Posts Tagged ‘chamber music’
Jouni Hirvelä: Saraceno Impresssions
Jouni Hirvelä (b. 1982) is a Helsinki-based composer who likes to work with a wide range of instrumental and vocal special techniques. He often gets fascinated about sounds with delicate and fragile qualities and sometimes incorporates them as recorded audio. Hirvelä holds a Master’s Degree from Sibelius Academy where he studied with professor Veli-Matti Puumala…
Read MoreBarbara Jazwinski: Dreams of Vagabond Winds
Barbara Jazwinski (b. 1950) studied composition and theory at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland. She received her M.A. degree in composition and piano from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York. Her teachers included Mario Davidovsky, György Ligeti, and John Chowning. Currently, she is…
Read MoreKevin Leomo: Limen
Kevin Leomo (b. 1993) is a Scottish-Filipino composer of experimental based in Glasgow, Scotland. Kevin’s works engage with silence, fragility, perception, liminality, and non-standard notation. He is also interested in exploring notions of cross-cultural composition. Kevin has worked with The Hermes Experiment, Red Note Ensemble, Ensemble Okeanos, Quartteto Maurice, Tacet(i) Ensemble, Glasgow New Music Expedition,…
Read MoreDoina Rotaru: Vivarta
Doina Rotaru (b. 1951, Bucharest) studied composition with Stefan Niculescu and Tiberiu Olah at the National University of Music, Bucharest. In 1991, she was the recipient of a composer’s scholarship from the Hague Conservatory, where she studied with Theo Loevendie. In 1997, she was awarded a PhD in Musicology for her thesis on Solutions for…
Read MoreKrystyna Moszumańska-Nazar: Warianty
Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (5 September 1924,Lviv, now Ukraine – 27 September 2009, Kraków) was a Polish composer, music educator and pianist. She was born in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), and after World War II studied at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków with Stanisław Wiechowicz for composition and Jan Hoffman for piano. After…
Read MoreWilliam Kuo: geht auf wie eine Blume
William Kuo is a Canadian composer of experimental music. His music has been presented at Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Netherlands), Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik (Austria), Cluster New Music Festival (Winnipeg, Canada), Festival Voix Nouvelles (France), and ManiFeste Festival (France). Notable collaborators in recent years include TAK Ensemble, NIKEL, Quasar Quatuor de Saxophones, Ensemble Klang, Asko|Schönberg, Ensemble Multilatérale,…
Read MorePoly Hau-Yee Ng: memory fleeting ii – dementia
Poly Hau-Yee Ng (b. 1969) is presently teaching at the department of composition at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She frequently participates in music composition projects with the arts education section of the Education Bureau, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, RTHK Radio 4, and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, including the…
Read MoreSabina Ulubeanu: Sheroes
Sabina Ulubeanu (b. 1979 in Bucharest) is one of the most complex artistic personalities of her generation, as her work comprises composition, photography, musicology, teaching, experimental performance, and directing a young international new arts festival. Ulubeanu sstudied piano at the George Enescu Music Highschool and then Composition at the National Music University of Bucharest, with…
Read MoreAnthony Cheng: Tunnel
Anthony Cheng (b. 1974) is an international composer based in Hong Kong and Europe. He sets his music career in multi-talented ways: as a songwriter, contemporary and film music composer, sound engineer and music producer. Cheng’s music consists of an eclectic inspiration of a variety of Western and Eastern influenced musical styles. Cheng completed a…
Read MoreStefania Turkevych: String Quartet
Stefania Turkewich (1898-1977), Ukraine’s first successful female composer, was also a pianist and musicologist. As a musicologist, she studied with Guido Adler in Vienna, and for her dissertation on the topic of Ukrainian folklore in Russian operas she received a doctorate in musicology in 1934 from the Ukrainian Free University in Prague. As a composer,…
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