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Jouni Hirvelä: Saraceno Impresssions
Jouni Hirvelä (b. 1982) is a Helsinki-based composer who likes to work with a wide range of instrumental and vocal special techniques. He often gets fascinated about sounds with delicate and fragile qualities and sometimes incorporates them as recorded audio. Hirvelä holds a Master’s Degree from Sibelius Academy where he studied with professor Veli-Matti Puumala…
Read MoreBarbara Jazwinski: Dreams of Vagabond Winds
Barbara Jazwinski (b. 1950) studied composition and theory at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland. She received her M.A. degree in composition and piano from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York. Her teachers included Mario Davidovsky, György Ligeti, and John Chowning. Currently, she is…
Read MoreKevin Leomo: Limen
Kevin Leomo (b. 1993) is a Scottish-Filipino composer of experimental based in Glasgow, Scotland. Kevin’s works engage with silence, fragility, perception, liminality, and non-standard notation. He is also interested in exploring notions of cross-cultural composition. Kevin has worked with The Hermes Experiment, Red Note Ensemble, Ensemble Okeanos, Quartteto Maurice, Tacet(i) Ensemble, Glasgow New Music Expedition,…
Read MoreAnnette Schmucki: Hirsch Hirn Hornisse
Annette Schmucki (b. 1968 in Zurich) works with language as music. She studied composition with Cornelius Schwehr and Mathias Spahlinger, and has received numerous prizes and scholarships. She currently deals with durations and encounters of projected words, and with translations of telephone conversations and catenary histories. In addition to her solitary activity as a composer,…
Read MoreJing Mu Kuo: Mindfullness
Jing Mu Kuo was born in Yilan. Over the past few years, he has devoted himself to zheng music and contemporary music performing, and to researching zheng music to find his own language. He has curated three contemporary zheng music recitals: Zheng:New Horizon “conversation/unlimited”, “pure/solo” and “unequal/ensemble”. Kuo is the head of 3PEOPLEMUSIC, a member…
Read MoreMarkku Klami: Guitar Etudes
Markku Klami (b. 1979) is fascinated by time and the way we humans perceive it. He writes music that feels true in his heart, without having the need to fit into any specific style, genre or technical approach in composing. Klami’s output spans over a variety of ensembles – he has written instrumental music from…
Read MoreDoina Rotaru: Vivarta
Doina Rotaru (b. 1951, Bucharest) studied composition with Stefan Niculescu and Tiberiu Olah at the National University of Music, Bucharest. In 1991, she was the recipient of a composer’s scholarship from the Hague Conservatory, where she studied with Theo Loevendie. In 1997, she was awarded a PhD in Musicology for her thesis on Solutions for…
Read MoreMarcus Karl Maroney: Touché
Marcus Karl Maroney (b. 1976) is currently Associate Professor of Music and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music after previously having served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music from 2002-2004. His academic pursuits include research on the music and life of Swiss composer Frank Martin,…
Read MoreMerzie Khalitova: Symphony No. 3 “Dedication”
Merzie Khalitova (b. 1956) is an Uzbekistan-born Ukrainian composer of Crimean Tatar origin. Her mother taught geography and her father was an economic planner. In 1982 she graduated from the Tashkent State Conservatory of Music in the class of composition by Mirsadik Tadzhiyev and Georgiy Mushel. Upon graduation she taught composition at the Special Music…
Read MoreTanja Elisa Glinsner: “Läuft mein Hirn so viele leere Kreise…”
Tanja Elisa Glinsner (b. 1995 in Linz) took lessons in violin, piano and saxophone at a young age. She subsequently also made her first compositional attempts. From 2005 to 2013 she attended the music branch of the Akademisches Gymnasium in Linz and studied violin with Wolfram Wincor and composition with Erland M. Freudenthaler as a…
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