 6, broadcast in early 2006. The documentary surrounds Donghae and his pe

Lee Min-hyuk (rapper, born 1990)

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Lee Min-hyuk (; born November 29, 1990), commonly known as Minhyuk or Huta, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and presenter. He is a member of the South Korean boy group BtoB. He has appeared in multiple supporting roles in television series such as A New Leaf and Sweet, Savage Family. Biography Lee Minhyuk was born on November 29, 1990, in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Kwangsung High School and attended Dankook University, where he majored in film studies and continued to take his master’s degree at Inha University majoring in culture management. Career Pre-debut Prior to debuting in BtoB, Lee Min-hyuk had been active as an underground music artist, going by the moniker ‘Huta’. In 2008–2009, alongside other underground artists Block B’s Zico (then Nacseo) and Park Kyung (then Holke), they released a mixtape track “Nar.BINO” () . He was also the lead for the cancelled tv series SF X Fantasy Rayforce. Lee received training for 7 months, but as a musical student, he already had solid basic skills. Lee, together with fellow members of BtoB, Seo Eunkwang, Im Hyunsik, Jung Ilhoon, and a former Cube BtoB trainee Lee Minwoo (now ex C-Clown member T.K) acted in t

Lee Seung-hoon (rapper)

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Lee Seung-hoon (; ; born January 11, 1992), also known by the mononym Hoony, is a South Korean rapper and dancer. His musical career began in 2011 as a contestant in the first installation of K-pop Star (2011–2012); where he caught the attention of YG Entertainment CEO Yang Hyun-suk and was signed under his agency. His father’s absence in Lee’s childhood was prominent due to his occupation as a businessman based in Vietnam. His eldest sister had also moved to Seoul when he was a child. Lee pursued dance at a young age and became adamant to join YG Entertainment since his enrollment in high school; however, his interest in dance resulted in severe back pains and restricted Lee to choreograph when it occurred. Lee relied on acupuncture as treatment for his nerves along his spine that suffered from irritation. 2011–2015: Career beginnings and debut with Winner 20-year-old Lee (Korean age) moved to Seoul after he completed his secondary education as an attempt to enter the music industry. His motivation heightened after he witnessed Hoya of Infinite, a fellow peer in dance from his hometown, accomplish his dreams. He further auditioned for entertainment companies but did not succeed. I

Lei Liang

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Lei Liang (Chinese: 梁雷; pinyin: Liáng Léi; born November 28, 1972, in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese-born American composer who was a winner of the Grawemeyer Award and a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music. He is Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. Early life and education Liang is the son of musicologists Liang Mao-chun (b. 1940) and Cai Liang-yu (b. 1940) and studied piano as a child. He started composing at age six. His works written before he was thirteen are widely used for piano pedagogy and included among the required repertoire for national piano competitions in China. Liang came to the United States in 1990 for further studies, receiving BM and MM degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, both with academic honors and distinction in performance, and a Junior Fellowship and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Career Liang was the winner of the 2011 Rome Prize and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland Award, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, a Creative Capital Award, and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His concerto Xiaoxiang (for alto saxoph

Leilehua Lanzilotti

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Leilehua Lanzilotti (born November 5, 1983), is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, performer, and scholar of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Lanzilotti grew up in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Lanzilotti spent much of her childhood playing in the galleries and gardens of The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu as a child where her mother was Curator of Education. Lanzilotti attended Punahou School and Beijing Normal University Middle School No. 2 (School Year Abroad), and then continued her education at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Yale School of Music, and Manhattan School of Music. and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Andrew Norman, Caroline Shaw, Lanzilotti premiered Dai Fujikura’s Viola Concerto, Wayfinder, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre during the 2022 Born Creative Festival. Lanzilotti’s album in manus tuas (New Focus Recordings, 2019), was featured in Bandcamp’s The Best Contemporary Classical Albums of 2019 and The Boston Globe Top 10 Classical Albums of 2019. Other albums including Lanzilotti’s music are forever forward in search of the beautiful (New Focus Recordings), In addition to Lanzilotti’s work as a soloist performing her own wor

Lekan Babalola

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Olalekan Babalola (born c. 1960) is a Nigerian jazz percussionist and musician. Born in Lagos, Nigeria where he began playing the conga at a young age, he has released seven albums and jointly won two Grammy Awards. Early life and education Babalola was born in Lagos State, South-Western Nigeria where he attended Bishop Oluwole Primary School, Agege for his basic education before proceeding to Iwo in the old Oyo State for his secondary school education. At the age of six, he had started playing the conga at his father’s Aladura church and later formed a patchwork band with his peers. In 1980, he left Nigeria for the United Kingdom to study automobile engineering at the Chelsea College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering after he won a Lagos State Scholarship. Babalola however dropped the engineering programme for music and later enrolled at the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design where he studied filmmaking. He proceeded to the Northern Film School where he completed his master’s degree. Career He began his professional career after joining a band called Samba Samba Band and later New York City-based Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers band, where he perfected playing

Leland (musician)

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Brett Leland McLaughlin (born July 22, 1987) is an American singer and songwriter. Based in Los Angeles, California, he has worked closely with a range of popular artists, including Selena Gomez, Troye Sivan, Daya, Andy Grammer, Kelsea Ballerini and Allie X. In December 2017, McLaughlin signed with Vertigo Berlin/Universal Music Germany for his career as a singer and is currently published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Since 2017, he has been the resident songwriter and producer for RuPaul’s Drag Race and some of its spin-offs. McLaughlin graduated from Belmont University’s School of Music in 2009 with a major in commercial voice. Discography Soundtrack albums Extended plays Singles As lead artist As featured artist Guest appearances Television RuPaul’s Drag Race Leland co-wrote Kardashian: The Musical, as well as the songs “VH1 Divas Live” and “Kitty Girls”, which were featured on the ninth season and All Stars 3 of VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. He was a guest on the sixth episode of All Stars 3, second episode of All Stars 4, twelfth episode of season 12, the seventh episode of All Stars 6 and the seventh episode of Drag Race 18. Leland co-wrote “I’m That Bitch” and “You Think You Kn

Lena Raine

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Lena Raine ( or ; born February 29, 1984), also known as Lena Chappelle or Kuraine, in Seattle, Washington. Her father is a musician and her mother is a dancer. She had an early exposure to music due to participation in choir at a young age. Her father was also a violinist. Raine began working at large studios while located in Seattle, Washington, She worked on Guild Wars 2 at ArenaNet for six years as a designer and soundtrack composer. being released during the same time as her personal work on websites like Bandcamp. She subsequently composed another three new tracks for “The Wild Update” released in 2022, and then five new tracks for the 2024 “Tricky Trials” update. Raine assisted with the soundtrack for the second chapter of Deltarune and first worked with Wishes Unlimited as the composer for the adventure RPG Chicory: A Colorful Tale, On June 8, 2023, Wishes Unlimited announced their new game Beastieball, with Raine returning as the composer. On November 12, 2024, the game entered early access and the existing soundtrack was released on Raine’s Bandcamp page, with all tracks released during early access planned to be later added to the album. On May 28, 2024, Raine announced

Lena Willemark

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Lena Willemark (born 12 May 1960) is a Swedish traditional music fiddler, singer, and composer, who combines elements of folk and jazz. Born in Älvdalen, Dalarna, Willemark grew up with the region’s folk music. In Stockholm in the 1970s, she also had contact with jazz. She has collaborated with groups such as Frifot, Enteli, Elise Einarsdotter, and composer Karin Rehnqvist. She recorded Nordan with Ale Möller, winning in 1994 both a Grammis and the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Commissioned by Stockholm, Cultural Capital of Europe in 1998, she composed and performed Windogur. Discography * Lena Willemark När som gräset det vajar, 1989 * Lena Willemark/Ale Möller/Per Gudmundsson Frifot, 1991 * Frifot with Kirsten Bråten-Berg, Musique des vallées scandinaves (Suède - Norvège), 1993 * Lena Willemark/Ale Möller Nordan, 1994 (ECM) * Enteli Enteli, 1994 * Elise Einardotter Ensemble Senses, 1995 * Ale Möller Hästen och Tranan, 1996 * Lena Willemark/Ale Möller Agram, 1996 (ECM) * Frifot Järven, 1996 * Enteli Live, 1997 * Frifot Frifot, 1999 (ECM) * Lena Willemark Windogur, 2000 * Frifot Sluring, 2003 * Lena Willemark Älvdalens Elektriska, 2006 * Frifot Flyt, 2007 * Trees of Ligh

Lennart Ginman

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Lennart Ginman (born March 1960) is a Danish-Finnish bassist, composer and music producer. He has cooperated with artists like Steen Jørgensen, lead singer of Sort Sol in two joint albums, and Kirk Lightsey, an American jazz pianist with a joint album. He is part of the trio GinmanBlachmanDahl made up of him on bass, Thomas Blachman on drums and Carsten Dahl on piano. The trio released two albums in 2003 and 2004. Discography ;Albums Awards and nominations *1991 – Won the Danish Music Awards, for playing bass: Thomas Blachman & the X-traditional Values, “Love Boat” *1995 – Won the Danish Music Awards, for playing bass: Jen Winther’s Quartet, “The Planets” *1995 – Won the Jasa Prize (givet af Danmark’s jazz journalistser og kritikere). *1999 – Won the Danish Music Awards in the category “Danish Producer of the Year” (Lennart Ginman) *1999 – Won the Danish Music Awards in the category “Danish Album of the Year” (Ginman/Jørgensen) *1999 – The album “Ginman/Jørgensen” received several recognitions, i.e. it was chosen to be Danish Album of the Year by four Danish new papers and by the Danish music magazine Gaffa. *2002 – Icelandic Grammy together with Sigurdur Flosason, “Stairway To The

Leo Marchildon

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Leo Marchildon (born May 30, 1962) is a Canadian organist, music director, film/theatre music composer and producer based in Prince Edward Island. Early life and education Marchildon was born in Toronto, Ontario. He has French-Canadian ancestry. Career Marchildon’s first commercial album, To Each is Given, based on inspirational poetry, was released in 1998. He and co-writer Adam-Michael James teamed up to create the stage musical The Nine Lives of L.M. Montgomery based upon the life of the Canadian author. In 2014 Marchildon premiered a symphonic tribute to Canada entitled “Canada, Our Dear Home”, a 20-minute work for voice and orchestra celebrating the various cultural influences and indigenous Island fiddle music which helped to shape and support PEI’s role as the Birthplace of Confederation. In 2016 he was hired to compose underscore music for the Watermark Theatre summer productions of “The Glass Menagerie” and “Blithe Spirit” in Rustico, PEI, and again in 2018 for their production of “Dial M for Murder”. Marchildon has performed as a guest soloist with the PEI Symphony. He was also conductor for the Strathgartney Chamber Orchestra, which later became PEI Pops!. References Ext

Leon Milo

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Leon Milo (December 10, 1956 - August 31, 2014) was an American composer, percussionist and sound artist. He was known for music and sonic environments in which instruments, electronics, natural sounds and synthesis are unified. His music is internationally recognized. Biography Early years Growing up in the Hollywood Hills, Milo had access to the most important artists on the west coast. In his teens, he studied with the renowned drummers Bill Douglass, Charles Flores and Joe Porcaro. At 15 years old, he began studying timpani and orchestral percussion with William Kraft, who introduced him to the classical orchestral repertoire and contemporary music. Milo went on to study with Kraft’s own teacher, Saul Goodman, at the Juilliard School. New York In 1975, Milo was accepted into the Juilliard School to study timpani and percussion with Saul Goodman and Elden C. “Buster” Bailey. At the same time and also at Juilliard, he began studying composition and contemporary music analysis with Stanley Wolfe, who encouraged him while writing his first pieces. Between 1975 and 1981 he worked in numerous orchestras and ensembles at Juilliard and as a freelance percussionist in New York City and

Leon Parris

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Leon Parris (born 1 February 1981) is an English writer, composer, and actor. Early life and education Parris was brought up in Bedford, England, and was educated at the Bedford Modern School. Career Musical theatre * Bananaman (London, 2017) ** Scary Musical – standIN’OVATION, Waterfront Hall, Belfast (2010) * Epic Musical – standIN’ OVATION, Belfast (2010) * The Famous Five – Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, directed by Russell Labey (2009) * Wolfboy – adaptation of Brad Fraser play, directed by Russell Labey, previews at Tabard Theatre and run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2009) **Wolfboy – off-West End staging at Trafalgar Studios London (2010) * Stig of the Dump – directed by Russell Labey (2008) * Monte Cristo – with Jon Smith, Birmingham Hippodrome (2005) * The Fallen – Bedford Modern School (1999) Acting roles class=“wikitable” - !width=20 Year !width=200 Title !width=135 Role !width=120 Director !width=130 Playwright !width=200 Theatre - 1988 A Christmas Carol Young Scrooge . . Mermaid Theatre * 2000 winner – The Really Useful Group Award for Most Promising Young Writer: Going Once (2000) * 2000 winner – The Mercury Workshops Award * 2001 recipient – £10,000 Cameron Mackintosh

Leonid Desyatnikov

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Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (, born 16 October 1955) is a composer. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Composers. Desyatnikov is the author of multiple operas, cantatas and compositions. His best known works are The Children of Rosenthal, his score for the ballet Lost Illusions, the opera Poor Liza; Gift, a cantata on poems by Gavriil Derzhavin; Dichterliebe und -leben, a vocal cycle on poems by Daniil Kharms and Nikolay Oleynikov; The Leaden Echo for voice(s) and instruments on the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins; The Rite of Winter 1949, a symphony for choir, soloists and orchestra; and Songs of Bukovina for piano. Life and career Leonid Desyatnikov was born on October 16, 1955 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He studied composition and instrumentation at the Leningrad Conservatory in St. Petersburg. He has written four operas, several cantatas and numerous vocal and instrumental compositions. His principal compositions include: The Children of Rosenthal (an opera in two acts; libretto, Vladimir Sorokin), commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre; Poor Liza (a chamber opera in one act; with libretto by the composer, after the novel by Nikolai Karamzin); Gift (a cantata based on the ver

Leonie Holmes

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Leonie Joyce Holmes (born 1962) is a New Zealand composer and lecturer at the University of Auckland with an interest in music education. Early life and education Holmes was born in Auckland in 1962. She began learning piano at age six and attended Pakuranga College. She studied at the University of Auckland from 1981 to 1985, graduating with MMus in composition. She has been Composer-in-Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia in 1997 and with the Manukau Symphony Orchestra in 2005. Holmes’s Piano Concerto was commissioned by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra who performed its first public premiere in October 2023. It had been recorded earlier by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. As at 2021 she is a senior lecturer in composition at the University of Auckland. Selected works * Nonette for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and string quartet (1984) * Fantasia II for piano (1986) * Four epigrams: for mandolin ensemble (1987) * Recitative II for viola and percussion (1991) * The estuary: for SSA choir and piano (1993) – words: A.R.D. Fairburn * Colloquium: two flutes and guitar (1993) * Seconds: for string orchestra (1994) * Three songs for baritone and piano (1997) * Chorale

Leopold Brauneiss

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Leopold Brauneiss, (b. 1961) is an Austrian composer, musicologist and teacher, based in Vienna. He studied at the University of Vienna (musicology) and the University of Music and Performing Arts (music education, piano, composition with Heinz Kratochwil) and received his doctorate in music in 1988. “The main field of his musicological research is the so called Tintinnabuli Style of Arvo Pärt, whom he has known personally for over 20 years. The style’s characteristic aesthetics of reduction as well as the simple yet strict structural of its composition techniques has influenced his music to a great extent. He tries, however, to enrich it by adding chromatic or even dodecaphonic elements within the tonal frame.” His works have been performed by artists such as Gidon Kremer, ensembles like Kremerata baltica and orchestras like Tonkuenstlerorchester Niederoesterreich and have been presented at prestiguos festivals like Wien modern. He received commissions from Österreichische Kammerysmphoniker and Orgelfestival Lockenhaus. Publications *Tintinnabuli: An Introduction, in: Enzo Restagno / Leopold Brauneiss / Saale Kareda / Arvo Pärt, Arvo Pärt in Conversation (transl. by Robert Crow):

Lera Auerbach

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Lera Auerbach (, born Valeria Lvovna Averbakh, ; October 21, 1973) is a Soviet-born Austrian-American classical composer, conductor and concert pianist. Early life and education Auerbach was born to a Jewish family in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Ural Mountains. Her mother was a piano teacher, many of whose ancestors had also been musicians. She also studied comparative literature at Columbia University and earned a piano diploma at the Hochschule für Musik Hannover. Performances Auerbach made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2002, performing her own Suite for Violin, Piano and Orchestra with violinist Gidon Kremer conducting the Kremerata Baltica. She has appeared as solo pianist at such venues as the Great Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tokyo Opera City, Lincoln Center, Herkulessaal, Oslo konserthus, Chicago’s Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall and the Kennedy Center. Compositions Auerbach’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by a wide array of artists, orchestras, choirs and ballet companies including Gidon Kremer, the Kremerata Baltica, David Finckel, Wu Han, Vadim Gluzman, the Tokyo, Kuss, Parker and Petersen String Quartets, the SWR and NDR symphony orchestra

Lesley Barber

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Lesley Barber (born 1962) is a Canadian composer of music for film, theatre, chamber and orchestral ensembles and she is also a conductor, pianist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Barber is best known for composing the film scores for Manchester by the Sea, Late Night, You Can Count on Me, Mansfield Park, Irreplaceable You, Hysterical Blindness, When Night Is Falling, and composing music for the animated television series Little Bear. Early life and education Born in 1962 in Toronto, Ontario, Barber started composing at age 10. She won several young composer awards and graduated with a master’s degree in music composition from The University of Toronto in 1988, studying with electro-acoustic music pioneer, composer Gustav Ciamaga and composer Lothar Klein. Career After university, Barber spent several years scoring for the alternative theatre scene in Toronto, creating music for over 20 theatre productions. Notable theatre works include Brad Fraser’s Unidentified Human Remains and The True Nature of Love George F. Walker’s Love and Anger, Nothing Sacred, Escape from Happiness, and Michel Garneau’s The Warriors. The latter two productions received Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Ou

Lev Zhurbin

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Lev Zhurbin (born August 18, 1978, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a composer and violist. Biography Lev Zhurbin immigrated to the United States in the year 1990. He is often credited simply as “Ljova”, the diminutive of his formal name. He is the son of the composer Alexander Zhurbin and the poet/lyricist/writer Irena Ginzburg. He is the author of over 70 original compositions for classical, jazz, and folk music ensembles. He has also contributed musical scores to numerous documentaries, features, shorts and animated films. the City of London Sinfonia, a string quartet for Brooklyn Rider and a commission for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project; arrangements for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, tenor Javier Camarena, conductor Alondra de la Parra, songwriters Natalia Lafourcade and Ricky Martin, composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla, The Knights, and collaborations with choreographers Aszure Barton, Damian Woetzel, Christopher Wheeldon, Katarzyna Skarpetowska (with Parsons Dance Company), and Eduardo Vilaro (with Ballet Hispanico). In 2018, he was on the faculty of the Atelier program at Princeton University, teaching a course on collaboration with the puppeteer Bas

Lewis Gill (musician)

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Lewis Gill (born 1968) is an English composer and musician, who has worked in the contemporary classical, electronica, art rock and experimental music areas. Career Early years (art-rock and experimental music) Born in Warrington in 1968 (and a long-term resident of the town’s Latchford neighbourhood), Gill initially worked as an electric guitarist in a succession of Warrington-based projects, many of these alongside fellow guitarist and experimenter Ian Simpson. Gill and Simpson initially played together in the art-rock band Cheeky Atom (who released a single mini-album called Jodrell Bank, Here We Come in 1990, blending a fairly conventional guitar-based line-up with avant-garde experimentation including textural work and the incorporation of vacuum cleaners). The record gained the approval of Karlheinz Stockhausen, who wrote back to Gill after being sent a CD. Gill and Simpson subsequently formed the electronic experimental improvising group Psychiatric Challenge. and collaborated with Lol Coxhill. Other group members included Harry Gallimore, Neil Packer, Misha Gray, Tim Lyons, Ollie Brice and Dave Jackson. Both Gill and Simpson were in the art-rock/noise rock project Sebastian

Liis Viira

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Liis Jürgens (Viira) (born Jürgens; years 2010-2020 Viira; born 7 April 1983) is an Estonian composer, harpist, and animator. She has also used the pseudonym Liz Wirestring. Life and career Liis Jürgens has written quite diverse music for orchestras and choirs as well as chamber music and electroacoustic improvisations. Despite being one of the best-known harp players in Estonia and a member of Estonian State Symphony Orchestra, she often uses harp along with non-classical instruments. She has admitted her compositions for human voice are difficult for singers as she uses voice like just another instrument. Jürgens tends to stress the importance of lyrics, and has often composed her own due to lack of poetry intrinsically harmonic with the music. Jürgens has also been playing in ensembles Una Corda and Lippajad. She has composed music for film, like Eleonore de Montesquieu’s documentary Paldiski (2005). In 2012, Viira’s Liivaterade raamat represented Estonia on International Rostrum of Composers run yearly by International Music Council. In the end of 2015, Viira and Margo Kõlar gained a lot of media coverage with their Baby Symphony (Reverbeebi) presented on Estonian Music Days. I

Lil Kesh

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Keshinro Ololade (born 7 March 1999), known professionally as Lil Kesh, is a Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter. He rose to the limelight after releasing the hit single “Shoki” in 2014. Early life and education Ololade was born and raised in Bariga, an area in Lagos State. He attended Stockbridge College for his primary and secondary education, and then proceeded to the University of Lagos, where he studied Linguistics. Later, he moved on to the National Open University and studied Mass Communication online. Career He began, his musical career in 2012 which was when he started rapping among his colleagues in Bariga. Shortly after, on 2 January 2014, he released “Lyrically”, his debut single which went viral within Nigerian universities. Viktoh, another Nigerian rapper, heard the song and played it to Olamide. Olamide liked the song and signed Kesh to his record label, YBNL Nation. Under YBNL, Kesh dropped a series of hit singles like Shoki , Efejoku , Gbese , e.t.c and released his debut studio album, “YAGI”. Subsequently in 2014, Lil Kesh released a hit single “Shoki”. Shoki topped several musical charts and brought him to the limelight. As a result of this musical production,

Lin Wang (composer)

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Lin Wang ( (original name), also called ), is a Chinese composer. Lin Wang was born in Dalian, China, in 1976. Biography Lin Wang studied music composition at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (1996–2001). Later she studied composition and music theory at Hochschule für Musik Saar with Theo Brandmüller, and electronic music at IRCAM at the Centre Georges Pompidou in France. She also studied theatrical philosophy in music theater at University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, under Chaya Czernowin. It was selected for performance again in the same year at the Biennale di Venezia and the Bregenz Festival. In 2010, her opera “Die Quelle” (The Source) was premiered at the 11th Munich Biennale. Lin Wang and Can Xue co-wrote the libretto. In this opera, drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one’s own identity. Chinese instruments Sheng, Guzheng and Sanxian were used in its music. An unusual feature is combination of English pronunciation and Chinese intonation in this opera. Her third opera “Oh, wie schön ist Panama!” (Oh, the Beautiful Panama!) was based on an illustrated children book by Janosch. It was premiered at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2013.

Linda Bouchard

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Linda Bouchard (born 21 May 1957) is a Canadian composer and conductor. She is also an active conductor, teacher and producer. Biography Bouchard was born in Montreal, Quebec, and was raised in Montreal, Quebec. She has a BA in music (Bennington College, Vermont, 1979) and an MMus in composition (Manhattan School of Music, New York City, 1982). Her teachers were Ransom Wilson, Sue Ann Kahn, Harvey Sollberger (flute), David Gilbert and Arthur Weisberg (conducting), and Elias Tanenbaum, Ursula Mamlock and Henry Brant (composition). She has cited Henry Brant as a major influence in her music. She has experimented with different spatial placements of performers, both as a composer and as a conductor. Her music is characterized by timbral explorations and percussive explosions. Bouchard went to the U.S. in 1977 to study composition with Henry Brant. She lived in New York City from 1979 to 1990, where she composed, led new music ensembles, and made orchestral arrangements for The Washington Ballet, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and various churches in the New York metropolitan area. She was Assistant Conductor for New York Children’s Free Opera from 1985 to 1988 and guest-conducted the Orches

Linda Catlin Smith

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Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957 in New York City) is a composer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2005 she became the second woman to win the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music. Smith studied composition and theory with Allen Shawn in New York, and with composers Rudolf Komorous, Martin Bartlett, John Celona, Michael Longton, and Jo Kondo at the University of Victoria in British Columbia; and attended lectures of Morton Feldman, by invitation, in Buffalo, New York. She studied piano with Nurit Tilles and Gilbert Kalish at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and with Kathleen Solose in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also studied harpsichord with Erich Schwandt. She moved to Toronto in 1981, where she produced a series of concerts at Mercer Union Gallery. She was Artistic Director of Arraymusic, one of Toronto’s major contemporary music ensembles, from 1988 - 1993. She is a member of the performance collective, URGE. She has given lectures at many universities in Canada, and has taught composition privately and at Wilfrid Laurier University. Outside of teaching, her time is devoted to writing music. Drawn to an ambiguity of harmony and narrative, her work i

Lindsay Jones (composer)

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Lindsay Draper Jones (born June 9, 1969, Durham, North Carolina) is an American composer, sound designer and educator. His career spans over three decades and includes nominations for Tony Award, Drama Desk Awards, and Helen Hayes Awards, as well as wins and nominations in regional theatre and film. He has also taught and lectured at universities and schools across the country. before finally moving to Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the age of eight, where he would spend the rest of his childhood. He attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and received a BFA in Acting. In 2017, Lindsay was inducted into the inaugural class of his alma mater’s Richard J. Reynolds High School Arts Hall Of Fame in Winston-Salem, NC. Career Theatrical Jones began his career in sound design and composition for theatre in 1994 when he was asked to design a production of “Suburbia” for Roadworks Productions in Chicago. Jones has worked in both Broadway and off-Broadway theatre. His Broadway credits include Slave Play (2020), The Nap (2018), and A Time to Kill (2013). He is one of only five individuals in Tony Awards history to have received nominations for both Best Sound Design of

Lindsay Vickery

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Lindsay Vickery (born 1965) is an Australian composer and performer. Early life and education Lindsay Vickery was born in Perth. He studied composition with John Exton and Roger Smalley at the School of Music, University of Western Australia. He has written much ensemble and interactive electronic music, exploring readymades and collage (notably interrogating the work of Charlie Parker) as well as improvisation, nonlinear writing and computer-performer pieces. His chamber opera Rendez-vous: An Opera Noir is based on the Nouveau Roman DJINN: un trou rouge entre les pavés disjoints by French author Alain Robbe-Grillet. Career His interactive electronic music often employs experimental interfaces such as the Yamaha MIBURI and other self-devised alternative controllers. He has performed on reed instruments, electronics or as a conductor in the groups alea new music ensemble, Magnetic Pig, HEDKIKR, SQUINT, Candied Limbs and Decibel, and with artists such as Jon Rose (Music in the Age of Shopping, The People’s Music), Stelarc, Amy Knoles and Cat Hope. His works have been performed by groups such as The California Ear Unit, Topology, Clocked Out, Ensemble Scintilla Divina, the MATA Ensemb

Lior Navok

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Lior Navok (; born September 6, 1971) is an Israeli classical composer, conductor and pianist. He was born in Tel Aviv. Navok studied composition privately with the Israeli composer Moshe Zorman, and completed a Bachelor’s degree at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he studied composition (with Yinam Leef) and conducting. He later completed he studied for a Master’s and Doctorate at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with John Harbison. His music has been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles including the Oper Frankfurt, Nuernberg Opera, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. Amongst the awards he has received are those from the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has also received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation, Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award, and Israel Prime Minister Award. In 2004, he was one of seven composers awarded commissions for new musical works by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress and the Koussevitzky Music Foundation. His stage music includes two operas, The Bet, based on a short s

Lisa Hannigan

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Lisa Margaret Hannigan (born 12 February 1981) is an Irish musician, singer, composer, and voice actress. She began her musical career as a member of Damien Rice’s band. Since beginning her solo career in 2007, she has released three albums: Sea Sew (2008), Passenger (2011), and At Swim (2016). Hannigan’s music has received award nominations in Ireland and the United States. Hannigan drew attention in North America for her role as Blue Diamond in Steven Universe, an animated television series created by Rebecca Sugar. Early life and education Hannigan was born in Dublin but grew up in Kilcloon, County Meath, Ireland. in Kilcloon, then attended The King’s Hospital, a co-educational independent school at Palmerstown, Dublin, then enrolled at Trinity College Dublin to study French and art history. Career While in college, Hannigan met Damien Rice at a concert in Dublin in early 2001. Some of Hannigan’s live recordings were available through trading networks radio shows. These recordings included: “Willy” by Joni Mitchell, “Be My Husband” by Nina Simone (from the 1965 album Pastel Blues), “Mercedes Benz” by Janis Joplin and “Love Hurts” by Boudleaux Bryant. Hannigan performed live with

Lisa Scola Prosek

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Lisa Scola Prosek (born March 25, 1958) is an American composer and librettist. Among her compositions are two oratorios and seven operas. She is San Francisco Bay Area-based. Life and career Scola Prosek was born in New Jersey and raised in Rome. She graduated from Princeton University, where she studied with Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone, Lukas Foss, and Gaetano Giani Luporini. She was commissioned by San Francisco’s Thick House Theater for her operas Daughter of the Red Tzar, Belfagor and Sail the Blue Aegean. Her first operatic composition was Satyricon which premiered in 2002. She is the recipient of several commissions, grants and awards, including from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, the LEF Foundation, Meet The Composer, Theatre Bay Area, The Hewlett Foundation, the Zellerbach Foundation, and the American Composers Forum. In addition to her work as a composer, she is principal pianist and general manager of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. Works Chamber operas * Satyricon (2002) * I Quaderni di Leonardo (2006). Opera in Italian, text by the composer, with chamber orchestra, Thick House Theater, San Francisco. Videography by Jakub Kalousek. Jim

Lisa Streich

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Lisa Streich (born 19 April 1985) is a Swedish composer of contemporary classical music. Motorised instruments and spectral chords characterize her works. Biography Lisa Streich was born on 19 April 1985 in Norra Råda, Sweden. She grew up in Germany Teachers had been Johannes Schöllhorn and Adriana Hölszky. Streich composed FALTER for violin for the 2021 ARD International Music Competition. Until 2023, she was scholarship recipient at the Norwegian Academy of Music, with Helmut Lachenmann as her mentor. In 2024, Streich has been composer-in-residence at the Lucerne Festival and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She received commissions by the Berlin Philharmonic (ISHJÄRTA), Lucerne Festival (REIGEN), and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (FLÜGEL). The trumpet concerto MEDUSE was premiered in 2024 by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Personal life Streich lives on Gotland, Sweden. cold and hot is the contrast in ISHJÄRTA (Ice Heart). Streich uses electronics and prepares instruments with small motorised machines, that create a mechanical sound. Alan Gilbert said in an interview: “She integrates the performers strongly into the creative composition process.” * 2017 Ernst

Liu Shueh-shuan

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Lívio Tragtenberg

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Lívio Romano Tragtenberg (born 1961) is a Brazilian musician, composer, music theorist, professor and record producer. Biography Tragtenberg was born in São Paulo in 1961, to professor and sociologist and actress . On his father’s side, he is of German-Jewish descent, and has a brother – Marcelo, a physician – and a sister – Lucila, a soprano singer. When he was 13 years old he learned by himself how to play the drum kit, leading on to other instruments. During his later youth he met and befriended poets Décio Pignatari and siblings Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, who heavily influenced him, later dropping out from high school to follow a career on music. His debut album, Ritual, came out in 1980. Later in the 1980s he composed the operas O. de A. do Brasil and O Inferno de Wall Street, the latter based on a poem by 19th-century author Sousândrade, and was a session musician for the 1988 EP The Early Years, by progressive rock band Violeta de Outono. Throughout the 1990s to the mid-2000s he continued to release albums, collaborating with Pignatari and , and was a music theory professor for Unicamp from 1990 to 1998. He also managed the projects Blind Sound Orchestra (which is compos

Liviu Marinescu

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Liviu Marinescu (born February 12, 1970, in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer of orchestral and chamber music. He teaches at California State University, Northridge. Early life He studied music composition at the National University of Music Bucharest with Adrian Iorgulescu, and Cleveland State University with Edwin London. In 2000 he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at University of Maryland, where he worked with Lawrence Moss. Career His music has been recorded and released by Capstone Records, Centaur Records, Navona Records and has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Orchestra 2001, Bohuslav Martinu Symphony, as well as the National Chamber Radio Orchestra and the Bucharest Music Academy Symphony in Romania. In 2002 he was awarded a prize and commission by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. In 1994 began working as a professor. Marinescu taught at Concordia College, West Chester University, University of Maryland and Cleveland State University, and lectured at universities across Europe, including Trondheim Conservatory in Norway, Palacky University in the Czech Republic and the National University of Music in Bucharest. Compositions External l

Liza Lim

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Liza Lim (born 30 August 1966) is an Australian composer. Lim writes concert music (chamber and orchestral works) as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on installation and video projects. Her work reflects her interests in Chinese culture and the aesthetics of Aboriginal art and shows the influence of non-Western music performance practice. Early life and education Liza Lim (林瑞玲) was born in Perth, Western Australia, to Chinese parents. They were doctors who during her early years spent time working and studying in Brunei, and she was sent to boarding school. At the age of 11, she was encouraged by her teachers at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, Melbourne to turn from piano and violin to composition. Lim earned her PhD from the University of Queensland, her Master of Music from the University of Melbourne (1996), and her Bachelor of Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (1986). She studied composition in Melbourne with Richard David Hames and Riccardo Formosa and in Amsterdam with Ton de Leeuw. Career Lim has been a guest lecturer at the Darmstadt Summer School, the University of California, San Diego, she is married to Daryl Buckley, its artistic director.

Logan Nelson

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Logan Nelson (born November 11, 1996) is an American composer who has composed scores for films, video games, and modern dance productions. In 2018, he received the SABAM Award for Best Young International Composer by the World Soundtrack Academy. He composes music for The Morning Show with Carter Burwell. Life and education Nelson was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. In his early years, he “fell in love with” the viola and studied piano and composition with local professors. where he majored in Music Composition and minored in Cinematic Arts. At USC, he studied music composition with Ted Hearne and film scoring with Garry Schyman; Career Logan Nelson has composed the music for Seasons 2 and 3 of the Emmy-winning Apple TV+ drama, The Morning Show, in collaboration with Carter Burwell. He also scored the romantic comedy, Straight Up. The film was produced by Valparaiso Pictures and stars actress Katie Findlay. As a collaborator with Kris Bowers, Logan wrote music for Netflix’s critically acclaimed Dear White People, Their song, Nebula, was described by NEST HQ (Owsla) as “mature, highly-refined synth-pop brilliantly contrasting bright, summery sounds with ghostly, melancholy voca

Lola Rae

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Rachel Akosua Funmilola Garton (born 20 January 1991), professionally known as Lola Rae, is a Nigerian-born British-Ghanaian singer, songwriter and dancer. She gained recognition following the release of her debut single, “Watch My Ting Go”, which received critical acclaim and thus earned her a nomination for the Most Promising Female Act to Watch at the 2013 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Growing up and education Lola Rae was born to a British father and a Ghanaian mother in Obalende, a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria. She attained her primary and secondary school education at St. Saviour’s School, Ikoyi, and Lekki British International High School, Lagos, respectively. She, however left Nigeria for England at the age of 15 to complete her university education at Central Saint Martins, where she studied fashion textiles. Career Lola Rae’s entertainment career started as a dancer when she was joined the dancing group “Mystikal” in 2010. Mystikal Dancing Group auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent, where Rae sang in the competition, and judge Simon Cowell singled Mystikal Dancing group out at the semi-final. At the end of the competition, the group (Mystikal) was signed to Syco for a year. Ra

Lon Kirkop

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Marlon Chircop (born 5 August 1991), better known by his artist name Lon Kirkop, is a Maltese novelist, playwright, singer-songwriter and visual artist. He has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including two national book prizes: one in the Drama category for Fil-Ħajja li Jmiss u Drammi Oħra tat-Triq, and the Prize for Best Emerging Author. In 2020, he won The Literary Contest Of Novels For Youth 2020, organised by the National Book Council and Aġenzija Żgħażagħ, for his debut novel Mitt Elf Isem Ieħor: HappyVeganGirlJules. Additionally, he also won the prestigious Maltese song contest L-Għanja tal-Poplu as a composer and lyricist with the song Fil-Kexxun. Biography Kirkop was born on 5 August 1991, in Malta. His love affair with art, literature and theatre dates to his childhood. Today he managed to find a way to incorporate all his passions into his continuously developing multidisciplinary work. Kirkop studied at MCAST’s Creative Arts Institute and graduated with a B.A.(Hons) in fine arts, in 2017. In 2022, he graduated with an M.A. in printmaking at Cambridge School of Arts, UK. In 2018, he had his first solo visual art show at La Bottega Art Bistro in Valletta

London (music producer)

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Michael Ovie Hunter (born 21 October 1999), known professionally as Thisizlondon (pronounced as London, and formerly stylised in all caps), is a Nigerian-British record producer and DJ. He is best known for co-producing the 2022 global hit single, “Calm Down” for Rema before Selena Gomez hopped on the remix. It reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100, peaked atop the IMI International (becoming the second song by a Nigerian artist to do so) and remains the most internationally successful Afrobeats song. Signing with Blowtime Entertainment in 2019, he’s produced for other notable artists including Crayon, Ayra Starr, Rema, Wizkid, Selena Gomez, 6lack, Yseult, and Ladipoe. His other successful productions include Rema’s: “Calm Down” and “Ozeba”, Ayra Starr’s “Fashion Killa” and “Bloody Samaritan”, Tiwa Savage’s “Koroba”, and Johnny Drille’s “Mystery Girl”. In 2022, he signed a publishing deal in a joint venture with Sony Music Publishing France and Bluesky Music Publishing. Early life Michael Ovie Hunter was born in Kaduna, to a Nigerian Mom, from Isoko and a British Dad. Michael grew up in the sub-division of the Northern Nigeria state, Kaduna, where he rounded up his high sch

Lord Vinheteiro

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Fabrício André Bernard Di Paolo (born 1980), known professionally as Lord Vinheteiro, is a Brazilian pianist, accordionist, sound engineer, musician, aquarist, and YouTuber. Vinheteiro is best known for playing piano covers on his YouTube channel, where he has over 7 million subscribers and over 1 billion views. Vinheteiro was a part of the Pânico program produced by Brazilian radio station Jovem Pan FM. Vinheteiro has been known to be critical of brazilian music, especially funk carioca, and for his alignment with right-wing politics. Career In 1988, at the age of 8, Vinheteiro started learning music. He took private lessons in piano and violin. Vinheteiro enrolled in the Arts Institute (IA) of State University of São Paulo. He did not finish the course. and The Noite com Danilo Gentili Vinheteiro produces content weekly for his YouTube channel, which has over 7 million subscribers. References External links * *

Loreena McKennitt

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Loreena McKennitt (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who writes, records, and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern influences. McKennitt is known for her refined and clear soprano vocals. She has sold more than 16 million records worldwide. Early life and education McKennitt was born in Morden, Manitoba, of Irish and Scottish descent to parents Jack McKennitt (died 1992) and Irene née Dickey (1931–2011). In Morden, she developed her love for music, influenced, in part, by the musical traditions of the local Mennonite community. McKennitt enrolled at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg to become a veterinarian. While in Winnipeg she discovered folk music, including fellow Canadians Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Gordon Lightfoot. After performing at the inaugural Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1974, McKennitt developed an interest in Celtic music and visited Ireland to hear it for herself. She learned to play the Celtic harp and began busking at various places, including St. Lawrence Market in Toronto to earn money to record her first album. In 1981, she moved to Stratford, Ontario to join the Stratford Festival

Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari

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LEF (born Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari; 20 November 1977) is an Italian vocalist, record producer and film score composer. He has worked with Bill Laswell, Lisa Gerrard, Serj Tankian from System of a Down, Elisa, Ben Harper, Hamid Drake, Nils Petter Molvær, Eivind Aarset, Jamie Saft, Pat Mastelotto from King Crimson, Eraldo Bernocchi, Colin Edwin from Porcupine Tree, Markus Stockhausen, Kenneth Kapstad from Motorpsycho, Tony Wakeford, Trevor Dunn, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Raiz, Ambrogio Sparagna, Faraualla, Enrico Gabrielli, Sigillum S, Ephel Duath, Gianluca Petrella, Fabrizio Puglisi, Ståle Storlokken and Carmelo Pipitone. History Singer-composer Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari has made his mark as a singer and producer through a series of releases, including Obake’s Draugr, Seven Mutations and their 2011 self-titled debut, Owls’ The Night Stays, O.R.k.’s Inflamed Rides, Soul of an Octopus and Ramagehead, Somma’s 23 Wheels of Dharma and Berserk’s 2013 self-titled debut. Fornasari’s vocals are astonishing powerful, morphing between an urbane Sylvian-like drawl to a cracked-gravel growl oozing with a creeping malevolence. That theatrically evokes the dystopian pronouncements interleaving B

Lori Laitman

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Lori Laitman (born 1955) is an American composer who has composed multiple operas, choral works, and hundreds of songs. Early life Lori Laitman was born in Long Beach, New York. Career Laitman has composed multiple operas, choral works, and hundreds of songs. Set to poetry by Joyce Sutphen, Living in the Body explores themes such as grief, loss, and the past, and their emotional toll on the body of someone looking towards the second half of their life. The cycle was composed between September 14 and December 3, 2001, and was premiered on March 7, 2002, at the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference at the University of North Texas. and the May 2016 issue of Opera News had a feature about Laitman and The Scarlet Letter. Naxos released the CD in Aug. 2017. Performances took place at The University of Oklahoma in February 2022 and at Wichita State University in April 2022. Vedem Laitman and Mason also collaborated on Vedem, a Holocaust oratorio commissioned by Music of Remembrance. Indianapolis Opera’s double bill of Vedem and Brundibar was produced March 18–20, 2022 (after several Coronavirus delays). It was the first time an opera by a woman was presented by the compan

Lorne Balfe

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Lorne Balfe (born 23 February 1976) is a Scottish composer of film, television, and video game scores. Early life and education Balfe was born in Inverness, Scotland. He went to Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he had a music scholarship. Career A veteran of Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions, Balfe’s scoring credits include the films Megamind, Penguins of Madagascar, Home, Terminator Genisys, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Lego Batman Movie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and its sequel Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Bad Boys for Life and its sequel Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Black Widow, Black Adam, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Gran Turismo, and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, as well as the video games Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Assassin’s Creed III, Crysis 2, Skylanders, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He has also scored the television series The Bible, Marcella, The Crown, and Genius, the latter for which he earned a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. He also collaborates with the directors Michael Bay, Chris McKay, Christopher McQuarrie, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Mikael

Lorne Ryder

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Lorne Ryder (born Lorne MacMillan September 1970 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In his thirty six years in the Canadian music scene, he has received three Canadian Country Music Association top-ten nominations for Keyboard Player of the Year, two nominations for Best Country Artist at the Ontario Independent Music Awards, and was nominated for a 2009 Canadian Smooth Jazz Awards for Best Original Composition for his song, “Beautiful Feeling.” Career 80s–90s In 1985, while still at (Cawthra Park Secondary School) Lorne co-founded the all original progressive rock band Revision. Lorne played his first gig at the age of 15 in Etobicoke with Revision co founders guitarist frontman George Sheffield, drummer Leo Di Giovanni and guitarist Rob Sanderson. Lorne has credited Di Giovanni for getting him started in bands. In 1988, Lorne co-founded the band First & Last with his brother Kent (Max Bent) and Ralph Herzig. After a horrific accident Herzig was replaced by drummer Harold Vassell. Later they were joined by Bassist and Songwriter Steve Russell aka Psycopath (Infernal Majesty) and later Manitoba Guitarist Mark Grysiuk. They toured Ont

Lorraine Desmarais

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Lorraine Desmarais C.M. (born August 15, 1956) is a French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Early life and education Born in Montreal, she earned a Bachelor of Music (1977) and Master of Music (1979) in classical piano at Université de Sherbrooke. She studied with Armas Maiste at McGill University in 1978 and 1979, and later took lessons from Kenny Barron in New York. She has also been influenced by Chick Corea and Oscar Peterson. Career Desmarais has recorded ten albums as a solo performer and musical director, including several with well-known artists such as Michel Cusson and Michel Donato (Vision), Tiger Okoshi (Lorraine Desmarais), Don Alias (Andiamo), André Moisan, Jean Gaudreault and Ted Baskin from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Michel Bettez from the Orchestre Métropolitain (Bleu Silence), in addition to her long-standing team of Frédéric Alarie (double bass) and Camil Bélisle (drums). She has composed a number of pieces for herself and for other performers, including Oliver Jones and Angèle Dubeau. Discography *Trio Lorraine Desmarais (Radio Canada, 1985) *Andiamo (Radio Canada, 1986) *Pianissimo (Radio Canada, 1987) *Vision (Les Disques Scherzo, 1991) * Lorraine

Lothar Hensel

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Lothar Hensel (born 14 September 1961) is a German bandoneon player, composer and arrangeur. Life and career Born in Dormagen, studied school Music at the Berlin University of the Arts, majoring in clarinet. During his studies, he began playing the bandoneon. In 1990, he went to Buenos Aires to perfect his playing with teachers Arturo Penón and Nestor Marconi. In Paris, he also had lessons with Juan José Mosalini, one of the most famous tango soloists of tango nuevo. As a bandoneonist, Hensel has worked with renowned orchestras, such as the Berlin Philharmonic which he has recorded in original versions and also in his own arrangements on CD. As a composer, he wrote operas, chamber and orchestral music. In it, he tries to combine mainly South American tango elements with classical European chamber music. As a commissioned work for the , Hensel wrote the chamber opera Ein letzter Tango für Margot H. in 2001. In 2007, his opera Pamina lebt was premiered at the . He also wrote the libretto for this work. In the same year, his 2nd concerto for bandoneon and large orchestra was premiered with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, which was broadcast live by Deutschlandradio. Hensel per

Lotta Wennäkoski

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Lotta Annukka Wennäkoski (born 8 February 1970) is a Finnish composer. Wennäkoski was born in Helsinki. She studied the violin at the Béla Bartók Secondary Grammar and Technical School of Music in Budapest, Hungary, in 1989–1990 and music theory and composition at the Sibelius Academy between 1994 and 2000 under Eero Hämeenniemi, Kaija Saariaho and Paavo Heininen and in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague between 1998 and 1999 under Louis Andriessen. Wennäkoski began her career as a composer by composing for radio plays and short films. A major landmark on her career was a concert at the Musica Nova Helsinki festival in 1999. Her notable works include Sakara for orchestra (2003), commissioned by Esa-Pekka Salonen, the string quartet Culla d’aria (2004), commissioned by the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Hava for chamber orchestra, the flute concerto Soie (2009), one of the recommended works at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in 2012, Verdigris for chamber orchestra (2015), commissioned by The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Flounce for orchestra, commissioned by the BBC and performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 2017. As a composer, Wennäkoski has been described a

Lotte Anker

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Lotte Anker (born 1958) is a Danish jazz saxophonist, and composer. With pianist Marilyn Crispell, she serves as one of the co-leaders of the Copenhagen Art Ensemble. Musical career Anker was born in Copenhagen and studied music at Copenhagen University from 1980 to 1984. In 1988, she formed a quartet with piano player Mette Petersen, (the Lotte Anker / Mette Petersen Quartet). In 1992, they added trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. In 1995, she became a member of the free improvising trio Anker, Friis, Poulsen with Hasse Poulsen on guitar and Peter Friis Nielsen on bass. Since 1996, Anker and Ture Larsen have been co-leaders of the 12-piece orchestra Copenhagen Art Ensemble. She recorded the albums Triptych, Live at the Loft and Floating Islands with pianist Craig Taborn, and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Discography * Beyond the Mist (Stunt, 1989) * Being (Stunt, 1993) * Infinite Blueness (Av-Art, 1996) * Poetic Justice (Dacapo, 2001) * Six Row Barley (Utech, 2005) * Triptych (Leo, 2005) * Alien Huddle (Intakt, 2008) * Live at the Loft (ILK, 2009) * Floating Islands (ILK, 2009) * Birthmark (Clean Feed, 2013) * Squid Police (Konvoj, 2014) with Jakob Riis * What River Is This (ILK, 2014) * Edg

Louis Dufort

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Louis Dufort (born July 29, 1970) is a composer of electroacoustic music from Montreal, Canada. His work includes music for fixed media, mixed music with processing, and visual music. Over his career, he has fulfilled numerous commissions for various ensembles and musical organizations, including the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustiques du Québec (ACREQ ), Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ ), Réseaux/Akousma, Chants libres, Codes d’accès, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM+ ), EMPAC, Quasar saxophone quartet, Bozzini string quartet, Sixtrum percussion ensemble and Centre d’art et de technologie des médias de Karlsruhe. Particularly notable among his many collaborations is his long-standing partnership with choreographer Marie Chouinard, with whom he has worked since 1996 in composing the music for a great many of her works. In 2023, an entire edition of the journal Circuit, musiques contemporaines was dedicated to the subject of their collaborative work. The composer has also written music for the original soundtracks of the films The Fall of the American Empire (French: La chute de l’empire américain) (2018) and Denys Arcand’s Testamen

Louis Franz Aguirre

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Louis Franz Aguirre (born in Camagüey, Cuba, 1968) is a Cuban composer and conductor that has achieved international recognition. Academic background Louis Aguirre studied musical composition with Harold Gramatges, Roberto Valera and Tulio Peramo, as well as violin and conducting at the Havana Instituto Superior de Arte. He received a BA in musical composition in 1991. He also underwent postgraduate composition studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in The Netherlands from 2002 to 2004, studying the composition postgraduate program: “Contemporary music through non-Western Techniques” with professor R. Reina, Work as composer Louis Aguirre works as a full-time composer since he moved to Europe in 2002, where he has received numerous commissions. Aguirre has written works for numerous prestigious performers and ensembles such as Ere Lievonen, Enric Monfort, Adam Ørvad, Carlos Gálvez, Juanjo Guillem, Mikkel Andersen, Barbara Lueneburg, Karolina Leedo, Axyz Ensemble, Arbós Trío, Snow Mask Ensemble, Kimbala Percussion Group, DuoMetrie, Verso Duo, Havana Symphony Orchestra, Santiago Symphony Orchestra, Camagüey Symphony Orchestra, the Arditti Quartet, TANA String Quartet, Residencia

Lowell Liebermann

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Lowell Liebermann (born February 22, 1961, in New York City) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. Early life and education Liebermann began piano lessons at the age of eight and began composing shortly after. He credits his second piano teacher, Ada Sohn Segal (a Leschetitsky student) with instilling a love of music in him. At the age of 13 he declared his desire to be a composer and at the age of 14 began composition lessons with Ruth Schonthal, a Hindemith pupil. He composed his first Piano Sonata at the age of 15 and performed it at Carnegie Recital Hall a year later. He continued his studies at the Juilliard School, where he received a BM, MM and DMA, studying composition with David Diamond and Vincent Persichetti and piano with Jacob Lateiner. He also studied conducting privately with Laszlo Halasz and spent a year between his Bachelor and master’s degrees serving as assistant conductor to Halasz. Career and works One of Liebermann’s earliest successes was the Sonata for Flute and Piano Op.23, commissioned by the Spoleto USA Festival for flautist Paula Robison and pianist Jean Yves Thibaudet, a work which has gone on to become one of the most frequently performed so

Ľubica Čekovská

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Ľubica Čekovská (Humenné) is a Slovak composer and pianist. Biography Čekovská studied at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her works have been featured at ISCM World Music Days festivals (2009, Sweden; 2013, Slovakia) and Prague Spring festivals (2006, 2013, 2015). She was awarded the Ján Levoslav Bella Prize for her piano concerto Two Portraits (2003), and the 2012 SOZA Award for international performances of Slovak music. Čekovská works in a variety of genres, including composing for film, television, and theatre. She is represented by the German music publisher Bärenreiter. Her latest opera, Impresario Dotcom, was commissioned for the Bregenzer Festspiele in 2020, but postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Čekovská then created a special abridged version for the restructured Festtage im Festspielhaus event in August 2020. Awards * 1998 Royal Academy of Music - The Cuthbert Nunn Composition Prize * 1998-2000 The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust * 2000 Royal Academu of Music -The Leverhulme Award * 2004 Music Fund Slovakia - Ján Levoslav Bella Prize * 2011-2012 SOZA Award * 2013 Tatrabanka Fundation Award * 2020 Krištáľové

Luc Brewaeys

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Luc Brewaeys (25 October 1959 in Mortsel, Belgium – 18 December 2015 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a Belgian composer, conductor, pianist and recording producer at the VRT (Flemish Radio & Television). He studied composition with André Laporte in Brussels, with Franco Donatoni in Siena (Italy) and with Brian Ferneyhough in Darmstadt (Germany). Prizes and distinctions * 3rd prize of the European Competition for Young Composers (1985). * 1st prize in the category “young composers” from the international tribunal of composers of UNESCO (1986). * 1st prize “Prix de Musique Contemporaine du Québec” (1988) for the work entière. * 1st prize for the competition of European composers at the International meeting of contemporary music in Metz (1988). * The prize for the “Musique de la Communauté Flamande” (1989) * The SABAM prize (1990) * 1st prize for “Premio Musicale Città di Trieste” for symphonic composition (1991). Works and Discography Vocal and Choral works *2015 On a day 9’ *2010 speechless song, seeming many, being one ‘Sonnet n° 8’ by William Shakespeare ca. 6’ *2009 vogliamo inneggiare all’uomo 3’ *2007 Fantasia con tre canzoni popolare Napoletane 8’ *2006 L’uomo dal fiore in bocca Ope

Luc Van Hove

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Luc Van Hove (born 1957, Wilrijk, Belgium) is a Belgian composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Luc Van Hove received his musical training at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. He studied composition with Willem Kersters and music analysis with August Verbesselt. Afterwards he pursued advanced studies at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg (orchestral conducting) and at the University of Surrey. He has gained several awards, including the Sabam Prize for Contemporary Music (1993). He is an honorary professor of composition and music analysis at Luca, School of Arts, campus Lemmensinstituut of Leuven and former professor of composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, department of the Artesis Plantijn University College of Antwerp. He is also a former extraordinary professor at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts (President of the Class of the Arts in 2011), and Commander in the Order of Leopold II. Luc Van Hove received commissions from and was performed by numerous Belgian orchestras, ensembles and soloists, e.g. the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Flemish Radio Orchestra (Brussels

Luca Antignani

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Luca Antignani (born 1976 in Italy) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. He also teaches various theory music classes in Switzerland, and France. Life Luca Antignani graduated in piano, orchestral conducting, electronic music and composition at the Scuola Civica “Claudio Abbado” in Milan, at the Accademia Nazionale of Santa Cecilia in Rome and at the IRCAM in Paris. His compositions have been committed by prestigious institutions and performed in several international music festivals such as the Biennale (Venice), Teatro dell’Opera, MiTo, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montréal), Opéra Comique, Radio France, Présences, Résonances and Agora (Paris), Orchestra della RAI (Turin), Orchestre des Pays de Savoie (Annecy), Opéra, Orchestre National, Société de Musique de Chambre, Festival Biennale en Musiques, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain and Chœur Britten (Lyon), Musica (Strasbourg), Les Musiques, Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée (Marseille), Dresdner Musikfestspiele (Dresde), and numerous other cities such as San Francisco, Philadelphia, Bloomington, Ithaca (USA), Tallinn (Estonia) and Rostock (Germany). Several works b

Luca Belcastro

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Luca Belcastro (born 18 September 1964 in Como, Italy) is an Italian composer of classical music. Education Belcastro graduated in Classical guitar and in Composition, with the highest grade. He attended specialization courses with Azio Corghi at the Accademia G. Petrassi in Parma and at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Roma, where he graduated with top marks and “Premio SIAE”. Career Belcastro’s orchestral works have been awarded in important International Competitions, among those “Ciutat de Tarragona” International Award for Musical Composition (E),“Valentino Bucchi” - Roma, “2 Agosto” - Bologna, “Concours Européen du Jeune Compositeur” - Strasbourg (F), and executed by Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Orchestra of Colours - Athens, OSER Toscanini - Parma, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Milano-Classica. His Opera “1896 - Pheidippides… corri ancora!” has been awarded at the “Dimitris Mitropoulos - World Opera Project” - Athens 2001. His chamber music works won the First Prize in numerous International Competitions, among those “Edvard Grieg” - Oslo (N), “Biennale Neue Musik - Hannover” (D) (performed by The Hilliard

Luca D'Alberto

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Luca D’Alberto (born 6 May 1983) is an Italian composer, musician, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist hails from Teramo, Abruzzo. Early life and background D’Alberto was born and brought up in Teramo, Abruzzo. He completed his graduation in violin and viola summa cum laude with a Ministerial Mention in Italy. He studied with Clara Campi, Rocco De Massis (First Violist of “San Carlo Napoli”), Antonio Anselmi (First Violinist of “Musici Di Roma”) Reiner Schmidt. As a winner of international selection, he attended the Music academy in Cremona and Milano studying with Bruno Giuranna and Simonide Braconi (First Viola in Scala, Milan). During his classical studies, he became interested by other musical genres such as electronic music, rock, and experimental music. Career In 2004, D’Alberto collaborated with Xabier Iriondo, a former guitarist and founder of Italian rock band Afterhours, creating with him the experimental music project Choral Funis Dualitas. In the same year, D’Alberto became a Violectra Official Player, testimonial of this particular instrument alongside the likes of Jean-Luc Ponty and Nigel Kennedy. During 2012 and 2015, he continued his artistic career as a so

Luca Flores

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Luca Flores (October 20, 1956 - March 29, 1995) was an Italian pianist and composer. He is considered one of the most interesting exponents of the Italian jazz scene. Biography Born in Palermo, the youngest of four siblings, he moved with his family to Mozambique in 1959. There he began playing piano at the age of 5. When he returned to Italy in 1966, he spent some time in Rome and then in Portugal, before arriving in Florence in 1972. He studied at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory where he graduated in piano with honours in 1981. Later on he studied jazz with Roberto Pichini, Marco Vavolo, Enrico Pieranunzi and Franco D’Andrea. His encounter with jazz took place in the early 1970s: he frequented Florentine clubs such as the Andrea del Sarto, where he met the nascent community of Italian jazz musicians. He made his national debut in the “Tiziana Ghiglioni Sextet” (with Tiziana Ghiglioni, Maurizio Caldura Nuñez, Luca Bonvini, Franco Nesti, Alessandro Fabbri) with which he recorded his first LP, Streams (1984). Together with Gianni Cazzola he formed the “Matt Jazz Quintet” (with Maurizio Caldura Nuñez, Alessandro Di Puccio, Marco Vaggi). With these groups he took part in major Italia

Luca Francesconi

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Luca Francesconi (born 17 March 1956) is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory, later with Karlheinz Stockhausen and then Luciano Berio. Early years Luca Francesconi was born in Milan. His father was a painter who edited Il Corriere dei piccoli and conceived Il Corriere dei ragazzi, while his mother was an advertiser. Francesconi spent his early years in QT8, a working-class quarter in Milan. At the age of five he began to learn the piano. Although he was accepted into the junior high school section of the city’s conservatory six years later, he pulled out. Instead, Francesconi opted to attend the junior high school in QT8. Education Francesconi returned to the Conservatory of Milan in 1974, while he was still attending the Berchet Classical Languages High School, and explored the musical landscape, taking an interest in different sounds. He played in jazz and rock groups as well as in classical concerts. Francesconi worked as a session man in recording studios, and composed music for theatre, cinema, advertising, and television. Francesconi attended the Milan Conservatory and enrolled in the composition course conducted by Azio Corghi. “From him I learnt the tr

Luca Gianquitto

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Luca Gianquitto (; born 29 September 1978 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian guitarist and music composer living in Amstelveen, Netherlands. Biography Gianquitto’s mediterranean style is mainly influenced by jazz, blues and rock. In 2005 he was recognised among the “New Italian Jazz talents” by Chicco Bettinardi commission and in the same year he signed off a contract with Wide Sound releasing the instrumental album My Big Room. A track of the CD, “Floriana” was represented in Italian Jazz, Vol.3 (2010), a compilation featuring some of the most influential Italian jazz musicians of the year. In 2016 Luca released a second instrumental album Nibiru (LG Music). The CD was presented with a sold-out concert at The Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam. During his career he travels and plays as professional musician on venues and events such as Montreal Jazz Festival, Eurojazz in Mexico City, Istanbul Jazz Festival. Besides the live performances Luca’s guitar has recorded music for movies, big bands, rock projects, and other countless collaborations with jazz and pop artists. Luca has a master’s degree in Jazz Music at the Conservatory of Naples, specializing in Big Band arrangement and Jazz Im

Luca Luciano

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Luca Luciano (born 12 August 1975) is a solo artist and a thinker, a clarinet virtuoso and a composer with a strong interest in philosophy, who has made his career in Great Britain, lived in London for more than twenty years and now lives between the UK and Italy. Early life and education Luciano was born in Naples, Italy. and his interpretations are praised as “bold and unique”. Introduced as “the new voice of the clarinet” by De Klarinet magazine, a keen promoter of new music, he has been described by Musician Magazine as “a noted Italian clarinettist and composer who now makes his home in London, having developed an enviable reputation as an instrumental virtuoso around the UK and overseas via recordings and concert hall appearances”. Praised by the International Clarinet Association for “the full range of his abilities”, Luciano was introduced by the BBC as “one of Europe’s leading exponents of jazz clarinet”. He has “established himself as the friendly face of contemporary clarinet” according to the Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine. He has held several recitals, master-classes, lecture-recitals and workshops in the UK, Europe and South America including the South Bank Centre in L

Lucas Santtana

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Lucas Mascarenhas Santana (born October 18, 1970), known as his stage name Lucas Santtana, is a Brazilian singer, composer and producer from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. In his CD, Sem Nostalgia (YB Music, 2009), he recreates the Brazilian guitar tradition, mixing up sounds from the 1950s, like João Gilberto and Dorival Caymmi, with mashups, samples and his own creations. His album O Céu É Velho Há Muito Tempo was considered one of the 25 best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2019 by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA). APCA also chose his album O Paraíso as one of the 50 best Brazilian albums of 2023. References External links * Lucas Santtana Official Website * Lucas Santtana on facebook * Lucas Santtana on Twitter

Lucas Vidal

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Lucas Vidal (born 6 March 1984) is a Spanish composer, conductor, and record producer. Vidal became the youngest Berklee College of Music student ever to compose and record the score to a feature film with a full orchestra, and he is best known for composing the score for the 2013 film Fast & Furious 6. Life Lucas Vidal was born and grew up in Madrid. His father is also a musician, and his grandfather was one of the founders of the record company Hispavox. He began studying piano and flute at age 4. When he was 16 years old, he went to Berklee College of Music for a summer term to play sax and was introduced to the film scoring department. Vidal decided that he wanted to pursue a career as a film composer. He met his business partner, Steve Dzialowski, and decided to create a company, Music and Motion Productions, while attending Berklee. Vidal made history when he became the youngest Berklee College of Music student ever to compose and record the score to a feature film with a full orchestra. Hundreds of recording sessions and dozens of movie scores, commercial music jobs, video game soundtracks and ballet scores later, Vidal is getting his biggest-ever assignments. After studying

Lucia Ronchetti

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Lucia Ronchetti (born 3 February 1963) is an Italian composer. Biography Ronchetti studied composition and computer music at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and took part in composition seminars with Sylvano Bussotti at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole (1981–85) and with Salvatore Sciarrino at the Corsi Internazionali of Città di Castello (1988–1989). She studied humanities at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she got her degree in 1987, presenting a dissertation on Bruno Maderna’s orchestral compositions. In 1991 she received a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in aesthetics from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne. She subsequently studied musicology with François Lesure at the École pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne, and received a doctorate with her thesis on the orchestral style of Ernest Chausson and Wagnerian influence on late 19th-century French orchestral writing. In Paris she participated in composition seminars with Gérard Grisey (1993–1996) and took part in the annual computer music courses at IRCAM (1997) under the supervision of Tristan Murail. In 2005 she was a visiting scholar as a Fulbright Fellow at the Music Department of Columbia University

Luciana Souza

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Luciana Souza (born 12 July 1966) is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer who also works in bossa nova, pop, classical and chamber music. She won a Grammy Award in 2007, and has been nominated for seven others, most recently in 2024. Souza is considered to be one of jazz’s leading singers and interpreters. The New York Times called her voice “smooth-surfaced, coolly sensuous and dartingly agile.” Early life and education Souza was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. Her father Walter Santos was a singer, songwriter, and commercial musician who also contributed background vocals to bossa nova recordings by Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto, and her mother Tereza Souza was a poet and lyricist. She began her recording career at age three with a radio commercial. Career Souza has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin, Maria Schneider, Danilo Pérez, Guillermo Klein, John Patitucci, and others. She has been a soloist in new works by composers including Osvaldo Golijov, Derek Bermel, Patrick Zimmerli, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider, performing with the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta

Lucio Fabbri

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Lucio Fabbri (born 25 March 1955) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Crema, Lombardy, Fabbri graduated in violin and then in the early 1970s he was a member of the progressive rock groups Il Pacco and Piazza delle Erbe. After these experiences he worked as a session musician for several artists, including Roberto Vecchioni, Claudio Rocchi, and Eugenio Finardi, with whom he composed the hit “La radio”. In 1978 Fabbri made his solo debut with the instrumental album Amarena, and the same year he became a member of Premiata Forneria Marconi as violinist and keyboardist. Starting from the 1980s he devoted himself to arranging and conducting, notably collaborating with Matia Bazar, Paul Young, Umberto Tozzi, Mika, Paola & Chiara, Miguel Bosé, Milva, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Gianni Morandi, Enzo Jannacci, Fiorella Mannoia, Giorgio Faletti, Giusy Ferreri, Howard Jones, Ivan Graziani, Marco Mengoni, Massimo Ranieri, Max Pezzali, Chiara, Negrita, Nik Kershaw, Captain Sensible and Tony Hadley. Fabbri also composed the music for several videogames and commercials, and produced several artists, notably Dolcenera. References External links

Lucio Garau

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Lucio Garau (born 9 December 1959) is an Italian composer of contemporary music and pianist. Garau graduated in Piano and Composition at the Conservatorio di Cagliari, where he studied with Franco Oppo. His compositional aesthetics are influenced from acousmatic issues, but he also composes vocal and instrumental chamber music, sometimes with live electronics. In 1991, he founded MiniM Ensemble to investigate the techniques of minimal music. He is the artistic director of Amici della Musica di Cagliari. Discography *Musica presente 4 (AA.VV. Fonit Cetra) (1994) *Ricercare 1 (AA.VV. Ricercare) (1997) *Ricercare 2 (AA.V. Ricercare) (1998) *Electric Dream (AA.VV. Intersound) (1999) *Le Corde di Sicilo (AA.VV. Unda Maris) (2004) *Isole in musica (AA.VV. Agorà) (2007) *35-36 Bozen Festival of contemporary music (AA.VV. Bozen) (2011) Works *op. 1, EO’ (voice and delay) (1990) *op. 2, Hidden Music for 12 strings (1989–91) *op. 3, Hidden music for a percussionist (1991) *op. 4, Sacrum (5 male voices) (1992) *op. 5, Canoni (recorder and delay) (1992) *op. 6 n. 1, Epitaffio (3 Harps) (1991) *op. 6 n. 2, Epitaffio (voice and string trio) (1992) *op. 6 n. 3, Epitaffio (clarinet, violin, alto,

Lucio Godoy

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Lucio Godoy (born 1958) is an Argentine-Spanish film composer and music producer. He lived in Madrid from 1992 to 2013, working as a film ad TV composer, scoring and doing the music production for more than 50 feature films. In 2013, he became the director of the Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games master’s degree program at Berklee College of Music’s campus in Valencia, Spain. His feature film credits include: Fin (Jorge Torregrosa), Blackthorn (Mateo Gil), Un cuento chino, Amador, Los Lunes al sol (Fernando León de Aranoa), Triage (Danis Tanović), Los girasoles ciegos, La educación de las hadas (José Luis Cuerda), Mataharis (Icíar Bollaín), El penalti más largo del mundo, El club de los suicidas (Roberto Santiago), Nacidas para sufrir, Cachorro (Miguel Albaladejo), El corredor nocturno, Las razones de mis amigos, Silencio en la Nieve, (Gerardo Herrero), Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo), Don’t Move (Sergio Castellitto) and El aura (Fabián Bielinsky). He has also worked as musical producer for other composers’ films, including Mar adentro, Los otros (Alejandro Amenábar), Todo sobre mi madre, Carne trémula and La flor de mi secreto (Pedro Almodóvar). Critical reception Hi

Lucio Gregoretti

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Lucio Gregoretti (born 1961) is an Italian composer. He composed operas, symphonic and chamber music, electroacoustic music, as well as incidental music for theatre plays, musical comedies, and film scores. Biography He studied composition with Mauro Bortolotti and music history with Bruno Cagli at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in the city of his birth, Rome, and there obtained his diploma. He also attended seminars and courses in composition with Sylvano Bussotti and Ennio Morricone, and courses in conducting with Franco Ferrara and Giampiero Taverna. He has been composer-in-residence at a number of institutions, including Instituto Sacatar (Brazil, 2006), the MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire, 2005 and 2006), (Germany, 2005), Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (Germany 2002–2003). His works have been commissioned and performed by a number of institution including Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, Solistes Européens (Luxembourg), Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, ISCM Bucharest, Festival Pergolesi-Spontini (Jesi), Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti (Naples), Progetto Sonora (Cologne), Todi Music Fest (To

Lucy Armstrong

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Lucy Armstrong (born 2 September 1991) is a British composer based in London, who was appointed Fellow of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London in 2018. She is currently doing a three year residency at Glydnebourne. Armstrong composed a chamber opera, Nadja’s Song, for the Bergen National Opera which premiered in Bergen and was later performed at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in London and in Bogotá. In 2022, Salford Choral Society and The Piccadilly Symphony orchestra premiered a 25 minute work for chorus and orchestra by Armstrong and Rebecca Hurst. In 2023, The Cambridge Philharmonic and chorus commissioned a piece which was premiered in March 2023. Conductor Chloé van Soeterstède and The Arch Sinfonia commissioned a 20 minute saxophone concerto which was premiered with Gillian Blair playing alto saxophone in June 2023. She has composed for: Psappha, London Sinfonietta, Glyndebourne, Grange Park Opera, Fontana Mix (Italy) Size Zero Opera, The Borealis Saxophone Quartet, RNCM Engage, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, The Meon Valley Orchestra, John Miller’s Brazmataz, Gillian Blair, Erin Royer and A4 Brass. Her work has been performed in venu

Lucy Ward (musician)

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Lucy Victoria Ward is an English singer-songwriter from Derby, England. She performs, with a voice described as expressive and powerful, traditional English folk songs as well as her own material. Three of her albums, Adelphi Has to Fly, Single Flame and I Dreamt I Was a Bird, have been critically acclaimed and have each received four-starred reviews in the British national press. Early life and education The youngest of six children, Lucy Ward grew up in Littleover, Derbyshire. She went to St Peter’s Junior School in Littleover, and Littleover Community School. set to a tune by Lucy Ward. “Alice in the Bacon Box”, a song written by Ward in the style of a traditional folk song, tells the story of Derbyshire hermit Alice Grace (1867–1927) from Little Eaton who, on being evicted from her cottage, lived in a box previously used for storing bacon, which had been given to her by the local butcher. The album was critically acclaimed and received a four-starred review in The Guardian. I Dreamt I Was a Bird Ward’s third album, I Dreamt I Was a Bird, was released by Betty Beetroot Records on 2 October 2015. It received a four-starred review in The Daily Telegraph Pretty Warnings Ward’s four

Ludovic Bource

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Ludovic Bource (; born 19 August 1970 in Pontivy) is a French composer best known for his work in film scoring. He rose to international critical acclaim in 2011 for composing the Golden Globe- and Academy Award -winning score for The Artist. Life and career Bource first studied music at a conservatory in Brittany, moving afterwards to the Centre d’Informations Musicales (CIM), in Paris, where he studied Jazz. Bource began his career composing music for commercials, but later moved on to short films, such as, En attendant (2000), Spartacus (2003), and Sirene Song (2005). After working on the Michel Hazanavicius film Mes amis, Bource has become a long-time collaborator with the director. He has since scored such Hazanavicius films as OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), its sequel OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009), and most recently the black-and-white silent film The Artist (2011). The latter, recorded with award-winning Brussels Philharmonic, elevated Bource to international fame and earned him numerous accolades, including a César Award, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar. He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals. F

Ludovico Einaudi

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Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (; born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as pop, rock, folk, and world music. Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions, including This Is England, The Intouchables, I’m Still Here, the TV series Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario (1996), for which he won the Grolla d’oro. His music was used as the score for the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning films Nomadland and The Father. He has also released a number of solo albums for piano and other instruments, notably I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, and In a Time Lapse in 2013. On 1 March 2019, Einaudi announced a seven-part project named Seven Days Walking, which was released over the course of seven months in 2019. In 2005, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Early life and education Einaudi was born in Turin, Piedmont. His father, Giulio Einaudi, was a publisher His paternal grandfather, Luigi Einaudi, was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955. His mother,

Ludwig Göransson

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Ludwig Emil Tomas Göransson (; ; born 1 September 1984) is a Swedish musician, composer, and record producer. Based in the United States, he is often regarded as one of the most successful composers in Hollywood of the 21st century. For his work in music, film and television, he has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and six Grammy Awards. As a record producer, he has frequently collaborated with Childish Gambino, producing his studio albums Camp (2011), Because the Internet (2013) and “Awaken, My Love!” (2016), among others. Göransson’s producing work on Gambino’s 2018 single “This Is America” was met with acclaim and accolades, including two Grammy Awards (for Record of the Year and Song of the Year). He has also produced for other recording artists, such as Adele, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Chance the Rapper, Haim, Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Travis Scott and Moses Sumney. For television, he received his first break as a composer for the NBC comedy series Community (2009–2015), followed by the Fox comedy series New Girl (2011–2018). Göransson transitioned into dramatic work, scoring t

Luichy Guzman

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Luis Alberto Guzmán (; born 22 July 1974) is a Dominican composer and singer-songwriter. He has composed the music for the films Quiero ser fiel, Ladrones and Veneno: Primera caída – El relámpago de Jack, for which he won the Premio La Silla in 2018. In 2009, Guzman received an award for producing the stage musical Les Misérables from the Asociacion de Cronistas de Arte de Santo Domingo. Early life and family Luis Alberto Guzmán was born on 22 July 1974 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to Josefina (née Peña) and Luis Guzmán Molina a musician. As a young child, he played the keyboard at home but never had piano lessons. His father is a legendary dominican rocker, and with his help and the help of his aunt he learned to play the guitar at the age of 12. Luichy attended Colegio Dominicano De La Salle, graduating in 1993. Guzmán has two brothers, Luis Eduardo and Luis Omar, and one sister, Ayerine. Career Early career Guzman began his career playing guitar and singing in the late 1980s with the band Razon Vital. After that he went through various local bands either as a backup singer or as a guitar player. After a stint at being an actor in various musicals he released his first al

Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom

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Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom (6 December 1971 – 21 July 2013) was a Colombian composer of contemporary classical music who lived and worked in Paris since 1999. He was also a high performance athlete, member of the French hang gliding team. Biography Rizo-Salom obtained a master of composition at the Javeriana University in Bogotá in 1998. In 1999, he decided to come to France to continue his studies with Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris. Interested in computer music and new technologies, he followed the curriculum composition and computer music at IRCAM in 2005 where he made Big Bang for viola and electronics. Between 2005 and 2007 he was composer in residence at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. He also received support from institutions such as the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Foundation, the Colombian government, the Academy Villecroze, foundations Meyer, Tarrazi, Legs St. Paul, and the Georges Wildenstein (Academy of Fine Arts). His works were commissioned by the Concert Hall Shizuoka (Japan), the French ministry for culture, the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, the Festival du Larzac, the SACEM, the IRCAM, Radio France and Steirisches Kammermusik Festival (Austria). He

Lukas Ligeti

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Lukas Ligeti (born in Vienna, Austria, 13 June 1965) is an Austrian composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical and various world musics, especially African traditional and popular music styles. Biography Ligeti is of Hungarian ancestry (although he never learned to speak the Hungarian language fluently, since his parents spoke Hungarian to one another but spoke German to him while he was growing up) and is the son of the noted composer György Ligeti (1923–2006). He was born without citizenship, due to being the child of Jewish parents who had fled from Hungary. He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, where he studied composition with Erich Urbanner, Kurt Schwertsik, Heinrich Gattermeyer, and Dieter Kaufmann; as well as jazz drums with Fritz Ozmec, earning a Diploma (with “unanimous distinction”) in 1993 and an M.A. (with highest grade) in 1997. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2020. Ligeti has done numerous cross-cultural collaborations and exchanges with non-Western musicians, experimenting with both ancient African traditional instruments and modern

Lukas Nathanson

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Lukas Nathanson (born 4 July 1986) is a Swedish record producer, composer and songwriter. He is commonly known for collaborating with producers Scott Effman, Kenneth Coby as well as various artists including Akon, Chris Brown, Natalia Jiménez, Sofia Reyes, and Prince Royce. Nathanson was nominated for two Grammy Awards for his work on the albums Creo En Mi by Natalia Jiménez and X by Chris Brown. Career Nathanson started producing music in Stockholm, Sweden and signed his first publishing deal at age 16 with reactive songs. In his early career, he has worked with Finnish rapper Pikku G, Cuban band Alianza and Japanese idol group Arashi. In 2012, Nathanson moved to the Los Angeles, where he started collaborating with writers and producers at recording studios. He later began a production duo with Scott Effman and worked with artists in various genres, including Akon, Chris Brown, Boyz II Men, The Saturdays, Priscilla Renea, and Prince Royce. In 2014, Nathanson received a Grammy nomination for Chris Brown’s X as the best urban contemporary album. and with OVÖ’s “Inga Problem” in 2020. Production discography References

Luke Bedford

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Luke Bedford (born 25 April 1978) is a British composer. He studied composition with Edwin Roxburgh and Simon Bainbridge at the Royal College of Music, and won the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 2000. This was followed by post-graduate study with Simon Bainbridge at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2007 Bedford signed to Universal Edition London. Awards include the 2000 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize for composers under 29 and the 2004 BBC Radio 3 Listeners’ Award at the British Composer Awards. In 2007, Bedford became the first compositional recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Artists’ Award since David Sawer in 1993. 2007 also saw him receive a nomination for the Royal Philharmonic Society large-scale composition prize, for his song cycle On Voit Tout En Aventure. In 2008, Bedford received his second British Composer Award for his 2007 orchestral work Wreathe. In 2012, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize. Bedford was the Wigmore Hall’s first ever Composer-in-Residence, from 2008-2011. In 2015 his work for large orchestra, Instability, was premiered at the Proms, and in October 2017 his Concerto for Saxophone Quartet & Orchestra had its premiere at the Berlin Philha

Luke Flynn

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Luke Flynn (born 1988, in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American composer of film, television, and concert music. He is most widely known for his choral, orchestral, and concert band works. In the film industry, he has composed the scores for several movies, including Holmes and Watson (2018); his film music credits include numerous other titles, such as Frozen II, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, La La Land, and many others. Education Flynn graduated summa cum laude from Butler University with a masters of music composition, where he studied with Michael Schelle, and was a graduate assistant in music composition, and a teaching assistant in music technologies. He graduated summa cum laude from Clarke University, with a Bachelor of Arts in music composition, where he studied with Amy Dunker, and was the recipient of the Francis J. O’ Connor Memorial Award, Clarke University’s most prestigious award given to a single graduating senior. Flynn also studied music composition at 鹿児島国際大学, the International University of Kagoshima in Japan, with Japanese composer Tadashi Kubo. Composition Awards and Accolades (Winner, runner-up, or finalist) *Winds Composition Contest Saxony (2023) *American Priz

Lulu Dikana

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Lungisa Dikana (18 December 1978 – 3 December 2014) was a South African recording artist and vocalist. Her music career shot to limelight in 2008 following the release of her debut album My Diary, My Thoughts. She died on 3 December 2014 after a short illness. Life and career Born into a family of musicinas in Kwazakhele, a small town in Eastern Cape, Port Elizabeth, Lulu began singing as a chorister in her local church at the age of 15. Her father, Vuyiselie Dikana was a drummer for a band known as “Black Slave and the Flamingo”. An alumna of Fort Hare University where she studied Law, Lulu released her debut album titled My Diary, My Thoughts in 2008 produced by Nigerian-born music producer Wilson Joel . The album contained hit tracks like “Real Love” and “Life and Death”. Following the success of her debut album, Lulu began working on her second album This Is the Life. The album was released in 2011 and went on to be nominated in three categories at the 2013 Metro FM Music Awards and “Best R&B/Soul/Reggae Album” category at the 19th South African Music Awards. In October 2014, she released I Came To Love, her third studio album which earned her three nomination spots at the 21st

Luming Lu

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Lu Lu-ming (; born 23 June 1982), also known as Luming Lu, is a Taiwanese film score composer. He won Best Original Film Song with the horror film Detention (2019) in the 56th Golden Horse Awards and Best Original Film Score with the drama film The Falls (2021) in the 58th Golden Horse Awards. Early life Lu was born on 23 June 1982 in Pingtung City, Taiwan. His father Lu Yong-hui was a lawyer and a member of the Pingtung Mediation Committee. He learnt to play the piano and violin at a young age. He considered himself deviant and rebellious during his school years and joined the rock music club. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science, he fulfilled his mandatory military service and worked as a math tutor at a cram school. He had also formed a band called Empty Space On a Chessboard, In 2016, he received his first film composing role in his sister’s drama film The Receptionist. He won Best Original Film Song at the 56th Golden Horse Awards and received nominations for Best Original Film Score and Best Music at both the aforementioned Golden Horse Awards and the 2020 Taipei Film Awards. He also became a frequent collaborator of Hsu. In A Leg, he used bass, double bass, and xylophone to

Luna Pearl Woolf

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Luna Pearl Woolf (born 1973) is a Canadian-American composer, producer, and dramaturg. Her oeuvre includes opera, chamber music, orchestra, and choral compositions including works for dramatic chamber music, silent film scores, and musical story-telling. Her works have been commissioned Carnegie Hall, Washington National Opera, Tapestry Opera, Minnesota Sinfonia, Salle Bourgie, ECM+, Perelman Performing Arts Center, Concours Musical International de Montréal, among others, with collaborations with artists including Jeremy Irons, Cornelia Funke, Joyce DiDonato, Frederica von Stade, Royce Vavrek, David Van Taylor, Matt Haimovitz, and Dame Evelyn Glennie amongst many others. In 2014 she was an inaugural recipient of Opera America’s first grant for female composers. Biography Luna Pearl Woolf was born in 1973 in Western Massachusetts. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, graduating Summa Cum Laude in music composition in 1996, and a Master of Arts from Smith College in music composition. Woolf’s principal composition teachers have been Mario Davidovsky, Augusta Read Thomas, Lewis Spratlan and Don Wheelock. Woolf was awarded the Ellen Taafe Zwilich Prize from the IAW

Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau

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Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (born 1963) is a German composer of classical music. He was born in Regensburg and studied composition with Wilhelm Killmayer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, continued in a masterclass with Hans-Jürgen von Bose from 1992 to 1994. He has been teaching music pedagogy at the Regensburg University. Selected works * Der Jäger von Fall, opera after a libretto by Wilhelm Killmayer (1991) Orchestra * Times Square Music for large orchestra Orchester (1990) * Running Riot for brass band and orchestra (1993) * …mild und leise…, Tristan’s death for large orchestra (2010) Chamber music * Klavierquintett für Paul Celan, piano quintet (1990) * Berührungen for piano 4 hands and conga (1999) * The Day After Rendevouz for violin, tuba and tape (1992) * Silence invades the breathing wood for soprano, violin, viola, cello and small percussion (2011) * Takte und Gewichte, string quartet (2001) * In der Schwebe for cello and piano (2009) * Yolimba läßt grüßen, variations on a theme by Wilhelm Killmayer for violin and piano (2010) * Duo concertant for two pianos (1997) Vocal * Zwei Lieder für Bariton und Klavier, songs for baritone and piano on poems by Ott

Lydia Kakabadse

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Lydia Kakabadse (born 1955) is a British composer of vocal, choral and chamber music. Her musical style is tonal and modal with influences from chant and early polyphony, Orthodox liturgical music and other non-western music. It also incorporates the Arabic scale with traditional Western harmonies. Her choral piece Odyssey was commissioned by the Hellenic Institute of Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2015 she was commissioned to write a choral piece, I Remember Two short pieces were performed at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral in 2019, and her chamber work Concertato was performed at the Chatsworth Arts Festival later the same year. Her chamber work Russian Tableaux was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 to mark International Women’s Day in 2015 and 2017. Compositions Kakabadse’s work includes: * Arabian Rhapsody Suite * As I Sat at the Café * A Vision * Cantica Sacra * Cantus Planus * Concertato * Courage * Dance Sketches * Eldorado * Haunted Houses * I Remember * Kontakia * Odyssey * Recitativo Arioso + Variations * Russian Tableaux * Sancte Ioseph * Spectre of the Maiden Scorned * Spellbound * The Coachman’s Terror * The House Where I was Born * The Mermaid * The

Lynn Gumert

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Lynn Gumert (born 1961) is an American musician and contemporary composer. Biography Gumert studied at Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, with Claude Baker, Eugene O’Brien, and Donald Freund, graduating with a Master of Music and Doctorate of Music. She also studied with Ellen Taafe Zwilich and Shulamit Ran, recorder with Eva Legene, Emily Samuels and Scott Reiss, and voice with Camilla Williams and Sudie Marcuse-Blatz. She is artistic director of Zorzal Music Ensemble which performs Spanish and Latin American music from 12th-century to contemporary. She is currently pursuing a masters in music therapy at Montclair State University, where she received the Ott award for outstanding music therapy intern. She has one daughter, Clara. Works Selected works include: *Díestas aves *Roundabout, for flute, percussion, 2 trombones, and double bass *Milkweed, for solo voice *Mary’s Lullaby *Quemar las naves, scored for voices, recorders, strings and percussion References

M Lamar

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M Lamar (born May 29, 1972) is an American composer, performer, and artist. He is an operatic countertenor and pianist whose work incorporates film, sculpture, installation, and performance. Lamar is the twin of actress Laverne Cox, and played his sister’s character pre-transition in two episodes of the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black. Early life and career Lamar was born in Mobile, Alabama, and as a child he sang as a soprano in his church’s choir. He studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute and attended Yale for graduate school in sculpture before dropping out to focus on music. In 2014, Lamar participated in an open dialogue with authors bell hooks, Marci Blackman, and Samuel R. Delany called “Transgressive Sexual Practice” as part of hooks’ work as scholar-in-residence at The New School. He has cited the writing of hooks and Toni Morrison, as well as operatic composer Diamanda Galás’s Plague Mass, as inspirations for his work. The work is loosely based on the life and death of Willie Francis, a Black American charged with having murdered a 53-year-old white man at the age of 15; Francis’s case only received significant attention when he survived an attempted exe

Maarten van der Vleuten

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Maarten van der Vleuten () is a Dutch producer, composer and recording artist born in Vught, The Netherlands in 1967. Between 1987 and 2007 he used over two dozens of aliases, producing Detroit techno, electro, house, experimental and ambient music. In early 2008 he announced that he would only use his real name for future releases. He recorded for R&S Records, Outrage Recordings, Apollo Records (Belgium), Djax-Up-Beats, See Saw, ESP and Klang Elektronik to name just a few. Since 1996 he is also releasing music on his own label Signum Recordings (and its two sublabels Passiflora and Glam). Maarten’s musical vision knows no limits: working in his own studio, he’s constantly experimenting and exploring all aspects of (danceable) music, looking for innovation and bringing new angles to it. Due to his experimental vision towards his music, Van Der Vleuten’s productions are not mainstream material. As a result of that he has gained more credits from within the “underground” scene. Or as the database of the Dutch Rock & Pop Institute writes; “one of the pioneers of the dutch dance scene”. Aliases All known aliases in alphabetical order: 48V Phantom Power, Cliche, Cryptic, DJ Dusk, DJ G-S

Maciej Zieliński

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Maciej Zielinski (born March 29, 1971) is the award-winning Polish composer, arranger and music producer, known for his contemporary classical and film scores, songs and original television music. His contemporary classical music has been awarded at 8 composers’ contests, including two international competitions and it was performed at many international festivals, including the Warsaw Autumn Festival and ISCM World Music Days. He has written scores for popular Polish movies and for independent US productions. In 2019 he received “Best Score” award at the “New Filmmakers LA Awards” in Los Angeles and nomination for “Crystal Pine Award” at the International Sound and Film Music Festival in Croatia. In 2016, 2017, and 2020 he received nominations for the Polish Film Academy Award - “Eagle” (Polish: Polskie Nagrody Filmowe: Orły) in “Best Music” category. In 2012 he was nominated for “Fryderyk” – the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Związek Producentów Audio-Video, ZPAV) in the category “Composer of the Year”. His music has been released on nearly 30 albums. Contemporary classical music Maciej Zielinski’s contemporary classical music is frequently performed at major contem

Maciej Żółtowski

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Maciej Żółtowski - alternative spelling: Zoltowski (born 1971, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish conductor and composer. Maciej Żółtowski studied violin at the F. Chopin and J. Elsner Music Schools in Warsaw. Having earned his diploma in violin performance with distinction, he continued his studies at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he graduated in 1996 in composition and in 1997 in conducting faculty, obtaining both M.A. diplomas with awards. His teachers at the academy included Prof. Marian Borkowski and Prof. Ryszard Dudek. Maciej Żółtowski participated in many master-courses working under supervision of notable artists like Zoltán Pesko, Lászlo Tihanyi, Yuri Simonov and Gianluigi Gelmetti. For the artistic achievements, he received twice the Polish Ministry of Culture scholarship and the Tadeusz Baird scholarship. In 1997, he was awarded with the fellowship of the German Stiftung Kulturfonds in Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf. In 2000, he won the scholarship for young conductors of the Japanese Music Foundation JESC. He was the winner of the first composers’ competition held by the Musica Sacra Institute in Warsaw. In 1999, he was the finalist of the Toru Takemitsu C

Maciek Pysz

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Maciek Pysz (born 6 September 1982 in Rybnik, Poland) is a jazz musician, guitarist and composer. He is known for his clear lyrical phrasing, his virtuosity and his imaginative, cinematic compositions inspired by people, places and experiences. Career Maciek Pysz is a self-taught musician, who has been playing guitar since the age of 9. He has been inspired by musicians such as Al Di Meola, Sylvain Luc, Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Biréli Lagrène, Chick Corea and Ralph Towner. Pysz plays acoustic and classical guitars and his influences come from tango, flamenco, Latin, jazz, Brazilian and classical music. His compositions are known for their lyricism, well developed melodic sense, and imagination. He moved to London in 2003 and established his first project, the Maciek Pysz Trio, in 2008 and recorded his first EP Discoveries the same year. Touring and collaborations followed, including a quartet with the addition of accordionist/pianist Maurizio Minardi and harmonica player Patrick Bettison. He appeared on Polish National TV in 2010, and established his trio with drummer Asaf Sirkis and bassist Yuri Goloubev. He appeared at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Poland in 2011

Madeleine Isaksson

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Madeleine Isaksson (born 1956) is a Swedish/French composer. Biography Madeleine Isaksson studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm from 1979 to 1987. She received a diploma as a piano and ensemble teacher after studying under Gunnar Hallhagen, and then studied composition under teachers including Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström (composition), Pär Lindgren (electroacoustic music), Arne Mellnäs (instrumentation), and Bo Wallner (music theory and analysis). In 1987 she lived in Amsterdam for a year of studies with the composer Louis Andriessen. Meetings with composers at different composition courses in Europe, Brian Ferneyhough, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman and Emmanuel Nunes, have all contributed to Isaksson’s development as a composer. In the early 1990s, she moved to France, where she lives and works near Paris. Works Isaksson has composed for solo, duo, trio, quartet, ensemble, orchestra and vocal music. Instrumental *Chaconne for piano (1982) *7 formade frön (“7 Formed Seeds”) for piano (1984) *Tång (“Seaweed”) for english horn, basson, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, harp, harpsichord, cello and double bass (1984) *Capriola for baritone saxophone and tromb

Magali Babin

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Magali Babin (born 1967) is a Canadian musician, composer and sound artist based primarily in Montreal, Quebec. Active since the mid-1980s, she has received several commissions from many new music festivals and organisations. Artistic career Magali Babin is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice in sound art. Exploring space as sound material, Babin draws her materials from haptic proximities, acoustic landscapes, and real-life contexts to create environments composed of sequences, textures, and perspectives. Her works explore imperceptible aspects that create alertness and attention through listening. In recent projects, Babin has examined perception and memory by investigating the ways we identify sounds. Babin has performed in international festivals in Canada, USA, and Europe. Her installations have been presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), as part of the 2011 Quebec Triennial (MTL), at Mois Multi 2012 (QC), and at La Fabrique in 2013 (Nantes, France). Babin has a doctorate in art studies from UQAM. Babin’s sound work occurs through the massive amplification of tiny resonances in different objects. In her solo work, she usually produces dense and br

Magnus Lidehäll

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Magnus Lidehäll is a Swedish award-winning producer, composer, and songwriter. He works closely with the songwriting duo Vargas & Lagola – with whom he won the composer of the year award at the Swedish Grammy Awards in 2014. Together they have produced, written, and/or co-written songs for Madonna, Wyclef Jean & Avicii (“Divine Sorrow”), Veronica Maggio and Petter, to name a few. Career Magnus Lidehäll started in a rap / hip hop duo alongside Herbert Munkhammar called Afasi & Filthy. “1990 Nånting”, released with the band Snook in 2002, was their biggest hit. Between 2007 and 2008 he became a member of the successful formation Maskinen. He left Maskinen to focus on writing and producing music for other artists. Today he has a great résumé working with both international and local Swedish artists such as: Seinabo Sey, David Guetta, Katy Perry, Madonna, Silk City, Britney Spears and many more. He has also worked with producers such as Bloodshy & Avant and Sebastian Ingrosso. Together with Bloodshy and Henrik Jonback Magnus co-wrote and produced “How I Roll” & “Trip To Your Heart” from Britney Spears’s album Femme Fatale, which was released in March 2011. On Katy Perry’s 2013 album “P

Magnus Lindberg

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Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic’s composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s composer-in-residence from 2014 to 2017. Early life Lindberg was born in Helsinki, where he studied at the Sibelius Academy under Einojuhani Rautavaara and Paavo Heininen, beginning with piano. He attended summer courses in Siena (with Franco Donatoni) and Darmstadt (with Brian Ferneyhough). After graduating in 1981, he traveled widely in Europe, attending private studies with Vinko Globokar and Gérard Grisey in Paris, and observing Japanese drumming and punk rock in Berlin. Compositions and style Lindberg’s juvenilia include the large orchestral work Donor, composed at age 16. Quintetto dell’Estate (1979) is generally held to be Lindberg’s first opus. His first piece performed by a professional orchestra was Sculpture II in 1982, the second part of a trilogy whose first and third sections were long unwritten. His first great success came with “Action-Situation-Signification” (1982), the first work in which he explored musique concrète. This piece was written for and premiered by the ne

Mahmoud Abuwarda

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Mahmoud Abuwarda (born 1990) is a Palestinian composer, classical guitarist, and music educator based in Istanbul. Early life and education Abuwarda was born in Gaza in 1990. He received his early training in classical guitar at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine, where he studied under guitarist Pedro López de La Osa. He later studied music theory and composition through Berklee College of Music on a Gary Burton Scholarship. Career and compositions Between 2012 and 2022, Abuwarda held several academic and administrative positions at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, including teaching guitar, composition, and music theory, and was the head of the guitar department and the academic supervisor. He also taught at Zemas College in Istanbul. Abuwarda was director of the Sea and Freedom Music Festival in Palestine and has participated in international cultural events, including the Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival (LEFFEST) in Portugal. In 2025, Abuwarda’s orchestral work A Story to Tell premiered in Portugal, performed by the Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa at the Festa do Avante festival. In 2026, he was announced as a winner of the JERUS-IT-ARTS In

Maja S. K. Ratkje

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Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (born 29 December 1973 in Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian vocalist and composer. She plays on vocals and electronics instruments. Career Ratkje studied composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo under the tutorship of Lasse Thoresen, Olav Anton Thommessen and Asbjørn Schaathun, and got her diploma in 2000. During the summer of 1999, Ratkje studied at IRCAM and she has also studied individually with composers such as Louis Andriessen, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ivar Frounberg, Klaus Huber, Joji Yuasa and Kaija Saariaho. She performs and releases music for concerts, recordings, films, installations, theatre, dance and other performances. Maja is a member of SPUNK, a Norwegian improv group, and Agrare, a performance trio consisting of the noise duo Fe-mail and the Swedish dancer Lotta Melin. She has collaborated with, among others, Jaap Blonk, Lasse Marhaug, Joëlle Léandre, Per Inge Bjørlo, Stian Westerhus, Kathy Hinde, Odd Johan Fritzøe, POING, HC Gilje, Stephen O’Malley, Ikue Mori, and Zeena Parkins. As a vocal soloist, Ratkje has performed with ensembles Engegårdkvartetten, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, BBC Scottish

Makoto Yoshimori

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is a Japanese composer and pianist known for his soundtracks for many animations. He also works on various artists like Ogawa Mishio, Yumeno Kabu, Umezu Kazutoki, Ohtaka Sizzle, Watanabe Takao and many more. Biography Yoshimori Makoto was born in Hiroshima, Japan. He started his musical career in 1986 participating as a keyboardist in a variety of concerts around the Kansai region. In 1991 he graduated from the music program at the Osaka Kyoiku University and then moved to Tokyo in 1992, at first, as a member of Modern Choki Chokies. From 1995 through 1998, being a multi-keyboardist, he played the piano, synthesizer, and accordion at various night clubs around Tokyo for bands such as Hikashu. He also played the piano and accordion for various musicals such as Big in 1998. He joined the keyboard harmonica orchestra P-blot in 1996 and was considered “the most avant-garde man” of the group because of his acute and clear playing. Through his various activities in Tokyo he dealt with many genres of music and learned different aspects of composition, arrangement, and music production. In recent years he has mainly worked as a composer of soundtracks for anime, often collaborating with di

Malcolm Riley

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Malcolm Riley (born 9 June 1960) is a British composer and author most associated for his work as a scholar of the work of Percy Whitlock. Early life and education Riley was born in Northallerton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Educated at Harrogate High School, he gained an organ scholarship to Christ’s College, Cambridge. Career Riley’s composition, De Temporibus Canticum (‘Take That Willy for a Walk’), was commissioned by Cranbrook Choral Society to celebrate the Millennium and gave its first performance in December 2000. Riley was also commissioned to write a celebratory piece to open Maidstone Symphony Orchestra’s 100th season, titled “Fairmeadow – An Overture for Maidstone”, first performed on 16 October 2010. He has performed at Derby Cathedral and Bridlington Priory. He was Director of Music at Cranbrook School from 1985 to December 2011. Riley is also the author of two books concerning organist and composer Percy Whitlock. His first, “Percy Whitlock - A Biographical Study” was published to critical acclaim, as was the “Percy Whitlock Companion”, a collection of letters and diary extracts of the early 20th-century composer. He left Invicta Grammar School in Maidstone i

Maleek Berry

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Maleek Shoyebi (born 11 August 1987), professionally known as Maleek Berry, is a British-Nigerian record producer and recording artist. After his break into the spotlight in 2012, Maleek Berry was nominated as “Music Producer of the Year” at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Maleek Berry has worked with prominent artists such as Wizkid, Davido, Wale, Fuse ODG, Runtown and Iyanya. In 2017 the Starboy Label signed act was nominated in the Best Male category of the annual MOBO Awards. Discography Singles As featured artist Production discography Awards and nominations References External links *

Malek Jandali

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Malek Jandali (, ) (born 1972) is a Syrian-American Jandali immigrated to the United States and studied music in North Carolina. Since then, he has performed with orchestras across the world and composed a number of modern classical works. His music was described as “a major new addition to the 21st century symphonic literature” by Fanfare magazine. with “heart-rending melodies, lush orchestration, clever transitions and creative textures”, according to American Record Guide. Jandali’s music ranges from chamber works to large symphonic compositions integrating Middle-Eastern and Western influences. He is the biological paternal cousin of Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson. Early life and education Malek Jandali was born to Mamoun Jandali and Lina Droubi, citizens of Homs in Syria. He has a cousin, Mona Simpson, a novelist and English teacher at UCLA. Other cousins include Mona’s brother, Steve Jobs, founder of Apple. He began his musical career as a classical pianist after his studies at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus with Vladimir Zaritsky and Victor Bunin of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. In 2004 he received his master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at C

Man Parrish

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Manuel Parrish (born May 6, 1958) is an American songwriter, vocalist and producer. He, along with artists such as Yellow Magic Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, John Robie, Jellybean Benitez, Lotti Golden, Richard Scher and Aldo Marin, helped create and define electro in the early 1980s. He left home at the age of 14 and became a member of the crowd that converged nightly at the Studio 54 nightclub in Manhattan. The song was featured in the film Shaun of the Dead, the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which sold millions of copies. It was sampled in Sway & King Tech’s 1991 song “Follow 4 Now”, from their second album, Concrete Jungle. His biggest chart success in the UK was his recording of “Male Stripper” with Man 2 Man, which peaked at No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart. He eventually signed with Elektra Records via David Bowie’s manager Tony DeFries who also managed his music career, but was dropped from the label in 1984, when they decided not to release the album he had recorded for them. Elektra signed him for dance music, his manager wanted him to create pop-rock. He has mixed, produced and worked with various artists such as Boy George, Mi

Manos Tsangaris

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Manos Tsangaris (born 8 December 1956) is a German composer, musician, sound art installation and performance artist, and a poet. Since 2024, he is president of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (AdK). Life Born in Düsseldorf, Tsangaris studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln from 1976 to 1983 composition with Mauricio Kagel and percussion with Christoph Caskel, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Alfonso Hüppi. Since 1980, he has participated several times in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse for Neue Musik and worked for the Münchner Kammerspiele. In 1991, he was invited by the Soviet composers’ association as artist-in-residence in Moscow, in the same year he received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship from the city of Cologne, in 1992/93, the scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and in 1997 the art prize of the Akademie der Künste (AdK) Berlin, of which he has been a member since 2009. In the same year, he received the Orchestra Prize of the Donaueschinger Musiktage for his piece Batsheba. Eat the History. Since 2012, he is head of the AdK section music. Since 2024, he is president of the AdK. In 2017, he was elected full member of the Bayerische Akademie der

Mansoor Hosseini

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Mansoor Hosseini (; born 1967) is an Iranian-Swedish percussionist and composer of classical music, born in Iran, who studied in Paris and Brussels. His works comprise chamber music and orchestral pieces. He founded the Ensemble Themus in Gothenburg, focussed on theatrical music. Career Hosseini studied composition with Philippe Capdenat and Yoshihisa Taïra in Paris. He studied music theory and computer music with Peter Swinnen at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and composition with Carl-Axel Hall in the Musikhögskolan (sv) of Gothenborg. External links * *Themus Ensemble members

Manu Delago

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Manu Delago (born 31 July 1984) is an Austrian musician and composer. Biography Delago was born in Innsbruck, Tyrol, and took music lessons as a child in accordion and piano. As a teenager he mainly played drums for various rock bands. In 2003 he picked up the Hang, which gradually turned into one of his main musical instruments. After graduating from the Mozarteum, Innsbruck, in classical percussion, Delago moved to London and studied jazz drums at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, beginning his focus on the Swiss instrument, Hang. Later he studied composition at the Trinity College of Music in London. After completing his studies, he worked as a composer, ensemble leader and musician. Since 2007 he has performed internationally including at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Barbican in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Sydney Opera House and Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. Career Between 2000 and 2007 Delago was working as live and studio drummer for various Austrian bands such as HotchPotch, Zabine, Michael Tschuggnall, Nadine Beiler, Bluatschink and more. In 2006, after playing together in different bands, Delago and Christoph Pepe Auer founded the first Han

Mappe Of

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Mappe Of is the stage name of Tom Meikle (born February 26, 1993), a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and avant-folk musician from Whitby, Ontario. Signed to Paper Bag Records, he released his debut album A Northern Star, A Perfect Stone in 2017. His sophomore release, The Isle of Ailynn, was a mixed-media concept record which included a VR video series made with Google Tilt Brush, released in 2019. The album was recorded at The Tragically Hip’s Bathouse Studios in Bath, ON and was accompanied by nine oil paintings by Canadian artist Quinn Henderson. Discography * “A Northern Star, A Perfect Stone” ** Release: July 28, 2017 ** Format: CD, Digital ** Label: Paper Bag Records * “The Isle of Ailynn” ** Release: November 1, 2019 ** Format: CD, Digital ** Label: Paper Bag Records * “Afterglades” ** Release: September 19th, 2025 ** Format: CD, Digital ** Label: Paper Bag Records References

Mara Margaret Helmuth

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Margaret Mara Helmuth (born 1957) is an American composer. She studied at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and then continued her studies at Columbia University, graduating with a doctorate in music. She was a co-editor of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States’ newsletter along with Sylvia Pengilly and Sally Johnston Reid from 1995 to 1996. Works Helmuth is known for electronic music. She composes for fixed format and also creates interactive installations. Selected works include: *Mellipse (1989, 1995) *Abandoned Lake in Maine (1997) *Bugs and Ice: A Question of Focus (2002) *Where Is My Voice, for fixed format audio *Hidden Mountain (2007) *Staircase of Light (2003) *Hidden Mountain 2, interactive multimedia and wireless-sensor-based installation Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including: *Sound Collaborations, v. 36 of the Consortium to Distribute Computer Music Series, Centaur Records *Implements of Actuation collaborations with percussionist-composer Allen Otte, Electronic Music Foundation *Open Space CD 16 music for tape References

Marc Canham (composer)

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Marc Canham is a British composer of music for film and video games. In 2008, he scored Far Cry 2, and in 2020, he composed the film score to I Care A Lot, for which he received an ASCAP award. Canham has collaborated with several artists including Iggy Pop, Nathan Johnson, Philip Glass, Baaba Maal, Bryan Mantia, and Paul Hartnoll. On creating music, Canham stated that he wanted to deliver emotion through a “sound palette” of combinations of sounds, textures, and ensembles of instruments, then letting loose with melodies and motifs. For I Care A Lot, Canham claims to have created the score from the script, as opposed to the film. Nimrod Productions Along with Richard Aitken and others, Canham founded Nimrod Productions Limited in 2000, a music production company in Oxfordshire, UK. Nimrod has provided orchestral soundtracks for The Getaway, Black Monday, Gran Turismo 4 and Driver versions 2 and 3. It was dissolved in 2019 and succeeded by Nimrod Sound as Rich Aitken’s mix company. Nimrod Studio Orchestra Canham founded the Nimrod Studio Orchestra (NSO) in 2002, a commercial session orchestra which has been behind game scores including 24: The Game, Killzone 2, and Act of War: Direc

Marc Daubert

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Marc Daubert (born January 13, 1963) is an American musician. He collaborated with Phish for a brief time in their early history. Daubert was a close friend of guitarist Trey Anastasio. Anastasio, Daubert, and lyricist/keyboardist Tom Marshall recorded a project entitled Bivouac Jaun. Much of this recording would end up on Phish’s debut album, known as The White Tape. When Anastasio returned to UVM in September 1984, he brought Daubert along. The most circulated Phish tape featuring Daubert is from a performance on December 1, 1984, at the club Nectar’s in downtown Burlington, Vermont. After a run of shows in February 1985 at a club called Doolin’s, Daubert quit the band. Daubert also penned the lyrics to the Phish song “The Curtain,” which was first performed live by Phish in 1987, over two years after Daubert’s departure from the band. Daubert is listed in the album credits on the CD “Lawn Boy” (Elektra Records 1990). He continues to write, produce and copyright music under his own music label Marc Daubert Music. References *The Phish Companion. A Guide to the Band and Their Music (2004) Miller Freeman Books, pages 314, 5, 329, 13, 509 *Go Phish (2000) St. Martins Press pages 9,

Marc Liebeskind

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Marc Liebeskind (born 1956 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss composer, guitarist, musician, sound engineer and producer. His musical influences vary from Jazz, Hindustani music (North Indian classical) to music of West Africa and of Brazilian music. Early life and education Marc Liebeskind started playing the guitar at the age of 18. He then formed a rock band called “Carte Blance” that existed for about 2 years. Later, he became a jazz player. Liebeskind attended workshops at the AMR (Association pour l’encouragement de la Musique improvisée). After completing his studies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, he studied at the Swiss Jazz School in the neighbouring city of Bern. Career In 1984 Liebeskind went to New York to meet with such influential jazz musicians like John Scofield, John Abercrombie, Bill Frisell and with Barry Harris. Quartet Having returned to Geneva in 1985, Marc formed his first quartet. During the years 1990–1997 he released 4 CDs, which he mostly wrote himself. He traveled to Brasil Africa The musician’s interest in Africa and its influences began at the age of 23 when he started taking regular dance classes with Paco Yé during a period of 5 years. He

Marc Mellits

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Marc Mellits (born 1966) is an American composer and musician. Mellits was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1984 to 1988, at the Yale School of Music from 1989 to 1991, at Cornell University from 1991 to 1996, and at Tanglewood in the summer of 1997. His composition instructors include Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, Martin Bresnick, Bernard Rands, Christopher Rouse, Roberto Sierra, Jacob Druckman, Poul Ruders, and Steven Stucky. Mellits’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. His music is influenced by minimalist and rock music, and has been identified with the postminimalist stylistic trend. He often composes for electric guitar and other amplified instruments. Mellits received a 2004 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Mellits’s commissions include pieces for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Assad Duo, Kronos Quartet, and the Meridian Arts Ensemble. His music has also been arranged by guitarist Dominic Frasca and the experimental music group Electric Kompany. Mellits is a founding member of Common Sense Composers’ Collective, which focuses on new and alte

Marc Shaiman

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Marc Shaiman ( ; born October 22, 1959) is an American composer and lyricist for films, television, and theatre, widely known for his collaborations with lyricist and director Scott Wittman, actor Billy Crystal, entertainer Bette Midler, and director Rob Reiner. Shaiman has received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award — as well as seven Academy Award nominations. Early life, family and education Shaiman was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, on October 22, 1959, the son of Claire (née Goldfein) and William Robert Shaiman. He grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, where he attended Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, but he left school at age 16 to start working in New York’s theaters; he later obtained a GED. Career Shaiman started his career as a theatre/cabaret musical director. He started working at Saturday Night Live as an arranger/writer. He portrayed Skip St. Thomas, the accompanying pianist for The Sweeney Sisters, a singing duo played by Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks, which earned him an Emmy nomination; he returned for an appearance on The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, having co-created Martin Short a

Marc Streitenfeld

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Marc Streitenfeld (born 1974) is a German composer of film scores. He has frequently collaborated with director Ridley Scott. Streitenfeld has composed the music for many high-profile Hollywood features as well as critically acclaimed independent films, including American Gangster, Body of Lies, The Grey, Prometheus, Poltergeist and All I See Is You. Life and career Born in Munich, Germany, Streitenfeld relocated to Los Angeles at age 19 and initially assisted film composer Hans Zimmer. Director Ridley Scott offered Streitenfeld his first composing job when he asked him to write the score for A Good Year (2006). Streitenfeld has written five film scores for Scott, including the BAFTA-nominated score for American Gangster (2007), for which he won the “Discovery of the Year” Award at the World Soundtrack Awards, the sci-fi horror Prometheus (2012) and the action adventure Robin Hood (2010). He has also been recognized for his work with three ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards and two International Film Music Critics Association award nominations. Streitenfeld has also worked with directors Marc Forster on All I See Is You (2017), Joe Carnahan on the action drama The Grey (2011),

Marc-André Dalbavie

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Marc-André Dalbavie (born 10 February 1961 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) is a French composer. He had his first music lessons at age 6. He attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied composition with Marius Constant and orchestration with Pierre Boulez. Notes External links *

Marc-André Hamelin

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Marc-André Hamelin, OC, OQ (born September 5, 1961) is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer who has received 11 Grammy Award nominations. He is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. Biography Education Born in Montreal, Quebec, Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist who was also an amateur pianist, introduced him to the works of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji when he was still young. He studied at the École de musique Vincent-d’Indy in Montreal with Yvonne Hubert and then at Temple University in Philadelphia with Harvey Wedeen. In 1989, he received the Virginia Parker Prize. Performances and recordings Hamelin has given recitals in many cities. His festival appearances have included Bad Kissingen, Belfast, Cervantino, La Grange de Meslay, Husum Piano Rarities, Lanaudière, Ravinia, La Roque d’Anthéron, Ruhr Piano, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Singapore Piano, Snape Maltings Proms, Mänttä Music Festival, Turku and Ottawa Strings of the Future, as well as the Chopin Festivals of Bagatelle (Paris), Duszniki and Valldemossa. He appears regularly in both the Wigmore Hall Masterconcert Series a

Marcel Chyrzyński

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Marcel Chyrzyński (born in 1971) is a Polish composer. He has been described as “a polystylist with an enormous sense of humour, and a lover of rhythm and jazz improvisation”. Chyrzyński’s works have been performed throughout Europe, as well as in South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the USA and Canada. Chyrzyński completed a master’s degree at the Academy of Music in Kraków in 1995, where he studied composition with Marek Stachowski, orchestration with Krzysztof Penderecki, and computer music with Marek Choloniewski, Richard Boulanger, Cindy McTee and Rodney Oaks. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Kraków, and in 2010 became an associate professor in the Department of Composition, Conducting and Theory of Music. In 1998 he was awarded a doctorate in composition. Since 2014 he has been director of the Institute of Composition, Conducting and Music Theory. Chyrzyński has received many awards and prizes, including 1st prize in the A.Krzanowski Competition for Young Composers in Bielsko-Biała, 1st prize at the 3rd All-Polish Adam Didur Composers’ Competition in Sanok (1994), a citation in the Composers’ Competition of the Polish Radio in Warsaw (1996),

Marcel Pérès

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Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant. Pérès was born into an Algerian family of Spanish origin which was repatriated to France. He grew up in Nice, where he sang at the cathedral and was organist at the Anglican church. He trained in organ and composition at the Nice conservatoire, before continuing his studies in church music at the Royal School of Church Music and at English cathedrals. He worked at the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (Montreal early music studio) and for the National Film Board of Canada. In 1979 he returned to France where he studied medieval music under Michel Huglo at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1984 Peres became director of ARIMM, the Atelier pour la Recherche sur l’Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales (or “Workshop for Research on the Performance of Medieval Music”) with the support of the Fondation Royaumont, created by the Goüin family. In 1994 the Atelier became CERIMM, the Centre Européen pour la Recherche sur l’Interprétation des Musiques Médié

Marcela Pavia

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Marcela Pavia (born 1957) is an Italian-American composer. Life Marcela Pavia was born in Argentina of Italian descent, and also maintains Italian citizenship. She studied composition at the National University of Rosario in Argentina with Dante Grela, Francisco Kröpfl, and Franco Donatoni. She also studied in Milan, Biella and Academy Chigi of Siena, studying with Georgy Ligeti, Ennio Morricone and Henri Pousseur. She was artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in the United States. After receiving her degree, Pavia worked as a composer and taught music at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires, Universidad del Museo Social Argentino and the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires. Her music has been performed internationally. Pavia has published articles in Codex XXI magazine, published by the Associació Música Tell (MIC) of Barcelona, and in Conceptos magazine, published by the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (UMSA) in Buenos Aires. She has also published books of teaching repertoire. Honors and awards Marcela Pavia has won awards in competitions including: *7th International Paul Barson Guitar Compositi

Marcelo Peralta

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Marcelo Peralta (5 March 1961 – 10 March 2020) was an Argentine performer, teacher, composer, and arranger who played saxophone, piano, accordion, and the Latin American aerophones. Early life and education Peralta was born in Buenos Aires. He studied piano and music theory at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven, where he obtained a teaching certificate in 1979. At the age of 18, he began to play the baritone sax, showing a particular interest in the music of Serge Chaloff; inspired by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, he learned tenor sax, then alto and finally soprano. While studying harmony and composition under tango composer Sebastian Piana, he taught himself to play trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, clarinet, and Latin American folk instruments. Since that time he taught at several schools. In 1980 he taught music in both elementary and high schools, as welI as at special education institutions. At the same time, he was hired as a saxophone and improvisation instructor at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla (Buenos Aires). Career At 18, he began his career as a freelance musician and went on to play and record with a wide range of artists and in many sty

Marcin Bortnowski

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Marcin Bortnowski (born 1 March 1972 in Żary, Poland) is a Polish composer of classical music. Life He studied composition with Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil at the Music Academy in Wrocław, graduating with honours in 1997. He took part in the 2nd International Meetings of Young Composers in Apeldoorn, organised by the Gaudeamus Foundation (1996) and in the experimental and computer music workshops at the University of Ghent (1997). In 2003 he obtained a doctoral degree in composition, and in 2012 a habilitation in the same discipline. In 2020 he received the title of Professor from the President of the Republic of Poland. Apart from writing music, he is also active as a lecturer in composition, contemporary composition techniques and computer music on the faculty of the Academy of Music in Wrocław. His accolades include awards at the Tadeusz Baird Competition for Young Composers (2nd Prize for String Quartet No. 2 and Special Prize for String Quartet No. 1 in 1995, 2nd Prize for Music for… in 1997), the National Composition” Competition in Gdańsk, 1997 (3rd Prize for Symphony No. 1) and at the Pan Accordion Competition 2000 (1st Prize for Music in Lent for accordion and string qu

Marcin Przybyłowicz

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Marcin Przybyłowicz (born ) is a Polish composer and sound designer. He is mostly known for as the lead composer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077. He also composed the score to the Polish television historical drama Korona królów. He was born on the day of the May 1985 lunar eclipse. Works References External links * * * *

Marco Ambrosini

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Marco Ambrosini (born 1964) is an Italian musician, composer and arranger living in Germany. In 1982, he founded the international ensemble, Oni Wytars, together with Peter Rabanser. Studies Ambrosini was born in Forlì in 1964. From 1971 to 1981, Ambrosini studied violin and viola (with Adrio Casagrande) and composition with Mario Perrucci at the “Instituto Musicale G.B.Pergolesi” in Ancona and at the conservatory “G.Rossini” in Pesaro. Musician Ambrosini debuted as a soloist and nyckelharpa player in the theatre “Alla Scala” in Milan, in concerts for the Royal Swedish Concert Agency, in the Alte Oper Frankfurt, in the Philharmony in Cologne, Berlin, Moscow, in the Carnegie Hall of New York and also perform with different ensembles for early music, baroque music and contemporary music. Worldwide concert activity includes over 150 CDs, broadcast and television shots as a composer, soloist, or as member of the Katharco Early Music Consort and the ensemble Oni Wytars (Germany), Els Trobadors (Spain), ensemble Unicorn, ensemble Accentus, Clemencic Consort, Armonico Tributo Austria, Ensemble Kapsberger (Rolf Lislevand, Norway), L’Arpeggiata (Christina Pruhar, France), Giovanna Pessi Ens

Marco Beltrami

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Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1966) is an American composer of film and television scores. He has worked in a number of genres, including horror (Scream, Mimic, The Faculty, Resident Evil, The Woman in Black, Carrie, A Quiet Place, the Fear Street trilogy, and The Nun II), action (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Live Free or Die Hard, World War Z), science fiction (I, Robot; Snowpiercer), Western (3:10 to Yuma, Jonah Hex, The Homesman), and superhero (Blade II, Hellboy, Jonah Hex, The Wolverine, Fantastic Four, Logan, Venom: Let There Be Carnage). A long-time collaborator of Wes Craven, Beltrami scored seven of the director’s films including the original four Craven-directed films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011), later returning for the seventh in 2026. He has also worked with such directors as James Mangold, Guillermo del Toro, Tommy Lee Jones, Alex Proyas, Ole Bornedal, Kathryn Bigelow, Bong Joon Ho, Dan Gilroy, and John Krasinski. Beltrami has been nominated for two Academy Awards for 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and The Hurt Locker (2008), and a Golden Globe Award for A Quiet Place (2018). He won a Satellite Award for Soul Surfer (2011) and an Emmy Award for Free Solo (2018).

Marco Betta

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Marco Betta (born 25 July 1964) is an Italian composer. Biography Marco Betta, author of opera, film score, orchestral and chamber music, has studied composition at the Conservatorio di Palermo with Eliodoro Sollima. Afterwards, he improved his studies with Armando Gentilucci and Salvatore Sciarrino. He made his debut in 1982 at the Festival Spaziomusica of Cagliari, thenceforth his compositions are regularly performed in the main Italian and European institutions. His musical language merges old Sicilian cultures with the main techniques of the contemporary music, in particular the minimalism and the neotonality genres. Between 1994 and 2002, he was artistic director of the Teatro Massimo, working on the project for the reopening of the theatre, that happened after 23 years on 12 May 1997, with a concert of the theatre choir conducted by Franco Mannino and the Berliner Philharmoniker Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado. Marco Betta teaches composition at the Conservatoire of Palermo. Works Opera * Bellini ultime luci, 1993. Publisher: Sonzogno. * Sabaoth e Sammael, 1994. Publisher: Sonzogno. * Averroè, 1999, three scenes from Averroè, Le mille e una notte, Il Cantare del Cid. Te

Marco Castello

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Marco Castello (born 8 September 1993) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and multi-instrumentalist. Life and career Born in Syracuse, after high school, Castello studied jazz trumpet at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan. In 2016, he started touring and recording with Erlend Øye as a member of his supporting band La Comitiva. After some singles, in 2021, Castello released his first solo album Contenta tu, recorded at the Butterama Studio in Berlin and produced by The Whitest Boy Alive members Marcin Öz and Daniel Nentwig. In 2022, he released “Magari”, a single in collaboration with Fulminacci, which Rolling Stone Italia ranked third in its list of the 10 best Italian songs of the year. In 2023, Castello founded the record label Megghiu Suli, with whom he produced his second album, Pezzi della sera. In 2024, he recorded with Calibro 35 a cover version of Lucio Dalla’s song “Lunedì Cinema”, which served as the lead single of the band’s EP Jazzploitation and was later included in their album Exploration. In December 2025, he released his third album, Quaglia sovversiva. Discography Album * 2021 – Contenta tu * 2023 – Pezzi della sera * 2025 – Quaglia sovver

Marco de Goeij

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Marco de Goeij (born 1967 in Gouda) is a Dutch composer, known for having reconstructed the lost musical score for Jon Lord’s Concerto for Group and Orchestra in 1999. De Goeij studied classical guitar at the Utrecht School of the Arts, graduating in 1992. He continued to study in Paris, following lessons in modern classical music from Wim Hoogewerf, a Dutch classical guitarist and microtonalist. In the mid-1990s, while writing an article about the Concerto for Group and Orchestra as recorded by Deep Purple with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, De Goeij learned that the musical score for the concerto had been missing since it was last performed in 1970. He reconstructed the score by listening to CD recordings and watching videos of live performances. When Deep Purple were performing in the Netherlands in 1998, de Goeij presented his work to Jon Lord. After the score had been completed, the reconstructed concerto was played in concert and recorded by Deep Purple with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1999. Since then, it has been played as part of a 2000–2001 world tour, and on several occasions afterwards. Nowadays Marco de Goeij lives in Bodegraven. He is active as a composer and

Marco Fusi (clarinetist)

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Marco Fusi (born 1972) is an Italian clarinetist and composer. Career In 2002, he founded the group Yesh Gvul, with whom he recorded two albums, Moon Waltz and Addio a Lugano, distributed all over the world, with the collaboration of Moni Ovadia and Vladimir Denissenkov. With his ensemble cast has worked with institutions such as the Club Tenco Sanremo, Jeunesses musicales International and Fondazione Collegio San Carlo Marco Fusi has also worked as a solo artist in tandem with Vladimir Denissenkov. As composer Fusi has collaborated with journalist and presenter Antonio Lubrano, for which he wrote the music for the show Il Favoliere, Fusi was greatly appreciated by the Undersecretary of Education Nando dalla Chiesa which in 2010 named him to perform in the new year celebrations in Genoa. He also collaborated with Lidia Ravera writing with her Comprami!, show of civic engagement on violence against women In 2012 he wrote with Vittorio Agnoletto , which gets very positive feedback, so that Agnoletto and Fusi are invited to represent it at the European Parliament in Brussels. Also in 2012 he was invited to perform on National Television of Serbia. In 2014 he was given the Internationa

Marco Lo Muscio

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Marco Lo Muscio (born 1971) is an Italian organist, pianist and composer, who lives and works in Italy, Europe, Russian Federation and America. Biography Marco Lo Muscio was born in Rome, Italy. Marco Lo Muscio studied Piano at the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Italy. He earned a degree in Piano with Professor Tonino Maiorani and a degree in Musical Pedagogy with Professor Giulio Sforza at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica in Frosinone (Italy) and at the Roma Tre University (Italy). He also obtained a degree of Advanced Studies in Piano at the Academy Bartolomeo Cristofori with the pianist Sergio Fiorentino, and a specialization in Pipe Organ with James Edward Goettsche. Since 2004, he has been the art director of the International Organ Summer Festival in Rome, Italy, where internationally acclaimed organists and musicians performed such as Jean Guillou, Thomas Trotter, Stephen Tharp, Roger Sayer, Roger Fisher, Martin Baker, Pauli Pietiläinen, Aivars Kalējs, John Hackett, Pär Lindh, Jakob Lorentzen, Kevin Bowyer, David Briggs, Christopher Herrick, David Jackson, John Scott, Colin Walsh, Carson Cooman, Andrew Nethsingha, Martin Setchell, Alessandro Bianchi, Jean-Paul Imbert, Gai

Marco Oppedisano

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Marco Oppedisano (born November 20, 1971, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American guitarist and composer whose compositions focus on the innovative use of electric guitar in the genre of electroacoustic music. His musique concrète/acousmatic music compositions have utilized multitrack recording and extended performance techniques for electric guitar, nylon string guitar and electric bass. In addition to musique concrète, compositions by Oppedisano also consist of “live” electric guitar in combination with a fixed playback of various electronic, acoustic (specifically female voice courtesy of Kimberly Fiedelman) and sampled sounds. Oppedisano has also composed works for solo classical guitar, solo electric guitar and mixed ensemble. Biography Oppedisano began playing guitar at the age of 12 and was primarily a rock guitarist before entering studies at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College. After two years of classical guitar study at Brooklyn College, he completed composition studies there with Tania León, Charles Dodge, Noah Creshevsky (Hyperrealism (music)) and George Brunner. Oppedisano completed graduate studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College obtain

Marco Schädler

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Marco Schädler (born 2 March 1964, in Triesenberg) is a composer from Liechtenstein. He studied music at the conservatory in Feldkirch, Austria. Life and career As a child, Marco Schädler played music together with his father. At the age of nine, he became a temporary organist in the parish church of Triesenberg, and in Triesen. He was organist until 1998. From 1982 to 1988, he held a part-time position as a piano teacher at the Liechtenstein Music School. He has been a freelance artist and composer since 1988 (theater and ballet music, masses, orchestras, choral and chamber music, sound installations for film and various performances). Schädler studied piano, music theory, musical composition, early music theory and jazz theory at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch, at the City of Basel Music Academy and at the St. Gallen Jazz School. He was a member of the “Liechtensteiner Gabarett” (“Das LiGa”, 1994–2006), since 2009 of OOS. In 1997, he founded the Free Institute for Music, a school for composing and teaching music theory on a creative basis. Schädler co-founded the Schlösslekeller theater in Vaduz in 2003 and co-founded the company RequiemForYou. From 2009 to 2013,

Marco Stroppa

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Marco Stroppa (born 8 December 1959, in Verona) is an Italian composer who writes computer music as well as music for instruments with live electronics. Biography Marco Stroppa studied piano, composition, choral direction and electronic music at the conservatoires of Verona, Milan and Venice. From 1980 to 1984, Stroppa collaborated with the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of the University of Padua, before moving to the United States, where he continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology supported by a grant from the Fulbright Foundation until 1986. At MIT he took courses in cognitive psychology, computer science and artificial intelligence. At the invitation of Pierre Boulez, Stroppa moved to Paris where he led the department for musical research at IRCAM from 1987 until 1990. In 1987, Stroppa founded the composition and computer music course at the International Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary. Following teaching posts at the conservatoires of Lyon and Paris, Stroppa currently is professor of composition at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, where he succeeded Helmut Lachenmann in 1999. Awards * 1985 ASCAP Prize * 1990 Ce

Marcos Balter

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Marcos Balter (born April 1, 1974) is a Brazilian contemporary classical music composer and the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University. Life and professional career Balter began his music studies at age five at the Conservatório Musical Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was admitted to the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música at age eleven. During his late teenage years, Balter studied privately with composer Almeida Prado and pianist Linda Bustani. He moved to the United States in 1995 to study music composition at Texas Christian University and later on at Northwestern University. His main composition teachers were Augusta Read Thomas, Amy Williams, and Jay Alan Yim. His works have been programmed by prominent music organizations including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW Series, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Philharmonie de Paris, San Francisco Symphony, Ojai Music Festival, New World Center, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, and the Fromm Music Series at Harvard University. Past honors include the American Academy of Art

Marcus Paus

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Marcus Nicolay Paus (; born 14 October 1979) is a Norwegian composer and one of the most performed contemporary Scandinavian composers. in Norway and abroad. His work includes chamber music, choral works, solo works, concerts, orchestral works, operas, symphonies and church music, as well as works for theatre, film and television. Paus is regarded as “one of the most celebrated classical composers of Norway” and “the leading Norwegian composer of his generation.” Paus has said he considers himself to be a “musical dramatist” or storyteller. He grew up in Oslo’s Røa borough. His grandfather, General Ole (Otto Cicin von) Paus, was head of the army group in the military intelligence service of the exile Norwegian High Command in London during the Second World War, one of the founders of the Norwegian Intelligence Service and later the highest-ranking Norwegian in NATO’s Command Structure in the 1970s; he was born and raised in Vienna to the Norwegian Consul-General Thorleif (von) Paus and a Viennese mother, Gabriele (Ella) Stein, whose family had converted from Judaism to Catholicism. Ella’s father, the Viennese lawyer August Stein (1852–1890), left the Jewish Community of Vienna in 1

Mari Takano

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is a Japanese composer, pianist, essayist, and teacher. Takano’s work, and musical voice, has been recognized as among the most distinctive to be found amid Japanese composers of the “post-Takemitsu generation”. Education Takano completed four years of music instruction at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in her native Tokyo, including a composition course with Mutsuo Shishido and, in 1983, lessons with Yoriaki Matsudaira and Jo Kondo. From 1983, Takano began to study in Germany with Brian Ferneyhough at the Musikhochschule Freiburg (Freiburg University of Music), and in 1986 Takano had private lessons with Morton Feldman. Takano’s initial reputation in Europe was made while she served as pianist, keyboard player and composer with the contemporary music ensemble Hamburg Consort—later Chaosma—in which she participated with fellow Ligeti students Manfred Stahnke, Hans Peter Reutter, Hubertus Dreyer and Sid Corbett. Career Takano resettled in Japan permanently in 1994, and since then Takano has taught at the Shobi Conservatory in Tokyo, the Toho Gakuen School of Music and, from 2004, at the Joshibi Daigaku. Takano has also conducted, and participated in, music courses in the United Sta

Mari Vihmand

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Mari Vihmand (born 17 May 1967 in Tallinn) is an Estonian composer. From 1987 to 1995 she taught music theory at the Tallinn Music High School. Early life and education In 1997 she graduated from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. 1995–1997, she studied at Lyon Conservatory of Music in France. while her music language is often described as poetic and expressive, with an emphasis on balancing the emotional and rational aspects. Her finely crafted sound qualities distinguish her music from others. Her orchestral piece “Floreo” was awarded first prize at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Paris in 1996, in the under-30 category, showcasing her early international recognition. Works * Laul õnnelikust Corydonist ja Phyllisest (for sopran and chamber ensemble, 1992) * Sinfonie (1993) * Lugu klassist (chamber opera, 1995) * Armastuse valem (opera, 2008) References

Maria Baptist

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Maria Baptist (born 30 August 1971) is a German musician (pianist, composer) and professor. Career Maria Baptist was born in 1971 in East Berlin in a very musical family. Her grandfather was an orchestra musician and composer, her father himself is a pianist. Maria discovered very early her fascination for music and at the age of six she began playing the piano. At the age of eleven she composed her first pieces. Maria developed her desire to become a classical concert pianist. At the age of fifteen Maria listened to recordings of Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett and discovered for the first time the world of jazz and improvisation. Impressed by the musical expression, Maria felt that she had to continue on this path. She began studying piano at the music university in Berlin and won her first international piano competitions on improvisation. During this period, the Berlin Wall fell, which meant a great personal change in Maria’s life. She took the opportunity to move to New York. Here Maria experienced the freedom, space and magic, which opened up whole new musical worlds to her. Maria’s artistic work was significantly influenced and inspired by the tremendous creativity, energy, l

Maria Grenfell

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Maria Grenfell (born 1969) is an Australian music teacher and composer. Early life and education Maria Grenfell was born in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia in 1969. She grew up and was educated in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Master of Music degree. She subsequently went to the US, where she completed a Master of Arts at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and a doctorate of musical arts from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, while also lecturing in music there. While in the USA she was taught by Stephen Hartke, Erica Muhl, James Hopkins, and Morten Lauridsen in Los Angeles, and Joseph Schwantner and Samuel Adler in Rochester, New York. In 2020, Grenfell composed the score for the ABC documentary Quoll Farm. It was recorded with performers from the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. She also wrote the score for Simon Plowright’s documentary, Living With Devils, in 2023. As of 2021, she is an associate professor at the Conservatorium of Music at the University of Tasmania. Winner of the Tasmanian State Award for Ten Suns Ablaze in 2013, and Spirals in 2018 at the Australian Art Music Awards. Personal l

Maria Lamburn

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Maria Lamburn (Madalena, Maria Madalena, Galé Ritonic; Born 26 November 1960) is a British composer and musician whose style uses large scale instrumental scores. Education * Royal Academy of Music 1978–80 * Goldsmiths College 1980–83 * Guildhall School of Music and Drama 1983-84 Career Lamburn’s debut album Murmur, funded by the Arts Council of England, was recorded for the jazz label Babel Label in 1999. Her next two albums, Heaven on Earth (2006) and Taith Amser (2006) are of songs; Taith Amser received a Creative Wales award, Arts Council of Wales to tour these albums with imagery by photographic journalist Rhodri Jones. After graduating from Goldsmiths and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where her compositional output included scores dealing with experimental graphics, minimalism, sonic collage and visual arts improvisation, Maria won the Cornelius Cardew Prize for Composition, in 1982. Her style includes idiosyncratic in rhythm, line and harmony, and is characterised by an interest in perception which has led her to find potentials for interaction, response, and interpretation – such as field research at the Greenham Common anti-nuclear campaign (1986), setting up a wome

Maria Newman

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Maria Louise Newman (born January 18, 1962) is an American composer of classical music, as well as a violinist and pianist. She is the youngest child of Alfred Newman, a prominent Hollywood film composer. Maria holds the Louis and Annette Kaufman Composition Chair and the Joachim Chassman Violin Chair at the Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture in Malibu, California. She is also a founder of the Malibu Friends of Music. Her compositions span a wide range of genres, including large-scale orchestral works, ballet pieces, chamber music, choral and vocal works, and collaborative scores for vintage silent films. Newman has been recognized for her contributions with numerous awards and commissions. She has received musical commendations from the United States Congress (2009), the California State Senate (2009), the California State Assembly (2009), the City of Malibu (2010), and the Annenberg Foundation (2011). Life and career Maria Newman is the youngest child of nine-time Academy Award-winning composer and conductor Alfred Newman and former Goldwyn Girl and businesswoman Martha Louis Montgomery. She is part of the Hollywood Newman family dynasty, known for its musical contr

Marian Hadenko

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Marian Illich Hadenko (15 September 19553 December 2021) was a Ukrainian composer, singer and television presenter. He was a recipient of the Merited Artist of Ukraine (1997) and the People’s Artist of Ukraine (1999). Biography He was born on September 15, 1955, in the town of Storozhynets near Chernivtsi. He spent his childhood and youth in Storozhynets, where he studied at a music school, and Chernivtsi (where he moved from Storozhynets after graduating from the 8th grade of secondary school No. 1). After completing his military service in the Baltic Fleet of the USSR Navy, in 1977 he began his service in law enforcement agencies in Chernivtsi as an inspector for juvenile affairs. During his service in the police, he graduated from Chernivtsi University in 1982 with a degree in economics. After the death of TV presenter Tamara Shcherbatiuk, who was the author and host of the program “Nadvechirya”, the program “Nadvechirya. Fates”, hosted by Marian Hadenko, began airing. In recent years, he worked, created and lived in Kyiv. He died in Kyiv on the morning of December 3, 2021, of a heart attack. He was buried on December 5, 2021, in Storozhynets next to the grave of his son Volodym

Mariana Ingold

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Mariana Ingold (born 1958) is a composer, instrumentalist, singer and teacher belonging to the movement of Uruguayan music, Mariana has been active as an artist since 1977 in Uruguay and internationally. Mariana has recorded dozens of records of songs, music for children and instrumental music. She has composed music for theater presentations as well as for many educational videos of Uruguay, Brazil, the United States and Spain, receiving various prizes in recognition of her work. Well known in her country for her involvement with environmental organizations, Mariana has the honor to be the godmother of OCC (Organization of Conservation of the cetaceans https://www.waittfoundation.org/copy-of-aida (whales and dolphins) of the South Atlantic and the River de la Plata). She has made a recording of her children songs (“El Planeta Sonoro”), for the benefit of Aldeas Infantiles SOS, the international orphans’ organization. Mariana is also the creator of healing spaces through individual and group singing (“Sonando y Sanando”, “Afinando el Instrumento”). She has done workshops for actors, dancers, therapists, musicians and educators, as much in Uruguay as in Spain. She also has created m

Mariana Villanueva

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Mariana Villanueva (born Mexico City, 1964) is a Mexican music educator and composer. Biography She began her musical studies at National Conservatory in México City, studying under Mario Lavista, Federico Ibarra, Julio Estrada and Daniel Catán and continued her preparation at Carnegie Mellon University, under Leonardo Balada and Lucas Foss, where she received her Bachelors (1992) and Masters (1995) degrees in Music Composition. Since 1987, her works have been performed in Mexico, and occasionally in The United States (New York, New Mexico Indiana, and Pittsburgh) by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Carnegie Mellon Trio and The New Mexico String Quartet. In Europe her music has heard in Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. Mariana Villanueva has received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award (1999); The MEXICO/USA Rockefeller, FONCA/BANCOMER Prize (1995, 1996); and some other rewards from FONCA (1993, 1997) and Carnegie Mellon University. She has been written works for the Carnegie Mellon Trio (1993), The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (1996); and The Ensamble Cosmopolitano of Berlín (2002). She also has collaborated for the Carnegie Mellon Drama Department under

Marianella Machado

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Marianella P. Machado (born August 4, 1959) is a Venezuelan writer and composer. Biography Marianella Machado was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied at the Conservatorio de Musica José Ángel Lamas. She later continued her studies in composition with William Banch, and in 1981 she attended Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington on a Venezuenlan government scholarship, graduating with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in composition. Marchado returned to Venezuela, where she began work as a music teacher and composer. From 1987-88 she was a research assistant at the Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies in Caracas. From 1989-93 she attended the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music, working as a teaching assistant, and graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1993. In 1994 Machado began pursuing an interest in Spanish as second language and Hispanic literature. She attended the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Cincinnati on assistantship where she graduated with a Master of Arts in 1996 and a PhD in Hispanic Literature in 1998. From 1998-2003 she worked as a professor at the Universidad Católica

Marianna Liik

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Marianna Liik (born 8 September 1992) Education Marianna Liik was born in Kärdla, on the island of Hiiumaa. Works Marianna Liik has composed music for orchestra, ensembles, choir, as well as electroacoustic works and theatre music. Her special interest is the sound world that is created by combining the acoustic and electronic means of expression. Liik’s compositions have been performed at various festivals in Estonia and internationally, including in the United States, Poland, Germany, Russia, Australia, Switzerland, and China. In 2019, she was selected for the Roche Young Commissions programme associated with the Lucerne Festival Academy. Her commissioned work Kurzschluss premiered on 1 September 2019, at the Lucerne Festival by the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra under conductor Ruth Reinhardt. Liik’s choral works have been performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Collegium Musicale in collaboration with the Rascher Saxophone Quartet. Her works have been performed at festivals including the Estonian Music Days, AFEKT Festival, Baltic Music Days, and Ung Nordisk Musik. Reception Liik’s music has been noted in critical writing for its focus on timbre, texture, a

Marie Bottrell

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Marie Diane Bottrell (born 1961) is a Canadian country music singer and songwriter. Bottrell released many singles which appeared on Canadian country music charts, and has received multiple Country Female Vocalist of the Year nominations. Early life and education Bottrell was born in London, Ontario. She began singing in her family’s band at age eleven. At age 17 she left school to start a career as a singer. Career Bottrell sang and wrote songs for the Whitestone Country Band as a teenager. In 1978 she recorded an album, Just Reach Out and Touch Me, on the MBS label. A single from this album, “This Feeling Called Love”, was her first hit. Bottrell won the Canadian Country Music Association award for Female Vocalist of the Year in 1983 and 1984. Later in the 1980s her recording career stalled because of management and label problems, but she began recording again in the 1990s. Bottrell was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010. That year she played the lead role in the tribute show “Patsy Cline: The Legend”. In 2016 Bottrell performed at the Bluegrass in the Country Festival on Manitoulan Island. Discography Albums Singles References External links * *

Marie Samuelsson

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Marie Samuelsson (born 15 February 1956) is a Swedish composer. Biography Marie Samuelsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied piano and improvisation at Birkagården College from 1979 to 1981, musicology at the Stockholm University from 1982 to 1983 and composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1987 to 1995 with Sven-David Sandström, Daniel Börtz and Pär Lindgren. She later continued her studies with George Benjamin and 2001 she complemented her studies with Stage d’été for professional composers at Ircam in Paris. Samuelsson is a member of the Royal Swedish Music Academy since 2005. In December 2012, she was elected to vice preses in the presidium of the Royal Swedish Music Academy. Samuelsson was the featured composer of a four-day festival in Stockholm in May 2007 for which her orchestra piece Singla was commissioned and premièred by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Awards * 2008 Kurt Atterberg Prize * 2024 Rosenberg Prize Works Selected works include: *Andra platser (Other places), for alto voice, cello, and percussion, 1989 *Katt: Nio liv (Cat: Nine lives), for woodwind quintet, 1989 *Från Indien till Mars (From India to Mars), dance music f

Mariecke van der Linden

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Mariecke van der Linden (Ravenstein, 1973) is a Dutch visual artist and opera composer. She works on music videos as an art director in the field of set design, costumes and styling. Furthermore she makes oil paintings and installations. Van der Linden is known for her portraits of prominent Dutch people such as Eberhard van der Laan, Johan Cruijff en Wubbo Ockels. Early life and education Van der Linden was born in 1973 in Ravenstein. She grew up in Overlangel, a village consisting of 300 inhabitants which lies at the riverbank of Oude Maas. At the age of 14, she started to receive artistic coaching from Børge Ring, a Danish musician, artist and Oscar winner from the animation movie Anna en Bella. When she was 17, Van der Linden was accepted to the preliminary program of the Utrechts Conservatorium in Utrecht. Her formal education began in 1991 at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Theo Loevendie where she studied composition Career as a visual artist Her name became more established at the opening of a side wing in the H’ART Museum when her life-sized portraits of notable Amsterdam citizens were revealed. This was accompanied by the mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan

Marika Takeuchi

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Marika Takeuchi (born 14 March 1987 in Kawasaki) is a Japanese contemporary composer, film composer, music producer and pianist. Education Takeuchi is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, and Shobi Music College in Tokyo. Biography Takeuchi started her music studies as a classical pianist at the age of three, and also played violin and French horn for several years at an early age. Her early career in Japan includes composing additional music for NHK FM’s radio shows, and songwriting for Universal Music Japan’s singer Nami Tamaki’s album “STEP”. Her second album Impressions was nominated for Best Neo-classical Album at the 10th Zone Music Reporter music awards, as well as Album of the Year in the 4th Annual Reviews New Age Awards. Her third album, Rain Stories, was released in 2014 on MRG Recordings. Her fourth album, Colors in the Diary, which is produced by Will Ackerman, and features Eugene Friesen and Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Si-Jing Huang, was released in April 2016. Takeuchi has also scored several films and advertisements. She wrote music for the Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sørgjerd/TSO Photography’s time-lapse video The Arctic Light. This

Marina Kifferstein

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Marina Kifferstein (born July 19, 1989) is a violinist, composer, improviser, and educator based in New York City. She is a member of contemporary classical quintet TAK ensemble, The Rhythm Method string quartet, and electronic noise project xbucket. Education Born and raised in Manhattan, Kifferstein attended New York City’s School for Strings and went on to major in both violin performance and English as part of Oberlin College and Conservatory’s double degree program, where she studied with violinist Milan Vitek. She continued her studies at Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program, studying with Laurie Smukler and Curtis Macomber. She is currently pursuing a doctorate of Musical Arts at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Career In 2013 Kifferstein co-founded TAK ensemble, a contemporary quintet based in New York City, where she also co-founded The Rhythm Method, an experimental string quartet, in 2014. She is a frequent guest with ensembles such as the International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, and the Ensemble of Lucerne Festival Alumni. As a writer, Kifferstein has contributed to I Care If You Listen , Wet Ink E

Marina Rosenfeld

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Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York City. Her work has been produced and presented by the Park Avenue Armory, Museum of Modern Art, Portikus (Frankfurt), Donaueschinger Musiktage, and such international surveys as documenta 14 and the Montreal, Liverpool, PERFORMA, and Whitney biennials, among many others. She has performed widely as an improvising turntablist, and served as co-chair of Music/Sound in the MFA program at the Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, from 2007 to 2020. She has also taught at Harvard, Yale, Brooklyn College, and Dartmouth. Early life and education Born in New York, NY, in 1968, she moved with her family to New Jersey at a young age. Rosenfeld graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with an AB in music and then attended California Institute of the Arts, where she received an MFA in fine arts and music in 1994. At CalArts, her teachers included Michael Asher, Charles Gaines, Morton Subotnick, Tom Lawson, and Lucky Moscow. Work and career Rosenfeld’s first major work was the Sheer Frost Orchestra (1993). Scored for 17 women with 17 guitars and amplifiers, the piece directs its participants via

Mario Baltadjiev

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Mario Baltajiev is a Bulgarian composer. Biography He was born in 1971 in Yambol, Bulgaria in the family of opera singers. At the age of 6, he started playing the piano. He claims that he did not attend a music school, but rather likes to experiment. In the 1990s, he was a member of the group “Allegro”, which performed mainly in clubs. In 1998 started working as a sound engineer and producer at radio FM+ . Two years later, he received an invitation from Magardich Halvadzhiyan to work on the film " The Profit “, a BNT production . After the film’s success, he continued his work with Halvajian, composing music for Global Films’ television shows. In 2012, having already gained a lot of experience in the field of advertising, ballet and cinema, he composed the music for “Aladdin”, a musical created in tandem with the librettist Ivan Angelov, which was staged at the Musical Theater in Sofia. In 2015 Baltajiev produced the musical “The Ugly Duckling”, which was presented on the stage of the Modern Theater. In 2019 Mario was invited by Krasimir Vankov to compose music for the All Inclusive series. After that, he was invited to work on the next Hidalgo Productions project - “Brothers”. In

Mario Castelnuovo

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Mario Castelnuovo (born 25 January 1955) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Rome, after the diploma in surveying Castelnuovo studied French literature at the university, specializing in Provençal and Troubadour aesthetics. In the same period he started to play guitar and to attend the Folkstudio, a well-known Roman musical club. In the following years Castelnuovo gradually moved away from the spotlight, still keeping to record critically acclaimed works. Castelnuovo’s style has been described as “characterized by an elegant mastery of melody, by an intimate and elegant atmosphere created by minimalist and refined lyrics and by a delicate and theatrical singing style”. According to Enrico Deregibus’ Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana, his songs are “enchanting”, especially because of their “fascinating and delicate writing, rich in literary references”. Discography ;Album * 1982 - Sette fili di canapa ( IT / RCA Italiana ) * 1982 - Q Concert ( RCA Italiana ) (EP with Marco Ferradini and Goran Kuzminac) * 1984 - Mario Castelnuovo ( RCA Italiana ) * 1985 - È piazza del Campo ( RCA Italiana ) * 1987 - Venere ( RCA Italiana ) * 1988 - Sul nido

Mario Grigorov

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Mario Grigorov is a Bulgarian composer for film and television and a concert pianist. He performs on the piano and improvises in the styles of jazz, classical and world music. Mario Grigorov’s father was a concert trumpeter, and his mother was a concert pianist. In 1968, the Sofia Conservatorium suspended its age requirement of seven years of age to allow a 5-year-old Grigorov to begin his classical studies. In 1969, Mario’s father took the opportunity to play in the Shah’s handpicked orchestra, and the family relocated for 6 years. Mario’s tutelage in classical piano continued, and he was exposed to the sounds of the new culture he found himself surrounded by. In 1976, again for Mr. Grigorov’s symphony career, the family relocated to East Germany. While finishing out the 1970s with a classical regimen, Grigorov and his family moved to Vienna, where Mario studied under renowned 20th-century composer Thomas Christian David at the Vienna Conservatorium. In the early 1980s, Mario moved to Sydney, Australia, where he took electronic music and Jazz studies classes with Don Burrows. He worked with many Australian rock groups. He has lived in Iran, Austria, Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, a

Mark Aanderud

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Mark Aanderud (born 1976) is a Mexican pianist, composer, arranger, producer and conductor. Aanderud started piano studies at 8 years old at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Mexico City. He started to perform professionally when he was 18 years old. Aanderud is known as a jazz pianist and composer, but through the years he has also performed, composed and recorded in several genres from Jazz and classical music to progressive rock and Latin music. His first CD as a leader, Mark Aanderud Trio 02, was awarded best jazz album of the year 2003 by the Czech Music Awards. In recent years, Aanderud has toured with international artists including the Mexican singer-songwriter and actress Ximena Sariñana and the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group. Aanderud has also recorded additional piano parts with The Mars Volta for their 2009 release Octahedron. Discography ;With The Mars Volta * Octahedron (2009) ;With Stomu Takeishi, Hernán Hecht * RGB (RareNoise Records, 2014) ;With the Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group *Los Sueños de un Higado (2009) * Xenophanes (2009) * Woman Gives Birth To Tomato! (2013) * Doom Patrol (2017) References * Ozuna, Tony: “Hip Homecoming”, The Prague Post, 2010-01-13.

Mark Adamo

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Mark Adamo (born August 1, 1962) is an American composer, librettist, and professor of music composition at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He was born in Philadelphia. Early life and education A native of Willingboro Township, New Jersey, Adamo attended Holy Cross High School in Delran Township, New Jersey. He attended New York University, where he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music cum laude in composition in 1990 from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he was awarded the Theodore Presser prize for outstanding undergraduate achievement in composition. Career At New York City Opera, he curated the contemporary opera workshop series VOX: Showcasing American Composers. Adamo served as master artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in May 2003. He has directed productions of his Little Women in Cleveland and Milwaukee, both of which were cited as among the best classical-music events of the year by the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, respectively; and he has annot

Mark Alburger

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Mark Alburger (April 2, 1957 – June 20, 2023) was an American composer and conductor active in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the founder and music director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, as well as the music director of Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Cabaret Opera. Alburger was also the editor and publisher of 21st-Century Music Journal, which he founded in 1994 as 20th-Century Music. Biography Mark Alburger was born on April 2, 1957, in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. He studied composition with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College; Jules Langert at the Dominican University of California; and Roland Jackson, Thomas Flaherty, and Christopher Yavelow at Claremont Graduate University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in musicology in 1996. He also studied privately thereafter with Terry Riley. Alburger was best known for his use of troping techniques, combining structures and musical passages from a wide variety of pre-existing works across cultures and eras. He has a large opus list, including many concerti, operas, song cycles, symphonies, and a thirteen-hour theatrical setting of the Bible. As a music journalist, he has published in

Mark Andre

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Mark Andre (born 10 May 1964) is a French composer living in Germany. He was known as “Marc André”, his birth name, until 2007, when he formally revised the spelling. He lives in Berlin. Andre’s compositions durch (2006), …auf… III (2007), and Wunderzaichen (2014) received multiple votes in a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000. Biography Born in Paris, Living in Berlin, Andre taught at the Frankfurt University of Music and at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg (2002–2007). and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. and from 2012 a Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. On 2 March 2014 his opera “Wunderzaichen” was premiered in Stuttgart directed by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito. Works Andre’s music is published by Edition Peters in Frankfurt am Main. *Ein Abgrund for bass-baritone, viola and violoncello based on Georg Büchner’s drama “Woyzeck” (1992) *Un-Fini III (1993–1995) for piano *Le loin et le profond for Ensemble (1994–1996) *Fatal for Ensemble (1995) *AB II for double bass clarinet, cello, cymbalon, percussion, piano and live electronics (1996/1997)

Mark Bowden (composer)

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Mark Bowden (born 1979) is a British composer of classical music. Biography Bowden studied composition with Richard Steinitz at the University of Huddersfield before completing a master’s degree at the Royal College of Music where he studied with Julian Anderson. He has received commissions from the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Ulster Orchestra, and Welsh National Opera amongst others and his music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. With Anna Meredith and Emily Hall he created the Camberwell Composers’ Collective. Bowden has received awards and prizes for his music including the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize, a British Composer Award, and an Ivor Novello Awards nomination for his saxophone concerto Sapiens. Bowden was the first composer-in-residence at Handel House Museum and, with fellow composers in the Camberwell Composers’ Collective, was New Music Associate at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge from 2008-2010. He was the 2011–2012 Music Fellow at Rambert Dance Company. Bowden was Resident Composer at BBC National Orchestra of Wales from 2011 to 2015 and Director of Composition at Royal Holloway, University of L

Mark Bradshaw (composer)

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Mark Bradshaw (born 1983) is an Australian composer known for his work in film and television, as well as his former relationship with Ben Whishaw. Early life Bradshaw was born in Sydney, where he studied experimental music at the College of Fine Arts (COFA) and later attended the University of Sydney. Career Bradshaw is best known for his work in several of Jane Campion’s movies and TV series, including Bright Star and Top of the Lake. Bradshaw has composed for a variety of ensembles including string quartet, orchestra, and a cappella chorus. In 2024 he and choreographer Fadi Giha were awarded a British Council Fellowship to compose and create a piece as artists in residence at Bundanon in Australia. Personal life As of a 2010 interview, Bradshaw was living in London. In August 2012, in Sydney, Bradshaw entered into a civil partnership with British actor Ben Whishaw. Whishaw and Bradshaw met around 2009 on the set of Bright Star where Whishaw played the role of English poet John Keats. The relationship remained private until being made public in 2013. They split in 2022. Work * The Water Diary (short film), 2006 * Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s’étei

Mark Delpriora

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Mark Delpriora (born 1959) is an American classical guitarist and composer. Delpriora is currently Chair of the Guitar Department at the Manhattan School of Music, where he has been on the faculty since 1989. Mark is also on the faculty of The Juilliard School, where he teaches guitar studies. He studied guitar with Rolando Valdés-Blain and later with Manuel Barrueco. He studied theory/composition in his early teens with Roland Trogan and later with Giampaolo Bracali. Mr. Delpriora has recorded for Koch International Classics, Soundspells, Philips, Tzadik, and CRI. In addition, he has recorded 6 CDs with flutist Laurel Zucker on Cantilena Records. As a performer, the New York Times wrote after his debut: “The first notes of Mark Delpriora’s guitar recital established him as a musician of authority. In a little Mozart transcription by Julian Bream he showed a rare feeling for the specific gravity of a Mozartean phrase, for the inevitability of its rise and fall. Delpriora is a guitarist to be reckoned with” One of the few students chosen to participate in masterclasses by Andrés Segovia, Delpriora has performed and championed music written for, but rarely played by, Segovia, known a

Mark Edgley Smith

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Mark Edgley Smith, also written Mark Edgley-Smith (20 March 1955 – 26 July 2008) was a British composer. He was born in Wimbledon and educated at Tiffin School, Kingston upon Thames. It was at Tiffin that he began to compose seriously, and he later went to study music at the Queen’s College, Oxford. Mark Edgley Smith had a daughter, Anna February Edgley-Smith (born 25 February 1983), and a son, Milo Henry Edgley-Smith (born 4 May 1999). He died in Cheltenham, aged 53. Chronological list of compositions many juvenilia omitted *Go-round for brass quintet, Op.1 (1976, revised 1983) *Campanile for flute, harp and harpsichord, Op.2 (1976) *Magnificat and Nunc dimittis English text for three equal voices, Op.3 (1975) *Occasional fanfare for brass, piano and percussion (1976, orch. 1983) *Quinta essentia for brass sextet, Op.4 (1977) *Fire festival for mixed chamber choir, Op.5 (1977-8) *The House of Sleep John Gower for mezzo and 9 instruments, Op.6 (1982-3) *Six starsongs for children’s voices, piano and percussion, Op.7 (1983) *In nomine for 6 instruments, Op.8 (1983) *Planh for small orchestra, Op.9 (1984) *Panic relation for clarinet and piano, Op.10 (1985) *Vancouver songbook, Volum

Mark Engebretson

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Mark Engebretson, DMA, Northwestern University (born 1964, California) is a saxophonist and composer. His music combines computer music and live performance, the latter usually performed on saxophone. Biography Engebretson was born in California and raised in Alexandria, Minnesota. His family later moved to North St. Paul, Minnesota. His father, a retired doctor, is also a saxophonist as well as a clarinettist. Engbretson attended St. Olaf College for a year before transferring to the University of Minnesota. He is currently Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and director of the Alice Virginia Poe Williams Electronic Music Studio at that university. He is a member of Red Clay Saxophone Quartet and was formerly a member of the Vienna Saxophone Quartet. Aside from Northwestern University, he also studied at the University of Minnesota and the Conservatoire de Bordeaux. His teachers have included Frederick Hemke, Jean-Marie Londeix, M. William Karlins, Pauline Oliveros, Marta Ptaszynska, Michael Pisaro and Jay Alan Yim. Music As a composer his influences include Steve Reich, John Cage and György Ligeti. Eric Stokes introduce

Mark Gresham

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Mark Gresham (born 6 March 1956, Atlanta, Georgia, United States) is an American composer and music journalist. In 2003, he was the recipient of ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for ‘Sounds Like Home,’ an article about American composer Jennifer Higdon, published in Creative Loafing (Atlanta) on 13 November 2002. In addition to being a contributing writer for Creative Loafing (Atlanta) from 2002 to 2012, Gresham has also written for NewMusicBox (the online journal of the American Music Center) and other publications. He was a music journalist/critic for ArtsATL. Gresham initially wrote articles for the online-only publication starting in mid-2011 (at the time known as ArtsCriticATL) and then more extensively as of November 2011 upon the departure of Pierre Ruhe, its principal music critic, executive director, and co-founder. Gresham quit writing for ArtsATL in February 2019 over editorial issues that had begun to emerge near the end of 2018. At that point, what had been a very occasional personal music blog, EarRelevant, became, for Gresham, a full-time music journal for which he is both publisher and principal writer References External links *Mark Gresham’s website *EarRelevant (music

Mark Grey

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Mark Grey is an American classical music composer, sound designer and sound engineer. Education and early career Mark Grey attended San Jose State University in California, where he studied electroacoustic music and composition with Pablo Furman and Allen Strange. Grey received a Bachelor and Master of Arts in composition. Several years of teaching at the California State Summer School for the Arts allowed Grey to meet and establish ties with several contemporary composers and performers, including John Adams. Through Adams, Grey was introduced to Kronos Quartet in 1993. Kronos later recruited Grey to be one of their live performance sound designers. Composer Grey made his Carnegie Hall debut as a composer with Kronos Quartet in 2003. His solo, ensemble and orchestra music has been performed in many venues including the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Barbican Centre in London, Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, Philharmonie Hall in Warsaw, UNESCO Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Symphony Hall in Phoenix, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, as well as at the Ravinia, Cabrillo, OtherMinds, Perth International, and Spoleto festiv

Mark Gustavson

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Mark Gustavson (born September 19, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Gustavson lives on eastern Long Island and teaches at various universities in the New York City area, including Adelphi University and Nassau Community College. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1981 and received the D.M.A. from Columbia University in 1990. Gustavson also studied at the Sweelinck Conservatory with Ton De Leeuw on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1985-86 and was a composition fellow at Tanglewood in 1979. His primary composition teachers were Chinary Ung, Ben Johnston and Fred Lerdahl. Music Western classical music, Folk music from around the world, and Jazz blended with Eastern and Western philosophy have all influenced Gustavson’s style. He mostly favors notated music that often sounds improvised. Form is often based on different approaches to variations influenced by naturally occurring cycles. Rhythm can at times be very complex or deceptively simple; for example, the third movement of Quintet for clarinet, two violins, viola, and cello is a four-voice canon of continuous eighth notes that create a background for the solo clari

Mark Mancina

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Mark Mancina (born 1957) is an American film composer. A veteran of Hans Zimmer’s Media Ventures, Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including Speed, Bad Boys, Twister, Tarzan, Training Day, Brother Bear, Criminal Minds, Blood+, Planes, and Moana. He has also composed music for the PlayStation 3 game Sorcery. He has made several collaborations with The Walt Disney Company, and has won two Grammy Awards, and was nominated for an Annie Award for Brother Bear. For his work on the Disney Theatrical Productions adaptation of The Lion King, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score in a Musical and won a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. Career Mancina has worked primarily as a composer for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air. He arranged many of the songs behind Disney’s The Lion King (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Nick Glennie-Smith and Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. He composed the score for the thriller Twister (1996) and the action films Speed (1994) and Bad Boys (1995). Mancina co-wrote several songs for Hanna-Barbera’s 1990