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Kristine Tjøgersen: Mistérios do Corpo
Kristine Tjøgersen (b. 1982) is a composer, visual artist and clarinetist,who lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Shehas a Master’s in Composition with prof.Carola Bauckholt at the Anton Bruckner Universität in Linz, Austria. Her music has been performed by the Arditti Quartet (UK), asamisimasa, Ensemble neoN, Pinquins (N), El Perro Andaluz (DE), and Mimitabu (SE), among…
Read MoreMichelle Zen-in Cheng: Latched II
Michelle Zen-in Cheng is a Hong Kong-born composer and music educator. Graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, majoring in music composition, Cheng soon pursued her studies in Music Education at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is currently a MA student at the Iceland University of the Arts, a full member of the…
Read MoreGeorg Friedrich Haas: …Und…
Georg Friedrich Haas (born 16 August 1953 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian composer. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, pieces by Haas received the most votes (49), and his composition in vain (2000) topped the list. Georg Friedrich Haas grew up in Tschagguns, Vorarlberg and studied…
Read MoreTara Valkonen: Farliga drömmar
Tara Valkonen (b. 1999) started to play cello at the age of six, and soon she was imagining her future as a professional cellist – and a sculptor. But picking up the guitar at the age of 13 brought a change, as it was rock music now that became the main interest in her life…
Read MoreMui Kwong-chiu: Mountain Landscape in the Dancing Cloud
Mui Kwong-chiu (b. 1952) is the Chairman of Hong Kong Composers’ Guild (HKCG), Director of Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong, member of China Musicians Association, the Artistic Director of the World Dulcimer Orchestra. In 2020 he was awarded “The 14th Hong Kong Arts Development Award” Artist of the Year (Music) by the Hong…
Read MoreFani Kosona: Narratives
Fani Kosona (born 1969 in Athens, Greece) is a composer, pianist, professor of music, and mathematician who holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Athens, studied piano in the National Conservatory of Athens, in the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Jacques Lagarde, then in the Conservatoire National de Région de Rueil-Malmaison…
Read MoreTatiana Riabinkina: No War
Tatiana Riabinkina started composing when as a child. She grew up in Yekaterinburg, Russia, but moved to Moscow to study music more seriously, and in 2013, she graduated from the Moscow College of Improvisational Music, as a bass player. In 2018, she received a Diploma with Excellence from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music as…
Read MoreYasunoshin Morita: Les animaux à métamorphoses
Yasunoshin Morita (b. 1969) studied composition under the guidance of Yori-Aki Matsudaira. Morita won the first prize at the competition of the Japan Society for Contemporary Music in 2002, the highest prize at the Valentino Bucchi International Composition Competition in Italy in 2009 and the Excellence Award in the Composition Prize for Orchestra of Japan…
Read MoreElizabeth Anderson: Solar Winds
The artistic production of Belgian composer Elizabeth Anderson (b. 1960) comprises acousmatic, mixed, and radiophonic works as well as works for multimedia and sound installations, and has been performed in international venues for over thirty years. It is the fascination with space, whether on the scale of the universe (macrocosm) or cellular life (microcosm), and…
Read MorePedro Pinto Figueiredo: Amini
Pedro Pinto Figueiredo (b.1966), conductor and composer born in Lisbon. He studied Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (Superior Music School of Lisbon) with the composer Christopher Bochmann, and Constança Capdeville. As a Calouste Gulbenkian scholarship holder, he studied in Paris with the composer Emmanuel Nunes. There, he simultaneously participated in and…
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