Posts Tagged ‘choral music’
Alice Ping Yee Ho: Begin
Alice Ping Yee Ho (b. 1960) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian composer acclaimed for her “distinctly individual”style and “organic flow of imagination”. She has written in many musical genres and received numerous national and international awards, including the 2016 Louis Applebaum Composers Award, the 2014 Prince Edward Island Symphony Composers Competition, the 2014 Kitchener Waterloo…
Read MoreVanessa Lann: The Bird That Was Trapped Has Flown
Vanessa Lann (b. 1968) studied composition at the Westchester Conservatory of Music, Tanglewoodat Harvard University and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Her work is performed in venues all over the world, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw and De Doelen. Commissioned by renowned soloists, ensembles and festivals, her music…
Read MoreCatharina Palmér: Strings in the air above
Catharina Palmér (b. 1963) was born in Karlskrona, Sweden. She is educated in the fields of violin, piano and organ as well as composition, which she has studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, and at Indiana University, USA. Palmér’s music has been performed by numerous ensembles inSweden and abroad. Recently, she…
Read MoreMihyun Woo: Voices in Landscape
The compositions of Mihyun Woo (b. 1980) have been performed by ensembles and orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the Arditti Quartet, the Royal Academy Soloists, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Korean Broadcast System Orchestra (Seoul), the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), the Royal Academy Symphony, Choir Commotio…
Read MoreDeborah Cheetham: Eumeralla, a war requiem for peace
Deborah Cheetham AO (b. 1964), Yorta Yorta woman, soprano, composer and educator has been a leader and pioneer in the Australian arts landscape for more than 25 years. In the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Cheetham was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), for ‘distinguished service to the performing arts as…
Read MoreLesia Dychko: Slava
Lesia Dychko (b. 1939) is one of Ukraine’s most significant composers of choral music although she has created music is a wide range of idioms including two operas, four ballets, and numerous chamber works as well as the symphony Pryvitannia zhyttia (Welcoming Life) for soprano, bass, and chamber orchestra, based on the words of the imagist poet Bohdan…
Read MoreISCM-Musika Bulegoa Choral Composition Competition Winners Announced
Last April, as part of the “ISCM Collaborative Series” initiative, Musika Bulegoa and Musikagileak, the Basque partners of the ISCM, announced a Composition Competition for works for amateur choirs, intending to give new momentum to the contemporary choral scene. After analyzing more than forty works from all over the world, the jury, joined by Mikel…
Read MoreGalina Grigorjeva : Salve regina
Galina Grigorjeva, born in 1962 in Crimea, Ukraine, and now living in Estonia, has garnered international appreciation for the remarkably subtle and animated melodic style of her music. Her compositions are tightly linked to Slavonic sacred music as well as early European polyphony. Grigorjeva “orchestrates” polyphony with remarkable skill and grace, creating meaningful and beautiful…
Read MoreAlexander Shchetynsky: Know Yourself
Alexander Shchetynsky (b. 1960) is a Ukrainian composer born and based in Kharkiv. At the age of about 30, he developed his personal post-serial style based on combination of quasi-serial procedures and special attention to attractiveness of sound material and to melody as a source of expression. Another fundamental feature of his music is its…
Read MoreOleksandr Kozarenko: Prieres à la Vierge Marie
Oleksandr Kozarenko (born 1963) in Kolomyia in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is composer, pianist and musicologist. He was a graduate of Kiev Conservatory where he took piano lessons from Volodymyr Vorobyov and studied composition with Myroslav Skoryk. In 1984 he became a winner of the Mykola Lysenko International Music Competition and two years later won All-Ukrainian Competition diploma. Ten years later he became a recipient…
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