Violeta Dinescu: Cime lointaine

Violeta Dinescu

(Submitted by ARFA) Violeta Dinescu was born in 1953 in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated with distinction in composition, piano and pedagogy (1977) at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest. From 1978 to1982, she held a teaching position for theory of music, piano and aesthetics at the College of Music George Enescu in Bucharest. In 1982 she…

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Omer Barash: Jeux jérusalemiens

Omer Barash

(Submitted by ISCM – ISRAELI SECTION) Omer Barash is a composer currently pursuing his master’s degree at McGill University, as well as serving as President of the McGill Association of Student Composers. Among his main compositional interests is the exploration of energetic and instrumental musical gestures. His music was awarded such prizes as the Svoboda…

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Saskia Venegas Aernouts: A veces, el silencio es la peor mentira

Saskia Venegas Aernouts

(Submitted by ISCM – FLEMISH SECTION) Saskia Venegas was born in Guecho in Spain in 1983 and has Spanish and Belgian nationality. Venegas studied violin at Codarts, Rotterdam with Christiaan Bor, Benzion Shamir and Gordan Nikolitch. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree she studied for a master’s degree in New Music Theatre with Michel Van der Aa,…

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Žiga Stanič: Slovene Folk Metamorphoses

Žiga Stanič

(Submitted by ISCM – SLOVENIAN SECTION) Žiga Stanič, born 1973, in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian composer, pianist, music producer, and educator. He received his doctorate degree in the field of music theory at the Music Academy of Ljubljana in 2007 where he studied piano, composition, and conducting. For his work, he received several recognitions and awards…

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Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh: Into the Outer

Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh

(Submitted by ISCM – AUSTRALIAN SECTION) Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh (b. 1984) is a Taiwanese-Australian composer working in acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. Her work focuses on creating immersive physical experiences and she often prefers to articulate sonic expressions in terms of choreography, phenomenology, and musical-social interactivity. Hsieh’s music has been presented internationally at events such as Beijing…

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Malin Bång: splinters of ebullient rebellion

Malin Bång

(Submitted by ISCM – SWEDISH SECTION) Malin Bång’s music is an exploration of movement and energy. Bång (b. 1974) defines her musical material according to their amount of friction to create a spectrum of unpredictable and contrasting actions, ranging from the intimate and barely audible to the harsh and obstinate. In her work she often…

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Đỗ Hồng Quân: The Sound of the Jungle

Do Hong Quan

(Submitted by the Vietnam Contemporary Music Centre [VCMC]) Prof. Dr. Composer Đỗ Hồng Quân born in 1956 is a conductor and educator. He began his studies on piano at the age of 7 at Vietnam National Conservatory and graduated piano in 1971. Then he studied composition at Vietnam National Conservatory, and he continued his studies…

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Tiina Myllärinen: Kaikki kuuluu Värinä

Tiina Myllärinen

(Submitted by ISCM – FINNISH SECTION) Tiina Myllärinen (b. 1979) writes music that has been described as cheerfully inquisitive, vigorous, and original. She has composed orchestral, choral, chamber, and solo works and has also experimented with electroacoustic music and video. Outside Finland works by her have been performed in the United States, Italy, England, Austria,…

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Armando Santiago: Quatuor à cordes 1995

Armando Santiago

(Submitted by ISCM – PORTUGUESE SECTION) Armando Santiago, composer, conductor and professor, was born in Lisbon in 1932, and moved to Canada in 1972. His catalogue includes orchestral, chamber music, and electroacoustic works. In the evolution of his activity, Armando Santiago has always expressed himself by means of diverse technical and aesthetic means. In his…

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Sheila Sanfeliz: Liaga

Sheila Sanfeliz

(Submitted by ISCM – FLEMISH SECTION) Sheila Sanfeliz Lillar (b. 1991) currently studies composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome) with M° Ivan Fedele, and electronic music at the Conservatorio Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome) after studying composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, under Wim Henderickx, and at the Academy of Arts of…

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