Cecilia Arditto: Tissue

Cecilia Arditto standing on a railway platform (Photo by Daniel Nicolas)

…(2019) is Ms. Arditto’s most recent orchestral composition and was the winner of the Rychenberg Competition for orchestra 2020 in Switzerland. The composer writes: Big surfaces of skin, wood, metal,…

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ANNA KORSUN WINS GAUDEAMUS PRIZE 2014

…the jury said: “Anna Korsun’s work deeply touched us, despite being firmly rooted into modernity, her work, which encompasses historical references that range from Gabrieli’s venetian double choirs compositions throughout…

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2001 Yokohama

…generic complex in which we were based (hotel, concert halls, meeting room, plus all the shops one could possibly need) made it feel as if one could have been anywhere…

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1984 Toronto, Montreal

From contemporaneous reviews: “Although the I.S.C.M. was a truly wide-ranging forum for the new in the 1920’s, it has not always maintained a comparable freshness or ecumenicalism. Certainly in the…

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1929 Geneva

…sees a phalanx of young composers whose names are made and who will in turn make way for composers unknown to-day.” — Edwin Evans, “Geneva Festival,” The Musical Times, Vol….

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Cathy Milliken: Piece 43 For Now

Cathy Milliken

Cathy Milliken (b. 1956) is a Brisbane, Australia-born and Berlin, Germany-based international award-winning performer and composer known for her evocative instrumental and vocal works. She has composed for concert, opera,…

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Doina Rotaru: Vivarta

Doina Rotaru

…with alterations in expression and sonorous substance, with frequent heterophonic multiplications and influences from Romanian archaic music, structured on the circular model of the spiral. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2gc4yIb29w Doina Rotaru: Vivarta performed…

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