Ricordi Lab : Composition Competition

ricordi berlin has announced a brand new programme, ricordilab, that will provide the opportunity for up to five emerging composers to participate in a three-year collaboration with its publishing house….

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Chien-Wen Cheng: Lotus in the Rain

Chien-Wen CHENG

…2018), winner of the NTSO Composer Commission Competition (Taiwan, 2013); winner of the TMC international Composition Competition (2012);third prize in the 2011 NTSO Orchestral Composition Competition (Taiwan); winner of ICMC…

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João Madureira: Open Enclosure

João Madureira

…dimensions. About his 2019 composition Open Enclosure, the composer writes: After the work Ausgraben und Erinnern (2006, commissioned by the Miso Music Portugal), – which literally means “dig out and…

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1933 Amsterdam

From a contemporaneous review “The adoption of English, side by side with Dutch, as the official language of the Festival, was the wisest choice that could have been made. German…

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Klaus Huber (1924-2017)

…concertos by Béla Bartók and Othmar Schoeck), before commencing six years of composition studies there with Willy Burkhard in 1949. Huber subsequently continued his composition studies with Boris Blacher in…

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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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Nicole Murphy: Spinning Top

Nicole Murphy

…a Composer Fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s ‘Intimacy of Creativity’ program (2018) and a Resident Composer at the Mizzou International Composers Festival (2019). Her piano…

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