Virtual collaborative series
Kenta MASUDA: tOtEtSU
(Submitted by ISCM – JAPANESE SECTION) Kenta Masuda was born in Japan in 1990. He has received prizes from the 20th Sogakudo Japanese Song Competition, the 4th International Antonín Dvořák Composition Competition, the 2014 PARMA student composer competition, and the Hirosaki Sakuranosono Composition Competition 2017 as well as the 33rd JSCM Award for Composers. His pieces…
Read MoreUlrike Mayer-Spohn: fKFW
(Submitted by ISCM – SWISS SECTION) Extraordinary diversity describes the composer and multi-instrumentalist Ulrike Mayer-Spohn (b. 1980) who plays the recorder (with a focus on contemporary music), as well as historical string instruments (fiddle and Baroque violin). She studied composition and audio design with Erik Oña at the Studio of Electronic Music, Academy of Music,…
Read MoreLuk Wai Chun: Rock Pipa – FIGHT!
(Submitted by ISCM – HONG KONG SECTION) LUK Wai Chun is currently a doctoral candidate in composition at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), focusing on the fusion of an eclectic of stylistic elements in world music. Wai-Chun collaborated with different music groups, artists from Hong Kong, Brazil, France, USA, Canada and Thailand, for example, Contrast Trio, Hong Kong…
Read MoreMargareta Ferek Petrić: Fire Walk With(out) Me
(Submitted by ISCM – CROATIAN SECTION) Margareta Ferek Petrić (b. 1982 in Zagreb), composer and artistic director of the Music Biennale Zagreb 2021/23, lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Zagreb, Croatia. She studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where her teachers included Ivan Eröd, Klaus Peter Sattler, and…
Read MoreAndré Laporte: Transit
(A special selection in celebration of the 90th birthday of ISCM Honorary Member André Laporte) André Laporte (b. 12 July 1931) has been a key figure in the music life of his native Belgium. He worked at the Belgian Radio (BRT, now VRT), first as a producer, later as a program coordinator, a production leader of…
Read MoreJesse Austin-Stewart: lighthouse auralization
(Submitted by ISCM – NEW ZEALAND SECTION) Jesse Austin-Stewart (b. 1996) is a Wellington-based sonic artist with a focus on spatial sound. He is currently working on his PhD at Massey University researching barriers of capital within spatial audio. About lighthouse auralization (2020), Austin-Stewart writes: Lighthouses have been used as a way to identify position through…
Read MoreIulia Cibisescu-Duran: Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra No. 2
(Submitted by ARFA) Iulia-Narcisa Cibișescu-Duran (b.1966) is a Romanian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works that have been performed in Germany, France, Italy, USA, Brazil, Bolivia, and Australia. Ms. Cibișescu-Duran studied composition with Cornel Taranu and then orchestral conducting with Emil Simon and Petre Sbarcea at ”Ghe. Dima” National Music Academy of Cluj-Napoca,…
Read MorePeter Hatch: Forest for the Trees
(Submitted by ISCM – CANADIAN SECTION) Composer and music curator Peter Hatch (b. 1957) has composed works in a large number of genres, from orchestral and chamber music to instrumental theatre, electroacoustics and installations. Known for his interest in revitalizing the listening experience, Hatch’s compositions are both heady and playful, profound and humorous. His works…
Read MoreZorada Temmingh: Wavering
(Submitted by ISCM – SOUTH AFRICA SECTION) Zorada Temmingh is considered one of South Africa’s foremost organ improvisers. In addition to being the first South African to release a CD with organ improvisations (she has released six to date), she was also the first to do soundtrack improvisations for silent movies. For her groundbreaking contribution…
Read MoreWalter Sallinen: Angelus Novus
(Submitted by ISCM – FINNISH SECTION) Walter Sallinen (b. 1991) is a Helsinki-based composer and sound artist. Sallinen’s artistic practice explores the potential of interdisciplinarity both as a compositional tool and as a key for unforeseen collaborative concepts. Angelus Novus is the last part from Sallinen’s sound ritual UXO (2019), an electroacoustic piece for 4…
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